2 Chronicles 18:10

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיַּ֥עַשׂ ל֛וֹ צִדְקִיָּ֥הוּ בֶֽן־כְּנַעֲנָ֖ה קַרְנֵ֣י בַרְזֶ֑ל וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ כֹּֽה־אָמַ֣ר יְהוָ֔ה בְּאֵ֛לֶּה תְּנַגַּ֥ח אֶת־אֲרָ֖ם עַד־כַּלּוֹתָֽם

Transliteration

wə-yaʿaś for-himself Ṣiḏqiyyāhû son-of-Kənaʿănāh qarnê barzel wə-yōʾmer thus-ʾāmar YHWH with-these tənaggaḥ ʾeṯ-ʾĂrām until-kallôṯām

Grammar Details

*wə-yaʿaś*: conjunction + qal imperfect 3rd masculine singular - and he made
*Ṣiḏqiyyāhû*: proper noun, masculine - Zedekiah
*Kənaʿănāh*: proper noun - Chenaanah
*qarnê*: feminine plural construct - horns of
*barzel*: masculine singular noun - iron
*wə-yōʾmer*: conjunction + qal imperfect 3rd masculine singular - and he said
*ʾāmar*: qal perfect 3rd masculine singular - he has said
*YHWH*: proper noun - the LORD/Yahweh
*tənaggaḥ*: piel imperfect 2nd masculine singular - you will gore/push
*ʾeṯ*: direct object marker
*ʾĂrām*: proper noun - Syria/Aram
*kallôṯām*: piel infinitive construct + 3rd masculine plural suffix - consuming them/destroying them

Word Meanings

*qarnê*: horns of/horns (symbolic of power)
*tənaggaḥ*: you will gore/you will push/you will thrust
*kallôṯām*: consuming them/destroying them/finishing them

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Referenced Verses

Jer 23:17 : 17 They say continually unto them that despise me, Jehovah hath said, Ye shall have peace; and unto every one that walketh in the stubbornness of his own heart they say, No evil shall come upon you.
Jer 23:21 : 21 I sent not these prophets, yet they ran: I spake not unto them, yet they prophesied.
Jer 23:25 : 25 I have heard what the prophets have said, that prophesy lies in my name, saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed.
Jer 23:31 : 31 Behold, I am against the prophets, saith Jehovah, that use their tongues, and say, He saith.
Jer 27:2 : 2 Thus saith Jehovah to me: Make thee bonds and bars, and put them upon thy neck;
Jer 28:2-3 : 2 Thus speaketh Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, saying, I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon. 3 Within two full years will I bring again into this place all the vessels of Jehovah's house, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took away from this place, and carried to Babylon:
Jer 28:10-14 : 10 Then Hananiah the prophet took the bar from off the prophet Jeremiah's neck, and brake it. 11 And Hananiah spake in the presence of all the people, saying, Thus saith Jehovah: Even so will I break the yoke of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon within two full years from off the neck of all the nations. And the prophet Jeremiah went his way. 12 Then the word of Jehovah came unto Jeremiah, after that Hananiah the prophet had broken the bar from off the neck of the prophet Jeremiah, saying, 13 Go, and tell Hananiah, saying, Thus saith Jehovah: Thou hast broken the bars of wood; but thou hast made in their stead bars of iron. 14 For thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: I have put a yoke of iron upon the neck of all these nations, that they may serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; and they shall serve him: and I have given him the beasts of the field also.
Jer 29:21 : 21 Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, concerning Ahab the son of Kolaiah, and concerning Zedekiah the son of Maaseiah, who prophesy a lie unto you in my name: Behold, I will deliver them into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; and he shall slay them before your eyes;
Ezek 13:7 : 7 Have ye not seen a false vision, and have ye not spoken a lying divination, in that ye say, Jehovah saith; albeit I have not spoken?
Ezek 22:28 : 28 And her prophets have daubed for them with untempered [mortar], seeing false visions, and divining lies unto them, saying, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah, when Jehovah hath not spoken.
Zech 1:18-21 : 18 And I lifted up mine eyes, and saw, and, behold, four horns. 19 And I said unto the angel that talked with me, What are these? And he answered me, These are the horns which have scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem. 20 And Jehovah showed me four smiths. 21 Then said I, What come these to do? And he spake, saying, These are the horns which scattered Judah, so that no man did lift up his head; but these are come to terrify them, to cast down the horns of the nations, which lifted up their horn against the land of Judah to scatter it.
2 Tim 3:8 : 8 And even as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also withstand the truth. Men corrupted in mind, reprobate concerning the faith.

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