1 Kings 20:30

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

But the rest fled to Aphek, into the city; and the wall fell upon twenty and seven thousand men that were left. And Ben-hadad fled, and came into the city, into an inner chamber.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

‫וַיָּנֻ֨סוּ הַנּוֹתָרִ֥ים ׀ אֲפֵקָה֮ אֶל־הָעִיר֒ וַתִּפֹּל֙ הַחוֹמָ֔ה עַל־עֶשְׂרִ֨ים וְשִׁבְעָ֥ה אֶ֛לֶף אִ֖ישׁ הַנּוֹתָרִ֑ים וּבֶן־הֲדַ֣ד נָ֔ס וַיָּבֹ֥א אֶל־הָעִ֖יר חֶ֥דֶר בְּחָֽדֶר׃ ס‬

Transliteration

wayyānusû the-nôṯārîm ʾăpēqâ to-the-ʿîr and-tippōl the-ḥômâ upon-ʿeśrîm wə-šiḇʿâ ʾeleṗ ʾîš the-nôṯārîm and-ben-hăḏaḏ nās and-wayyāḇōʾ to-the-ʿîr ḥeḏer bə-ḥāḏer

Grammar Details

*wayyānusû*: consecutive imperfect, 3rd plural - and they fled
*nôṯārîm*: participle, masculine plural - the remaining ones
*ʾăpēqâ*: proper noun with directional heh - to Aphek
*ʿîr*: feminine singular noun - city
*tippōl*: consecutive imperfect, 3rd feminine singular - and it fell
*ḥômâ*: feminine singular noun - wall
*ʿeśrîm wə-šiḇʿâ ʾeleṗ*: cardinal numbers - twenty and seven thousand
*ʾîš*: masculine singular noun - man/men
*ben-hăḏaḏ*: proper noun - Ben-Hadad
*nās*: perfect, 3rd masculine singular - fled
*wayyāḇōʾ*: consecutive imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - and he came/entered
*ḥeḏer bə-ḥāḏer*: chamber in chamber - idiom

Word Meanings

*wayyānusû*: fled, escaped, ran away
*nôṯārîm*: remaining ones, survivors, those left
*tippōl*: fell, collapsed, came down
*ḥômâ*: wall, fortification
*nās*: fled, ran away, escaped
*wayyāḇōʾ*: came, entered, went into
*ḥeḏer bə-ḥāḏer*: chamber within chamber, inner room, room to room

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Referenced Verses

1 Kgs 22:25 : 25 And Micaiah said, Behold, thou shalt see on that day, when thou shalt go into an inner chamber to hide thyself.
2 Chr 18:24 : 24 And Micaiah said, Behold, thou shalt see on that day, when thou shalt go into an inner chamber to hide thyself.
1 Kgs 20:26 : 26 And it came to pass at the return of the year, that Ben-hadad mustered the Syrians, and went up to Aphek, to fight against Israel.
1 Kgs 20:10 : 10 And Ben-hadad sent unto him, and said, The gods do so unto me, and more also, if the dust of Samaria shall suffice for handfuls for all the people that follow me.
1 Kgs 20:20 : 20 And they slew every one his man; and the Syrians fled, and Israel pursued them: and Ben-hadad the king of Syria escaped on a horse with horsemen.
Ps 18:25 : 25 With the merciful thou wilt show thyself merciful; With the perfect man thou wilt show thyself perfect;
Isa 24:18 : 18 And it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the windows on high are opened, and the foundations of the earth tremble.
Jer 48:44 : 44 He that fleeth from the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that getteth up out of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for I will bring upon him, even upon Moab, the year of their visitation, saith Jehovah.
Dan 4:37 : 37 Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven; for all his works are truth, and his ways justice; and those that walk in pride he is able to abase.
Amos 2:14-15 : 14 And flight shall perish from the swift; and the strong shall not strengthen his force; neither shall the mighty deliver himself; 15 neither shall he stand that handleth the bow; and he that is swift of foot shall not deliver [himself]; neither shall he that rideth the horse deliver himself;
Amos 5:19 : 19 As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him.
Amos 9:3 : 3 And though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out thence; and though they be hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea, thence will I command the serpent, and it shall bite them.
Luke 13:4 : 4 Or those eighteen, {G2532} {G3638} upon whom the tower in Siloam fell, and killed them, think ye that they were offenders above all the men that dwell in Jerusalem?

