2 Chronicles 20:11

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

behold, how they reward us, to come to cast us out of thy possession, which thou hast given us to inherit.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְהִ֨נֵּה־הֵ֔ם גֹּמְלִ֖ים עָלֵ֑ינוּ לָבוֹא֙ לְגָ֣רְשֵׁ֔נוּ מִיְּרֻשָּׁתְךָ֖ אֲשֶׁ֥ר הֽוֹרַשְׁתָּֽנוּ׃

Transliteration

And behold wəhinnēh-they hēm gōmlîm against-us ʿālênû to come lābôʾ to drive us out ləgāršēnû from your possession mîyrūššātkā which ʾăšer hôraštānû.

Grammar Details

*wəhinnēh*: waw-conjunction + demonstrative particle - and behold
*hēm*: 3rd masculine plural pronoun - they
*gōmlîm*: qal participle masculine plural - repaying/rewarding
*ʿālênû*: preposition *ʿal* + 1st common plural suffix - against us
*lābôʾ*: preposition *lə* + qal infinitive construct - to come
*ləgāršēnû*: preposition *lə* + piel infinitive construct + 1st common plural suffix - to drive us out
*mîyrūššātkā*: preposition *min* + feminine singular noun + 2nd masculine singular suffix - from your possession
*ʾăšer*: relative pronoun - which
*hôraštānû*: hiphil perfect 2nd masculine singular + 1st common plural suffix - you caused us to possess

Word Meanings

*gōmlîm*: repaying/rewarding/dealing with (negative connotation here)
*ləgāršēnû*: to drive us out/expel us/cast us out
*yərūššâ*: possession/inheritance/property

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Referenced Verses

Ps 83:3-9 : 3 Thy take crafty counsel against thy people, And consult together against thy hidden ones. 4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; That the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance. 5 For they have consulted together with one consent; Against thee do they make a covenant: 6 The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites; Moab, and the Hagarenes; 7 Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre: 8 Assyria also is joined with them; They have helped the children of Lot. Selah 9 Do thou unto them as unto Midian, As to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the river Kishon; 10 Who perished at Endor, Who became as dung for the earth. 11 Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb; Yea, all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna; 12 Who said, Let us take to ourselves in possession The habitations of God.
Prov 17:13 : 13 Whoso rewardeth evil for good, Evil shall not depart from his house.
Jer 18:20 : 20 Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have digged a pit for my soul. Remember how I stood before thee to speak good for them, to turn away thy wrath from them.
Gen 44:4 : 4 [ And] when they were gone out of the city, and were not yet far off, Joseph said unto his steward, Up, follow after the men; and when thou dost overtake them, say unto them, Wherefore have ye rewarded evil for good?
Judg 11:23-24 : 23 So now Jehovah, the God of Israel, hath dispossessed the Amorites from before his people Israel, and shouldest thou possess them? 24 Wilt not thou possess that which Chemosh thy god giveth thee to possess? So whomsoever Jehovah our God hath dispossessed from before us, them will we possess.
Ps 7:4 : 4 If I have rewarded evil unto him that was at peace with me; (Yea, I have delivered him that without cause was mine adversary;)
Ps 35:12 : 12 They reward me evil for good, [To] the bereaving of my soul.

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