Study it in the app“YHWH will bring on you and on your people and on the house of your father days that have not come since the day Ephraim departed from Judah: the king of Assyria.”
YHWHיְהוָהwill bringיָבִיאon youעָלֶיךָand on your peopleוְעַל עַמְּךָand on the houseוְעַל בֵּיתof your fatherאָבִיךָdaysיָמִיםthatאֲשֶׁרhave notלֹאcomeבָאוּsince the dayלְמִיּוֹםEphraimאֶפְרַיִםdepartedסוּרfrom Judah:מֵעַל יְהוּדָהthe kingמֶלֶךְof Assyria.אַשּׁוּר
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” appearsbring
To bring something or someone.
Where else “yavi” appearspeople
A group of people united by family, land and customs: a nation.
Where else “am” appearshousehold
The family, everyone living under one roof.
Where else “bet” appearsfather
The man who begets a child and heads his household.
Where else “avi” appearstime
Literally "the days": a period, an age, or the span of someone's life.
Where else “yamim” appearsEphraim
Ephraim, the second son of Joseph; also the tribe that came from him and its land, and later a name of the northern kingdom. The name sounds like "be fruitful".
Where else “efrayim” appearsturn aside
To leave the road, go away.
Where else “sur” appearsJudah
Judah, the fourth son of Jacob and Leah; also the tribe that came from him and its land, and later the southern kingdom; King David came from it. The name sounds like "give thanks". Borne also by other Israelites.
Where else “yehuda” appearsking
A king who rules a people.
Where else “melech” appearsAssyria, Asshur
See it on the mapWhere else “ashur” appearsAssyria
Today: northern Iraq (with parts of Syria, Turkey, Iran)
An empire of northern Mesopotamia along the Tigris River, in present-day Iraq.
Assyria took the northern kingdom of Israel captive (2 Kgs 17:6). God sent Jonah to preach in Nineveh, its capital (Jonah 3:3).
16For before the boy knows how to reject evil and choose good, the ground will be abandoned whose two kings you dread.
17 · This verse (above)
18And it will happen on that day that YHWH will whistle for the fly that is at the end of the streams of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria.
