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And it happenedוַיְהִיafterאַחֲרֵיthisכֵןthat Ben-hadad,וַ בֶּן הֲדַדkingמֶלֶךְof Aram,אֲרָםgatheredיִּקְבֹּץallכָּלhis armyמַחֲנֵהוּand went upוַיַּעַלand besiegedוַיָּצַרSamaria.עַל שֹׁמְרוֹן
2 Kings 6:24
Study it in the app“And it happened after this that Ben-hadad, king of Aram, gathered all his army and went up and besieged Samaria.”
With the Hebrew beneath
2 Kings 6:24, word by word
- And it happenedיְהִיyehi
happen
For something to occur or take place; many stories open with this word.
Where else “yehi” appears- that Ben-hadadבֶּןben
Ben-hadad
Ben-hadad: a name meaning "son of Hadad" (Hadad was the storm god of the Arameans). It was borne by several kings of Aram who reigned in Damascus, among them the one who made a pact with Asa and the one who fought against Ahab.
Where else “ben” appears- kingמֶלֶךְmelech
king
A king who rules a people.
Where else “melech” appears- of Aramאֲרָםaram
Aram
Aram, a son of Shem; also the land of the Arameans (Syria) and its people; also other men.
Where else “aram” appears- gatheredיִּקְבֹּץyikbots
gather
To bring people to one place, or to come together there.
Where else “yikbots” appears- his armyמַחֲנֵmachane
army
The people encamped, a host of soldiers.
Where else “machane” appears- and went upיַּעַלyaal
go up
To go from a low place to a higher one: up the mountain, to Jerusalem or to a city.
Where else “yaal” appears- and besiegedיָּצַרyatsar
besiege
To encircle a city, or shut something in.
Where else “yatsar” appears- Samariaשֹׁמְרוֹןshomron
Samaria
See it on the mapWhere else “shomron” appears
Places in this verse
Samaria
Today: northern West Bank (Sebastia, Samaria hills)
A city and region in central Israel, between Judea and Galilee.
Omri founded the city as capital of the northern kingdom (1 Kgs 16:24); the Assyrians conquered it (2 Kgs 17:6). Jesus passed through the region, and Philip preached there (John 4:4; Acts 8:5).
The context
23He prepared for them a great feast, and they ate and drank, and he sent them away, and they went to their master. And the bands of Aram did not come again into the land of Israel.
24 · This verse (above)
25There was a great famine in Samaria, and there they were, besieging it, until a donkey’s head sold for eighty shekels of silver, and a quarter of a kab of dove’s dung for five shekels of silver.