Verse 2

Against Egypt, against the army of Pharaoh Necho king of Egypt, which was by the river Euphrates in Carchemish, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon struck in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah.

Other Translations

• GT, oversatt fra Hebraisk

  Om Egypt: Mot hæren til farao Neko, kongen av Egypt, som lå ved elven Eufrat i Karkemish, og som Nebukadnesar, kongen av Babylon, slo i Jojakims fjerde år, sønnen av Josjia, kongen av Juda.

• Moderne oversettelse av Bibelen fra 1611 KJV med hebraisk kontekst

  Mot Egypt, mot hæren til farao Neko, kongen av Egypt, som var ved elven Eufrat i Karkemisj, som Nebukadnesar, kongen av Babylon, slo i det fjerde år av Jojakim, sønn av Josjia, kongen av Juda.

• Norsk King James

  Mot Egypt, mot hæren til farao Necho, kongen av Egypt, som var ved elven Eufrat i Karkemish, byen som Nebukadnesar, kongen av Babylon, knuste i det fjerde året av Jehoiakim, sønn av Josias, kongen av Juda.

• Modernisert Norsk Bibel 1866

  Mot Egypt, mot farao Neko, kongen av Egypt, sin hær ved elven Eufrat i Karkemis, som Nebukadnesar, Babylons konge, beseiret i det fjerde året av Jojakim, sønn av Josia, Judas konge.

• Oversettelse av hebraiske Bibeltekster til moderne norsk bokmål

  Om Egypt, om hæren til farao Neko, kongen av Egypt, som var ved Eufrat-elven i Karkemisj, den som Nebukadnesar, kongen av Babylon, slo i det fjerde året av Juda kong Jojakim, Josjias sønn.

• Bibelen: En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611

  Mot Egypt, mot hæren til farao Neko, kongen av Egypt, som var ved elven Eufrat i Karkemisj, og som Nebukadnesar, kongen av Babylon, slo i det fjerde året av Jojakim, sønn av Josjia, kongen av Juda.

• o3-mini KJV Norsk

  Mot Egypt, mot hæren til Faraoneko, kongen av Egypt, som var ved elven Eufrat i Karchemis, og som Nebukadnesar, kongen av Babylon, slo i det fjerde året til Jehoiakim, Josias’ sønn, kongen av Juda.

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

  Mot Egypt, mot hæren til farao Neko, kongen av Egypt, som var ved elven Eufrat i Karkemisj, og som Nebukadnesar, kongen av Babylon, slo i det fjerde året av Jojakim, sønn av Josjia, kongen av Juda.

• Lingvistisk bibeloversettelse fra grunntekst

  Om Egypt, om hæren til farao Neko, konge av Egypt, som var ved elven Eufrat i Karkemish, som Nebukadnesar, kongen av Babylon, slo i det fjerde året til Jojakim, sønn av Josjia, kongen av Juda.

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  Concerning Egypt: about the army of Pharaoh Neco, king of Egypt, which was at the Euphrates River in Carchemish and was defeated by Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah, king of Judah.

• biblecontext

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• GT, oversatt fra hebraisk Aug2024

  Om Egypt, om hæren til farao Neko, kongen av Egypt, som var ved Eufratelven i Karkemisj, og som Nebukadnesar, kongen av Babylon, slo i det fjerde året av Jojakim, sønn av Josias, kongen av Juda:

• Original Norsk Bibel 1866

  imod Ægypten, imod Pharao-Nechos, Kongen af Ægyptens, Hær, som var ved den Flod Phrat i Carchemis, (og) som Nebucadnezar, Kongen af Babel, slog i det fjerde Jojakims, Josias Søns, Judæ, Konges, Aar:

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  Against Egypt, against the army of Pharaoh-necho king of Egypt, which was by the river Euphrates in Carchemish, which Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon smote in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah.

