H0413–אֶל–el

And he said to them, What is your opinion? What answer are we to give to this people who have said to me, Make less the weight of the yoke which your father put on us?

אֲלֵהֶ֗ם (אֲלֵ) 'a.le. “to”אֵלַי֙ (אֵלַ) 'e.La “to”

And the young men of his generation said to him, This is the answer to give to the people who came to you saying, Your father put a hard yoke on us, but will you make it less; say to them, My little finger is thicker than my father's body;

אֵלֶ֜יךָ (אֵלֶ֜י) 'e.Lei. “to”אֲלֵהֶ֔ם (אֲלֵ) 'a.le. “to”

So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam on the third day, as the king had given orders, saying, Come to me again on the third day.

אֶל־ 'el- “to”אֵלַ֖י (אֵלַ֖) 'e.La “to”

But gave them the answer put forward by the young men, saying, My father made your yoke hard, but I will make it harder; my father gave you punishment with whips, but I will give it with snakes.

אֲלֵהֶ֗ם (אֲלֵ) 'a.le. “to”

So the king did not give ear to the people; for this came about by the purpose of God, so that the Lord might give effect to his word which he had said by Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam, the son of Nebat.

אֶל־ 'el- “to”אֶל־ 'el- “to”

But the word of the Lord came to Shemaiah, the man of God, saying,

אֶל־ 'el- “to”

Say to Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and to all Israel in Judah and Benjamin,

אֶל־ 'el- “to”וְאֶל֙ (אֶל֙) 'El “to”

The Lord has said, You are not to go to war against your brothers: let every man go back to his house, for this thing is my purpose. So they gave ear to the words of the Lord and were turned back from fighting against Jeroboam.

אֶל־ 'el- “against”

Now Shemaiah the prophet came to Rehoboam and the chiefs of Judah, who had come together in Jerusalem because of Shishak, and said to them, The Lord has said, Because you have given me up, I have given you up into the hands of Shishak.

אֶל־ 'el- “to”אֶל־ 'el- “to”

And the Lord, seeing that they had made themselves low, said to Shemaiah, They have made themselves low: I will not send destruction on them, but in a short time I will give them salvation, and will not let loose my wrath on Jerusalem by the hand of Shis

אֶל־ 'el- “to”

And whenever the king went into the house of the Lord, the armed men went with him taking the body-covers, and then took them back to their room.

אֶל־ 'el- “to”

And Zerah the Ethiopian, with an army of a million, and three hundred war-carriages, came out against them to Mareshah.

אֲלֵיהֶ֜ם (אֲלֵי) 'a.lei. “against”

And Asa made prayer to the Lord his God and said, Lord, you only are able to give help against the strong to him who has no strength; come to our help, O Lord our God, for our hope is in you, and in your name we have come out against this great army. O L

אֶל־ 'el- “to”

Then Asa took silver and gold out of the stores of the Lord's house and of the king's store-house, and sent to Ben-hadad, king of Aram, at Damascus, saying,

אֶל־ 'el- “to”

And Ben-hadad did as King Asa said, and sent the captains of his armies against the towns of Israel, attacking Ijon and Dan and Abel-maim, and all the store-towns of Naphtali.

אֶל־ 'el- “to”אֶל־ 'el- “against”

At that time Hanani the seer came to Asa, king of Judah, and said to him, Because you have put your faith in the king of Aram and not in the Lord your God, the army of the king of Aram has got away out of your hands.

אֶל־ 'el- “to”אֵלָ֗יו (אֵלָ֗י) 'e.La “to”

For the eyes of the Lord go this way and that, through all the earth, letting it be seen that he is the strong support of those whose hearts are true to him. In this you have done foolishly, for from now you will have wars.

אֵלָ֖יו (אֵלָ֖י) 'e.La “to”

Then Asa was angry with the seer, and put him in prison, burning with wrath against him because of this thing. And at the same time Asa was cruel to some of the people.

אֶל־ 'el- “against”

And after some years he went down to Samaria to see Ahab. And Ahab made a feast for him and the people who were with him, putting to death great numbers of sheep and oxen; and he got Jehoshaphat to go with him to Ramoth-gilead.

אֶל־ 'el- “to”אֶל־ 'el- “against”

For Ahab, king of Israel, said to Jehoshaphat, king of Judah, Will you go with me to Ramoth-gilead? And he said, I am as you are, and my people as your people; we will be with you in the war.

אֶל־ 'el- “to”

Then Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, Let us now get directions from the Lord.

אֶל־ 'el- “to”

So the king of Israel got together all the prophets, four hundred men, and said to them, Am I to go to Ramoth-gilead to make war or not? And they said, Go up: for God will give it into the hands of the king.

אֲלֵהֶ֗ם (אֲלֵ) 'a.le. “to”אֶל־ 'el- “against”

And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, There is still one man by whom we may get directions from the Lord, but I have no love for him, because he has never been a prophet of good to me, but only of evil: he is Micaiah, the son of Imla. And Jehoshaph

אֶֽל־ 'el- “to”

Then the king of Israel sent for one of his unsexed servants and said, Go quickly and come back with Micaiah, the son of Imla.

אֶל־ 'el- “to”

Now the servant who had gone to get Micaiah said to him, See now, all the prophets with one voice are saying good things to the king; so let your words be like theirs, and say good things.

אֵלָיו֙ (אֵלָי) 'e.La “to”אֶל־ 'el- “concerning”