2 Chronicles 20:23

Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

The Ammonites and Moabites rose up against the men from Mount Seir to destroy and annihilate them. After they finished slaughtering the men from Seir, they helped to destroy one another.

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Other Translations

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    For the children of Ammon and Moab stood up against the inhabitants of mount Seir, utterly to slay and destroy them: and when they had made an end of the inhabitants of Seir, every one helped to destroy another.

  • KJV1611 – Modern English

    For the children of Ammon and Moab stood up against the inhabitants of Mount Seir to utterly kill and destroy them. And when they had made an end of the inhabitants of Seir, they helped to destroy one another.

  • King James Version 1611 (Original)

    For the children of Ammon and Moab stood up against the inhabitants of mount Seir, utterly to slay and destroy them: and when they had made an end of the inhabitants of Seir, every one helped to destroy another.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    For the children of Ammon and Moab stood up against the inhabitants of mount Seir, utterly to slay and destroy them: and when they had made an end of the inhabitants of Seir, every one helped to destroy another.

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    For the children of Ammon and Moab stood up against the inhabitants of mount Seir, utterly to slay and destroy them: and when they had made an end of the inhabitants of Seir, every one helped to destroy another.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    Then stode the children of Ammon & Moab agaynst them of mount Seir, to damne them, and to destroye them. And whan they had destroyed them of mount Seir, one helped another to destroye them selues also.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    For the children of Ammon & Moab rose against the inhabitants of mount Seir, to slay and to destroy them and when they had made an end of the inhabitantes of Seir, euery one helped to destroy another.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    For the children of Ammon and Moab, rose against the inhabiters of mount Seir, and they slue and destroyed them: And when they had made an end of the inhabiters of Seir, euery one helped to destroy another among them selues.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    For the children of Ammon and Moab stood up against the inhabitants of mount Seir, utterly to slay and destroy [them]: and when they had made an end of the inhabitants of Seir, every one helped to destroy another.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    For the children of Ammon and Moab stood up against the inhabitants of Mount Seir, utterly to kill and destroy them: and when they had made an end of the inhabitants of Seir, everyone helped to destroy another.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    and the sons of Ammon stand up, and Moab, against the inhabitants of mount Seir, to devote and to destroy, and at their finishing with the inhabitants of Seir, they helped, a man against his neighbour, to destroy.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    For the children of Ammon and Moab stood up against the inhabitants of mount Seir, utterly to slay and destroy them: and when they had made an end of the inhabitants of Seir, every one helped to destroy another.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    For the children of Ammon and Moab stood up against the inhabitants of mount Seir, utterly to slay and destroy them: and when they had made an end of the inhabitants of Seir, every one helped to destroy another.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    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.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    For the children of Ammon and Moab stood up against the inhabitants of Mount Seir, utterly to kill and destroy them: and when they had made an end of the inhabitants of Seir, everyone helped to destroy another.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    The Ammonites and Moabites attacked the men from Mount Seir and annihilated them. When they had finished off the men of Seir, they attacked and destroyed one another.

Referenced Verses

  • Judg 7:22 : 22 When the three hundred trumpets sounded, the LORD caused the men throughout the camp to turn on each other with their swords. The army fled to Beth Shittah toward Zererah, as far as the border of Abel Meholah near Tabbath.
  • 1 Sam 14:20 : 20 Then Saul and all his men assembled and went to the battle, and they found the Philistines in total confusion, striking each other with their swords.
  • Ezek 35:2-3 : 2 Son of man, set your face against Mount Seir and prophesy against it. 3 Say to it, 'This is what the Sovereign LORD says: I am against you, Mount Seir, and I will stretch out my hand against you and make you a desolate wasteland.'
  • Gen 14:6 : 6 and the Horites in their hill country of Seir, as far as El-Paran, which is near the wilderness.
  • Gen 36:8-9 : 8 So Esau settled in the hill country of Seir. Esau is Edom. 9 These are the descendants of Esau, the father of the Edomites, in the hill country of Seir.
  • Deut 2:5 : 5 Do not provoke them to conflict, for I will not give you even a footstep of their land, because I have given Mount Seir as a possession to Esau.'
  • Josh 24:4 : 4 And to Isaac, I gave Jacob and Esau. I gave the hill country of Seir to Esau to possess, but Jacob and his sons went down to Egypt.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 2 Chr 20:10-11
    2 verses
    80%

    10'But now, here are the men from Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir, whose land you would not let Israel invade when they came from Egypt; so they turned away from them and did not destroy them.'

    11'See how they are repaying us by coming to drive us out of the possession you gave us as an inheritance.'

  • 2 Chr 20:22
    77%

    22As they began to sing and praise, the LORD set ambushes against the men of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir who were invading Judah, and they were defeated.

  • Jer 25:21
    76%

    21Edom, Moab, and the sons of Ammon.

  • 2 Chr 20:24
    75%

    24When the men of Judah came to the place overlooking the desert and looked toward the vast army, they saw only dead bodies lying on the ground; no one had escaped.

  • 2 Chr 20:1
    75%

    1After this, the Moabites, the Ammonites, and some of the Ammonites joined forces and came to wage war against Jehoshaphat.

  • Deut 2:22
    74%

    22The LORD did the same for the descendants of Esau who lived in Seir when He destroyed the Horites before them. They drove them out and have lived in their place to this day.

  • 2 Kgs 3:23-26
    4 verses
    73%

    23They said, "This is blood! The kings have fought and killed each other. Now, to the plunder, Moab!"

