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2 Kings 18:4
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And he did [that which was] right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that David his father did.
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He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it: and he called it Nehushtan.
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He trusted in the LORD God of Israel; so that after him was none like him among all the kings of Judah, nor [any] that were before him.
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Verse Text
He removedH5493 the high placesH1116, and brakeH7665 the imagesH4676, and cut downH3772 the grovesH842, and brake in piecesH3807 the brasenH5178 serpentH5175 that MosesH4872 had madeH6213: for unto those daysH3117 the childrenH1121 of IsraelH3478 did burn incenseH6999 to it: and he calledH7121 it NehushtanH5180.
הוּא ׀ הֵסִיר אֶת־הַבָּמֹות וְשִׁבַּר אֶת־הַמַּצֵּבֹת וְכָרַת אֶת־הָאֲשֵׁרָה וְכִתַּת נְחַשׁ הַנְּחֹשֶׁת אֲשֶׁר־עָשָׂה מֹשֶׁה כִּי עַד־הַיָּמִים הָהֵמָּה הָיוּ בְנֵי־יִשְׂרָאֵל מְקַטְּרִים לֹו וַיִּקְרָא־לֹו נְחֻשְׁתָּן׃
| Hebrew | Transliteration | Strong's | Morphology | Gloss |
|---|---|---|---|---|
ה֣וּא |
hu' | H1931 | HPp3ms | he |
הֵסִ֣יר |
he.Sir | H5493 | HVhp3ms | he removed |
אֶת |
'et- | H853 | HTo | (obj.) |
הַ/בָּמ֗וֹת |
ha./ba.Mot | H1116 | HTd/Ncfpa | the/ high places |
וְ/שִׁבַּר֙ |
ve./shi.Bar | H7665 | HC/Vpp3ms | and/ he broke |
אֶת |
'et- | H853 | HTo | (obj.) |
הַ/מַּצֵּבֹ֔ת |
ha./ma.tze.Vot | H4676 | HTd/Ncfpa | the/ sacred pillars |
וְ/כָרַ֖ת |
ve./kha.Rat | H3772 | HC/Vqp3ms | and/ he cut down |
אֶת |
'et- | H853 | HTo | (obj.) |
הָֽ/אֲשֵׁרָ֑ה |
ha./'a.she.Rah | H842 | HTd/Np | the/ Asherah pole |
וְ/כִתַּת֩ |
ve./khi.Tat | H3807 | HC/Vpp3ms | and/ he crushed to pieces |
נְחַ֨שׁ |
ne.Chash | H5175 | HNcmsc | (the) snake of |
הַ/נְּחֹ֜שֶׁת |
ha./ne.Cho.shet | H5178 | HTd/Ncfsa | (the)/ bronze |
אֲשֶׁר |
'a.Sher- | H834 | HTr | which |
עָשָׂ֣ה |
'a.Sah | H6213 | HVqp3ms | he had made |
מֹשֶׁ֗ה |
mo.Sheh | H4872 | HNp | Moses |
כִּ֣י |
ki | H3588 | HC | for |
עַד |
'ad- | H5704 | HR | until |
הַ/יָּמִ֤ים |
hai./ya.Mim | H3117 | HTd/Ncmpa | the/ days |
הָ/הֵ֨מָּה֙ |
ha./He.mah | H1992 | HTd/Pp3mp | (the)/ those |
הָי֤וּ |
ha.Yu | H1961 | HVqp3cp | they were |
בְנֵֽי |
ve.nei- | H1121 | HNcmpc | (the) people of |
יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ |
Yis.ra.'El | H3478 | HNp | Israel |
מְקַטְּרִ֣ים |
me.ka.te.Rim | H6999 | HVprmpa | making smoke |
ל֔/וֹ |
l/o | HR/Sp3ms | to/ it | |
וַ/יִּקְרָא |
va/i.yik.ra'- | H7121 | HC/Vqw3ms | and/ someone had called |
ל֖/וֹ |
l/o | HR/Sp3ms | (to)/ it | |
נְחֻשְׁתָּֽן |
ne.chush.Tan | H5180 | HNp | Nehushtan |
- H842 — אֲשֵׁרָה (ʼăshêrâh, ash-ay-raw'): or אֲשֵׁירָה; from אָשַׁר; happy; Asherah (or Astarte) a Phoenician goddess; also an image of the same; grove. Compare עַשְׁתֹּרֶת.
