2 Chronicles 18:20 BSB

2 Chronicles 18:20

Then a spirit came forward, stood before the LORD, and said, ‘I will entice him.’ ‘By what means?’ asked the LORD.

BSB

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ASV

And there came forth a spirit, and stood before Jehovah, and said, I will entice him. And Jehovah said unto him, Wherewith?

KJV

Then there came out a spirit, and stood before the Lord, and said, I will entice him. And the Lord said unto him, Wherewith?

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Commentary

1 voice

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

Then there came out a spirit - The Targum gives a strange gloss here: “Then the spirit of Naboth of Jezreel came out from the abode of the righteous, and stood before the Lord, and said, I will deceive him. And the Lord said, By what means? To which he answered, I will be a spirit of false prophecy in the mouth of his prophets. And the Lord said, Thou mayest then.

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Original language & word study

12 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיֵּצֵ֣א	vai.ye.Tze'	and it came forth	H3318 →
הָר֗וּחַ	ha.Ru.ach	the spirit	H7307 →
וַֽיַּעֲמֹד֙	vai.ya.'a.Mod	and it stood	H5975 →
לִפְנֵ֣י	lif.Nei	<to> before	H6440 →
יְהוָ֔ה	Yah.weh	Yahweh	H3068 →
וַיֹּ֖אמֶר	vai.Yo.mer	and it said	H559 →
אֲנִ֣י	'a.Ni	I	H589 →
אֲפַתֶּ֑נּוּ	'a.fat.Te.nu	I will deceive him	H6601 →
וַיֹּ֧אמֶר	vai.Yo.mer	and he said	H559 →
יְהוָ֛ה	Yah.weh	Yahweh	H3068 →
אֵלָ֖יו	'e.Lav	to it	H413 →
בַּמָּֽה׃	ba.Mah	<in> how?	H4100 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
2 Corinthians 11:3
I am afraid, however, that just as Eve was deceived by the serpent’s cunning, your minds may be led astray from your simple and pure devotion to Christ.
leads to
- Colossians 2:8
  See to it that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deception, which are based on human tradition and the spiritual forces of the world rather than on Christ.
- Galatians 1:6
  I am amazed how quickly you are deserting the One who called you by the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel—
- Ephesians 4:14
  Then we will no longer be infants, tossed about by the waves and carried around by every wind of teaching and by the clever cunning of men in their deceitful scheming.
- 1 John 4:1
  Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God. For many false prophets have gone out into the world.
- Colossians 2:4
  I say this so that no one will deceive you by smooth rhetoric.
Through
Job 1:6
One day the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan also came with them.
leads to
- Job 2:1
  On another day the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan also came with them to present himself before Him.
- Job 38:7
  while the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
- Zechariah 3:1
  Then the angel showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the LORD, with Satan standing at his right hand to accuse him.

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Solomon Receives the Queen of Sheba — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

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06About 2 Chronicles

Where the connections lead

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