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2 Chronicles 18:14

in 2 Chronicles 18

When Micaiah arrived, the king asked him, “Micaiah, should we go to war against Ramoth-gilead, or should we refrain?” “Go up and triumph,” Micaiah replied, “for they will be given into your hand.”

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And when he was come to the king, the king said unto him, Micaiah, shall we go to Ramoth-gilead to battle, or shall I forbear? And he said, Go ye up, and prosper; and they shall be delivered into your hand.

KJV

And when he was come to the king, the king said unto him, Micaiah, shall we go to Ramoth–gilead to battle, or shall I forbear? And he said, Go ye up, and prosper, and they shall be delivered into your hand.

This verse in 2 Chronicles 18

Commentary

1 note on this verse

This site's exposition

Go up and triumph

on 2 Chronicles 18:14-17

The true vision follows: “I saw all Israel scattered on the hills like sheep without a shepherd”. Moses used the same image at Numbers 27:17, asking God for a successor, and Jesus sees the crowds this way at Matthew 9:36. Chronicles keeps the oracle unchanged from 1 Kings 22:15-17.

How the passage was read

What the Jewish commentators add

Go up and triumph, and may they be delivered into your hand i.e., May you only prosper, and may they be delivered into your hands.
Rashi: France, 1040–1105 · Rashi on II Chronicles 18:14:1, via Sefaria, The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg

This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.

Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 4 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.

The words behind it

19 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.

  • וַיָּבֹא֮and he came

    vaiyavo'H935 →2568 times

  • אֶל־to

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • הַמֶּלֶךְ֒the king

    hamelekhH4428 →2525 times

  • וַיֹּ֨אמֶרand he said

    vaiyomerH559 →5305 times

  • הַמֶּ֜לֶךְthe king

    hamelekhH4428 →2525 times

  • אֵלָ֗יוto him

    ʾelavH413 →5510 times

  • מִיכָה֙O Micah

    mikhahH4318 →

  • הֲנֵלֵ֞ךְ¿ will we go

    hanelekhH1980 →1546 times

  • אֶל־against

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • רָמֹ֥תRamoth

    ramotH7418 →22 times

  • גִּלְעָ֛דGilead

    giladH1568 →134 times

  • לַמִּלְחָמָ֖הfor <the> battle

    lamilchamahH4421 →320 times

  • אִם־or?

    ʾim-H518 →1069 times

  • אֶחְדָּ֑לwill I desist

    ʾechdalH2308 →58 times

  • וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙and he said

    vaiyomerH559 →5305 times

  • עֲל֣וּgo up

    ʾaluH5927 →890 times

  • וְהַצְלִ֔יחוּand succeed

    vehatzlichuH6743 →65 times

  • וְיִנָּתְנ֖וּso they may be given

    veyinatenuH5414 →2011 times

  • בְּיֶדְכֶֽם׃in hand your

    beyedkhemH3027 →1618 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

    Ecclesiastes 11:1

    Cast your bread upon the waters, for after many days you will find it again.

    it leads to

    • Proverbs 19:17

      Kindness to the poor is a loan to the LORD, and He will repay the lender.

    • Ecclesiastes 11:6

      Sow your seed in the morning, and do not rest your hands in the evening, for you do not know which will succeed, whether this or that, or if both will equally prosper.

    • Matthew 10:42

      And if anyone gives even a cup of cold water to one of these little ones because he is My disciple, truly I tell you, he will never lose his reward.”

    • Hebrews 6:10

      For God is not unjust. He will not forget your work and the love you have shown for His name as you have ministered to the saints and continue to do so.

    • 2 Corinthians 9:6

      Remember this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously.

  • Through

    Matthew 26:45

    Then He returned to the disciples and said, “Are you still sleeping and resting? Look, the hour is near, and the Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.

    it leads to

    • John 13:1

      It was now just before the Passover Feast, and Jesus knew that His hour had come to leave this world and return to the Father. Having loved His own who were in the world,…

  • Through

    Lamentations 4:21

    So rejoice and be glad, O Daughter of Edom, you who dwell in the land of Uz. Yet the cup will pass to you as well; you will get drunk and expose yourself.

    it leads to

    • Job 1:1

      There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job. And this man was blameless and upright, fearing God and shunning evil.

    • Amos 1:11

      This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of Edom, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because he pursued his brother with the sword and stifled all compassion; his anger raged…

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 Keil, The Books of the Chronicles and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.