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Lexicon :: Strong's H5892 - ʿîr

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עִיר
Transliteration
ʿîr
Pronunciation
eer
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From עוּר (H5782) a city (a place guarded by waking or a watch) in the widest sense (even of a mere encampment or post)
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TWOT Reference: 1587a,1615

Strong’s Definitions

עִיר ʻîyr, eer; or (in the plural) עָר ʻâr; or עָיַר ʻâyar; (Judges 10:4), from H5782 a city (a place guarded by waking or a watch) in the widest sense (even of a mere encampment or post):—Ai (from margin), city, court (from margin), town.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 1,089x

The KJV translates Strong's H5892 in the following manner: city (1,074x), town (7x), every one (2x), variant (6x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 1,089x
The KJV translates Strong's H5892 in the following manner: city (1,074x), town (7x), every one (2x), variant (6x).

  1. excitement, anguish

    1. of terror

  2. city, town (a place of waking, guarded)

    1. city, town

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
עִיר ʻîyr, eer; or (in the plural) עָר ʻâr; or עָיַר ʻâyar; (Judges 10:4), from H5782 a city (a place guarded by waking or a watch) in the widest sense (even of a mere encampment or post):—Ai (from margin), city, court (from margin), town.
STRONGS H5892: Abbreviations
† I. עִיר noun [masculine] excitement; — of terror, וּבֶהָלוֺת ע׳ Jeremiah 15:9; of rage (si vera lectio), לֹא אָבוֺא בְּעִיר Hosea 11:9, but St proposes לְבָעֵר compare We Oort Now GASm. — בָּעִיר Psalm 73:20 see עור Hiph. — see II, III. עִיר.

