2 Chronicles 17:4

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

but sought to the God of his father, and walked in his commandments, and not after the doings of Israel.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כִּ֠י לֽ͏ֵאלֹהֵ֤י אָבִיו֙ דָּרָ֔שׁ וּבְמִצְוֺתָ֖יו הָלָ֑ךְ וְלֹ֖א כְּמַעֲשֵׂ֥ה יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃

Transliteration

For to-ʾĕlōhê ʾāḇîw dāraš and-in-miṣwōṯāyw hālāḵ and-not like-maʿăśêh Yiśrāʾēl

Grammar Details

*ʾĕlōhê*: noun, masculine plural construct - 'God of'
*ʾāḇîw*: noun + pronominal suffix, masculine singular - 'his father'
*dāraš*: qal perfect, 3rd masculine singular - 'he sought/inquired of'
*miṣwōṯāyw*: noun, feminine plural + pronominal suffix, 3rd masculine singular - 'his commandments'
*hālāḵ*: qal perfect, 3rd masculine singular - 'he walked/went'
*maʿăśêh*: noun, masculine singular construct - 'practice/deed/work of'
*Yiśrāʾēl*: proper noun - 'Israel'

Word Meanings

*dāraš*: sought/inquired of/consulted/required
*hālāḵ*: walked/followed/conducted himself
*maʿăśêh*: practice/deed/work/action/conduct

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Referenced Verses

1 Kgs 12:28 : 28 Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold; and he said unto them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem: behold thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
Hos 4:15 : 15 Though thou, Israel, play the harlot, yet let not Judah offend; and come not ye unto Gilgal, neither go ye up to Beth-aven, nor swear, As Jehovah liveth.
Luke 1:6 : 6 And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.
1 Thess 2:12 : 12 to the end that ye should walk worthily of God, who calleth you into his own kingdom and glory.
1 Thess 4:1 : 1 Finally then, brethren, we beseech and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that, as ye received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, even as ye do walk, — that ye abound more and more.
2 Kgs 8:18 : 18 And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as did the house of Ahab: for he had the daughter of Ahab to wife; and he did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah.
2 Kgs 17:19 : 19 Also Judah kept not the commandments of Jehovah their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made.
Jer 3:7-8 : 7 And I said after she had done all these things, She will return unto me; but she returned not: and her treacherous sister Judah saw it. 8 And I saw, when, for this very cause that backsliding Israel had committed adultery, I had put her away and given her a bill of divorcement, yet treacherous Judah her sister feared not; but she also went and played the harlot.
1 Kgs 12:30 : 30 And this thing became a sin; for the people went [to worship] before the one, even unto Dan.
1 Kgs 12:33 : 33 And he went up unto the altar which he had made in Beth-el on the fifteenth day in the eighth month, even in the month which he had devised of his own heart: and he ordained a feast for the children of Israel, and went up unto the altar, to burn incense.
1 Kgs 13:33-34 : 33 After this thing Jeroboam returned not from his evil way, but made again from among all the people priests of the high places: whosoever would, he consecrated him, that there might be priests of the high places. 34 And this thing became sin unto the house of Jeroboam, even to cut it off, and to destroy it from off the face of the earth.
1 Kgs 16:31-33 : 31 And it came to pass, as if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, that he took to wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and went and served Baal, and worshipped him. 32 And he reared up an altar for Baal in the house of Baal, which he had built in Samaria. 33 And Ahab made the Asherah; and Ahab did yet more to provoke Jehovah, the God of Israel, to anger than all the kings of Israel that were before him.

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