2 Chronicles 19:2

American Standard Version (1901)

And Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him, and said to king Jehoshaphat, Shouldest thou help the wicked, and love them that hate Jehovah? for this thing wrath is upon thee from before Jehovah.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיֵּצֵ֣א אֶל־פָּנָ֗יו יֵה֣וּא בֶן־חֲנָ֘נִי֮ הַחֹזֶה֒ וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ אֶל־הַמֶּ֣לֶךְ יְהוֹשָׁפָ֔ט הֲלָרָשָׁ֣ע לַעְזֹ֔ר וּלְשֹׂנְאֵ֥י יְהוָ֖ה תֶּאֱהָ֑ב וּבָזֹאת֙ עָלֶ֣יךָ קֶּ֔צֶף מִלִּפְנֵ֖י יְהוָֽה׃

Transliteration

And wayyēṣēʾ to-pānāyw yēhûʾ son-of-ḥănānî haḥōzeh and wayyōʾmer to-the-meleḵ yəhôšāp̄āṭ hălārāšāʿ to-laʿzōr and-to-śōnʾê YHWH teʾĕhāḇ and-in-zōʾṯ upon-you qeṣep̄ from-before YHWH

Grammar Details

• *wayyēṣēʾ*: waw-consecutive + qal imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - and he went out
• *pānāyw*: noun + 3rd masculine singular possessive suffix - his face
• *yēhûʾ*: proper noun, masculine - Jehu
• *ḥănānî*: proper noun, masculine - Hanani
• *haḥōzeh*: definite article + noun, masculine singular - the seer
• *wayyōʾmer*: waw-consecutive + qal imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - and he said
• *meleḵ*: noun, masculine singular with definite article - the king
• *yəhôšāp̄āṭ*: proper noun, masculine - Jehoshaphat
• *hălārāšāʿ*: interrogative particle + preposition + noun - to the wicked?
• *laʿzōr*: preposition + qal infinitive construct - to help
• *śōnʾê*: qal participle plural construct - haters of
• *teʾĕhāḇ*: qal imperfect, 2nd masculine singular - you love
• *zōʾṯ*: demonstrative pronoun, feminine singular - this
• *qeṣep̄*: noun, masculine singular - wrath
• אֶל־: preposition - to
• וּ־: conjunction - and
• בְּ־: preposition - in
• מִן־: preposition - from

Word Meanings

• *haḥōzeh*: seer/prophet/visionary
• *qeṣep̄*: wrath/anger/indignation
• *ḥănānî*: Hanani (proper noun)
• *hălārāšāʿ*: to the wicked one/to wickedness

