2 Chronicles 17:3

World English Bible (2000)

Yahweh was with Jehoshaphat, because he walked in the first ways of his father David, and didn't seek the Baals,

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיְהִ֥י יְהוָ֖ה עִם־יְהוֹשָׁפָ֑ט כִּ֣י הָלַ֗ךְ בְּדַרְכֵ֞י דָּוִ֤יד אָבִיו֙ הָרִ֣אשֹׁנִ֔ים וְלֹ֥א דָרַ֖שׁ לַבְּעָלִֽים׃

Transliteration

And wayəhî YHWH with-Yəhôšāp̄āṭ because hālaḵ in-ḏarḵê Dāwiḏ ʾāḇîw the-hāriʾšōnîm and not ḏāraš to-the-Bəʿālîm

Grammar Details

• *wayəhî*: waw consecutive + qal imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - 'and he was/became'
• *YHWH*: proper noun - 'Yahweh/LORD'
• *Yəhôšāp̄āṭ*: proper noun - 'Jehoshaphat'
• *hālaḵ*: qal perfect, 3rd masculine singular - 'he walked/went'
• *ḏarḵê*: noun, feminine plural construct - 'ways of'
• *Dāwiḏ*: proper noun - 'David'
• *ʾāḇîw*: noun + pronominal suffix, masculine singular - 'his father'
• *hāriʾšōnîm*: definite article + adjective, masculine plural - 'the first/former/early'
• *ḏāraš*: qal perfect, 3rd masculine singular - 'he sought/inquired of'
• *Bəʿālîm*: proper noun, masculine plural - 'Baals'

Word Meanings

• *hālaḵ*: walked/followed/conducted himself
• *ḏarḵê*: ways/paths/conduct/manner
• *hāriʾšōnîm*: first/former/early/beginning
• *ḏāraš*: sought/inquired of/consulted/required

Referenced Verses

• Exod 3:12 : 12 He said, "Certainly I will be with you. This will be the token to you, that I have sent you: when you have brought forth the people out of Egypt, you shall serve God on this mountain."
• Exod 4:12 : 12 Now therefore go, and I will be with your mouth, and teach you what you shall speak."
• Josh 1:5 : 5 No man will be able to stand before you all the days of your life. As I was with Moses, so I will be with you. I will not fail you nor forsake you.
• Josh 1:9 : 9 Haven't I commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Don't be afraid, neither be dismayed: for Yahweh your God is with you wherever you go."
• Judg 6:12 : 12 The angel of Yahweh appeared to him, and said to him, "Yahweh is with you, you mighty man of valor!"
• 2 Sam 5:10 : 10 David grew greater and greater; for Yahweh, the God of Armies, was with him.
• 2 Sam 8:15 : 15 David reigned over all Israel; and David executed justice and righteousness to all his people.
• 1 Kgs 11:6 : 6 Solomon did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and didn't go fully after Yahweh, as did David his father.
• 2 Kgs 18:3 : 3 He did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, according to all that David his father had done.
• 2 Kgs 22:2 : 2 He did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, and walked in all the way of David his father, and didn't turn aside to the right hand or to the left.
• 1 Chr 22:18 : 18 "Isn't Yahweh your God with you? Hasn't he given you rest on every side? For he has delivered the inhabitants of the land into my hand; and the land is subdued before Yahweh, and before his people.
• 2 Chr 15:2 : 2 and he went out to meet Asa, and said to him, "Hear me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin! Yahweh is with you, while you are with him; and if you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will forsake you.
• 2 Chr 15:8-9 : 8 When Asa heard these words, and the prophecy of Oded the prophet, he took courage, and put away the abominations out of all the land of Judah and Benjamin, and out of the cities which he had taken from the hill country of Ephraim; and he renewed the altar of Yahweh, that was before the porch of Yahweh. 9 He gathered all Judah and Benjamin, and those who lived with them out of Ephraim and Manasseh, and out of Simeon: for they fell to him out of Israel in abundance, when they saw that Yahweh his God was with him. 10 So they gathered themselves together at Jerusalem in the third month, in the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa. 11 They sacrificed to Yahweh in that day, of the spoil which they had brought, seven hundred head of cattle and seven thousand sheep. 12 They entered into the covenant to seek Yahweh, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and with all their soul; 13 and that whoever would not seek Yahweh, the God of Israel, should be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman.
• Ps 46:7 : 7 Yahweh of Armies is with us. The God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.
• Ps 46:11 : 11 Yahweh of Armies is with us. The God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah. For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by the sons of Korah.
• Ps 132:1-5 : 1 Yahweh, remember David and all his affliction, 2 how he swore to Yahweh, and vowed to the Mighty One of Jacob: 3 "Surely I will not come into the structure of my house, nor go up into my bed; 4 I will not give sleep to my eyes, or slumber to my eyelids; 5 until I find out a place for Yahweh, a dwelling for the Mighty One of Jacob."
• Isa 8:10 : 10 Take counsel together, and it will be brought to nothing; speak the word, and it will not stand: for God is with us."
• Isa 41:10 : 10 Don't you be afraid, for I am with you. Don't be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.
• Jer 2:23 : 23 "How can you say, 'I am not defiled. I have not gone after the Baals'? See your way in the valley. Know what you have done. [You are] a swift dromedary traversing her ways;
• Matt 1:23 : 23 "Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son. They shall call his name Immanuel;" which is, being interpreted, "God with us."
• Matt 28:20 : 20 teaching them to observe all things that I commanded you. Behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age." Amen.
• 2 Tim 4:22 : 22 The Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Grace be with you. Amen.
• Matt 18:20 : 20 For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there I am in the midst of them."
• 2 Chr 14:2-5 : 2 Asa did that which was good and right in the eyes of Yahweh his God: 3 for he took away the foreign altars, and the high places, and broke down the pillars, and cut down the Asherim, 4 and commanded Judah to seek Yahweh, the God of their fathers, and to do the law and the commandment. 5 Also he took away out of all the cities of Judah the high places and the sun images: and the kingdom was quiet before him.
• 2 Chr 14:11 : 11 Asa cried to Yahweh his God, and said, "Yahweh, there is none besides you to help, between the mighty and him who has no strength. Help us, Yahweh our God; for we rely on you, and in your name are we come against this multitude. Yahweh, you are our God. Don't let man prevail against you."
• 1 Kgs 15:3-4 : 3 He walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done before him; and his heart was not perfect with Yahweh his God, as the heart of David his father. 4 Nevertheless for David's sake did Yahweh his God give him a lamp in Jerusalem, to set up his son after him, and to establish Jerusalem;
• 2 Kgs 14:3 : 3 He did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, yet not like David his father: he did according to all that Joash his father had done.
• 2 Kgs 16:2 : 2 Twenty years old was Ahaz when he began to reign; and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem: and he didn't do that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh his God, like David his father.
• Judg 8:33 : 33 It happened, as soon as Gideon was dead, that the children of Israel turned again, and played the prostitute after the Baals, and made Baal Berith their god.
• Gen 39:2-3 : 2 Yahweh was with Joseph, and he was a prosperous man. He was in the house of his master the Egyptian. 3 His master saw that Yahweh was with him, and that Yahweh made all that he did prosper in his hand.
• Gen 39:21 : 21 But Yahweh was with Joseph, and showed kindness to him, and gave him favor in the sight of the keeper of the prison.
• Judg 2:11 : 11 The children of Israel did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and served the Baals;
• Judg 2:18 : 18 When Yahweh raised them up judges, then Yahweh was with the judge, and saved them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge: for it grieved Yahweh because of their groaning by reason of those who oppressed them and troubled them.