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2 Chronicles 11:4

in 2 Chronicles 11

that this is what the LORD says: ‘You are not to go up and fight against your brothers. Each of you must return home, for this word is from Me.’” So they listened to the words of the LORD and turned back from going against Jeroboam.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

Thus saith Jehovah, Ye shall not go up, nor fight against your brethren: return every man to his house; for this thing is of me. So they hearkened unto the words of Jehovah, and returned from going against Jeroboam.

KJV

Thus saith the Lord, Ye shall not go up, nor fight against your brethren: return every man to his house: for this thing is done of me. And they obeyed the words of the Lord, and returned from going against Jeroboam.

This verse in 2 Chronicles 11

Commentary

2 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

he mobilized the house of Judah and Benjamin

on 2 Chronicles 11:1-4

Rehoboam musters Judah and Benjamin, “180,000 chosen warriors,” to force the ten tribes back, and the passage runs word for word with 1 Kings 12:21-24. Chronicles keeps Shemaiah's oracle, “You are not to go up and fight against your brothers,” and the king obeys a prophet over an army mustered.

This site's exposition

fight against your brothers

Calling the northern tribes brothers places the split inside one family. The oracle names the division as the LORD's own doing. Henry says good words might have prevented the revolt, but the thing was done, and it was Rehoboam's wisdom to make the best of it.

The words behind it

25 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • כֹּ֣הthus

    kohH3541 →577 times

  • אָמַ֣רhe says

    ʾamarH559 →5305 times

  • יְהוָ֡הYahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • לֹא־not

    lo'-H3808 →5168 times

  • תַעֲלוּ֩you must go up

    taaluH5927 →890 times

  • וְלֹא־and not

    velo'-H3808 →5168 times

  • תִלָּ֨חֲמ֜וּyou must do battle

    tilachamuH3898 →177 times

  • עִם־with

    ʾim-H5973 →1050 times

  • אֲחֵיכֶ֗םcountrymen your

    ʾacheikhemH251 →630 times

  • שׁ֚וּבוּreturn

    shuvuH7725 →1056 times

  • אִ֣ישׁeveryone

    ʾishH376 →1663 times

  • לְבֵית֔וֹto own house his

    leveitoH1004 →2046 times

  • כִּ֧יfor

    kiH3588 →4482 times

  • מֵֽאִתִּ֛יfrom with <the> me

    meitiH854 →929 times

  • נִהְיָ֖הit has occurred

    nihyahH1961 →3559 times

  • הַדָּבָ֣רthe thing

    hadavarH1697 →1440 times

  • הַזֶּ֑ה<the> this

    hazehH2088 →1180 times

  • וַֽיִּשְׁמְעוּ֙and they obeyed

    vaiyishmeuH8085 →1159 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • דִּבְרֵ֣י[the] words of

    divreiH1697 →1440 times

  • יְהוָ֔הYahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • וַיָּשֻׁ֖בוּand they turned back

    vaiyashuvuH7725 →1056 times

  • מִלֶּ֥כֶתfrom going

    milekhetH1980 →1546 times

  • אֶל־against

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • יָרָבְעָֽם׃ פJeroboam

    yaraveamH3379 →104 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

5 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Genesis 50:20

    As for you, what you intended against me for evil, God intended for good, in order to accomplish a day like this—to preserve the lives of many people.

    it leads to

    • Romans 8:28

      And we know that God works all things together for the good of those who love Him, who are called according to His purpose.

    • Psalms 119:71

      It was good for me to be afflicted, that I might learn Your statutes.

    • Genesis 45:5–8

      And now, do not be distressed or angry with yourselves that you sold me into this place, because it was to save lives that God sent me before you.

    • Genesis 37:18–20

      Now Joseph’s brothers saw him in the distance, and before he arrived, they plotted to kill him.

    • Acts 2:23

      He was delivered up by God’s set plan and foreknowledge, and you, by the hands of the lawless, put Him to death by nailing Him to the cross.

Where this verse is studied

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About 2 Chronicles

Saphan Reading the Book of the Law to Josiah, Philip Galle, engraving after Maarten van Heemskerck, 1569, Royal Library of Belgium. Public domain.
Saphan Reading the Book of the Law to Josiah, Philip Galle, engraving after Maarten van Heemskerck, 1569, Royal Library of Belgium. Public domain.

This page draws on John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.