2 Kings 8:21

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Then Joram went over to Zair, with all his war-carriages; ... made an attack by night on the Edomites, whose forces were all round him, ... the captains of the war-carriages; and the people went in flight to their tents.

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  • 2 Sam 18:17 : 17 And they took Absalom's body and put it into a great hole in the wood, and put a great mass of stones over it: and every man of Israel went in flight to his tent.

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  • 2 Chr 21:8-10
    3 verses
    92%

    8 In his time Edom made themselves free from the rule of Judah, and took a king for themselves.

    9 Then Jehoram went over with his captains and all his war-carriages ... made an attack by night on the Edomites, whose forces were all round him ... on the captains of the war-carriages.

    10 So Edom made themselves free from the rule of Judah, to this day: and at the same time Libnah made itself free from his rule; because he was turned away from the Lord, the God of his fathers.

  • 2 Kgs 8:20
    79%

    20 In his time, Edom made themselves free from the rule of Judah, and took a king for themselves.

  • 2 Kgs 8:22-24
    3 verses
    74%

    22 So Edom made themselves free from the rule of Judah to this day. And at the same time, Libnah made itself free.

    23 Now the rest of the acts of Joram, and all he did, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Judah?

    24 And Joram went to rest with his fathers and was put into the earth with his fathers in the town of David: and Ahaziah his son became king in his place.

  • 2 Chr 28:17
    73%

    17 For the Edomites had come again, attacking Judah and taking away prisoners.

  • 2 Kgs 9:21
    72%

    21 Then Joram said, Make ready. So they made his carriage ready; and Joram, king of Israel, with Ahaziah, king of Judah, went out in their carriages for the purpose of meeting Jehu; and they came face to face with him at the field of Naboth the Jezreelite.

  • 2 Kgs 9:14-16
    3 verses
    71%

    14 So Jehu, the son of Jehoshaphat, the son of Nimshi, made designs against Joram. (Now Joram and all the army of Israel were keeping watch on Ramoth-gilead because of Hazael, king of Aram:

    15 But King Joram had gone back to Jezreel to get well from the wounds which the Aramaeans had given him when he was fighting against Hazael, king of Aram.) And Jehu said, If this is your purpose, then let no one get away and go out of the town to give news of it in Jezreel.

    16 So Jehu got into his carriage and went to Jezreel, for Joram was ill in bed there; and Ahaziah, king of Judah, had come down to see Joram.

  • 2 Kgs 3:6-9
    4 verses
    71%

    6 At that time, King Jehoram went out from Samaria and got all Israel together in fighting order.

    7 And he sent to Jehoshaphat, king of Judah, saying, The king of Moab has got free from my authority: will you go with me to make war on Moab? And he said, I will go with you: I am as you are, my people as your people, and my horses as your horses.

    8 And he said, Which way are we to go? And he said in answer, By the waste land of Edom.

    9 So the king of Israel went with the king of Judah and the king of Edom by a roundabout way for seven days: and there was no water for the army or for the beasts they had with them.

  • 1 Kgs 11:15
    71%

    15 And when David had sent destruction on Edom, and Joab, the captain of the army, had gone to put the dead into the earth, and had put to death every male in Edom;

  • 2 Chr 21:4-5
    2 verses
    70%

    4 Now when Jehoram had taken his place over his father's kingdom, and had made his position safe, he put all his brothers to death with the sword, as well as some of the princes of Israel.

    5 Jehoram was thirty-two years old when he became king; and he was ruling in Jerusalem for eight years.

  • 2 Kgs 8:28-29
    2 verses
    70%

    28 He went with Joram, the son of Ahab, to make war on Hazael, king of Aram, at Ramoth-gilead: and Joram was wounded by the Aramaeans.

    29 So King Joram went back to Jezreel to get well from the wounds which the bowmen had given him at Ramah, when he was fighting against Hazael, king of Aram. And Ahaziah, the son of Jehoram, king of Judah, went down to see Joram, the son of Ahab, in Jezreel, because he was ill.

  • 1 Kgs 22:32-33
    2 verses
    70%

    32 So when the captains of the war-carriages saw Jehoshaphat, they said, Truly, this is the king of Israel; and turning against him, they came round him, but Jehoshaphat gave a cry.

    33 And when the captains of the war-carriages saw that he was not the king of Israel, they went back from going after him.

