1 Chronicles 17:9

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in their own place, and be moved no more; neither shall the children of wickedness waste them any more, as at the first,

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לְבַלֹּת֔וֹ

bâlâh

H1086

“to wear out · him”

Preposition + Verb, Piel, Infinitive Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular

Appears 16× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at Genesis 18:12

Full BDB Definition

Origin: a primitive root

TWOT: 246

to wear out, become old - (Qal) to wear out - (Piel) - to wear out - to wear out by use, use up completely - to enjoy, use to the full

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
16: distinct lemmas
Historical: section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is לְבַלֹּת֔וֹ to wear out H1086 — appearing just 16 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

לְבַלֹּת֔וֹ to wear out H1086 occurs in 15 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

6 verbs
5 nouns
1 adjective
1 preposition
1 adverb
3 particles

Verb forms

וְשַׂמְתִּ֣י Qal · Sequential Perfect
וּנְטַעְתִּ֨יהוּ֙ Qal · Sequential Perfect
וְשָׁכַ֣ן Qal · Sequential Perfect
יִרְגַּ֖ז Qal · Imperfect
יוֹסִ֤יפוּ Hiphil · Imperfect
לְבַלֹּת֔וֹ Piel · Infinitive Construct

Repetition

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

וְלֹ֥א not H3808 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 40 words from the Hebrew and 41 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 28 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 17:9 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

Ezekiel 36:14–15 therefore you shall devour men no more, neither bereave your nation any more, says the Lord Yahweh;
Revelation 21:4 He will wipe away from them every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; neither will there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain, any more. The first things have passed away."
Exodus 1:13–14 The Egyptians ruthlessly made the children of Israel serve,
Exodus 2:23 It happened in the course of those many days, that the king of Egypt died, and the children of Israel sighed because of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up to God because of the bondage.
Psalms 44:2 You drove out the nations with your hand, But you planted them. You afflicted the peoples, But you spread them abroad.
Ezekiel 28:4 by your wisdom and by your understanding you have gotten you riches, and have gotten gold and silver into your treasures;
Amos 9:15 I will plant them on their land, And they will no more be plucked up out of their land which I have given them," says Yahweh your God.
Ephesians 5:6 Let no one deceive you with empty words. For because of these things, the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.

Psalms 92:13 They are planted in Yahweh's house. They will flourish in our God's courts.
Isaiah 49:17 Your children make haste; your destroyers and those who made you waste shall go forth from you.
Isaiah 60:18 Violence shall no more be heard in your land, desolation nor destruction within your borders; but you shall call your walls Salvation, and your gates Praise.
Isaiah 61:3 to appoint to those who mourn in Zion, to give to them a garland for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they may be called trees of righteousness, the planting of Yahweh, that he may be glorified.
Jeremiah 24:6 For I will set my eyes on them for good, and I will bring them again to this land: and I will build them, and not pull them down; and I will plant them, and not pluck them up.
Jeremiah 31:3–12 Yahweh appeared of old to me, [saying], Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love: therefore with loving kindness have I drawn you.
Jeremiah 32:41 Yes, I will rejoice over them to do them good, and I will plant them in this land assuredly with my whole heart and with my whole soul.
Ezekiel 34:13 I will bring them out from the peoples, and gather them from the countries, and will bring them into their own land; and I will feed them on the mountains of Israel, by the watercourses, and in all the inhabited places of the country.

Ezekiel 37:25 They shall dwell in the land that I have given to Jacob my servant, in which your fathers lived; and they shall dwell therein, they, and their children, and their children's children, forever: and David my servant shall be their prince for ever.
Ephesians 2:2–3 in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the powers of the air, the spirit who now works in the children of disobedience;
Psalms 89:22 No enemy will tax him. No wicked man will oppress him.

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.

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

Hebrew 1 Chronicles 17:9 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וְשַׂמְתִּ֣י מָ֠קוֹם לְעַמִּ֨י יִשְׂרָאֵ֤ל וּנְטַעְתִּ֨יהוּ֙ וְשָׁכַ֣ן תַּחְתָּ֔יו וְלֹ֥א יִרְגַּ֖ז ע֑וֹד וְלֹא יוֹסִ֤יפוּ בְנֵי עַוְלָה֙ לְבַלֹּת֔וֹ כַּאֲשֶׁ֖ר בָּרִאשׁוֹנָֽה

I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in their own place, and be moved no more; neither shall the children of wickedness waste them any more, as at the first,

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX 1 Chronicles 17:9 Septuagint · lemma form

καί τίθημι τόπος ὁ λαός ἐγώ ἰσραήλ καί καταφυτεύω αὐτός καί κατασκηνόω κατά ἑαυτοῦ καί οὐ μεριμνάω ἔτι καί οὐ προςτίθημι ἀδικία ὁ ταπεινόω αὐτός καθώς ἀπό ἀρχή

And I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and I will plant him, and he shall dwell by himself, and shall no longer be anxious; and the son of iniquity shall no longer afflict him, as at the beginning,

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 17:9 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.

