King James Version
2 Kings 8:22 in the King James Version says “Yet Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah unto this day. Then Libnah revolted at the same time.” — study this verse from 2 Kings chapter 8 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Yet Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah unto this day. Then Libnah revolted at the same time.”
2 Kings 8:22 · KJV
In his days Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah, and made a king over themselves.
So Joram went over to Zair, and all the chariots with him: and he rose by night, and smote the Edomites which compassed him about, and the captains of the chariots: and the people fled into their tents.
Yet Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah unto this day. Then Libnah revolted at the same time.
And the rest of the acts of Joram, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
And Joram slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David: and Ahaziah his son reigned in his stead.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“revolted”
H6586to break away (from just authority), i.e., trespass, apostatize, quarrel
“Yet Edom”
H123edom, the elder twin-brother of jacob; hence the region (idumaea) occupied by him
the bottom (as depressed); only adverbially, below (often with prepositional prefix underneath), in lieu of, etc
“from under the hand”
H3027a hand (the open one [indicating power, means, direction, etc.], in distinction from h3709, the closed one); used (as noun, adverb, etc.) in a great v
“of Judah”
H3063jehudah (or judah), the name of five israelites; also of the tribe descended from the first, and of its territory
as far (or long, or much) as, whether of space (even unto) or time (during, while, until) or degree (equally with)
“unto this day”
H3117a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an asso
“revolted”
H6586to break away (from just authority), i.e., trespass, apostatize, quarrel
“at the same”
H1931he (she or it); only expressed when emphatic or without a verb; also (intensively) self, or (especially with the article) the same; sometimes (as demo
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