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Revised Standard Version

2 Kings 21:10

And the LORD said by his servants the prophets,

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Israel, Prophecies Concerning;   Manasseh;   Rulers;   The Topic Concordance - Evil;   Idolatry;   Servants;   Wickedness;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Kings;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Manasseh;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Baal;   Idol, idolatry;   Judah, tribe and kingdom;   King;   Manasseh, king of judah;   Prophecy, prophet;   Zephaniah;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Amos, Theology of;   Chronicles, Theology of;   Gods and Goddesses, Pagan;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Manasseh;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Kings, the Books of;   Manasseh (2);   Holman Bible Dictionary - Apocrypha;   Baal;   Kings, 1 and 2;   Manasseh;   Slave/servant;   Suffering;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Chronicles, I;   Israel;   Text, Versions, and Languages of Ot;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Manasseh ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Manasseh;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - High Place;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The Lord said through his servants the prophets,
Hebrew Names Version
The LORD spoke by his servants the prophets, saying,
King James Version
And the Lord spake by his servants the prophets, saying,
English Standard Version
And the Lord said by his servants the prophets,
New Century Version
The Lord said through his servants the prophets,
New English Translation
So the Lord announced through his servants the prophets:
Amplified Bible
Now the LORD spoke through His servants the prophets, saying,
New American Standard Bible
Now the LORD spoke through His servants the prophets, saying,
World English Bible
Yahweh spoke by his servants the prophets, saying,
Geneva Bible (1587)
Therefore the Lorde spake by his seruants the Prophets, saying,
Legacy Standard Bible
Then Yahweh spoke by the hand of His slaves the prophets, saying,
Berean Standard Bible
And the LORD spoke through His servants the prophets, saying,
Contemporary English Version
One day the Lord said to some of his prophets:
Complete Jewish Bible
Adonai spoke this message through his servants the prophets:
Darby Translation
And Jehovah spoke by his servants the prophets saying,
Easy-to-Read Version
The Lord used his servants the prophets to say this:
George Lamsa Translation
And the LORD spoke by his servants the prophets, saying,
Good News Translation
Through his servants the prophets the Lord said,
Lexham English Bible
So Yahweh spoke by the hand of his servants the prophets, saying,
Literal Translation
And Jehovah spoke by His servants the prophets, saying,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Then spake the LORDE by his seruauntes the prophetes, and saide:
American Standard Version
And Jehovah spake by his servants the prophets, saying,
Bible in Basic English
And the Lord said, by his servants the prophets,
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And the Lord spake by his seruauntes the prophetes, saying:
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And the LORD spoke by His servants the prophets, saying:
King James Version (1611)
And the Lord spake by his seruants the Prophets, saying,
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the Lord spoke by his servants the prophets, saying,
English Revised Version
And the LORD spake by his servants the prophets, saying,
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And the Lord spak in the hond of his seruauntis prophetis, and seide,
Update Bible Version
And Yahweh spoke by his slaves the prophets, saying,
Webster's Bible Translation
And the LORD spoke by his servants the prophets, saying,
New King James Version
And the LORD spoke by His servants the prophets, saying,
New Living Translation
Then the Lord said through his servants the prophets:
New Life Bible
Now the Lord spoke through His servants who tell what will happen in the future. He said,
New Revised Standard
The Lord said by his servants the prophets,
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Yahweh therefore spake through his servants the prophets saying -
Douay-Rheims Bible
And the Lord spoke in the hand of his servants, the prophets, saying:
Young's Literal Translation
And Jehovah speaketh by the hand of his servants the prophets, saying,
THE MESSAGE
God , thoroughly fed up, sent word through his servants the prophets: "Because Manasseh king of Judah has committed these outrageous sins, eclipsing the sin-performance of the Amorites before him, setting new records in evil, using foul idols to debase Judah into a nation of sinners, this is my judgment, God 's verdict: I, the God of Israel, will visit catastrophe on Jerusalem and Judah, a doom so terrible that when people hear of it they'll shake their heads in disbelief, saying, ‘I can't believe it!'
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Now the LORD spoke through His servants the prophets, saying,

