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2 Chronicles 18:29

in 2 Chronicles 18

And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “I will disguise myself and go into battle, but you wear your royal robes.” So the king of Israel disguised himself and went into battle.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, I will disguise myself, and go into the battle; but put thou on thy robes. So the king of Israel disguised himself; and they went into the battle.

KJV

And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, I will disguise myself, and will go to the battle; but put thou on thy robes. So the king of Israel disguised himself; and they went to the battle.

This verse in 2 Chronicles 18

Commentary

3 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

went up to Ramoth-gilead

on 2 Chronicles 18:28-31

Verse 31 adds a line Kings lacks: “Jehoshaphat cried out, and the LORD helped him. God drew them away from him”. Barnes counts it among the Chronicler's additions, and Jehoshaphat turns to God the same way at 20:12, when he says Judah's eyes are on Him.

This site's exposition

I will disguise myself

Ahab disguises himself and still marches into the battle Micaiah foretold. Jehoshaphat alone wears royal robes. Henry asks what can shelter those whom God will destroy.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

proposed

I will disguise myself - See the note on 1Ki 22:30.

The words behind it

16 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.

  • וַיֹּאמֶר֩and he said

    vaiyomerH559 →5305 times

  • מֶ֨לֶךְ[the] king of

    melekhH4428 →2525 times

  • יִשְׂרָאֵ֜לIsrael

    yisraelH3478 →2507 times

  • אֶל־to

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • יְהוֹשָׁפָ֗טJehoshaphat

    yehoshafatH3092 →84 times

  • הִתְחַפֵּשׂ֙I will disguise myself

    hitchapesH2664 →23 times

  • וָב֣וֹאand I will go

    vavo'H935 →2568 times

  • בַמִּלְחָמָ֔הin <the> battle

    vamilchamahH4421 →320 times

  • וְאַתָּ֖הand you

    veatahH859 →1094 times

  • לְבַ֣שׁwear

    levashH3847 →110 times

  • בְּגָדֶ֑יךָown clothes your

    begadeikhaH899 →217 times

  • וַיִּתְחַפֵּשׂ֙and he disguised himself

    vaiyitchapesH2664 →23 times

  • מֶ֣לֶךְ[the] king of

    melekhH4428 →2525 times

  • יִשְׂרָאֵ֔לIsrael

    yisraelH3478 →2507 times

  • וַיָּבֹ֖אוּand they went

    vaiyavouH935 →2568 times

  • בַּמִּלְחָמָֽה׃in <the> battle

    bamilchamahH4421 →320 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

    Jeremiah 23:24

    “Can a man hide in secret places where I cannot see him?” declares the LORD. “Do I not fill the heavens and the earth?” declares the LORD.

    it leads to

    • Proverbs 15:3

      The eyes of the LORD are in every place, observing the evil and the good.

    • Psalms 139:7

      Where can I go to escape Your Spirit? Where can I flee from Your presence?

    • Psalms 90:8

      You have set our iniquities before You, our secret sins in the light of Your presence.

    • Isaiah 29:15

      Woe to those who dig deep to hide their plans from the LORD. In darkness they do their works and say, “Who sees us, and who will know?”

    • Amos 9:2–3

      Though they dig down to Sheol, from there My hand will take them; and though they climb up to heaven, from there I will pull them down.

  • Through

    1 Samuel 28:8

    So Saul disguised himself by putting on different clothes, and he set out with two of his men. They came to the woman at night, and Saul said, “Consult a spirit for me. Bring…

    it leads to

    • 1 Kings 22:30

      And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “I will disguise myself and go into battle, but you wear your royal robes.” So the king of Israel disguised himself and went into battle.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Isaiah 8:19

      When men tell you to consult the spirits of the dead and the spiritists who whisper and mutter, shouldn’t a people consult their God instead? Why consult the dead on behalf of the living?

  • Through

    Job 24:15

    The eye of the adulterer watches for twilight. Thinking, ‘No eye will see me,’ he covers his face.

    it leads to

    • Psalms 10:11

      He says to himself, “God has forgotten; He hides His face and never sees.”

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; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.