2 Chronicles 10:15

Geneva Bible (1560)

So the king hearkened not vnto the people: for it was the ordinance of God that the Lorde might performe his saying, which hee had spoken by Ahiiah the Shilonite to Ieroboam the sonne of Nebat.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְלֹֽא־שָׁמַ֥ע הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ אֶל־הָעָ֑ם כִּֽי־הָיְתָ֤ה נְסִבָּה֙ מֵעִ֣ם הֽ͏ָאֱלֹהִ֔ים לְמַעַן֩ הָקִ֨ים יְהוָ֜ה אֶת־דְּבָר֗וֹ אֲשֶׁ֤ר דִּבֶּר֙ בְּיַד֙ אֲחִיָּ֣הוּ הַשִּֽׁלוֹנִ֔י אֶל־יָרָבְעָ֖ם בֶּן־נְבָֽט׃

Transliteration

and-not-šāmaʿ the-melek to-the-ʿām for-hāyətāh nəsibbāh from-with the-ʾĕlōhîm in-order-to hāqîm YHWH ʾet-dəbārô which dibber by-hand ʾăḥîyāhû the-šîlônî to-yārābəʿām son-of-nəbāṭ

Grammar Details

• *šāmaʿ*: qal perfect 3ms - he listened
• *melek*: noun, masculine singular + definite article - the king
• *ʿām*: noun, masculine singular + definite article - the people
• *hāyətāh*: qal perfect 3fs - it was
• *nəsibbāh*: noun, feminine singular - turn of events
• *ʾĕlōhîm*: noun, masculine plural + definite article - God
• *hāqîm*: hiphil infinitive construct - to establish
• *YHWH*: proper noun - Yahweh
• *dəbārô*: noun, masculine singular construct + 3ms suffix - his word
• *dibber*: piel perfect 3ms - he spoke
• *ʾăḥîyāhû*: proper noun, masculine - Ahijah
• *šîlônî*: adjective, masculine singular + definite article - the Shilonite
• *yārābəʿām*: proper noun, masculine - Jeroboam
• *nəbāṭ*: proper noun, masculine - Nebat

Word Meanings

• *šāmaʿ*: listened/heeded/obeyed
• *nəsibbāh*: turn of events/occasion/cause
• *hāqîm*: establish/confirm/fulfill
• *dibber*: spoke/said/declared

