2 Chronicles 25:22

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

And Judah was put to the worse before Israel; and they fled every man to his tent.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיִּנָּ֥גֶף יְהוּדָ֖ה לִפְנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל וַיָּנֻ֖סוּ אִ֥ישׁ לְאֹהָלָֽיו׃

Transliteration

And wa-yinnāgep yəhûdâ before lipnê yiśrāʾēl, and wa-yānusû ʾîš to-his-tent ləʾōhālāyw.

Grammar Details

*wa-yinnāgep*: waw-consecutive with niphal imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - and was defeated/struck
*yəhûdâ*: proper noun - Judah
*lipnê*: preposition lamed with construct noun, masculine plural - before/in front of
*yiśrāʾēl*: proper noun - Israel
*wa-yānusû*: waw-consecutive with qal imperfect, 3rd masculine plural - and they fled
*ʾîš*: noun, masculine singular - man/each one
*ləʾōhālāyw*: preposition lamed with noun, masculine plural with 3rd masculine singular suffix - to his tents/home

Word Meanings

*yinnāgep*: was defeated/struck/routed
*ʾîš ləʾōhālāyw*: each man to his tent/everyone to his home/fled to their dwellings

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Referenced Verses

1 Sam 4:10 : 10 And the Philistines fought, and Israel was smitten, and they fled every man to his tent: and there was a very great slaughter; for there fell of Israel thirty thousand footmen.
1 Kgs 22:36 : 36 And 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 Chr 28:5-6 : 5 Wherefore Jehovah his God delivered him into the hand of the king of Syria; and they smote him, and carried away of his a great multitude of captives, and brought them to Damascus. And he was also delivered into the hand of the king of Israel, who smote him with a great slaughter. 6 For Pekah the son of Remaliah slew in Judah a hundred and twenty thousand in one day, all of them valiant men; because they had forsaken Jehovah, the God of their fathers.

Similar Verses (AI)

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2 Kgs 14:11-13
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11But Amaziah would not hear. So Jehoash king of Israel went up; and he and Amaziah king of Judah looked one another in the face at Beth-shemesh, which belongeth to Judah.
12And Judah was put to the worse before Israel; and they fled every man to his tent.
13And Jehoash king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Jehoash the son of Ahaziah, at Beth-shemesh, and came to Jerusalem, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim unto the corner gate, four hundred cubits.
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13But Jeroboam caused an ambushment to come about behind them: so they were before Judah, and the ambushment was behind them.
14And when Judah looked back, behold, the battle was before and behind them; and they cried unto Jehovah, and the priests sounded with the trumpets.
15Then the men of Judah gave a shout: and as the men of Judah shouted, it came to pass, that God smote Jeroboam and all Israel before Abijah and Judah.
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21So Joash king of Israel went up; and he and Amaziah king of Judah looked one another in the face at Beth-shemesh, which belongeth to Judah.
2 Chr 25:23
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Judg 20:42
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