  • 2 Kgs 3:26
    70%

    26 And when the king of Moab saw that the fight was going against him, he took with him seven hundred men armed with swords, with the idea of forcing a way through to the king of Aram, but they were not able to do so.

  • 2 Kgs 3:24
    69%

    24 But when they came to the tents of Israel, the Israelites came out and made a violent attack on the Moabites, so that they went in flight before them; and they went forward still attacking them;

  • 2 Kgs 14:7
    69%

    7 He put to the sword twelve thousand men of Edom in the Valley of Salt, and took Sela in war, naming it Joktheel, as it is to this day.

  • Judg 1:8
    69%

    8 Then the children of Judah made an attack on Jerusalem, and took it, burning down the town after they had put its people to the sword without mercy.

  • 2 Chr 22:5
    69%

    5 Acting on their suggestion, he went with Jehoram, son of Ahab, king of Israel, to make war on Hazael, king of Aram, at Ramoth-gilead: and Joram was wounded by the bowmen.

  • 2 Chr 18:31-32
    2 verses
    69%

    31 So when the captains of the war-carriages saw Jehoshaphat, they said, It is the king of Israel. And turning about, they came round him, but Jehoshaphat gave a cry, and the Lord came to his help, and God sent them away from him.

    32 Now when the captains of the war-carriages saw that he was not the king of Israel, they went back from going after him.

  • Jer 25:21
    69%

    21 Edom and Moab and the children of Ammon,

  • 1 Kgs 20:21
    69%

    21 And the king of Israel went out and took the horses and the war-carriages, and made great destruction among the Aramaeans.

  • Jer 52:8
    68%

    8 And the Chaldaean army went after King Zedekiah and overtook him on the other side of Jericho, and all his army went in flight from him in every direction.

  • 2 Kgs 7:7
    68%

    7 So they got up and went in flight, in the half light, without their tents or their horses or their asses or any of their goods; they went in flight, fearing for their lives.

  • Num 20:21
    68%

    21 So Edom would not let Israel go through his land; and Israel went in another direction.

  • Jer 39:4
    68%

    4 And when Zedekiah, king of Judah, and all the men of war saw it, they went in flight from the town by night, by the way of the king's garden, through the doorway between the two walls: and they went out by the Arabah.

  • 2 Kgs 3:21
    68%

    21 Now all Moab, hearing that the kings had come to make war against them, got together all who were able to take up arms and went forward to the edge of the country.

  • Num 24:18
    68%

    18 Edom will be his heritage, and he will put an end to the last of the people of Seir.

  • 2 Chr 22:1
    68%

    1 And the people of Jerusalem made Ahaziah, his youngest son, king in his place, for the band of men who came with the Arabians to the army had put all the older sons to death. So Ahaziah, the son of Jehoram, became king.

  • 2 Kgs 14:12
    68%

    12 And Judah was overcome before Israel, so that they went in flight, every man to his tent.

  • 2 Chr 25:22
    68%

    22 And Judah was overcome before Israel, and they went in flight, every man to his tent.

  • 2 Chr 20:23-24
    2 verses
    68%

    23 And the children of Ammon and Moab made an attack on the people of Mount Seir with a view to their complete destruction; and when they had put an end to the people of Seir, everyman's hand was turned against his neighbour for his destruction.

    24 And Judah came to the watchtower of the waste land, and looking in the direction of the army, they saw only dead bodies stretched on the earth; no living man was to be seen.

  • 2 Chr 21:16
    68%

    16 Then the Philistines and the Arabians, who are by Ethiopia, were moved by the Lord to make war on Jehoram;

  • 2 Kgs 6:14
    68%

    14 So he sent there horses and carriages and a great army; and they came by night, circling the town.

  • 2 Kgs 9:27
    67%

    27 Now when Ahaziah, king of Judah, saw this, he went in flight by the way of the garden house. And Jehu came after him and said, Put him to death in the same way; and they gave him a death-wound in his carriage, on the slope up to Gur, by Ibleam; and he went in flight to Megiddo, where death came to him.

  • Num 21:12
    67%

    12 And moving on from there, they put up their tents in the valley of Zered.

  • 2 Chr 25:11
    67%

    11 Then Amaziah took heart, and went out at the head of his people and came to the Valley of Salt, where he put to death ten thousand of the children of Seir;