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2 Kings 14:10

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You have indeed defeated Edom, and your heart has become proud. Glory in that and stay at home. Why should you stir up trouble so that you fall—you and Judah with you?”

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

Thou hast indeed smitten Edom, and thy heart hath lifted thee up: glory thereof, and abide at home; for why shouldest thou meddle to thy hurt, that thou shouldest fall, even thou, and Judah with thee?

KJV

Thou hast indeed smitten Edom, and thine heart hath lifted thee up: glory of this, and tarry at home: for why shouldest thou meddle to thy hurt, that thou shouldest fall, even thou, and Judah with thee?

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This verse in 2 Kings 14

Commentary

7 notes on this verse

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

Glory of this, and tarry at home - There is a vast deal of insolent dignity in this remonstrance of Jehoash: but it has nothing conciliatory; no proposal of making amends for the injury his army had done to the unoffending inhabitants of Judah. The ravages committed by the army of Jehoash were totally unprovoked, and they were base and cowardly; they fell upon women, old men, and children, and butchered them in cold blood, for all the effective men were gone off with their king against the Edomites.

This site's exposition

let us look one another in the face

on 2 Kings 14:8-10

Flushed with Edom, Amaziah sends a challenge to Jehoash of Israel, and Jehoash answers with a fable rather than an army: a thistle of Lebanon asks a cedar for its daughter in marriage, and a passing beast tramples the thistle without even noticing it. The parable's point is proportion, a small king demanding what only a great one could ask, and Jehoash's counsel that follows is blunt, glory in the victory already won and stay home. Amaziah will not hear it, and the chapter has already told the reader what an unheard warning costs a king.

The record, by era

The Church Fathers1 voice

A commentator

Augustine of Hippo

ON GRACE AND FREE WILL 21.42 · Written in the 5th century.

proposed

The Almighty, who cannot possibly will anything unjust, is able to set in motion even the inclinations of their will in people's hearts in order to accomplish through these people whatever he wishes to achieve through their agency. What meaning can these words have that the man of God addressed to King Amaziah: "Do not allow the army of Israel to go out with you, for the Lord is not with Israel and all the children of Ephraim. And if you think to prevail over them, God will put you to flight before your enemies; for it belongs to God both to help and to put to flight"?How does the power of God help some in war by giving them confidence and turns others to flight by instilling them with fear, except for this reason, that he who has made all things as he willed in heaven and on earth, also works in the human hearts? We also read of what Joash, king of Israel, said when he dispatched a messenger to King Amaziah, who had a mind to go to war with him. Having mentioned certain things, he went on to say, "Sit at home. Why do you provoke evil that you should fall and Judah with you?" The Scripture then went on to add, "And Amaziah would not listen to him because it was the Lord's will that he should be delivered into the hands of enemies because he sought after the gods of Edom." There you see how God, wishing to punish the sin of idolatry, influenced the heart of this man with whom he was justly angry, that he would not heed salutary advice but, in his contempt for it, would engage in battle, there to perish together with his army.

The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

Thy heart has lifted thee up. " See where the root of all sin lies; it is in the heart, thence it flows, and that must bear the blame. It is not Providence, the event, the occasion (whatever it is), that makes men proud, or secure, or discontented, or the like, but it is their own heart that does it.

quarantine:debris (2026-07-29) — odd-straight-quotes

A commentator

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

proposed

Glory - Content thyself with that glory, and let not thine ambition betray thee to ruin.
Thou hast indeed smitten Edom, and thine heart hath lifted thee up,....

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Glory of this ... - literally, “Be honored;” i. e. “Enjoy thy honor ... be content with it.” “Why wilt thou meddle with misfortune?”

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.

  • הַכֵּ֤הcertainly <to strike down>

    hakehH5221 →499 times

  • הִכִּ֙יתָ֙you have struck down

    hikitaH5221 →499 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • אֱד֔וֹםEdom

    ʾedomH123 →99 times

  • וּֽנְשָׂאֲךָ֖and it has lifted you

    unesaakhaH5375 →656 times

  • לִבֶּ֑ךָheart your

    libekhaH3820 →595 times

  • הִכָּבֵד֙be honored

    hikavedH3513 →

  • וְשֵׁ֣בand remain

    veshevH3427 →1079 times

  • בְּבֵיתֶ֔ךָat home your

    beveitekhaH1004 →2046 times

  • וְלָ֤מָּהand <to> why?

