Parallel Verses
Amplified
And Hamath also, which borders on it (Damascus),
Tyre and Sidon, though they are very wise.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
And Hamath also shall border thereby; Tyrus, and Zidon, though it be very wise.
Holman Bible
as well as Tyre
though they are very shrewd.
International Standard Version
Also Hamath, which borders on it along with Tyre and Sidon indeed they are very wise.
A Conservative Version
and also Hamath, which borders on it, Tyre and Sidon, because they are very wise.
American Standard Version
and Hamath, also, which bordereth thereon; Tyre and Sidon, because they are very wise.
Bible in Basic English
As well as Hamath, which is by its limit, and Tyre and Zidon, because they are very wise.
Darby Translation
and also on Hamath which bordereth thereon; on Tyre and Zidon, though she be very wise.
Julia Smith Translation
And also Hamath shall be the bound in it; Tyre and Zidon, for it was wise exceedingly.
King James 2000
And Hamath also, which borders on it; and against Tyre, and Sidon, though they are very wise.
Lexham Expanded Bible
and also Hamath, [which] borders on it; Tyre and Sidon--yes, they are very wise!
Modern King James verseion
and Hamath also borders on it; Tyre and Sidon, though very wise.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
The borders of Hamath shall be hard thereby, Tyre also and Sidon, for they are very wise.
NET Bible
as are those of Hamath also, which adjoins Damascus, and Tyre and Sidon, though they consider themselves to be very wise.
New Heart English Bible
and Hamath, also, which borders on it; Tyre and Sidon, because they are very wise.
The Emphasized Bible
Moreover also, Hamath, adjoineth thereto, Tyre and Zidon, - because very wise;
Webster
And Hamath also shall border by it; Tyre and Zidon, though it be very wise.
World English Bible
and Hamath, also, which borders on it; Tyre and Sidon, because they are very wise.
Youngs Literal Translation
And also Hamath doth border thereon, Tyre and Zidon, for -- very wise!
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Zechariah 9:2
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Context Readings
Judgment Of Zion's Enemies
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The
And Hamath also, which borders on it (Damascus),
Tyre and Sidon, though they are very wise.
For Tyre built herself an [impregnable] stronghold [on an island offshore],
And she has heaped up silver like dust
And gold like the mire of the streets.
Cross References
Jeremiah 49:23
Concerning Damascus [in Syria].
“Hamath and Arpad are perplexed and shamed,
For they have heard bad news;
They are disheartened;
Troubled and anxious like a [storm-tossed] sea
Which cannot be calmed.
Ezekiel 28:12
“Son of man, take up a dirge (funeral poem to be sung) for the king of Tyre and say to him, ‘Thus says the Lord God,
Full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.
Ezekiel 28:2-5
“Son of man, say to the prince of Tyre, ‘Thus says the Lord God,
And you have said and thought, ‘I am a god,
I sit in the seat of the gods
In the heart of the seas’;
Yet you are [only] a man [weak, feeble, made of earth] and not God,
Though you [imagine yourself to be more than mortal and] think your mind is as [wise as] the mind of God—
Numbers 13:21
So they went up and spied out the land from the Wilderness of Zin to Rehob [a town in Lebanon], at Lebo-hamath [in the far north].
1 Kings 17:9
“Arise, go to
2 Kings 23:33
Pharaoh Neco imprisoned him at Riblah in the land of Hamath, so that he would not reign in Jerusalem, and imposed a fine on the land of a hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.
2 Kings 25:21
Then the king of Babylon struck them down and killed them at Riblah in the land of Hamath [north of Damascus]. So Judah was taken into exile from its land.
Isaiah 23:1-18
The [mournful, inspired] oracle (
For Tyre is destroyed, without house, without harbor;
It is reported to them from the land of Cyprus (Kittim).
Ezekiel 26:1-21
Now in the eleventh year, on the first [day] of the month [after the capture of King Jehoiachin], the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
Ezekiel 28:21-26
“Son of man, set your face toward Sidon, and prophesy against her
Joel 3:4-8
Moreover, what are you to Me, O Tyre and Sidon and all the [five small] regions of Philistia? Will you pay Me back for something [I have supposedly done to you]? Even if you do pay Me back, I will swiftly and speedily return your deed [of retaliation] on your own head.
Amos 1:9-10
Thus says the Lord,
“For three transgressions of Tyre and for four (multiplied delinquencies)
I will not reverse its punishment or revoke My word concerning it,
Because they [as middlemen] deported an entire [Jewish] population to Edom
And did not [seriously] remember their covenant of brotherhood.
Amos 6:14
“For behold, I am going to stir up a nation against you,
O house of Israel,” says the Lord, the God of hosts,
“And they will afflict and torment you [to the entire limits of Israel] from the entrance of Hamath [in the north]
To the brook of the Arabah [in the south].”
Obadiah 1:20
And the exiles of this host of the sons (descendants) of Israel
Who are among the Canaanites as far as Zarephath,
And the exiles of Jerusalem who are in
Shall possess the cities of the Negev.