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2 Kings 13

2 Kings 13:4 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And Jehoahaz
Yhow'achaz (Hebrew #3059)
Jehovah-seized; Jehoachaz, the name of three Israelites
KJV usage: Jehoahaz. Compare 3099.
Pronounce: yeh-ho-aw-khawz'
Origin: from 3068 and 270
besought
chalah (Hebrew #2470)
properly, to be rubbed or worn; hence (figuratively) to be weak, sick, afflicted; or (causatively) to grieve, make sick; also to stroke (in flattering), entreat
KJV usage: beseech, (be) diseased, (put to) grief, be grieved, (be) grievous, infirmity, intreat, lay to, put to pain, X pray, make prayer, be (fall, make) sick, sore, be sorry, make suit (X supplication), woman in travail, be (become) weak, be wounded.
Pronounce: khaw-law'
Origin: a primitive root (compare 2342, 2470, 2490)
g the Lord
Yhovah (Hebrew #3068)
(the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
KJV usage: Jehovah, the Lord. Compare 3050, 3069.
Pronounce: yeh-ho-vaw'
Origin: from 1961
, and the Lord
Yhovah (Hebrew #3068)
(the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
KJV usage: Jehovah, the Lord. Compare 3050, 3069.
Pronounce: yeh-ho-vaw'
Origin: from 1961
hearkened
shama` (Hebrew #8085)
to hear intelligently (often with implication of attention, obedience, etc.; causatively, to tell, etc.)
KJV usage: X attentively, call (gather) together, X carefully, X certainly, consent, consider, be content, declare, X diligently, discern, give ear, (cause to, let, make to) hear(-ken, tell), X indeed, listen, make (a) noise, (be) obedient, obey, perceive, (make a) proclaim(-ation), publish, regard, report, shew (forth), (make a) sound, X surely, tell, understand, whosoever (heareth), witness.
Pronounce: shaw-mah'
Origin: a primitive root
unto
paniym (Hebrew #6440)
the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposition (before, etc.)
KJV usage: + accept, a-(be- )fore(-time), against, anger, X as (long as), at, + battle, + because (of), + beseech, countenance, edge, + employ, endure, + enquire, face, favour, fear of, for, forefront(-part), form(-er time, -ward), from, front, heaviness, X him(-self), + honourable, + impudent, + in, it, look(-eth) (- s), X me, + meet, X more than, mouth, of, off, (of) old (time), X on, open, + out of, over against, the partial, person, + please, presence, propect, was purposed, by reason of, + regard, right forth, + serve, X shewbread, sight, state, straight, + street, X thee, X them(-selves), through (+ - out), till, time(-s) past, (un-)to(-ward), + upon, upside (+ down), with(- in, + -stand), X ye, X you.
Pronounce: paw-neem'
Origin: plural (but always as singular) of an unused noun (paneh {paw-neh'}; from 6437)
him: for heh saw
ra'ah (Hebrew #7200)
to see, literally or figuratively (in numerous applications, direct and implied, transitive, intransitive and causative)
KJV usage: advise self, appear, approve, behold, X certainly, consider, discern, (make to) enjoy, have experience, gaze, take heed, X indeed, X joyfully, lo, look (on, one another, one on another, one upon another, out, up, upon), mark, meet, X be near, perceive, present, provide, regard, (have) respect, (fore-, cause to, let) see(-r, -m, one another), shew (self), X sight of others, (e-)spy, stare, X surely, X think, view, visions.
Pronounce: raw-aw'
Origin: a primitive root
the oppression
lachats (Hebrew #3906)
distress
KJV usage: affliction, oppression.
Pronounce: lakh'-ats
Origin: from 3905
of Israel
Yisra'el (Hebrew #3478)
from 8280 and 410; he will rule as God; Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also (typically) of his posterity: --Israel.
Pronounce: yis-raw-ale'
, because the king
melek (Hebrew #4428)
a king
KJV usage: king, royal.
Pronounce: meh'-lek
Origin: from 4427
of Syria
'Aram (Hebrew #758)
the highland; Aram or Syria, and its inhabitants; also the name of the son of Shem, a grandson of Nahor, and of an Israelite
KJV usage: Aram, Mesopotamia, Syria, Syrians.
Pronounce: arawm'
Origin: from the same as 759
oppressed
lachats (Hebrew #3905)
properly, to press, i.e. (figuratively) to distress
KJV usage: afflict, crush, force, hold fast, oppress(-or), thrust self.
Pronounce: law-khats'
Origin: a primitive root
them.
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Psa. 78:34• 34When he slew them, then they sought him, and returned and sought early after *God; (Psa. 78:34)
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2 Kings 14:26• 26For Jehovah saw that the affliction of Israel was very bitter; and that there was not any shut up, nor any left, nor any helper for Israel. (2 Kings 14:26)
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Ex. 3:7• 7And Jehovah said, I have seen assuredly the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and their cry have I heard on account of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows. (Ex. 3:7)

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Ministry on This Verse

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Jehoahaz.
Num. 21:7• 7And the people came to Moses and said, We have sinned, in that we have spoken against Jehovah, and against thee: pray to Jehovah that he take away the serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people. (Num. 21:7)
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Judg. 6:6‑7• 6And Israel was greatly impoverished because of Midian. And the children of Israel cried to Jehovah.
 7And it came to pass when the children of Israel cried to Jehovah because of Midian, (Judg. 6:6‑7)
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Judg. 10:10• 10And the children of Israel cried to Jehovah, saying, We have sinned against thee, both because we have forsaken our God, and also served the Baals. (Judg. 10:10)
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Psa. 78:34• 34When he slew them, then they sought him, and returned and sought early after *God; (Psa. 78:34)
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Isa. 26:16• 16Jehovah, in trouble they sought thee; they poured out their whispered prayer when thy chastening was upon them. (Isa. 26:16)
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Jer. 2:27• 27saying to a stock, Thou art my father; and to a stone, Thou hast brought me forth; for they have turned the back unto me, and not the face; and in the time of their trouble they will say, Arise, and save us! (Jer. 2:27)
the Lord.
2 Kings 14:26• 26For Jehovah saw that the affliction of Israel was very bitter; and that there was not any shut up, nor any left, nor any helper for Israel. (2 Kings 14:26)
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Gen. 21:17• 17And God heard the voice of the lad. And the Angel of God called to Hagar from the heavens, and said to her, What aileth thee, Hagar? Fear not; for God hath heard the voice of the lad there, where he is. (Gen. 21:17)
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Ex. 3:7• 7And Jehovah said, I have seen assuredly the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and their cry have I heard on account of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows. (Ex. 3:7)
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Judg. 10:15‑16• 15And the children of Israel said to Jehovah, We have sinned. Do thou unto us according to all that is good in thy sight; only deliver us, we pray thee, this day.
 16And they put away the strange gods from among them, and served Jehovah; and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel. (Judg. 10:15‑16)
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2 Chron. 33:12‑13,19• 12And when he was in affliction, he besought Jehovah his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers,
 13and prayed to him. And he was intreated of him and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that Jehovah, he was God.
 19And his prayer, and how God was intreated of him, and all his sin and his unfaithfulness, and the places in which he built high places, and set up Asherahs and graven images, before he was humbled, behold, they are written among the words of Hozai. (2 Chron. 33:12‑13,19)
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Psa. 50:15• 15And call upon me in the day of trouble; I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me. (Psa. 50:15)
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Psa. 106:43‑44• 43Often did he deliver them; but as for them they provoked him by their counsel, and they were brought low by their iniquity.
 44But he regarded their distress, when he heard their cry; (Psa. 106:43‑44)
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Jer. 33:3• 3Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and I will shew thee great and hidden things, which thou knowest not. (Jer. 33:3)
he saw.
Gen. 31:42• 42Had not the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, been with me, it is certain thou wouldest have sent me away now empty. God has looked upon my affliction and the labour of my hands, and has judged last night. (Gen. 31:42)
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Ex. 3:9• 9And now behold, the cry of the children of Israel is come unto me; and I have also seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them. (Ex. 3:9)
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Isa. 63:9• 9In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the Angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bore them and carried them all the days of old. (Isa. 63:9)
because the king.
2 Kings 13:22• 22And Hazael king of Syria oppressed Israel all the days of Jehoahaz. (2 Kings 13:22)
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2 Kings 14:26• 26For Jehovah saw that the affliction of Israel was very bitter; and that there was not any shut up, nor any left, nor any helper for Israel. (2 Kings 14:26)
• Nevertheless, what mercy in the heart of God! It is sufficient that Jehoahaz, without his heart being changed in any way, besought the Lord, for Him to answer, moved by the misery and oppression of Israel. (“Jehoahaz, Son of Jehu, King of Israel: 2 Kings 13:1-9” by H.L. Rossier)

J. N. Darby Translation

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(And Jehoahaz besought Jehovah, and Jehovah hearkened to him; for he saw the oppression of Israel, because the king of Syria oppressed them.