2 Chronicles 13:12

Geneva Bible (1560)

And behold, this God is with vs, as a captaine, and his Priests with the sounding trumpets, to crie an alarme against you. O yee children of Israel, fight not against the Lorde God of your fathers: for ye shall not prosper.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְהִנֵּה֩ עִמָּ֨נוּ בָרֹ֜אשׁ הָאֱלֹהִ֧ים ׀ וְכֹהֲנָ֛יו וַחֲצֹצְר֥וֹת הַתְּרוּעָ֖ה לְהָרִ֣יעַ עֲלֵיכֶ֑ם בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל אַל־תִּלָּֽחֲמ֛וּ עִם־יְהוָ֥ה אֱלֹהֵֽי־אֲבֹתֵיכֶ֖ם כִּי־לֹ֥א תַצְלִֽיחוּ׃

Transliteration

wə-behold with-us in-rō'š hā-'ĕlōhîm wə-kōhănāyw wə-ḥăṣōṣərôth ha-tərû'āh to-hārîa' upon-you bənê Yiśrā'ēl not-tillāḥămû with-YHWH 'ĕlōhê-'ăḇōthêḵem kî-not taṣlîḥû

Grammar Details

• *wə*-: conjunction - and
• *rō'š*: masculine singular - head, chief, leader
• *hā*-*'ĕlōhîm*: definite article with masculine plural - the God
• *kōhănāyw*: masculine plural with 3rd masculine singular suffix - his priests
• *ḥăṣōṣərôth*: feminine plural construct - trumpets of
• *ha*-*tərû'āh*: definite article with feminine singular - the alarm, the battle cry
• *hārîa'*: Hiphil infinitive construct - to sound an alarm
• *bənê*: masculine plural construct - sons of
• *Yiśrā'ēl*: proper name - Israel
• *tillāḥămû*: Niphal imperfect 2nd masculine plural - fight, make war
• *YHWH*: proper name - YHWH, the LORD
• *'ĕlōhê*-: masculine plural construct - God of
• *'ăḇōthêḵem*: masculine plural with 2nd masculine plural suffix - your fathers
• *kî*-: conjunction - for, because
• *taṣlîḥû*: Hiphil imperfect 2nd masculine plural - you will succeed, prosper

Word Meanings

• *rō'š*: head, chief, leader, front
• *ḥăṣōṣərôth* *ha*-*tərû'āh*: trumpets of alarm, battle trumpets
• *hārîa'*: to sound an alarm, to shout, to signal
• *tillāḥămû*: fight against, war against, struggle against
• *taṣlîḥû*: succeed, prosper, be victorious

Referenced Verses

• Num 10:8-9 : 8 And the sonnes of Aaron the Priest shall blowe the trumpets, and ye shall haue them as a lawe for euer in your generations. 9 And when ye goe to warre in your lande against the enemie that vexeth you, ye shall blowe an alarme with the trumpets, and ye shall bee remembred before the Lorde your God, and shalbe saued from your enemies.
• Acts 5:39 : 39 But if it be of God, ye can not destroy it, lest ye be found euen fighters against God.
• Zech 10:5 : 5 And they shalbe as the mightie men, which treade downe their enemies in the mire of the streetes in the battell, and they shall fight, because the Lorde is with them, and the riders on horses shall be confounded.
• Acts 9:4-5 : 4 And hee fell to the earth, and heard a voyce, saying to him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? 5 And he sayd, Who art thou, Lord? And the Lord sayd, I am Iesus whom thou persecutest: it is hard for thee to kicke against pricks.
• Rom 8:31 : 31 What shall we then say to these thinges? If God be on our side, who can be against vs?
• Heb 2:10 : 10 For it became him, for whome are all these thinges, and by whome are all these things, seeing that hee brought many children vnto glory, that he should consecrate the Prince of their saluation through afflictions.
• Num 14:41 : 41 But Moses said, Wherefore transgresse yee thus the commandement of the Lorde? it will not so come well to passe.
• Num 23:21 : 21 Hee seeth none iniquitie in Iaakob, nor seeth no transgression in Israel: the Lord his God is with him, and the ioyfull shoute of a king is among them.
• Num 31:6 : 6 And Moses sent them to the warre, euen a thousand of euery tribe, and sent them with Phinehas the sonne of Eleazar the Priest to the warre: and the holy instruments, that is, the trumpets to blow were in his hand.
• Deut 20:4 : 4 For ye Lord your God goeth with you, to fight for you against your enemies, & to saue you
• Deut 28:29 : 29 Thou shalt also grope at noone daies, as the blinde gropeth in darknes, and shalt not prosper in thy wayes: thou shalt neuer but bee oppressed with wrong and be powled euermore, & no man shal succour thee.
• Josh 5:13-15 : 13 And when Ioshua was by Iericho, he lift vp his eyes and looked: and behold, there stood a man against him, hauing a sword drawen in his hand: and Ioshua went vnto him, and said vnto him, Art thou on our side, or on our aduersaries? 14 And he said, Nay, but as a captaine of the host of the Lorde am I nowe come: then Ioshua fel on his face to the earth, and did worship, & saide vnto him, What sayth my Lorde vnto his seruant? 15 And the captaine of ye Lords host said vnto Ioshua, Loose thy shoe of thy foote: for ye place wheron thou standest, is holy: and Ioshua did so.
• Josh 6:13-20 : 13 Also seuen Priests bare seuen trumpets of rams hornes, and went before the Arke of the Lorde, and going blewe with the trumpets: and the men of armes went before them, but the gathering hoste came after the Arke of the Lord, as they went and blewe the trumpets. 14 And the second day they compassed the citie once, and returned into the host: thus they did sixe dayes. 15 And when the seuenth day came, they rose early, euen with the dawning of the day, & compassed the citie after ye same maner seuen times: only that day they compassed the citie seuen times. 16 And when the Priests had blowen ye trumpets the seuenth time, Ioshua said vnto ye people, Shoute: for the Lord hath giuen you the citie. 17 And the citie shalbe an execrable thing, both it, and all that are therein, vnto the Lorde: onely Rahab the harlot shall liue, shee, and all that are with her in the house: for shee hid the messengers that we sent. 18 Notwithstanding, be ye ware of the execrable thing, lest ye make your selues execrable, and in taking of the execrable thing, make also the hoste of Israel execrable, and trouble it. 19 But all siluer, and gold, & vessels of brasse, and yron shalbe consecrate vnto the Lord, and shall come into the Lordes treasury. 20 So the people shouted, whe they had blowen trumpets: for when the people had heard the sound of the trumpet, they shouted with a great shoute: and the wall fel downe flat: so the people went vp into the citie, euery man streight before him: and they tooke the citie.
• 1 Sam 4:5-7 : 5 And when the Arke of the couenant of the Lord came into the hoste, all Israel shouted a mightie shoute, so that the earth rang againe. 6 And when the Philistims heard the noyse of the shoute, they said, What meaneth the sound of this mightie shoute in the host of the Ebrewes? and they vnderstoode, that the Arke of the Lord was come into the hoste. 7 And the Philistims were afraide, and saide, God is come into the hoste: therefore saide they, Wo vnto vs: for it hath not bene so heretofore.
• 2 Chr 24:20 : 20 And the Spirit of God came vpon Zechariah the sonne of Iehoiada the Priest, which stoode aboue the people, and sayde vnto them, Thus sayth God, Why transgresse ye the commaundements of the Lorde? surely ye shall not prosper: because ye haue forsaken the Lorde, he also hath forsaken you.
• Job 9:4 : 4 He is wise in heart, & mighty in stregth: who hath bene fierce against him & hath prospered?
• Job 15:25-26 : 25 For he hath stretched out his hand against God, and made him selfe strong against the Almightie. 26 Therefore God shall runne vpon him, euen vpon his necke, and against the most thicke part of his shielde.
• Job 40:9 : 9 (40:4) Or hast thou an arme like God? or doest thou thunder with a voyce like him?
• Ps 20:7 : 7 Some trust in chariots, & some in horses: but we will remember the Name of ye Lord our God.
• Isa 8:10 : 10 Take counsell together, yet it shall be brought to nought: pronounce a decree, yet shall it not stand: for God is with vs.
• Isa 45:9 : 9 Woe be vnto him that striueth with his maker, the potsherd with the potsherds of the earth: shall the clay say to him that facioneth it, What makest thou? or thy worke, It hath none hands?
• Isa 54:17 : 17 But all the weapons that are made against thee, shall not prosper: and euery tongue that shall rise against thee in iudgement, thou shalt condemne. This is the heritage of the Lords seruants, and their righteousnesse is of me, sayth the Lorde.
• Jer 2:37 : 37 For thou shalt goe foorth from thence, and thine hands vpon thine head, because the Lorde hath reiected thy confidence, and thou shalt not prosper thereby.
• Jer 50:24 : 24 I haue snared thee, and thou art taken, O Babel, and thou wast not aware: thou art found, and also caught, because thou hast striuen against the Lorde.
• Ezek 17:9 : 9 Say thou, Thus saith the Lord God, Shall it prosper? shall he not pull vp the rootes thereof, and destroy the fruite thereof, and cause them to drie? all the leaues of her bud shall wither without great power, or many people, to plucke it vp by the rootes thereof.