Isaiah 10:31
Madmenah flees; the people of Gebim take refuge.
BSB
ASV
Madmenah is a fugitive; the inhabitants of Gebim flee for safety.
KJV
Madmenah is removed; the inhabitants of Gebim gather themselves to flee.
(Verse 28 and following) He will come to Aiath, he will pass through Migron: at Machmas he will deposit his baggage. They went with haste to Geba, our city (or as we find elsewhere written: they stayed at the lodging place); Ramah was astonished, Gibeah of Saul fled. Cry out with your voice, daughter of Gallim; listen, Laishah, poor Anathoth: Medemena has taken flight; the inhabitants of Gebim, gather yourselves together. There is still a day, to stand at Nob: he will shake his hand against the mount of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.
Madmenah is removed,.... That is, the inhabitants of it, who removed from thence upon hearing that the Assyrian army had invaded the land, and was coming up to Jerusalem. There was a place called Madmannah, which lay in the southern part of the tribe of Judah, Jos 15:31 which, Jerom (i) says, was then called Memris, and was near the city of Gaza; but whether the same with this is not certain. The inhabitants of Gebim gather themselves to flee; of this place we have no account any where.
Madmenah - This city is mentioned nowhere else. The city of Madmanna, or Medemene, mentioned in Jos 15:31, was in the bounds of the tribe of Simeon, and was far south, toward Gaza. It cannot be the place intended here. Is removed - Or, the inhabitants have fled from fear; see Isa 10:29. Gebim - This place is unknown. It is nowhere else mentioned. Gather themselves to flee - A description of the alarm prevailing at the approach of Sennacherib.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
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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.
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Joshua 15:31Ziklag, Madmannah, Sansannah,
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That day Achish gave him Ziklag, and to this day it still belongs to the kings of Judah.
On the third day David and his men arrived in Ziklag, and the Amalekites had raided the Negev, attacked Ziklag, and burned it down.
Ziklag, Beth-marcaboth, Hazar-susah,
Now these were the men who came to David at Ziklag, while he was still banished from the presence of Saul son of Kish (they were among the mighty men who helped him in…
