2 Chronicles 15:18

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He brought into the house of God the things that his father had dedicated, and that he himself had dedicated, silver, and gold, and vessels.
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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    He brought into the house of God the things that his father had dedicated, and that he himself had dedicated, silver, and gold, and vessels.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And he brought into the house of God the things that his father had dedicated, and that he himself had dedicated, silver, and gold, and vessels.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    And he brought the sacred things of his father and his sacred things into the house of God, silver and gold and items.

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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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    He brought into the house of God the things that his father had dedicated, and that he himself had dedicated, silver, and gold, and vessels.
  • Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
    And he brought into the house of God the silver and gold articles that he and his father had dedicated.
  • Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
    And he brought into the house of God the silver and gold and the articles that he and his father had dedicated.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And he brought into the house of God the things that his father had dedicated, and that he himself had dedicated, silver, and gold, and vessels.
  • American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
    And he brought into the house of God the things that his father had dedicated, and that he himself had dedicated, silver, and gold, and vessels.
  • Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
    And he brought into the house of God the things that his father had dedicated, and that he himself had dedicated, silver, and gold, and vessels.
  • Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
    Also he brought into the house of God the things that his father had dedicate, and that he had dedicate, siluer, and golde, and vessels.
  • Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
    And the things which his father had vowed, and he himself had vowed, he brought into the house of the Lord, gold and silver, and vessels of divers uses.
  • Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
    And he bringeth in the sanctified things of his father, and his own sanctified things, to the house of God, silver, and gold, and vessels.
  • Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    And he brings in the sanctified things of his father, and his own sanctified things, to the house of God: silver, and gold, and vessels.
  • Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
    He brought into the house of God the silver and gold and the utensils that he and his father had dedicated for that purpose.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    And he brought the sacred things of his father and his sacred things into the house of God, silver and gold and items.
  • Darby Bible Public Domain
    And he brought into the house of God the things which his father had dedicated, and the things which he himself had dedicated, silver, and gold, and vessels.
  • World Messianic Bible Public Domain
    He brought the things that his father had dedicated and that he himself had dedicated, silver, gold, and vessels into God’s house.
  • Webster's Bible Public Domain
    And he brought into the house of God the things that his father had dedicated, and that he himself had dedicated, silver, and gold, and vessels.
  • Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    He brought into God's Temple the silver and gold articles he and his father had dedicated.
  • Bible in Basic English Public Domain
    He took into the house of God all the things which his father had made holy and those which he himself had made holy, silver and gold and vessels.
  • JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
    And he brought into the house of God the things that his father had hallowed, and that he himself had hallowed, silver, and gold, and vessels.

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וְקָֽדָשָׁ֖יו
qâdash
H6942
“and · consecrated ones · his”
Conjunction + Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
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Full BDB Definition

Origin: a primitive root

TWOT: 1990

to consecrate, sanctify, prepare, dedicate, be hallowed, be holy, be sanctified, be separate - (Qal) - to be set apart, be consecrated - to be hallowed - consecrated, tabooed - (Niphal) - to show oneself sacred or majestic - to be honoured, be treated as sacred - to be holy - (Piel) - to set apart as sacred, consecrate, dedicate - to observe as holy, keep sacred - to honour as sacred, hallow - to consecrate - (Pual) - to be consecrated - consecrated, dedicated - (Hiphil) - to set apart, devote, consecrate - to regard or treat as sacred or hallow - to consecrate - (Hithpael) - to keep oneself apart or separate - to cause Himself to be hallowed (of God) - to be observed as holy - to consecrate oneself
  1. וַיָּבֵ֞א bôwʼ H935 “and · to enter” Conjunction + Verb, Hiphil, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
  2. אֶת ʼêth H853 “-” Particle, Direct Object
  3. קָדְשֵׁ֥י qôdesh H6944 “holy things of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct
  4. אָבִ֛יו ʼâb H1 “father · his” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
  5. בֵּ֣ית bayith H1004 “house of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
  6. הָאֱלֹהִ֑ים ʼĕlôhîym H430 “the · God(s)” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute
  7. כֶּ֥סֶף keçeph H3701 “silver” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
  8. וְזָהָ֖ב zâhâb H2091 “and · gold” Conjunction + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
  9. וְכֵלִֽים kᵉlîy H3627 “and · vessels” Conjunction + Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute

About this verse

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10
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Grammatical profile

  • 1 verb
  • 8 nouns
  • 1 particle

Verb forms

  • וַיָּבֵ֞א Hiphil · Sequential Imperfect

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 25 words from the Hebrew and 25 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — the same length.

