Verse | Translation | Text |
2Sa 20:15 | Strong Concordance | And they came [0935] and besieged [06696] him in Abel [059] of Bethmaachah [01038], and they cast up [08210] a bank [05550] against the city [05892], and it stood [05975] in the trench [02426]: and all the people [05971] that were with Joab [03097] battered [07843] the wall [02346], to throw it down [05307]. |
King James | And they came and besieged him in Abel of Bethmaachah, and they cast up a bank against the city, and it stood in the trench: and all the people that were with Joab battered the wall, to throw it down. |
A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
Abel of Beth-maachah--a verdant place--the addition of "Maachah" betokening that it belonged to the district Maachah, which lay far up the Jordan at the foot of Lebanon. |