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2 Crónicas 25:12

También los hijos de Judá capturaron vivos a diez mil y los llevaron a la cumbre de la peña, los echaron abajo desde la cumbre de la peña y todos fueron despedazados.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Captive;   Edomites;   Homicide;   Joktheel;   Thompson Chain Reference - Horrors of War;   War;   War-Peace;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Edomites, the;   Kings;   Punishments;   Rocks;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Amaziah;   Captives;   Idumea;   Joash or Jehoash;   Punishments;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Amaziah;   Edom;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Obadiah, Theology of;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Edom;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Joktheel;   Punishments;   Sela;   War;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Amaziah;   Chronicles, Books of;   Edom;   Sela;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Alliance;   Chronicles, I;   Rock;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Rock ;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Amaziah ;   Punishment;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Sela;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Jok'the-El;   Se'la,;   War;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Edom;   Punishments of the Hebrews;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Kingdom of Judah;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Punishments;   Sela;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Amaziah, King of Judah;   Cruelty;   Edox, Idumea;   War;  

Parallel Translations

La Biblia Reina-Valera
Chronicles 25:12"> 12 Y los hijos de Jud tomaron vivos otros diez mil, los cuales llevaron la cumbre de un peasco, y de all los despearon, y todos se hicieron pedazos.
La Biblia Reina-Valera Gomez
Y los hijos de Jud tomaron vivos otros diez mil, los cuales llevaron a la cumbre de un peasco, y de all los despearon, y todos se hicieron pedazos.
Sagradas Escrituras (1569)
Y los hijos de Jud tomaron vivos otros diez mil, los cuales llevaron a la cumbre de un peasco, y de all los despearon, y todos se hicieron pedazos.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

And other ten thousand: No intimation is given on what account, or on what provocation, this most cruel conduct towards the prisoners of war was adopted. The enmity between Israel and Edom seems to have been reciprocal and deeply malignant. The victorious king and his army considered every individual of Edom as a traitor and rebel; and so adjudged them to death, and acted on this judgment. But their conduct was wholly inexcusable, and could only perpetuate rancour to future generations, and provoke the surviving Edomites to cruel retaliations, whenever they had it in their power.

cast them: 2 Samuel 12:31, 1 Chronicles 20:3

broken in pieces: 2 Chronicles 20:10, 2 Chronicles 21:8-10

Reciprocal: Genesis 25:23 - the elder Genesis 27:40 - serve 2 Kings 14:7 - slew 2 Chronicles 25:15 - which could 2 Chronicles 28:17 - the Edomites Obadiah 1:3 - thou Luke 4:29 - that

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And other ten thousand left alive did the children of Judah carry away captive,.... The rest of the army of the Edomites, which amounted to the same number, fell into their hands, and they took them, and carried them off:

and brought them unto the top of the rock; very probably the same on which the city Petra, the metropolis of Edom, was built, called also Selah, 2 Kings 14:7 both which names signify a rock. Josephus g calls it the great rock in Arabia; that is, Arabia Petraea:

and cast them down from the top of the rock, that they were broken all in pieces; burst asunder, bones broken, and limb from limb separated. This sort of punishment was inflicted by the Romans on various malefactors, by casting them down from the Tarpeian rock h; and in Greece, according to the Delphian law, such as were guilty of sacrilege were led to a rock, and cast down headlong from thence i: and now in Turkey, at a place called Constantine, a town situated on the top of a great rock, the usual way of executing great criminals is by pushing them from off the cliff k; see Luke 4:29, but to use captives taken in war after this manner seems cruel and barbarous; and what should be the reason of such treatment of them is not easy to say.

g Antiqu. l. 9. c. 9. sect. 1. h Liv. Hist. l. 6. c. 20. Patercul. Hist. Roman. l. 2. Aurel. Victor. de Vir. Illustr. c. 27, 70. Vid, Rycquium de Capitol. Roman. c. 4. p. 45, &c. i Aelian. Var. Hist. l. 11. c. 5. k Pitt's Account of the Mahometans, ch. 1. p. 10.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The top of the rock - Rather, “the height of Selah” (or, Petra), near which the battle was probably fought. On the cruel features of the Edomite wars, see 1 Kings 11:15; Ezekiel 25:12; Obadiah 1:14.


 
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