2nd Chronicles Chapter 4 verse 17 Holy Bible
In the plain of the Jordan did the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zeredah.
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The king made them of liquid metal in the lowland of Jordan, in the soft earth between Succoth and Zeredah.
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In the plain of the Jordan did the king cast them, in the clay-ground between Succoth and Zeredathah.
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In the plain of Jordan did the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zeredathah.
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In the plain of Jordan did the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zeredathah.
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In the plain of the Jordan did the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zeredah.
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In the circuit of the Jordan hath the king cast them, in the thick soil of the ground, between Succoth and Zeredathah.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 17. - In the plain... in the clay; i.e. in the Ciccar (or round, equivalent to the New Testament "region round about ") of Jordan, a distinctive designation of the Jordan valley (Conder's Handbook to the Bible,' p. 213). The region here intended lies east of the river, in what became the division of Gad. Succoth lay a little to the north of the river Jabbok, which flows almost east to west into the Jordan. Zeredathah; i.q. Zarthan of 1 Kings 7:46; and this latter is in the Hebrew also the same in characters and all with the Zaretan of Joshua 3:16. Very possibly the place is the same as Zererath (Judges 7:22). The exact sites of these places are not known, though the range within which they all lay is clear (see Grove's article in Smith's 'Bible Dictionary,' 3:1817). The clay ground; that is," the clay of the ground "(Hebrew). The radical idea of the word here translated "clay" is "thickness," which should not be rendered, as in margin, "thicknesses." The word (עָב) occurs in all thirty-five times, and is rendered a large proportion of these times "clouds" or "thick clouds" (e.g. Exodus 19:9), clouds being presumably thicknesses in air; but if the subject-matter in question be in wood, or growing timber, or the ground, the word is rendered conformably "thick planks" (1 Kings 7:6; Ezekiel 41:25, 26), or "thickets" (Jeremiah 4:29), or "clay" (as here), to distinguish from other lighter or more friable soil.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(17) In the clay ground.--Heb., in the thickness of the ground--i.e., in the stiff or clayey soil. Vulg., "in argillosa terra." For '?bi, "thickness," see Job 15:26. Kings has ma'?beh, which occurs nowhere else.Zeredathah.--Kings, Z?r?th?n (Joshua 3:16). Z?r?d?th?h means towards Z?r?th?h (1Kings 11:26). The two names denote the same place.
