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2 Chronicles 18:10

in 2 Chronicles 18

Now Zedekiah son of Chenaanah had made for himself iron horns and declared, “This is what the LORD says: ‘With these you shall gore the Arameans until they are finished off.’”

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

And Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah made him horns of iron and said, Thus saith Jehovah, With these shalt thou push the Syrians, until they be consumed.

KJV

And Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah had made him horns of iron, and said, Thus saith the Lord, With these thou shalt push Syria until they be consumed.

This verse in 2 Chronicles 18

Commentary

1 note on this verse

This site's exposition

horns of iron

on 2 Chronicles 18:10-11

Zedekiah's sign-act, horns of iron with which thou shalt push Syria until they be consumed, dramatizes Deut 33:17's picture of a bull's horns pushing the peoples, an enacted prophecy of the kind Jeremiah's yoke and Ezekiel's brick later repeat. All four hundred prophesy the identical verdict, go up to Ramoth-gilead and prosper, a chorus answering the king's question before Micaiah ever opens his mouth. Chronicles preserves the scene unchanged from 1 Ki 22:11-12, where the sign-act already has its full exposition.

The words behind it

17 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.

  • וַיַּ֥עַשׂand he had made

    vaiyaasH62132628 times

  • ל֛וֹfor himself

    lo

  • צִדְקִיָּ֥הוּZedekiah

    tzidkiyahuH666763 times

  • בֶֽן־[the] son of

    ven-H11214930 times

  • כְּנַעֲנָ֖הKenaanah

    kenaanahH3668

  • קַרְנֵ֣יhorns of

    karneiH7161

  • בַרְזֶ֑לiron

    varzelH127076 times

  • וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙and he said

    vaiyomerH5595305 times

  • כֹּֽה־thus

    koh-H3541577 times

  • אָמַ֣רhe says

    ʾamarH5595305 times

  • יְהוָ֔הYahweh

    yahwehH30686520 times

  • בְּאֵ֛לֶּהwith these

    beelehH428746 times

  • תְּנַגַּ֥חyou will gore

    tenagachH5055

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H85310935 times

  • אֲרָ֖םAram

    ʾaramH758143 times

  • עַד־until

    ʾad-H57041261 times

  • כַּלּוֹתָֽם׃destroy them

    kalotamH3615208 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 Timothy 3:8

    Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so also these men oppose the truth. They are depraved in mind and disqualified from the faith.

    it leads to

    • Exodus 7:11

      But Pharaoh called the wise men and sorcerers and magicians of Egypt, and they also did the same things by their magic arts.

    • Revelation 2:20

      But I have this against you: You tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess. By her teaching she misleads My servants to be sexually immoral and to eat food sacrificed to idols.

    • Acts 13:8–11

      But Elymas the sorcerer (for that is what his name means) opposed them and tried to turn the proconsul from the faith.

    • 1 Timothy 6:5

      and constant friction between men of depraved mind who are devoid of the truth. These men regard godliness as a means of gain.

    • 2 Timothy 4:15

      You too should beware of him, for he has vigorously opposed our message.

  • Through

    Jeremiah 23:17

    They keep saying to those who despise Me, ‘The LORD says that you will have peace,’ and to everyone who walks in the stubbornness of his own heart, ‘No harm will come to you.’

    it leads to

    • Micah 3:11

      Her leaders judge for a bribe, her priests teach for a price, and her prophets practice divination for money. Yet they lean upon the LORD, saying, “Is not the LORD among us? No disaster…

    • Jeremiah 13:10

      These evil people, who refuse to listen to My words, who follow the stubbornness of their own hearts, and who go after other gods to serve and worship them, they will be like this…

    • Amos 9:10

      All the sinners among My people will die by the sword—all those who say, ‘Disaster will never draw near or confront us.’”

About 2 Chronicles

This page draws on John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and Keil, The Books of the Chronicles.