2 Chronicles 18:3

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

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; and [we will be] with you in the war.

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רָמֹ֣ת

Râmôth Gilʻâd

H7433

“Ramoth”

Noun, Proper

Appears 21× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at Joshua 21:38

Full BDB Definition

Origin: from the pl. of H7413 and H1568

TWOT: None

Ramoth = "heights" - an Israelite who had a foreign wife in the time of Ezra (noun proper masculine) - Ramoth-gilead - a place in Gilead (noun proper locative) - site dubious

About this verse

These counts appear in no published source. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged text and Lemma’s own curated glosses. What Lemma adds →

20: words
14: distinct lemmas
Historical: section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is רָמֹ֣ת Ramoth H7433 — appearing just 21 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

רָמֹ֣ת Ramoth H7433 occurs in 21 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

3 verbs
11 nouns
6 prepositions

Verb forms

וַיֹּ֜אמֶר Qal · Sequential Imperfect
הֲתֵלֵ֥ךְ Qal · Imperfect
וַיֹּ֣אמֶר Qal · Sequential Imperfect

Repetition

Words recur within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

וַיֹּ֜אמֶר to say H559 ×2
מֶֽלֶךְ king H4428 ×2
כָּמ֤וֹנִי like H3644 ×2
וּכְעַמְּךָ֣ people H5971 ×2
עִמִּ֖י with H5973 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 40 words from the Hebrew and 48 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.

A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.

Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.

In the original languages it is 20 Hebrew tokens and 36 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.

Cross-references

Topical passages linked to 2 Chronicles 18:3 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

1 Kings 22:4 He said to Jehoshaphat, Will you go with me to battle to Ramoth-gilead? Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, I am as you are, my people as your people, my horses as your horses.
2 Kings 3:7 He went and sent to Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, saying, The king of Moab has rebelled against me: will you go with me against Moab to battle? He said, I will go up: I am as you are, my people as your people, my horses as your horses.
Psalms 139:21 Yahweh, don't I hate those who hate you? Am I not grieved with those who rise up against you?
Ephesians 5:11 Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather even reprove them.
2 John 1:10–11 If anyone comes to you, and doesn't bring this teaching, don't receive him into your house, and don't welcome him,

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.

These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.

Hebrew 2 Chronicles 18:3 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וַיֹּ֜אמֶר אַחְאָ֣ב מֶֽלֶךְ יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל אֶל יְהֽוֹשָׁפָט֙ מֶ֣לֶךְ יְהוּדָ֔ה הֲתֵלֵ֥ךְ עִמִּ֖י רָמֹ֣ת גִּלְעָ֑ד וַיֹּ֣אמֶר ל֗וֹ כָּמ֤וֹנִי כָמ֨וֹךָ֙ וּכְעַמְּךָ֣ עַמִּ֔י וְעִמְּךָ֖ בַּמִּלְחָמָֽה

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; and [we will be] with you in the war.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX 2 Chronicles 18:3 Septuagint · lemma form

καί εἶπον αχααβ βασιλεύς ἰσραήλ πρός ιωσαφατ βασιλεύς ἰουδά πορεύομαι μετά ἐγώ εἰς ραμωθ ὁ γαλααδίτις καί εἶπον αὐτός ὡς ἐγώ οὕτως καί σύ ὡς ὁ λαός σύ καί ὁ λαός ἐγώ μετά σύ εἰς πόλεμος

And Achaab king of Israel said to Josaphat king of Juda, Will you go with me to Ramoth of the country of Galaad? And he said to him, As I am, so also are you, as your people, so also is my people with you for the war.

LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain

Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →

Commentary

Notes on 2 Chronicles 18:3 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.

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Trapp's Complete Commentary

John Trapp

2Ch 18:3 And Ahab king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat king of Judah, Wilt thou go with me to Ramothgilead? And he answered him, I [am] as thou [art], and my people as thy people; and [we will be] with thee in the war.

Ver. 3. I am as thou art.] See 1Ki 22:4. Jehoshaphat was too facile. It was noted as a fault in Henry IV of France that he was aeque male ac bono reconciliabilis, of too good a nature, as we say of some.

John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Adam Clarke's Commentary

Verse 3. To Ramoth-gilead] This place belonged to the Israelites, and was now held by the king of Syria.

The whole of this chapter is circumstantially explained in the notes on 1Kg 22:1-53.

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible (1810–1826) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers

(3) And Ahab king of Israel.—This verse is essentially the same as 1Ki_22:4. From this point the two narratives practically coincide. (See the Notes on 1 Kings 22)

To Ramoth-gilead—i.e., Ramoth of, or in, Gilead. Ramoth (“heights”), or Ramath or Ramah (“height”), was a common name in such a hilly country as Palestine. Kings adds, to the war.

And my people . . . in the war—The symmetry of this part of the verse has been disregarded by the chronicler, in order to make Jehoshaphat express an apparently more definite assent to Ahab’s request. (Comp. Kings: “My people as thy people, my horses as thy horses” (kamônî kamôka, kĕ‘ammî kĕ‘ammbka, kĕsûsai kĕsûseika). The Syriac reads: “And my horses as thy horses; and I will go with thee to the war.” Similarly the Arabic: “My horsemen as thy horsemen.”

A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne

3. and we will be with thee in the war] In 1 Kin. the corresponding phrase is, my horses as thy horses. The Chronicler makes the words of Jehoshaphat a definite promise. The phrases In 1 Kin. need not be more than the expression of oriental politeness. At the present day the Arab says to his guest, My house is thy house, but he generally means very little by the words.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

War. Josaphat was too complaisant. He was rebuked by the son of Hanani, as Asa had been by his father; (chap. xvi. 7.) and, not long after, Eliezer reproached him for joining in alliance with Ochozias, C. xx. C. --- He acted without an ill intention, and was more easily pardoned. W.

George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible

Daniel D. Whedon

3-34. The rest of this chapter is parallel with 1Ki_22:4-39, where see notes.

Daniel D. Whedon (gen. ed.), Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1874–1909) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

The Pulpit Commentary

I am as thou, etc. The same unqualified kind of language was used By Jehoshaphat on another occasion, (2Ki_3:7) two years later, when Jehoram, son of the deceased Ahab, also asked his help against Moab. Whether on the one occasion or the other, it is quite possible that Jehoshaphat thought he was serving common interests, and the cause of his own kingdom, as well as of Israel; nevertheless "Jehu the son of Hanani the seer" ignores the supposed justification. (2Ch_19:2)

The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Lesson kit

Teaching starters — assembled from the data on this page, not authored interpretation. Every prompt links to the verse data it draws on. Edit before teaching.

2 Chronicles, in the Historical, opens this verse with 20 words (14 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Râmôth Gilʻâd (“Ramoth”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

What does “Ramoth” (Râmôth Gilʻâd) contribute to the verse as a whole?
Joshua 21:38 shares the word «Ramoth» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
“to say” occurs 2× in this one verse. What is the effect of the repetition?
The translations on this page render this verse differently — a whole-verse word diff, not a word-by-word alignment. What might account for the different wordings?
The verb «וַיֹּ֜אמֶר» is Qal Sequential Imperfect. How does its form color the action?
Reading how Trapp's Complete Commentary and Adam Clarke's Commentary read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?

Things to notice

This verse counts 20 Hebrew ↔ 36 Greek words.
These translations choose different wording for 13 words in this verse.
“to say” occurs 2× in this single verse.
14 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 20 words in this verse.