2 Kings 13:7

For he + 13:7 Melech Aram did leave of the army to Yehoachaz but 50 parashim, and 10 merkavot, and 10,000 foot soldiers; for Melech Aram had destroyed them, and had made them like the aphar for trampling.

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

Neither did he leave of the people to Jehoahaz but fifty horsemen, and ten chariots, and ten thousand footmen; for the king of Syria had destroyed them, and had made them like the dust by threshing.

In Context

6Nevertheless they departed not from the chattot of the Bais Yarov'am, who made Yisroel sin, but walked therein; and also there remained standing the Asherah in Shomron —

8Now the rest of the acts of Yehoachaz, and all that he did, and his gevurah, are they not written in the Sefer Divrei HaYamim L'Malkhei Yisroel?

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Cross References

1 Samuel 13:6When the Ish Yisroel saw that they were in danger (for the army was hard-pressed), then the people did hide themselves in me'arot (caves), and in thickets, and among rocks, and in towers, and in borot (pits).

1 Samuel 13:19Now there was no charash (blacksmith) found throughout kol Eretz Yisroel; for the Pelishtim (Philistines) said, Lest the Ivrim (Hebrews) make them cherev (sword) or khanit (spear);

1 Kings 20:27And the Bnei Yisroel were mustered, and were all outfitted as battle-ready, and marched out to meet them; and the Bnei Yisroel encamped opposite them like two little flocks of izzim (goats); but Aram (the Syrians) filled ha'aretz.

2 Kings 10:32In those days Hashem began to cut Yisroel down to size; and Chazael struck them down in all the territory of Yisroel;

Isaiah 36:8Therefore give pledges, now, to adoni HaMelech Ashur, and I will give thee two thousand susim, if thou be able on thy part to set riders upon them.

Isaiah 41:15Hinei, I will make thee a new sharp threshing iron 1 having pifiyyot (blades); 1 thou shalt thresh the harim, and beat them small, 1 and shalt make the geva'ot (hills) as motz (chaff). 1

Matthew Henry on 2 Kings 13:2-10

The Reign of Jehoahaz. ( b. c. 839.) 1 In the three and twentieth year of Joash the son of Ahaziah king of Judah Jehoahaz the son of Jehu began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and reigned seventeen years. 2 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord , and followed the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, which made Israel to sin; he departed not therefrom. 3 And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he delivered them into the hand of Hazael king of Syria, and into the hand of Benhadad… Read the whole commentary →

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