2 Chronicles 14:10 BSB

2 Chronicles 14:10

So Asa marched out against him and lined up in battle formation in the Valley of Zephathah near Mareshah.

BSB

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ASV

Then Asa went out to meet him, and they set the battle in array in the valley of Zephathah at Mareshah.

KJV

Then Asa went out against him, and they set the battle in array in the valley of Zephathah at Mareshah.

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Commentary

2 voices

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)

Then Asa went out against him,.... Notwithstanding he brought so great an army with him: and they set the battle in array in the valley of Zephathah at Mareshah; where the Ethiopians were; he did not stay till they got further into his country, but marched against them when on the frontiers of it, and chose the valley to pitch in, as being more to the advantage of his smaller army; see Jdg 1:17.

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The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

The “valley of Zephathah” - not elsewhere mentioned - is probably the broad Wady which opens out from Mareshah (marginal reference) in a northwesterly direction, leading into the great Philistine plain. Zerah, on the advance of Asa, drew off into the wider space of the Wady, where he could use his horsemen and chariots.

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Original language & word study

8 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיֵּצֵ֥א	vai.ye.Tze'	and he went out	H3318 →
אָסָ֖א	'a.Sa'	Asa	H609 →
לְפָנָ֑יו	le.fa.Nav	<to> before him	H6440 →
וַיַּֽעַרְכוּ֙	vai.ya.'ar.Khu	and they drew up in formation	H6186 →
מִלְחָמָ֔ה	mil.cha.Mah	battle	H4421 →
בְּגֵ֥יא	be.Gei'	in [the] valley of	H1516 →
צְפַ֖תָה	tze.Fa.tah	Zephathah	H6859 →
לְמָרֵשָֽׁה׃	le.ma.re.Shah	to Mareshah	H4762 →

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The walk6

Where the connections lead

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Through
Judges 1:17
Then the men of Judah went with their brothers the Simeonites, attacked the Canaanites living in Zephath, and devoted the city to destruction. So it was called Hormah.
leads to
- Numbers 21:3
  And the LORD heard Israel’s plea and delivered up the Canaanites. Israel devoted them and their cities to destruction; so they named the place Hormah.
- Numbers 14:45
  Then the Amalekites and Canaanites who lived in that part of the hill country came down, attacked them, and routed them all the way to Hormah.
- Joshua 19:4
  Eltolad, Bethul, Hormah,
- Judges 1:3
  Then the men of Judah said to their brothers the Simeonites, “Come up with us to our allotted territory, and let us fight against the Canaanites. And we likewise will go with you to…
Through
Joshua 19:4
Eltolad, Bethul, Hormah,
leads to
- Judges 1:17
  Then the men of Judah went with their brothers the Simeonites, attacked the Canaanites living in Zephath, and devoted the city to destruction. So it was called Hormah.
- Joshua 15:30
  Eltolad, Chesil, Hormah,

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06About 2 Chronicles

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