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2 Chronicles 20:23

For the children of Ammon and Moab stood up against the inhabitants of mount Seir, utterly to slay and destroy them: and when they had made an end of the inhabitants of Seir, every one helped to destroy another.

KJV

Namque filii Ammon et Moab consurrexerunt adversum habitatores montis Seir, ut interficerent et delerent eos : cumque hoc opere perpetrassent, etiam in semetipsos versi, mutuis concidere vulneribus.

Vulgate

καὶ ἀπέστησαν οἱ υἱοὶ Ἀμμὼν καὶ Μωὰβ ἐπὶ τοὺς κατοικοῦντας ὄρος Σηεὶρ ἐξολεθρεῦσαι καὶ ἐκτρίψαι· καὶ ὡς συνετέλεσαν τοὺς κατοικοῦντας Σηείρ, ἀνέστησαν εἰς ἀλλήλους τοῦ ἐξολοθρευθῆναι.

LXX

For the children of Ammon and Moab stood up against the inhabitants of mount Seir, utterly to slay and destroy them: and when they had made an end of the inhabitants of Seir, every one helped to destroy another.

ASV

וַ֠/יַּֽעַמְדוּ בְּנֵ֨י עַמּ֧וֹן וּ/מוֹאָ֛ב עַל יֹשְׁבֵ֥י הַר שֵׂעִ֖יר לְ/הַחֲרִ֣ים וּ/לְ/הַשְׁמִ֑יד וּ/כְ/כַלּוֹתָ/ם֙ בְּ/יוֹשְׁבֵ֣י שֵׂעִ֔יר עָזְר֥וּ אִישׁ בְּ/רֵעֵ֖/הוּ לְ/מַשְׁחִֽית

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

15 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אִ֣ישׁ
'ysh
noun · 2171×
בֶּן
bn
noun · 4909×
הַ֣ר
hr
noun · 544×
הוּ
hv
noun · 186×
יֹשְׁבֵ֣י
yshby
verb · 1088×
ם
m
verb · 52×
ם
m
verb · 203×
ם
m
verb · 90×
מַשְׁחִ֔ית
mshchyt
noun · 10×
מוֹאָ֔ב
mv'b
proper_noun · 180×
נִי
ny
verb · 82×
עַל
'l
noun · 5732×
עַמּ֔וֹן
'mvn
proper_noun · 105×
עֹמְדִ֖ים
'mdym
verb · 526×
שֵׂעִ֔יר
sh'yr
proper_noun · 39×

Historic Christian voices

1 passage from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • 1Sam 14:20 — And Saul and all the people that were with him assembled themselves, and they came to the battle: and, behold, every man’s sword was against his fellow, and there was a very great discomfiture.
  • 1Sam 14:20 — And Saul and all the people that were with him assembled themselves, and they came to the battle: and, behold, every man’s sword was against his fellow, and there was a very great discomfiture.
  • Ezek 35:2 — Son of man, set thy face against mount Seir, and prophesy against it,
  • Ezek 38:21 — And I will call for a sword against him throughout all my mountains, saith the Lord GOD: every man’s sword shall be against his brother.
  • Gen 36:8 — Thus dwelt Esau in mount Seir: Esau is Edom.
  • Jer 51:46 — And lest your heart faint, and ye fear for the rumour that shall be heard in the land; a rumour shall both come one year, and after that in another year shall come a rumour, and violence in the land,
  • Josh 24:4 — And I gave unto Isaac Jacob and Esau: and I gave unto Esau mount Seir, to possess it; but Jacob and his children went down into Egypt.
  • Judg 7:22 — And the three hundred blew the trumpets, and the LORD set every man’s sword against his fellow, even throughout all the host: and the host fled to Bethshittah in Zererath, and to the border of Abelmeh
  • Judg 7:22 — And the three hundred blew the trumpets, and the LORD set every man’s sword against his fellow, even throughout all the host: and the host fled to Bethshittah in Zererath, and to the border of Abelmeh
  • Ps 33:16 — There is no king saved by the multitude of an host: a mighty man is not delivered by much strength.
  • Ps 46:8 — Come, behold the works of the LORD, what desolations he hath made in the earth.