2 Chronicles 13:12

Bishops' Bible (1568)

And beholde, God him selfe is our captayne, and his priestes blowe with the trumpettes and crie alarum against you. O ye children of Israel, fight not against the Lorde God of your fathers: for it wyll not prosper with you.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְהִנֵּה֩ עִמָּ֨נוּ בָרֹ֜אשׁ הָאֱלֹהִ֧ים ׀ וְכֹהֲנָ֛יו וַחֲצֹצְר֥וֹת הַתְּרוּעָ֖ה לְהָרִ֣יעַ עֲלֵיכֶ֑ם בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל אַל־תִּלָּֽחֲמ֛וּ עִם־יְהוָ֥ה אֱלֹהֵֽי־אֲבֹתֵיכֶ֖ם כִּי־לֹ֥א תַצְלִֽיחוּ׃

Transliteration

wə-behold with-us in-rō'š hā-'ĕlōhîm wə-kōhănāyw wə-ḥăṣōṣərôth ha-tərû'āh to-hārîa' upon-you bənê Yiśrā'ēl not-tillāḥămû with-YHWH 'ĕlōhê-'ăḇōthêḵem kî-not taṣlîḥû

Grammar Details

• *wə*-: conjunction - and
• *rō'š*: masculine singular - head, chief, leader
• *hā*-*'ĕlōhîm*: definite article with masculine plural - the God
• *kōhănāyw*: masculine plural with 3rd masculine singular suffix - his priests
• *ḥăṣōṣərôth*: feminine plural construct - trumpets of
• *ha*-*tərû'āh*: definite article with feminine singular - the alarm, the battle cry
• *hārîa'*: Hiphil infinitive construct - to sound an alarm
• *bənê*: masculine plural construct - sons of
• *Yiśrā'ēl*: proper name - Israel
• *tillāḥămû*: Niphal imperfect 2nd masculine plural - fight, make war
• *YHWH*: proper name - YHWH, the LORD
• *'ĕlōhê*-: masculine plural construct - God of
• *'ăḇōthêḵem*: masculine plural with 2nd masculine plural suffix - your fathers
• *kî*-: conjunction - for, because
• *taṣlîḥû*: Hiphil imperfect 2nd masculine plural - you will succeed, prosper

Word Meanings

• *rō'š*: head, chief, leader, front
• *ḥăṣōṣərôth* *ha*-*tərû'āh*: trumpets of alarm, battle trumpets
• *hārîa'*: to sound an alarm, to shout, to signal
• *tillāḥămû*: fight against, war against, struggle against
• *taṣlîḥû*: succeed, prosper, be victorious

