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2 Chronicles 20

2 Chron. 20:24 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And when Judah
Yhuwdah (Hebrew #3063)
celebrated; Jehudah (or Judah), the name of five Israelites; also of the tribe descended from the first, and of its territory
KJV usage: Judah.
Pronounce: yeh-hoo-daw'
Origin: from 3034
came
bow' (Hebrew #935)
to go or come (in a wide variety of applications)
KJV usage: abide, apply, attain, X be, befall, + besiege, bring (forth, in, into, to pass), call, carry, X certainly, (cause, let, thing for) to come (against, in, out, upon, to pass), depart, X doubtless again, + eat, + employ, (cause to) enter (in, into, -tering, -trance, -try), be fallen, fetch, + follow, get, give, go (down, in, to war), grant, + have, X indeed, (in-)vade, lead, lift (up), mention, pull in, put, resort, run (down), send, set, X (well) stricken (in age), X surely, take (in), way.
Pronounce: bo
Origin: a primitive root
toward the watch tower
Mitspeh (Hebrew #4708)
Mitspeh, the name of five places in Palestine
KJV usage: Mizpeh, watch tower. Compare 4709.
Pronounce: mits-peh'
Origin: the same as 4707
mitspeh (Hebrew #4707)
an observatory, especially for military purposes
KJV usage: watch tower.
Pronounce: mits-peh'
Origin: from 6822
in the wilderness
midbar (Hebrew #4057)
a pasture (i.e. open field, whither cattle are driven); by implication, a desert; also speech (including its organs)
KJV usage: desert, south, speech, wilderness.
Pronounce: mid-bawr'
Origin: from 1696 in the sense of driving
, they looked
panah (Hebrew #6437)
to turn; by implication, to face, i.e. appear, look, etc.
KJV usage: appear, at (even-)tide, behold, cast out, come on, X corner, dawning, empty, go away, lie, look, mark, pass away, prepare, regard, (have) respect (to), (re-)turn (aside, away, back, face, self), X right (early).
Pronounce: paw-naw'
Origin: a primitive root
unto the multitude
hamown (Hebrew #1995)
from 1993; a noise, tumult, crowd; also disquietude, wealth
KJV usage: abundance, company, many, multitude, multiply, noise, riches, rumbling, sounding, store, tumult.
Pronounce: haw-mone'
Origin: or hamon (Ezek. 5:7) {haw-mone'}
, and, behold, they were deada bodies
peger (Hebrew #6297)
a carcase (as limp), whether of man or beast; figuratively, an idolatrous image
KJV usage: carcase, corpse, dead body.
Pronounce: peh'gher
Origin: from 6296
fallen
naphal (Hebrew #5307)
to fall, in a great variety of applications (intransitive or causative, literal or figurative)
KJV usage: be accepted, cast (down, self, (lots), out), cease, die, divide (by lot), (let) fail, (cause to, let, make, ready to) fall (away, down, -en, -ing), fell(-ing), fugitive, have (inheritance), inferior, be judged (by mistake for 6419), lay (along), (cause to) lie down, light (down), be (X hast) lost, lying, overthrow, overwhelm, perish, present(-ed, -ing), (make to) rot, slay, smite out, X surely, throw down.
Pronounce: naw-fal'
Origin: a primitive root
to the earth
'erets (Hebrew #776)
the earth (at large, or partitively a land)
KJV usage: X common, country, earth, field, ground, land, X natins, way, + wilderness, world.
Pronounce: eh'-rets
Origin: from an unused root probably meaning to be firm
, and νnone escaped
pleytah (Hebrew #6413)
feminine of 6412; deliverance; concretely, an escaped portion
KJV usage: deliverance, (that is) escape(-d), remnant.
Pronounce: pel-ay-taw'
Origin: or pletah {pel-ay-taw'}
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Ex. 14:30• 30Thus Jehovah saved Israel that day out of the hand of the Egyptians; and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the sea-shore. (Ex. 14:30)
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1 Chron. 5:22• 22For there fell down many slain, for the war was of God. And they dwelt in their stead until the captivity. (1 Chron. 5:22)
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Isa. 37:36• 36And an angel of Jehovah went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and eighty-five thousand. And when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead bodies. (Isa. 37:36)
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there was not an escaping,
Ezra 9:14• 14should we again break thy commandments, and join in affinity with the peoples of these abominations? wouldest thou not be angry with us till thou hadst consumed us, so that there should be no remnant nor any to escape? (Ezra 9:14)
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Earth,
Judah,
Tower,
Wilderness

Cross References

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they were dead.
Ex. 14:30• 30Thus Jehovah saved Israel that day out of the hand of the Egyptians; and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the sea-shore. (Ex. 14:30)
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1 Chron. 5:22• 22For there fell down many slain, for the war was of God. And they dwelt in their stead until the captivity. (1 Chron. 5:22)
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Psa. 110:6• 6He shall judge among the nations; he shall fill all places with dead bodies; he shall smite through the head over a great country. (Psa. 110:6)
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Isa. 37:36• 36And an angel of Jehovah went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and eighty-five thousand. And when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead bodies. (Isa. 37:36)
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Jer. 33:5• 5They come to fight with the Chaldeans, but to fill them with the dead bodies of the men whom I have slain in mine anger and in my fury, and for all whose wickedness I have hid my face from this city. (Jer. 33:5)
none escaped.
Heb. there was not an escaping.
Ezra 9:14• 14should we again break thy commandments, and join in affinity with the peoples of these abominations? wouldest thou not be angry with us till thou hadst consumed us, so that there should be no remnant nor any to escape? (Ezra 9:14)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And Judah came on to the mountain-watchc in the wilderness, and they looked toward the multitude; and behold, they were dead bodies fallen to the earth, and none had escaped.

JND Translation Notes

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Or "a lofty place" (Mizpah).