2 Kings 3:7

Bishops' Bible (1568)

And went, & sent to Iehosaphat the king of Iuda, saying: The king of Moab hath rebelled against me, wilt thou come with me against Moab in battell? He aunswered, I will come vp: for as I am, so art thou: and as my people be, so are thy people: & thy horses, as myne.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיֵּ֡לֶךְ וַיִּשְׁלַח֩ אֶל־יְהוֹשָׁפָ֨ט מֶֽלֶךְ־יְהוּדָ֜ה לֵאמֹ֗ר מֶ֤לֶךְ מוֹאָב֙ פָּשַׁ֣ע בִּ֔י הֲתֵלֵ֥ךְ אִתִּ֛י אֶל־מוֹאָ֖ב לַמִּלְחָמָ֑ה וַיֹּ֣אמֶר אֶעֱלֶ֔ה כָּמ֧וֹנִי כָמ֛וֹךָ כְּעַמִּ֥י כְעַמֶּ֖ךָ כְּסוּסַ֥י כְּסוּסֶֽיךָ׃

Transliteration

wa-yēlek wa-yišlaḥ to-Yĕhôšāpāṭ king-of-Yĕhûdāh lēʾmōr, king-of-Môʾāb pāšaʿ against-me; hă-tēlēk with-me to-Môʾāb for-milḥāmāh? wa-yōʾmer, ʾeʿĕleh, as-I as-you, as-my-people as-your-people, as-my-horses as-your-horses.

Grammar Details

• *wa-yēlek*: conjunction + qal imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - and he went
• *wa-yišlaḥ*: conjunction + qal imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - and he sent
• *Yĕhôšāpāṭ*: proper name - Jehoshaphat
• *Yĕhûdāh*: proper name - Judah
• *lēʾmōr*: preposition + qal infinitive construct - saying
• *Môʾāb*: proper name - Moab
• *pāšaʿ*: qal perfect, 3rd masculine singular - he has rebelled
• *hă-tēlēk*: interrogative particle + qal imperfect, 2nd masculine singular - will you go?
• *milḥāmāh*: feminine singular noun - battle/war
• *wa-yōʾmer*: conjunction + qal imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - and he said
• *ʾeʿĕleh*: qal imperfect, 1st common singular - I will go up

Word Meanings

• *pāšaʿ*: rebelled/revolted
• *hă-tēlēk*: will you go/come
• *milḥāmāh*: battle/war/fighting
• *ʾeʿĕleh*: I will go up/ascend/join you

Referenced Verses

• 1 Kgs 22:4 : 4 And he sayde vnto Iehosaphat: Wilt thou come with me to battayle against Ramoth in Gilead? And Iehosaphat sayde vnto the king of Israel: I am as thou art, my people as thy people, and my horses as thy horses.
• 1 Kgs 22:32-33 : 32 And when the captaynes of the charets saw Iehosaphat, they sayd: Surely it is the king of Israel. And they turned to fight against him: And Iehosaphat cryed. 33 And so it came to passe, that when the captaynes of the charettes sawe that he was not the king of Israel, they turned backe from him.
• 2 Chr 18:3 : 3 And Ahab king of Israel saide vnto Iehosaphat king of Iuda: wylt thou go with me to Ramoth in Gilead? And he aunswered him: I wyll be as thou, and my people shall be as thyne and we wyll go with thee to the warre.
• 2 Chr 18:29-32 : 29 And the king of Israel sayde vnto Iehosaphat, I must chaunge me when I go to the battell: but see that thou haue thyne owne apparel vpon thee. And the king of Israel chaunged him selfe, and they came to the battel. 30 But the king of Syria had commaunded the captaynes of the charets that were with him, saying: See that ye fight not against small or great, saue against the king of Israel only. 31 And when the captaynes of the charets saw Iehosaphat, they sayd, It is ye king of Israel: And therfore they compassed about hym to fight. But Iehosaphat cried out, and the Lord helped him, and God chased them away from him. 32 For it came to passe, that when the captaynes of the charets perceaued that it was not the king of Israel, they turned backe againe from him.
• 2 Chr 19:2 : 2 And Iehu the sonne of Hanani the sear went out to meete him, and sayd to king Iehosaphat: Wouldest thou helpe the vngodly, and loue them that hate the Lorde? Therfore is wrath come downe vpon thee from before the Lorde:
• 2 Chr 21:4-7 : 4 And Iehoram rose vp against the kingdome of his father, and preuayled, and slue all his brethren with the sworde, and diuers of the lordes of Israel. 5 Iehoram was thirtie and two yeres olde when he began to raigne, and he raigned eyght yeres in Hierusalem. 6 And he walked in the way of the kinges of Israel, like as dyd the house of Ahab, for he had the daughter of Ahab to wife: and he wrought euyll in the eyes of the Lorde. 7 Howbeit the Lord woulde not destroy the house of Dauid, because of the couenaunt that he had made with Dauid, as he promised to geue a light to hym and to his sonnes for euer.
• 2 Chr 22:3-4 : 3 And he walked also in the wayes of the house of Ahab: for his mother by her counsel enticed him to do wickedly. 4 Wherfore he dyd that which was euyll in the sight of the Lord, as dyd they that were of the house of Ahab: for they were his counselers after the death of his father, to his destruction.
• 2 Chr 22:10-12 : 10 But when Athaliahu the mother of Ahaziahu sawe that her sonne was dead, she arose and destroyed all the kinges seede in the kinred of the house of Iuda. 11 And Iehosabeth the daughter of the king, toke Ioas the sonne of Ahaziahu, and stale him from among the kinges sonnes that were slayne, & put him and his nurse in a priuie chamber: and so Iehosabeth the daughter of king Iehoram the wyfe of Iehoiada the priest, and the sister of Ahaziahu hid him from Athaliahu, that he was not slayne. 12 And so he was with them hyd in the house of God sixe yeres: and Athaliahu raigned ouer the lande.