וַיֹּ֣אמֶר אֲלֵהֶ֗ם ע֛וֹד שְׁלֹ֥שֶׁת יָמִ֖ים וְשׁ֣וּבוּ אֵלָ֑י וַיֵּ֖לֶךְ הָעָֽם
He said to them, Come again to me after three days. The people departed.
World English Bible · Public Domain
2 Chronicles 10:5
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) 2 Chronicles 10:5 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
He said to them, Come again to me after three days. The people departed.
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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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World English Bible Public Domain
He said to them, Come again to me after three days. The people departed.
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King James Version Public Domain
And he said unto them, Come again unto me after three days. And the people departed.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And he said to them, “Yet three days and return to me.” And the people went.
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
He said to them, Come again to me after three days. The people departed.
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Rehoboam answered, “Come back to me in three days.” So the people departed.
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
Rehoboam answered, “Come back to me in three days.” So the people departed.
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King James Version Public Domain
And he said unto them, Come again unto me after three days. And the people departed.
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
And he said unto them, Come again unto me after three days. And the people departed.
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
And he said unto them, Come again unto me after three days. And the people departed.
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
And he sayde to them, Depart yet three dayes, then come againe vnto me. And the people departed.
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
And he said to them: Come to me again after three days. And when the people were gone,
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
And he saith unto them, `Yet three days -- then return ye unto me;' and the people go.
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
And he says to them, “Yet three days—then return to me”; and the people go.
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
Rehoboam said to them, “Come again to me after three days.” So the people left.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And he said to them, “Yet three days and return to me.” And the people went.
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Darby Bible Public Domain
And he said to them, Come again to me after three days. And the people departed.
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
He said to them, “Come again to me after three days.” So the people departed.
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
And he said to them, Come again to me after three days. And the people departed.
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
Rehoboam answered, “Come back in three days time.” So the people left.
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
And he said to them, Come to me again after three days. So the people went away.
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
And he said unto them: 'Come again unto me after three days.' And the people departed.
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שְׁלֹ֥שֶׁת
shâlôwsh
H7969
“three”
Adjective, Cardinal number, Masculine, Singular, Construct
- Appears 431× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at Genesis 5:22
- Part of Speech
- Adjective
- Type
- Cardinal number
- Gender
- Masculine
- Number
- Singular
- State
- Construct
Full BDB Definition
three, triad
- 3, 300, third
- וַיֹּ֣אמֶר ʼâmar H559 “and · to say” Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- אֲלֵהֶ֗ם ʼêl H413 “to · them” Preposition + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural
- ע֛וֹד ʻôwd H5750 “still” Adverb
- שְׁלֹ֥שֶׁת shâlôwsh H7969 “three” Adjective, Cardinal number, Masculine, Singular, Construct
- יָמִ֖ים yôwm H3117 “days” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute
- וְשׁ֣וּבוּ shûwb H7725 “and · return” Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Imperative, 2nd Person, Masculine, Plural
- אֵלָ֑י ʼêl H413 “to · me” Preposition + Suffix, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Singular
- וַיֵּ֖לֶךְ yâlak H3212 “and · to walk” Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- הָעָֽם ʻam H5971 “the · people” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
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 →
- 9
- words
- 8
- distinct lemmas
- Historical
- section
Grammatical profile
- 3 verbs
- 2 nouns
- 1 adjective
- 2 prepositions
- 1 adverb
Verb forms
- וַיֹּ֣אמֶר Qal · Sequential Imperfect
- וְשׁ֣וּבוּ Qal · Imperative
- וַיֵּ֖לֶךְ Qal · Sequential Imperfect
Repetition
A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:
- אֲלֵהֶ֗ם to H413 ×2
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 14 words from the Hebrew and 19 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 9 Hebrew tokens and 15 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
2Topical passages linked to 2 Chronicles 10:5 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 12:5 He said to them, Depart yet for three days, then come again to me. The people departed.
- Proverbs 3:28 Don't say to your neighbor, "Go, and come again, Tomorrow I will give it to you," When you have it by you.
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 εἶπον αὐτός πορεύομαι ἕως τρεῖς ἡμέρα καί ἔρχομαι πρός ἐγώ καί ἀποἔρχομαι ὁ λαός
And he said to them, Go away for three days, and then come to me. So the people departed.
LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain
On this verse, Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers discusses the Septuagint’s reading. Read the note in Commentary ↓
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 9 words (8 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is shâlôwsh (“three”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- How does “three” (shâlôwsh) shape what this verse is saying?
- 1 Kings 12:5 shares this passage’s theme. How do the two illuminate each other?
- “to” occurs 2× in this one verse. What is the effect of the repetition?
- These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
- The verb «וַיֹּ֣אמֶר» is Qal Sequential Imperfect. How does its form color the action?
- Reading how Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers and The Pulpit Commentary read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?
Things to notice
- This verse counts 9 Hebrew ↔ 15 Greek words.
- These translations choose different wording for 6 words in this verse.
- “to” occurs 2× in this single verse.
- 8 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 9 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on 2 Chronicles 10:5 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
A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
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.