Lexicon :: Strong's H8610 - tāp̄aś

“When you besiege a city for [fn]a long time, making war against it in order to capture it, you shall not destroy its [fruit-bearing] trees by swinging an axe against them; for you may eat from them, and you shall not cut them down. For is the tree of the field a man, that it should be besieged (destroyed) by you?

“If a man finds a girl who is a virgin, who is not engaged, and seizes her and is intimate with her and they are discovered,

Amaziah killed 10,000 [men] of Edom in the Valley of Salt, and took [fn]Sela (rock) by war, and renamed it Joktheel, to this day.

In the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria went up against all the fortified cities of Judah [except Jerusalem] and captured them.

In pride and arrogance the wicked hotly pursue and persecute the afflicted;

Let them be caught in the plots which they have devised.

Saying, “God has abandoned him;

Pursue and seize him, for there is no one to rescue him.”

So that I will not be full and deny You and say, “Who is the LORD?”

Or that I will not be poor and steal,

And so profane the name of my God.

You may grasp the lizard with your hands,

Yet it is in kings’ palaces.

When a man takes hold of his brother in the house of his father, saying,

“You have a robe, you shall be our judge and ruler,

And this pile of ruins will be under your control,”

Now in the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah and conquered them.

“[Even] the priests did not say, ‘Where is the LORD?’

And those who deal with the law [given to Moses] did not know Me.

The rulers and shepherds also transgressed against Me,

And the prophets prophesied by [the authority and in the name of] Baal

And walked after [idolatrous] things that did not benefit [them].

‘Also, all your wives and your children will be brought out to the Chaldeans; and you yourself will not escape from their hand, but you will be seized by the king of Babylon, and this city [Jerusalem] will be burned down with fire.’”

Charge, you horses,

And drive like madmen, you chariots!

Let the warriors go forward:

Ethiopia and Put (Libya) who handle the shield,

And the Lydians who handle and bend the bow.

“Kerioth [and the cities] has been taken

And the strongholds seized;

And the hearts of the warriors of Moab in that day

Shall be like the heart of a woman in childbirth.

“As for Your terror,

The pride and arrogance of your heart have deceived you,

O you who live in the clefts of the rock (Sela also called [fn]Petra),

Who hold and occupy the height of the hill.

Though you make your nest as high as the eagle’s,

I will bring you down from there,” says the LORD.

“Cut off the sower from Babylon

And the one who handles the sickle at the time of harvest.

For fear of the sword of the oppressor

Everyone will return to his own people

And everyone will flee to his own land.

“I set a trap for you and you also were caught, O Babylon,

And you did not know it;

You have been found and also seized

Because you have struggled against the LORD.”

And that the fords [across the Euphrates] have been blocked and [the ferries] seized,

And they have set the [great] marshes on fire,

And the men of war are terrified.

“How Sheshak (Babylon) has been captured,

And the praise of the whole earth been seized!

How Babylon has become an astonishing desolation and an object of horror among the nations!

‘The nations heard about him;

He was captured in their pit,

And they brought him with hooks

To the land of Egypt.