Acts 2:9New Messianic Version BibleParthians [a pledge], and Medes [middle land], and ‘Elma’im [their heaps], and the dwellers in Aram [Elevated Between the Two Rivers] and in Y’hudah [praised], and Cappadocia [province of good horses], in Pontus [the sea], and Asia [orient], See the chapter |
And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] the Lord-Adonai (The Father) [Greatest Above All Things] shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Ashur [the level plain] (the land of the sons of Shem (name, renown (great reputation; being well-known))), and from Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place], and from Patros [region of the south], and from Cush (Ethiopia) [black], and from ‘Eilam [eternity], and from Shin’ar [country of two rivers], and from Hamat [Fortress], and from the islands of the sea.
In the ninth year of Hoshea [salvation] the king of Ashur [the level plain] (the land of the sons of Shem (name, renown (great reputation; being well-known))) took Shomron [watch mountain], and carried Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] away into Ashur [the level plain] (the land of the sons of Shem (name, renown (great reputation; being well-known))), and placed them in Halach [painful] and in Havor [joining] [by] the river of Gozan [a cutting off], and in the cities of the Medes [middle land].
And the servant took ten camels of the camels of his master, and departed; for all the goods of his master [were] in his hand: and he arose, and went to Aram-Naharayim [Aram (Mesopotamia/Aram (Syria) [exalted]) [Elevated Between the Two Rivers]] (between two rivers), unto the city of Nokhor (a snort, a snorting; charred, scorched).
Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last: and, What youi see, write in a book, and send [it] unto the seven churches which are in Asia [orient]; unto Ephesus [permitted], and unto Smyrna [myrrh], and unto Pergamos [height or elevation], and unto Thyatira [odour of affliction], and unto Sardis [red ones], and unto Philadelphia [brotherly love], and unto Laodicea [justice of the people].
And when the children of ‘Amon [Inbred] saw that they had made themselves odious to David [beloved], Hanun [gracious] and the children of ‘Amon [Inbred] sent a thousand talents of silver to hire them chariots and horsemen out of Aram [Elevated Between the Two Rivers] and out of Aram-Ma’akhah [exalted oppression], and out of Tzovah [station].
Therefore the anger of the Lord-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) was hot against Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], and he sold them into the hand of Kushan-Rish’atayim [Twice-Wicked Full of Darkness (A Reference to Ethiopia)] king of Aram (Mesopotamia/Aram (Syria) [exalted]) [Elevated Between the Two Rivers]: and the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] served Kushan-Rish’atayim [Twice-Wicked Full of Darkness (A Reference to Ethiopia)] eight years.
Because they met you not with bread and with water in the way, when you2f came forth out of Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place]; and because they hired against youi Bil’am [Not of the People] the son of B’or [Burning] of P’tor [Soothsayer (one who fortells the future by ungodly means)] of Aram (Mesopotamia/Aram (Syria) [exalted]) [Elevated Between the Two Rivers], to curse youi.
The children of Shem (name, renown (great reputation; being well-known)); ‘‘Eilam [eternity] (Hidden; Young Man or Always; Perhaps alluding to hidden secrets of the future), and Ashur (level plain; over the flames), and Arpakhshad, and Lud [strife] (no real meaning in Hebrew; possibly: to turn aside; strife), and Aram (citadel, palace; elevated, lifted up).
And there accompanied him into Asia [orient] Sopater [saviour of his father] of Berea [well watered]; and of the Thessalonians [victory of falsity], Aristarchus [the best ruler] and Secundus [fortunate]; and Gaius [lord] of Derbe [tanner of skin], and Timothy [honoring God]; and of Asia [orient], Tychicus [fateful] and Trophimus [nutritious].