2 Chronicles 20:37
Hebrew Text— 2 Chronicles 20:37Then Eliezer the son of Dodavahu of Mareshah prophesied against Jehoshaphat, saying, “Because you have joined yourself with Ahaziah, Yahweh has destroyed your works.” The ships were wrecked, so that they were not able to go to Tarshish.
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Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand on the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers;
We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, for those who are called according to his purpose.
Don’t be deceived! “Evil companionships corrupt good morals.”
Indeed, who despises the day of small things? For these seven shall rejoice, and shall see the plumb line in the hand of Zerubbabel. These are Yahweh’s eyes, which run back and forth through the whole earth.”
Yahweh’s eyes are everywhere, keeping watch on the evil and the good.
For my eyes are on all their ways. They are not hidden from my face. Their iniquity isn’t concealed from my eyes.
For the ways of man are before Yahweh’s eyes. He examines all his paths.
Remember therefore from where you have fallen, and repent and do the first works; or else I am coming to you swiftly, and will move your lamp stand out of its place, unless you repent.
You shall consider in your heart that as a man disciplines his son, so Yahweh your God disciplines you.
For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and his ears open to their prayer; but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.”
But Yahweh said to Samuel, “Don’t look on his face, or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him; for I don’t see as man sees. For man looks at the outward appearance, but Yahweh looks at the heart.”
Yahweh’s eyes are toward the righteous. His ears listen to their cry.
Yahweh, I know that your judgments are righteous, that in faithfulness you have afflicted me.
for whom Yahweh loves, he corrects, even as a father reproves the son in whom he delights.
The ear that listens to reproof lives, and will be at home among the wise.
“Enter in by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many are those who enter in by it.
Every branch in me that doesn’t bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.
But when we are judged, we are punished by the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.
Therefore “ ‘Come out from among them, and be separate,’ says the Lord. ‘Touch no unclean thing. I will receive you.
Please say that you are my sister, that it may be well with me for your sake, and that my soul may live because of you.”
The princes of Pharaoh saw her, and praised her to Pharaoh; and the woman was taken into Pharaoh’s house.
The men of the place asked him about his wife. He said, “She is my sister,” for he was afraid to say, “My wife”, lest, he thought, “the men of the place might kill me for Rebekah, because she is beautiful to look at.”
King Solomon made a fleet of ships in Ezion Geber, which is beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red Sea, in the land of Edom.
For the king had a fleet of Tarshish at sea with Hiram’s fleet. Once every three years the fleet of Tarshish came, bringing gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.
that your eyes may be open toward this house day and night, even toward the place where you have said that you would put your name; to listen to the prayer which your servant will pray toward this place.
For I was ashamed to ask of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy on the way, because we had spoken to the king, saying, “The hand of our God is on all those who seek him, for good; but his power and his wrath is against all those who forsake him.”
Doesn’t he see my ways, and count all my steps?
“For his eyes are on the ways of a man. He sees all his goings.
Blessed is the man whom you discipline, Yah, and teach out of your law,
“Run back and forth through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in its wide places, if you can find a man, if there is anyone who does justly, who seeks truth, then I will pardon her.
O Yahweh, don’t your eyes look on truth? You have stricken them, but they were not grieved. You have consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction. They have made their faces harder than a rock. They have refused to return.
I heard another voice from heaven, saying, “Come out of her, my people, that you have no participation in her sins, and that you don’t receive of her plagues,
At that time, Abimelech and Phicol the captain of his army spoke to Abraham, saying, “God is with you in all that you do.
They traveled from Abronah, and encamped in Ezion Geber.
They came to Ophir, and fetched from there gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought it to king Solomon.
Yahweh’s word came to Jehu the son of Hanani against Baasha, saying,
At that time Hanani the seer came to Asa king of Judah, and said to him, “Because you have relied on the king of Syria, and have not relied on Yahweh your God, therefore the army of the king of Syria has escaped out of your hand.
Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, first and last, behold, they are written in the history of Jehu the son of Hanani, which is included in the book of the kings of Israel.
