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2 Chronicles 20:35

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Later, Jehoshaphat king of Judah made an alliance with Ahaziah king of Israel, who acted wickedly.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And after this did Jehoshaphat king of Judah join himself with Ahaziah king of Israel; the same did very wickedly:

KJV

And after this did Jehoshaphat king of Judah join himself with Ahaziah king of Israel, who did very wickedly:

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This verse in 2 Chronicles 20

Commentary

7 notes on this verse
After this - Jehoshaphat’s history had been formally completed 2Ch 20:34. Consequently we can lay no stress on the note of time contained in the words “after this,” which are detached from the context to which they originally referred. On the history 2Ch 20:35-37, see marginal references and notes.

This site's exposition

made an alliance with Ahaziah

on 2 Chronicles 20:35-37

The chapter ends with another alliance with Ahab's house, a fleet built with Ahaziah, “who acted wickedly”. Eliezer son of Dodavahu of Mareshah gives the verdict: “Because you have allied yourself with Ahaziah, the LORD has destroyed your works”. The ships are wrecked at Ezion-geber and never sail to Tarshish.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening4 voices

A commentator

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

And yet God reproves and punisheth him for it, ver. 37, to shew his great dislike of all familiar conversation of his servants and people with professed enemies of God and of religion, as Ahaziah was. Very wickedly - Or who did industriously, and maliciously, and constantly work wickedness, as the Hebrew phrase implies, giving himself up to idolatry and all wickedness.

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

There is an emphasis laid upon the time-- after this, after God had done such great things for him, without any such scandalous and pernicious confederacies, given him not only victory, but wealth, yet after this to go and join himself with a wicked king was very ungrateful.

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

5 And Jehoshaphat stood in the congregation of Judah and Jerusalem, in the house of the L ORD , before the new court, 6 And said, O L ORD God of our fathers, art not thou God in heaven? and rulest not thou over all the kingdoms of the heathen? and in thine hand is there not power and might, so that none is able to withstand thee?

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And after this did Jehoshaphat king of Judah join himself with Ahaziah king of Israel,....

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

after this did Jehoshaphat . . . join himself with Ahaziah . . . to make ships--A combined fleet was built at Ezion-geber, the destination of which was to voyage to Tartessus, but it was wrecked.

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The words behind it

12 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.

  • וְאַחֲרֵיכֵ֗ןand after this

    veachareikhenH310 →H3651 →715 times

  • אֶתְחַבַּר֙he made an alliance

    ʾetchabarH2266 →29 times

  • יְהוֹשָׁפָ֣טJehoshaphat

    yehoshafatH3092 →84 times

  • מֶֽלֶךְ־[the] king of

    melekh-H4428 →2525 times

  • יְהוּדָ֔הJudah

    yehudahH3063 →819 times

  • עִ֖םwith

    ʾimH5973 →1050 times

  • אֲחַזְיָ֣הAhaziah

    ʾachazyahH274 →37 times

  • מֶֽלֶךְ־[the] king of

    melekh-H4428 →2525 times

  • יִשְׂרָאֵ֑לIsrael

    yisraelH3478 →2507 times

  • ה֖וּאhe

    hu'H1931 →1879 times

  • הִרְשִׁ֥יעַhe acted wickedly

    hirshia'H7561 →34 times

  • לַעֲשֽׂוֹת׃to do

    laasotH6213 →2628 times

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

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About 2 Chronicles

The Ammonite and Moabite Armies Are Destroyed — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
The Ammonite and Moabite Armies Are Destroyed — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
2 Chronicles: the study guide →Read 2 Chronicles 20 →

This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament; Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible and W. H. Bennett, The Books of Chronicles (Expositor's Bible).

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