- H1116 — בָּמָה (bâmâh, bam-maw'): from an unused root (meaning to be high); an elevation; height, high place, wave.
- H1121 — בֵּן (bên, bane): from בָּנָה; a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or condition, etc., (like father or brother), etc.); [phrase] afflicted, age, (Ahoh-) (Ammon-) (Hachmon-) (Lev-) ite, (anoint-) ed one, appointed to, ([phrase]) arrow, (Assyr-) (Babylon-) (Egypt-) (Grec-) ian, one born, bough, branch, breed, [phrase] (young) bullock, [phrase] (young) calf, [idiom] came up in, child, colt, [idiom] common, [idiom] corn, daughter, [idiom] of first, [phrase] firstborn, foal, [phrase] very fruitful, [phrase] postage, [idiom] in, [phrase] kid, [phrase] lamb, ([phrase]) man, meet, [phrase] mighty, [phrase] nephew, old, ([phrase]) people, [phrase] rebel, [phrase] robber, [idiom] servant born, [idiom] soldier, son, [phrase] spark, [phrase] steward, [phrase] stranger, [idiom] surely, them of, [phrase] tumultuous one, [phrase] valiant(-est), whelp, worthy, young (one), youth.
- H3117 — יוֹם (yôwm, yome): from an unused root meaning to be hot; a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an associated term), (often used adverb); age, [phrase] always, [phrase] chronicals, continually(-ance), daily, ((birth-), each, to) day, (now a, two) days (agone), [phrase] elder, [idiom] end, [phrase] evening, [phrase] (for) ever(-lasting, -more), [idiom] full, life, as (so) long as (... live), (even) now, [phrase] old, [phrase] outlived, [phrase] perpetually, presently, [phrase] remaineth, [idiom] required, season, [idiom] since, space, then, (process of) time, [phrase] as at other times, [phrase] in trouble, weather, (as) when, (a, the, within a) while (that), [idiom] whole ([phrase] age), (full) year(-ly), [phrase] younger.
- H3478 — יִשְׂרָאֵל (Yisrâʼêl, yis-raw-ale'): from שָׂרָה and אֵל; he will rule as God; Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also (typically) of his posterity; Israel.
- H3772 — כָּרַת (kârath, kaw-rath'): a primitive root; to cut (off, down or asunder); by implication, to destroy or consume; specifically, to covenant (i.e. make an alliance or bargain, originally by cutting flesh and passing between the pieces); be chewed, be con-(feder-) ate, covenant, cut (down, off), destroy, fail, feller, be freed, hew (down), make a league (covenant), [idiom] lose, perish, [idiom] utterly, [idiom] want.
- H3807 — כָּתַת (kâthath, kaw-thath'): a primitive root; to bruise or violently strike; beat (down, to pieces), break in pieces, crushed, destroy, discomfit, smite, stamp. l
- H4676 — מַצֵּבָה (matstsêbâh, mats-tsay-baw'): feminine (causatively) participle of נָצַב; something stationed, i.e. a column or (memorial stone); by analogy, an idol; garrison, (standing) image, pillar.
- H4872 — מֹשֶׁה (Môsheh, mo-sheh'): from מָשָׁה; drawing out (of the water), i.e. rescued; Mosheh, the Israelite lawgiver; Moses.
- H5175 — נָחָשׁ (nâchâsh, naw-khawsh'): from נָחַשׁ; a snake (from its hiss); serpent.
- H5178 — נְחֹשֶׁת (nᵉchôsheth, nekh-o'-sheth): for נְחוּשָׁה; copper, hence, something made of that metal, i.e. coin, a fetter; figuratively, base (as compared with gold or silver); brasen, brass, chain, copper, fetter (of brass), filthiness, steel.