Referenced Verses

• Num 10:8-9 : 8 And the sonnes of Aaron the priestes shall blowe with their trumpettes, and ye shall haue them as a lawe for euer in your generations. 9 And if ye go to warre in your lande agaynst your enemies that vexe you, ye shall blowe an alarme with the trumpettes, and ye shalbe remembred before the Lorde your God, to be saued from your enemies.
• Acts 5:39 : 39 But and yf it be of God, ye can not destroy it, lest haply ye be founde to stryue agaynst God.
• Zech 10:5 : 5 They shalbe as giauntes, which in the battaile treade downe their enemies in the myre of the streetes: they shal fight, for the Lorde shalbe with them, and the horsemen shalbe confounded.
• Acts 9:4-5 : 4 And he fell to the earth, and hearde a voyce saying to him: Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? 5 And he sayde: Who art thou Lorde? And the Lorde said: I am Iesus who thou persecutest, It is harde for thee to kicke agaynst the prickes.
• Rom 8:31 : 31 What shall we then say to these thynges? If God be on our syde, who can be agaynst vs?
• Heb 2:10 : 10 For it became hym, for whom are all thynges, and by whom are all thynges, after he had brought many sonnes vnto glorie, that he shoulde make the capitayne of their saluation perfect through afflictions.
• Num 14:41 : 41 And Moyses sayde: Wherfore transgresse ye thus the worde of the Lorde? it wyll not come well to passe.
• Num 23:21 : 21 He behelde no vanitie in Iacob, nor saw transgression in Israel: The Lord his God is with hym, and the ioyfull shout of a king is among them.
• Num 31:6 : 6 And Moyses sent the to ye warre, euen a thousande of euery tribe, & with them Phinees the sonne of Eleazar the priest to the warre, and the holy vessels, & the trumpets to blowe were in his hande.
• Deut 20:4 : 4 For the Lord your God goeth with you, to fyght for you agaynst your enemies, and to saue you.
• Deut 28:29 : 29 Thou shalt grope at noone dayes as the blinde gropeth in darknesse, & shal not prosper in thy wayes: Thou shalt be oppressed with wrong, & be poulled euermore, & no man shall succour thee.
• Josh 5:13-15 : 13 And when Iosuah was nye to Iericho, he lift vp his eyes and loked: and behold, there stoode a man against him, hauing a sworde drawen in his hande: And Iosuah went vnto him, and sayde vnto him, Art thou on our syde, or on our aduersaries? 14 And he sayde, Naie: but as a captaine of the hoast of the Lord am I nowe come. And Iosuah fell on his face to ye earth, and did worship, and sayde vnto him: What saith my Lord vnto his seruaunt? 15 And the captaine of the Lordes hoast sayde vnto Iosuah: Do thy shoe of thy foote, for the place wheron thou standest, is holy. And Iosuah did so.
• Josh 6:13-20 : 13 And seuen priestes bare seuen trumpettes of rammes hornes, and went before the arke of the Lorde: and goyng, blewe with the trumpettes. And the men of armes went before them: but the gatheryng hoast came after the arke of the Lorde, whiche went before with the blowyng of the trumpettes. 14 And the seconde daye they passed the citie once, and returned againe into the hoast: and so they dyd sixe dayes. 15 And when the seuenth day came, they rose early euen with the dawnyng of the day, & compassed the citie after the same maner seuen tymes: only that day they compassed the citie seue times. 16 And at the seuenth tyme when the priestes blew with the trumpettes, Iosuah sayde vnto the people: Showt, for the Lorde hath geuen you the citie. 17 And the citie shalbe accursed and al that are therin, vnto the Lorde: onlye Rahab the harlot shal liue, and all that are with her in the house, because she hyd the messengers that we sent. 18 And in any wyse be ye ware of the accursed thinges, lest ye make your selues accursed, & take of the accursed thynges, and make the hoast of Israel accursed, and trouble it. 19 But all the syluer, golde, vesselles of brasse and iron, shalbe consecrate vnto the Lorde, and all shall come into his treasurie. 20 And the people showted, and blewe with trumpettes: And when the people heard the sound of the trumpe, they showted with a great showt, and the wall fell downe flat, so that the people went vp into ye citie, euery man straight before hym, and toke the citie:
• 1 Sam 4:5-7 : 5 And when the arke of the appoyntment of the Lorde came into the hoast, all Israel showted a mightie showte, so that the earth rang againe. 6 And when the Philistines heard the noyse of the showte, they saide: What meaneth the sounde of this mightie showte in the hoast of the Ebrues? And they vnderstode howe that the arke of the Lorde was come into the hoast. 7 And the Philistines were afraide, and saide: God is come into the hoast. And they said againe: Wo vnto vs, for it was neuer so before this.
• 2 Chr 24:20 : 20 And the spirite of God came vpon Zacharia the sonne of Iehoiada the priest, which stoode by the people, and sayd vnto them, thus sayth God: Why transgresse ye the commaundementes of the Lorde, that ye can not prosper? For because ye haue forsaken the Lord, he also hath forsaken you.
• Job 9:4 : 4 He is wyse in heart and mightie in strength: who hath ben fearce against hym, and hath prospered?
• Job 15:25-26 : 25 For he hath stretched out his hande against God, and armed him selfe against the almightie. 26 He runneth proudly vpon him, & with a stiffe necke fighteth he against him.
• Job 40:9 : 9 Is thy power then lyke the power of God? maketh thy voyce a sounde as his doth?
• Ps 20:7 : 7 Some put their trust in chariotes, and some in horses: but we wyll remember the name of God our Lorde.
• Isa 8:10 : 10 Take your counsell together, yet shall your counsell come to naught: determine the matter, yet shall it not prosper: for God is with vs.
• Isa 45:9 : 9 Wo be vnto hym that striueth with his maker, let the potsherde striue with the potsherdes of the earth: Saieth the clay to the potter, What makest thou? or, thy worke is not perfectly done.
• Isa 54:17 : 17 But all the weapons that are made against thee shall not prosper: and as for all tongues that shal resist thee in iudgement, thou shalt ouercome them, and condempne them: This is the heritage of the Lordes seruauntes, and their righteousnesse commeth of me, saith the Lorde.
• Jer 2:37 : 37 Yea thou shalt go thy way from them, and smite thine handes together vpon thy head, because the Lorde shall bring that confidence and hope of thine to naught, & thou shalt not prosper withal.
• Jer 50:24 : 24 I my selfe haue layde a snare for thee, and thou art taken vnawares, thou art trapped and snared: for why? thou hast contended agaynst the Lorde.
• Ezek 17:9 : 9 Speake thou therfore, thus saith the Lorde God: Shall this vine prosper? shall he not pull vp the rootes therof, and destroy the fruite thereof, and cause them to dry? all the leaues of her bud shall wither without great power, or many people, to plucke it vp by the rootes thereof.