Verse 14

There was a little city with few men in it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great siege works against it.

Other Translations

• GT, oversatt fra Hebraisk

  En liten by med få innbyggere, og en mektig konge kom mot den. Han omringet byen og bygde store beleiringsverker mot den.

• Moderne oversettelse av Bibelen fra 1611 KJV med hebraisk kontekst

  Det var en liten by, og få menn i den; og en stor konge kom mot den, omringet den og bygde store murer mot den.

• Norsk King James

  Det var en liten by, med få menn i den; og det kom en stor konge mot den, og beleiret den, og bygde store murer mot den.

• Modernisert Norsk Bibel 1866

  Det var en liten by med få folk i den, og en mektig konge kom imot den, omringet den og bygde store voller omkring den.

• Oversettelse av hebraiske Bibeltekster til moderne norsk bokmål

  Det var en liten by med få innbyggere, og en mektig konge kom mot den, beleiret den og bygde store forsvarsverker rundt den.

• Bibelen: En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611

  Det var en liten by, og få menn i den; og det kom en stor konge mot den, og beleiret den, og bygde store voller mot den:

• o3-mini KJV Norsk

  Det fantes en liten by med få innbyggere; så kom en mektig konge mot den, beleiret den og reiste store festningsvoller rundt den.

• En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611 (mar 2025)

  Det var en liten by, og få menn i den; og det kom en stor konge mot den, og beleiret den, og bygde store voller mot den:

• Lingvistisk bibeloversettelse fra grunntekst

  Det var en liten by med få mennesker, og en mektig konge kom mot den, omringet den og bygde store beleiringsverker mot den.

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  There was a small city with a few men in it, and a great king came against it, surrounded it, and built large siegeworks around it.

• biblecontext

  { "verseID": "Ecclesiastes.9.14", "source": "עִ֣יר קְטַנָּ֔ה וַאֲנָשִׁ֥ים בָּ֖הּ מְעָ֑ט וּבָֽא־אֵלֶ֜יהָ מֶ֤לֶךְ גָּדוֹל֙ וְסָבַ֣ב אֹתָ֔הּ וּבָנָ֥ה עָלֶ֖יהָ מְצוֹדִ֥ים גְּדֹלִֽים׃", "text": "*ʿîr* *qĕṭannâ* and-*ʾănāšîm* in-her *mĕʿāṭ* and-*bāʾ*-to-her *melek* *gādôl* and-*sābab* her and-*bānâ* against-her *mĕṣôdîm* *gĕdōlîm*.", "grammar": { "*ʿîr*": "noun, feminine singular construct - city", "*qĕṭannâ*": "adjective, feminine singular - small", "*ʾănāšîm*": "noun, masculine plural - men", "*mĕʿāṭ*": "adjective, masculine singular - few", "*bāʾ*": "verb, qal perfect, 3rd person masculine singular - came/went", "*melek*": "noun, masculine singular - king", "*gādôl*": "adjective, masculine singular - great/powerful", "*sābab*": "verb, qal perfect, 3rd person masculine singular - surrounded", "*bānâ*": "verb, qal perfect, 3rd person masculine singular - built", "*mĕṣôdîm*": "noun, masculine plural - siegeworks", "*gĕdōlîm*": "adjective, masculine plural - great/large" }, "variants": { "*ʿîr qĕṭannâ*": "small city/little town", "*ʾănāšîm*": "men/people/inhabitants", "*mĕʿāṭ*": "few/small number", "*bāʾ*": "came/went/approached", "*melek gādôl*": "great king/powerful ruler", "*sābab*": "surrounded/encircled/besieged", "*bānâ*": "built/constructed/erected", "*mĕṣôdîm gĕdōlîm*": "great siegeworks/large bulwarks/mighty fortifications" } }

• GT, oversatt fra hebraisk Aug2024

  En liten by med få menn i den, og en stor konge kom imot den, beleiret den og bygde store festningsverker mot den.

• Original Norsk Bibel 1866

  Der var en liden Stad, og faa Folk i den, og der kom en mægtig Konge imod den og omringede den og byggede store Bolværker om den;

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it:

• KJV 1769 norsk

  Det var en liten by med få menn i den; og det kom en stor konge mot den, og beleiret den, og bygde store voller mot den.

• Norsk oversettelse av Webster

  Det var en liten by, og få mennesker i den; og en stor konge kom imot den, beleiret den, og bygde store voller mot den.

• Norsk oversettelse av Youngs Literal Translation

  En liten by og få mennesker i den, og en mektig konge kom mot den, omringet den og bygde store voller mot den.

• Norsk oversettelse av ASV1901

  Det var en liten by med få menn i den, og en stor konge kom mot den, beleiret den, og bygget store murer mot den.

• Norsk oversettelse av BBE

  Det var en liten by med få innbyggere, og en stor konge kom mot den og omringet den med beleiringsverk.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  There was a litle cite, & a few me within it: so there came a greate kynge & beseged it, & made greate bulworkes agaynst it.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  A litle citie and fewe men in it, and a great King came against it, and compassed it about, and builded fortes against it.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  There was a litle citie and a few men within it: so there came a great kyng and besieged it, and made great bulwarkes against it.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  [There was] a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it:

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  There was a little city, and few men within it; and a great king came against it, besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  A little city, and few men in it, and a great king hath come unto it, and hath surrounded it, and hath built against it great bulwarks;

• American Standard Version (1901)

  There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  There was a little town and the number of its men was small, and there came a great king against it and made an attack on it, building works of war round about it.

• World English Bible (2000)

  There was a little city, and few men within it; and a great king came against it, besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  There was once a small city with a few men in it, and a mighty king attacked it, besieging it and building strong siege works against it.