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Geneva Bible (1599)

Geneva Bible translators

Or, consume.

Make them sure that they shall not remove.

Hebrew, sons of iniquity.

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

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown

at the beginning, and since the time that I commanded judges--that is, including the whole period from Joshua to Saul.

I tell thee that the Lord will build thee an house--This was the language of Nathan himself, who was specially directed to assure David, not only of personal blessing and prosperity, but of a continuous line of royal descendants.

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

Adam Clarke's Commentary

Verse 9. Neither shall the children of wickedness] They shall no more be brought into servitude as they were in the time they sojourned in Egypt. This is what is here referred to.

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible (1810–1826) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers

(9) I will ordain a place for my people Israel, and will plant them.—Comp. Exo_15:17; Psa_44:2-3. Although Israel had effected a settlement in Canaan, the history seems to show that down to the times of David the tribal boundaries were subject to great fluctuation, and the inroads of surrounding peoples made their tenure very uncertain.

Them . . . they . . . their.—Heb., him . . . he . . . his; Israel, the subject, being singular.

In their place.—In his own stead, or fixed habitation. (Comp. homestead, farmstead.)

Shall be moved.—Shall be troubled, or disturbed.

Children of wickedness.—Sons of wickedness, i.e., wicked men; like “sons of Belial” (worthlessness).

Waste them.—An Aramaic usage of the verb. Samuel, “afflict them,” which seems original. (Comp. Gen_15:13.)

As at the beginning.—Referring to the bondage in Egypt.

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

9. Also I will ordain … and they shall dwell in their place, and shall be moved … as at the beginning] R.V. And I will appoint … that they may dwell in their own place, and be moved … as at the first.

waste them] Sam. afflict them.

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.

Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

A place permanent and secure, while I have had no fixed abode. (Calmet) --- No more, for a long time: and unless they provoke me by their crimes, as they did afterwards, and were exposed to more severe chastisements. Constant rest is not always expedient. (Tirinus)

George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).

Matthew Poole's English Annotations

The children of wickedness; such as are devoted and wholly given up to wickedness; elsewhere called children of Belial.

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

The Pulpit Commentary

All the verbs of this verse are in the same tense as those of the foregoing verse, which are correctly translated. For an expression similar to the last clause of the verse, Neither shall the children of wickedness waste them any more, may be found in Psa_89:22.

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

unfoldingWord translationNotes

Door43 World Missions Community

Connecting Statement:

God continues describing his promises to King David through the prophet Nathan.

General Information:

The words "your" and "you" in these verses refer to David.

I will appoint a place

"I will choose a place"

will plant them there

God causing the people to live in the land permanently and securely is spoken of as if he would plant them in the land. AT: "I will settle them there" (See: Metaphor)

be troubled no more

This can be stated in active form. AT: "no one will ever trouble them" (See: Active or Passive)

from the days

Here "days" represents a longer period of time. AT: "from the time" (See: Metonymy)

I commanded judges

After the people of Israel entered the land of Canaan and before they had kings to rule them, God appointed leaders called "judges" to lead them in times of trouble.

to be over my people Israel

To be in authority is referred to as being over someone. AT: "to rule my people Israel" (See: Idiom)

subdue

make a person or animal unable to attack

build you a house

Here the metonym "house" refers to David's ancestors continuing on as the rulers of Israel. In 1 Chronicles 17:4 God told David he would not be the one to build a house for Yahweh. There "house" represented a temple. If your language has a word that can express both ideas, use it here and in 1Ch 17:4. (See: Metonymy)

translationWords

appoint

trouble

evil

oppress

command

judge, judges

house

unfoldingWord translationNotes — © Distant Shores Media and the Door43 World Missions Community, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Source: git.door43.org/Door43/en_tn.

Rashi

Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki (Rashi)

And I shall appoint a place for My people Israel, and they will dwell in their own place, etc. not as it was in the days of Saul, when Saul was slain and Israel fled, and the Philistines settled in their place.

and the wicked people will no longer afflict them - Heb. לְבַלְּתוֹ like לְעַנּוֹתוֹ (II Sam. 7:10).

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 (16 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is bâlâh (“to wear out”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

What does “to wear out” (bâlâh) contribute to the verse as a whole?
Genesis 18:12 shares the word «to wear out» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
“not” occurs 2× in this one verse. What is the effect of the repetition?
These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
The verb «וְשַׂמְתִּ֣י» is Qal Sequential Perfect. How does its form color the action?
Reading how Geneva Bible (1599) and Jamieson, Fausset & Brown read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?

Things to notice

This verse counts 17 Hebrew ↔ 28 Greek words.
These translations choose different wording for 23 words in this verse.
“not” occurs 2× in this single verse.
16 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 17 words in this verse.