2 Chronicles 13:12

Authorized King James Version (1611)

And, behold, God himself [is] with us for [our] captain, and his priests with sounding trumpets to cry alarm against you. O children of Israel, fight ye not against the LORD 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 sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow with the trumpets; and they shall be to you for an ordinance for ever throughout your generations. 9 And if ye go to war in your land against the enemy that oppresseth you, then ye shall blow an alarm with the trumpets; and ye shall be remembered before the LORD your God, and ye shall be saved from your enemies.
• Acts 5:39 : 39 But if it be of God, ye cannot overthrow it; lest haply ye be found even to fight against God.
• Zech 10:5 : 5 ¶ And they shall be as mighty [men], which tread down [their enemies] in the mire of the streets in the battle: and they shall fight, because the LORD [is] with them, and the riders on horses shall be confounded.
• Acts 9:4-5 : 4 And he fell to the earth, and heard a voice saying unto him, ‹Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?› 5 And he said, Who art thou, Lord? And the Lord said, ‹I am Jesus whom thou persecutest:› [it is] ‹hard for thee to kick against the pricks.›
• Rom 8:31 : 31 ¶ What shall we then say to these things? If God [be] for us, who [can be] against us?
• Heb 2:10 : 10 ¶ For it became him, for whom [are] all things, and by whom [are] all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings.
• Num 14:41 : 41 And Moses said, Wherefore now do ye transgress the commandment of the LORD? but it shall not prosper.
• Num 23:21 : 21 He hath not beheld iniquity in Jacob, neither hath he seen perverseness in Israel: the LORD his God [is] with him, and the shout of a king [is] among them.
• Num 31:6 : 6 And Moses sent them to the war, a thousand of [every] tribe, them and Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, to the war, with the holy instruments, and the trumpets to blow in his hand.
• Deut 20:4 : 4 For the LORD your God [is] he that goeth with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.
• Deut 28:29 : 29 And thou shalt grope at noonday, as the blind gropeth in darkness, and thou shalt not prosper in thy ways: and thou shalt be only oppressed and spoiled evermore, and no man shall save [thee].
• Josh 5:13-15 : 13 ¶ And it came to pass, when Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted up his eyes and looked, and, behold, there stood a man over against him with his sword drawn in his hand: and Joshua went unto him, and said unto him, [Art] thou for us, or for our adversaries? 14 And he said, Nay; but [as] captain of the host of the LORD am I now come. And Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and did worship, and said unto him, What saith my lord unto his servant? 15 And the captain of the LORD'S host said unto Joshua, Loose thy shoe from off thy foot; for the place whereon thou standest [is] holy. And Joshua did so.
• Josh 6:13-20 : 13 And seven priests bearing seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark of the LORD went on continually, and blew with the trumpets: and the armed men went before them; but the rereward came after the ark of the LORD, [the priests] going on, and blowing with the trumpets. 14 And the second day they compassed the city once, and returned into the camp: so they did six days. 15 And it came to pass on the seventh day, that they rose early about the dawning of the day, and compassed the city after the same manner seven times: only on that day they compassed the city seven times. 16 And it came to pass at the seventh time, when the priests blew with the trumpets, Joshua said unto the people, Shout; for the LORD hath given you the city. 17 ¶ And the city shall be accursed, [even] it, and all that [are] therein, to the LORD: only Rahab the harlot shall live, she and all that [are] with her in the house, because she hid the messengers that we sent. 18 And ye, in any wise keep [yourselves] from the accursed thing, lest ye make [yourselves] accursed, when ye take of the accursed thing, and make the camp of Israel a curse, and trouble it. 19 But all the silver, and gold, and vessels of brass and iron, [are] consecrated unto the LORD: they shall come into the treasury of the LORD. 20 So the people shouted when [the priests] blew with the trumpets: and it came to pass, when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, and the people shouted with a great shout, that the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the city.
• 1 Sam 4:5-7 : 5 And when the ark of the covenant of the LORD came into the camp, all Israel shouted with a great shout, so that the earth rang again. 6 And when the Philistines heard the noise of the shout, they said, What [meaneth] the noise of this great shout in the camp of the Hebrews? And they understood that the ark of the LORD was come into the camp. 7 And the Philistines were afraid, for they said, God is come into the camp. And they said, Woe unto us! for there hath not been such a thing heretofore.
• 2 Chr 24:20 : 20 And the Spirit of God came upon Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest, which stood above the people, and said unto them, Thus saith God, Why transgress ye the commandments of the LORD, that ye cannot prosper? because ye have forsaken the LORD, he hath also forsaken you.
• Job 9:4 : 4 [He is] wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath hardened [himself] against him, and hath prospered?
• Job 15:25-26 : 25 For he stretcheth out his hand against God, and strengtheneth himself against the Almighty. 26 He runneth upon him, [even] on [his] neck, upon the thick bosses of his bucklers:
• Job 40:9 : 9 Hast thou an arm like God? or canst thou thunder with a voice like him?
• Ps 20:7 : 7 Some [trust] in chariots, and some in horses: but we will remember the name of the LORD our God.
• Isa 8:10 : 10 Take counsel together, and it shall come to nought; speak the word, and it shall not stand: for God [is] with us.
• Isa 45:9 : 9 Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! [Let] the potsherd [strive] with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands?
• Isa 54:17 : 17 No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue [that] shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This [is] the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness [is] of me, saith the LORD.
• Jer 2:37 : 37 Yea, thou shalt go forth from him, and thine hands upon thine head: for the LORD hath rejected thy confidences, and thou shalt not prosper in them.
• Jer 50:24 : 24 I have laid a snare for thee, and thou art also taken, O Babylon, and thou wast not aware: thou art found, and also caught, because thou hast striven against the LORD.
• Ezek 17:9 : 9 Say thou, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Shall it prosper? shall he not pull up the roots thereof, and cut off the fruit thereof, that it wither? it shall wither in all the leaves of her spring, even without great power or many people to pluck it up by the roots thereof.