1 Chronicles 17:10

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

and [as] from the day that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel; and I will subdue all your enemies. Moreover I tell you that Yahweh will build you a house.

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וְהִכְנַ֖עְתִּי

kânaʻ

H3665

“and · to humble”

Conjunction + Verb, Hiphil, Sequential Perfect, 1st Person, Common, Singular

Appears 36× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at Leviticus 26:41

Full BDB Definition

Origin: a primitive root

TWOT: 1001

to be humble, be humbled, be subdued, be brought down, be low, be under, be brought into subjection - (Niphal) - to humble oneself - to be humbled, be subdued - (Hiphil) - to humble - to subdue

About this verse

These counts appear in no published source. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged text and Lemma’s own curated glosses. What Lemma adds →

17: words
15: distinct lemmas
Historical: section

Shared distinctive vocabulary

וְהִכְנַ֖עְתִּי to humble H3665 occurs in 32 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

6 verbs
6 nouns
3 prepositions
2 particles

Verb forms

צִוִּ֤יתִי Piel · Perfect
שֹֽׁפְטִים֙ Qal · Participle Active
וְהִכְנַ֖עְתִּי Hiphil · Sequential Perfect
אוֹיְבֶ֑יךָ Qal · Participle Active
וָאַגִּ֣ד Hiphil · Sequential Imperfect
יִֽבְנֶה Qal · Imperfect

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 33 words from the Hebrew and 32 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.

A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.

Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.

In the original languages it is 17 Hebrew tokens and 25 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.

Cross-references

Topical passages linked to 1 Chronicles 17:10 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

2 Samuel 7:11 and [as] from the day that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel; and I will cause you to rest from all your enemies. Moreover Yahweh tells you that Yahweh will make you a house.
Psalms 18:40–50 You have also made my enemies turn their backs to me, That I might cut off those who hate me.
Psalms 89:23 I will beat down his adversaries before him, And strike those who hate him.
Exodus 1:21 It happened, because the midwives feared God, that he gave them families.
Judges 2:14–18 The anger of Yahweh was kindled against Israel, and he delivered them into the hands of spoilers who despoiled them; and he sold them into the hands of their enemies round about, so that they could not any longer stand before their enemies.
Judges 4:3 The children of Israel cried to Yahweh: for he had nine hundred chariots of iron; and twenty years he mightily oppressed the children of Israel.
Psalms 21:8–9 Your hand will find out all of your enemies. Your right hand will find out those who hate you.
1 Corinthians 15:25 For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet.

1 Samuel 13:19–20 Now there was no smith found throughout all the land of Israel; for the Philistines said, Lest the Hebrews make them swords or spears:
Psalms 127:1 Unless Yahweh builds the house, They labor in vain who build it. Unless Yahweh watches over the city, The watchman guards it in vain.
Judges 3:8 Therefore the anger of Yahweh was kindled against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of Cushan Rishathaim king of Mesopotamia: and the children of Israel served Cushan Rishathaim eight years.
Judges 6:3–6 So it was, when Israel had sown, that the Midianites came up, and the Amalekites, and the children of the east; they came up against them;
1 Samuel 13:5–6 The Philistines assembled themselves together to fight with Israel, thirty thousand chariots, and six thousand horsemen, and people as the sand which is on the sea-shore in multitude: and they came up, and encamped in Michmash, eastward of Beth Aven.
Psalms 110:1 Yahweh says to my Lord, "Sit at my right hand, Until I make your enemies your footstool for your feet."

Cross-references courtesy of OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.

Hebrew 1 Chronicles 17:10 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וּלְמִיָּמִ֗ים אֲשֶׁ֨ר צִוִּ֤יתִי שֹֽׁפְטִים֙ עַל עַמִּ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל וְהִכְנַ֖עְתִּי אֶת כָּל אוֹיְבֶ֑יךָ וָאַגִּ֣ד לָ֔ךְ וּבַ֖יִת יִֽבְנֶה לְּךָ֥ יְהוָֽה

and [as] from the day that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel; and I will subdue all your enemies. Moreover I tell you that Yahweh will build you a house.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX 1 Chronicles 17:10 Septuagint · lemma form

καί ἀπό ἡμέρα ὅς τάσσω κριτής ἐπί ὁ λαός ἐγώ ἰσραήλ καί ταπεινόω ἅπας ὁ ἐχθρός σύ καί αὐξάνω σύ καί οἶκος οἰκοδομέω σύ κύριος

and from the days when I appointed judges over my people Israel. Also I have humbled all your enemies, and I will increase you, and the Lord will build you a house.

LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain

Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →

Commentary

Notes on 1 Chronicles 17:10 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.

Lemma curates 59 commentaries, every one of them public domain or Creative Commons licensed, each selected and text-cleaned for this edition rather than reprinted as found. About our sources →

Joseph Benson's Commentary

1Ch 17:10. Furthermore I tell thee, &c. — Must he think that his purpose was in vain, and that he should lose the reward of it? No: it being God’s act that prevented the execution of it, he shall be as fully recompensed as if it had been done.

Joseph Benson's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1811–1818) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Tyndale Open Study Notes

Tyndale Open Resources

17:10-14 David had resolved to build a house for the Lord—the Temple. Instead, the Lord would build a house for David—a dynasty of kings. Establishing David’s eternal dynasty was the central part of God’s plan to establish his rule on earth.

Geneva Bible (1599)

Geneva Bible translators

Will give thee great posterity.

Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain. Text via Bolls.life.

