וּבְנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל הַיֹּֽשְׁבִ֖ים בְּעָרֵ֣י יְהוּדָ֑ה וַיִּמְלֹ֥ךְ עֲלֵיהֶ֖ם רְחַבְעָֽם
But as for the children of Israel who lived in the cities of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them.
World English Bible · Public Domain
2 Chronicles 10:17
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) 2 Chronicles 10:17 appears in the Hebrew Old Testament. The text above is from the Westminster Leningrad Codex. Each word links to its Strong’s number, a concise gloss, and parsing drawn from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible morphology. Click any word for its full Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB) entry.
English Translation
But as for the children of Israel who lived in the cities of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them.
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The same verse in 3 English versions, stacked beneath the original-language interlinear above. Click any original word for its lexicon entry.
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Highlighted words mark where these versions differ — a whole-verse word diff, not a word-by-word alignment.
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World English Bible Public Domain
But as for the children of Israel who lived in the cities of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them.
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King James Version Public Domain
But as for the children of Israel that dwelt in the cities of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
But the sons of Israel dwelling in the cities of Judah, and Rehoboam reigned over them.
unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult).
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Every available English version of this verse, each an independent rendering of the whole verse.
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World English Bible Public Domain
But as for the children of Israel who lived in the cities of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them.
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
but Rehoboam still reigned over the Israelites living in the cities of Judah.
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
but Rehoboam still reigned over the Israelites living in the cities of Judah.
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King James Version Public Domain
But as for the children of Israel that dwelt in the cities of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them.
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
But as for the children of Israel that dwelt in the cities of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them.
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
But as for the children of Israel that dwelt in the cities of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them.
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
Howbeit Rehoboam reigned ouer the children of Israel, that dwelt in the cities of Iudah.
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
But Roboam reigned over the children of Israel that dwelt in the cities of Juda.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
As to the sons of Israel who are dwelling in the cities of Judah -- Rehoboam reigneth over them.
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
As for the sons of Israel who are dwelling in the cities of Judah—Rehoboam reigns over them.
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
But as for the people of Israel who lived in the cities of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
But the sons of Israel dwelling in the cities of Judah, and Rehoboam reigned over them.
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Darby Bible Public Domain
But as for the children of Israel that dwelt in the cities of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them.
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
But as for the children of Israel who lived in the cities of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them.
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
But as for the children of Israel that dwelt in the cities of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them.
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
However, Rehoboam still ruled over the Israelites who lived in Judah.
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
But Rehoboam was still king over those of the children of Israel who were living in the towns of Judah.
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
But as for the children of Israel that dwelt in the cities of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them.
Literal Standard Version (2020), Covenant Press — licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API (eBible.org). Unlocked Literal Bible (unfoldingWord) — licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API (eBible.org). unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult). Free Bible Version, Dr. Jonathan Gallagher — licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API (eBible.org).
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רְחַבְעָֽם
Rᵉchabʻâm
H7346
“Rehoboam”
Noun, Proper
- Appears 50× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at 1 Kings 11:43
- Part of Speech
- Noun
- Type
- Proper
Full BDB Definition
Rehoboam = "a people has enlarged"
- son of Solomon and the 1st king of Judah after the split up of the kingdom of Israel
- וּבְנֵ֣י bên H1121 “and · sons of” Conjunction + Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct
- יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל Yisrâʼêl H3478 “Israel” Noun, Proper
- הַיֹּֽשְׁבִ֖ים yâshab H3427 “the · dwelling” Particle, Definite Article + Verb, Qal, Participle Active, Masculine, Plural, Absolute
- בְּעָרֵ֣י ʻîyr H5892 “in/at · cities of” Preposition + Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Construct
- יְהוּדָ֑ה Yᵉhûwdâh H3063 “Judah” Noun, Proper
- וַיִּמְלֹ֥ךְ mâlak H4427 “and · to reign” Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- עֲלֵיהֶ֖ם ʻal H5921 “upon · them” Preposition + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural
- רְחַבְעָֽם Rᵉchabʻâm H7346 “Rehoboam” Noun, Proper
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 →
- 8
- words
- 8
- distinct lemmas
- Historical
- section
Shared distinctive vocabulary
רְחַבְעָֽם Rehoboam H7346 occurs in 41 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
- 2 verbs
- 5 nouns
- 1 preposition
Verb forms
- הַיֹּֽשְׁבִ֖ים Qal · Participle Active
- וַיִּמְלֹ֥ךְ Qal · Sequential Imperfect
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 18 words from the Hebrew and 21 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 8 Hebrew tokens and 13 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
3Topical passages linked to 2 Chronicles 10:17 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.
- 1 Kings 11:36 To his son will I give one tribe, that David my servant may have a lamp always before me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen me to put my name there.
- 1 Kings 12:17 But as for the children of Israel who lived in the cities of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them.
- 2 Chronicles 11:1 When Rehoboam was come to Jerusalem, he assembled the house of Judah and Benjamin, one hundred eighty thousand chosen men, who were warriors, to fight against Israel, to bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam.
Cross-references courtesy of OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).
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.
καί ἀνήρ ἰσραήλ ὁ καταοἰκέω ἐν πόλις ἰουδά καί βασιλεύω ἐπί αὐτός ροβοαμ
But the men of Israel, even those who lived in the cities of Juda, remained and made Roboam king over them.
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 →
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.
2 Chronicles, in the Historical, opens this verse with 8 words (8 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Rᵉchabʻâm (“Rehoboam”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- The word Rᵉchabʻâm carries the sense “Rehoboam.” How does it shape the verse?
- How does 1 Kings 11:43, which shares the word «Rehoboam», read alongside this verse?
- The translations on this page render this verse differently — a whole-verse word diff, not a word-by-word alignment. What might account for the different wordings?
- «הַיֹּֽשְׁבִ֖ים» is a Qal Participle Active verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
- Compare how The Pulpit Commentary and unfoldingWord translationNotes read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?
Things to notice
- This verse counts 8 Hebrew ↔ 13 Greek words.
- These translations choose different wording for 6 words in this verse.
- 8 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 8 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on 2 Chronicles 10:17 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 →
The Pulpit Commentary
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
unfoldingWord translationNotes — © Distant Shores Media and the Door43 World Missions Community, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Source: git.door43.org/Door43/en_tn.