    velamahH4100 →752 times

  • תִתְגָּרֶה֙will you engage in strife

    titgarehH1624 →

  • בְּרָעָ֔הwith harm

    beraahH7451 →662 times

  • וְנָ֣פַלְתָּ֔הand you will fall

    venafaltahH5307 →435 times

  • אַתָּ֖הyou

    ʾatahH859 →1094 times

  • וִיהוּדָ֥הand Judah

    vihudahH3063 →819 times

  • עִמָּֽךְ׃with you

    ʾimakhH5973 →1050 times

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

Related verses

18 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

2 Chronicles 26:16But when Uzziah grew powerful, his arrogance led to his own destruction. He was unfaithful to the LORD his God, for he entered the temple of the LORD to burn incense on the altar of incense.5 worksDeuteronomy 8:14then your heart will become proud, and you will forget the LORD your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.5 works2 Chronicles 32:25But because his heart was proud, Hezekiah did not repay the favor shown to him. Therefore wrath came upon him and upon Judah and Jerusalem.4 worksProverbs 16:18Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.3 worksProverbs 20:3It is honorable for a man to resolve a dispute, but any fool will quarrel.3 worksProverbs 3:30Do not accuse a man without cause, when he has done you no harm.3 works
The other 12 cross-references, with their words ▾
Proverbs 15:18A hot-tempered man stirs up strife, but he who is slow to anger calms dispute.3 worksGenesis 27:40You shall live by the sword and serve your brother. But when you rebel, you will tear his yoke from your neck.”3 worksHabakkuk 2:5and wealth indeed betrays him. He is an arrogant man never at rest. He enlarges his appetite like Sheol, and like Death, he is never satisfied. He gathers all the nations to himself and collects all the peoples as his own.3 worksDaniel 5:23Instead, you have exalted yourself against the Lord of heaven. The vessels from His house were brought to you, and as you drank wine from them with your nobles, wives, and concubines, you praised your gods of silver and gold, bronze and iron, wood and stone, which cannot see or hear or understand. But you have failed to glorify the God who holds in His hand your very breath and all your ways.3 worksEzekiel 38:17This is what the Lord GOD says: Are you the one of whom I have spoken in former days through My servants, the prophets of Israel, who in those times prophesied for years that I would bring you against them?2 worksEzekiel 38:2“Son of man, set your face against Gog of the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal. Prophesy against him2 worksProverbs 26:17Like one who grabs a dog by the ears is a passerby who meddles in a quarrel not his own.2 worksDaniel 5:20–23But when his heart became arrogant and his spirit was hardened with pride, he was deposed from his royal throne, and his glory was taken from him.2 worksExodus 8:9Moses said to Pharaoh, “You may have the honor over me. When shall I pray for you and your officials and your people that the frogs (except for those in the Nile) may be taken away from you and your houses?”2 worksJames 4:6But He gives us more grace. This is why it says: “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”2 worksProverbs 17:14To start a quarrel is to release a flood; so abandon the dispute before it breaks out.2 worksLuke 14:31–32Or what king on his way to war with another king will not first sit down and consider whether he can engage with ten thousand men the one coming against him with twenty thousand?2 works

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

    Proverbs 16:18

    Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.

    it leads to

    • Proverbs 11:2

      When pride comes, disgrace follows, but with humility comes wisdom.

    • Isaiah 2:11–12

      The proud look of man will be humbled, and the loftiness of men brought low; the LORD alone will be exalted in that day.

    • Proverbs 18:12

      Before his downfall a man’s heart is proud, but humility comes before honor.

    • Obadiah 1:3–4

      The pride of your heart has deceived you, O dwellers in the clefts of the rocks whose habitation is the heights, who say in your heart, ‘Who can bring me down to the ground?’

    • Proverbs 29:23

      A man’s pride will bring him low, but a humble spirit will obtain honor.

  • Through

    2 Chronicles 26:16

    But when Uzziah grew powerful, his arrogance led to his own destruction. He was unfaithful to the LORD his God, for he entered the temple of the LORD to burn incense on the altar…

    it leads to

    • 2 Chronicles 32:25

      But because his heart was proud, Hezekiah did not repay the favor shown to him. Therefore wrath came upon him and upon Judah and Jerusalem.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

  • Through

    2 Chronicles 32:25

    But because his heart was proud, Hezekiah did not repay the favor shown to him. Therefore wrath came upon him and upon Judah and Jerusalem.

    it leads to

    • 2 Chronicles 26:16

      But when Uzziah grew powerful, his arrogance led to his own destruction. He was unfaithful to the LORD his God, for he entered the temple of the LORD to burn incense on the altar…

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

  • Through

    Proverbs 20:3

    It is honorable for a man to resolve a dispute, but any fool will quarrel.

    it leads to

    • Proverbs 16:32

      He who is slow to anger is better than a warrior, and he who controls his temper is greater than one who captures a city.

About 2 Kings

Elijah Ascends to Heaven in a Chariot of Fire, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Elijah Ascends to Heaven in a Chariot of Fire, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
2 Kings: the study guide →Read 2 Kings 14 →

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Augustine of Hippo, ON GRACE AND FREE WILL 21.42; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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