2 Chronicles 13:12

Webster's Bible (1833)

Behold, God is with us at our head, and his priests with the trumpets of alarm to sound an alarm against you. Children of Israel, don't you fight against Yahweh, the God of your fathers; for you shall not prosper.

📖 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 The sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow the trumpets; and they shall be to you for a statute forever throughout your generations. 9 When you go to war in your land against the adversary who oppresses you, then you shall sound an alarm with the trumpets; and you shall be remembered before Yahweh your God, and you shall be saved from your enemies.
• Acts 5:39 : 39 But if it is of God, you will not be able to overthrow it, and you would be found even to be fighting against God!"
• Zech 10:5 : 5 They shall be as mighty men, Treading down muddy streets in the battle; And they shall fight, because Yahweh is with them; And the riders on horses will be confounded.
• Acts 9:4-5 : 4 He fell on the earth, and heard a voice saying to him, "Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?" 5 He said, "Who are you, Lord?" The Lord said, "I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting.{TR adds "It's hard for you to kick against the goads."}
• Rom 8:31 : 31 What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
• Heb 2:10 : 10 For it became him, for whom are all things, and through whom are all things, in bringing many children to glory, to make the author of their salvation perfect through sufferings.
• Num 14:41 : 41 Moses said, Why now do you disobey the commandment of Yahweh, seeing it shall not prosper?
• Num 23:21 : 21 He has not saw iniquity in Jacob; Neither has he seen perverseness in Israel: Yahweh his God is with him, The shout of a king is among them.
• Num 31:6 : 6 Moses sent them, one thousand of every tribe, to the war, them and Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, to the war, with the vessels of the sanctuary and the trumpets for the alarm in his hand.
• Deut 20:4 : 4 for Yahweh your God is he who goes with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.
• Deut 28:29 : 29 and you shall grope at noonday, as the blind gropes in darkness, and you shall not prosper in your ways: and you shall be only oppressed and robbed always, and there shall be none to save you.
• Josh 5:13-15 : 13 It happened, when Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted up his eyes and looked, and, behold, there stood a man over against him with his sword drawn in his hand: and Joshua went to him, and said to him, Are you for us, or for our adversaries? 14 He said, No; but [as] prince of the host of Yahweh am I now come. Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and did worship, and said to him, What says my lord to his servant? 15 The prince of Yahweh's host said to Joshua, Put off your shoe from off your foot; for the place whereon you stand is holy. Joshua did so.
• Josh 6:13-20 : 13 The seven priests bearing the seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark of Yahweh went on continually, and blew the trumpets: and the armed men went before them; and the rearward came after the ark of Yahweh, [the priests] blowing the trumpets as they went. 14 The second day they compassed the city once, and returned into the camp: so they did six days. 15 It happened on the seventh day, that they rose early at the dawning of the day, and compassed the city after the same manner seven times: only on the day they compassed the city seven times. 16 It happened at the seventh time, when the priests blew the trumpets, Joshua said to the people, Shout; for Yahweh has given you the city. 17 The city shall be devoted, even it and all that is therein, to Yahweh: only Rahab the prostitute shall live, she and all who are with her in the house, because she hid the messengers that we sent. 18 But as for you, only keep yourselves from the devoted thing, lest when you have devoted it, you take of the devoted thing; so would you make the camp of Israel accursed, and trouble it. 19 But all the silver, and gold, and vessels of brass and iron, are holy to Yahweh: they shall come into the treasury of Yahweh. 20 So the people shouted, and [the priests] blew the trumpets; and it happened, when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, that the people shouted with a great shout, and the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the city.
• 1 Sam 4:5-7 : 5 When the ark of the covenant of Yahweh came into the camp, all Israel shouted with a great shout, so that the earth rang again. 6 When the Philistines heard the noise of the shout, they said, What means the noise of this great shout in the camp of the Hebrews? They understood that the ark of Yahweh was come into the camp. 7 The Philistines were afraid, for they said, God is come into the camp. They said, Woe to us! for there has not been such a thing heretofore.
• 2 Chr 24:20 : 20 The Spirit of God came on Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest; and he stood above the people, and said to them, Thus says God, Why disobey you the commandments of Yahweh, so that you can't prosper? because you have forsaken Yahweh, he has also forsaken you.
• Job 9:4 : 4 God who is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: Who has hardened himself against him, and prospered?
• Job 15:25-26 : 25 Because he has stretched out his hand against God, And behaves himself proudly against the Almighty; 26 He runs at him with a stiff neck, With the thick shields of his bucklers;
• Job 40:9 : 9 Or have you an arm like God? Can you thunder with a voice like him?
• Ps 20:7 : 7 Some trust in chariots, and some in horses, But we trust the name of Yahweh our God.
• Isa 8:10 : 10 Take counsel together, and it shall be brought to nothing; speak the word, and it shall not stand: for God is with us.
• Isa 45:9 : 9 Woe to him who strives with his Maker--a potsherd among the potsherds of the earth! Shall the clay ask him who fashions it, "What are you making?" or your work, "He has no hands?"
• Isa 54:17 : 17 No weapon that is formed against you shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against you in judgment you shall condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of Yahweh, and their righteousness which is of me, says Yahweh.
• Jer 2:37 : 37 From there also shall you go forth, with your hands on your head: for Yahweh has rejected those in whom you trust, and you shall not prosper with them.
• Jer 50:24 : 24 I have laid a snare for you, and you are also taken, Babylon, and you weren't aware: you are found, and also caught, because you have striven against Yahweh.
• Ezek 17:9 : 9 Say you, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Shall it prosper? shall he not pull up the roots of it, and cut off the fruit of it, that it may wither; that all its fresh springing leaves may wither? and not by a strong arm or much people can it be raised from the roots of it.