2 Samuel 20:15

KJV1611 – Modern English

They besieged him in Abel of Bethmaachah, building a siege ramp against the city that stood against the wall, and all the people with Joab battered the wall to bring it down.

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Other Translations

  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

    Joab’s troops came and besieged Sheba in Abel Beth Maacah. They built a siege ramp against the city and stood against the outer rampart. As they worked to breach the wall,

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    And they came and besieged him in Abel of Beth-maachah, and they cast up a bank against the city, and it stood in the trench: and all the people that were with Joab battered the wall, to throw it down.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    And they came and besieged him in Abel of Beth-maacah, and they cast up a mound against the city, and it stood against the rampart; and all the people that were with Joab battered the wall, to throw it down.

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    And they came and besieged him in Abel of Bethmaachah, and they cast up a bank against the city, and it stood in the trench: and all the people that were with Joab battered the wall, to throw it down.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    and came and beseged him at Abel Beth Maacha, and made a banke aboute to cite harde on ye wall. And all the people that was with Ioab, layed to their ordynaunce, and wolde haue cast downe the wall.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    So they came, and besieged him in Abel, neere to Bethmaachah: and they cast vp a mount against the citie, and the people thereof stood on the ramper, and al the people that was with Ioab, destroyed and cast downe the wall.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    And they came and besieged him in Abel, neare to Bethmaacha: And they cast vp a bancke against the citie, and the people therof stoode on the ramper, and all the people that was with Ioab, thrust at the wall to ouerthrowe it.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    And they came and besieged him in Abel of Bethmaachah, and they cast up a bank against the city, and it stood in the trench: and all the people that [were] with Joab battered the wall, to throw it down.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    They came and besieged him in Abel of Beth Maacah, and they cast up a mound against the city, and it stood against the rampart; and all the people who were with Joab battered the wall, to throw it down.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    and they go in and lay siege against him, in Abel of Beth-Maachah, and cast up a mount against the city, and it standeth in a trench, and all the people who are `are' with Joab are destroying, to cause the wall to fall.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    And they came and besieged him in Abel of Beth-maacah, and they cast up a mound against the city, and it stood against the rampart; and all the people that were with Joab battered the wall, to throw it down.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    And they came and besieged him in Abel of Beth-maacah, and they cast up a mound against the city, and it stood against the rampart; and all the people that were with Joab battered the wall, to throw it down.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    And Joab and his men got him shut up in Abel of Beth-maacah, and put up an earthwork against the town: and all Joab's men did their best to get the wall broken down.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    They came and besieged him in Abel of Beth Maacah, and they cast up a mound against the city, and it stood against the rampart; and all the people who were with Joab battered the wall, to throw it down.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    So Joab’s men came and laid siege against him in Abel of Beth Maacah. They prepared a siege ramp outside the city which stood against its outer rampart. As all of Joab’s soldiers were trying to break through the wall so that it would collapse,

Referenced Verses

  • 2 Kgs 19:32 : 32 Therefore thus says the LORD concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shield, nor cast a siege mound against it.
  • Jer 32:24 : 24 Behold the siege ramps, they have come unto the city to take it; and the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans, that fight against it, because of the sword, and of the famine, and of the pestilence: and what you have spoken is come to pass; and, behold, you see it.
  • Jer 33:4 : 4 For thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, concerning the houses of this city and concerning the houses of the kings of Judah, which are torn down by the battering rams and by the sword:
  • Ezek 4:2 : 2 And lay siege against it, build a fort against it, and throw up a ramp against it; set the camp also against it, and set battering rams against it all around.
  • Luke 19:43 : 43 For the days shall come upon you, when your enemies will build an embankment around you and surround you and enclose you on every side,
  • Isa 37:33 : 33 Therefore thus says the LORD concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shields, nor build a siege ramp against it.
  • Jer 6:6 : 6 For thus has the LORD of hosts said, Cut down trees, and build a mound against Jerusalem. This is the city to be visited; she is full of oppression in her midst.
  • 1 Kgs 15:20 : 20 So Benhadad listened to King Asa, and sent the commanders of his armies against the cities of Israel, and struck Ijon, Dan, Abel Beth Maachah, and all Cinneroth, with all the land of Naphtali.
  • 2 Kgs 15:29 : 29 In the days of Pekah king of Israel came Tiglath-Pileser king of Assyria, and took Ijon, Abel Beth Maacah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and carried them captive to Assyria.

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