2 Samuel 19:43

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

And the men of Israel answered the men of Judah, and said, We have ten parts in the king, and we have also more [right] in David than ye: why then did ye despise us, that our advice should not be first had in bringing back our king? And the words of the men of Judah were fiercer than the words of the men of Israel.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיַּעַן֩ כָּל־אִ֨ישׁ יְהוּדָ֜ה עַל־אִ֣ישׁ יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל כִּֽי־קָר֤וֹב הַמֶּ֙לֶךְ֙ אֵלַ֔י וְלָ֤מָּה זֶּה֙ חָרָ֣ה לְךָ֔ עַל־הַדָּבָ֖ר הַזֶּ֑ה הֶאָכ֤וֹל אָכַ֙לְנוּ֙ מִן־הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ אִם־נִשֵּׂ֥את נִשָּׂ֖א לָֽנוּ׃

Transliteration

And wayyaʿan all-ʾîš yəhûdâh against-ʾîš yiśrāʾēl, "kî-qārôb the-melek to-me, and lāmmâh this ḥārâh to-you about-the-dābār the-this? heʾākôl ʾāḵalnû from-the-melek? ʾim-niśśēʾt niśśāʾ to-us?"

Grammar Details

• *wayyaʿan*: Qal imperfect 3rd masculine singular with waw consecutive - and he answered
• *ʾîš*: noun, masculine singular construct - men of
• *yəhûdâh*: proper noun - Judah
• *yiśrāʾēl*: proper noun - Israel
• *kî*: conjunction - because/for
• *qārôb*: adjective, masculine singular - near/close
• *melek*: definite noun, masculine singular - king
• *lāmmâh*: interrogative adverb - why
• *ḥārâh*: Qal perfect 3rd masculine singular - burned/was angry
• *dābār*: noun, masculine singular - word/matter/thing
• *heʾākôl*: interrogative particle with infinitive absolute Qal - eating at all
• *ʾāḵalnû*: Qal perfect 1st plural - we ate/we have eaten
• *ʾim*: conjunction - if/or
• *niśśēʾt*: Qal infinitive absolute - lifting/carrying
• *niśśāʾ*: Niphal perfect 3rd masculine singular - was carried/was borne

Word Meanings

• *wayyaʿan*: answered/replied/responded
• *kî*: because/for/that
• *qārôb*: near/close/closely related
• *ḥārâh*: burned with anger/became furious/was incensed
• *heʾākôl* *ʾāḵalnû*: Have we eaten at all/Have we consumed anything/Have we devoured anything
• *niśśēʾt* *niśśāʾ*: Has anything been carried away/Has a gift been given/Has any favor been granted

