2 Chronicles 15:6
in 2 Chronicles 15Nation was crushed by nation, and city by city, for God afflicted them with all kinds of adversity.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
And they were broken in pieces, nation against nation, and city against city; for God did vex them with all adversity.
KJV
And nation was destroyed of nation, and city of city: for God did vex them with all adversity.
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This verse in 2 Chronicles 15
Commentary
6 notes on this verseAnd nation was destroyed of nation, and city of city,.... Or one tribe of another; as the Ephraimites by the Gileadites, and the tribe of Benjamin by the other tribes; and Shechem by Abimelech, Jdg 9:45, for God did vex them with all adversity; both with foreign enemies and civil wars; and now it is intimated that this would be their case again, should they not keep close to the Lord their God.
This site's exposition
without a priest to instruct them
on 2 Chronicles 15:3-6
Azariah looks back to a long season when Israel was “without the true God, without a priest to instruct them, and without the law”. Henry and Gill set the reference in the days of the judges. Barnes reads it more broadly, of the people's many falls and deliverances.
This site's exposition
Nation was crushed by nation
Gill reads nation and city as tribe against tribe: Gilead against Ephraim, the other tribes against Benjamin, and Abimelech against Shechem at Judges 9:45. God sent both foreign enemies and civil war. Azariah holds that history up as a warning to Asa's Judah.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
), yet when, in their perplexity, they turned to God by repentance, prayer, and reformation, he raised up deliverers for them. Then was that maxim often verified, that God is with us while we are with him.
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The Nineteenth Century2 voices
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
Now for a long season Israel hath been without the true God, &c.--Some think that Azariah was referring to the sad and disastrous condition to which superstition and idolatry had brought the neighboring kingdom of Israel.
A commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
proposed
The allusion is probably to the destructions recorded in Jdg 9:45; 20:33-48.
The words behind it
10 Hebrew wordsEvery 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.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וְכֻתְּת֥וּ | vekhutetu | and they were crushed | H3807 → | |
| גוֹי־ | goy- | nation | H1471 → | 561 times |
| בְּג֖וֹי | begoy | by nation | H1471 → | 561 times |
| וְעִ֣יר | veir | and city | H5892 → | 1090 times |
| בְּעִ֑יר | beir | by city | H5892 → | 1090 times |
| כִּֽי־ | ki- | for | H3588 → | 4482 times |
| אֱלֹהִ֥ים | ʾelohim | God | H430 → | 2601 times |
| הֲמָמָ֖ם | hamamam | he troubled them | H2000 → | |
| בְּכָל־ | bekhol | with every | H3605 → | 5413 times |
| צָרָֽה׃ | tzarah | trouble | H6869 → |
וְכֻתְּת֥וּand they were crushed
vekhutetuH3807 →
גוֹי־nation
goy-H1471 →561 times
בְּג֖וֹיby nation
begoyH1471 →561 times
וְעִ֣ירand city
veirH5892 →1090 times
בְּעִ֑ירby city
beirH5892 →1090 times
כִּֽי־for
ki-H3588 →4482 times
אֱלֹהִ֥יםGod
ʾelohimH430 →2601 times
הֲמָמָ֖םhe troubled them
hamamamH2000 →
בְּכָל־with every
bekholH3605 →5413 times
צָרָֽה׃trouble
tzarahH6869 →
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach 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
Amos 3:6If a ram’s horn sounds in a city, do the people not tremble? If calamity comes to a city, has not the LORD caused it?
it leads to
- Isaiah 45:7
I form the light and create the darkness; I bring prosperity and create calamity. I, the LORD, do all these things.
- Zephaniah 1:16
a day of horn blast and battle cry against the fortified cities, and against the high corner towers.
- Isaiah 14:24–27
The LORD of Hosts has sworn: “Surely, as I have planned, so will it be; as I have purposed, so will it stand.
- Isaiah 45:7
Through
Matthew 24:7Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places.
it leads to
- Luke 21:11
There will be great earthquakes, famines, and pestilences in various places, along with fearful sights and great signs from heaven.
- Revelation 6:8
Then I looked and saw a pale green horse. Its rider’s name was Death, and Hades followed close behind. And they were given authority over a fourth of the earth, to kill by sword,…
- Isaiah 19:2
“So I will incite Egyptian against Egyptian; brother will fight against brother, neighbor against neighbor, city against city, and kingdom against kingdom.
- Zechariah 14:13
On that day a great panic from the LORD will come upon them, so that each will seize the hand of another, and the hand of one will rise against the other.
- Acts 11:28
One of them named Agabus stood up and predicted through the Spirit that a great famine would sweep across the whole world. (This happened under Claudius.)
- Luke 21:11
Where this verse is studied
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About 2 Chronicles
This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.