2 Chronicles 19:2

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And Jehu, the son of Hanani the seer, went to King Jehoshaphat and said to him, Is it right for you to go to the help of evil-doers, loving the haters of the Lord? because of this, the wrath of the Lord has come on you.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיֵּצֵ֣א אֶל־פָּנָ֗יו יֵה֣וּא בֶן־חֲנָ֘נִי֮ הַחֹזֶה֒ וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ אֶל־הַמֶּ֣לֶךְ יְהוֹשָׁפָ֔ט הֲלָרָשָׁ֣ע לַעְזֹ֔ר וּלְשֹׂנְאֵ֥י יְהוָ֖ה תֶּאֱהָ֑ב וּבָזֹאת֙ עָלֶ֣יךָ קֶּ֔צֶף מִלִּפְנֵ֖י יְהוָֽה׃

Transliteration

And wayyēṣēʾ to-pānāyw yēhûʾ son-of-ḥănānî haḥōzeh and wayyōʾmer to-the-meleḵ yəhôšāp̄āṭ hălārāšāʿ to-laʿzōr and-to-śōnʾê YHWH teʾĕhāḇ and-in-zōʾṯ upon-you qeṣep̄ from-before YHWH

Grammar Details

• *wayyēṣēʾ*: waw-consecutive + qal imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - and he went out
• *pānāyw*: noun + 3rd masculine singular possessive suffix - his face
• *yēhûʾ*: proper noun, masculine - Jehu
• *ḥănānî*: proper noun, masculine - Hanani
• *haḥōzeh*: definite article + noun, masculine singular - the seer
• *wayyōʾmer*: waw-consecutive + qal imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - and he said
• *meleḵ*: noun, masculine singular with definite article - the king
• *yəhôšāp̄āṭ*: proper noun, masculine - Jehoshaphat
• *hălārāšāʿ*: interrogative particle + preposition + noun - to the wicked?
• *laʿzōr*: preposition + qal infinitive construct - to help
• *śōnʾê*: qal participle plural construct - haters of
• *teʾĕhāḇ*: qal imperfect, 2nd masculine singular - you love
• *zōʾṯ*: demonstrative pronoun, feminine singular - this
• *qeṣep̄*: noun, masculine singular - wrath
• אֶל־: preposition - to
• וּ־: conjunction - and
• בְּ־: preposition - in
• מִן־: preposition - from

Word Meanings

• *haḥōzeh*: seer/prophet/visionary
• *qeṣep̄*: wrath/anger/indignation
• *ḥănānî*: Hanani (proper noun)
• *hălārāšāʿ*: to the wicked one/to wickedness

