2 Chronicles 32:26

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Notwithstanding Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart, both he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the wrath of Jehovah came not upon them in the days of Hezekiah.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיִּכָּנַ֤ע יְחִזְקִיָּ֙הוּ֙ בְּגֹ֣בַהּ לִבּ֔וֹ ה֖וּא וְיֹשְׁבֵ֣י יְרוּשָׁלָ֑͏ִם וְלֹא־בָ֤א עֲלֵיהֶם֙ קֶ֣צֶף יְהוָ֔ה בִּימֵ֖י יְחִזְקִיָּֽהוּ׃

Transliteration

And-yikkānaʿ Yĕḥizqiyyāhû in-gōbaḥ libbô he and-inhabitants-of Yĕrûšālāim and-not-bāʾ upon-them qeṣep YHWH in-yĕmê Yĕḥizqiyyāhû

Grammar Details

• *wayyikkānaʿ*: conjunction + verb, niphal imperfect 3rd person masculine singular - and he humbled himself
• *Yĕḥizqiyyāhû*: proper noun - Hezekiah
• *bĕgōbaḥ*: preposition + noun, masculine singular construct - in pride of
• *libbô*: noun, masculine singular + 3rd person masculine singular suffix - his heart
• *hûʾ*: pronoun, 3rd person masculine singular - he
• *wĕyōšĕbê*: conjunction + verb, qal participle masculine plural construct - and inhabitants of
• *Yĕrûšālāim*: proper noun - Jerusalem
• *wĕlōʾ*: conjunction + negative particle - and not
• *bāʾ*: verb, qal perfect 3rd person masculine singular - it came
• *ʿălêhem*: preposition + 3rd person masculine plural suffix - upon them
• *qeṣep*: noun, masculine singular construct - wrath of
• *YHWH*: proper noun - Yahweh/the LORD
• *bîmê*: preposition + noun, masculine plural construct - in days of

Word Meanings

• *niknaʿ*: humble oneself/be humbled/submit
• *gōbaḥ*: pride/height/exaltation
• *lēb*: heart/mind/inner person
• *yōšĕbê*: inhabitants of/dwellers in/residents of
• *bāʾ*: come/enter/happen
• *qeṣep*: wrath/anger/indignation
• *yāmîm*: days/time/period

Referenced Verses

• Jer 26:18-19 : 18 Micah the Morashtite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah; and he spake to all the people of Judah, saying, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Zion shall be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest. 19 Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put him to death? did he not fear Jehovah, and entreat the favor of Jehovah, and Jehovah repented him of the evil which he had pronounced against them? Thus should we commit great evil against our own souls.
• Jas 4:10 : 10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall exalt {G5312} you.
• 2 Chr 33:12 : 12 And when he was in distress, he besought Jehovah his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers.
• 2 Chr 34:27-28 : 27 because thy heart was tender, and thou didst humble thyself before God, when thou heardest his words against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, and hast humbled thyself before me, and hast rent thy clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard thee, saith Jehovah. 28 Behold, I will gather thee to thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered to thy grave in peace, neither shall thine eyes see all the evil that I will bring upon this place, and upon the inhabitants thereof. And they brought back word to the king.
• Isa 39:6-8 : 6 Behold, the days are coming, when all that is in thy house, and that which thy fathers have laid up in store until this day, shall be carried to Babylon: nothing shall be left, saith Jehovah. 7 And of thy sons that shall issue from thee, whom thou shalt beget, shall they take away; and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon. 8 Then said Hezekiah unto Isaiah, Good is the word of Jehovah which thou hast spoken. He said moreover, For there shall be peace and truth in my days.
• 2 Chr 33:19 : 19 His prayer also, and how [God] was entreated of him, and all his sin and his trespass, and the places wherein he built high places, and set up the Asherim and the graven images, before he humbled himself: behold, they are written in the history of Hozai.
• 2 Chr 33:23 : 23 And he humbled not himself before Jehovah, as Manasseh his father had humbled himself; but this same Amon trespassed more and more.
• Lev 26:40-41 : 40 And they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, in their trespass which they trespassed against me, and also that, because they walked contrary unto me, 41 I also walked contrary unto them, and brought them into the land of their enemies: if then their uncircumcised heart be humbled, and they then accept of the punishment of their iniquity;
• 1 Kgs 21:19 : 19 And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith Jehovah, Hast thou killed and also taken possession? And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith Jehovah, In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth shall dogs lick thy blood, even thine.
• 1 Kgs 21:29 : 29 Seest thou how Ahab humbleth himself before me? because he humbleth himself before me, I will not bring the evil in his days; but in his son's days will I bring the evil upon his house.
• 2 Kgs 20:16-19 : 16 And Isaiah said unto Hezekiah, Hear the word of Jehovah. 17 Behold, the days come, that all that is in thy house, and that which thy fathers have laid up in store unto this day, shall be carried to Babylon: nothing shall be left, saith Jehovah. 18 And of thy sons that shall issue from thee, whom thou shalt beget, shall they take away; and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon. 19 Then said Hezekiah unto Isaiah, Good is the word of Jehovah which thou hast spoken. He said moreover, Is it not so, if peace and truth shall be in my days?