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KJV Lexicon And they camebow' (bo) to go or come (in a wide variety of applications) and besieged tsuwr (tsoor) to cramp, i.e. confine (in many applications, literally and figuratively, formative or hostile) him in Abel 'Abel (aw-bale') a meadow; Abel, the name of two places in Palestine. -- Abel. of Bethmaachah Beyth Ma`akah (bayth mah-ak-aw') house of Maakah; Beth-Maakah, a place in Palestine -- Beth-maachah. and they cast up shaphak (shaw-fak') to spill forth (blood, a libation, liquid metal; or even a solid, i.e. to mound up); also (figuratively) to expend (life, soul, complaint, money, etc.); intensively, to sprawl out -- cast (up), gush out, pour (out), shed(-der, out), slip. a bank collah (so-lel-aw') used passively; a military mound, i.e. rampart of besiegers -- bank, mount. against the city `iyr (eer) or (in the plural) par {awr}; or ayar (Judges 10:4) {aw-yar'}; a city (a place guarded by waking or a watch) in the widest sense (even of a mere encampment or post) -- Ai (from margin), city, court (from margin), town. and it stood `amad (aw-mad') to stand, in various relations (literal and figurative, intransitive and transitive) in the trench cheyl (khale) an army; also (by analogy,) an intrenchment -- army, bulwark, host, poor, rampart, trench, wall. and all the people `am (am) a people (as a congregated unit); specifically, a tribe (as those of Israel); hence (collectively) troops or attendants; figuratively, a flock -- folk, men, nation, people. that were with Joab Yow'ab (yo-awb') Jehovah-fathered; Joab, the name of three Israelites -- Joab. battered shachath (shaw-khath') to decay, i.e. (causatively) ruin -- batter, cast off, corrupt(-er, thing), destroy(-er, -uction), lose, mar, perish, spill, spoiler, utterly, waste(-r). the wall chowmah (kho-maw') a wall of protection -- wall, walled. to throw it down naphal (naw-fal') to fall, in a great variety of applications (intransitive or causative, literal or figurative) Parallel Verses New American Standard Bible They came and besieged him in Abel Beth-maacah, and they cast up a siege ramp against the city, and it stood by the rampart; and all the people who were with Joab were wreaking destruction in order to topple the wall. King James Bible And they came and besieged him in Abel of Bethmaachah, and they cast up a bank against the city, and it stood in the trench: and all the people that were with Joab battered the wall, to throw it down. Holman Christian Standard Bible Joab's troops came and besieged Sheba in Abel of Beth-maacah. They built an assault ramp against the outer wall of the city. While all the troops with Joab were battering the wall to make it collapse, International Standard Version All of the men who had accompanied Joab arrived and besieged Sheba in Abel of Beth-maacah. They threw up a siege ramp against the city rampart and began to batter the wall to demolish it. NET Bible So Joab's men came and laid siege against him in Abel of Beth Maacah. They prepared a siege ramp outside the city which stood against its outer rampart. As all of Joab's soldiers were trying to break through the wall so that it would collapse, GOD'S WORD® Translation Joab's army came and attacked him in Abel (Beth Maacah). They put up a dirt ramp against the city, and it stood level with the outer wall. All the troops with Joab were trying to destroy the wall and tear it down. King James 2000 Bible And they came and besieged him in Abel of Beth-maachah, and they cast up a mound against the city, and it stood against the rampart: and all the people that were with Joab battered the wall, to throw it down. Links 2 Samuel 20:152 Samuel 20:15 NIV 2 Samuel 20:15 NLT 2 Samuel 20:15 ESV 2 Samuel 20:15 NASB 2 Samuel 20:15 KJV |
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