Referenced Verses

• 1 Sam 2:25 : 25 If one man sinne against another, the Iudge shal iudge it: but if a man sinne against the Lord, who will pleade for him? Notwithstanding they obeyed not the voyce of their father, because the Lord would slay them.
• 1 Kgs 11:29-39 : 29 And at that time, when Ieroboam went out of Ierusalem, the Prophet Ahiiah the Shilonite founde him in the way, hauing a newe garment on him, and they two were alone in ye field. 30 Then Ahiiah caught the newe garment that was on him, and rent it in twelue pieces, 31 And said to Ieroboam, Take vnto thee ten pieces: for thus saith the Lorde God of Israel, Beholde, I wil rent the kingdome out of ye hands of Salomon, and will giue ten tribes to thee. 32 But he shall haue one tribe for my seruant Dauids sake, and for Ierusalem the citie, which I haue chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, 33 Because they haue forsaken me, and haue worshipped Ashtaroth the god of the Zidonians, and Chemosh the god of the Moabites, and Milcom the god of the Ammonites, and haue not walked in my wayes (to do right in mine eyes, & my statutes, & my lawes) as did Dauid his father. 34 But I will not take the whole kingdome out of his hande: for I will make him prince all his life long for Dauid my seruants sake, whome I haue chosen, and who kept my commandements and my statutes. 35 But I will take the kingdome out of his sonnes hand, and will giue it vnto thee, euen the ten tribes. 36 And vnto his sonne will I giue one tribe, that Dauid my seruant may haue a light alway before me in Ierusalem the citie, which I haue chosen me, to put my Name there. 37 And I wil take thee, and thou shalt reigne, euen as thine heart desireth, and shalt be King ouer Israel. 38 And if thou hearken vnto all that I commande thee, and wilt walke in my wayes, and doe right in my sight, to keepe my statutes and my commandements, as Dauid my seruant did, then will I be with thee, and build thee a sure house, as I built vnto Dauid, and wil giue Israel vnto thee. 39 And I will for this afflict the seede of Dauid, but not for euer.
• 2 Chr 25:16-20 : 16 And as he talked with him, he said vnto him, Haue they made thee the Kings counseler? cease thou: why should they smite thee? And the Prophet ceased, but said, I knowe that God hath determined to destroy thee, because thou hast done this, and hast not obeyed my counsell. 17 Then Amaziah King of Iudah tooke counsell, and sent to Ioash the sonne of Iehoahaz, the sonne of Iehu King of Israel, saying, Come, let vs see one another in the face. 18 But Ioash King of Israel sent to Amaziah King of Iudah, saying, The thistle that is in Lebanon, sent to the cedar that is in Lebanon, saying, Giue thy daughter to my sonne to wife: and the wilde beast that was in Lebanon went and trode downe the thistle. 19 Thou thinkest: lo, thou hast smitten Edom, and thine heart lifteth thee vp to bragge: abide now at home: why doest thou prouoke to thine hurt, that thou shouldest fall, and Iudah with thee? 20 But Amaziah would not heare: for it was of God, that he might deliuer them into his had, because they had sought the gods of Edom.
• Isa 19:14 : 14 The Lorde hath mingled among them the spirite of errours: and they haue caused Egypt to erre in euery worke thereof, as a drunken man erreth in his vomite.
• Acts 2:23 : 23 Him, I say, being deliuered by the determinate counsell, and foreknowledge of God, after you had taken, with wicked handes you haue crucified and slaine.
• Acts 4:28 : 28 To doe whatsoeuer thine hand, and thy counsell had determined before to be done.
• Deut 2:30 : 30 But Sihon the King of Heshbon would not let vs passe by him: for the Lorde thy God had hardened his spirit, and made his heart obstinate, because hee would deliuer him into thine hand, as appeareth this day.
• Judg 14:4 : 4 But his father and his mother knewe not that it came of the Lorde, that he should seeke an occasion against the Philistims: for at that time the Philistims reigned ouer Israel.
• Isa 30:12-13 : 12 Therefoe thus saith the holy one of Israel, Because you haue cast off this worde, and trust in violence, and wickednes, and stay thereupon, 13 Therefore this iniquitie shalbe vnto you as a breach that falleth, or a swelling in an hie wall, whose breaking commeth suddenly in a moment.
• John 12:37-39 : 37 And though he had done so many miracles before them, yet beleeued they not on him, 38 That the saying of Esaias the Prophete might be fulfilled, that he sayd, Lord, who beleeued our report? and to whome is the arme of the Lord reueiled? 39 Therefore could they not beleeue, because that Esaias saith againe,
• John 19:24 : 24 Therefore they sayde one to another, Let vs not deuide it, but cast lots for it, whose it shall be. This was that the Scripture might be fulfilled, which sayth, They parted my garments among them, and on my coate did cast lots. So the souldiers did these things in deede.
• John 19:32-36 : 32 Then came the souldiers and brake the legges of the first, and of the other, which was crucified with Iesus. 33 But when they came to Iesus, and saw that he was dead alreadie, they brake not his legges. 34 But one of the souldiers with a speare pearced his side, and foorthwith came there out blood and water. 35 And he that sawe it, bare recorde, and his record is true: and he knoweth that he saith true, that ye might beleeue it. 36 For these things were done, that the Scripture shoulde be fulfilled, Not a bone of him shalbe broken.
• 1 Kgs 12:15 : 15 And the King hearkened not vnto the people: for it was the ordinance of the Lorde, that he might perfourme his saying, which the Lorde had spoken by Ahiiah the Shilonite vnto Ieroboam the sonne of Nebat.
• 1 Kgs 12:24 : 24 Thus saith the Lord, Ye shall not go vp, nor fight against your brethren the children of Israel: returne euery man to his house: for this thing is done by me. They obeyed therefore the worde of the Lorde and returned, and departed, according to the worde of the Lorde.
• 1 Kgs 22:20 : 20 And the Lord sayd, Who shall entise Ahab that he may go and fall at Ramoth Gilead? And one said on this maner, and another sayd on that maner.
• 2 Chr 9:29 : 29 Concerning the rest of the actes of Salomon first and last, are they not written in the booke of Nathan the Prophet, and in the prophecie of Ahiiah the Shilonite, and in the visions of Ieedo the Seer against Ieroboam the sonne of Nebat?