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Good News Translation

2 Chronicles 26:7

God helped him defeat the Philistines, the Arabs living at Gurbaal, and the Meunites.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Ammonites;   Arabians;   Blessing;   Gur-Baal;   Maon;   Uzziah;   Thompson Chain Reference - Arabians;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Ishmaelites, the;   Kings;   Philistines, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Azariah;   Isaiah;   Maonites;   Philistines;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Amos;   Hosea;   Uzziah;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Gur-Baal;   Mehunims;   Phenicia;   Tiglath-Pileser Iii.;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Gur-Baal;   Maon;   Tiglath Pileser;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Arabia;   Chronicles, Books of;   Gur-Baal;   Maonites;   Mehunim;   Uzzia(h);   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Arabia, Arabs;   Chronicles, I;   Gur-Baal;   Maon, Maonites;   Minaeans;   Uzziah;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Arabians ;   Gurbaal ;   Mehunims ;   Uzziah ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Uzziah;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Gur-Ba'al;   Mehu'nims, the,;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Moab;   Philistim;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Kingdom of Judah;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Chronicles, Books of;   Gur-Baal;   Maon;   Nethinim;   Uzziah (Azariah);   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Arabia;   Baal-gur;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Arabia;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
God helped him against the Philistines, the Arabs that live in Gur-baal, and the Meunites.
Hebrew Names Version
God helped him against the Pelishtim, and against the `Aravi'im who lived in Gur-Ba`al, and the Me`unim.
King James Version
And God helped him against the Philistines, and against the Arabians that dwelt in Gurbaal, and the Mehunims.
English Standard Version
God helped him against the Philistines and against the Arabians who lived in Gurbaal and against the Meunites.
New Century Version
God helped Uzziah fight the Philistines, the Arabs living in Gur Baal, and the Meunites.
New English Translation
God helped him in his campaigns against the Philistines, the Arabs living in Gur Baal, and the Meunites.
Amplified Bible
God helped him against the Philistines, and against the Arabs who lived in Gur-baal, and the Meunites.
New American Standard Bible
God helped him against the Philistines, and against the Arabians who lived in Gur-baal, and the Meunites.
World English Bible
God helped him against the Philistines, and against the Arabians who lived in Gur-baal, and the Meunim.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And God helped him against ye Philistims, and against the Arabians that dwelt in Gur-baal and Hammeunim.
Legacy Standard Bible
And God helped him against the Philistines, and against the Arabians who lived in Gur-baal, and the Meunites.
Berean Standard Bible
God helped him against the Philistines, against the Arabs living in Gur-baal, and against the Meunites.
Contemporary English Version
God helped him defeat the Philistines, the Arabs living in Gur-Baal, and the Meunites.
Complete Jewish Bible
God helped him against the P'lishtim, against the Arabs living in Gur-Ba‘al, and against the Me‘unim.
Darby Translation
And God helped him against the Philistines, and against the Arabians that dwelt in Gur-Baal, and the Maonites.
Easy-to-Read Version
God helped Uzziah fight the Philistines, the Arabs living in the town of Gur Baal, and the Meunites.
George Lamsa Translation
And God helped him against the Philistines and against the Arabians that dwelt in Gurbaal and the Mehunims.
Lexham English Bible
And God helped him against the Philistines and against the Arabs who were living in Gur-Baal and Meunim.
Literal Translation
And God helped him against the Philistines and against the Arabians who lived in Gurbaal, and the Meunim.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
For God helped him agaynst the Philistines, against the Arabians, agaynst them of GurBaal, & agaynst the Meunites.
American Standard Version
And God helped him against the Philistines, and against the Arabians that dwelt in Gur-baal, and the Meunim.
Bible in Basic English
And God gave him help against the Philistines, and against the Arabians living in Gur-baal, and against the Meunim.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And God holpe him against the Philistines and against the Arabians that dwelt in Gur baal and Hamehunim.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And God helped him against the Philistines, and against the Arabians that dwelt in Gur-baal, and the Meunim.
King James Version (1611)
And God helped him against the Philistines, and against the Arabians, that dwelt in Gur-baal, and the Mehunims.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the Lord strengthened him against the Philistines, and against the Arabians that dwelt on the rock, and against the Minaeans.
English Revised Version
And God helped him against the Philistines, and against the Arabians that dwelt in Gur–baal, and the Meunim.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And the Lord helpide hym bothe ayens Filisteis, and ayens Arabeis that dwelliden in Garbahal, and ayenus Amonytis.
Update Bible Version
And God helped him against the Philistines, and against the Arabians that dwelt in Gur-baal, and the Meunim.
Webster's Bible Translation
And God helped him against the Philistines, and against the Arabians that dwelt in Gur-baal, and the Mehunims.
New King James Version
God helped him against the Philistines, against the Arabians who lived in Gur Baal, and against the Meunites.
New Living Translation
God helped him in his wars against the Philistines, his battles with the Arabs of Gur, and his wars with the Meunites.
New Life Bible
God helped him against the Philistines, and against the Arabians who lived in Gur-baal, and against the Meunites.
New Revised Standard
God helped him against the Philistines, against the Arabs who lived in Gur-baal, and against the Meunites.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And God helped him against the Philistines and against the Arabians who dwelt in Gur-baal, and the Meunim.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And God helped him against the Philistines, and against the Arabians, that dwelt in Gurbaal, and against the Ammonites.
Revised Standard Version
God helped him against the Philistines, and against the Arabs that dwelt in Gurba'al, and against the Me-u'nites.
Young's Literal Translation
And God helpeth him against the Philistines, and against the Arabians who are dwelling in Gur-Baal and the Mehunim.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
God helped him against the Philistines, and against the Arabians who lived in Gur-baal, and the Meunites.

