2nd Chronicles Chapter 14 verse 10 Holy Bible
Then Asa went out to meet him, and they set the battle in array in the valley of Zephathah at Mareshah.
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And Asa went out against him, and they put their forces in position in the valley north of Mareshah.
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And Asa went out against him, and they set the battle in array in the valley of Zephathah near Mareshah.
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Then Asa went out against him, and they set the battle in array in the valley of Zephathah at Mareshah.
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Then Asa went out against him, and they set the battle in array in the valley of Zephathath at Mareshah.
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Then Asa went out to meet him, and they set the battle in array in the valley of Zephathah at Mareshah.
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and Asa goeth out before him, and they set battle in array in the valley of Zephathah at Mareshah.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 10. - The valley of Zephathah at Mareshah. "At" some translate "belonging to," some more suitably to the exact connection "near." The Hebrew here for" valley" is גֵיא. It can scarcely designate necessarily a "ravine." It is a valley in the sense of being a low, fiat region, in which springs of water "broke out." From Numbers 21:20, the first occasion of its occurrence, to Zechariah 14:5 it is found fifty-six times, and is always rendered (Authorized Version) "valley;" it is the word used in the celebrated passages, "Though I walk through the valley" etc. (Psalm 23:4); and "Every valley shall be exalted" (Isaiah 40:4). The Septuagint, however, do not render it uniformly; but though they render it generally φάραξ, they also have ναπή κοίλας αὐλών, and in some cases the simple word γῆ, as e.g. ἐν γῇ (γε) Ἑννόμ, (2 Chronicles 28:3; 2 Chronicles 33:6), which, nevertheless, elsewhere they describe as φάραξ Ἑννόμ (Joshua 15:8). The full explanation may probably be that the word is used for the valley that narrowed up to a ravine-like pass, or gorge, or that opened out into one of the wide wadies of the country; but see Stanley's 'Sinai and Palestine,' Appendix, pp. 482, 483, new edit., 1866. It is supposed that Zephathah is not mentioned elsewhere, but see the Zephath of Judges 1:17; and comp. Numbers 21:3: 1 Samuel 30:30, which Keil and Bertheau think conclusively to be not the same.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(10) Then.--And.Against him.--Before him (1Chronicles 12:17; 1Chronicles 14:8).In the valley of Zephathah at Mareshah.--This valley is not identified. The LXX. reads: ?? ?? ??????? ???? ?????? ???????, "in the ravine north of Mareshah." This would involve a change of one letter in the present Hebrew. [?aphonah "northward," for ?'phathah.] Syriac and Arabic, "in the wady of Mareshah."