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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.

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Topical passages linked to 2 Chronicles 15:18 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 7:51 Thus all the work that king Solomon worked in the house of Yahweh was finished. Solomon brought in the things which David his father had dedicated, [even] the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, and put them in the treasuries of the house of Yahweh.
  • 1 Kings 15:14–15 But the high places were not taken away: nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect with Yahweh all his days.
  • 1 Chronicles 26:20–26 Of the Levites, Ahijah was over the treasures of the house of God, and over the treasures of the dedicated things.

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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Hebrew 2 Chronicles 15:18 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וַיָּבֵ֞א אֶת קָדְשֵׁ֥י אָבִ֛יו וְקָֽדָשָׁ֖יו בֵּ֣ית הָאֱלֹהִ֑ים כֶּ֥סֶף וְזָהָ֖ב וְכֵלִֽים

He brought into the house of God the things that his father had dedicated, and that he himself had dedicated, silver, and gold, and vessels.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX 2 Chronicles 15:18 Septuagint · lemma form

καί εἰςφέρω ὁ ἅγιος δαυίδ ὁ πατήρ αὐτός καί ὁ ἅγιος οἶκος κύριος ὁ θεός ἀργύριον καί χρυσίον καί σκεῦος

And he brought in the holy things of David his father, and the holy things of the house of God, silver, and gold, and vessels.

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 15:18 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 15:18 And he brought into the house of God the things that his father had dedicated, and that he himself had dedicated, silver, and gold, and vessels.

Ver. 18. And he brought.] See 1Ki 15:15. Hypocrites may, for self-respects, be liberal; as was Herod in beautifying the temple.

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.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown

the things that his father had dedicated--probably part of the booty obtained by his signal victory over Jeroboam, but which, though dedicated, had hitherto been unrepresented.

and that he himself had dedicated--of the booty taken from the Ethiopians. Both of these were now deposited in the temple as votive offerings to Him whose right hand and holy arm had given them the victory.

Next: 2 Chronicles Chapter 16

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 18. The things that his father had dedicated] As it was a custom to dedicate a part of the spoils taken from an enemy to the service and honour of God, it is natural to suppose that Abijah, having so signally overthrown Jeroboam, (2Ch 13:15-19,) had dedicated a part of the spoils to the Lord; but they had not been brought into the temple till this time.

Silver, and gold, and vessels.] The word כלים kelim, which we translate vessels, signifies instruments, utensils, ornaments, &c.

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

(18) And he brought into the house of God.—The verse is identical with 1Ki_15:15, substituting God for Jehovah. “The things that his father had dedicated” were, doubtless, taken from the spoils after Abijah’s great victory over Jeroboam (2Ch_13:16-19); and” the things that he himself had dedicated “were a portion of the Cushite booty (2Ch_14:13-15).

The brief reference contained in that single verse of Kings is thus an evident confirmation of the chronicler’s narrative concerning the victories of Abijah and Asa, which he alone records.

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

18. the things that his father had dedicated] Probably spoils of war; cp. 1Ch_18:11. The verse seems to say that Abijah had wowed a portion of his spoils, but that Asa first actually presented them in the Temple. May we not take the passage (which occurs also in 1 Kin.) as an indirect confirmation of Abijah’s victory (2 Chronicles 13)?

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

Vowed, in the wars against Jeroboam and Zara. See 1 Paralipomenon xxvi. 27.

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).

The Pulpit Commentary

Except for an unimportant difference of the Keri and Chethiv kind in one word, this verse is identical with the parallel. (1Ki_15:15) The silver, gold, and vessels were, of course, for the repair, restoration, and replacing of the revered fittings and ornaments of the temple. From what sources and after what victories the father of Asa and Asa himself had drawn these supplies is not given either here or in the parallel, but it is natural to suppose that Abijah"s victory over Jeroboam (2Ch_13:16) and Asa"s over Zerah would have been the chief occasions to finnish them.

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

the house of God

Here the word "house" represents the temple. AT: "the temple of God" (See: Metonymy)

the thirty-fifth year

"year 35" (See: Ordinal Numbers)

translationWords

house of God

silver

gold

Asa

reign

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

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

Discussion questions

  1. What does “to consecrate” (qâdash) contribute to the verse as a whole?
  2. How does 1 Kings 7:51, which shares this passage’s theme, read alongside this verse?
  3. These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
  4. «וַיָּבֵ֞א» is a Hiphil Sequential Imperfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
  5. Compare how Trapp's Complete Commentary and Jamieson, Fausset & Brown read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

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