2 Chronicles 20:35
in 2 Chronicles 20Later, Jehoshaphat king of Judah made an alliance with Ahaziah king of Israel, who acted wickedly.
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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 verseA commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
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
join himself with Ahaziah king of Israel
on 2 Chronicles 20:35-37
The chapter that opened with the book's model prayer closes with the king's recurring flaw: another alliance with the house of Ahab, this time a merchant fleet with Ahaziah, who did very wickedly. Eliezer of Mareshah prophesies the verdict, because thou hast joined thyself with Ahaziah, the LORD hath broken thy works, and the ships are wrecked at Ezion-geber before they sail. Chronicles lets the deliverance and the failure stand in one chapter, which is how it writes every good king it has.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening4 voices
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.
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.
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 & Brown1802–1910
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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וְאַחֲרֵיכֵ֗ן | veachareikhen | and after this | H310 →H3651 → | 715 times |
| אֶתְחַבַּר֙ | ʾetchabar | he made an alliance | H2266 → | 29 times |
| יְהוֹשָׁפָ֣ט | yehoshafat | Jehoshaphat | H3092 → | 84 times |
| מֶֽלֶךְ־ | melekh- | [the] king of | H4428 → | 2525 times |
| יְהוּדָ֔ה | yehudah | Judah | H3063 → | 819 times |
| עִ֖ם | ʾim | with | H5973 → | 1050 times |
| אֲחַזְיָ֣ה | ʾachazyah | Ahaziah | H274 → | 37 times |
| מֶֽלֶךְ־ | melekh- | [the] king of | H4428 → | 2525 times |
| יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל | yisrael | Israel | H3478 → | 2507 times |
| ה֖וּא | hu' | he | H1931 → | 1879 times |
| הִרְשִׁ֥יעַ | hirshia' | he acted wickedly | H7561 → | 34 times |
| לַעֲשֽׂוֹת׃ | laasot | to do | H6213 → | 2628 times |
וְאַחֲרֵיכֵ֗ןand after this
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.
About 2 Chronicles
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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).