II. עִיר 1092 noun feminineGenesis 10:12 (AlbrZAW xvi.40 f.) city, town (√ unknown; Late Hebrew id.; ? Phoenician ער Lzb345; Sabean ער fortified height (compare 3) PräZMG xxvi (1872), 437, ערן, עהרן city CISiv. pp. 94, 95, 173); — ע׳ absolute Genesis 4:17 +, construct Genesis 24:10 +; הָעִ֫ירָה 1 Kings 14:12 + 7 times; suffix עִירִי 2 Samuel 19:38 2 times, etc.; plural עָרִים Isaiah 6:11 +, עֲיָרִים Judges 10:4 (text error, or word-play, compare GFM); construct עָרֵי Genesis 19:29 +; suffix עָרַי Zechariah 1:17, עָרֵיכֶם Isaiah 1:7 +, etc.; —
1. city, town, abode of men Genesis 4:17 (J) and often; גְּדֹלָה Genesis 10:12 (J), +, or קְטַנָּה Ecclesiastes 9:14 (compare Genesis 19:20); especially
a. fortified: עָרִים בְּצֻרוֺת 2 Samuel 20:6 +, etc., see בָּצַר, מִבְצָר; עִיר מִבְצַרצֹֿר Joshua 19:29 (P) fortified city (of) Tyre, מָצוֺר ע׳ Psalm 31:22 +, etc., see מָצוֺר, מְצוּרָה below צוּר (Micah 7:12 see מָצוֺר); עָזלָֿנוּ ע׳ Isaiah 26:1, עָרֵי מָעוּזּוֺ Isaiah 17:9; וּבְרִיחַ דְּלָתַיִם ע׳ 1 Samuel 23:7; חוֺמָה ע׳ Leviticus 25:29, compare Leviticus 25:30 (P), 1 Kings 4:13; on Hosea 10:14 see I. עַם 2b (1 Samuel 9:14 read הַשֵּׁעַר Greek Version of the LXX We Dr and others).
b. opposed to הַפְּרָזִי כֹּפֶר 1 Samuel 6:18, הַפּ׳ עָרֵי Deuteronomy 3:5, הַפְּרָזוֹת ע׳ Esther 9:19; distinguished from dependencies חֲצֵרִים Joshua 13:23 + often P.
c. עָרֶיה are dependent towns Joshua 13:17 (P), Jeremiah 19:15.
†d. עָרֵי הַמַּמְלָכָה Joshua 10:2 (JE) royal cities (i.e. with a king, compare Tel Amarna al šarri), so singular 1 Samuel 27:5, opposed to הַשָּׁדֶה עָרֵי 1 Samuel 27:5 rural towns; הַמְּלוּכָה ע׳ 2 Samuel 12:26 (but read הַמַּיִם ע׳ We Bu Kit Löhr HPS, see 2 below).
†e. עֶרֵי מִסְכְּנוֺת Exodus 1:11 storage-cities, so 1 Kings 9:19 2 Chronicles 8:6, 4; 17:12; for נַפְתָּלִי ע׳ מ׳ 2 Chronicles 16:4 read probably כִּנְרוֺת עֵלוֿגו׳ (as 1 Kings 15:20; Be Kit Buhl); compare הֶרֶכֶב ע׳ 1 Kings 9:19; 1 Kings 10:26 2 Chronicles 8:6; 9:25; 2 Chronicles 1:14; הַפָּרָשִׁים ע׳ 1 Kings 9:19 2 Chronicles 8:6.
†f. (הַ)מִקְלָט ע׳ (P) asylum-cities Numbers 35:11, 13, 14; Joshua 20:2, compare Numbers 35:25, 26, 27, 28, 32, לְמִקְלָט ע׳ Numbers 35:12; מִקְלַט הָרֹצֵחַ ע׳ Joshua 21:13 + 4 times in Joshua 21.
g. (הָ)אֱלֹהִים ע׳ = Jerusalem: Psalm 46:5; Psalm 87:3, compare Psalm 48:2; Psalm 48:9; י׳ ע׳ Isaiah 60:14; Psalm 101:8; צְבָאוֺת י׳ ע׳ Psalm 48:9.
h. city = inhabitants 1 Samuel 4:13; 1 Samuel 5:12; Isaiah 22:2; Ruth 1:19, so 2 Samuel 20:22 (reading הָעִיר for MT הָעָם) Greek Version of the LXX We Dr and others (compare also following).
i. combinations are: רֹכְלִים ע׳ Ezekiel 17:4 city of merchants; מוֺשָׁב ע׳ Psalm 107:4; Psalm 107:7; Psalm 107:36 city for dwelling; especially of character or condition: † הַצֶּדֶק ע׳ Isaiah 1:26, † ע׳ הָאֱמֶת Zechariah 8:3; † הַקּדֶשׁ ע׳ Isaiah 48:2; Isaiah 52:1; Nehemiah 11:1, 18, compare Daniel 9:24, all of Jerusalem; עָרֵי קָדְשֶׁ֑ךָ Jeremiah 5:17 of Judaean cities; of foreign cities, תְּהִלָּךְ ע׳ Jeremiah 49:25, הָע׳ הַהֻלָּלה Ezekiel 26:17, הָעַלִּיזָה הָע׳ Zephaniah 2:15; of Jerusalem also הַיּוֺנָה הָע׳ Zephaniah 3:1 oppressive city, (הַ)דָּמִים ע׳ bloody city Ezekiel 22:2; Ezekiel 24:6, 9 and (of Nineveh) Nahum 3:1.
2. of fortress in a city especially עִיר דָּוִד 2 Samuel 5:7, 9; 2 Samuel 6:10 + often (see דָּוִד); כֵית הַבָּ֑עַל ע׳ 2 Kings 10:25 (crpt; Klo proposes דְּבִיר for ע׳, compare Kmp Benz Kit); הַמַּיִם ע׳ 2 Samuel 12:27 (so read also 2 Samuel 12:26, see 1d).
3. apparently fortified place, of any size, עִיר מִבְצָר בְּכָלעָֿרֵיהֶם מִמִּגְּדַּל נוֺצְרִים עַדֿ 2 Kings 17:9 2 Kings 18:8; compare Numbers 13:9 (P; but on compare of ver. see Di); perhaps also עֲמָלֵק ע׳ 1 Samuel 15:5 (HPS). — Hosea 7:4 see I. עור Hiph.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