- H5180 — נְחֻשְׁתָּן (Nᵉchushtân, nekh-oosh-tawn'): from נְחֹשֶׁת; something made of copper, i.e. the copper serpent of the Desert; Nehushtan.
- H5493 — סוּר (çûwr, soor): or שׂוּר; (Hosea 9:12), a primitive root; to turn off (literal or figurative); be(-head), bring, call back, decline, depart, eschew, get (you), go (aside), [idiom] grievous, lay away (by), leave undone, be past, pluck away, put (away, down), rebel, remove (to and fro), revolt, [idiom] be sour, take (away, off), turn (aside, away, in), withdraw, be without.
- H6213 — עָשָׂה (ʻâsâh, aw-saw'): a primitive root; to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application; accomplish, advance, appoint, apt, be at, become, bear, bestow, bring forth, bruise, be busy, [idiom] certainly, have the charge of, commit, deal (with), deck, [phrase] displease, do, (ready) dress(-ed), (put in) execute(-ion), exercise, fashion, [phrase] feast, (fight-) ing man, [phrase] finish, fit, fly, follow, fulfill, furnish, gather, get, go about, govern, grant, great, [phrase] hinder, hold (a feast), [idiom] indeed, [phrase] be industrious, [phrase] journey, keep, labour, maintain, make, be meet, observe, be occupied, offer, [phrase] officer, pare, bring (come) to pass, perform, pracise, prepare, procure, provide, put, requite, [idiom] sacrifice, serve, set, shew, [idiom] sin, spend, [idiom] surely, take, [idiom] thoroughly, trim, [idiom] very, [phrase] vex, be (warr-) ior, work(-man), yield, use.
- H6999 — קָטַר (qâṭar, kaw-tar'): a primitive root (identical with through the idea of fumigation in a close place and perhaps thus driving out the occupants); to smoke, i.e. turn into fragrance by fire (especially as an act of worship); burn (incense, sacrifice) (upon), (altar for) incense, kindle, offer (incense, a sacrifice).
- H7121 — קָרָא (qârâʼ, kaw-raw'): a primitive root (rather identical with קָרָא through the idea of accosting a person met); to call out to (i.e. properly, address by name, but used in a wide variety of applications); bewray (self), that are bidden, call (for, forth, self, upon), cry (unto), (be) famous, guest, invite, mention, (give) name, preach, (make) proclaim(-ation), pronounce, publish, read, renowned, say.
- H7665 — שָׁבַר (shâbar, shaw-bar'): a primitive root; to burst (literally or figuratively); break (down, off, in pieces, up), broken (-hearted), bring to the birth, crush, destroy, hurt, quench, [idiom] quite, tear, view (by mistake for שָׂבַר).
The following Strong's numbers are referenced in the Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) text but were not explicitly tagged in the KJV source:
- H834 — אֲשֶׁר (ʼăsher, ash-er'): a primitive relative pronoun (of every gender and number); who, which, what, that; also (as an adverb and a conjunction) when, where, how, because, in order that, etc.; [idiom] after, [idiom] alike, as (soon as), because, [idiom] every, for, [phrase] forasmuch, [phrase] from whence, [phrase] how(-soever), [idiom] if, (so) that ((thing) which, wherein), [idiom] though, [phrase] until, [phrase] whatsoever, when, where ([phrase] -as, -in, -of, -on, -soever, -with), which, whilst, [phrase] whither(-soever), who(-m, -soever, -se). As it is indeclinable, it is often accompanied by the personal pronoun expletively, used to show the connection.
- H853 — אֵת (ʼêth, ayth): apparent contracted from אוֹת in the demonstrative sense of entity; properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely); (as such unrepresented in English).
- H1931 — הוּא (hûwʼ, hoo): of which the feminine (beyond the Pentateuch) is הִיא; a primitive word, the third person pronoun singular; he (she or it); only expressed when emphatic or without a verb; also (intensively) self, or (especially with the article) the same; sometimes (as demonstrative) this or that; occasionally (instead of copula) as or are; he, as for her, him(-self), it, the same, she (herself), such, that (...it), these, they, this, those, which (is), who.