    24When they came to the camp of Israel, the Israelites rose up and struck down the Moabites, who fled before them. The Israelites invaded the land and continued to strike down the Moabites.

    25They destroyed the cities, threw stones onto every good field until it was covered, stopped up all the springs of water, and cut down all the good trees. Only the stones of Kir Hareseth were left standing, but the slingers surrounded and attacked it.

    26When the king of Moab saw that the battle was too fierce for him, he took seven hundred men with swords to break through to the king of Edom, but they could not.

  • Judg 10:9
    72%

    9The Ammonites also crossed over the Jordan to fight against Judah, Benjamin, and the house of Ephraim, and Israel was greatly distressed.

  • Num 21:29-30
    2 verses
    71%

    29Woe to you, Moab! You have been destroyed, O people of Chemosh! He has given up his sons as fugitives and his daughters as captives to Sihon, king of the Amorites.

    30But we overthrew them; Heshbon as far as Dibon is destroyed. We devastated Nophah, which reaches to Medeba.

  • 2 Kgs 3:21
    71%

    21When all the Moabites heard that the kings had come to fight against them, they called together everyone old enough to wear armor and stationed themselves at the border.

  • Ezek 25:8
    71%

    8This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Because Moab and Seir said, 'Look! The house of Judah is like all the other nations,'

  • Deut 2:12
    71%

    12The Horites also lived in Seir formerly, but the descendants of Esau dispossessed them. They destroyed them and settled in their place, just as Israel did in the land the LORD gave them as their possession.

  • Judg 6:3-4
    2 verses
    71%

    3Whenever the Israelites planted crops, the Midianites, Amalekites, and the people of the east would come up and attack them.

    4They camped against them and destroyed the crops of the land all the way to Gaza, leaving nothing for the Israelites to live on—not even sheep, cattle, or donkeys.

  • Deut 20:17
    71%

    17Completely destroy them—the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites—as the LORD your God has commanded you.

  • Zeph 2:8-9
    2 verses
    71%

    8I have heard the taunts of Moab and the insults of the Ammonites, who have reproached My people and enlarged their borders.

    9Therefore, as surely as I live—declares the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel—Moab will become like Sodom, and the Ammonites like Gomorrah, a land of weeds and salt pits, a perpetual ruin. The remnant of My people will plunder them, and the survivors of My nation will inherit their land.

  • Josh 11:20
    70%

    20For it was the LORD's purpose to harden their hearts to engage in battle with Israel, so that they would be utterly destroyed, receiving no mercy, as the LORD had commanded Moses.

  • 2 Chr 25:11
    70%

    11Amaziah took courage and led his army to the Valley of Salt, where he struck down ten thousand men of Seir.

  • Jer 48:2
    70%

    2The glory of Moab is no more! In Heshbon, a plan for disaster was made against her: 'Come, let us cut her off from being a nation!' Even Madmen will be silenced; the sword will follow you.

  • Ps 83:9
    70%

    9Even Assyria has joined them; they have strengthened the descendants of Lot. Selah.

  • Deut 3:6
    70%

    6We completely destroyed them, just as we had done to Sihon, king of Heshbon. In every city, we destroyed the men, women, and children.

  • Ezek 35:7
    70%

    7I will turn Mount Seir into a desolate waste and cut off from it all who come and go.

  • 1 Chr 4:41
    70%

    41These, recorded by name, came during the days of Hezekiah king of Judah. They attacked the tents of the Meunites who were found there and completely destroyed them, as is still the case today. Then they settled in their place because there was pasture there for their flocks.

  • Num 21:24
    70%

    24Israel defeated him with the sword and took possession of his land from the Arnon to the Jabbok, as far as the Ammonites, for the border of the Ammonites was fortified.

  • Deut 2:29
    70%

    29as the descendants of Esau who live in Seir and the Moabites who live in Ar did for me—until I cross the Jordan into the land that the LORD our God is giving us.'

  • Deut 20:13
    70%

    13When the LORD your God delivers it into your hands, strike down every male there with the sword.

  • Jer 48:42
    69%

    42Moab will be destroyed as a people, because he exalted himself against the LORD.

  • 1 Sam 15:3
    69%

    3Now go and attack Amalek. Devote to destruction everything they have. Do not spare them; kill men and women, children and infants, oxen and sheep, camels and donkeys.'

  • Num 21:26
    69%

    26Heshbon was the city of Sihon, king of the Amorites, who had fought against the former king of Moab and captured all his land up to the Arnon.

  • Judg 20:25
    69%

    25On the second day, the Benjaminites came out from Gibeah to meet the Israelites and struck down another eighteen thousand Israelites, all of them armed with swords.

  • Gen 14:7
    69%

    7Then they turned back and came to En Mishpat (that is, Kadesh), and they defeated all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites who lived in Hazezon-Tamar.

  • Num 22:3
    69%

    3Moab became very afraid of the people because they were numerous. Moab was overcome with dread because of the Israelites.

  • Num 24:20
    69%

    20Then Balaam saw Amalek and spoke his oracle: 'Amalek was first among the nations, but their end will be utter destruction.'

  • Jer 48:4
    69%

    4Moab is broken! A cry is heard; even her young ones make their distress known.

  • Deut 1:44
    69%

    44Then the Amorites who lived in that hill country came out against you and chased you as bees do; they struck you down from Seir all the way to Hormah.

  • 1 Kgs 11:15
    69%

    15When David was in Edom and Joab, the commander of the army, went up to bury the dead, they killed every male in Edom.