2 Chronicles 25:8

KJV1611 – Modern English

But if you will go, do it, be strong for the battle; God shall make you fall before the enemy, for God has power to help, and to cast down.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כִּ֚י אִם־בֹּ֣א אַתָּ֔ה עֲשֵׂ֖ה חֲזַ֣ק לַמִּלְחָמָ֑ה יַכְשִֽׁילְךָ֤ הָֽאֱלֹהִים֙ לִפְנֵ֣י אוֹיֵ֔ב כִּ֥י יֶשׁ־כֹּ֛חַ בֵּאלֹהִ֖ים לַעְז֥וֹר וּלְהַכְשִֽׁיל׃

Transliteration

kî ʾim-bōʾ ʾattâ ʿăśēh ḥăzaq la-milḥāmâ yakšîləkā hā-ʾĕlōhîm lipnê ʾôyēb kî yeš-kōaḥ bē-ʾlōhîm la-ʿzôr û-lə-hakšîl

Grammar Details

• *kî*: conjunction, 'for/if'
• *ʾim-bōʾ*: conditional particle + qal infinitive absolute, 'if to go'
• *ʾattâ*: 2nd masculine singular pronoun, 'you'
• *ʿăśēh*: qal imperative, 'do'
• *ḥăzaq*: adjective/qal imperative, 'be strong'
• *la-milḥāmâ*: preposition + definite article + noun, 'for the battle'
• *yakšîləkā*: hiphil imperfect 3rd masculine singular + 2nd masculine singular suffix, 'he will make you stumble'
• *hā-ʾĕlōhîm*: definite article + noun, 'God'
• *lipnê*: preposition + construct noun, 'before'
• *ʾôyēb*: qal participle/noun, 'enemy'
• *yeš-kōaḥ*: existential particle + noun, 'there is power'
• *bē-ʾlōhîm*: preposition + noun, 'with God'
• *la-ʿzôr*: preposition + qal infinitive construct, 'to help'
• *û-lə-hakšîl*: conjunction + preposition + hiphil infinitive construct, 'and to cause to stumble'

Word Meanings

• *bōʾ*: go/come/advance
• *ḥăzaq*: be strong/be brave/act boldly
• *yakšîləkā*: make you stumble/defeat you/bring you down
• *kōaḥ*: power/strength/ability
• *hakšîl*: cause to stumble/overthrow/defeat

Other Translations

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  Even if you go and fight courageously in battle, God will overthrow you before the enemy, for God has the power to help or to overthrow.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  But if thou wilt go, do it, be strong for the battle: God shall make thee fall before the enemy: for God hath power to help, and to cast down.

• American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

  But if thou wilt go, do [valiantly], be strong for the battle: God will cast thee down before the enemy; for God hath power to help, and to cast down.

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

  But if thou wilt go, do it, be strong for the battle: God shall make thee fall before the enemy: for God hath power to help, and to cast down.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  For yf thou commest to shewe yi boldnes in the battaill, God shal make the fall before thine enemies. For God hath power to helpe, and to cause for to fall.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  If not, goe thou on, doe it, make thy selfe strong to the battel, but God shall make thee fall before the enemie: for God hath power to helpe, and to cast downe.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  But if thou wilt needes be saytlesse: come on, and take the battell in hande, and God shall make thee fall before the enemie: For God hath power to helpe, and to cast downe.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  But if thou wilt go, do [it], be strong for the battle: God shall make thee fall before the enemy: for God hath power to help, and to cast down.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  But if you will go, do [valiantly], be strong for the battle: God will cast you down before the enemy; for God has power to help, and to cast down.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  but if thou art going -- do `it', be strong for battle, God doth cause thee to stumble before an enemy, for there is power in God to help, and to cause to stumble.'

• American Standard Version (1901)

  But if thou wilt go, do `valiantly', be strong for the battle: God will cast thee down before the enemy; for God hath power to help, and to cast down.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  But if thou wilt go, do [valiantly], be strong for the battle: God will cast thee down before the enemy; for God hath power to help, and to cast down.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  But go yourself, and be strong in war; God will not let you go down before those who are fighting against you; for God has power to give help or to send you down before your attackers.

