2 Cronache 25:12

12 I figliuoli di Giuda presero eziandio prigioni diecimila uomini vivi, e li menarono in cima di Sela, e li gittarono a basso dalla rupe; e tutti creparono.

2 Cronache 25:12 Meaning and Commentary

2 Chronicles 25:12

And other ten thousand left alive did the children of Judah
carry away captive
The rest of the army of the Edomites, which amounted to the same number, fell into their hands, and they took them, and carried them off:

and brought them unto the top of the rock;
very probably the same on which the city Petra, the metropolis of Edom, was built, called also Selah, ( 2 Kings 14:7 ) both which names signify a rock. Josephus ^F7 calls it the great rock in Arabia; that is, Arabia Petraea:

and cast them down from the top of the rock, that they were broken all
in pieces;
burst asunder, bones broken, and limb from limb separated. This sort of punishment was inflicted by the Romans on various malefactors, by casting them down from the Tarpeian rock ^F8; and in Greece, according to the Delphian law, such as were guilty of sacrilege were led to a rock, and cast down headlong from thence ^F9: and now in Turkey, at a place called Constantine, a town situated on the top of a great rock, the usual way of executing great criminals is by pushing them from off the cliff ^F11; see ( Luke 4:29 ) , but to use captives taken in war after this manner seems cruel and barbarous; and what should be the reason of such treatment of them is not easy to say.

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FOOTNOTES:

F7 Antiqu. l. 9. c. 9. sect. 1.
F8 Liv. Hist. l. 6. c. 20. Patercul. Hist. Roman. l. 2. Aurel. Victor. de Vir. Illustr. c. 27, 70. Vid, Rycquium de Capitol. Roman. c. 4. p. 45
F9 Aelian. Var. Hist. l. 11. c. 5.
F11 Pitt's Account of the Mahometans, ch. 1. p. 10.

2 Cronache 25:12 In-Context

10 Amasia dunque separò le schiere ch’erano venute a lui di Efraim, acciocchè se ne andassero al luogo loro; laonde si adirarono gravemente contro a Giuda, e se ne ritornarono alle loro stanze, accesi nell’ira.

11 Ed Amasia si fortificò, e condusse la sua gente; e andò alla valle del sale, e percosse i figliuoli di Seir, in numero di diecimila.

12 I figliuoli di Giuda presero eziandio prigioni diecimila uomini vivi, e li menarono in cima di Sela, e li gittarono a basso dalla rupe; e tutti creparono.

13 Ma le schiere che Amasia avea rimandate, acciocchè non andassero con lui alla guerra, scorsero sopra le città di Giuda, da Samaria, fino in Bet-horon; e percossero tremila uomini di quella, e fecero una gran preda.

14 Ed Amasia, ritornando dalla sconfitta degl’Idumei, portò gl’iddii de’ figliuoli di Seir, e se li rizzò per dii, e li adorò, e fece loro profumi.