Referenced Verses

• 2 Sam 20:15-22 : 15 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. 16 Then a wise woman called out from the city, Listen, listen; please say to Joab, Come here, that I may speak with you. 17 When he came near her, the woman asked, Are you Joab? He answered, I am. Then she said, Listen to the words of your servant. And he answered, I am listening. 18 She continued, In former times, they used to say, Let them ask counsel at Abel; and so they resolved disputes. 19 I am one of the peaceable and faithful in Israel. You seek to destroy a city and a mother in Israel. Why would you swallow up the inheritance of the LORD? 20 Joab answered, Far be it from me, far be it from me, to swallow up or destroy. 21 The matter is not so; but a man from the hill country of Ephraim, Sheba the son of Bichri by name, has raised his hand against the king, against David. Deliver him only, and I will depart from the city. The woman said to Joab, Behold, his head shall be thrown to you over the wall. 22 Then the woman went to all the people with her wise advice. They cut off the head of Sheba the son of Bichri and threw it to Joab. He blew the trumpet, and they dispersed from the city, each to his tent. Joab returned to the king in Jerusalem.
• 2 Kgs 6:24-7:20 : 24 And it came to pass after this, that Benhadad king of Syria gathered all his army, and went up, and besieged Samaria. 25 And there was a great famine in Samaria: and, behold, they besieged it, until a donkey's head was sold for eighty pieces of silver, and a quarter of a cab of dove's dung for five pieces of silver. 26 And as the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried to him, saying, Help, my lord, O king. 27 And he said, If the LORD does not help you, how shall I help you? from the threshing floor, or from the winepress? 28 And the king said to her, What troubles you? And she answered, This woman said to me, Give your son, that we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow. 29 So we boiled my son, and did eat him: and I said to her on the next day, Give your son, that we may eat him: and she has hidden her son. 30 And it came to pass, when the king heard the words of the woman, that he tore his clothes; and he passed by on the wall, and the people looked, and, behold, he had sackcloth underneath on his flesh. 31 Then he said, God do so and more also to me, if the head of Elisha the son of Shaphat shall remain on him today. 32 But Elisha sat in his house, and the elders sat with him; and the king sent a man ahead of him: but before the messenger came to him, he said to the elders, Do you see how this son of a murderer has sent to take away my head? look, when the messenger comes, shut the door, and hold him fast at the door: is not the sound of his master's feet behind him? 33 And while he yet talked with them, behold, the messenger came down to him: and he said, Behold, this evil is from the LORD; what should I wait for the LORD any longer? 1 Then Elisha said, Hear the word of the LORD; Thus says the LORD, Tomorrow about this time a measure of fine flour will be sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, in the gate of Samaria. 2 Then a lord on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God, and said, Behold, if the LORD would make windows in heaven, might this thing be? And he said, Behold, you shall see it with your eyes, but shall not eat thereof. 3 And there were four leprous men at the entry of the gate: and they said one to another, Why do we sit here until we die? 4 If we say, We will enter the city, there the famine is in the city, and we shall die there: and if we sit here, we die also. Now therefore come, and let us surrender to the host of the Syrians: if they save us alive, we shall live; and if they kill us, we shall but die. 5 And they rose up at twilight, to go to the camp of the Syrians: and when they came to the outermost part of the camp of Syria, behold, there was no one there. 6 For the Lord had made the host of the Syrians hear a noise of chariots, and a noise of horses, even the noise of a great host: and they said one to another, Lo, the king of Israel has hired against us the kings of the Hittites, and the kings of the Egyptians, to come upon us. 7 Therefore they arose and fled at twilight, and left their tents, and their horses, and their donkeys, even the camp as it was, and fled for their life. 8 And when these lepers came to the outermost part of the camp, they went into one tent, and ate and drank, and carried away silver, and gold, and clothing, and went and hid it; and came again, and entered into another tent, and carried away from there also, and went and hid it. 9 Then they said one to another, We do not do well: this day is a day of good tidings, and we hold our peace: if we wait until the morning light, some mischief will come upon us: now therefore come, that we may go and tell the king's household. 10 So they came and called to the gatekeepers of the city: and they told them, saying, We came to the camp of the Syrians, and, behold, there was no one there, neither voice of man, but horses tied, and donkeys tied, and the tents as they were. 11 And he called the gatekeepers; and they told it to the king's house within. 12 And the king arose in the night, and said to his servants, I will now show you what the Syrians have done to us. They know that we are hungry; therefore they have gone out of the camp to hide themselves in the field, saying, When they come out of the city, we shall catch them alive, and get into the city. 13 And one of his servants answered and said, Let some take, I pray you, five of the horses that remain, which are left in the city, (behold, they are like all the multitude of Israel that are left in it: behold, I say, they are even like all the multitude of the Israelites that are consumed:) and let us send and see. 14 So they took two chariot horses; and the king sent after the host of the Syrians, saying, Go and see. 15 And they went after them to the Jordan: and, lo, all the way was full of garments and vessels, which the Syrians had cast away in their haste. And the messengers returned, and told the king. 16 And the people went out, and looted the tents of the Syrians. So a measure of fine flour was sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, according to the word of the LORD. 17 And the king appointed the lord on whose hand he leaned to have charge of the gate: and the people trampled him in the gate, and he died, as the man of God had said, who spoke when the king came down to him. 18 And it came to pass as the man of God had spoken to the king, saying, Two measures of barley for a shekel, and a measure of fine flour for a shekel, shall be tomorrow about this time in the gate of Samaria: 19 And that lord answered the man of God, and said, Now, behold, if the LORD should make windows in heaven, might such a thing be? And he said, Behold, you shall see it with your eyes, but shall not eat thereof. 20 And so it happened to him: for the people trampled him in the gate, and he died.