2 Chronicles 17:18

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

and next to him Jehozabad and with him one hundred eighty thousand ready prepared for war.

World English Bible · Public Domain

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יְהוֹזָבָ֑ד

Yᵉhôwzâbâd

H3075

“Jehozabad”

Noun, Proper

Appears 4× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at 2 Kings 12:21

Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H3068 and H2064

TWOT: None

Jehozabad = "Jehovah has endowed" - son of Shomer, a Moabitish woman, who murdered Joash, king of Judah - a Benjamite, captain of 180,000 armed men, in the days of Jehoshaphat - a Korhite Levite, 2nd son of Obededom, and one of the porters of the temple and of the storehouse there in the time of David

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
9: distinct lemmas
Historical: section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is יְהוֹזָבָ֑ד Jehozabad H3075 — appearing just 4 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

יְהוֹזָבָ֑ד Jehozabad H3075 occurs in 4 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

1 verb
3 nouns
3 adjectives
2 prepositions

Verb forms

חֲלוּצֵ֥י Qal · Participle Passive

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 16 words from the Hebrew and 16 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — the same length.

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 12 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.

Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.

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Hebrew 2 Chronicles 17:18 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וְעַל יָד֖וֹ יְהוֹזָבָ֑ד וְעִמּ֛וֹ מֵאָֽה וּשְׁמוֹנִ֥ים אֶ֖לֶף חֲלוּצֵ֥י צָבָֽא

and next to him Jehozabad and with him one hundred eighty thousand ready prepared for war.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX 2 Chronicles 17:18 Septuagint · lemma form

καί μετά αὐτός ιωζαβαδ καί μετά αὐτός ἑκατόν ὀγδοήκοντα χιλίας δυνατός πόλεμος

And after him Jozabad, and with him one hundred and eighty thousand mighty men of war.

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 17:18 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 17:18 And next him [was] Jehozabad, and with him an hundred and fourscore thousand ready prepared for the war.

Ver. 18. A hundred and fourscore thousand.] His militia was eleven hundred and threescore thousand, besides what he had in garrisons. {2Ch 17:19} So that, as he was better, he was stronger than his father Asa had been. Piety hath prosperity.

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

(18) Ready prepared for the war.—Equipped for service. (See on 1Ch_12:23-24; Num_31:5; Num_32:29.) The hoplites or heavy-armed infantry are probably meant.

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. ready prepared for the war] R.V. ready prepared for war. The same phrase is translated armed for war in 1Ch_12:24.

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 next to him, was Jehozabad,.... According to the Targum he encamped next him:

and with him one hundred and fourscore thousand ready prepared for war; being able bodied men, well disciplined, valiant, and well armed; these numbers of Judah and Benjamin put together amount to 1,160,000 men, whereas Asa only brought into the field 580,000; but it should be considered there had been a long time of peace, many had come off from the ten tribes to Judah, and the promise of multiplying the seed of Abraham was eminently fulfilled.

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

While Eliada of last verse was for Benjamin, Professor Dr. Murphy supposes that Jehozabad was for the annexed part of Ephraim. But no suppositions of this kind can avail to explain the numbers in the text, which is no doubt corrupt.

The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Lesson kit

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2 Chronicles, in the Historical, opens this verse with 9 words (9 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Yᵉhôwzâbâd (“Jehozabad”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

What does “Jehozabad” (Yᵉhôwzâbâd) contribute to the verse as a whole?
How does 2 Kings 12:21, which shares the word «Jehozabad», read alongside this verse?
These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
«חֲלוּצֵ֥י» is a Qal Participle Passive 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

This verse counts 9 Hebrew ↔ 12 Greek words.
These translations choose different wording for 11 words in this verse.
9 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 9 words in this verse.