4:17; 4:17; 10:12; 10:12; 19:20; 19:29; 24:10

Exodus

1:11

Leviticus

25:29; 25:30

Numbers

13:9; 35:11; 35:12; 35:13; 35:14; 35:25; 35:26; 35:27; 35:28; 35:32

Deuteronomy

3:5

Joshua

10:2; 13:17; 13:23; 19:29; 20:2; 21:13

Judges

10:4

Ruth

1:19

1 Samuel

4:13; 5:12; 6:18; 9:14; 15:5; 23:7; 27:5; 27:5

2 Samuel

5:7; 5:9; 6:10; 12:26; 12:26; 12:27; 19:38; 20:6; 20:22

1 Kings

4:13; 9:19; 9:19; 9:19; 10:26; 14:12; 15:20

2 Kings

10:25; 17:9; 18:8

2 Chronicles

1:14; 8:4; 8:6; 8:6; 8:6; 9:25; 16:4; 17:12

Nehemiah

11:1; 11:18

Esther

9:19

Psalms

31:22; 46:5; 48:2; 48:9; 48:9; 73:20; 87:3; 101:8; 107:4; 107:7; 107:36

Ecclesiastes

9:14

Isaiah

1:7; 1:26; 6:11; 17:9; 22:2; 26:1; 48:2; 52:1; 60:14

Jeremiah

5:17; 15:9; 19:15; 49:25

Ezekiel

17:4; 22:2; 24:6; 24:9; 26:17

Daniel

9:24

Hosea

7:4; 10:14; 11:9

Micah

7:12

Nahum

3:1

Zephaniah

2:15; 3:1

Zechariah

1:17; 8:3

H5892

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Strong's Number H5892 matches the Hebrew עִיר (ʿîr),
which occurs 65 times in 52 verses in '2Ki' in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 2 (2Ki 2:19–2Ki 25:4)

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 2:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 2:19 - And the men of the city H5892 said unto Elisha, Behold, I pray thee, the situation of this city H5892 is pleasant, as my lord seeth: but the water is naught, and the ground barren.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 2:23

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 2:23 - And he went up from thence unto Bethel: and as he was going up by the way, there came forth little children out of the city, H5892 and mocked him, and said unto him, Go up, thou bald head; go up, thou bald head.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:19 - And ye shall smite every fenced city, H5892 and every choice city, H5892 and shall fell every good tree, and stop all wells of water, and mar every good piece of land with stones.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:25

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:25 - And they beat down the cities, H5892 and on every good piece of land cast every man his stone, and filled it; and they stopped all the wells of water, and felled all the good trees: only in Kirharaseth left they the stones thereof; howbeit the slingers went about it, and smote it.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:14 - Therefore sent he thither horses, and chariots, and a great host: and they came by night, and compassed the city H5892 about.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:15 - And when the servant of the man of God was risen early, and gone forth, behold, an host compassed the city H5892 both with horses and chariots. And his servant said unto him, Alas, my master! how shall we do?

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:19 - And Elisha said unto them, This is not the way, neither is this the city: H5892 follow me, and I will bring you to the man whom ye seek. But he led them to Samaria.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:4 - If we say, We will enter into the city, H5892 then the famine is in the city, H5892 and we shall die there: and if we sit still here, we die also. Now therefore come, and let us fall unto the host of the Syrians: if they save us alive, we shall live; and if they kill us, we shall but die.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:10 - So they came and called unto the porter of the city: H5892 and they told them, saying, We came to the camp of the Syrians, and, behold, there was no man there, neither voice of man, but horses tied, and asses tied, and the tents as they were.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:12 - And the king arose in the night, and said unto his servants, I will now shew you what the Syrians have done to us. They know that we be hungry; therefore are they gone out of the camp to hide themselves in the field, saying, When they come out of the city, H5892 we shall catch them alive, and get into the city. H5892

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:24

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:24 - And Joram slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city H5892 of David: and Ahaziah his son reigned in his stead.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:15 - But king Joram was returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which the Syrians had given him, when he fought with Hazael king of Syria.) And Jehu said, If it be your minds, then let none go forth nor escape out of the city H5892 to go to tell it in Jezreel.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:28

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:28 - And his servants carried him in a chariot to Jerusalem, and buried him in his sepulchre with his fathers in the city H5892 of David.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:2 - Now as soon as this letter cometh to you, seeing your master's sons are with you, and there are with you chariots and horses, a fenced city H5892 also, and armour;

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:5 - And he that was over the house, and he that was over the city, H5892 the elders also, and the bringers up of the children, sent to Jehu, saying, We are thy servants, and will do all that thou shalt bid us; we will not make any king: do thou that which is good in thine eyes.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:6 - Then he wrote a letter the second time to them, saying, If ye be mine, and if ye will hearken unto my voice, take ye the heads of the men your master's sons, and come to me to Jezreel by to morrow this time. Now the king's sons, being seventy persons, were with the great men of the city, H5892 which brought them up.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:25

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:25 - And it came to pass, as soon as he had made an end of offering the burnt offering, that Jehu said to the guard and to the captains, Go in, and slay them; let none come forth. And they smote them with the edge of the sword; and the guard and the captains cast them out, and went to the city H5892 of the house of Baal.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 11:20