Contextual Overview

10 And the LORD said by his servants the prophets, 11 "Because Manas'seh king of Judah has committed these abominations, and has done things more wicked than all that the Amorites did, who were before him, and has made Judah also to sin with his idols; 12 therefore thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, Behold, I am bringing upon Jerusalem and Judah such evil that the ears of every one who hears of it will tingle. 13 And I will stretch over Jerusalem the measuring line of Sama'ria, and the plummet of the house of Ahab; and I will wipe Jerusalem as one wipes a dish, wiping it and turning it upside down. 14 And I will cast off the remnant of my heritage, and give them into the hand of their enemies, and they shall become a prey and a spoil to all their enemies, 15 because they have done what is evil in my sight and have provoked me to anger, since the day their fathers came out of Egypt, even to this day." 16 Moreover Manas'seh shed very much innocent blood, till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another, besides the sin which he made Judah to sin so that they did what was evil in the sight of the LORD. 17 Now the rest of the acts of Manas'seh, and all that he did, and the sin that he committed, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? 18 And Manas'seh slept with his fathers, and was buried in the garden of his house, in the garden of Uzza; and Amon his son reigned in his stead.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

2 Chronicles 33:10, 2 Chronicles 36:15, Nehemiah 9:26, Nehemiah 9:30, Matthew 23:34-37, In the following verses the doom of Judah and Jerusalem is passed, and it is a heavy doom. The prophets were sent in the first place to teach them the knowledge of God, to remind them of their duty, and direct them in it: if they succeeded not in that, their next work was to reprove them for their sins, and to set them in view before them, that they might repent and reform, and return to their duty: if in this they prevailed not, their next work was to foretell the judgments of God, that the terror of them might awaken to repentance those who would not be made sensible of the obligations of his love; or else that the execution of them, in their season, might be a demonstration of the divine mission of the prophets who foretold them. They were made judges to those who would not hear and receive them as teachers. - Henry.

Cross-References

Genesis 17:19
God said, "No, but Sarah your wife shall bear you a son, and you shall call his name Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his descendants after him.
Genesis 17:21
But I will establish my covenant with Isaac, whom Sarah shall bear to you at this season next year."
Genesis 20:11
Abraham said, "I did it because I thought, There is no fear of God at all in this place, and they will kill me because of my wife.
Genesis 21:6
And Sarah said, "God has made laughter for me; every one who hears will laugh over me."
Genesis 21:7
And she said, "Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would suckle children? Yet I have borne him a son in his old age."
Genesis 21:11
And the thing was very displeasing to Abraham on account of his son.
Genesis 21:12
But God said to Abraham, "Be not displeased because of the lad and because of your slave woman; whatever Sarah says to you, do as she tells you, for through Isaac shall your descendants be named.
Genesis 21:22
At that time Abim'elech and Phicol the commander of his army said to Abraham, "God is with you in all that you do;
Genesis 21:31
Therefore that place was called Beer-sheba; because there both of them swore an oath.
Genesis 22:10
Then Abraham put forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the Lord spake by his servants the prophets,.... Who prophesied in the days of Manasseh; and were, according to the Jewish chronology f, Joel, Nahum, and Habakkuk:

saying: as follows.

f Seder Olam Rabba, c. 20. p. 55.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The prophets - None of the prophets of this reign are certainly known. One may possibly have been Hosai or Hozai (2 Chronicles 33:19, margin), who perhaps wrote a life of Manasseh.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Kings 21:10. The Lord spake by - the prophets — The prophets were Hosea, Joel, Nahum, Habakkuk, and Isaiah. These five following verses contain the sum of what these prophets spoke. It is said that Isaiah not only prophesied in those days, but also that he was put to death by Manasseh, being sawn asunder by a wooden saw.


 
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