King Ben-hadad of Aram gathered all his army together; thirty-two kings were with him, along with horses and chariots. He marched against Samaria, laid siege to it, and attacked it.
2 Kings 6:24 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 Some time later King Ben-hadad of Aram mustered his entire army; he marched against Samaria and laid siege to it. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And it came to pass after this, that Ben-hadad king of Syria gathered all his host, and went up, and besieged Samaria. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Afterward, Ben-hadad king of Syria gathered his whole army and went up and besieged Samaria, American Standard Version (1901) And it came to pass after this, that Ben-hadad king of Syria gathered all his host, and went up, and besieged Samaria. Common English Bible Now it happened later that Aram’s King Ben-hadad gathered all his forces and went up to attack Samaria. Catholic Public Domain Version Now it happened that, after these things, Benhadad, the king of Syria, gathered together his entire army, and he ascended and was besieging Samaria. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And it came to pass after these things, that Benadad king of Syria gathered together all his army, and went up, and besieged Samaria. |
King Ben-hadad of Aram gathered all his army together; thirty-two kings were with him, along with horses and chariots. He marched against Samaria, laid siege to it, and attacked it.
Now the king of Aram had commanded the thirty-two captains of his chariots, “Fight with no one small or great but only with the king of Israel.”
Then the king of Assyria invaded all the land and came to Samaria; for three years he besieged it.
In the fourth year of King Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of King Hoshea son of Elah of Israel, King Shalmaneser of Assyria came up against Samaria, besieged it,
And in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month, King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon came with all his army against Jerusalem and laid siege to it; they built siegeworks against it all around.
On the ninth day of the fourth month, the famine became so severe in the city that there was no food for the people of the land.
Once when the king of Aram was at war with Israel, he took counsel with his officers. He said, “At such and such a place shall be my camp.”
If we say, ‘Let us enter the city,’ the famine is in the city, and we shall die there, but if we sit here, we shall also die. Therefore, let us desert to the Aramean camp; if they spare our lives, we shall live, and if they kill us, we shall but die.”
Elisha went to Damascus while King Ben-hadad of Aram was ill. When it was told him, “The man of God has come here,”
There was a little city with few people in it. A great king came against it and besieged it, building great siegeworks against it.
So I will send a fire on the house of Hazael, and it shall devour the strongholds of Ben-hadad.
It shall besiege you in all your towns until your high and fortified walls, in which you trusted, come down throughout your land; it shall besiege you in all your towns throughout the land that the Lord your God has given you.