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2 Chronicles 18:11

in 2 Chronicles 18

And all the prophets were prophesying the same, saying, “Go up to Ramoth-gilead and prosper, for the LORD will deliver it into the hand of the king.”

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And all the prophets prophesied so, saying, Go up to Ramoth-gilead, and prosper; for Jehovah will deliver it into the hand of the king.

KJV

And all the prophets prophesied so, saying, Go up to Ramoth–gilead, and prosper: for the Lord shall deliver it into the hand of the king.

This verse in 2 Chronicles 18

Commentary

2 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

made for himself iron horns

on 2 Chronicles 18:10-11

Zedekiah makes iron horns and declares that with them the king will gore the Arameans “until they are finished off”. The sign acts out a bull's horns goring the peoples in Deuteronomy 33:17, the kind of acted prophecy Jeremiah's yoke and Ezekiel's brick later repeat.

This site's exposition

all the prophets were prophesying

The chorus now uses the name of the LORD, where verse 5 had said God. The Targum, as Clarke quotes it at verse 9, says that all these prophets prophesied lies before the two kings. Micaiah will stand against all of them.

The words behind it

13 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.

  • וְכָל־and all

    vekholH3605 →5413 times

  • הַ֨נְּבִאִ֔יםthe prophets

    haneviimH5030 →314 times

  • נִבְּאִ֥ים[were] prophesying

    nibeimH5012 →115 times

  • כֵּ֖ןthus

    kenH3651 →771 times

  • לֵאמֹ֑ר<to> saying

    lemorH559 →5305 times

  • עֲלֵ֞הgo up

    ʾalehH5927 →890 times

  • רָמֹ֤תRamoth

    ramotH7418 →22 times

  • גִּלְעָד֙Gilead

    giladH1568 →134 times

  • וְהַצְלַ֔חand succeed

    vehatzlachH6743 →65 times

  • וְנָתַ֥ןand he will give [it]

    venatanH5414 →2011 times

  • יְהוָ֖הYahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • בְּיַ֥דin [the] hand of

    beyadH3027 →1618 times

  • הַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃the king

    hamelekhH4428 →2525 times

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

The walk

8 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

    Jude 1:16

    These men are discontented grumblers, following after their own lusts; their mouths spew arrogance; they flatter others for their own advantage.

    it leads to

    • 2 Peter 2:18

      With lofty but empty words, they appeal to the sensual passions of the flesh and entice those who are just escaping from others who live in error.

    • Philippians 2:14

      Do everything without complaining or arguing,

    • 2 Peter 2:10

      Such punishment is specially reserved for those who indulge the corrupt desires of the flesh and despise authority. Bold and self-willed, they are unafraid to slander glorious beings.

    • 1 Timothy 6:5

      and constant friction between men of depraved mind who are devoid of the truth. These men regard godliness as a means of gain.

    • 1 Corinthians 10:10

      And do not complain, as some of them did, and were killed by the destroying angel.

  • Through

    Micah 3:5

    This is what the LORD says: “As for the prophets who lead My people astray, who proclaim peace while they chew with their teeth, but declare war against one who puts nothing in their…

    it leads to

    • Jeremiah 14:14–15

      “The prophets are prophesying lies in My name,” replied the LORD. “I did not send them or appoint them or speak to them. They are prophesying to you a false vision, a worthless divination,…

    • Jeremiah 6:14

      They dress the wound of My people with very little care, saying, ‘Peace, peace,’ when there is no peace at all.

    • Isaiah 9:15–16

      The head is the elder and honorable man, and the tail is the prophet who teaches lies.

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 Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and Keil, The Books of the Chronicles.