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2 Chronicles 18:25

in 2 Chronicles 18

And the king of Israel declared, “Take Micaiah and return him to Amon the governor of the city and to Joash the king’s son,

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And the king of Israel said, Take ye Micaiah, and carry him back unto Amon the governor of the city, and to Joash the king’s son;

KJV

Then the king of Israel said, Take ye Micaiah, and carry him back to Amon the governor of the city, and to Joash the king’s son;

This verse in 2 Chronicles 18

Commentary

1 note on this verse

This site's exposition

return him to Amon

on 2 Chronicles 18:25-27

The king orders Micaiah handed to Amon and fed “only bread and water until I return safely”. Micaiah stakes his office on the outcome: “If you ever return safely, the LORD has not spoken through me”. Deuteronomy 18:22 sets this test for a prophet, whether his word comes true.

The words behind it

15 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.

  • וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙and he said

    vaiyomerH559 →5305 times

  • מֶ֣לֶךְ[the] king of

    melekhH4428 →2525 times

  • יִשְׂרָאֵ֔לIsrael

    yisraelH3478 →2507 times

  • קְחוּ֙take

    kechuH3947 →966 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • מִיכָ֔יְהוּMicaiah

    mikhayehuH4321 →21 times

  • וַהֲשִׁיבֻ֖הוּand return him

    vahashivuhuH7725 →1056 times

  • אֶל־to

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • אָמ֣וֹןAmon

    ʾamonH526 →17 times

  • שַׂר־[the] official of

    sar-H8269 →421 times

  • הָעִ֑ירthe city

    hairH5892 →1090 times

  • וְאֶל־and to

    veel-H413 →5510 times

  • יוֹאָ֖שׁJoash

    yoashH3101 →47 times

  • בֶּן־[the] son of

    ben-H1121 →4930 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

    2 Chronicles 34:8

    Now in the eighteenth year of his reign, in order to cleanse the land and the temple, Josiah sent Shaphan son of Azaliah, Maaseiah the governor of the city, and Joah son of Joahaz,…

    it leads to

    • 2 Samuel 8:16

      Joab son of Zeruiah was over the army; Jehoshaphat son of Ahilud was the recorder;

    • Jeremiah 29:3

      The letter was entrusted to Elasah son of Shaphan and Gemariah son of Hilkiah, whom Zedekiah king of Judah sent to King Nebuchadnezzar in Babylon. It stated:

    • 2 Samuel 20:24

      Adoram was in charge of the forced labor; Jehoshaphat son of Ahilud was the recorder;

  • Through

    2 Chronicles 18:8

    So the king of Israel called one of his officials and said, “Bring Micaiah son of Imlah at once.”

    it leads to

    • Isaiah 39:7

      And some of your descendants, your own flesh and blood, will be taken away to be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.”

    • 2 Chronicles 18:25–26

      And the king of Israel declared, “Take Micaiah and return him to Amon the governor of the city and to Joash the king’s son,

    • 1 Samuel 8:15

      He will take a tenth of your grain and grape harvest and give it to his officials and servants.

    • 1 Kings 22:9

      So the king of Israel called one of his officials and said, “Bring Micaiah son of Imlah at once.”

    • 1 Chronicles 28:1

      Now David summoned all the leaders of Israel to Jerusalem: the leaders of the tribes, the leaders of the divisions in the king’s service, the commanders of thousands and of hundreds, and the officials…

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 John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.