מלכים א 20:30

Hebrew Modern Translation

וינסו הנותרים אפקה אל העיר ותפל החומה על עשרים ושבעה אלף איש הנותרים ובן הדד נס ויבא אל העיר חדר בחדר׃

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Aleppo Codex
וינסו הנותרים אפקה אל העיר ותפל החומה על עשרים ושבעה אלף איש הנותרים ובן הדד נס ויבא אל העיר חדר בחדר

Biblia Hebrica Stuttgartensia (1967/77)
וַיָּנֻ֨סוּ הַנּוֹתָרִ֥ים ׀ אֲפֵקָה֮ אֶל־הָעִיר֒ וַתִּפֹּל֙ הַחוֹמָ֔ה עַל־עֶשְׂרִ֨ים וְשִׁבְעָ֥ה אֶ֛לֶף אִ֖ישׁ הַנּוֹתָרִ֑ים וּבֶן־הֲדַ֣ד נָ֔ס וַיָּבֹ֥א אֶל־הָעִ֖יר חֶ֥דֶר בְּחָֽדֶר ׃ ס

Westminster Leningrad Codex
וַיָּנֻסוּ הַנּוֹתָרִים ׀ אֲפֵקָה אֶל־הָעִיר וַתִּפֹּל הַחוֹמָה עַל־עֶשְׂרִים וְשִׁבְעָה אֶלֶף אִישׁ הַנּוֹתָרִים וּבֶן־הֲדַד נָס וַיָּבֹא אֶל־הָעִיר חֶדֶר בְּחָֽדֶר ׃ ס

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.