1 Chronicles 17:10

Bible in Basic English (1941)

From the time when I put judges over my people Israel; and I will overcome all those who are against you; and I will make you great and the head of a line of kings.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

‫וּלְמִיָּמִ֗ים אֲשֶׁ֨ר צִוִּ֤יתִי שֹֽׁפְטִים֙ עַל־עַמִּ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל וְהִכְנַ֖עְתִּי אֶת־כָּל־אוֹיְבֶ֑יךָ וָאַגִּ֣ד לָ֔ךְ וּבַ֖יִת יִֽבְנֶה־לְּךָ֥ יְהוָֽה׃ ‬

Transliteration

And-from-the-yāmîm which ṣiwwîṯî šōp̄əṭîm over-ʿammî Yiśrāʾēl and wəhiḵnaʿtî ʾeṯ-all-ʾôyəḇeyḵā. And wāʾaggid to-you and-bayiṯ yiḇneh-to-you YHWH.

Grammar Details

• *yāmîm*: noun, masculine plural - days
• *ṣiwwîṯî*: piel perfect, 1st person singular - I commanded
• *šōp̄əṭîm*: noun, masculine plural - judges
• *ʿammî*: noun, masculine singular + 1st person singular suffix - my people
• *Yiśrāʾēl*: proper noun - Israel
• *wəhiḵnaʿtî*: conjunctive waw + hiphil perfect, 1st person singular - and I have subdued
• *ʾôyəḇeyḵā*: noun, masculine plural + 2nd masculine singular suffix - your enemies
• *wāʾaggid*: consecutive imperfect, 1st person singular - and I declared
• *bayiṯ*: noun, masculine singular - house
• *yiḇneh*: qal imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - he will build
• *YHWH*: proper noun, divine name - LORD

Word Meanings

• *yāmîm*: days/times/period
• *ṣiwwîṯî*: I commanded/appointed/ordained
• *šōp̄əṭîm*: judges/leaders/rulers
• *wəhiḵnaʿtî*: and I have subdued/humbled/brought down
• *wāʾaggid*: and I declared/told/announced
• *bayiṯ*: house/dwelling/temple
• *yiḇneh*: he will build/establish/construct

Referenced Verses

• Judg 2:14-18 : 14 And the wrath of the Lord was burning against Israel, and he gave them up into the hands of those who violently took their property, and into the hands of their haters all round them, so that they were forced to give way before them. 15 Wherever they went out, the hand of the Lord was against them for evil, as the Lord had taken his oath it would be; and things became very hard for them. 16 Then the Lord gave them judges, as their saviours from the hands of those who were cruel to them. 17 But still they would not give ear to their judges, but went after other gods and gave them worship; quickly turning from the way in which their fathers had gone, keeping the orders of the Lord; but they did not do so. 18 And whenever the Lord gave them judges, then the Lord was with the judge, and was their saviour from the hands of their haters all the days of the judge; for the Lord was moved by their cries of grief because of those who were cruel to them.
• 2 Sam 7:11 : 11 From the time when I put judges over my people Israel; and I will give you peace from all who are against you. And the Lord says to you that he will make you the head of a line of kings.
• Ps 18:40-50 : 40 By you their backs are turned in flight, so that my haters are cut off. 41 They were crying out, but there was no one to come to their help: even to the Lord, but he gave them no answer. 42 Then they were crushed as small as dust before the wind; they were drained out like the waste of the streets. 43 You have made me free from the fightings of the people; you have made me the head of the nations: a people of whom I had no knowledge will be my servants. 44 From the time when my name comes to their ears they will be ruled by me: men of other countries will, with false hearts, put themselves under my authority. 45 They will be wasting away, they will come out of their secret places shaking with fear. 46 The Lord is living; praise be to my Rock, and let the God of my salvation be honoured. 47 It is God who sends punishment on my haters, and puts peoples under my rule. 48 He makes me free from my haters; I am lifted up over those who come up against me: you have made me free from the violent man. 49 Because of this I will give you praise, O Lord, among the nations, and will make a song of praise to your name. 50 Great salvation does he give to his king; he has mercy on the king of his selection, David, and on his seed for ever.
• Ps 21:8-9 : 8 Your hand will make a search for all your haters; your right hand will be hard on all those who are against you. 9 You will make them like a flaming oven before you; the Lord in his wrath will put an end to them, and they will be burned up in the fire.
• Ps 89:23 : 23 I will have those who are against him broken before his face, and his haters will be crushed under my blows.
• Ps 110:1 : 1 <A Psalm. Of David.> The Lord said to my lord, Be seated at my right hand, till I put all those who are against you under your feet.
• Ps 127:1 : 1 <A Song of the going up. Of Solomon.> If the Lord is not helping the builders, then the building of a house is to no purpose: if the Lord does not keep the town, the watchman keeps his watch for nothing.
• 1 Cor 15:25 : 25 For his rule will go on till he has put all those who are against him under his feet.
• Judg 3:8 : 8 So the wrath of the Lord was burning against Israel, and he gave them up into the hands of Cushan-rishathaim, king of Mesopotamia; and the children of Israel were his servants for eight years.
• Judg 4:3 : 3 Then the children of Israel made prayer to the Lord; for he had nine hundred iron war-carriages, and for twenty years he was very cruel to the children of Israel.
• Judg 6:3-6 : 3 And whenever Israel's grain was planted, the Midianites and the Amalekites and the people of the east came up against them; 4 And put their army in position against them; and they took all the produce of the earth as far as Gaza, till there was no food in Israel, or any sheep or oxen or asses. 5 For they came up regularly with their oxen and their tents; they came like the locusts in number; they and their camels were without number; and they came into the land for its destruction. 6 And Israel was in great need because of Midian; and the cry of the children of Israel went up to the Lord.
• 1 Sam 13:5-6 : 5 And the Philistines came together to make war on Israel, three thousand war-carriages and six thousand horsemen and an army of people like the sands of the sea in number: they came up and took up their position in Michmash, to the east of Beth-aven. 6 When the men of Israel saw the danger they were in, (for the people were troubled,) they took cover in cracks in the hillsides and in the woods and in rocks and holes and hollows.
• 1 Sam 13:19-20 : 19 Now there was no iron-worker in all the land of Israel: for the Philistines said, For fear the Hebrews make themselves swords or spears: 20 But all the Israelites had to go to the Philistines to get their ploughs and blades and axes and hooks made sharp;
• Exod 1:21 : 21 And because the women who took care of the Hebrew mothers had the fear of God, he gave them families.