Skip to main content

2 Chronicles 13:13

But Jeroboam caused an ambushment to come about behind them: so they were before Judah, and the ambushment was behind them.

KJV

Hæc illo loquente, Jeroboam retro moliebatur insidias. Cumque ex adverso hostium staret, ignorantem Judam suo ambiebat exercitu.

Vulgate

καὶ Ἰεροβοὰμ ἀπέστρεψεν τὸ ἔνεδρον ἐλθεῖν αὐτῶν ἐκ τῶν ὄπισθεν, καὶ ἐγένετο ἔμπροσθεν Ἰούδα, καὶ τὸ ἔνεδρον ἐκ τῶν ὄπισθεν.

LXX

But Jeroboam caused an ambushment to come about behind them: so they were before Judah, and the ambushment was behind them.

ASV

וְ/יָֽרָבְעָ֗ם הֵסֵב֙ אֶת הַ/מַּאְרָ֔ב לָ/ב֖וֹא מֵֽ/אַחֲרֵי/הֶ֑ם וַ/יִּֽהְיוּ֙ לִ/פְנֵ֣י יְהוּדָ֔ה וְ/הַ/מַּאְרָ֖ב מֵ/אַחֲרֵי/הֶֽם

Hebrew

Open in reader with connections →

In this verse

People JudahJeroboamJeroboam IIJudah

In the original Hebrew

9 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אֶת
't
pronoun · 10895×
בָּ֣א
b'
verb · 2573×
ו
v
noun · 717×
יְהִי֙
yhy
verb · 3549×
יְהוּדָ֔ה
yhvdh
proper_noun · 809×
יָרָבְעָ֖ם
yrb'm
proper_noun · 104×
מַּאְרָ֔ב
m'rb
noun · 5×
נִי
ny
verb · 158×
פְנֵ֣י
pny
noun · 2111×

Historic Christian voices

4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • 1Chr 5:20 — And they were helped against them, and the Hagarites were delivered into their hand, and all that were with them: for they cried to God in the battle, and he was intreated of them; because they put th
  • Josh 8:4 — And he commanded them, saying, Behold, ye shall lie in wait against the city, even behind the city: go not very far from the city, but be ye all ready:
  • Josh 8:9 — Joshua therefore sent them forth: and they went to lie in ambush, and abode between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of Ai: but Joshua lodged that night among the people.