But when in their distress they turned to Yahweh, the God of Israel, and sought him, he was found of them.
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But when in their distress they turned to Yahweh, the God of Israel, and sought him, he was found of them.
But when they in their trouble did turn unto the LORD God of Israel, and sought him, he was found of them.
But they turned in their distress to Yahweh, the God of Israel, and they sought him, and he was found by them.
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But when in their distress they turned to Yahweh, the God of Israel, and sought him, he was found of them.
But in their distress they turned to the LORD, the God of Israel, and sought Him, and He was found by them.
But in their distress they turned to the LORD, the God of Israel, and sought Him, and He was found by them.
But when they in their trouble did turn unto the LORD God of Israel, and sought him, he was found of them.
But when in their distress they turned unto Jehovah, the God of Israel, and sought him, he was found of them.
But when in their distress they turned unto the LORD, the God of Israel, and sought him, he was found of them.
But whosoeuer returned in his affliction to the Lord God of Israel, and sought him, he was founde of them.
And when in their distress they shall return to the Lord the God of Israel, and shall seek him, they shall find him.
and it turneth back in its distress unto Jehovah, God of Israel, and they seek Him, and He is found of them,
and it turns back in its distress to YHWH, God of Israel, and they seek Him, and He is found by them,
But when in their distress they turned to Yahweh, the God of Israel, and sought him, he was found by them.
But they turned in their distress to Yahweh, the God of Israel, and they sought him, and he was found by them.
but in their trouble they turned to Jehovah the God of Israel, and sought him, and he was found of them.
But when in their distress they turned to the LORD, the God of Israel, and sought him, he was found by them.
But when they in their trouble returned to the LORD God of Israel, and sought him, he was found by them.
But when they were in trouble they returned to the Lord, the God of Israel—they looked for him, and they found him.
But when in their trouble they were turned to the Lord, the God of Israel, searching after him, he let their search be rewarded.
but when in their distress they turned unto the LORD, the God of Israel, and sought Him, He was found of them.
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Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 21 words from the Hebrew and 18 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.
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In the original languages it is 10 Hebrew tokens and 9 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.
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וַיָּ֨שָׁב֙ בַּצַּר ל֔וֹ עַל יְהוָ֖ה אֱלֹהֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל וַיְבַקְשֻׁ֖הוּ וַיִּמָּצֵ֥א לָהֶֽם
But when in their distress they turned to Yahweh, the God of Israel, and sought him, he was found of them.
World English Bible · Public Domain
καί ἐπιστρέφω ἐπί κύριος θεός ἰσραήλ καί εὑρίσκω αὐτός
But he shall turn them to the Lord God of Israel, and he will be found of them.
LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain
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2 Chronicles, in the Historical, opens this verse with 10 words (8 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is tsar (“distress”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on 2 Chronicles 15:4 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
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.
Geneva Bible (1599)
Geneva Bible translators
Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain. Text via Bolls.life.
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.
John Gill's Exposition
John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary
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
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
Whedon's Commentary on the Bible
Daniel D. Whedon
Daniel D. Whedon (gen. ed.), Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1874–1909) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Rashi
Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki (Rashi)
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.