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2 Kings 13:5 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 5. 5(And the LORD gave Israel a saviour, so that they went out from under the hand of the Syrians: and the children of Israel dwelt in their tents, as beforetime.
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Quick Meaning
This verse advances the thought unit through its next reported action, speech, or consequence: “(And the LORD gave Israel a saviour, so that they went out from under the hand of the….” Its responsible meaning belongs to the complete movement “Jehoahaz suffers Aramean domination.”
Read It With
- 2 Kings 13:1–9
Read 2 Kings 13:5 with 13:1–9. The selected wording supplies one step in the thought unit through its next reported action, speech, or consequence; the surrounding verses supply the causes, responses, and outcome summarized here: Jehoahaz continues Jeroboam's sins, Aram crushes Israel, he seeks the LORD, and a deliverer brings limited relief while the army remains depleted.
Why This Verse Appears Here
Within “Jehoahaz suffers Aramean domination,” 2 Kings 13:5 advances the thought unit through its next reported action, speech, or consequence through the wording “(And the LORD gave Israel a saviour, so that they went out from under the hand of the….” Its placement is governed by this reviewed relationship: 2 Kings 12:17–21 establishes this prior movement: Hazael takes Gath and turns to Jerusalem; Joash sends sacred and royal treasure, then his servants assassinate him. 2 Kings 13:1–9 responds to the pressure, need, word, or action already established; that evidenced relationship, rather than database adjacency alone, explains its placement.
Read 2 Kings 13:1–9 together
Why these verses belong together: 2 Kings 13:1–9 forms one scene or regnal notice: Jehoahaz continues Jeroboam's sins, Aram crushes Israel, he seeks the LORD, and a deliverer brings limited relief while the army remains depleted.
Verse 1. 1 In the three and twentieth year of Joash the son of Ahaziah king of Judah Jehoahaz the son of Jehu began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and reigned seventeen years.
Verse 2. 2 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, and followed the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, which made Israel to sin; he departed not therefrom.
Verse 3. 3 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he delivered them into the hand of Hazael king of Syria, and into the hand of Ben-hadad the son of Hazael, all their days.
Verse 4. 4 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.
Verse 5. 5 (And the LORD gave Israel a saviour, so that they went out from under the hand of the Syrians: and the children of Israel dwelt in their tents, as beforetime.
Verse 6. 6 Nevertheless they departed not from the sins of the house of Jeroboam, who made Israel sin, but walked therein: and there remained the grove also in Samaria.)
Verse 7. 7 Neither did he leave of the people to Jehoahaz but fifty horsemen, and ten chariots, and ten thousand footmen; for the king of Syria had destroyed them, and had made them like the dust by threshing.
Verse 8. 8 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoahaz, and all that he did, and his might, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
Verse 9. 9 And Jehoahaz slept with his fathers; and they buried him in Samaria: and Joash his son reigned in his stead.
Follow the Context
- Jehoahaz continues Jeroboam's sins, Aram crushes Israel, he seeks the LORD, and a deliverer brings limited relief while the army remains depleted.
- The unit closes by establishing the result or tension named in “Jehoahaz suffers Aramean domination” before the next narrated movement.
What This Verse Is Not Saying
2 Kings 13:5 does not permit the wording “(And the LORD gave Israel a saviour, so that they went out from under the hand of the…” to be read apart from the selected verse's context. Oppression does not prove a population's ethnic inferiority, and relief does not validate the king or guarantee national recovery.
What Remains True
Power remains accountable for every person exposed, coerced, displaced, injured, or killed even when the narrative also reports judgment, fulfillment, or victory. This unit tests that truth through the narrated movement: Jehoahaz continues Jeroboam's sins, Aram crushes Israel, he seeks the LORD, and a deliverer brings limited relief while the army remains depleted. In 2 Kings 13:5, the concrete line “(And the LORD gave Israel a saviour, so that they went out from under the hand of the…” keeps that truth accountable to narrated evidence.
How It Can Shape Life
- The evidence to keep visible in this verse is “(And the LORD gave Israel a saviour, so that they went out from under the hand of the….” Separate description, actor justification, narrator evaluation, and fulfillment; document who chose the violence, who bore its cost, and which safeguards prevent imitation. This response follows from the unit's own sequence: Jehoahaz continues Jeroboam's sins, Aram crushes Israel, he seeks the LORD, and a deliverer brings limited relief while the army remains depleted.
Teach It Back
In 70–220 words, explain 2 Kings 13:5's role in 13:1–9. Paraphrase “(And the LORD gave Israel a saviour, so that they went out from under the hand of the…,” identify one agent or affected person, state one material source or historical limit, and name one conclusion the context does not authorize.
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Continue in Context
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Read 2 Kings 13:1–9 — Jehoahaz suffers Aramean dominationSources used for this Verse Lens
How certain is this explanation? probable
Where care is needed
The unnamed savior and the chronology of relief have several proposals; the text emphasizes mercy without identifying the agent.
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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Supports: Exact reader-facing KJV wording, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete verse coverage for this thought unit.
Exact location: 2 Kings 13:1–9, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: 2 Kings
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Hebrew wording, morphology, names, royal formulas, clause relationships, older-English controls, and translation limits.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/2Kgs.xml, Masoretic words and morphology for 13:1–9
Open source ↗translation and translator notes
NET Bible: 2 Kings with translators' notes
Biblical Studies Press
Biblical Studies Press, 2006
Supports: A unit-bounded translation comparison plus only the lexical, grammatical, textual, historical, or older-English notes actually printed for these verses; silence is not treated as evidence.
Exact location: NET Bible 2 Kings PDF, printed pp. 646–648, translation and translator notes for 13:1–9
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