• KJV 1769 norsk

  Om Egypt, om hæren til farao Neko, kongen av Egypt, som var ved elven Eufrat i Karkemisj, og som Nebukadnesar, kongen av Babylon, slo i det fjerde året til Jojakim, sønn av Josjia, kongen av Juda.

• Norsk oversettelse av Webster

  Om Egypt: angående hæren til farao Nekos, kongen av Egypt, som var ved elven Eufrat i Karkemisj, som Nebukadnesar, kongen av Babylon, slo i det fjerde året til Jojakim, Josjias sønn, kongen av Juda.

• Norsk oversettelse av Youngs Literal Translation

  Om Egypt, angående hæren til farao Necho, kongen av Egypt, som var ved elven Eufrat i Karkemish, som Nebukadnesar, kongen av Babylon, slo i det fjerde året til Jojakim, sønn av Josjia, kongen av Juda:

• Norsk oversettelse av ASV1901

  Om Egypt: om hæren til Farao-Neko, kongen av Egypt, som var ved elven Eufrat i Karkemisj, og som Nebukadnesar, kongen av Babylon, slo i Jojakims, Josias sønn, kongen av Juda, fjerde år.

• Norsk oversettelse av BBE

  Om Egypt: om hæren til Farao Neko, kongen av Egypt, som var ved elven Eufrat i Karkemisj, som Nebukadnesar, kongen av Babylon, seiret over i det fjerde året til Jojakim, Josias sønn, kongen av Juda.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  These wordes folowinge preached he to the Egipcias concernynge the hoost off Pharao Necho kynge off Egipte, when he was in Charcamis besyde the water off Euphrates: what tyme as Nabuchodonosor the kynge of Babilon slewe him, In the fourth yeare off Ioachim the sonne off Iosias kynge off Iuda.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  As against Egypt, against ye armie of Pharaoh Necho King of Egypt, which was by the riuer Perath in Carchemish, which Nebuchad-nezzar King of Babel smote in the fourth yere of Iehoiakim the sonne of Iosiah King of Iudah.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  These wordes folowing preached he in the Egyptians, concerning the hoast of Pharao Necho kyng of Egypt, when he was in Charchamis beside the water of Euphrates, what tyme as Nabuchodonozor the kyng of Babylon slue hym, in the fourth yere of Iehoakim the sonne of Iosias kyng of Iuda.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  Against Egypt, against the army of Pharaohnecho king of Egypt, which was by the river Euphrates in Carchemish, which Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon smote in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  Of Egypt: concerning the army of Pharaoh Necoh king of Egypt, which was by the river Euphrates in Carchemish, which Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon struck in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  For Egypt, concerning the force of Pharaoh-Necho king of Egypt, that hath been by the river Phrat, in Carchemish, that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath smitten, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah:

• American Standard Version (1901)

  Of Egypt: concerning the army of Pharaoh-neco king of Egypt, which was by the river Euphrates in Carchemish, which Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon smote in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  Of Egypt: about the army of Pharaoh-neco, king of Egypt, which was by the river Euphrates in Carchemish, which Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, overcame in the fourth year of Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, king of Judah.

• World English Bible (2000)

  Of Egypt: concerning the army of Pharaoh Necoh king of Egypt, which was by the river Euphrates in Carchemish, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon struck in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  The Prophecy about Egypt’s Defeat at Carchemish He spoke about Egypt and the army of Pharaoh Necho king of Egypt which was encamped along the Euphrates River at Carchemish. Now this was the army that King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon defeated in the fourth year that Jehoiakim son of Josiah was ruling over Judah.