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

1 Kgs 20:1-2
2 verses
80%
1And Ben-hadad the king of Syria gathered all his host together; and there were thirty and two kings with him, and horses and chariots: and he went up and besieged Samaria, and fought against it.
2And he sent messengers to Ahab king of Israel, into the city, and said unto him, Thus saith Ben-hadad,
1 Kgs 20:23-29
7 verses
80%
23And the servants of the king of Syria said unto him, Their god is a god of the hills; therefore they were stronger than we: but let us fight against them in the plain, and surely we shall be stronger than they.
24And do this thing: take the kings away, every man out of his place, and put captains in their room;
25and number thee an army, like the army that thou hast lost, horse for horse, and chariot for chariot; and we will fight against them in the plain, and surely we shall be stronger than they. And he hearkened unto their voice, and did so.
26And it came to pass at the return of the year, that Ben-hadad mustered the Syrians, and went up to Aphek, to fight against Israel.
27And the children of Israel were mustered, and were victualled, and went against them: and the children of Israel encamped before them like two little flocks of kids; but the Syrians filled the country.
28And a man of God came near and spake unto the king of Israel, and said, Thus saith Jehovah, Because the Syrians have said, Jehovah is a god of the hills, but he is not a god of the valleys; therefore will I deliver all this great multitude into thy hand, and ye shall know that I am Jehovah.
29And they encamped one over against the other seven days. And so it was, that in the seventh day the battle was joined; and the children of Israel slew of the Syrians a hundred thousand footmen in one day.
1 Kgs 20:15-21
7 verses
78%
15Then he mustered the young men of the princes of the provinces, and they were two hundred and thirty - two: and after them he mustered all the people, even all the children of Israel, being seven thousand.
16And they went out at noon. But Ben-hadad was drinking himself drunk in the pavilions, he and the kings, the thirty and two kings that helped him.
17And the young men of the princes of the provinces went out first; and Ben-hadad sent out, and they told him, saying, There are men come out from Samaria.
18And he said, Whether they are come out for peace, take them alive, or whether they are come out for war, take them alive.
19So these went out of the city, the young men of the princes of the provinces, and the army which followed them.
20And they slew every one his man; and the Syrians fled, and Israel pursued them: and Ben-hadad the king of Syria escaped on a horse with horsemen.
21And the king of Israel went out, and smote the horses and chariots, and slew the Syrians with a great slaughter.
1 Kgs 20:12
76%
12And it came to pass, when [Ben-hadad] heard this message, as he was drinking, he and the kings, in the pavilions, that he said unto his servants, Set [yourselves in array]. And they set [themselves in array] against the city.
1 Kgs 20:31
75%
31And his servants said unto him, Behold now, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful kings: let us, we pray thee, put sackcloth on our loins, and ropes upon our heads, and go out to the king of Israel: peradventure he will save thy life.
Judg 20:44-47
4 verses
73%
44And there fell of Benjamin eighteen thousand men; all these [were] men of valor.
45And they turned and fled toward the wilderness unto the rock of Rimmon: and they gleaned of them in the highways five thousand men, and followed hard after them unto Gidom, and smote of them two thousand men.
46So that all who fell that day of Benjamin were twenty and five thousand men that drew the sword; all these [were] men of valor.
47But six hundred men turned and fled toward the wilderness unto the rock of Rimmon, and abode in the rock of Rimmon four months.
1 Kgs 20:33-34
2 verses
73%
33Now the men observed diligently, and hasted to catch whether it were his mind; and they said, Thy brother Ben-hadad. Then he said, Go ye, bring him. Then Ben-hadad came forth to him; and he caused him to come up into the chariot.
34And [Ben-hadad] said unto him, The cities which my father took from thy father I will restore; and thou shalt make streets for thee in Damascus, as my father made in Samaria. And I, [said Ahab], will let thee go with this covenant. So he made a covenant with him, and let him go.
2 Sam 8:5
73%
5And when the Syrians of Damascus came to succor Hadadezer king of Zobah, David smote of the Syrians two and twenty thousand men.
2 Kgs 6:24
73%
