2 Chronicles 17:4

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

But sought to the LORD God of his father, and walked in his commandments, and not after the doings of Israel.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כִּ֠י לֽ͏ֵאלֹהֵ֤י אָבִיו֙ דָּרָ֔שׁ וּבְמִצְוֺתָ֖יו הָלָ֑ךְ וְלֹ֖א כְּמַעֲשֵׂ֥ה יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃

Transliteration

For to-ʾĕlōhê ʾāḇîw dāraš and-in-miṣwōṯāyw hālāḵ and-not like-maʿăśêh Yiśrāʾēl

Grammar Details

• *ʾĕlōhê*: noun, masculine plural construct - 'God of'
• *ʾāḇîw*: noun + pronominal suffix, masculine singular - 'his father'
• *dāraš*: qal perfect, 3rd masculine singular - 'he sought/inquired of'
• *miṣwōṯāyw*: noun, feminine plural + pronominal suffix, 3rd masculine singular - 'his commandments'
• *hālāḵ*: qal perfect, 3rd masculine singular - 'he walked/went'
• *maʿăśêh*: noun, masculine singular construct - 'practice/deed/work of'
• *Yiśrāʾēl*: proper noun - 'Israel'

Word Meanings

• *dāraš*: sought/inquired of/consulted/required
• *hālāḵ*: walked/followed/conducted himself
• *maʿăśêh*: practice/deed/work/action/conduct

Referenced Verses

• 1 Kgs 12:28 : 28 Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold, and said unto them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem: behold thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
• Hos 4:15 : 15 Though thou, Israel, play the harlot, yet let not Judah offend; and come not ye unto Gilgal, neither go ye up to Bethaven, nor swear, The LORD liveth.
• Luke 1:6 : 6 And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.
• 1 Thess 2:12 : 12 {G2532} That ye would walk worthy of God, who hath called you unto his kingdom and glory.
• 1 Thess 4:1 : 1 Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, so ye would abound more and more.
• 2 Kgs 8:18 : 18 And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as did the house of Ahab: for the daughter of Ahab was his wife: and he did evil in the sight of the LORD.
• 2 Kgs 17:19 : 19 Also Judah kept not the commandments of the LORD their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made.
• Jer 3:7-8 : 7 And I said after she had done all these things, Turn thou unto me. But she returned not. And her treacherous sister Judah saw it. 8 And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also.
• 1 Kgs 12:30 : 30 And this thing became a sin: for the people went to worship before the one, even unto Dan.
• 1 Kgs 12:33 : 33 So he offered upon the altar which he had made in Bethel the fifteenth day of the eighth month, even in the month which he had devised of his own heart; and ordained a feast unto the children of Israel: and he offered upon the altar, and burnt incense.
• 1 Kgs 13:33-34 : 33 After this thing Jeroboam returned not from his evil way, but made again of the lowest of the people priests of the high places: whosoever would, he consecrated him, and he became one of the priests of the high places. 34 And this thing became sin unto the house of Jeroboam, even to cut it off, and to destroy it from off the face of the earth.
• 1 Kgs 16:31-33 : 31 And it came to pass, as if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, that he took to wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Zidonians, and went and served Baal, and worshipped him. 32 And he reared up an altar for Baal in the house of Baal, which he had built in Samaria. 33 And Ahab made a grove; and Ahab did more to provoke the LORD God of Israel to anger than all the kings of Israel that were before him.