Referenced Verses

• 2 Kgs 23:29 : 29 In his days Pharaoh Necho king of Egypt went up against the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates. And King Josiah went out against him; and he was killed at Megiddo when he had seen him.
• Isa 10:9 : 9 Is not Calno like Carchemish? Is not Hamath like Arpad? Is not Samaria like Damascus?
• Jer 25:1 : 1 The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, which was the first year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon;
• Jer 25:19 : 19 Pharaoh king of Egypt, and his servants, and his princes, and all his people;
• Jer 36:1 : 1 And it happened in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, that this word came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
• Jer 45:1 : 1 The word that Jeremiah the prophet spoke to Baruch the son of Neriah, when he had written these words in a book at the dictation of Jeremiah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, saying,
• Jer 46:14 : 14 Declare in Egypt, and proclaim in Migdol, and proclaim in Noph and in Tahpanhes: say, Stand fast, and prepare yourself; for the sword shall devour around you.
• Ezek 29:1-9 : 1 In the tenth year, in the tenth month, on the twelfth day of the month, the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 2 Son of man, set your face against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and prophesy against him, and against all Egypt: 3 Speak, and say, Thus says the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon that lies in the midst of his rivers, which has said, My river is mine own, and I have made it for myself. 4 But I will put hooks in your jaws, and I will cause the fish of your rivers to stick to your scales, and I will bring you up out of the midst of your rivers, and all the fish of your rivers shall stick to your scales. 5 And I will leave you thrown into the wilderness, you and all the fish of your rivers: you shall fall upon the open fields; you shall not be brought together, nor gathered: I have given you as food to the beasts of the field and to the birds of the sky. 6 And all the inhabitants of Egypt shall know that I am the LORD, because they have been a staff of reed to the house of Israel. 7 When they took hold of you by your hand, you broke, and tore all their shoulder: and when they leaned upon you, you broke, and made all their loins to be at a stand. 8 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD; Behold, I will bring a sword upon you, and cut off man and beast from you. 9 And the land of Egypt shall be desolate and waste; and they shall know that I am the LORD: because he has said, The river is mine, and I have made it. 10 Behold, therefore I am against you, and against your rivers, and I will make the land of Egypt utterly waste and desolate, from the tower of Syene even to the border of Ethiopia. 11 No foot of man shall pass through it, nor foot of beast shall pass through it, neither shall it be inhabited for forty years. 12 And I will make the land of Egypt desolate in the midst of countries that are desolate, and her cities among the cities that are laid waste shall be desolate forty years: and I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries. 13 Yet thus says the Lord GOD; At the end of forty years I will gather the Egyptians from the people where they were scattered: 14 And I will bring again the captivity of Egypt, and will cause them to return into the land of Pathros, into the land of their habitation; and they shall be there a lowly kingdom. 15 It shall be the lowest of the kingdoms; neither shall it exalt itself anymore above the nations: for I will diminish them, that they shall no more rule over the nations. 16 And it shall be no more the confidence of the house of Israel, which brings their iniquity to remembrance, when they shall look after them: but they shall know that I am the Lord GOD. 17 And it came to pass in the twenty-seventh year, in the first month, on the first day of the month, the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 18 Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon caused his army to serve a great service against Tyre: every head was made bald, and every shoulder was rubbed raw: yet he had no wages, nor his army, from Tyre, for the service that he had served against it: 19 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD; Behold, I will give the land of Egypt to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; and he shall take her multitude, and take her spoil, and take her prey; and it shall be the wages for his army. 20 I have given him the land of Egypt for his labor with which he served against it, because they worked for me, says the Lord GOD. 21 In that day I will cause the horns of the house of Israel to bud forth, and I will give you the opening of the mouth in the midst of them; and they shall know that I am the LORD.
• Jer 25:9 : 9 Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, says the LORD, and Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, My servant, and will bring them against this land, and against its inhabitants, and against all these nations round about, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, a hissing, and perpetual desolations.
• 2 Chr 35:20-21 : 20 After all this, when Josiah had prepared the temple, Necho king of Egypt came up to fight against Carchemish by the Euphrates, and Josiah went out against him. 21 But he sent ambassadors to him, saying, 'What have I to do with you, king of Judah? I do not come against you this day, but against the house with which I am at war. For God commanded me to make haste. Refrain from interfering with God, who is with me, so that He does not destroy you.'