Referenced Verses

• 1 Kgs 16:1 : 1 And the word of Jehovah came to Jehu the son of Hanani against Baasha, saying,
• 2 Chr 16:7 : 7 And at that time Hanani the seer came to Asa king of Judah, and said unto him, Because thou hast relied on the king of Syria, and hast not relied on Jehovah thy God, therefore is the host of the king of Syria escaped out of thy hand.
• 2 Chr 32:25 : 25 But Hezekiah rendered not again according to the benefit done unto him; for his heart was lifted up: therefore there was wrath upon him, and upon Judah and Jerusalem.
• 2 Chr 20:34 : 34 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, first and last, behold, they are written in the history of Jehu the son of Hanani, which is inserted in the book of the kings of Israel.
• 2 Chr 24:18 : 18 And they forsook the house of Jehovah, the God of their fathers, and served the Asherim and the idols: and wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem for this their guiltiness.
• Eph 5:11 : 11 and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather even reprove them;
• 1 Sam 9:9 : 9 (Beforetime in Israel, when a man went to inquire of God, thus he said, Come, and let us go to the seer; for he that is now called a Prophet was beforetime called a Seer.)
• Ps 139:21-22 : 21 Do not I hate them, O Jehovah, that hate thee? And am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee? 22 I hate them with perfect hatred: They are become mine enemies.
• 2 Chr 18:3 : 3 And Ahab king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat king of Judah, Wilt thou go with me to Ramoth-gilead? And he answered him, I am as thou art, and my people as thy people; and [we will be] with thee in the war.
• 2 Chr 18:7 : 7 And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, There is yet one man by whom we may inquire of Jehovah: but I hate him; for he never prophesieth good concerning me, but always evil: the same is Micaiah the son of Imla. And Jehoshaphat said, Let not the king say so.
• 2 Chr 18:28 : 28 So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah went up to Ramoth-gilead.
• 2 Chr 18:1 : 1 Now Jehoshaphat had riches and honor in abundance; and he joined affinity with Ahab.
• Ps 15:4 : 4 In whose eyes a reprobate is despised, But who honoreth them that fear Jehovah; He that sweareth to his own hurt, and changeth not;
• Ps 21:8 : 8 Thy hand will find out all thine enemies; Thy right hand will find out those that hate thee.
• Ps 68:1 : 1 [For the Chief Musician; A Psalm of David, a Song]. Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered; Let them also that hate him flee before him.
• Ps 71:15 : 15 My mouth shall tell of thy righteousness, [And] of thy salvation all the day; For I know not the numbers [thereof] .
• Ps 90:7-8 : 7 For we are consumed in thine anger, And in thy wrath are we troubled. 8 Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, Our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.
• 1 Kgs 16:7 : 7 And moreover by the prophet Jehu the son of Hanani came the word of Jehovah against Baasha, and against his house, both because of all the evil that he did in the sight of Jehovah, to provoke him to anger with the work of his hands, in being like the house of Jeroboam, and because he smote him.
• 1 Kgs 16:12 : 12 Thus did Zimri destroy all the house of Baasha, according to the word of Jehovah, which he spake against Baasha by Jehu the prophet,
• 1 Kgs 21:25 : 25 (But there was none like unto Ahab, who did sell himself to do that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up.
• Exod 20:5 : 5 thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them; for I Jehovah thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, upon the third and upon the fourth generation of them that hate me,
• Deut 5:9 : 9 thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them; for I, Jehovah, thy God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the third and upon the fourth generation of them that hate me;
• Deut 7:10 : 10 and repayeth them that hate him to their face, to destroy them: he will not be slack to him that hateth him, he will repay him to his face.
• Deut 32:41 : 41 If I whet my glittering sword, And my hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to mine adversaries, And will recompense them that hate me.
• Deut 33:11 : 11 Bless, Jehovah, his substance, And accept the work of his hands: Smite through the loins of them that rise up against him, And of them that hate him, that they rise not again.
• Prov 1:10-19 : 10 My son, if sinners entice thee, Consent thou not. 11 If they say, Come with us, Let us lay wait for blood; Let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause; 12 Let us swallow them up alive as Sheol, And whole, as those that go down into the pit; 13 We shall find all precious substance; We shall fill our houses with spoil; 14 Thou shalt cast thy lot among us; We will all have one purse: 15 My son, walk not thou in the way with them; Refrain thy foot from their path: 16 For their feet run to evil, And they make haste to shed blood. 17 For in vain is the net spread In the sight of any bird: 18 And these lay wait for their own blood; They lurk privily for their own lives. 19 So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; It taketh away the life of the owners thereof.
• John 15:18 : 18 If the world hateth you, ye know that it hath hated me before [it hated] you.
• John 15:23 : 23 He that hateth me hateth my Father also.
• Rom 1:18 : 18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hinder the truth in unrighteousness;
• Rom 1:30 : 30 backbiters, hateful to God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
• Rom 1:32 : 32 who, knowing the ordinance of God, that they that practise such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but also consent with them that practise them.
• Rom 8:7 : 7 because the mind of the flesh is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can it be:
• 1 Cor 11:31-32 : 31 But if we discerned ourselves, we should not be judged. 32 But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.
• Jas 4:4 : 4 Ye adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whosoever therefore would be a friend of the world maketh himself an enemy of God.
• 2 John 1:10-11 : 10 If any one cometh unto you, and bringeth not this teaching, receive him not into [your] house, and give him no greeting: 11 for he that giveth him greeting partaketh in his evil works.