2 Chronicles 20:23

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.

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  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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 And the three hundred blew the trumpets, and the LORD set every man's sword against his fellow, even throughout the whole army, and the army fled to Beth Shittah in Zererath, as far as the border of Abel Meholah, by Tabbath.
  • 1 Sam 14:20 : 20 Then Saul and all the people with him assembled and went into battle; and behold, every man's sword was against his fellow, and there was very great confusion.
  • Ezek 35:2-3 : 2 Son of man, set your face against Mount Seir, and prophesy against it, 3 And say to it, Thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, O Mount Seir, I am against you, and I will stretch out My hand against you, and I will make you most desolate.
  • Gen 14:6 : 6 And the Horites in their mount Seir, unto Elparan, which is by the wilderness.
  • Gen 36:8-9 : 8 Thus Esau dwelt in the mountain of Seir. Esau is Edom. 9 These are the descendants of Esau, the father of the Edomites in the mountain of Seir:
  • Deut 2:5 : 5 Do not meddle with them; for I will not give you any of their land, not even a foot's breadth, because I have given Mount Seir to Esau as a possession.
  • Josh 24:4 : 4 And I gave to Isaac Jacob and Esau: and I gave to Esau Mount Seir to possess it; but Jacob and his children went down into Egypt.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 2 Chr 20:10-11
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    80%

    10And now, see, the children of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir, whom You would not let Israel invade when they came out of the land of Egypt, but they turned from them and did not destroy them;

    11See, how they repay us, to come to cast us out of Your possession, which You have given us to inherit.

  • 2 Chr 20:22
    77%

    22Now when they began to sing and to praise, the LORD set ambushes against the children of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir, who had come against Judah; and they were defeated.

  • Jer 25:21
    76%

    21Edom, Moab, and the children of Ammon,

  • 2 Chr 20:24
    75%

    24So when Judah came to a place overlooking the wilderness, they looked toward the multitude; and behold, they were dead bodies fallen on the earth; no one had escaped.

  • 2 Chr 20:1
    75%

    1It happened after this that the children of Moab and the children of Ammon, and with them others besides the Ammonites, came against Jehoshaphat for battle.

  • Deut 2:22
    74%

    22As He did to the children of Esau, who dwelt in Seir, when He destroyed the Horites from before them; and they succeeded them and dwelt in their place even unto this day.

  • 2 Kgs 3:23-26
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    73%

    23And they said, "This is blood; the kings are surely slain, and they have struck one another. Now, Moab, to the spoil!"

    24So when they came to the camp of Israel, the Israelites rose up and attacked the Moabites, so that they fled before them; and they continued attacking and defeated the Moabites in their land.

    25And they destroyed the cities, and in every good piece of land each man threw a stone and filled it, and they stopped all the springs of water and cut down all the good trees. Only in Kir Haraseth did they leave its stones intact; however, the slingers surrounded it and attacked it.

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

  • Judg 10:9
    72%

    9Moreover, the children of Ammon crossed over Jordan to fight against Judah, and against Benjamin, and against the house of Ephraim; so that Israel was greatly distressed.

  • Num 21:29-30
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    29Woe to you, Moab! You are undone, O people of Chemosh: he has given his sons that escaped, and his daughters, into captivity to Sihon king of the Amorites.

    30We have shot at them; Heshbon is perished even to Dibon, and we have laid them waste even to Nophah, which reaches to Medeba.

  • 2 Kgs 3:21
    71%

    21And when all the Moabites heard that the kings had come up to fight against them, they gathered all who were able to put on armor, and stood at the border.

  • Ezek 25:8
    71%

    8Thus says the Lord GOD; Because Moab and Seir say, Behold, the house of Judah is like all the nations;

  • Deut 2:12
    71%

    12The Horites also dwelt in Seir previously; but the children of Esau succeeded them, when they had destroyed them from before them, and dwelt in their place, as Israel did to the land of his possession, which the LORD gave to them.

  • Judg 6:3-4
    2 verses
    71%

    3And so it was, when Israel had sown, that the Midianites came up, and the Amalekites, and the children of the east, even they came up against them;

    4And they encamped against them, and destroyed the produce of the earth till you come to Gaza, and left no sustenance for Israel, neither sheep, nor ox, nor donkey.

  • Deut 20:17
    71%

    17But you shall utterly destroy them; namely, the Hittites, and the Amorites, the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; as the LORD your God has commanded you:

  • Zeph 2:8-9
    2 verses
    71%

    8I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the revilings of the children of Ammon, by which they have reproached my people and magnified themselves against their border.

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  • Josh 11:20
    70%

    20For it was of the LORD to harden their hearts, that they should come against Israel in battle, that he might destroy them utterly, and that they might find no favor, but that he might destroy them, as the LORD commanded Moses.

  • 2 Chr 25:11
    70%

    11And Amaziah strengthened himself, and led forth his people, and went to the Valley of Salt, and killed ten thousand of the children of Seir.

  • Jer 48:2
    70%

    2There shall be no more praise of Moab. In Heshbon they have devised evil against it: 'Come, and let us cut it off from being a nation.' You too shall be cut down, O Madmen; the sword shall pursue you.

  • Ps 83:9
    70%

    9Do to them as to the Midianites; as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the brook of Kishon:

  • Deut 3:6
    70%

    6And we utterly destroyed them, as we did to Sihon, king of Heshbon, utterly destroying the men, women, and children, of every city.

  • Ezek 35:7
    70%

    7Thus I will make Mount Seir most desolate, and cut off from it him who passes out and him who returns.

  • 1 Chr 4:41
    70%

    41And these written by name came in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, attacked their tents, and the habitations that were found there, and destroyed them utterly to this day, and dwelt in their place because there was pasture there for their flocks.

  • Num 21:24
    70%

    24And Israel struck him with the edge of the sword, and possessed his land from Arnon to Jabbok, even to the children of Ammon: for the border of the children of Ammon was strong.

  • Deut 2:29
    70%

    29(as the children of Esau who dwell in Seir and the Moabites who dwell in Ar did unto me) until I cross over Jordan into the land which the LORD our God gives us.

  • Deut 20:13
    70%

    13And when the LORD your God has delivered it into your hands, you shall strike every male of it with the edge of the sword:

  • Jer 48:42
    69%

    42And Moab shall be destroyed from being a people, because he has magnified himself against the LORD.

  • 1 Sam 15:3
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    3Now go and strike Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but kill both man and woman, infant and nursing child, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.

  • Num 21:26
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    26For Heshbon was the city of Sihon the king of the Amorites, who had fought against the former king of Moab, and taken all his land out of his hand, even to Arnon.

  • Judg 20:25
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    25And Benjamin went forth against them out of Gibeah the second day, and destroyed down to the ground of the children of Israel again eighteen thousand men; all these drew the sword.

  • Gen 14:7
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    7And they returned and came to Enmishpat, which is Kadesh, and struck all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites, that dwelled in Hazezontamar.

  • Num 22:3
    69%

    3And Moab was very afraid of the people, because they were many; and Moab was distressed because of the children of Israel.

  • Num 24:20
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    20And when he looked on Amalek, he took up his parable, and said, Amalek was the first of the nations, but his latter end shall be that he perish forever.

  • Jer 48:4
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    4Moab is destroyed; her little ones have set up a cry.

  • Deut 1:44
    69%

    44And the Amorites, who dwelt in that mountain, came out against you, and chased you as bees do, and destroyed you in Seir, as far as Hormah.

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    15For it came to pass, when David was in Edom, and Joab the captain of the army had gone up to bury the slain, after he had killed every male in Edom.