24And it came to pass after this, that Benhadad king of Syria gathered all his host, and went up, and besieged Samaria.
1 Chr 18:5
73%
5And when the Syrians of Damascus came to succor Hadarezer king of Zobah, David smote of the Syrians two and twenty thousand men.
1 Chr 19:18
73%
18And the Syrians fled before Israel; and David slew of the Syrians [the men of] seven thousand chariots, and forty thousand footmen, and killed Shophach the captain of the host.
2 Kgs 7:5
72%
5And they rose up in the twilight, to go unto the camp of the Syrians; and when they were come to the outermost part of the camp of the Syrians, behold, there was no man there.
1 Kgs 22:35-36
2 verses
72%
35And the battle increased that day: and the king was stayed up in his chariot against the Syrians, and died at even; and the blood ran out of the wound into the bottom of the chariot.
36And there went a cry throughout the host about the going down of the sun, saying, Every man to his city, and every man to his country.
2 Kgs 7:12
72%
12And the king arose in the night, and said unto his servants, I will now show you what the Syrians have done to us. They know that we are hungry; therefore are they gone out of the camp to hide themselves in the field, saying, When they come out of the city, we shall take them alive, and get into the city.
2 Sam 10:18
72%
18And the Syrians fled before Israel; and David slew of the Syrians [the men of] seven hundred chariots, and forty thousand horsemen, and smote Shobach the captain of their host, so that he died there.
1 Chr 19:14
72%
14So Joab and the people that were with him drew nigh before the Syrians unto the battle; and they fled before him.
Judg 20:39
72%
39And the men of Israel turned in the battle, and Benjamin began to smite and kill of the men of Israel about thirty persons; for they said, Surely they are smitten down before us, as in the first battle.
2 Kgs 7:7
72%
7Wherefore they arose and fled in the twilight, and left their tents, and their horses, and their asses, even the camp as it was, and fled for their life.
2 Sam 10:13
71%
13So Joab and the people that were with him drew nigh unto the battle against the Syrians: and they fled before him.
1 Kgs 15:20
71%
20And Ben-hadad hearkened unto king Asa, and sent the captains of his armies against the cities of Israel, and smote Ijon, and Dan, and Abel-beth-maacah, and all Chinneroth, with all the land of Naphtali.
Judg 20:21
71%
21And the children of Benjamin came forth out of Gibeah, and destroyed down to the ground of the Israelites on that day twenty and two thousand men.
2 Sam 18:7
71%
7And the people of Israel were smitten there before the servants of David, and there was a great slaughter there that day of twenty thousand men.
Jer 49:27
71%
27And I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, and it shall devour the palaces of Ben-hadad.
1 Kgs 20:9-10
2 verses
71%
9Wherefore he said unto the messengers of Ben-hadad, Tell my lord the king, All that thou didst send for to thy servant at the first I will do; but this thing I may not do. And the messengers departed, and brought him word again.
10And Ben-hadad sent unto him, and said, The gods do so unto me, and more also, if the dust of Samaria shall suffice for handfuls for all the people that follow me.
1 Chr 19:16
70%
16And when the Syrians saw that they were put to the worse before Israel, they sent messengers, and drew forth the Syrians that were beyond the River, with Shophach the captain of the host of Hadarezer at their head.
2 Sam 10:15
70%
15And when the Syrians saw that they were put to the worse before Israel, they gathered themselves together.
2 Chr 24:24
70%
24For the army of the Syrians came with a small company of men; and Jehovah delivered a very great host into their hand, because they had forsaken Jehovah, the God of their fathers. So they executed judgment upon Joash.
1 Kgs 22:31
70%
31Now the king of Syria had commanded the thirty and two captains of his chariots, saying, Fight neither with small nor great, save only with the king of Israel.
Judg 20:15
70%
15And the children of Benjamin were numbered on that day out of the cities twenty and six thousand men that drew sword, besides the inhabitants of Gibeah, who were numbered seven hundred chosen men.
1 Kgs 20:5
70%
5And the messengers came again, and said, Thus speaketh Ben-hadad, saying, I sent indeed unto thee, saying, Thou shalt deliver me thy silver, and thy gold, and thy wives, and thy children;
2 Chr 18:34
70%
34And the battle increased that day: howbeit the king of Israel stayed himself up in his chariot against the Syrians until the even; and about the time of the going down of the sun he died.