2 Chronicles 2:12

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

Huram said moreover, Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, that made heaven and earth, who has given to David the king a wise son, endowed with discretion and understanding, that should build a house for Yahweh, and a house for his kingdom.

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חוּרָם֒

Chûwrâm

H2361

“Huram”

Noun, Proper

Appears 12× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at 1 Chronicles 8:5

Full BDB Definition

Origin: probably from H2353

TWOT: None

Huram = "noble born" - son of Bela and grandson of Benjamin - king of Tyre allied with David and Solomon; alternate spelling for 'Hiram' - a chief architect of Solomon's temple; alternate spelling for 'Hiram'

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 →

27: words
22: distinct lemmas
Historical: section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is חוּרָם֒ Huram H2361 — appearing just 12 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

חוּרָם֒ Huram H2361 occurs in 11 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

6 verbs
15 nouns
1 adjective
5 particles

Verb forms

וַיֹּאמֶר֮ Qal · Sequential Imperfect
בָּר֤וּךְ Qal · Participle Passive
עָשָׂ֔ה Qal · Perfect
נָתַן֩ Qal · Perfect
יוֹדֵ֨עַ֙ Qal · Participle Active
יִבְנֶה Qal · Imperfect

Repetition

Words recur within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

יְהוָה֙ LORD H3068 ×2
בַּ֨יִת֙ house H1004 ×2
אֲשֶׁ֣ר which H834 ×3

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 43 words from the Hebrew and 45 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 27 Hebrew tokens and 14 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

Topical passages linked to 2 Chronicles 2:12 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

Psalms 33:6 By Yahweh's word the heavens were made; All their host by the breath of his mouth.
1 Peter 1:3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy became our father again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
Revelation 4:11 "Worthy are you, our Lord and God, the Holy One, to receive the glory, the honor, and the power, for you created all things, and because of your desire they existed, and were created!"
Genesis 1:1–2 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
1 Kings 5:7 It happened, when Hiram heard the words of Solomon, that he rejoiced greatly, and said, Blessed be Yahweh this day, who has given to David a wise son over this great people.
1 Chronicles 29:20 David said to all the assembly, Now bless Yahweh your God. All the assembly blessed Yahweh, the God of their fathers, and bowed down their heads, and worshiped Yahweh, and the king.
2 Chronicles 1:10–12 Give me now wisdom and knowledge, that I may go out and come in before this people; for who can judge this your people, that is so great?
2 Chronicles 2:1 Now Solomon purposed to build a house for the name of Yahweh, and a house for his kingdom.

Psalms 72:18–19 Praise be to Yahweh God, the God of Israel, Who alone does marvelous deeds.
Psalms 102:5 By reason of the voice of my groaning, My bones stick to my skin.
Psalms 102:25 Of old, you laid the foundation of the earth. The heavens are the work of your hands.
Psalms 124:8 Our help is in the name of Yahweh, Who made heaven and earth.
Psalms 136:5–6 To him who by understanding made the heavens; For his loving kindness endures forever:
Psalms 146:5–6 Happy is he who has the God of Jacob for his help, Whose hope is in Yahweh, his God:
Jeremiah 10:10 But Yahweh is the true God; he is the living God, and an everlasting King: at his wrath the earth trembles, and the nations are not able to abide his indignation.
Luke 1:68 "Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, For he has visited and worked redemption for his people;

Acts 4:24 When they heard it, they lifted up their voice to God with one accord, and said, "O Lord, you are God, who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and all that is in them;
Acts 14:15 "Men, why are you doing these things? We also are men of like passions with you, and bring you good news, that you should turn from these vain things to the living God, who made the sky and the earth and the sea, and all that is in them;
Colossians 1:16–17 For by him were all things created, in the heavens and on the earth, things visible and things invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers; all things have been created through him, and for him.
Revelation 10:6 and swore by him who lives forever and ever, who created heaven and the things that are in it, the earth and the things that are in it, and the sea and the things that are in it, that there will no longer be delay,

