Ecclesiastes 9:14
12 For surely no man knows his time: Like fish caught in a cruel net or birds trapped in a snare, so men are ensnared in an evil time that suddenly falls upon them.
13 I have also seen this wisdom under the sun, and it was great to me:
There was a small city with few men. A mighty king came against it, surrounded it, and built large siege ramps against it.
15 Now a poor wise man was found in the city, and he saved the city by his wisdom. Yet no one remembered that poor man.
16 And I said, “Wisdom is better than strength, but the wisdom of the poor man is despised, and his words are not heeded.”
Her forteller Bibelen en historie om noen andre. Spør deg selv hva den kan si oss i dag. Les gjerne versene rundt også, for sammenhengen gir ofte mer enn ett vers alene.
Sammenlign
- ÅB
- Det var en liten by med få folk i; til den kom det en stor konge og kringsatte den og bygget store voller mot den;
- OTB
- Det var en liten by med få innbyggere, og en stor konge kom mot den, omringet den, og bygde store beleiringsverk mot den.
- B1930
- Det var en liten by med få folk i; til den kom det en stor konge og kringsatte den og bygget store voller mot den;
- BSB
- There was a small city with few men. A mighty king came against it, surrounded it, and built large siege ramps against it.
- KJV
- There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it:
- WEB
- There was a little city, and few men within it; and a great king came against it, besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it.
- ASV
- There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it.
- DARBY
- There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and encompassed it, and built great bulwarks against it:
- BLB
- A city [was] small, and few men in it; and a great king came against it, and he besieged it and built great siege ramps against it.
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Kryssreferanser
2 Samuel 20:15–22
And Joab’s troops came and besieged Sheba in Abel-beth-maacah and built a siege ramp against the outer rampart of the city. As all the troops with Joab were battering the wall to topple it,
Les i sammenheng2 Kings 6:24–7:20
Some time later, Ben-hadad king of Aram assembled his entire army and marched up to besiege Samaria.
Les i sammenheng