2 Kings 19:15

Geneva Bible (1560)

And Hezekiah prayed before the Lorde, and saide, O Lorde God of Israel, which dwellest betweene the Cherubims, thou art very God alone ouer all the kingdomes of the earth: thou hast made the heauen and the earth.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיִּתְפַּלֵּ֨ל חִזְקִיָּ֜הוּ לִפְנֵ֣י יְהוָה֮ וַיֹּאמַר֒ יְהוָ֞ה אֱלֹהֵ֤י יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ יֹשֵׁ֣ב הַכְּרֻבִ֔ים אַתָּה־ה֤וּא הָֽאֱלֹהִים֙ לְבַדְּךָ֔ לְכֹ֖ל מַמְלְכ֣וֹת הָאָ֑רֶץ אַתָּ֣ה עָשִׂ֔יתָ אֶת־הַשָּׁמַ֖יִם וְאֶת־הָאָֽרֶץ׃

Transliteration

And yitpallēl Ḥizqîyāhû before YHWH and yō'mar, YHWH 'ĕlōhê Yiśrā'ēl yōšēḇ the-kᵊrūḇîm, you-hû' the-'ĕlōhîm to-ḇaddᵊkā, to-all mamlᵊkôt the-'āreṣ; you 'āśîtā 'et-the-šāmayim and-'et-the-'āreṣ.

Grammar Details

• *yitpallēl*: Hitpael imperfect 3rd masculine singular - prayed
• *Ḥizqîyāhû*: proper noun, masculine singular - Hezekiah
• *YHWH*: proper noun, divine name - LORD
• *yō'mar*: Qal imperfect 3rd masculine singular with waw consecutive - and he said
• *'ĕlōhê*: noun masculine plural construct - God of
• *Yiśrā'ēl*: proper noun - Israel
• *yōšēḇ*: Qal participle masculine singular construct - sitting/dwelling/enthroned on
• *kᵊrūḇîm*: noun masculine plural - cherubim
• *hû'*: 3rd person masculine singular pronoun - he/it
• *'ĕlōhîm*: noun masculine plural - God/gods
• *ḇaddᵊkā*: noun masculine singular construct with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your separation/alone
• *mamlᵊkôt*: noun feminine plural construct - kingdoms of
• *'āreṣ*: noun feminine singular - earth/land
• *'āśîtā*: Qal perfect 2nd masculine singular - you made/created
• *'et*: direct object marker
• *šāmayim*: noun masculine dual - heavens/sky
• *wᵊ-*: conjunction - and

Word Meanings

• *yitpallēl*: prayed/interceded/entreated
• *yōšēḇ*: sitting/dwelling/enthroned on
• *kᵊrūḇîm*: cherubim/angelic beings
• *'ĕlōhîm*: God/gods/divine being
• *ḇaddᵊkā*: your separation/alone/only you
• *'āreṣ*: earth/land/ground/territory