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 11:20 - And all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city H5892 was in quiet: and they slew Athaliah with the sword beside the king's house.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 12:21

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 12:21 - For Jozachar the son of Shimeath, and Jehozabad the son of Shomer, his servants, smote him, and he died; and they buried him with his fathers in the city H5892 of David: and Amaziah his son reigned in his stead.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 13:25

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 13:25 - And Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz took again out of the hand of Benhadad the son of Hazael the cities, H5892 which he had taken out of the hand of Jehoahaz his father by war. Three times did Joash beat him, and recovered the cities H5892 of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:20

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:20 - And they brought him on horses: and he was buried at Jerusalem with his fathers in the city H5892 of David.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 15:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 15:7 - So Azariah slept with his fathers; and they buried him with his fathers in the city H5892 of David: and Jotham his son reigned in his stead.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 15:38

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 15:38 - And Jotham slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city H5892 of David his father: and Ahaz his son reigned in his stead.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 16:20

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 16:20 - And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city H5892 of David: and Hezekiah his son reigned in his stead.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:6 - In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities H5892 of the Medes.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:9 - And the children of Israel did secretly those things that were not right against the LORD their God, and they built them high places in all their cities, H5892 from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city. H5892

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:24

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:24 - And the king of Assyria brought men from Babylon, and from Cuthah, and from Ava, and from Hamath, and from Sepharvaim, and placed them in the cities H5892 of Samaria instead of the children of Israel: and they possessed Samaria, and dwelt in the cities H5892 thereof.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:26

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:26 - Wherefore they spake to the king of Assyria, saying, The nations which thou hast removed, and placed in the cities H5892 of Samaria, know not the manner of the God of the land: therefore he hath sent lions among them, and, behold, they slay them, because they know not the manner of the God of the land.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:29

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:29 - Howbeit every nation made gods of their own, and put them in the houses of the high places which the Samaritans had made, every nation in their cities H5892 wherein they dwelt.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:8 - He smote the Philistines, even unto Gaza, and the borders thereof, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city. H5892

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:11 - And the king of Assyria did carry away Israel unto Assyria, and put them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities H5892 of the Medes:

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:13 - Now in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah did Sennacherib king of Assyria come up against all the fenced cities H5892 of Judah, and took them.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:30

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:30 - Neither let Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD, saying, The LORD will surely deliver us, and this city H5892 shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:13 - Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city H5892 of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivah?

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:25

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:25 - Hast thou not heard long ago how I have done it, and of ancient times that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste fenced cities H5892 into ruinous heaps.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:32

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:32 - Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come into this city, H5892 nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shield, nor cast a bank against it.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:33

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:33 - By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and shall not come into this city, H5892 saith the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:34

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:34 - For I will defend this city, H5892 to save it, for mine own sake, and for my servant David's sake.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:6 - And I will add unto thy days fifteen years; and I will deliver thee and this city H5892 out of the hand of the king of Assyria; and I will defend this city H5892 for mine own sake, and for my servant David's sake.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:20

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:20 - And the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and all his might, and how he made a pool, and a conduit, and brought water into the city, H5892 are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:5 - And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities H5892 of Judah, and in the places round about Jerusalem; them also that burned incense unto Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:8 - And he brought all the priests out of the cities H5892 of Judah, and defiled the high places where the priests had burned incense, from Geba to Beersheba, and brake down the high places of the gates that were in the entering in of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city, H5892 which were on a man's left hand at the gate of the city. H5892

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:17 - Then he said, What title is that that I see? And the men of the city H5892 told him, It is the sepulchre of the man of God, which came from Judah, and proclaimed these things that thou hast done against the altar of Bethel.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:19 - And all the houses also of the high places that were in the cities H5892 of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke the LORD to anger, Josiah took away, and did to them according to all the acts that he had done in Bethel.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:27

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:27 - And the LORD said, I will remove Judah also out of my sight, as I have removed Israel, and will cast off this city H5892 Jerusalem which I have chosen, and the house of which I said, My name shall be there.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:10 - At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against Jerusalem, and the city H5892 was besieged.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:11 - And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came against the city, H5892 and his servants did besiege it.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:2 - And the city H5892 was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:3 - And on the ninth day of the fourth month the famine prevailed in the city, H5892 and there was no bread for the people of the land.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:4 - And the city H5892 was broken up, and all the men of war fled by night by the way of the gate between two walls, which is by the king's garden: (now the Chaldees were against the city H5892 round about:) and the king went the way toward the plain.

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