2 Kings 3:6 BSB — MannaFest

2 Kings 3:6

So at that time King Jehoram set out from Samaria and mobilized all Israel.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

And king Jehoram went out of Samaria at that time, and mustered all Israel.

KJV

And king Jehoram went out of Samaria the same time, and numbered all Israel.

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Commentary

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Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

King Jehoram . . . numbered Israel--made a levy from his own subjects, and at the same time sought an alliance with Jehoshaphat, which, as on the former occasion with Ahab, was readily promised (1Ki 22:4).

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Original language & word study

10 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיֵּצֵ֞א	vai.ye.Tze'	and he went out	H3318 →
הַמֶּ֧לֶךְ	ha.Me.lekh	the king	H4428 →
יְהוֹרָ֛ם	ye.ho.Ram	Jehoram	H3088 →
בַּיּ֥וֹם	bai.Yom	on the day	H3117 →
הַה֖וּא	ha.Hu'	<the> that	H1931 →
מִשֹּׁמְר֑וֹן	mi.sho.me.Ron	from Samaria	H8111 →
וַיִּפְקֹ֖ד	vai.yif.Kod	and he mustered	H6485 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
כָּל־	kol-	all	H3605 →
יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃	Yis.ra.'El	Israel	H3478 →

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The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
1 Samuel 15:4
So Saul summoned the troops and numbered them at Telaim—200,000 foot soldiers and 10,000 men of Judah.
leads to
- 1 Samuel 13:15
  Then Samuel set out from Gilgal and went up to Gibeah in Benjamin. And Saul numbered the troops who were with him, about six hundred men.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Joshua 15:24
  Ziph, Telem, Bealoth,
Through
1 Kings 20:27
The Israelites also mobilized, gathered supplies, and marched out to meet them. The Israelites camped before them like two small flocks of goats, while the Arameans covered the countryside.
leads to
- 1 Samuel 13:5–8
  Now the Philistines assembled to fight against Israel with three thousand chariots, six thousand horsemen, and troops as numerous as the sand on the seashore. They went up and camped at Michmash, east of…
- Judges 6:5
  For the Midianites came with their livestock and their tents like a great swarm of locusts. They and their camels were innumerable, and they entered the land to ravage it.
- Ecclesiastes 9:11
  I saw something else under the sun: The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong; neither is the bread to the wise, nor the wealth to the intelligent, nor…
- Deuteronomy 32:30
  How could one man pursue a thousand, or two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, unless the LORD had given them up?
Through
1 Samuel 11:8
And when Saul numbered them at Bezek, there were 300,000 Israelites and 30,000 men of Judah.
leads to
- Judges 1:4–5
  When Judah attacked, the LORD delivered the Canaanites and Perizzites into their hands, and they struck down ten thousand men at Bezek.
- 2 Samuel 24:9
  And Joab reported to the king the total number of the troops. In Israel there were 800,000 men of valor who drew the sword, and in Judah there were 500,000.