2 Kings 13:4

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And Jehoahaz besought the LORD, and the LORD hearkened unto him: for he saw the oppression of Israel, because the king of Syria oppressed them.

Jehoahaz

The lord

He saw

Genesis 31:42

Exodus 3:9

Isaiah 63:9

Because the king

2 Kings 13:22

2 Kings 14:26

Bible References

Jehoahaz

The people came to Moses and said, "We have sinned because we have spoken against Yahweh and against you. Pray to Yahweh and let him remove the snakes from among us." So Moses prayed for the people.

Israel was very poor because of the presence of the Midianites, and the {Israelites} cried out to Yahweh.

Then the {Israelites} cried out to Yahweh, saying, "We have sinned against you; we have abandoned our God and served the Baals."

When he killed [some of] them, then they sought him, and repented and earnestly sought God.

Yahweh, in distress they have visited you; they poured out an {incantation}; your discipline [was] on them.

[Those who] say to the tree, 'You [are] my father,' and to the stone, 'You gave birth [to] me.' For they have turned [their] {backs} to me, and not [their] faces. But in the time of their trouble they say, 'Arise and save us.'

The lord

For Yahweh saw that the misery of Israel was very bitter, whether bond or free, but there was no helper for Israel.

And God heard the cry of the boy and the angel of God called to Hagar from the heavens and said to her, "{What is the matter} Hagar? Do not be afraid, for God has heard the cry of the boy {from where he is}.

And Yahweh said, "Surely I have seen the misery of my people who [are] in Egypt, and I have heard their cry of distress because of their oppressors, for I know their sufferings.

And the {Israelites} said to Yahweh, "We have sinned; {do to us accordingly as you see fit}; only please deliver us this day."

And when he was in distress he entreated Yahweh his God and greatly humbled himself before the God of his ancestors

And call me in [the] day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you will glorify me."

Many times he delivered them, but they rebelled in their counsel, and were brought low by their iniquity.

'Call to me, and I will answer you, and I will tell you great [things] and inaccessible [things that] you have not known.'

He saw

If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac had not been with me, indeed now you would have sent me away empty-handed. God saw my misery and the labor of my hands and rebuked you last night."

And now, look, the cry of distress of the {Israelites} has come to me, and also I see the oppression [with] which [the] Egyptians [are] oppressing them.

In all their distress, {there was no distress}, and the messenger of his {presence} saved them, in his love and compassion he himself redeemed them, and he lifted them up, and he supported them all [the] days of old.

Because the king

Hazael king of Aram oppressed Israel all the days of Jehoahaz.

For Yahweh saw that the misery of Israel was very bitter, whether bond or free, but there was no helper for Israel.