Isaiah 22:3 “All your rulers have fled together, captured without a bow. All your f…”

Isaiah 22:3

All your rulers have fled together, captured without a bow. All your fugitives were captured together, having fled to a distant place.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

All thy rulers are fled together, they are bound by the archers: all that are found in thee are bound together, which have fled from far.

World English Bible

All your rulers fled away together. They were bound by the archers. All who were found by you were bound together. They fled far away.

American Standard Version

All thy rulers fled away together, they were bound by the archers; all that were found of thee were bound together; they fled afar off.

Geneva Bible 1599

All thy princes shall flee together from the bowe: they shalbe bound: all that shall be found in thee, shall be bound together, which haue fled from farre.

Darby Translation

All thy rulers have fled together, they are taken prisoners without the bow: all that are found of thee are made prisoners together; they were fleeing far off.

Young's Literal Translation

All thy rulers fled together from the bow, Bound have been all found of thee, They have been kept bound together, Afar off they have fled.

Bible in Basic English

All your rulers ... have gone in flight; all your strong ones have gone far away.

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Cross references

“thy rulers”

Isaiah 3:1–8 2 Kings 25:4–7 2 Kings 25:18–21 Jeremiah 39:4–7 Jeremiah 52:24–27

Isaiah 3:1–8 · BSB

For behold, the Lord GOD of Hosts is about to remove from Jerusalem and Judah both supply and support: the whole supply of food and water,

2 Kings 25:4–7 · BSB

Then the city was breached; and though the Chaldeans had surrounded the city, all the men of war fled by night by way of the gate between the two walls near the king’s garden. They headed toward the Arabah,

2 Kings 25:18–21 · BSB

The captain of the guard also took away Seraiah the chief priest, Zephaniah the priest of second rank, and the three doorkeepers.

Jeremiah 39:4–7 · BSB

When Zedekiah king of Judah and all the soldiers saw them, they fled. They left the city at night by way of the king’s garden, through the gate between the two walls, and they went out along the route to the Arabah.

Jeremiah 52:24–27 · BSB

The captain of the guard also took away Seraiah the chief priest, Zephaniah the priest of second rank, and the three doorkeepers.

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

In context

2O city of commotion, O town of revelry? Your slain did not die by the sword, nor were they killed in battle.

4Therefore I said, “Turn away from me, let me weep bitterly! Do not try to console me over the destruction of the daughter of my people.”

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