KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
1 Chronicles 19:14–15
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1 Chronicles 19:14
14So Joab and the people that were with him drew nigh before the Syrians unto the battle; and they fled before him.
14So Ioab and the people that were with him, drew nigh before the Syrians, vnto the battell; and they fled before him.
1 Chronicles 19:15
15And when the children of Ammon saw that the Syrians were fled, they likewise fled before Abishai his brother, and entered into the city. Then Joab came to Jerusalem.
15And when the children of Ammon saw that the Syrians were fled, they likewise fled before Abishai his brother, and entred into the city. Then Ioab came to Ierusalem.
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DEFINED WORDS
1 Chronicles 19:14
Persons collectively; a nation, community, or group considered as a body.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Near in place, time, or circumstance; almost.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Earlier than in time; in front of; in the presence of; or prior in order or rank, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
People or inhabitants of Syria.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
A fight or armed conflict; also, troops drawn up for fighting.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To flee: to run or hasten away, especially from danger or expected evil.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
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1 Chronicles 19:15
Sons or daughters; descendants; or persons likened to children by age, relation, or character.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
People or inhabitants of Syria.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
To flee: to run or hasten away, especially from danger or expected evil.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
In like manner; also or similarly.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Earlier than in time; in front of; in the presence of; or prior in order or rank, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
A male sibling; a near kinsman; or a fellow member of a people or faith, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
Went or came in; was admitted, introduced, or penetrated.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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From verse 14
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Open the full verse study13¶ And, behold, there came a prophet unto Ahab king of Israel, saying, Thus saith the Lord, Hast thou seen all this great multitude? behold, I will deliver it into thine hand this day; and thou shalt know that I am the Lord.
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Open the full verse study19So these young men of the princes of the provinces came out of the city, and the army which followed them.
20And they slew every one his man: and the Syrians fled; and Israel pursued them: and Ben-hadad the king of Syria escaped on an horse with the horsemen.
21And the king of Israel went out, and smote the horses and chariots, and slew the Syrians with a great slaughter.
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Open the full verse study28¶ And there came a man of God, and spake unto the king of Israel, and said, Thus saith the Lord, Because the Syrians have said, The Lord is God of the hills, but he is not God of the valleys, therefore will I deliver all this great multitude into thine hand, and ye shall know that I am the Lord.
29And they pitched one over against the other seven days. And so it was, that in the seventh day the battle was joined: and the children of Israel slew of the Syrians an hundred thousand footmen in one day.
30But the rest fled to Aphek, into the city; and there a wall fell upon twenty and seven thousand of the men that were left. And Ben-hadad fled, and came into the city, into an inner chamber.
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Open the full verse study5Ought ye not to know that the Lord God of Israel gave the kingdom over Israel to David for ever, even to him and to his sons by a covenant of salt?
6Yet Jeroboam the son of Nebat, the servant of Solomon the son of David, is risen up, and hath rebelled against his lord.
7And there are gathered unto him vain men, the children of Belial, and have strengthened themselves against Rehoboam the son of Solomon, when Rehoboam was young and tenderhearted, and could not withstand them.
8And now ye think to withstand the kingdom of the Lord in the hand of the sons of David; and ye be a great multitude, and there are with you golden calves, which Jeroboam made you for gods.
9Have ye not cast out the priests of the Lord, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites, and have made you priests after the manner of the nations of other lands? so that whosoever cometh to consecrate himself with a young bullock and seven rams, the same may be a priest of them that are no gods.
10But as for us, the Lord is our God, and we have not forsaken him; and the priests, which minister unto the Lord, are the sons of Aaron, and the Levites wait upon their business:
11And they burn unto the Lord every morning and every evening burnt sacrifices and sweet incense: the shewbread also set they in order upon the pure table; and the candlestick of gold with the lamps thereof, to burn every evening: for we keep the charge of the Lord our God; but ye have forsaken him.
12And, behold, God himself is with us for our captain, and his priests with sounding trumpets to cry alarm against you. O children of Israel, fight ye not against the Lord God of your fathers; for ye shall not prosper.
13¶ But Jeroboam caused an ambushment to come about behind them: so they were before Judah, and the ambushment was behind them.
14And when Judah looked back, behold, the battle was before and behind: and they cried unto the Lord, and the priests sounded with the trumpets.
15Then the men of Judah gave a shout: and as the men of Judah shouted, it came to pass, that God smote Jeroboam and all Israel before Abijah and Judah.
16And the children of Israel fled before Judah: and God delivered them into their hand.
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Open the full verse study15Why are thy valiant men swept away? they stood not, because the Lord did drive them.
16He made many to fall, yea, one fell upon another: and they said, Arise, and let us go again to our own people, and to the land of our nativity, from the oppressing sword.
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Open the full verse study7And ye shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword.
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Open the full verse study31What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?
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