2 Chronicles 20:23 “The Ammonites and Moabites rose up against the inhabitants of Mount Se…”

2 Chronicles 20:23

The Ammonites and Moabites rose up against the inhabitants of Mount Seir, devoting them to destruction. And when they had finished off the inhabitants of Seir, they helped to destroy one another.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

For the children of Ammon and Moab stood up against the inhabitants of mount Seir, utterly to slay and destroy them: and when they had made an end of the inhabitants of Seir, every one helped to destroy another.

World English Bible

For the children of Ammon and Moab stood up against the inhabitants of Mount Seir to utterly kill and destroy them. When they had finished the inhabitants of Seir, everyone helped to destroy each other.

American Standard Version

Geneva Bible 1599

For the children of Ammon and Moab rose against the inhabitants of mount Seir, to slay and to destroy them and when they had made an end of the inhabitantes of Seir, euery one helped to destroy another.

Darby Translation

And the children of Ammon and Moab stood up against the inhabitants of mount Seir, to exterminate and destroy [them]; and when they had made an end of the inhabitants of Seir, they helped to destroy one another.

Young's Literal Translation

and the sons of Ammon stand up, and Moab, against the inhabitants of mount Seir, to devote and to destroy, and at their finishing with the inhabitants of Seir, they helped, a man against his neighbour, to destroy.

Bible in Basic English

And the children of Ammon and Moab made an attack on the people of Mount Seir with a view to their complete destruction; and when they had put an end to the people of Seir, everyman's hand was turned against his neighbour for his destruction.

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Cross references

“mount Seir”

Joshua 24:4 Genesis 14:6 Deuteronomy 2:5 Genesis 36:8 Genesis 36:9 Ezekiel 35:2

Joshua 24:4 · BSB

and to Isaac I gave Jacob and Esau. I gave Esau Mount Seir to possess, but Jacob and his sons went down to Egypt.

Genesis 14:6 · BSB

and the Horites in the area of Mount Seir, as far as El-paran, which is near the desert.

Deuteronomy 2:5 · BSB

Do not provoke them, for I will not give you any of their land, not even a footprint, because I have given Mount Seir to Esau as his possession.

Genesis 36:8 · BSB

So Esau (that is, Edom) settled in the area of Mount Seir.

Genesis 36:9 · BSB

This is the account of Esau, the father of the Edomites, in the area of Mount Seir.

Ezekiel 35:2 · BSB

“Son of man, set your face against Mount Seir and prophesy against it,

Also

Judges 7:22 1 Samuel 14:20

Judges 7:22 · BSB

And when the three hundred rams’ horns sounded, the LORD set all the men in the camp against one another with their swords. The army fled to Beth-shittah toward Zererah as far as the border of Abel-meholah near Tabbath.

1 Samuel 14:20 · BSB

Then Saul and all his troops assembled and marched to the battle, and they found the Philistines in total confusion, with each man wielding the sword against his neighbor.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

22The moment they began their shouts and praises, the LORD set ambushes against the men of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir who had come against Judah, and they were defeated.

24When the men of Judah came to a place overlooking the wilderness, they looked for the vast army, but there were only corpses lying on the ground; no one had escaped.

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