Study it in the app“The king of Moab saw that the battle was too strong for him, and he took with him seven hundred men who drew the sword to break through to the king of Edom, but they could not.”
The kingמֶלֶךְof Moabמוֹאָבsawוַיַּרְאthatכִּיthe battleהַמִּלְחָמָהwas too strongחָזַקfor him,מִמֶּנּוּand he tookוַיִּקַּחwith himאוֹתוֹsevenשְׁבַעhundredמֵאוֹתmenאִישׁwho drewשֹׁלֵףthe swordחֶרֶבto break throughלְהַבְקִיעַtoאֶלthe kingמֶלֶךְof Edom,אֱדוֹםbut they could not.וְלֹא יָכֹלוּ
king
A king who rules a people.
Where else “melech” appearsMoab
See it on the mapWhere else “moav” appearsrealize
To realize: "he saw that it was good".
Where else “yar” appearswar, battle
War, battle.
Where else “milchama” appearsbe strong
To stand firm and brave, not giving in to fear.
Where else “chazak” appearsfetch
To take someone along, or go and fetch something.
Where else “yikach” appearsseven
Seven, the number of fullness; also "seven times".
Where else “sheva” appearshundred
The amount of one hundred; with other numbers it forms two hundred, three hundred and the rest.
Where else “meot” appearsman
An adult male person; also each man of a people, a trade or a place.
Where else “ish” appearsdraw out
Draw out, pull out: take the sword out of its sheath; also pull off or pull up.
Where else “sholef” appearssword
A sword; or war.
Where else “cherev” appearsbreach
To break into a city.
Where else “havkia” appearsEdom
See it on the mapWhere else “edom” appearsbe able
To have the strength, the permission or the opportunity to do something.
Where else “yacholu” appears1Moab
Today: western Jordan, east of the Dead Sea
The land east of the Dead Sea, in present-day Jordan.
The Moabites came from a son of Lot (Gen 19:37). Ruth came from Moab (Ruth 1:1-4), and Moses died in its territory (Deut 34:5).
2Edom
Today: southern Jordan and the southern Negev
A mountain region south of the Dead Sea, in what is now southwest Jordan.
The Edomites came from Esau, Jacob's brother (Gen 36:1). Edom would not let Israel pass through its land (Num 20:14-21).
25They tore down the cities, and on every good plot of land each one threw his stone and they filled it; they stopped up every spring of water and felled every good tree, until only in Kir-hareseth its stones were left; and the slingers surrounded it and struck it.
26 · This verse (above)
27He took his firstborn son, who was to reign in his place, and offered him up as a burnt offering on the wall. And there was great wrath against Israel, and they set out from him and returned to the land.