Referenced Verses

• 1 Kgs 16:1 : 1 And the word of the Lord came to Jehu, son of Hanani, protesting against Baasha and saying,
• 2 Chr 16:7 : 7 At that time Hanani the seer came to Asa, king of Judah, and said to him, Because you have put your faith in the king of Aram and not in the Lord your God, the army of the king of Aram has got away out of your hands.
• 2 Chr 32:25 : 25 But Hezekiah did not do as had been done to him; for his heart was lifted up in pride; and so wrath came on him and on Judah and Jerusalem.
• 2 Chr 20:34 : 34 Now as for the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, first and last, they are recorded in the words of Jehu, the son of Hanani, which were put in the book of the kings of Israel.
• 2 Chr 24:18 : 18 And they gave up the house of the Lord God of their fathers, and became worshippers of pillars of wood and of the images; and because of this sin of theirs, wrath came on Judah and Jerusalem.
• Eph 5:11 : 11 And have no company with the works of the dark, which give no fruit, but make their true quality clear;
• 1 Sam 9:9 : 9 (In the past in Israel, when a man went to get directions from God, he said, Come let us go to the Seer, for he who now is named Prophet was in those days given the name of Seer.)
• Ps 139:21-22 : 21 Are not your haters hated by me, O Lord? are not those who are lifted up against you a cause of grief to me? 22 My hate for them is complete; my thoughts of them are as if they were making war on me.
• 2 Chr 18:3 : 3 For Ahab, king of Israel, said to Jehoshaphat, king of Judah, Will you go with me to Ramoth-gilead? And he said, I am as you are, and my people as your people; we will be with you in the war.
• 2 Chr 18:7 : 7 And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, There is still one man by whom we may get directions from the Lord, but I have no love for him, because he has never been a prophet of good to me, but only of evil: he is Micaiah, the son of Imla. And Jehoshaphat said, Let not the king say so.
• 2 Chr 18:28 : 28 So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat, the king of Judah, went up to Ramoth-gilead.
• 2 Chr 18:1 : 1 Now Jehoshaphat had great wealth and honour, and his son was married to Ahab's daughter.
• Ps 15:4 : 4 Who gives honour to those who have the fear of the Lord, turning away from him who has not the Lord's approval. He who takes an oath against himself, and makes no change.
• Ps 21:8 : 8 Your hand will make a search for all your haters; your right hand will be hard on all those who are against you.
• Ps 68:1 : 1 <To the chief music-maker. Of David. A Psalm. A Song.> Let God be seen, and let his haters be put to flight; let those who are against him be turned back before him.
• Ps 71:15 : 15 My mouth will make clear your righteousness and your salvation all the day; for they are more than may be measured.
• Ps 90:7-8 : 7 We are burned up by the heat of your passion, and troubled by your wrath. 8 You have put our evil doings before you, our secret sins in the light of your face.
• 1 Kgs 16:7 : 7 And the Lord sent his word against Baasha and his family by the mouth of the prophet Jehu, the son of Hanani, because of all the evil he did in the eyes of the Lord, moving him to wrath by the work of his hands, because he was like the family of Jeroboam, and because he put it to death.
• 1 Kgs 16:12 : 12 So Zimri put to death all the family of Baasha, so that the word which the Lord said against him by the mouth of Jehu the prophet came about;
• 1 Kgs 21:25 : 25 (There was no one like Ahab, who gave himself up to do evil in the eyes of the Lord, moved to it by Jezebel his wife.
• Exod 20:5 : 5 You may not go down on your faces before them or give them worship: for I, the Lord your God, am a God who will not give his honour to another; and I will send punishment on the children for the wrongdoing of their fathers, to the third and fourth generation of my haters;
• Deut 5:9 : 9 You may not go down on your faces before them or give them worship: for I, the Lord your God, am a God who will not give his honour to another; and I will send punishment on the children for the wrongdoing of their fathers, to the third and fourth generation of my haters;
• Deut 7:10 : 10 Rewarding his haters to their face with destruction; he will have no mercy on his hater, but will give him open punishment.
• Deut 32:41 : 41 If I make sharp my shining sword, and my hand is outstretched for judging, I will give punishment to those who are against me, and their right reward to my haters.
• Deut 33:11 : 11 Let your blessing, O Lord, be on his substance, may the work of his hands be pleasing to you: may those who take up arms against him and all who have hate for him, be wounded through the heart, never to be lifted up again.
• Prov 1:10-19 : 10 My son, if sinners would take you out of the right way, do not go with them. 11 If they say, Come with us; let us make designs against the good, waiting secretly for the upright, without cause; 12 Let us overcome them living, like the underworld, and in their strength, as those who go down to death; 13 Goods of great price will be ours, our houses will be full of wealth; 14 Take your chance with us, and we will all have one money-bag: 15 My son, do not go with them; keep your feet from their ways: 16 For their feet are running after evil, and they are quick to take a man's life. 17 Truly, to no purpose is the net stretched out before the eyes of the bird: 18 And they are secretly waiting for their blood and making ready destruction for themselves. 19 Such is the fate of everyone who goes in search of profit; it takes away the life of its owners.
• John 15:18 : 18 If you are hated by the world, keep in mind that I was hated by the world before you.
• John 15:23 : 23 He who has hate for me has hate for my Father.
• Rom 1:18 : 18 For there is a revelation of the wrath of God from heaven against all the wrongdoing and evil thoughts of men who keep down what is true by wrongdoing;
• Rom 1:30 : 30 Hated by God, full of pride, without respect, full of loud talk, given to evil inventions, not honouring father or mother,
• Rom 1:32 : 32 Who, though they have knowledge of the law of God, that the fate of those who do these things is death, not only go on doing these things themselves, but give approval to those who do them.
• Rom 8:7 : 7 Because the mind of the flesh is opposite to God; it is not under the law of God, and is not able to be:
• 1 Cor 11:31-32 : 31 But if we were true judges of ourselves, punishment would not come on us. 32 But if punishment does come, it is sent by the Lord, so that we may be safe when the world is judged.
• Jas 4:4 : 4 O you who are false to God, do you not see that the friends of this world are not God's friends? Every man desiring to be a friend of this world makes himself a hater of God.
• 2 John 1:10-11 : 10 If anyone comes to you not having this teaching, do not take him into your house or give him words of love: 11 For he who gives him words of love has a part in his evil works.