2 ROIS 12:17
Alors Hazaël, roi de Syrie, monta et se battit contre Gath, dont il s’empara. Hazaël avait l’intention de monter contre Jérusalem.2 ROIS 12:17 in the real world
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Who
In what words
- חֲזָאֵלChăzâʼêlChazael, a king of Syria
- גַּתGathGath, a Philistine city
- לָכַדlâkadto catch (in a net, trap or pit); generally, to capture or occupy; also to choose (by lot)
- אֲרָםʼĂrâmAram or Syria, and its inhabitants; also the name of the son of Shem, a grandson of Nahor,
- לָחַםlâchamto feed on; figuratively, to consume; by implication, to battle (as destruction)
- יְרוּשָׁלַ͏ִםYᵉrûwshâlaimJerushalaim or Jerushalem, the capital city of Palestine
- שׂוּםsûwmto put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and e
- עָלָהʻâlâhto ascend, intransitively (be high) or actively (mount); used in a great variety of senses
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The Hebrew and Greek words standing behind this verse. Word-by-word alignment comes with the interlinear.
What's left of it
- Gath: a Philistine capital and its siegeConfirmed by the groundGath was a very large Philistine city, and it was besieged and destroyed in the ninth century — the period and the event 2 Kings reports.
Cross-references
2Ch 24:23–24, 1Ch 8:13, Luk 9:53, 1Ch 18:1, 1Sa 27:2, 2Ki 8:12–15, Luk 9:51, 1Ki 19:17