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2 Chronicles 25:7 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 7. 7But there came a man of God to him, saying, O king, let not the army of Israel go with thee; for the LORD is not with Israel, to wit, with all the children of Ephraim.
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Quick Meaning
Brings an unnamed man of God to reject the northern troops.
Read It With
- 2 Chronicles 25:1–25:10
Brings an unnamed man of God to reject the northern troops. Read 2 Chronicles 25:7 within 25:1–25:10. The complete unit records: Amaziah begins with qualified faithfulness, executes his father's killers without killing their children, musters Judah, hires northern troops, and reluctantly dismisses them after a man of God warns against the alliance.
Why This Verse Appears Here
The unit joins Torah-limited punishment with military calculation and a costly decision to reverse course. In this exact position, the line beginning “But there came a man of God to him, saying, O king, let not…” brings an unnamed man of God to reject the northern troops.
Follow the Context
- Amaziah begins with qualified faithfulness, executes his father's killers without killing their children, musters Judah, hires northern troops, and reluctantly dismisses them after a man of God warns against the alliance.
- The unit joins Torah-limited punishment with military calculation and a costly decision to reverse course.
Phrase-by-Phrase Explanation
“But there came a man of God to him, saying, O king, let not…”
In plain language: Brings an unnamed man of God to reject the northern troops.
The line beginning “But there came a man of God to him, saying, O king, let not…” brings an unnamed man of God to reject the northern troops.
Why it matters: The wording carries a material literary, historical, temple, royal-power, violence, ethnic, illness, gender, exile, reception, or misuse boundary.
How certain? probableWhat This Verse Is Not Saying
The dismissal does not make northern Israelites inferior by ethnicity, and obedience does not guarantee nobody will suffer from the consequences.
What Remains True
Brings an unnamed man of God to reject the northern troops. This concrete detail supports a bounded truth: Faithful memory tells the truth about worship and power together: it preserves covenant hope while naming labor, victims, institutional limits, human agency, and uncertainty.
How It Can Shape Life
- Because this verse brings an unnamed man of God to reject the northern troops, keep it inside 25:1–25:10, compare its Samuel-Kings relationship honestly, protect affected people from coercion or stigma, and apply only the accountable principle the complete unit supports.
Teach It Back
Explain why 2 Chronicles 25:7 brings an unnamed man of God to reject the northern troops. Use 25:1–25:10, paraphrase “But there came a man of God to him, saying, O king, let not…,” state one source or reconstruction limit, identify one person or group power can obscure, and reject one conclusion this verse does not authorize.
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Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read 2 Chronicles 25:1–25:10 — Amaziah musters Judah and dismisses hired IsraelitesSources used for this Verse Lens
How certain is this explanation? probable
Where care is needed
2 Chronicles 25:7 remains within this thought-unit limit: The huge troop numbers and prophet's rationale reflect Chronicles' presentation; relation to Kings and historical logistics remain uncertain.
These are the sources used directly for this lens. Language, grammar, disagreements, and the complete source shelf remain attached to the full thought-unit research record.
Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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Supports: Exact KJV wording, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete verse coverage for this thought unit.
Exact location: 2 Chronicles 25:1–25:10, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: 2 Chronicles
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Hebrew wording, morphology, names, clauses, regnal formulas, temple vocabulary, older-English controls, and translation limits.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/2Chr.xml, Masoretic words and morphology for 25:1–25:10
Open source ↗translation and translator notes
NET Bible Full Notes: 2 Chronicles
Biblical Studies Press
Biblical Studies Press; STEP Bible presentation, 2019 edition; current web presentation
Supports: Unit-bounded translation comparisons and only those lexical, textual, grammatical, numerical, historical, and parallel-passage notes attached to these verses.
Exact location: STEP Bible NET2full, 2 Chronicles 25:1–25:10, verse-attached translation and translator notes
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