2 Chronicles 28:20

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

And Tilgath-pilneser king of Assyria came unto him, and distressed him, but strengthened him not.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיָּבֹ֣א עָלָ֔יו תִּלְּגַ֥ת פִּלְנְאֶ֖סֶר מֶ֣לֶךְ אַשּׁ֑וּר וַיָּ֥צַר ל֖וֹ וְלֹ֥א חֲזָֽקוֹ׃

Transliteration

wayyāḇōʾ ʿālāyw Tilləgat Pilnəʾeser melek ʾAshshûr wayyāṣar lô wəlōʾ ḥazāqô

Grammar Details

*wayyāḇōʾ*: conjunction + 3rd masculine singular qal imperfect waw-consecutive - and he came
*ʿālāyw*: preposition + 3rd masculine singular suffix - against him
*Tilləgat* *Pilnəʾeser*: proper noun - Tiglath-pileser
*melek*: masculine singular construct - king of
*ʾAshshûr*: proper noun - Assyria
*wayyāṣar*: conjunction + 3rd masculine singular qal imperfect waw-consecutive - and he distressed
*lô*: preposition + 3rd masculine singular suffix - him
*wəlōʾ*: conjunction + negative particle - and not
*ḥazāqô*: 3rd masculine singular piel perfect + 3rd masculine singular suffix - he strengthened him

Word Meanings

*wayyāṣar* *lô*: distressed him/oppressed him/besieged him
*ḥazāqô*: strengthened him/supported him/helped him

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2 Kgs 15:29 : 29 In the days of Pekah king of Israel came Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, and took Ijon, and Abel-beth-maacah, and Janoah, and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali; and he carried them captive to Assyria.
1 Chr 5:26 : 26 And the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Pul king of Assyria, and the spirit of Tilgath-pilneser king of Assyria, and he carried them away, even the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half-tribe {H7626} of Manasseh, and brought them unto Halah, and Habor, and Hara, and to the river of Gozan, unto this day.
Isa 30:16 : 16 but ye said, No, for we will flee upon horses; therefore shall ye flee: and, We will ride upon the swift; therefore shall they that pursue you be swift.
Jer 2:37 : 37 From thence also shalt thou go forth, with thy hands upon thy head: for Jehovah hath rejected those in whom thou trustest, and thou shalt not prosper with them.
Hos 5:13 : 13 When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah [saw] his wound, then went Ephraim to Assyria, and sent to king Jareb: but he is not able to heal you, neither will he cure you of your wound.
Isa 7:20 : 20 In that day will the Lord shave with a razor that is hired in the parts beyond the River, [even] with the king of Assyria, the head and the hair of the feet; and it shall also consume the beard.
Isa 30:3 : 3 Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and the refuge in the shadow of Egypt your confusion.
2 Kgs 16:7-9 : 7 So Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, saying, I am thy servant and thy son: come up, and save me out of the hand of the king of Syria, and out of the hand of the king of Israel, who rise up against me. 8 And Ahaz took the silver and gold that was found in the house of Jehovah, and in the treasures of the king's house, and sent it for a present to the king of Assyria. 9 And the king of Assyria hearkened unto him; and the king of Assyria went up against Damascus, and took it, and carried [the people of] it captive to Kir, and slew Rezin. 10 And king Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, and saw the altar that was at Damascus; and king Ahaz sent to Urijah the priest the fashion of the altar, and the pattern of it, according to all the workmanship thereof.
2 Kgs 17:5 : 5 Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land, and went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years.

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