- H1961 — הָיָה (hâyâh, haw-yaw): a primitive root (compare הָוָא); to exist, i.e. be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary); beacon, [idiom] altogether, be(-come), accomplished, committed, like), break, cause, come (to pass), do, faint, fall, [phrase] follow, happen, [idiom] have, last, pertain, quit (one-) self, require, [idiom] use.
- H1992 — הֵם (hêm, haym): or (prolonged) הֵמָּה; masculine plural from הֲלַךְ; they (only used when emphatic); it, like, [idiom] (how, so) many (soever, more as) they (be), (the) same, [idiom] so, [idiom] such, their, them, these, they, those, which, who, whom, withal, ye.
- H3588 — כִּי (kîy, kee): a primitive particle (the full form of the prepositional prefix) indicating causal relations of all kinds, antecedent or consequent; (by implication) very widely used as a relative conjunction or adverb (as below); often largely modified by other particles annexed; and, + (forasmuch, inasmuch, where-) as, assured(-ly), + but, certainly, doubtless, + else, even, + except, for, how, (because, in, so, than) that, + nevertheless, now, rightly, seeing, since, surely, then, therefore, + (al-) though, + till, truly, + until, when, whether, while, whom, yea, yet.
- H5704 — עַד (ʻad, ad): properly, the same as עַד (used as a preposition, adverb or conjunction; especially with a preposition); as far (or long, or much) as, whether of space (even unto) or time (during, while, until) or degree (equally with); against, and, as, at, before, by (that), even (to), for(-asmuch as), (hither-) to, [phrase] how long, into, as long (much) as, (so) that, till, toward, until, when, while, ([phrase] as) yet.
Verse Cross-References (Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, Enhanced)
- brake — Deuteronomy 7:5, Deuteronomy 12:2-3, Judges 6:25, Judges 6:28, 1 Kings 15:12-13, 2 Kings 23:4, 2 Chronicles 19:3, 2 Chronicles 31:1, 2 Chronicles 33:3
- removed — Leviticus 26:30, 1 Kings 3:2-3, 1 Kings 15:14, 1 Kings 22:43, 2 Kings 12:3, 2 Kings 14:4, 2 Kings 15:4, 2 Kings 15:35, Psalms 78:58, Ezekiel 20:28-29
- the brazen serpent — Numbers 21:8-9, John 3:14-15
- unto those days — 2 Kings 16:15
Reciprocal references (13): Exodus 34:13, Leviticus 14:45, 2 Kings 10:27, 2 Kings 11:18, 2 Kings 13:6, 2 Kings 18:22, 2 Kings 21:3, 2 Chronicles 14:3, 2 Chronicles 23:17, 2 Chronicles 32:12, 2 Chronicles 34:3, Isaiah 36:7, Hosea 11:12
Related Topics
- Thompson Chain: AWAKENINGS AND RELIGIOUS REFORMS, BRAZEN SERPENT, FALSE WORSHIP, HEZEKIAH
- Torrey’s: BRASS, OR COPPER, KINGS
- Nave’s: BRAZEN SERPENT, GROVES, HEZEKIAH, HIGH PLACES, ICONOCLASM, IDOLATRY, ISRAEL, PROPHECIES CONCERNING, NEHUSHTAN, RELIGION, REVIVALS
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- 2 Kings 18
- Strongs H834
- Strongs H842
- Strongs H853
- Strongs H1116
- Strongs H1121
- Strongs H1931
- Strongs H1961
- Strongs H1992
- Strongs H3117
- Strongs H3478
- Strongs H3588
- Strongs H3772
- Strongs H3807
- Strongs H4676
- Strongs H4872
- Strongs H5175
- Strongs H5178
- Strongs H5180
- Strongs H5493
- Strongs H5704
- Strongs H6213
- Strongs H6999
- Strongs H7121
- Strongs H7665