2 Kings 19:36

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

So King Sennacherib of Assyria broke camp and went on his way. He went home and stayed in Nineveh.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיִּסַּ֣ע וַיֵּ֔לֶךְ וַיָּ֖שָׁב סַנְחֵרִ֣יב מֶֽלֶךְ־אַשּׁ֑וּר וַיֵּ֖שֶׁב בְּנִֽינְוֵֽה׃

Transliteration

wa-yissaʿ wa-yēlek̲ wa-yāšāḇ sanḥērîḇ melek̲-ʾaššûr, wa-yēšeḇ in-nînəwēh.

Grammar Details

• *wa-yissaʿ*: conjunction + verb, qal imperfect consecutive, 3rd person masculine singular - and he broke camp/journeyed
• *wa-yēlek̲*: conjunction + verb, qal imperfect consecutive, 3rd person masculine singular - and he went
• *wa-yāšāḇ*: conjunction + verb, qal imperfect consecutive, 3rd person masculine singular - and he returned
• *sanḥērîḇ*: proper noun - Sennacherib
• *melek̲*: noun, masculine singular construct - king of
• *ʾaššûr*: proper noun - Assyria
• *wa-yēšeḇ*: conjunction + verb, qal imperfect consecutive, 3rd person masculine singular - and he dwelt
• *bə-nînəwēh*: preposition + proper noun - in Nineveh

Word Meanings

• *wa-yissaʿ*: journeyed/set out/departed
• *wa-yēšeḇ*: dwelt/resided/stayed

Referenced Verses

• Jonah 1:2 : 2 “Go immediately to Nineveh, that large capital city, and announce judgment against its people because their wickedness has come to my attention.”
• 2 Kgs 19:7 : 7 Look, I will take control of his mind; he will receive a report and return to his own land. I will cut him down with a sword in his own land.”’”
• 2 Kgs 19:28 : 28 Because you rage against me, and the uproar you create has reached my ears; I will put my hook in your nose, and my bridle between your lips, and I will lead you back the way you came.”
• 2 Kgs 19:33 : 33 He will go back the way he came. He will not enter this city,” says the LORD.
• Gen 10:11-12 : 11 From that land he went to Assyria, where he built Nineveh, Rehoboth-Ir, Calah, 12 and Resen, which is between Nineveh and the great city Calah.
• Jonah 3:2-9 : 2 “Go immediately to Nineveh, that large city, and proclaim to it the message that I tell you.” 3 So Jonah went immediately to Nineveh, in keeping with the LORD’s message.(Now Nineveh was an enormous city– it required three days to walk through it!) 4 When Jonah began to enter the city one day’s walk, he announced,“At the end of forty days, Nineveh will be overthrown!” 5 The people of Nineveh believed in God, and they declared a fast and put on sackcloth, from the greatest to the least of them. 6 When the news reached the king of Nineveh, he got up from his throne, took off his royal robe, put on sackcloth, and sat on ashes. 7 He issued a proclamation and said,“In Nineveh, by the decree of the king and his nobles: No human or animal, cattle or sheep, is to taste anything; they must not eat and they must not drink water. 8 Every person and animal must put on sackcloth and must cry earnestly to God, and everyone must turn from their evil way of living and from the violence that they do. 9 Who knows? Perhaps God might be willing to change his mind and relent and turn from his fierce anger so that we might not die.” 10 When God saw their actions– that they turned from their evil way of living!– God relented concerning the judgment he had threatened them with and he did not destroy them.
• Nah 1:1 : 1 ¶ Introduction This is an oracle about Nineveh; the book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite:
• Nah 2:8 : 8 Nineveh was like a pool of water throughout her days, but now her people are running away; she cries out:“Stop! Stop!”– but no one turns back.
• Matt 12:41 : 41 The people of Nineveh will stand up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, because they repented when Jonah preached to them– and now, something greater than Jonah is here!