They resisted Uzziah the king, and said to him, “It isn’t for you, Uzziah, to burn incense to Yahweh, but for the priests the sons of Aaron, who are consecrated to burn incense. Go out of the sanctuary, for you have trespassed. It will not be for your honor from Yahweh God.”
But Hezekiah didn’t reciprocate appropriate to the benefit done for him, because his heart was lifted up. Therefore there was wrath on him, and on Judah and Jerusalem.
Who goes in company with the workers of iniquity, and walks with wicked men?
With the east wind, you break the ships of Tarshish.
Who stoops down to see in heaven and in the earth?
I am a friend of all those who fear you, of those who observe your precepts.
Yahweh, don’t I hate those who hate you? Am I not grieved with those who rise up against you?
He who tills his land shall have plenty of bread, but he who chases fantasies is void of understanding.
One who walks with wise men grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.
Stay away from a foolish man, for you won’t find knowledge on his lips.
“I have surely heard Ephraim grieving thus, ‘You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as an untrained calf. Turn me, and I will be turned; for you are Yahweh my God.
great in counsel, and mighty in work; whose eyes are open to all the ways of the children of men, to give everyone according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings;
He said to them, “Don’t you understand this parable? How will you understand all of the parables?
preach the word; be urgent in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort with all patience and teaching.
There is no creature that is hidden from his sight, but all things are naked and laid open before the eyes of him to whom we must give an account.
You have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with children, “My son, don’t take lightly the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are reproved by him;
(In earlier times in Israel, when a man went to inquire of God, he said, “Come! Let’s go to the seer;” for he who is now called a prophet was before called a seer.)
Samuel said to Saul, “You have done foolishly. You have not kept the commandment of Yahweh your God, which he commanded you; for now Yahweh would have established your kingdom on Israel forever.
I will be his father, and he will be my son. If he commits iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men;
For the king had ships that went to Tarshish with Huram’s servants. Once every three years, the ships of Tarshish came bringing gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.
Ahab king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat king of Judah, “Will you go with me to Ramoth Gilead?” He answered him, “I am as you are, and my people as your people. We will be with you in the war.”
Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him, and said to king Jehoshaphat, “Should you help the wicked, and love those who hate Yahweh? Because of this, wrath is on you from before Yahweh.
They abandoned the house of Yahweh, the God of their fathers, and served the Asherah poles and the idols, so wrath came on Judah and Jerusalem for this their guiltiness.
“Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects. Therefore do not despise the chastening of the Almighty.
I have not sat with deceitful men, neither will I go in with hypocrites.
The kings of Tarshish and of the islands will bring tribute. The kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts.
For all the gods of the peoples are idols, but Yahweh made the heavens.
Her house is the way to Sheol, going down to the rooms of death.
One who spares the rod hates his son, but one who loves him is careful to discipline him.
Your rowers have brought you into great waters. The east wind has broken you in the heart of the seas.
Then Amos answered Amaziah, “I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet’s son; but I was a herdsman, and a farmer of sycamore figs;
Have no fellowship with the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but rather even reprove them.
Abraham said about Sarah his wife, “She is my sister.” Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah.
Jehoshaphat made ships of Tarshish to go to Ophir for gold, but they didn’t go; for the ships wrecked at Ezion Geber.
“Remember now, Yahweh, I beg you, how I have walked before you in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.
For Yahweh’s eyes run back and forth throughout the whole earth, to show himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him. You have done foolishly in this; for from now on you will have wars.”
Therefore Yahweh’s anger burned against Amaziah, and he sent to him a prophet, who said to him, “Why have you sought after the gods of the people, which have not delivered their own people out of your hand?”
“The wings of the ostrich wave proudly; but are they the feathers and plumage of love?
Leave your simple ways, and live. Walk in the way of understanding.”
But Jonah rose up to flee to Tarshish from the presence of Yahweh. He went down to Joppa, and found a ship going to Tarshish; so he paid its fare, and went down into it, to go with them to Tarshish from the presence of Yahweh.
But coming to a place where two seas met, they ran the vessel aground. The bow struck and remained immovable, but the stern began to break up by the violence of the waves.
Foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you not to obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly portrayed among you as crucified?
for whom the Lord loves, he disciplines, and chastises every son whom he receives.”
You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.