2nd Chronicles Chapter 18 verse 30 Holy Bible

ASV 2ndChronicles 18:30

Now the king of Syria had commanded the captains of his chariots, saying, Fight neither with small nor great, save only with the king of Israel.
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BBE 2ndChronicles 18:30

Now the king of Aram had given orders to the captains of his war-carriages, saying, Make no attack on small or great, but only on the king of Israel.
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DARBY 2ndChronicles 18:30

And the king of Syria commanded the captains of his chariots saying, Fight neither with small nor great, but with the king of Israel only.
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KJV 2ndChronicles 18:30

Now the king of Syria had commanded the captains of the chariots that were with him, saying, Fight ye not with small or great, save only with the king of Israel.
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WBT 2ndChronicles 18:30

Now the king of Syria had commanded the captains of the chariots that were with him, saying, Fight ye not with small or great, save only with the king of Israel.
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WEB 2ndChronicles 18:30

Now the king of Syria had commanded the captains of his chariots, saying, Fight neither with small nor great, save only with the king of Israel.
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YLT 2ndChronicles 18:30

And the king of Aram hath commanded the heads of the charioteers whom he hath, saying, `Ye do not fight with small or with great, except with the king of Israel by himself.'
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 30. - Our had commanded stands rendered in the parallel not so explicitly "commanded," but in both cases the Hebrew text is the same (צִוָּה). Therefore, if the place of vers. 29, 30 were inverted, what reads like the cool suggestion of Ahab in ver. 29 would seem more tolerable. Mean. time, Benhadad's command argues the intensity of his resentment towards Ahab, and not less ungrateful forgetfulness for the ultimate consideration that Ahab had allowed to him (1 Kings 20:31-34).

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(30) That were with him.--Kings adds, "thirty and two," referring to what is related in 1Kings 20:16; 1Kings 20:24, a matter which the chronicler has not noticed. The Syriac and Arabic supply the number here.With small or great.--So Kings. Our text is literally, with the small or the great.They compassed about him.--Or, came round against him. Kings, wrongly, "turned aside against him." In Hebrew the difference turns on half a letter.But Jehoshaphat cried out.--Probably to bring his followers to the rescue. (1Kings 22:32 ends with these words.)And the Lord helped him; and God moved (literally, incited, "persuaded," 2Chronicles 18:1) them . . . from him.--Drove them away from him. This addition is evidently from the pen of the chronicler himself. It appears that he understood the verb "cried out" in the sense of a cry to God for help, a sense which it often bears, e.g., Psalm 22:6. . . .