列王纪下 8:21

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

於是約蘭過到撒益去，並且帶著他所有的戰車。他夜間起來攻擊包圍他和他的戰車軍長的以東人，他的軍民卻逃回自己的帳棚去了。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
约 兰 率 领 所 有 的 战 车 往 撒 益 去 ， 夜 间 起 来 ， 攻 打 围 困 他 的 以 东 人 和 车 兵 长 ； 犹 大 兵 就 逃 跑 ， 各 回 各 家 去 了 。

Contextual Overview

¹⁶ While Jehoshaphat was king in Judah, Jehoram son of Jehoshaphat became king of Judah. This was during the fifth year Joram son of Ahab was king of Israel. ¹⁷ Jehoram was thirty-two years old when he began to rule, and he ruled eight years in Jerusalem. ¹⁸ He followed the ways of the kings of Israel, just as the family of Ahab had done, because he married Ahab's daughter. Jehoram did what the Lord said was wrong. ¹⁹ But the Lord would not destroy Judah because of his servant David. The Lord had promised that one of David's descendants would always rule. ²⁰ In Jehoram's time Edom broke away from Judah's rule and chose their own king. ²¹ So Jehoram and all his chariots went to Zair. The Edomites surrounded him and his chariot commanders. Jehoram got up and attacked the Edomites at night, but his army ran away to their tents. ²² From then until now the country of Edom has fought against the rule of Judah. At the same time Libnah also broke away from Judah's rule. ²³ The other acts of Jehoram and all the things he did are written in the book of the history of the kings of Judah. ²⁴ Jehoram died and was buried with his ancestors in Jerusalem, and Jehoram's son Ahaziah ruled in his place.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Zair: Zair is supposed by Calmet and others to be the same as Seir, the country of Seir the Horite, inhabited by the Edomites or Idumeans. Probably the former was a dialectical pronunciation of the latter. 2 Kings 8:21

Cross-References

Genesis 3:17
Then God said to the man, "You listened to what your wife said, and you ate fruit from the tree from which I commanded you not to eat. "So I will put a curse on the ground, and you will have to work very hard for your food. In pain you will eat its food all the days of your life.

Genesis 4:12
You will work the ground, but it will not grow good crops for you anymore, and you will wander around on the earth."

Genesis 5:29
Lamech named his son Noah and said, "He will comfort us in our work, which comes from the ground the Lord has cursed."

Genesis 6:5
The Lord saw that the human beings on the earth were very wicked and that everything they thought about was evil.

Genesis 6:17
I will bring a flood of water on the earth to destroy all living things that live under the sky, including everything that has the breath of life. Everything on the earth will die.

Genesis 8:1
But God remembered Noah and all the wild and tame animals with him in the boat. He made a wind blow over the earth, and the water went down.

Genesis 8:2
The underground springs stopped flowing, and the clouds in the sky stopped pouring down rain.

Genesis 8:3
The water that covered the earth began to go down. After one hundred fifty days it had gone down so much that the boat touched land again. It came to rest on one of the mountains of Ararat on the seventeenth day of the seventh month.

Genesis 8:6
Forty days later Noah opened the window he had made in the boat, and

Genesis 8:7
he sent out a raven. It flew here and there until the water had dried up from the earth.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

So Joram went over to Zair,.... A city in Edom, the same with the Zaara of Ptolemy i; some take it to be the same with Seir, the mountain or country of that name:

and all the chariots with him; all the chariots of war he had:

and he rose by night, and smote the Edomites which compassed him about; who came out of their cities in great numbers, and surrounded him, he having entered into their country in an hostile way, to subdue them:

and the captains of the chariots: which belonged to the Edomites; those he smote, 2 Chronicles 21:9

and the people fled into their tents; the army being routed.

i Geograph. l. 5. c. 17.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Zair - Perhaps Seir, the famous mountain of Edom Genesis 14:6.

The people - i. e., The Edomites. Yet, notwithstanding his success, Joram was forced to withdraw from the country, and to leave the natives to enjoy that independence 2 Kings 8:22, which continued until the time of John Hyrcanus, who once more reduced them.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Kings 8:21. Joram went over to Zair — This is the same as Seir, a chief city of Idumea. So Isaiah 21:11: The burden of Dumah (Idumea.) He calleth to me out of Seir.

Smote the Edomites — It appears that the Israelites were surrounded by the Idumeans; and that in the night Joram and his men cut their way through them, and so got every man to his tent, for they were not able to make any farther head against these enemies; and therefore it is said, that Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah unto this day.