2 Chronicles 16:3
in 2 Chronicles 16“Let there be a treaty between me and you, between my father and your father. See, I have sent you silver and gold. Now go and break your treaty with Baasha king of Israel, so that he will withdraw from me.”
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
There is a league between me and thee, as there was between my father and thy father: behold, I have sent thee silver and gold; go, break thy league with Baasha king of Israel, that he may depart from me.
KJV
There is a league between me and thee, as there was between my father and thy father: behold, I have sent thee silver and gold; go, break thy league with Baasha king of Israel, that he may depart from me.
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This verse in 2 Chronicles 16
Commentary
4 notes on this verseIt was doubtless a sin in Benhadad to break his league with Baasha upon no provocation, but merely through the influence of a bribe; and, if so, certainly it was a sin in Asa to move him to it, especially to hire him to do it. The public faith of kings and kingdoms must not be made so cheap a thing.
This site's exposition
silver and gold out of the treasures
on 2 Chronicles 16:2-4
Asa answers Baasha's blockade by emptying the treasures of the house of the Lord and his own house to buy a Syrian alliance, the same silver and gold that Kings records without comment. Chronicles alone sets the bribe against the field of Zerah's Ethiopian host in chapter fourteen, where Asa asked nothing of Ben-hadad and won by faith alone, so the reader already carries the contrast Hanani will name. Ben-hadad breaks his own treaty with Baasha for the price offered and strikes Naphtali's northern towns, buying Asa a respite his own later history will not let him keep.
The record, by era
The Nineteenth Century2 voices
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
Baasha . . . built Ramah--that is, fortified it. The blessing of God which manifestly rested at this time on the kingdom of Judah, the signal victory of Asa, the freedom and purity of religious worship, and the fame of the late national covenant, were regarded with great interest throughout Israel, and attracted a constantly increasing number of emigrants to Judah.
There is a league - Let there be a treaty, offensive and defensive, between me and thee: see on 1Ki 15:22 (note).
The words behind it
21 Hebrew wordsEvery 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.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| בְּרִית֙ | berit | a covenant | H1285 → | 284 times |
| בֵּינִ֣י | beini | [be] between me | H996 → | 407 times |
| וּבֵינֶ֔ךָ | uveinekha | and between you | H996 → | 407 times |
| וּבֵ֥ין | uvein | and between | H996 → | 407 times |
| אָבִ֖י | ʾavi | father my | H1 → | 1212 times |
| וּבֵ֣ין | uvein | and between | H996 → | 407 times |
| אָבִ֑יךָ | ʾavikha | father your | H1 → | 1212 times |
| הִנֵּ֨ה | hineh | here! | H2009 → | 843 times |
| שָׁלַ֤חְתִּֽי | shalachti | I have sent | H7971 → | 845 times |
| לְךָ֙ | lekha | to you | ||
| כֶּ֣סֶף | kesef | silver | H3701 → | 403 times |
| וְזָהָ֔ב | vezahav | and gold | H2091 → | 389 times |
| לֵ֞ךְ | lekh | go | H1980 → | 1546 times |
| הָפֵ֣ר | hafer | break | H6565 → | |
| בְּרִֽיתְךָ֗ | beritekha | covenant your | H1285 → | 284 times |
| אֶת־ | ʾet- | with | H854 → | 929 times |
| בַּעְשָׁא֙ | ba'sha' | Baasha | H1201 → | 28 times |
| מֶ֣לֶךְ | melekh | [the] king of | H4428 → | 2525 times |
| יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל | yisrael | Israel | H3478 → | 2507 times |
| וְיַעֲלֶ֖ה | veyaaleh | so he may go up | H5927 → | 890 times |
| מֵעָלָֽי׃ | mealai | from on <the> me | H5921 → | 5755 times |
בְּרִית֙a covenant
beritH1285 →284 times
בֵּינִ֣י[be] between me
beiniH996 →407 times
וּבֵינֶ֔ךָand between you
uveinekhaH996 →407 times
וּבֵ֥יןand between
uveinH996 →407 times
אָבִ֖יfather my
ʾaviH1 →1212 times
וּבֵ֣יןand between
uveinH996 →407 times
אָבִ֑יךָfather your
ʾavikhaH1 →1212 times
הִנֵּ֨הhere!
hinehH2009 →843 times
שָׁלַ֤חְתִּֽיI have sent
shalachtiH7971 →845 times
לְךָ֙to you
lekha
כֶּ֣סֶףsilver
kesefH3701 →403 times
וְזָהָ֔בand gold
vezahavH2091 →389 times
לֵ֞ךְgo
lekhH1980 →1546 times
הָפֵ֣רbreak
haferH6565 →
בְּרִֽיתְךָ֗covenant your
beritekhaH1285 →284 times
אֶת־with
ʾet-H854 →929 times
בַּעְשָׁא֙Baasha
ba'sha'H1201 →28 times
מֶ֣לֶךְ[the] king of
melekhH4428 →2525 times
יִשְׂרָאֵ֔לIsrael
yisraelH3478 →2507 times
וְיַעֲלֶ֖הso he may go up
veyaalehH5927 →890 times
מֵעָלָֽי׃from on <the> me
mealaiH5921 →5755 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach 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
Psalms 15:4who despises the vile but honors those who fear the LORD, who does not revise a costly oath,
it leads to
- Judges 11:35
As soon as Jephthah saw her, he tore his clothes and said, “No! Not my daughter! You have brought me to my knees! You have brought great misery upon me, for I have given…
- Matthew 5:33
Again, you have heard that it was said to the ancients, ‘Do not break your oath, but fulfill your vows to the Lord.’
- Psalms 101:6
My eyes favor the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with me; he who walks in the way of integrity shall minister to me.
- Psalms 101:4
A perverse heart shall depart from me; I will know nothing of evil.
- Psalms 16:3
As for the saints in the land, they are the excellence in whom all my delight resides.
- Judges 11:35
Through
Judges 2:2and you are not to make a covenant with the people of this land, but you shall tear down their altars.’ Yet you have not obeyed My voice. What is this you have done?
it leads to
- Deuteronomy 7:2–4
and when the LORD your God has delivered them over to you to defeat them, then you must devote them to complete destruction. Make no treaty with them and show them no mercy.
- Jeremiah 2:36
How unstable you are, constantly changing your ways! You will be disappointed by Egypt just as you were by Assyria.
- Deuteronomy 7:2–4
Through
2 Chronicles 18:3Ahab 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…
it leads to
- 1 Kings 22:4
So he asked Jehoshaphat, “Will you go with me to fight against Ramoth-gilead?” Jehoshaphat answered the king of Israel, “I am like you, my people are your people, and my horses are your horses.”
- 1 Kings 22:4
About 2 Chronicles
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Keil, The Books of the Chronicles and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.