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2 Chronicles 18:2

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And some years later he went down to visit Ahab in Samaria, where Ahab sacrificed many sheep and cattle for him and the people with him, and urged him to march up to Ramoth-gilead.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And after certain years he went down to Ahab to Samaria. And Ahab killed sheep and oxen for him in abundance, and for the people that were with him, and moved him to go up with him to Ramoth-gilead.

KJV

And after certain years he went down to Ahab to Samaria. And Ahab killed sheep and oxen for him in abundance, and for the people that he had with him, and persuaded him to go up with him to Ramoth–gilead.

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This verse in 2 Chronicles 18

Commentary

2 notes on this verse
After certain years - In Jehoshaphat’s 17th year 1Ki 22:51, not less than 8 years after the marriage (marginal reference note).

This site's exposition

joined affinity with Ahab

on 2 Chronicles 18:1-2

Chronicles supplies its own opening the parallel account never gives: Jehoshaphat had riches and honour in abundance before he joined affinity with Ahab, so the wealth from chapter 17 and the marriage stand side by side in one sentence. The affinity is the marriage of Jehoshaphat's son Jehoram to Athaliah, a daughter of Ahab and Jezebel, a match that hands Judah's throne to a daughter of the house of Omri in chapter 22. Ahab's feast at Samaria, sheep and oxen killed in abundance, is the hospitality that persuades Jehoshaphat toward Ramoth-gilead, and the narrator lets the reader see the price of the alliance before the campaign it produces even begins.

How the passage was read

What the Jewish commentators add

And he went down at the end of years And in I Kings (22:2) it is written: “And it was in the third year, that Jehoshaphat came down, etc.” This refers to the third year since he had released Ben Hadad (ibid.:34).
Rashi: France, 1040–1105 · Rashi on II Chronicles 18:2:1, 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

20 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.

  • וַיֵּרֶד֩and he went down

    vaiyeredH3381 →381 times

  • לְקֵ֨ץto [the] end of

    leketzH7093 →67 times

  • שָׁנִ֤יםyears

    shanimH8141 →877 times

  • אֶל־to

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • אַחְאָב֙Ahab

    ʾachavH256 →92 times

  • לְשֹׁ֣מְר֔וֹןto Samaria

    leshomeronH8111 →109 times

  • וַיִּֽזְבַּֽח־and he slaughtered

    vaiyizbach-H2076 →134 times

  • ל֨וֹfor him

    lo

  • אַחְאָ֜בAhab

    ʾachavH256 →92 times

  • צֹ֤אןsheep

    tzonH6629 →274 times

  • וּבָקָר֙and cattle

    uvakarH1241 →183 times

  • לָרֹ֔בto abundance

    laroH7230 →149 times

  • וְלָעָ֖םand for the people

    velaamH5971 →1873 times

  • אֲשֶׁ֣רwhich

    ʾasherH834 →5497 times

  • עִמּ֑וֹ[was] with him

    imoH5973 →1050 times

  • וַיְסִיתֵ֕הוּand he incited him

    vaysitehuH5496 →18 times

  • לַעֲל֖וֹתto go up

    laalotH5927 →890 times

  • אֶל־against

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • רָמ֥וֹתRamoth

    ramotH7418 →22 times

  • גִּלְעָֽד׃Gilead

    giladH1568 →134 times

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

Related verses

11 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

2 Chronicles 19:2Jehu son of Hanani the seer went out to confront him and said to King Jehoshaphat, “Should you help the wicked and love those who hate the LORD? Because of this, the wrath of the LORD is upon you.3 works1 Kings 1:9And Adonijah sacrificed sheep, oxen, and fattened calves near the stone of Zoheleth, which is next to En-rogel. He invited all his royal brothers and all the men of Judah who were servants of the king.3 works2 Kings 9:1Now Elisha the prophet summoned one of the sons of the prophets and said to him, “Tuck your cloak under your belt, take this flask of oil, and go to Ramoth-gilead.3 worksNehemiah 13:6While all this was happening, I was not in Jerusalem, because I had returned to Artaxerxes king of Babylon in the thirty-second year of his reign. Some time later I obtained leave from the king2 worksLuke 17:27–29People were eating and drinking, marrying and being given in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all.2 works1 Kings 17:7Some time later, however, the brook dried up because there had been no rain in the land.2 works
The other 5 cross-references, with their words ▾
Joshua 20:8And beyond the Jordan, east of Jericho, they designated Bezer on the wilderness plateau from the tribe of Reuben, Ramoth in Gilead from the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan from the tribe of Manasseh.2 worksIsaiah 22:12–13On that day the Lord GOD of Hosts called for weeping and wailing, for shaven heads and the wearing of sackcloth.2 worksDeuteronomy 4:43Bezer in the wilderness on the plateau belonging to the Reubenites, Ramoth in Gilead belonging to the Gadites, or Golan in Bashan belonging to the Manassites.2 works1 Kings 22:2–35However, in the third year, Jehoshaphat king of Judah went down to visit the king of Israel,2 works1 Kings 4:13Ben-geber in Ramoth-gilead (the villages of Jair son of Manasseh in Gilead belonged to him, as well as the region of Argob in Bashan with its sixty great cities with walls and bronze bars);2 works

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

    2 Chronicles 19:2

    Jehu son of Hanani the seer went out to confront him and said to King Jehoshaphat, “Should you help the wicked and love those who hate the LORD? Because of this, the wrath of…

    it leads to

    • Psalms 139:21–22

      Do I not hate those who hate You, O LORD, and detest those who rise against You?

    • 2 John 1:10–11

      If anyone comes to you but does not bring this teaching, do not receive him into your home or even greet him.

    • 2 Chronicles 18:3

      Ahab king of Israel asked Jehoshaphat king of Judah, “Will you go with me against Ramoth-gilead?” And Jehoshaphat replied, “I am like you, and my people are your people; we will join you in…

    • Ephesians 5:11

      Have no fellowship with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them.

    • James 4:4

      You adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore, whoever chooses to be a friend of the world renders himself an enemy of God.

  • Through

    2 Kings 9:1

    Now Elisha the prophet summoned one of the sons of the prophets and said to him, “Tuck your cloak under your belt, take this flask of oil, and go to Ramoth-gilead.

    it leads to

    • 1 Samuel 10:1

      Then Samuel took a flask of oil, poured it on Saul’s head, kissed him, and said, “Has not the LORD anointed you ruler over His inheritance?

  • Through

    1 Kings 1:9

    And Adonijah sacrificed sheep, oxen, and fattened calves near the stone of Zoheleth, which is next to En-rogel. He invited all his royal brothers and all the men of Judah who were servants of…

    it leads to

    • 2 Samuel 17:17

      Now Jonathan and Ahimaaz were staying at En-rogel, where a servant girl would come and pass along information to them. They in turn would go and inform King David, for they dared not be…

  • Through

    Nehemiah 13:6

    While all this was happening, I was not in Jerusalem, because I had returned to Artaxerxes king of Babylon in the thirty-second year of his reign. Some time later I obtained leave from the…

    it leads to

    • Nehemiah 5:14

      Furthermore, from the day King Artaxerxes appointed me to be their governor in the land of Judah, from his twentieth year until his thirty-second year (twelve years total), neither I nor my brothers ate…

About 2 Chronicles

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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869) and John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament.

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