The Meaning of 2 Kings 9:4 Explained

2 Kings 9:4

KJV: So the young man, even the young man the prophet, went to Ramothgilead.

YLT: And the young man goeth -- the young man the prophet -- to Ramoth-Gilead,

Darby: And the young man, the young prophet, went to Ramoth-Gilead.

ASV: So the young man, even the young man the prophet, went to Ramoth-gilead.

KJV Reverse Interlinear

So the young man,  [even] the young man  the prophet,  went  to Ramothgilead. 

What does 2 Kings 9:4 Mean?

Context Summary

2 Kings 9:1-13 - The Avenger Of Blood Anointed
Youth is always being called upon to gird up its loins, and dare to fulfill its commissions without fear of man. We are not to tarry to hear what men say of us. The King's business requires haste. Do your work and flee, before the world can scare you by its threats or cajole you by its blandishments. You have one Master, one errand: do it, and get back into His presence!
God has His appointed instruments to carry out His plans, 1 Kings 19:17. The King will avenge His own elect, though He bear long with their oppressors. Sooner or later His sentence will be executed. His servants are often accounted mad, but whether we are beside ourselves, it is to God! 2 Corinthians 5:13. Naturally his fellow-officers were astonished that Jehu should have dealings with one whose garb and bearing indicated his religious character. It is not usual for God's servants to penetrate a camp with such a message; and yet how striking would be the effect if only we could announce to the strong, swift-acting, vehement-hearted leaders of the age, that a higher vocation awaited them than they had ever conceived, and that God's anointing was within their reach. "I have anointed thee to be a king." [source]

Chapter Summary: 2 Kings 9

1  Elisha sends a young prophet with instructions to anoint Jehu at Ramoth Gilead
4  The prophet having done his message, flees
11  Jehu, being made king by the soldiers, kills Joram in the field of Naboth
27  Ahaziah is slain at Gur, and buried at Jerusalem
30  Proud Jezebel is thrown down out of a window, and eaten by dogs

What do the individual words in 2 Kings 9:4 mean?

So went the young man the servant of the prophet to Ramoth Gilead Gilead
וַיֵּ֧לֶךְ הַנַּ֛עַר הַנַּ֥עַר הַנָּבִ֖יא רָמֹ֥ת גִּלְעָֽד

וַיֵּ֧לֶךְ  So  went 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Verb, Qal, Consecutive imperfect, third person masculine singular
Root: הָלַךְ  
Sense: to go, walk, come.
הַנַּ֛עַר  the  young  man 
Parse: Article, Noun, masculine singular
Root: נַעַר  
Sense: a boy, lad, servant, youth, retainer.
הַנַּ֥עַר  the  servant 
Parse: Article, Noun, masculine singular
Root: נַעַר  
Sense: a boy, lad, servant, youth, retainer.
הַנָּבִ֖יא  of  the  prophet 
Parse: Article, Noun, masculine singular
Root: נָבִיא  
Sense: spokesman, speaker, prophet.
רָמֹ֥ת  to  Ramoth  Gilead 
Parse: Proper Noun, feminine singular
Root: רָמֹות גִּלְעָד  
Sense: an Israelite who had a foreign wife in the time of Ezra.
גִּלְעָֽד  Gilead 
Parse: Proper Noun, feminine singular
Root: גִּלְעָד  
Sense: a mountainous region bounded on the west by the Jordan, on the north by Bashan, on the east by the Arabian plateau, and on the south by Moab and Ammon; sometimes called ‘Mount Gilead’ or the ‘land of Gilead’ or just ‘Gilead’.

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