• World English Bible (2000)

  But if you will go, take action, be strong for the battle. God will overthrow you before the enemy; for God has power to help, and to overthrow."

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  Even if you go and fight bravely in battle, God will defeat you before the enemy. God is capable of helping or defeating.”

Referenced Verses

• 2 Chr 20:6 : 6 And said, O LORD God of our fathers, are You not God in heaven? And do You not rule over all the kingdoms of the nations? And in Your hand is there not power and might, so that no one is able to withstand You?
• 2 Chr 14:11 : 11 And Asa cried unto the LORD his God, and said, 'LORD, it is nothing for You to help, whether with many, or with those who have no power; help us, O LORD our God, for we rest on You, and in Your name we go against this multitude. O LORD, You are our God; let not man prevail against You.'
• Phil 4:19 : 19 But my God shall supply all your needs according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus.
• 2 Chr 18:14 : 14 And when he came to the king, the king said to him, Micaiah, shall we go to Ramoth-gilead to battle, or shall I refrain? And he said, Go up, and prosper; they shall be delivered into your hand.
• Deut 8:18 : 18 But you shall remember the LORD your God: for it is he that gives you power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant which he swore to your fathers, as it is this day.
• Judg 7:7 : 7 And the LORD said to Gideon, By the three hundred men who lapped I will save you and deliver the Midianites into your hand; let all the other people go every man to his place.
• 1 Sam 14:6 : 6 Jonathan said to the young man who carried his armor, "Come, let us go over to the garrison of these uncircumcised; it may be that the LORD will work for us, for there is no restraint to the LORD to save by many or by few."
• 2 Chr 1:12 : 12 Wisdom and knowledge is granted to you; and I will give you riches, and wealth, and honor, such as none of the kings have had that have been before you, neither shall any after you have the like.
• Job 5:18 : 18 For he makes sore, and binds up: he wounds, and his hands make whole.
• Job 9:13 : 13 If God does not withdraw His anger, the proud helpers stoop under Him.
• Ps 20:7 : 7 Some trust in chariots, and some in horses: but we will remember the name of the LORD our God.
• Ps 24:1 : 1 The earth is the LORD's, and all its fullness; the world, and those who dwell in it.
• Ps 33:10 : 10 The LORD brings the counsel of the nations to nothing; he makes the plans of the people of no effect.
• Ps 33:16 : 16 No king is saved by the multitude of an army; a mighty man is not delivered by much strength.
• Ps 62:11 : 11 God has spoken once; twice have I heard this: that power belongs to God.
• Prov 10:22 : 22 The blessing of the LORD makes rich, and He adds no sorrow with it.
• Eccl 9:11 : 11 I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor bread to the wise, nor riches to men of understanding, nor favor to men of skill; but time and chance happen to them all.
• Eccl 11:9 : 9 Rejoice, O young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth; walk in the ways of your heart, and in the sight of your eyes — but know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.
• Isa 8:9-9 : 9 Associate yourselves, O you people, and you shall be broken in pieces; and listen, all you of far countries: gird yourselves, and you shall be broken in pieces; gird yourselves, and you shall be broken in pieces. 10 Take counsel together, and it shall come to nothing; speak the word, and it shall not stand: for God is with us.
• Joel 3:9-9 : 9 Proclaim this among the nations: Prepare war, wake up the mighty men, let all the men of war draw near; let them come up: 10 Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears; let the weak say, I am strong. 11 Assemble yourselves and come, all you nations, and gather yourselves together round about; cause your mighty ones to come down there, O LORD. 12 Let the nations be stirred up, and come to the Valley of Jehoshaphat, for there I will sit to judge all the surrounding nations. 13 Put in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe; come, get down, for the press is full, the vats overflow, for their wickedness is great. 14 Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision, for the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision.
• Hag 2:8 : 8 The silver is Mine, and the gold is Mine, says the LORD of hosts.
• Matt 26:45 : 45 Then he came to his disciples, and said to them, Sleep on now, and take your rest: behold, the hour is at hand, and the Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.
• Luke 18:29-30 : 29 And he said to them, Truly I say to you, There is no man who has left house, or parents, or brothers, or wife, or children, for the kingdom of God's sake, 30 Who shall not receive many times more in this present time, and in the world to come everlasting life.