Referenced Verses

• 2 Sam 5:1 : 1 Then came all the tribes of Israel to David unto Hebron, and spake, saying, Behold, we are thy bone and thy flesh.
• Gal 5:20 : 20 idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousies, wraths, factions, divisions, parties,
• Gal 5:26 : 26 Let us not become vainglorious, provoking one another, envying one another.
• Phil 2:3 : 3 [ doing] nothing through faction or through vainglory, but in lowliness of mind {G2233} each counting other better than himself;
• Jas 1:20 : 20 for the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.
• Jas 3:2-9 : 2 For in many things we all stumble. If any stumbleth not in word, the same is a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body also. 3 Now if we put the horses' bridles into their mouths that they may obey us, {G2532} we turn about their whole body also. 4 Behold, the ships also, though they are so great and are driven by rough winds, are yet turned about by a very small rudder, whither {G302} the impulse of the steersman None willeth. 5 None So the tongue also is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how much wood is kindled by how small a fire! 6 And the tongue is a fire: the world of iniquity among our members {G3779} is the tongue, which defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the wheel of nature, and is set on fire by hell. 7 For every kind of beasts and birds, {G5037} of creeping things and things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed by mankind. 8 But the tongue can no man tame; [it is] a restless evil, [it is] full of deadly poison. 9 Therewith {G846} bless we the Lord and Father; and therewith {G846} curse we men, who are made after the likeness of God: 10 out of the same mouth cometh forth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.
• Jas 3:14-16 : 14 But if ye have bitter jealousy and faction in your heart, glory not and lie not against the truth. 15 This wisdom is not [a wisdom] that cometh down from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. 16 For where jealousy and faction are, there is confusion and every vile deed.
• Jas 4:1-5 : 1 Whence [come] wars and whence [come] fightings among you? [come they] not hence, [even] of your pleasures that war in your members? 2 Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and covet, and cannot {G3756} obtain: ye fight and war; {G1161} ye have not, because ye ask not. 3 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may spend [it] in your pleasures. 4 Ye {G3432} {G2532} adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whosoever {G302} therefore would be a friend of the world maketh himself an enemy of God. 5 Or think ye that the scripture speaketh in vain? Doth the spirit which he made to dwell in us long unto envying?
• Judg 8:1 : 1 And the men of Ephraim said unto him, Why hast thou served us thus, that thou calledst us not, when thou wentest to fight with Midian? And they did chide with him sharply.
• Judg 9:23 : 23 And God sent an evil spirit between Abimelech and the men of Shechem; and the men of Shechem dealt treacherously with Abimelech:
• Judg 12:1-6 : 1 And the men of Ephraim were gathered together, and passed northward; and they said unto Jephthah, Wherefore passedst thou over to fight against the children of Ammon, and didst not call us to go with thee? we will burn thy house upon thee with fire. 2 And Jephthah said unto them, I and my people were at great strife with the children of Ammon; and when I called you, ye saved me not out of their hand. 3 And when I saw that ye saved me not, I put my life in my hand, and passed over against the children of Ammon, and Jehovah delivered them into my hand: wherefore then are ye come up unto me this day, to fight against me? 4 Then Jephthah gathered together all the men of Gilead, and fought with Ephraim; and the men of Gilead smote Ephraim, because they said, Ye are fugitives of Ephraim, ye Gileadites, in the midst of Ephraim, [and] in the midst of Manasseh. 5 And the Gileadites took the fords of the Jordan against the Ephraimites. And it was so, that, when [any of] the fugitives of Ephraim said, Let me go over, the men of Gilead said unto him, Art thou an Ephraimite? If he said, Nay; 6 then said they unto him, Say now Shibboleth; and he said Sibboleth; for he could not frame to pronounce it right: then they laid hold on him, and slew him at the fords of the Jordan. And there fell at that time of Ephraim forty and two thousand.
• 2 Sam 19:9 : 9 And all the people were at strife throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, The king delivered us out of the hand of our enemies, and he saved us out of the hand of the Philistines; and now he is fled out of the land from Absalom.
• 2 Sam 19:14 : 14 And he bowed the heart of all the men of Judah, even as [the heart of] one man; so that they sent unto the king, [saying], Return thou, and all thy servants.
• 2 Sam 20:1 : 1 And there happened to be there a base fellow, whose name was Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjamite: and he blew the trumpet, and said, We have no portion in David, neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse: every man to his tents, O Israel.
• 2 Sam 20:6 : 6 And David said to Abishai, Now will Sheba the son of Bichri do us more harm than did Absalom: take thou thy lord's servants, and pursue after him, lest he get him fortified cities, and escape out of our sight.
• 1 Kgs 11:30-31 : 30 And Ahijah laid hold of the new garment that was on him, and rent it in twelve pieces. 31 And he said to Jeroboam, Take thee ten pieces; for thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, Behold, I will rend the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon, and will give ten tribes to thee
• 1 Kgs 12:16 : 16 And when all Israel saw that the king hearkened not unto them, the people answered the king, saying, What portion have we in David? neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse: to your tents, O Israel: now see to thine own house, David. So Israel departed unto their tents.
• Prov 13:10 : 10 By pride cometh only contention; But with the well-advised is wisdom.
• Prov 15:1 : 1 A soft answer turneth away wrath; But a grievous word stirreth up anger.
• Prov 17:14 : 14 The beginning of strife is [as] when one letteth out water: Therefore leave off contention, before there is quarrelling.
• Prov 18:19 : 19 A brother offended [is harder to be won] than a strong city; And [such] contentions are like the bars of a castle.
• Rom 12:21 : 21 Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.
• Gal 5:15 : 15 But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.