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers

(10) And since the time that I commanded judges.—Heb., from days that . . . Samuel, more definitely, “from the day that I appointed judges ever my people.” This whole clause should not have been separated from 1Ch_17:9, which it properly concludes. The allusion is to the oppressions undergone in the period of the judges, and the troubles of the former reign.

Moreover (and) I will subdue all thine enemies.—A continuation of the promises at the beginning of 1Ch_17:9. “I will subdue the foes of the king, as I subdued the foes of the shepherd and the outlaw.” (Comp. 1Ch_17:8.) Instead of this, Samuel has, “And I will give thee rest from all thy enemies.”

Furthermore I tell thee . . .—Literally, And I have told thee, and a house will Jehovah build thee;” that is, I have foretold it. (Comp. Isa_40:21; Isa_45:21.) That which follows is a sort of ironical inversion of David’s wish to build a house for the Lord. The term “house” is figurative (offspring), as in Psa_127:1. (Comp. Gen_30:3.) The reading of Samuel is, “And Jehovah hath [now] told thee [by my mouth] that a house will Jehovah make for thee.” This looks original, with its rare construction of the perfect, which the chronicler has altered; its repetition of the most holy Name; and its less exact “make,” which Chronicles improves into “build,” with an eye to 1Ch_17:4; 1Ch_17:6, as well as to the play on the word (bânâh, build; bânîm, sons).

A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne

10. and since the time … Israel. Moreover … Furthermore …] R.V. and as from the day … Israel; and … Moreover …

subdue all thine enemies] Sam. (R.V.) cause thee to rest from all thine enemies.

build thee a house] Sam. make thee an house, the house meant being a dynasty, and not a building.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

The Pulpit Commentary

This verse should read on continuously with the preceding, as far as to the word "enemies." The time here denoted will stretch from the people"s occupation of the laud to the death of Saul, as the expression, "at the beginning," in ver. 9, will point to the experience of Egyptian oppression. Will build thee a house; i.e. will guarantee thee an unfailing line of descendants.

Ver. 10 (latter part).

The Divine response: its righteousness and riches.

I THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF THE DIVINE RESPONSE. David had it in his heart to build God a house, but he did not actually do so. Yet God honoured his intention, and met it by the response intimated in the text: "The Lord will build thee a house." In this we can recognize the act of a righteous God righteous because

(1) the essence of any act is in the intention of the agent;

(2) the intention of the human mind is often defeated by irresistible obstacles.

We are not responsible for the event. With David, in this instance, the direct Divine prohibition was interposed. With us, insuperable obstacles often intervene, and the result is not ascribable to anything but the limitation of our faculties. Our righteous God accepts, approves, honours, not indeed barren and Worthless sentiment, but an earnest desire and honest intention to please and serve him. This may be in our personal, family, or Church relations.

II THE AMPLITUDE (OR RICHES) OF THE DIVINE RESPONSE. David desired to build for God a house. God replied to his servant, "I will build thee an house." The house which David wished to build was one of stone and wood, of silver and gold; but that which the Divine Giver purposed to build was far more precious. It was a human house; it was the elevation of the king"s children and of their children to honour and power and influence; it was a bestowment of a kind and character which in its nature far outweighed the gift which the servant of Jehovah proposed to present. God"s response had a Divine largeness, amplitude, wealth, answering to his beneficent and bountiful nature. Thus does he meet his children now. He makes us to know the length, and breadth, and depth, and height of his responsiveness in the gospel of Christ. He acts toward us in the spirit of the promise in Mar_10:28-30. He responds

(1) to our penitence with free forgiveness and full reconciliation;

(2) to our trust with constant guidance, provision, guardianship, "all our journey through;

(3) to our trust with the indwelling of his own Divine Spirit;

(4) to our faithfulness during the brief period of time with everlasting glory. C.

The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

John Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Furthermore, &c. - Must he think, that his purpose was in vain, and that he should lose the reward of it? No: it being God's act that prevented the execution of it, he shall be as fully recompensed as if it had been done.

John Wesley, Explanatory Notes Upon the Whole Bible (1754–1765) — public domain. Text via the GEBible commentary corpus.

Rashi

Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki (Rashi)

And even from the days that I commanded judges over My people Israel they did not have rest like you, for I vanquished all your enemies before you.

Moreover I tell you what your reward will be, because you wished to build Me a house.

that the Lord will build you a house You thought to build Me a house in My name; your reward will be with the same measure; the Holy One, blessed be He, brings you the tidings that the Lord will give you a son who will reign after you and who will sit on the throne of Israel in your stead, and everything that endures for a person after him is called a house, as it says (v. 11): “... and I shall raise up your seed after you.”

Rashi on the Tanakh — English translations: “The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg” (CC BY 4.0); “Pentateuch with Rashi's commentary by M. Rosenbaum and A.M. Silbermann, 1929-1934” (public domain); “The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J” (CC BY 4.0); and “The Book of Joshua, Metsudah Publications, 1997” (CC BY 4.0). Text via Sefaria.

Lesson kit

Teaching starters — assembled from the data on this page, not authored interpretation. Every prompt links to the verse data it draws on. Edit before teaching.

1 Chronicles, in the Historical, opens this verse with 17 words (15 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is kânaʻ (“to humble”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

What does “to humble” (kânaʻ) contribute to the verse as a whole?
Leviticus 26:41 shares the word «to humble» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
The verb «צִוִּ֤יתִי» is Piel Perfect. How does its form color the action?
Reading how Joseph Benson's Commentary and Tyndale Open Study Notes read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?

Things to notice

This verse counts 17 Hebrew ↔ 25 Greek words.
These translations choose different wording for 14 words in this verse.
15 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 17 words in this verse.