2 Chronicles 17:3

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And the Lord was with Jehoshaphat, because he went in the early ways of his father, not turning to the Baals,

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיְהִ֥י יְהוָ֖ה עִם־יְהוֹשָׁפָ֑ט כִּ֣י הָלַ֗ךְ בְּדַרְכֵ֞י דָּוִ֤יד אָבִיו֙ הָרִ֣אשֹׁנִ֔ים וְלֹ֥א דָרַ֖שׁ לַבְּעָלִֽים׃

Transliteration

And wayəhî YHWH with-Yəhôšāp̄āṭ because hālaḵ in-ḏarḵê Dāwiḏ ʾāḇîw the-hāriʾšōnîm and not ḏāraš to-the-Bəʿālîm

Grammar Details

• *wayəhî*: waw consecutive + qal imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - 'and he was/became'
• *YHWH*: proper noun - 'Yahweh/LORD'
• *Yəhôšāp̄āṭ*: proper noun - 'Jehoshaphat'
• *hālaḵ*: qal perfect, 3rd masculine singular - 'he walked/went'
• *ḏarḵê*: noun, feminine plural construct - 'ways of'
• *Dāwiḏ*: proper noun - 'David'
• *ʾāḇîw*: noun + pronominal suffix, masculine singular - 'his father'
• *hāriʾšōnîm*: definite article + adjective, masculine plural - 'the first/former/early'
• *ḏāraš*: qal perfect, 3rd masculine singular - 'he sought/inquired of'
• *Bəʿālîm*: proper noun, masculine plural - 'Baals'

Word Meanings

• *hālaḵ*: walked/followed/conducted himself
• *ḏarḵê*: ways/paths/conduct/manner
• *hāriʾšōnîm*: first/former/early/beginning
• *ḏāraš*: sought/inquired of/consulted/required

Referenced Verses

• Exod 3:12 : 12 And he said, Truly I will be with you; and this will be the sign to you that I have sent you: when you have taken the children of Israel out of Egypt, you will give worship to God on this mountain.
• Exod 4:12 : 12 So go now, and I will be with your mouth, teaching you what to say.
• Josh 1:5 : 5 While you are living, all will give way before you: as I was with Moses, so I will be with you; I will not take away my help from you or give you up.
• Josh 1:9 : 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,
• Judg 6:12 : 12 And the angel of the Lord came before his eyes, and said to him, The Lord is with you, O man of war.
• 2 Sam 5:10 : 10 And David became greater and greater; for the Lord, the God of armies, was with him.
• 2 Sam 8:15 : 15 And David was king over all Israel, judging and giving right decisions for all his people.
• 1 Kgs 11:6 : 6 And Solomon did evil in the eyes of the Lord, not walking in the Lord's ways with all his heart as David his father did.
• 2 Kgs 18:3 : 3 He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord as David his father had done.
• 2 Kgs 22:2 : 2 He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, walking in the ways of David his father, without turning to the right hand or to the left.
• 1 Chr 22:18 : 18 Is not the Lord your God with you? and has he not given you rest on every side? for the Lord has given the people of the land into my hands, and the land is overcome before the Lord and before his people.
• 2 Chr 15:2 : 2 And he came face to face with Asa and said to him, Give ear to me, Asa and all Judah and Benjamin: the Lord is with you while you are with him; if your heart's desire is for him, he will be near you, but if you give him up, he will give you up.
• 2 Chr 15:8-9 : 8 And Asa, hearing these words of Azariah, the son of Oded the prophet, took heart and put away all the disgusting things out of all the land of Judah and Benjamin, and out of the towns which he had taken from the hill-country of Ephraim; and he made new again the altar of the Lord in front of the covered way of the Lord's house. 9 And he got together all Judah and Benjamin and those of Ephraim and Manasseh and Simeon who were living with them; for numbers of them came to him out of Israel when they saw that the Lord his God was with him. 10 So they came together at Jerusalem in the third month, in the fifteenth year of the rule of Asa. 11 And that day they made offerings to the Lord of the things they had taken in war, seven hundred oxen and seven thousand sheep. 12 And they made an agreement to be true to the Lord, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and all their soul; 13 And that anyone, small or great, man or woman, who was not true to the Lord, the God of Israel, would be put to death.
• Ps 46:7 : 7 The Lord of armies is with us; the God of Jacob is our high tower. (Selah.)
• Ps 46:11 : 11 The Lord of armies is with us; the God of Jacob is our high tower. (Selah.)
• Ps 132:1-5 : 1 <A Song of the going up.> Lord, give thought to David, and to all his troubles; 2 How he made an oath to the Lord, and gave his word to the great God of Jacob, saying, 3 Truly, I will not come into my house, or go to my bed, 4 I will not give sleep to my eyes, or rest to my eyeballs, 5 Till I have got a place for the Lord, a resting-place for the great God of Jacob.
• Isa 8:10 : 10 Let your designs be formed, and they will come to nothing; give your orders, and they will not be effected: for God is with us.
• Isa 41:10 : 10 Have no fear, for I am with you; do not be looking about in trouble, for I am your God; I will give you strength, yes, I will be your helper; yes, my true right hand will be your support.
• Jer 2:23 : 23 How are you able to say, I am not unclean, I have not gone after the Baals? see your way in the valley, be clear about what you have done: you are a quick-footed camel twisting her way in and out;
• Matt 1:23 : 23 See, the virgin will be with child, and will give birth to a son, and they will give him the name Immanuel, that is, God with us.
• Matt 28:20 : 20 Teaching them to keep all the rules which I have given you: and see, I am ever with you, even to the end of the world.
• 2 Tim 4:22 : 22 The Lord be with your spirit. Grace be with you.
• Matt 18:20 : 20 For where two or three are come together in my name, there am I among them.
• 2 Chr 14:2-5 : 2 And Asa did what was good and right in the eyes of the Lord his God; 3 For he took away the altars of strange gods and the high places, and had the upright stones broken and the wood pillars cut down; 4 And he made Judah go after the Lord, the God of their fathers, and keep his laws and his orders. 5 And he took away the high places and the sun-images from all the towns of Judah; and the kingdom was quiet under his rule.
• 2 Chr 14:11 : 11 And Asa made prayer to the Lord his God and said, Lord, you only are able to give help against the strong to him who has no strength; come to our help, O Lord our God, for our hope is in you, and in your name we have come out against this great army. O Lord, you are our God; let not man's power be greater than yours.
• 1 Kgs 15:3-4 : 3 And he did the same sins which his father had done before him: his heart was not completely true to the Lord his God, like the heart of David his father. 4 But because of David, the Lord gave him a light in Jerusalem, making his sons king after him, so that Jerusalem might be safe;
• 2 Kgs 14:3 : 3 He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, though not like David his father; he did as Joash his father had done.
• 2 Kgs 16:2 : 2 Ahaz was twenty years old when he became king; he was ruling for sixteen years in Jerusalem. He did not do what was right in the eyes of the Lord his God, as David his father did.
• Judg 8:33 : 33 And after the death of Gideon, the children of Israel again went after the gods of Canaan and were false to the Lord, and made Baal-berith their god.
• Gen 39:2-3 : 2 And the Lord was with Joseph, and he did well; and he was living in the house of his master the Egyptian. 3 And his master saw that the Lord was with him, making everything he did go well.
• Gen 39:21 : 21 But the Lord was with Joseph, and was good to him, and made the keeper of the prison his friend.
• Judg 2:11 : 11 And the children of Israel did evil in the eyes of the Lord and became servants to the Baals;
• Judg 2:18 : 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.