1 Chronicles 22:13

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And all will go well for you, if you take care to keep the laws and the rules which the Lord gave to Moses for Israel: be strong and take heart; have no fear and do not be troubled.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אָ֣ז תַּצְלִ֔יחַ אִם־תִּשְׁמ֗וֹר לַעֲשׂוֹת֙ אֶת־הַֽחֻקִּ֣ים וְאֶת־הַמִּשְׁפָּטִ֔ים אֲשֶׁ֨ר צִוָּ֧ה יְהוָ֛ה אֶת־מֹשֶׁ֖ה עַל־יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל חֲזַ֣ק וֶאֱמָ֔ץ אַל־תִּירָ֖א וְאַל־תֵּחָֽת׃

Transliteration

Then taṣlîaḥ if-tišmôr to do ʾet-haḥuqqîm and ʾet-hammišpāṭîm which ṣiwwâ YHWH ʾet-Mōšeh concerning-Yiśrāʾēl; ḥăzaq and weʾĕmāṣ, not-tîrāʾ and not-tēḥāt.

Grammar Details

• *taṣlîaḥ*: hiphil imperfect 2nd masculine singular - you will succeed/prosper
• *tišmôr*: qal imperfect 2nd masculine singular - you will keep/observe
• *haḥuqqîm*: definite article + noun, masculine plural - the statutes
• *hammišpāṭîm*: definite article + noun, masculine plural - the ordinances/judgments
• *ṣiwwâ*: piel perfect 3rd masculine singular - he commanded
• *YHWH*: proper noun, divine name - Yahweh
• *Mōšeh*: proper noun, masculine singular - Moses
• *Yiśrāʾēl*: proper noun - Israel
• *ḥăzaq*: qal imperative masculine singular - be strong
• *weʾĕmāṣ*: waw conjunctive + qal imperative masculine singular - and be courageous
• *tîrāʾ*: qal imperfect 2nd masculine singular jussive - fear
• *tēḥāt*: niphal imperfect 2nd masculine singular jussive - be dismayed/discouraged

Word Meanings

• *haḥuqqîm wᵊhammišpāṭîm*: the statutes and judgments/the decrees and ordinances/the laws and regulations
• *ḥăzaq weʾĕmāṣ*: be strong and courageous/be strong and of good courage
• *ʾal-tîrāʾ wᵊʾal-tēḥāt*: do not fear and do not be dismayed/neither fear nor be discouraged

Referenced Verses

• 1 Chr 28:20 : 20 And David said to his son Solomon, Be strong and of a good heart and do your work; have no fear and do not be troubled, for the Lord God, my God, is with you; he will not give you up, and his face will not be turned away from you, till all the work necessary for the house of the Lord is complete.
• Josh 1:6-9 : 6 Take heart and be strong; for you will give to this people for their heritage the land which I gave by an oath to their fathers. 7 Only take heart and be very strong; take care to do all the law which Moses my servant gave you, not turning from it to the right hand or to the left, so that you may do well in all your undertakings. 8 Let this book of the law be ever on your lips and in your thoughts day and night, so that you may keep with care everything in it; then a blessing will be on all your way, and you will do well. 9 Have I not given you your orders? Take heart and be strong; have no fear and do not be troubled; for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go,
• 1 Chr 28:7 : 7 I will keep his kingdom in its place for ever, if he is strong at all times to do my orders and keep my rules, as at this day.
• 1 Chr 28:10 : 10 Now then, take note; for the Lord has made selection of you to be the builder of a house for the holy place. Be strong and do it.
• Josh 1:18 : 18 Whoever goes against your orders, and does not give attention to all your words, will be put to death: only take heart and be strong.
• 1 Kgs 2:3 : 3 And keep the orders of the Lord your God, walking in his ways, keeping his laws and his orders and his rules and his words, as they are recorded in the law of Moses; so that you may do well in all you do and wherever you go,
• Deut 31:6-8 : 6 Be strong and take heart, and have no fear of them: for it is the Lord your God who is going with you; he will not take away his help from you. 7 Then Moses sent for Joshua, and before the eyes of all Israel said to him, Be strong and take heart: for you are to go with this people into the land which the Lord, by his oath to their fathers, has given them; by your help they will take it for their heritage. 8 It is the Lord who goes before you; he will be with you, he will not take away his help from you or give you up: so have no fear.
• 2 Chr 20:20 : 20 And early in the morning they got up and went out to the waste land of Tekoa: and when they were going out, Jehoshaphat took his station and said to them, Give ear to me, O Judah and you people of Jerusalem: have faith in the Lord your God and you will be safe; have faith in his prophets and all will go well for you.
• Ps 119:6 : 6 Then I would not be put to shame, as long as I have respect for all your teaching.
• Jer 22:3-4 : 3 This is what the Lord has said: Do what is right, judging uprightly, and make free from the hands of the cruel one him whose goods have been violently taken away: do no wrong and be not violent to the man from a strange country and the child without a father and the widow, and let not those who have done no wrong be put to death in this place. 4 For if you truly do this, then there will come in through the doors of this house kings seated on the seat of David, going in carriages and on horseback, he and his servants and his people
• Matt 3:15 : 15 But Jesus made answer, saying to him, Let it be so now: because so it is right for us to make righteousness complete. Then he gave him baptism.
• Acts 13:22 : 22 And having put him on one side, he made David their king, to whom he gave witness, saying, I have taken David, the son of Jesse, a man dear to my heart, who will do all my pleasure.
• 1 Cor 16:13 : 13 Be on the watch, unmoved in the faith, and be strong like men.
• Gal 6:2 : 2 Take on yourselves one another's troubles, and so keep the law of Christ.
• Eph 6:10 : 10 Lastly, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of his power.
• 2 Tim 2:1 : 1 So then, my child, be strong in the grace which is in Christ Jesus.
• Jas 2:8 : 8 But if you keep the greatest law of all, as it is given in the holy Writings, Have love for your neighbour as for yourself, you do well: