2 Chronicles 15:14

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

They swore to Yahweh with a loud voice, and with shouting, and with trumpets, and with cornets.

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וּבַחֲצֹצְר֖וֹת

chătsôtsᵉrâh

H2689

“and · in/at · trumpets”

Conjunction + Preposition + Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Absolute

Appears 29× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at Numbers 10:2

Full BDB Definition

Origin: by reduplication from H2690

TWOT: 726a

trumpet, clarion

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 →

7: words
7: distinct lemmas
Historical: section

Shared distinctive vocabulary

וּבַחֲצֹצְר֖וֹת trumpet H2689 occurs in 27 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

1 verb
5 nouns
1 adjective

Verb forms

וַיִּשָּֽׁבְעוּ֙ Niphal · Sequential Imperfect

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.

Cross-references

Topical passages linked to 2 Chronicles 15:14 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

Nehemiah 5:13 Also I shook out my lap, and said, So God shake out every man from his house, and from his labor, that doesn't perform this promise; even thus be he shaken out, and emptied. All the assembly said, Amen, and praised Yahweh. The people did according to this promise.
Nehemiah 10:29 They joined with their brothers, their nobles, and entered into a curse, and into an oath, to walk in God's law, which was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of Yahweh our Lord, and his ordinances and his statutes;
Psalms 81:1–4 Sing aloud to God, our strength! Make a joyful shout to the God of Jacob!

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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Hebrew 2 Chronicles 15:14 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וַיִּשָּֽׁבְעוּ֙ לַיהוָ֔ה בְּק֥וֹל גָּד֖וֹל וּבִתְרוּעָ֑ה וּבַחֲצֹצְר֖וֹת וּבְשׁוֹפָרֽוֹת

They swore to Yahweh with a loud voice, and with shouting, and with trumpets, and with cornets.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX 2 Chronicles 15:14 Septuagint · lemma form

καί ὄμνυμι ἐν ὁ κύριος ἐν φωνή μέγας καί ἐν σάλπιγξ καί ἐν κερατίνη

And they swore to the Lord with a loud voice, and with trumpets, and with cornets.

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 2 Chronicles 15:14 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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Trapp's Complete Commentary

John Trapp

2Ch 15:14 And they sware unto the LORD with a loud voice, and with shouting, and with trumpets, and with cornets.

Ver. 14. And they sware unto the Lord.] For better assurance. An oath is a curb to conscience; ορκος just as ερκος.

With a loud voice.] Verbis non tantum desertis, sed et exertis, audibly and boldly.

John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers

(14) With shouting, and with trumpets, and with cornets.—See or 1Ch_15:28; 2Ch_23:13. The acclamations of the people, accompanied by the loud blasts upon trumpet and clarion, naturally enhanced the solemnity of the oath.

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

14. shouting] The word (terû’âh) is used to denote a blast with the festal trumpets; see next note.

trumpets] The word (ḥãçôçrâh) means a special kind of trumpet used only for religions purposes; Num_10:1-10; 1Ch_15:24 (note). Driver, Amos, pp. 144–6, gives an illustration derived from the Arch of Titus.

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.

John Gill's Exposition

And they sware unto the Lord with a loud voice,.... As not being ashamed of the oath they took, and that there might be witnesses of it, and that it might be clear they did not equivocate in but expressed themselves in plain words:

and with shouting, and with trumpets, and with cornets; showing that the oath was not extorted from them unwillingly, but that they took it with the utmost cheerfulness, and with all the demonstrations of joy and gladness imaginable.

John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

The Pulpit Commentary

The loud voice, the shouting, and the trumpets, and cornets, spoke alike the determination, and the united joyful determination of the people (2Ch_23:13; Neh_12:27, Neh_12:42, Neh_12:43)

Vers. 14, 15.

The secret of joy in the service of Christ.

How comes it to pass that the service of Christ should be associated in any mind with austerity and gloom? How is it that every one does not connect that service in his thought with gladness of heart and brightness of life? This misfortune may be attributable to misconception, to a mental error, to the misreading of some words of the Master or of his apostles; or it may be the consequence, physical as much as spiritual, of a particular temperament; but it is most frequently caused by lack of thoroughness in the service of the Lord.

I THE MISTAKE OF HALF-HEARTEDNESS IN THE SERVICE OF CHRIST. During the reigns of Rehoboam and Abijah, when king and people both showed much abatement of zeal in the worship of Jehovah, we do not read of any record like that of the text. Of Rehoboam we find that "he fixed not his heart to seek the Lord". (2Ch_12:14, marginal reading) Abijah could say nothing more for himself than that he had "not forsaken the Lord", (2Ch_13:10) and his later days, like his grandfather"s, were apparently darkened by indulgence. There was no fervour of piety, and there was no fulness of joy in the land. And we find that everywhere and always it is so. Half-heartedness in holy service is a profound mistake. It gives no satisfaction to our Lord himself. It leads to no height of Christian worth, to no marked excellency of character. It fills the soul with no deep and lasting joy. It is very likely to decline and to expire, to go out into the darkness of doubt, or worldliness, or guilt.

II THE WISDOM OF WHOLE-HEARTEDNESS. "All Judah rejoiced at the oath; for they had sworn with all their heart, and sought him with their whole desire and the Lord gave them rest." There was no imaginable step they could have taken which would have caused so much elation of heart and ensured so enviable a national position. Ass and his people showed the very truest wisdom, something more and better than sagacious policy or statecraft, when they sought the Lord with all their heart. They did that which gave them a pure and honest satisfaction in the present, and which, more than any other act, secured the future. And though we certainly are not invited to manifest the thoroughness of our devotion in the same severities that characterized their decision (ver. 13), we do well when we follow there in the fulness of their resolve. For to seek Christ the Lord with all our heart and our "whole desire" is the one right and the one wise thing to do.

1. It secures to us the abiding favour and friendship of the Eternal; he isthen "found" of us.

2. It brings profound personal rest; then Christ speaks "peace" to us his peace, such as this world has not at its command.

3. It secures a feeling of friendship toward all around us: "rest roundabout." The heart is filled with that holy love which desires to bless all who can be reached.

4. It fills and sometimes floods the heart with sacred joy. The fullrealization of the presence and love of Christ, the fervent worship of the Lord of all grace and truth, earnest work done in his Name and in his strength, these are a source of enlarging and ennobling joy. The true key-note of the Christian life is this: "Rejoice in the Lord alway: and again rejoice. C.

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

All Judah rejoiced

Here the word "all" is a generalization. The phrase means that people from all over Judah rejoiced. AT: "People all over Judah rejoiced" (See: Hyperbole and Generalization)

with all their heart

The idiom "with all their heart" means "with complete devotion." AT: "with complete devotion" or "wholeheartedly" (See: Idiom)

he was found by them

This can be stated in active form. See how you translated this in 2 Chronicles 15:4. AT: "they found him" or "he permitted them to find him" (See: Active or Passive)

translationWords

oath

joy

peace

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

Lesson kit

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2 Chronicles, in the Historical, opens this verse with 7 words (7 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is chătsôtsᵉrâh (“trumpet”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

What does “trumpet” (chătsôtsᵉrâh) contribute to the verse as a whole?
How does Numbers 10:2, which shares the word «trumpet», 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?
«וַיִּשָּֽׁבְעוּ֙» is a Niphal Sequential Imperfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
Compare how Trapp's Complete Commentary and Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

Things to notice

These translations choose different wording for 10 words in this verse.
7 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 7 words in this verse.