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Chinese NCV (Simplified)

餘下來的都逃入亞弗城裡，城牆倒塌，壓死了餘下來的二萬七千人。便．哈達也逃到城裡來，躲進一間密室裡。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
其 馀 的 逃 入 亚 弗 城 ； 城 墙 塌 倒 ， 压 死 剩 下 的 二 万 七 千 人 。 便 哈 达 也 逃 入 城 ， 藏 在 严 密 的 屋 子 里 。

Contextual Overview

²² Then the prophet went to Ahab king of Israel and said, "The king of Aram will attack you again next spring. So go home now and strengthen your army and see what you need to do." ²³ Meanwhile the officers of Ben-Hadad king of Aram said to him, "The gods of Israel are mountain gods. Since we fought in a mountain area, Israel won. Let's fight them on the flat land, and then we will win. ²⁴ This is what you should do. Don't allow the thirty-two rulers to command the armies, but put other commanders in their places. ²⁵ Gather an army like the one that was destroyed and as many horses and chariots as before. We will fight the Israelites on flat land, and then we will win." Ben-Hadad agreed with their advice and did what they said. ²⁶ The next spring Ben-Hadad gathered the army of Aram and went up to Aphek to fight against Israel. ²⁷ The Israelites also had prepared for war. They marched out to meet the Arameans and camped opposite them. The Israelites looked like two small flocks of goats, but the Arameans covered the area. ²⁸ A man of God came to the king of Israel with this message: "The Lord says, ‘The people of Aram say that I, the Lord , am a god of the mountains, not a god of the valleys. So I will allow you to defeat this huge army, and then you will know I am the Lord .'" ²⁹ The armies were camped across from each other for seven days. On the seventh day the battle began. The Israelites killed one hundred thousand Aramean soldiers in one day. ³⁰ The rest of them ran away to the city of Aphek, where a city wall fell on twenty-seven thousand of them. Ben-Hadad also ran away to the city and hid in a room.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the rest: Psalms 18:25

a wall: Isaiah 24:18, Jeremiah 48:44, Amos 2:14, Amos 2:15, Amos 5:19, Amos 9:3, Luke 13:4

fled: 1 Kings 20:10, 1 Kings 20:20, Daniel 4:37

into an inner chamber: or, from chamber to chamber, Heb. into a chamber within a chamber. 1 Kings 22:25, 2 Chronicles 18:24

Reciprocal: Joshua 19:30 - Aphek Judges 9:40 - he fled before 1 Samuel 4:1 - Aphek 1 Samuel 15:8 - Agag 1 Samuel 29:1 - Aphek 1 Samuel 30:17 - and there 2 Samuel 18:8 - General 1 Kings 20:26 - Aphek 2 Kings 9:2 - inner chamber 2 Kings 10:24 - If any of the men Job 1:19 - it fell Job 20:24 - flee from Isaiah 30:13 - as a breach Ezekiel 21:14 - entereth Amos 3:12 - so shall Luke 15:18 - will arise

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But the rest fled to Aphek, into the city,.... Which perhaps was in the hands of the Syrians, and was designed for a retreat for them, should they be beaten:

and there a wall fell upon twenty seven thousand of the men that were left; not slain in the battle; here again the Lord might be seen, who, as Abarbinel observes, fought from heaven, and either by a violent wind, or an earthquake, threw down the wall upon them just as they had got under it for shelter:

and Benhadad fled, and came into the city into an inner chamber; or, "into a chamber within a chamber" q, for greater secrecy.

q חדר בחדר "cubiculo in cubiculum", Pagninus, Montanus.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

A wall - “The wall,” i. e., the wall of the town. We may suppose a terrific earthquake during the siege of the place, while the Syrians were manning the defenses in full force, which threw down the wall where they were most thickly crowded upon it, and buried them in its ruins. Ben-hadad fled from the wall, where he had been at the time of the disaster, into the inner parts of the city - probably to some massive stronghold - and there concealed himself.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 30. A wall fell upon twenty and seven thousand — From the first view of this text it would appear that when the Syrians fled to Aphek, and shut themselves within the walls, the Israelites immediately brought all hands, and sapped the walls, in consequence of which a large portion fell, and buried twenty-seven thousand men. But perhaps the hand of God was more immediately in this disaster; probably a burning wind is meant. See at the end of the chapter. 1 Kings 20:43.

Came into the city, into an inner chamber. — However the passage above may be understood, the city was now, in effect, taken; and Ben-hadad either betook himself with his few followers to the citadel or to some secret hiding-place, where he held the council with his servants immediately mentioned.