Contextual Overview

1 All the people of Judah chose Amaziah's sixteen-year-old son Uzziah to succeed his father as king. 2 (It was after the death of Amaziah that Uzziah recaptured Elath and rebuilt the city.) 3 Uzziah became king at the age of sixteen, and he ruled in Jerusalem for fifty-two years. His mother was Jecoliah from Jerusalem. 4 Following the example of his father, he did what was pleasing to the Lord . 5 As long as Zechariah, his religious adviser, was living, he served the Lord faithfully, and God blessed him. 6 Uzziah went to war against the Philistines. He tore down the walls of the cities of Gath, Jamnia, and Ashdod, and built fortified cities near Ashdod and in the rest of Philistia. 7 God helped him defeat the Philistines, the Arabs living at Gurbaal, and the Meunites. 8 The Ammonites paid tribute to Uzziah, and he became so powerful that his fame spread even to Egypt. 9 Uzziah strengthened the fortifications of Jerusalem by building towers at the Corner Gate, at the Valley Gate, and where the wall turned. 10 He also built fortified towers in the open country and dug many cisterns, because he had large herds of livestock in the western foothills and plains. Because he loved farming, he encouraged the people to plant vineyards in the hill country and to farm the fertile land.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

God helped: 2 Chronicles 14:11, 1 Chronicles 5:20, 1 Chronicles 12:18, Psalms 18:29, Psalms 18:34, Psalms 18:35, Isaiah 14:29, Acts 26:22

the Arabians: 2 Chronicles 17:11, 2 Chronicles 21:16

Reciprocal: Judges 10:12 - the Maonites 2 Chronicles 18:31 - the Lord Ezra 4:20 - toll Acts 2:11 - Arabians

Cross-References

Genesis 12:13
Tell them that you are my sister; then because of you they will let me live and treat me well."
Genesis 20:2
he said that his wife Sarah was his sister. So King Abimelech of Gerar had Sarah brought to him.
Genesis 20:5
Abraham himself said that she was his sister, and she said the same thing. I did this with a clear conscience, and I have done no wrong."
Genesis 24:16
She was a very beautiful young woman and still a virgin. She went down to the well, filled her jar, and came back.
Genesis 26:12
Isaac sowed crops in that land, and that year he harvested a hundred times as much as he had sown, because the Lord blessed him.
Genesis 26:13
He continued to prosper and became a very rich man.
Proverbs 29:25
It is dangerous to be concerned with what others think of you, but if you trust the Lord , you are safe.
Matthew 10:28
Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul; rather be afraid of God, who can destroy both body and soul in hell.
Ephesians 5:25
Husbands, love your wives just as Christ loved the church and gave his life for it.
Colossians 3:9
Do not lie to one another, for you have put off the old self with its habits

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And God helped him against the Philistines,.... He did not do all before related of himself, and by his own strength, but by the help of God; the Targum is

"the Word of the Lord helped him:''

and against the Arabians that dwelt in Gurbaal; the same with Gerar, according to the Targum; which also belonged to the Philistines, and had a king in Abraham's time, Genesis 20:1, the same with Askelon, another of the five principalities of the Philistines:

and the Mehunims; or the Minaeans, as the Septuagint, and whom Pliny n makes mention of among the Arabians; they seem to be the Scenite Arabs; see 2 Chronicles 20:1, or rather, as the Targum, those that dwelt in the plain of Maon, which was in Arabia Petraea.

n Nat. Hist. l. 6. c. 28.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

On the Mehunims or Maonites, see Judges 10:12 note.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Chronicles 26:7. And God helped him — "And the WORD of the Lord helped him against the Philistines, and against the Arabians who lived in Gerar, and the plains of Meun." - Targum. These are supposed to be the Arabs which are called the Meuneons, or Munites, or Meonites.


 
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