2 Kings 21 · Verse 10

2 Kings 21:10

And the Lord spake by his servants the prophets, saying,

2 Kings 21:10, King James Version

2 Kings 21:10 in other translations

BSB	And the LORD spoke through His servants the prophets, saying,
WEB	The LORD spoke by his servants the prophets, saying,
ASV	And Jehovah spake by his servants the prophets, saying,
YLT	And Jehovah speaketh by the hand of his servants the prophets, saying,
DARBY	And Jehovah spoke by his servants the prophets saying,
BBE	And the Lord said, by his servants the prophets,
Webster	And the LORD spoke by his servants the prophets, saying,

What does 2 Kings 21:10 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 2 Kings 21:10-17

10-17. And the Lord spake by his servants the prophets--These were Hosea, Joel, Nahum, Habakkuk, and Isaiah. Their counsels, admonitions, and prophetic warnings, were put on record in the national chronicles (2Ch 33:18) and now form part of the sacred canon.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary

Verse 10 The Lord spake by - the prophets - The prophets were Hosea, Joel, Nahum, Habakkuk, and Isaiah. These five following verses contain the sum of what these prophets spoke. It is said that Isaiah not only prophesied in those days, but also that he was put to death by Manasseh, being sawn asunder by a wooden saw.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on 2 Kings 21:10-18

Here is the doom of Judah and Jerusalem. The words used represent the city emptied and utterly desolate, yet not destroyed thereby, but cleansed, and to be kept for the future dwelling of the Jews: forsaken, yet not finally, and only as to outward privileges, for individual believers were preserved in that visitation. The Lord will cast off any professing people who dishonour him by their crimes, but never will desert his cause on earth. In the book of Chronicles we read of Manasseh's repentance, and acceptance with God; thus we may learn not to despair of the recovery of the greatest sinners. But let none dare to persist in sin, presuming that they may repent and reform when they please. There are a few instances of the conversion of notorious sinners, that none may despair; and but few, that none may presume.

Matthew Henry, 1706 · public domain

2 Kings 21:10 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

וַיְדַבֵּ֧רvay.da.Berand he spokeH1696

יְהוָ֛הYah.wehYahwehH3068

בְּיַד\־be.yad-by [the] hand ofH3027

עֲבָדָ֥יו'a.va.Davservants hisH5650

הַנְּבִיאִ֖יםha.ne.vi.'Imthe prophetsH5030

לֵאמֹֽר\׃le.Mor<to> sayingH559

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for 2 Kings 21:10

2 Chronicles 36:15
And the Lord God of their fathers sent to them by his messengers, rising up betimes, and sending; because he had compassion on his people, and on his dwelling place:
Nehemiah 9:30
Yet many years didst thou forbear them, and testifiedst against them by thy spirit in thy prophets: yet would they not give ear: therefore gavest thou them into the hand of the people of the lands.
Nehemiah 9:26
Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their backs, and slew thy prophets which testified against them to turn them to thee, and they wrought great provocations.
Matthew 23:34-37
Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them ye shall kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city: That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar. Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation. O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!
2 Chronicles 33:10
And the Lord spake to Manasseh, and to his people: but they would not hearken.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2Ch 33:10; 36:15; Ne 9:26,30; Mt 23:34-37In the following verses the doom of Judah and Jerusalem is passed, and it is a heavy doom. The prophets were sent in the first place to teach them the knowledge of God, to remind them of their duty, and direct them in it: if they succeeded not in that, their next work was to reprove them for their sins, and to set them in view before them, that they might repent and reform, and return to their duty: if in this they prevailed not, their next work was to foretell the judgments of God, that the terror of them might awaken to repentance those who would not be made sensible of the obligations of his love; or else that the execution of them, in their season, might be a demonstration of the divine mission of the prophets who foretold them. They were made judges to those who would not hear and receive them as teachers.--Henry.

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Context

2 Kings 21:9
But they hearkened not: and Manasseh seduced them to do more evil than did the nations whom the Lord destroyed before the children of Israel.
2 Kings 21:10
And the Lord spake by his servants the prophets, saying,
2 Kings 21:11
Because Manasseh king of Judah hath done these abominations, and hath done wickedly above all that the Amorites did, which were before him, and hath made Judah also to sin with his idols:

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2 Kings 21:10 in other languages

Spanish Reina-Valera 1909	Y habló Jehová por mano de sus siervos los profetas, diciendo:
French Bible J.N. Darby 1885	Et l’ Éternel parla par ses serviteurs les prophètes, disant:
German Elberfelder 1871	Da redete Jehova durch seine Knechte, die Propheten, und sprach:
Latin Clementine Vulgate	Locutusque est Dominus in manu servorum suorum prophetarum, dicens: