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YHWHיְהוָהwasוַיְהִיwithעִםJehoshaphat,יְהוֹשָׁפָטbecauseכִּיhe walkedהָלַךְin the firstבְּ הָרִאשֹׁנִיםwaysדַרְכֵיof Davidדָּוִידhis father,אָבִיוand did notוְלֹאseekדָרַשׁthe Baals,לַבְּעָלִים
2 Chronicles 17:3
Study it in the app“YHWH was with Jehoshaphat, because he walked in the first ways of David his father, and did not seek the Baals,”
With the Hebrew beneath
2 Chronicles 17:3, word by word
- YHWHיְהוָהyehva
YHWH
The personal name of the God of Israel, written in Hebrew with four letters, Y-H-W-H, without vowels. Out of reverence Jews stopped pronouncing it and read "Adonai" (Lord), so many Bibles put "the LORD" or "Jehovah". This translation keeps the four letters. The name is related to the verb "to be" (Exodus 3:14-15). He is not a god other than Elohim: "YHWH Elohim" is the same Creator God, called by his name.
Where else “yehva” appears- wasיְהִיyehi
be
To be: "I will be their Elohim".
Where else “yehi” appears- Jehoshaphatיְהוֹשָׁפָטyehoshafat
Jehoshaphat
Jehoshaphat: the name of several men; among them David's recorder (2 Samuel 8:16) and a king of Judah (1 Kings 22). It means "YHWH has judged." It is also the name of a valley (Joel 3).
Where else “yehoshafat” appears- he walkedהָלַךְhalach
walk
Literally "to go": to live a certain way, as Enoch with Elohim.
Where else “halach” appears- in the firstרִאשֹׁנִיםrishonim
former
What already happened or existed before, in past times.
Where else “rishonim” appears- waysדַרְכֵיdarche
manner
The way one lives and acts.
Where else “darche” appears- of Davidדָּוִידdavid
David
David, youngest son of Jesse, of Bethlehem; the second king of Israel. The name means "beloved."
Where else “david” appears- his fatherאָבִיavi
forefather
Ancestors, those who came before in the family.
Where else “avi” appears- seekדָרַשׁdarash
consult
To turn to YHWH to ask him, pray to him.
Where else “darash” appears- the Baalsבְּעָלִיםbealim
Baal
Baal: the god of the Canaanites, to whom they attributed the rain and the harvests. The word means "lord, owner." The Bible names him as a foreign god whom Israel was not to serve.
Where else “bealim” appears
Translation note
“David his father”: his ancestor. “Baals”: gods of Canaan; “baal” means “lord, owner.”
The context
2He placed a force in all the fortified cities of Judah, and set garrisons in the land of Judah and in the cities of Ephraim that Asa his father had captured.
3 · This verse (above)
4but the Elohim of his father he sought, and in his commandments he walked, and not according to the doings of Israel.