Referenced Verses

• Exod 25:22 : 22 And there I will declare my selfe vnto thee, & from aboue ye Mercieseate betweene ye two Cherubims, which are vpon ye Arke of ye Testimonie, I wil tel thee al things which I wil giue thee in comandement vnto ye children of Israel.
• 1 Kgs 18:39 : 39 And when all the people sawe it, they fell on their faces, and saide, The Lord is God, the Lord is God.
• 2 Kgs 5:15 : 15 And hee turned againe to the man of God, hee, and all his companie, and came and stood before him, and sayd, Behold, now I knowe that there is no God in all the world, but in Israel: now therefore, I pray thee, take a reward of thy seruant.
• Isa 44:6 : 6 Thus saith the Lord the King of Israel and his redeemer, the Lord of hostes, I am the first, and I am the last, and without me is there no God.
• Isa 44:8 : 8 Feare ye not, neither be afraide: haue not I tolde thee of olde, and haue declared it? you are euen my witnesses, whether there be a God beside me, and that there is no God that I knowe not.
• Isa 45:22 : 22 Looke vnto me, and ye shall be saued: all the endes of the earth shall be saued: for I am God, and there is none other.
• Jer 10:10-12 : 10 But the Lord is the God of trueth: he is the liuing God, and an euerlasting King: at his anger the earth shal tremble, and the nations cannot abide his wrath. 11 (Thus shall you say vnto them, The gods that haue not made the heauens and the earth, shall perish from the earth, and from vnder these heauens) 12 He hath made the earth by his power, and established the worlde by his wisedome, and hath stretched out the heauen by his discretion.
• Dan 4:34-35 : 34 (4:31) And at the ende of these dayes I Nebuchad-nezzar lift vp mine eyes vnto heauen, and mine vnderstanding was restored vnto me, and I gaue thankes vnto the most High, and I praysed and honoured him that liueth for euer, whose power is an euerlasting power, and his kingdome is from generation to generation. 35 (4:32) And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing: and according to his will he worketh in the armie of heauen, and in the inhabitants of the earth: and none can stay his hand, nor say vnto him, What doest thou?
• Dan 9:3-4 : 3 And I turned my face vnto the Lord God, and sought by prayer and supplications with fasting and sackcloth and ashes. 4 And I prayed vnto the Lord my God, and made my confession, saying, Oh Lord God, which art great and fearefull, & keepest couenant and mercy toward them which loue thee, and toward them that keepe thy commandements,
• John 1:1-3 : 1 In the beginning was that Word, and that Word was with God, and that Word was God. 2 This same was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made by it, and without it was made nothing that was made.
• 1 Chr 4:10 : 10 And Iabez called on the God of Israel, saying, If thou wilt blesse me in deede, and enlarge my coastes, and if thine hand be with me, and thou wilt cause me to be deliuered from euill, that I be not hurt; God graunted the thing that he asked.
• 2 Chr 5:7-8 : 7 So the Priests brought the Arke of the couenant of the Lord vnto his place, into the Oracle of the house, into the most Holy place, euen vnder the wings of the Cherubims. 8 For ye Cherubims stretched out their wings ouer the place of the Arke, and the Cherubims couered the Arke and the barres thereof aboue.
• 2 Chr 14:11 : 11 And Asa cryed vnto the Lorde his God, and saide, Lord, it is nothing with thee to helpe with many, or with no power: helpe vs, O Lorde our God: for we rest on thee, and in thy Name are we come against this multitude: O Lorde, thou art our God, let not man preuaile against thee.
• 2 Chr 20:6 : 6 And saide, O Lorde God of our fathers, art not thou God in heauen? And reignest not thou on all the kingdomes of the heathen? And in thine hande is power and might, and none is able to withstand thee.
• 2 Chr 32:20 : 20 But Hezekiah the King, and the Prophet Isaiah the sonne of Amoz prayed against this and cryed to heauen.
• Ps 33:9 : 9 For he spake, and it was done: he commanded, and it stood.
• Ps 80:1 : 1 To him that excelleth on Shoshannim Eduth. A Psalme committed to Asaph. Heare, O thou Shepheard of Israel, thou that leadest Ioseph like sheepe: shewe thy brightnes, thou that sittest betweene the Cherubims.
• Ps 99:1 : 1 The Lord reigneth, let the people tremble: he sitteth betweene the Cherubims, let the earth be moued.
• Ps 102:25 : 25 Thou hast aforetime layde the foundation of the earth, and the heauens are the worke of thine hands.
• Ps 146:6 : 6 Which made heauen and earth, the sea, and all that therein is: which keepeth his fidelitie for euer:
• Isa 41:17 : 17 When the poore and the needy seeke water, & there is none (their tongue faileth for thirst: I the Lorde will heare them: I the God of Israel will not forsake them)
• Isa 43:10 : 10 You are my witnesses, saith the Lord, and my seruant, whom I haue chosen: therefore yee shall knowe and beleeue me and yee shall vnderstand that I am: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me.
• 1 Sam 4:4 : 4 Then the people sent to Shiloh, & brought from thence the Arke of the couenant of the Lorde of hostes, who dwelleth betweene the Cherubims: and there were the two sonnes of Eli, Hophni, and Phinehas, with the Arke of the couenant of God.
• 2 Sam 7:18-28 : 18 Then King Dauid went in, and sate before the Lorde, and sayde, Who am I, O Lorde God, and what is mine house, that thou hast brought me hitherto? 19 And this was yet a small thing in thy sight, O Lord God, therefore thou hast spoken also of thy seruants house for a great while: but doth this apperteine to man, O Lord God? 20 And what can Dauid say more vnto thee? for thou, Lord God, knowest thy seruant. 21 For thy words sake, and according to thine owne heart hast thou done all these great things, to make them knowen vnto thy seruant. 22 Wherefore thou art great, O Lorde God: for there is none like thee, neither is there any God besides thee, according to all that wee haue heard with our eares. 23 And what one people in the earth is like thy people, like Israel? whose God went and redeemed them to himselfe, that they might be his people, and that hee might make him a name, and do for you great things, & terrible for thy land, O Lord, euen for thy people, whome thou redeemedst to thee out of Egypt, from the nations, and their gods? 24 For thou hast ordeyned to thy selfe thy people Israel to be thy people for euer: and thou Lord art become their God. 25 Nowe therefore, O Lorde God, confirme for euer the word that thou hast spoken concerning thy seruant and his house, and doe as thou hast sayde. 26 And let thy Name bee magnified for euer by them that shal say, The Lorde of hostes is the God ouer Israel: and let the house of thy seruant Dauid be stablished before thee. 27 For thou, O Lord of hostes, God of Israel, hast reueiled vnto thy seruant, saying, I will build thee an house: therefore hath thy seruant bene bold to pray this prayer vnto thee. 28 Therefore now, O Lord God, (for thou art God, and thy words be true, and thou hast tolde this goodnes vnto thy seruant)
• 1 Kgs 8:23 : 23 And sayd, O Lord God of Israel, there is no God like thee in heauen aboue, or in the earth beneath, thou that keepest couenant and mercie with thy seruants that walke before thee with all their heart,
• Gen 1:1 : 1 In the beginning God created the heauen and the earth.
• Gen 2:4 : 4 These are the generations of the heauens and of the earth, when they were created, in the day that the Lorde God made the earth and the heauens,
• Gen 32:28 : 28 Then said he, Thy name shalbe called Iaakob no more, but Israel: because thou hast had power with God, thou shalt also preuaile with men.
• Gen 33:20 : 20 And he set vp there an altar, and called it, The mightie God of Israel.