1 Chronicles 17:15

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

According to all these words, and according to all this vision, so did Nathan speak to David.

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הֶחָז֣וֹן

châzôwn

H2377

“the · vision”

Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute

Appears 35× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at 1 Samuel 3:1

Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H2372

TWOT: 633a

vision - vision (in ecstatic state) - vision (in night) - vision, oracle, prophecy (divine communication) - vision (as title of book of prophecy)

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 →

11: words
10: distinct lemmas
Historical: section

Shared distinctive vocabulary

הֶחָז֣וֹן vision H2377 occurs in 34 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

1 verb
6 nouns
2 pronouns
1 preposition
1 particle

Verb forms

דִּבֶּ֥ר Piel · Perfect

Repetition

A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

כְּכֹל֙ all H3605 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 17 words from the Hebrew and 16 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 11 Hebrew tokens and 16 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 17:15 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 7:17 According to all these words, and according to all this vision, so did Nathan speak to David.
Jeremiah 23:28 The prophet who has a dream, let him tell a dream; and he who has my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the straw to the wheat? says Yahweh.
Acts 20:27 for I didn't shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel of God.

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

Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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Hebrew 1 Chronicles 17:15 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

כְּכֹל֙ הַדְּבָרִ֣ים הָאֵ֔לֶּה וּכְכֹ֖ל הֶחָז֣וֹן הַזֶּ֑ה כֵּ֛ן דִּבֶּ֥ר נָתָ֖ן אֶל דָּוִֽיד

According to all these words, and according to all this vision, so did Nathan speak to David.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX 1 Chronicles 17:15 Septuagint · lemma form

κατά πᾶς ὁ λόγος οὗτος καί κατά πᾶς ὁ ὅρασις οὗτος οὕτως λαλέω ναθαν πρός δαυίδ

According to all these words, and according to all this vision, so spoke Nathan to David.

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 17:15 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 →

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers

(15) According to all these words, and according to all this vision.—The matter of this prophecy (1Ch_17:3-15) undoubtedly rests upon authentic tradition. Neither the compiler of Samuel, however, nor the chronicler professes to give an exact report of the words of Nathan, as if they had been taken down on the spot, as they were uttered, by some shorthand reporter. The modern demand for literal accuracy was unknown to Oriental antiquity. Where the two narratives vary, sometimes Samuel, sometimes the Chronicle, contains the more original form of the tradition. 1Ch_17:15 (2Sa_7:17), in fact, seems to imply that the essence rather than the actual words of the oracle is given.

2. David’s prayer (1Ch_17:16-27). The remarks on 1Ch_17:15 apply generally to this section also. The prayer undoubtedly breathes the genuine Davidic spirit, even if it be merely an ideal soliloquy. But why may not David himself have recorded the substance of it as a memorial?

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

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown

According to all . . . this vision--The revelation of the divine will was made to the prophet in a dream.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown — Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

Lesson kit

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1 Chronicles, in the Historical, opens this verse with 11 words (10 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is châzôwn (“vision”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

What does “vision” (châzôwn) contribute to the verse as a whole?
How does 1 Samuel 3:1, which shares the word «vision», read alongside this verse?
What does the repetition of “all” (2× in this one verse) do in this verse?
These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
«דִּבֶּ֥ר» is a Piel Perfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
Compare how Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers and Jamieson, Fausset & Brown read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

Things to notice

This verse counts 11 Hebrew ↔ 16 Greek words.
These translations choose different wording for 4 words in this verse.
“all” occurs 2× in this single verse.
10 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 11 words in this verse.