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Tuesday, July 29th, 2025
the Week of Proper 12 / Ordinary 17
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Wycliffe Bible

2 Kings 7:20

Therfore it bifelde to hym, as it was biforseid; and the puple to-trad hym with feet in the yate, and he was deed.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Prophecy;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Samaria, Ancient;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Nergal;   Samaria;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Prophet, Prophetess, Prophecy;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Samaria;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Elisha;   Jehoram;   Samaria;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Samaria ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Elisha;   Samaria;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Eli'sha;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
This is what happened to him: the people trampled him in the city gate, and he died.
Hebrew Names Version
it happened even so to him; for the people trod on him in the gate, and he died.
King James Version
And so it fell out unto him: for the people trode upon him in the gate, and he died.
English Standard Version
And so it happened to him, for the people trampled him in the gate and he died.
New Century Version
It happened to the officer just that way. The people trampled him in the gateway, and he died.
New English Translation
This is exactly what happened to him. The people trampled him to death in the city gate.
Amplified Bible
And so it happened to him; for the people trampled him at the gate, and he died.
New American Standard Bible
And this is what happened to him, for the people trampled on him at the gate and he died.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And so it came vnto him: for the people trode vpon him in the gate, and he dyed.
Legacy Standard Bible
And so it happened to him, for the people trampled on him at the gate and he died.
Contemporary English Version
And that's exactly what happened—the officer was trampled to death.
Complete Jewish Bible
That is exactly what happened to him, because the people trampled him down in the gateway, so that he died.
Darby Translation
And so it happened to him; and the people trampled upon him in the gate, and he died.
Easy-to-Read Version
It happened to the officer just that way. The people knocked him down at the gate and trampled him, and he died.
George Lamsa Translation
And so it happened to him; for the people trod upon him in the gate and he died.
Good News Translation
And that is just what happened to him—he died, trampled to death by the people at the city gate.
Lexham English Bible
So it had happened to him; the people trampled him in the gate and he died.
Literal Translation
And it happened to him in this way; yea, the people trampled him in the gate, and he died.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And euen so fortuned it vnto him, for the people trode vpon him in the gate, yt he dyed.
American Standard Version
it came to pass even so unto him; for the people trod upon him in the gate, and he died.
Bible in Basic English
And such was his fate; for he was crushed to death under the feet of the people, in the doorway into the town.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And euen so chaunced it vnto him: For the people trode vpon him in the gate, and he dyed.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
it came to pass even so unto him; for the people trod upon him in the gate, and he died.
King James Version (1611)
And so it fell out vnto him: for the people trode vpon him in the gate, and he died.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And it was so: for the people trampled on him in the gate, and he died.
English Revised Version
it came to pass even so unto him; for the people trode upon him in the gate, and he died.
Berean Standard Bible
And this is just what happened to him. The people trampled him in the gateway, and he died.
Young's Literal Translation
and it cometh to him so, and the people tread him down in the gate, and he dieth.
Update Bible Version
it came to pass even so to him; for the people trod on him in the gate, and he died.
Webster's Bible Translation
And so it happened to him: for the people trod upon him in the gate, and he died.
World English Bible
it happened even so to him; for the people trod on him in the gate, and he died.
New King James Version
And so it happened to him, for the people trampled him in the gate, and he died.
New Living Translation
And so it was, for the people trampled him to death at the gate!
New Life Bible
So it happened to him. The people stepped on him at the gate, and he died.
New Revised Standard
It did indeed happen to him; the people trampled him to death in the gate.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Yea it fell out to him, thus, - and the people trode upon him in the gate, that he died.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And so it fell out to him, as it was foretold, and the people trod upon him in the gate, and he died.
Revised Standard Version
And so it happened to him, for the people trod upon him in the gate and he died.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
And so it happened to him, for the people trampled on him at the gate and he died.

Contextual Overview

12 Which king roos bi niyt, and seide to hise seruauntis, Y seie to you, what the men of Sirie han do to vs; thei witen, that we trauelen with hungur, therfor thei yeden out of the castels, and ben hid in the feeldis, and seien, Whanne thei schulen go out of the citee, we schulen take hem quyk, and thanne we schulen mowe entre in to the citee. 13 Forsothe oon of his seruauntis answeride, Take we fyue horsis, that leften in the citee; for tho ben oonli in al the multitude of Israel, for othere horsis ben wastid; and we sendynge moun aspie. 14 Therfor thei brouyten forth twei horsis; and the kyng sente in to the castels of men of Sirie, and seide, Go ye, and se. 15 Whiche yeden after hem `til to Jordan; lo! forsothe al the weie was ful of clothis, and of vessels, whiche the men of Sirie castiden forth, whanne thei weren disturblid. And the messangeris turneden ayen, and schewiden to the kyng. 16 And the puple yede out, and rauyschide the castels of Sirie; and a buyschel of flour was maad for o stater, and twei buyschels of barli for o stater, bi the word of the Lord. 17 Forsothe the kyng ordeynede at the yate that duyk, in whos hond the kyng lenyde; whom the cumpeny to-trad with her feet, and he was deed, bi the word, which the man of God spak, whanne the kyng cam doun to hym. 18 And it was doon bi the word of the man of God, which he seide to the kyng, whanne he seide, Twei buyschels of barli shulen be for a statir, and a buyschel of wheete flour for a stater, in this same tyme to morewe in the yate of Samarie; 19 whanne thilke duyk answeride to the man of God, and seide, Yhe, thouy the Lord schal make the goteris in heuene to be openyd, whether this that thou spekist may be? and the man of God seide, Thou schalt se with thin iyen, and thou schalt not ete therof. 20 Therfore it bifelde to hym, as it was biforseid; and the puple to-trad hym with feet in the yate, and he was deed.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Numbers 20:12, 2 Chronicles 20:20, Job 20:23, Isaiah 7:9, Jeremiah 17:5, Jeremiah 17:6, Hebrews 3:18, Hebrews 3:19

Reciprocal: 2 Kings 9:33 - and he trode Jeremiah 29:32 - behold

Cross-References

Psalms 104:6
The depthe of watris as a cloth is the clothing therof; watris schulen stonde on hillis.
Jeremiah 3:23
Verili litil hillis weren lieris, the multitude of mounteyns was fals; verili in oure Lord God is the helthe of Israel.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And so it fell out unto him,.... As the prophet predicted:

for the people trod upon him in the gate, and he died;

:-.


 
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