2 Kings 11:12

Bishops' Bible (1568)

And he brought out the kinges sonne, and put the crowne vpon him, and delyuered him the witnesse, & made him king, & annoynted him: And they clapt their handes, and saide: God saue the king.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיּוֹצִ֣א אֶת־בֶּן־הַמֶּ֗לֶךְ וַיִּתֵּ֤ן עָלָיו֙ אֶת־הַנֵּ֙זֶר֙ וְאֶת־הָ֣עֵד֔וּת וַיַּמְלִ֥כוּ אֹת֖וֹ וַיִּמְשָׁחֻ֑הוּ וַיַּכּוּ־כָ֔ף וַיֹּאמְר֖וּ יְחִ֥י הַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃ ס

Transliteration

And wayyôṣîʾ ʾet-son-of-the-king and wayyittēn upon-him ʾet-the-nēzer and ʾet-the-ʿēdût and wayyamlîkû him and wayyimšāḥûhû; and wayyakkû-kāp and wayyōʾmərû yəḥî the-king.

Grammar Details

• *wayyôṣîʾ*: verb, hiphil imperfect consecutive, 3rd masculine singular - and he brought out
• *ʾet-ben-hammelek*: direct object marker + noun, masculine singular construct + definite article + noun, masculine singular - the son of the king
• *wayyittēn*: verb, qal imperfect consecutive, 3rd masculine singular - and he put
• *ʿālāyw*: preposition with 3rd masculine singular suffix - upon him
• *ʾet-hannēzer*: direct object marker + definite article + noun, masculine singular - the crown/diadem
• *wəʾet-hāʿēdût*: conjunction + direct object marker + definite article + noun, feminine singular - and the testimony
• *wayyamlîkû*: verb, hiphil imperfect consecutive, 3rd masculine plural - and they made king
• *ʾōtô*: direct object marker with 3rd masculine singular suffix - him
• *wayyimšāḥûhû*: verb, qal imperfect consecutive, 3rd masculine plural with 3rd masculine singular suffix - and they anointed him
• *wayyakkû-kāp*: verb, hiphil imperfect consecutive, 3rd masculine plural + noun, feminine singular - and they clapped palm(s)
• *wayyōʾmərû*: verb, qal imperfect consecutive, 3rd masculine plural - and they said
• *yəḥî*: verb, qal jussive, 3rd masculine singular - may he live
• *hammelek*: definite article + noun, masculine singular - the king

Word Meanings

• *nēzer*: crown, diadem, consecration, separation
• *ʿēdût*: testimony, witness, evidence, possibly covenant document
• *wayyamlîkû*: made king, crowned, caused to reign
• *wayyimšāḥûhû*: anointed him, consecrated him with oil
• *wayyakkû-kāp*: clapped hands/palms, applauded
• *yəḥî hammelek*: Long live the king, May the king live

