2 Kings 24:2

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

And the LORD sent against him bands of the Chaldees, and bands of the Syrians, and bands of the Moabites, and bands of the children of Ammon, and sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake by his servants the prophets.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיְשַׁלַּ֣ח יְהוָ֣ה ׀ בּ֡וֹ אֶת־גְּדוּדֵ֣י כַשְׂדִּים֩ וְאֶת־גְּדוּדֵ֨י אֲרָ֜ם וְאֵ֣ת ׀ גְּדוּדֵ֣י מוֹאָ֗ב וְאֵת֙ גְּדוּדֵ֣י בְנֵֽי־עַמּ֔וֹן וַיְשַׁלְּחֵ֥ם בִּֽיהוּדָ֖ה לְהַֽאֲבִיד֑וֹ כִּדְבַ֣ר יְהוָ֔ה אֲשֶׁ֣ר דִּבֶּ֔ר בְּיַ֖ד עֲבָדָ֥יו הַנְּבִיאִֽים׃

Transliteration

And-wayəšallaḥ YHWH against-him ʾeṯ-gəḏûḏê kaśdîm and-ʾeṯ-gəḏûḏê ʾărām and-ʾēṯ gəḏûḏê môʾāḇ and-ʾēṯ gəḏûḏê bənê-ʿammôn and-wayəšalləḥēm in-yəhûḏāh to-haʾăḇîḏô according-to-ḏəḇar YHWH which dibber by-yaḏ ʿăḇāḏāyw hannəḇîʾîm.

Grammar Details

• *wayəšallaḥ*: Piel imperfect consecutive 3rd person masculine singular - and he sent
• *YHWH*: proper divine name - LORD
• *ʾeṯ*: direct object marker
• *gəḏûḏê*: masculine plural construct noun - bands/troops of
• *kaśdîm*: proper noun, plural - Chaldeans
• *ʾărām*: proper noun - Aram/Syria
• *môʾāḇ*: proper noun - Moab
• *bənê*: masculine plural construct noun - sons of
• *ʿammôn*: proper noun - Ammon
• *wayəšalləḥēm*: Piel imperfect consecutive 3rd person masculine singular with 3rd person masculine plural suffix - and he sent them
• *yəhûḏāh*: proper noun - Judah
• *haʾăḇîḏô*: Hiphil infinitive construct with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - to destroy it/him
• *ḏəḇar*: masculine singular construct noun - word of
• *dibber*: Piel perfect 3rd person masculine singular - he spoke
• *yaḏ*: feminine singular construct noun - hand of
• *ʿăḇāḏāyw*: masculine plural noun with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - his servants
• *hannəḇîʾîm*: masculine plural noun with definite article - the prophets

Word Meanings

• *gəḏûḏê*: bands/troops/raiders/marauders
• *haʾăḇîḏô*: to destroy it/him/to bring it to ruin
• *yaḏ*: hand of/by means of/through

Referenced Verses

• Jer 35:11 : 11 But it came to pass, when Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came up into the land, that we said, Come, and let us go to Jerusalem for fear of the army of the Chaldeans, and for fear of the army of the Syrians: so we dwell at Jerusalem.
• 2 Kgs 23:27 : 27 And the LORD said, I will remove Judah also out of my sight, as I have removed Israel, and will cast off this city Jerusalem which I have chosen, and the house of which I said, My name shall be there.
• 2 Kgs 6:23 : 23 And he prepared great provision for them: and when they had eaten and drunk, he sent them away, and they went to their master. So the bands of Syria came no more into the land of Israel.
• 2 Kgs 20:17 : 17 Behold, the days come, that all that is in thine house, and that which thy fathers have laid up in store unto this day, shall be carried into Babylon: nothing shall be left, saith the LORD.
• 2 Kgs 21:12-14 : 12 Therefore thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Behold, I am bringing such evil upon Jerusalem and Judah, that whosoever heareth of it, both his ears shall tingle. 13 And I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria, and the plummet of the house of Ahab: and I will wipe Jerusalem as a man wipeth a dish, wiping it, and turning it upside down. 14 And I will forsake the remnant of mine inheritance, and deliver them into the hand of their enemies; and they shall become a prey and a spoil to all their enemies;
• Ezek 19:8 : 8 Then the nations set against him on every side from the provinces, and spread their net over him: he was taken in their pit.
• Jer 25:9 : 9 Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith the LORD, and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and an hissing, and perpetual desolations.
• Jer 32:28 : 28 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the Chaldeans, and into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and he shall take it:
• Deut 28:49-50 : 49 The LORD shall bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flieth; a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand; 50 A nation of fierce countenance, which shall not regard the person of the old, nor shew favour to the young:
• Jer 26:6 : 6 Then will I make this house like Shiloh, and will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth.
• Jer 26:20 : 20 And there was also a man that prophesied in the name of the LORD, Urijah the son of Shemaiah of Kirjathjearim, who prophesied against this city and against this land according to all the words of Jeremiah:
• Mic 3:12 : 12 Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest.
• 2 Kgs 13:20-21 : 20 And Elisha died, and they buried him. And the bands of the Moabites invaded the land at the coming in of the year. 21 And it came to pass, as they were burying a man, that, behold, they spied a band of men; and they cast the man into the sepulchre of Elisha: and when the man was let down, and touched the bones of Elisha, he revived, and stood up on his feet.
• 2 Chr 33:11 : 11 Wherefore the LORD brought upon them the captains of the host of the king of Assyria, which took Manasseh among the thorns, and bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon.
• Job 1:17 : 17 While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The Chaldeans made out three bands, and fell upon the camels, and have carried them away, yea, and slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.
• Isa 6:11-12 : 11 Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate, 12 And the LORD have removed men far away, and there be a great forsaking in the midst of the land.
• Isa 7:17 : 17 The LORD shall bring upon thee, and upon thy people, and upon thy father's house, days that have not come, from the day that Ephraim departed from Judah; even the king of Assyria.
• Isa 13:5 : 5 They come from a far country, from the end of heaven, even the LORD, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land.