Parallel Verses
Modern King James verseion
and Hamath also borders on it; Tyre and Sidon, though 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.
Amplified
And Hamath also, which borders on it (Damascus),
Tyre and Sidon, though 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 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!
Themes
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Zechariah 9:2
Verse Info
Context Readings
Judgment Of Zion's Enemies
1 The burden of the Word of Jehovah against the land of Hadrach, and its resting-place, Damascus (when the eye of man, and all the tribes of Israel, shall be toward Jehovah); 2 and Hamath also borders on it; Tyre and Sidon, though very wise. 3 And Tyre shall build herself a stronghold, and shall heap up silver like the dust, and gold like the mud of the streets;
Cross References
Jeremiah 49:23
Concerning Damascus: Hamath and Arpad are put to shame, for they have heard bad news. They are melted; anxiety is in the sea; it cannot be quiet.
Ezekiel 28:12
Son of man, lift up a lament over the king of Tyre, and say to him, So says the Lord Jehovah: You seal the measure, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.
Ezekiel 28:2-5
Son of man, say to the ruler of Tyre. So says the Lord Jehovah: Because your heart is lifted up, and you have said, I am a god, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas; yet you are a man and not God, though you set your heart as the heart of gods;
Numbers 13:21
So they went up and searched the land from the wilderness of Zin to Rehob, as men come to Hamath.
1 Kings 17:9
Arise, go to Zarephath which belongs to Sidon, and live there. Behold, I have commanded a widow to keep you there.
2 Kings 23:33
And Pharaoh-necho put him in bonds at Riblah in the land of Hamath, so that he might not reign in Jerusalem. And he put the land to a tax of a hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.
2 Kings 25:21
And the king of Babylon struck them and killed them at Riblah in the land of Hamath. And he exiled Judah from its land.
Isaiah 23:1-18
The burden against Tyre: Howl, ships of Tarshish! For it is laid waste, so that there is no house, no entering in. From the land of Chittim it is revealed to them.
Ezekiel 26:1-21
And it happened in the eleventh year, in the first of the month, the Word of Jehovah came to me, saying,
Ezekiel 28:21-26
Son of man, set your face against Sidon, and prophesy against it.
Joel 3:4-8
Yea, and what have you to do with Me, O Tyre and Sidon, and all the borders of Philistia? Will you give Me a reward? And if you reward Me, swiftly and speedily I will turn your reward on your own head,
Amos 1:9-10
So says Jehovah: For three transgressions of Tyre, yea for four, I will not turn away from it. Because they delivered up as exiles a complete population to Edom, and did not remember the brotherly covenant.
Amos 6:14
But behold, I will raise a nation up against you, O house of Israel, says the Lord, the God of Hosts. And they shall oppress you from the entrance to Hamath to the torrent of the Arabah.
Obadiah 1:20
And the exiles of this army shall go to the sons of Israel who shall possess the land of the Canaanites to Zarephath; even the exiles of Jerusalem who are in Sepharad shall possess the cities of the south.