Referenced Verses

• Exod 25:16 : 16 And thou shalt put in the arke, the testimonie whiche I shall geue thee.
• 1 Sam 10:24 : 24 And Samuel said to al the people: See ye not him whom the Lorde hath chosen, and howe there is none lyke him among all the people? And all the people showted, and sayd: God saue the king.
• Exod 31:18 : 18 And when the Lorde had made an end of commnuyng with Moyses vpon the mount Sinai, he gaue hym two tables of witnesse, euen tables of stone, writen with the finger of God.
• 2 Sam 1:10 : 10 And so I stoode vpon him, and slue him, and because I was sure that he coulde not liue after that he had fallen, I toke the crowne that was vpon his head, and the braselet that was on his arme, and haue brought them hyther vnto my lorde.
• 1 Kgs 1:39 : 39 And Sadoc the priest toke an horne of oyle out of the tabernacle, & annoynted Solomon: And they blew the trumpettes, and al the people sayde: God saue king Solomon.
• Deut 17:18-20 : 18 And when he is set vpon the seate of his kingdome, he shall write hym out a copie of this lawe in a booke before the priestes the Leuites: 19 And it shalbe with hym, and he ought to reade therin all the dayes of his life, that he may learne to feare the Lorde his God, and to kepe all the wordes of this lawe and these ordinaunces, for to do them: 20 And that his heart arise not aboue his brethren, and that he turne not from the commaundement to the right hand or to the left: but that he may prolong his dayes in his kyngdome, he and his children in the middes of Israel.
• 1 Sam 10:1 : 1 And the Samuel toke a vessell of oyle, and powred it vpon his head, and kissed him, and sayd: Hath not the Lord annoynted thee, to be captaine ouer his inheritaunce?
• 2 Sam 16:16 : 16 And assoone as Husai the Arachite Dauids frend, was come vnto Absalo, Husai sayde vnto Absalom: God saue the king, God saue the king.
• 2 Kgs 11:2 : 2 But Iehosaba the daughter of king Ioram and syster of Ahaziahu, toke Ioas the sonne of Ahaziahu, and stale him from among the kinges sonnes that were slayne, and his nurse with him in the bedde chamber: and hyd him from Athalia, that he was not slayne.
• Ps 47:1 : 1 To the chiefe musition, a psalme (to be song) of the children of Corach. Clap your handes all ye people: make a noise vnto the Lorde with a ioyfull voyce.
• Ps 98:8 : 8 Let the fluddes clappe their handes: and let the hylles be ioyfull altogether before the face of God.
• Isa 55:12 : 12 And so shall ye go foorth with ioy, and be led with peace: The mountaynes and hylles shall syng with you for ioy, and all the trees of the fielde shal clappe their handes.
• Lam 4:20 : 20 The very breath of our mouth, euen the annointed of the Lorde hym selfe, was taken in their net, of whom we say, Under his shadowe we shalbe preserued among the heathen.
• Dan 3:9 : 9 They spake, and sayde vnto the king Nabuchodonozor: O king, liue for euer.
• Dan 6:21 : 21 Then Daniel saide vnto the king: O king, liue for euer.
• Matt 21:9 : 9 Moreouer, the multitudes that went before, & that came after, cryed, saying: Hosanna to the sonne of Dauid. Blessed is he that commeth in the name of the Lorde, Hosanna in the hyest.
• Matt 27:29 : 29 And platted a crowne of thornes, and put vppon his head, and a reede in his right hande, and bowed the knee before hym, and mocked hym, saying: Hayle kyng of the Iewes.
• Acts 4:27 : 27 And of a trueth, agaynst thy holye chylde Iesus, who thou hast anoynted, both Herode and also Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles, and the people of Israel, gathered them selues together,
• 2 Cor 1:21 : 21 And God it is whiche stablysheth vs with you in Christe, and hath annoynted vs.
• Heb 1:9 : 9 Thou hast loued ryghteousnesse, and hated iniquitie: Therfore God, euen thy God, hath annoynted thee with the oyle of gladnesse, aboue thy felowes.
• Heb 2:9 : 9 But hym that for a whyle was made lesse then the Angels, we see that it was Iesus, who through the sufferyng of death, was crowned with glorie and honour, that he by the grace of God, shoulde taste of death for all.
• Rev 19:12 : 12 His eyes were as a flambe of fire, and on his head were many crownes, and he had a name written, that no man knewe but he hym selfe.
• Ps 132:18 : 18 I wyll clothe his enemies with shame: but his crowne shall florishe vppon hym selfe.
• Isa 8:16 : 16 Binde vp the testimonie, seale the law in my disciples.
• Isa 8:20 : 20 Get thee to the lawe, and the testimonie: and if they speake not after this worde, there is no light in them.
• Ps 72:15-17 : 15 He wyll lyue, and he wyll geue to the poore of the golde of Sheba: and he wyll pray alwayes for hym, and dayly he wyll blesse hym. 16 A handfull of corne shall be sowed in the earth vpon the toppe of hylles: and the fruite therof shall make a noyse lyke Libanus, and shall florishe in the citie lyke grasse vpon the earth. 17 His name shall endure for euer, his name shalbe spread abrode to the world so long as the sunne shall shyne: all nations shalbe blessed in hym, and shall call hym blessed.
• Ps 78:5 : 5 For he reuiued a statute in Iacob, and gaue Israel a lawe: in the whiche he commaunded our forefathers to teache their children.
• Ps 89:39 : 39 Thou hast broken the couenaunt of thy seruaunt: thou hast disgraced his crowne, castyng it on the grounde.
• 2 Kgs 11:4 : 4 And the seuenth yere Iehoiada sent and set the rulers ouer hundredes, with the captaynes and them of the garde, and toke them to him into the house of the Lorde, & made a bonde with them, and toke an oth of them in the house of the Lorde, and shewed them the kinges sonne.
• 2 Chr 23:11 : 11 And they brought out the kinges sonne, and put vpon him the crowne, and the testimonie, and made him king: and Iehoiada and his sonnes annoynted him, and sayde, God saue the king.
• Esth 2:17 : 17 And the king loued Esther aboue all the women, and she found grace and fauour in his sight more then all the virgins, so that he set the crowne of the kingdome vpon her head, and made her queene in steede of Uasthi.
• Esth 6:8 : 8 That he may be arayed with the royall garmentes which the king vseth to weare, and the horse that the king rydeth vpon, and that the crowne royall may be set vpon his head:
• Ps 21:3 : 3 For thou hast preuented him with good blessinges: and hast set a crowne of pure golde vpon his head.
• 1 Kgs 1:34 : 34 And let Sadoc the priest and Nathan the prophet annoynt him there king ouer Israel: And blowe ye with trumpettes, & say, God saue king Solomon.
• 1 Sam 16:13 : 13 Therefore Samuel toke the horne with the annoyntment, and annoynted him in the middes of his brethren. And the spirite of the Lorde came vpon Dauid from that daye forwarde: And Samuel rose vp, and went to Rama.
• 2 Sam 2:4 : 4 And the men of Iuda came, and there they annoynted Dauid kyng ouer the house of Iuda: And they tolde Dauid, saying, It is the men of Iabes Gilead that buried Saul.
• 2 Sam 2:7 : 7 Therfore nowe let your handes be strong, and play ye the men: For your maister Saul is dead, and they that are of the house of Iuda haue annoynted me king ouer them.
• 2 Sam 5:3 : 3 And so all the elders of Israel came to the king to Hebron, and king Dauid made a couenaunt with them in Hebron before the Lorde: and they annointed Dauid king ouer Israel.
• 2 Sam 12:30 : 30 And he toke their kinges crowne from of his head (which wayed a talent of golde, & in it were precious stones) and it was set on Dauids head, and he brought away the spoyle of the citie, in exceeding great abundaunce.
• 2 Kgs 9:3 : 3 Then take the boxe of oyle, and powre it on his head, and say, thus saith the Lord, I haue annoynted thee to be king ouer Israel: And then open the doore, and flee, without any tarying.