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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Hebrew 2 Chronicles 2:12 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וַיֹּאמֶר֮ חוּרָם֒ בָּר֤וּךְ יְהוָה֙ אֱלֹהֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל אֲשֶׁ֣ר עָשָׂ֔ה אֶת הַשָּׁמַ֖יִם וְאֶת הָאָ֑רֶץ אֲשֶׁ֣ר נָתַן֩ לְדָוִ֨יד הַמֶּ֜לֶךְ בֵּ֣ן חָכָ֗ם יוֹדֵ֨עַ֙ שֵׂ֣כֶל וּבִינָ֔ה אֲשֶׁ֤ר יִבְנֶה בַּ֨יִת֙ לַיהוָ֔ה וּבַ֖יִת לְמַלְכוּתֽוֹ

Huram said moreover, Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, that made heaven and earth, who has given to David the king a wise son, endowed with discretion and understanding, that should build a house for Yahweh, and a house for his kingdom.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX 2 Chronicles 2:12 Septuagint · lemma form

καί νῦν ἀποστέλλω σύ ἀνήρ σοφός καί εἶδον σύνεσις ὁ χιραμ ὁ πατήρ ἐγώ

And Chiram said, Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, who made heaven and earth, who has given to king David a wise son, and one endowed with knowledge and understanding, who shall build a house for the Lord, and a house for his kingdom.

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 2:12 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 2:12 Huram said moreover, Blessed [be] the LORD God of Israel, that made heaven and earth, who hath given to David the king a wise son, endued with prudence and understanding, that might build an house for the LORD, and an house for his kingdom.

Ver. 12. Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, that made heaven and earth.] Egregia est confessio. Aristotle held the world’s eternity.

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.

Joseph Benson's Commentary

2Ch 2:12. Blessed be the Lord that made heaven and earth — It seems Huram was not only a friend to the Jewish nation, but a proselyte to their religion, and that he worshipped Jehovah, the God of Israel, (who was now known by that name to the neighbour nations,) as the God that made heaven and earth, and the fountain of power as well as of being.

Joseph Benson's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1811–1818) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Geneva Bible (1599)

Geneva Bible translators

The very heavens confessed that it was a singular gift of God, when he gave to any nation a King that was wise and of understanding, albeit it appeareth that this Hiram had the true knowledge of God.

Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain. Text via Bolls.life.

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers

(12) Huram said moreover.—And Huram said, that is, in his letter to Solomon.

Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, that made heaven and earth.—In 1Ki_5:7 we read simply, “Blessed be the Lord this day, which hath given unto David a wise son over this great people.” The chronicler has perhaps modified the words of his source in a monotheistic sense; although it is quite possible that Jeaovah was known to the polytheist Phoenician by the title of “Maker of heaven and earth.” (Comp. Gen_14:19.) An inscription of the Persian emperor Xerxes speaks of the Supreme in terms which resemble what Solomon says in 2Ch_2:5, as well as Huram’s language here: “The great god Ahuramazda, great one of the gods, who made this earth, who made these heavens” (inscription on rocks at Elvend).

An house for his kingdom.—A royal palace (2Ch_7:11; 2Ch_8:1).

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

12. prudence and understanding] R.V. discretion and understanding (as in 1Ch_22:12, R.V.).

that might build] R.V. that should build.

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 now I have sent a cunning man, endued with understanding,.... In such things as Solomon required he should, Ch2 2:7.

of Huram my father's; a workman of his, whom he employed, and so might be depended upon as a good artificer; though rather Huram is the artificer's name:

and Abi, we render "my father", his surname, that is, "Huram Abi"; and this is the opinion of several learned men (g), and is very probable; for certain it is, that his name was Huram or Hiram, Kg1 7:13, and so he is called "Huram his father, or Huram Abif", Ch2 4:16.

(g) Luther. Emanuel Sa, Piscator, Schmidt, Beckius in Targum in loc.

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

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The Lord ... that made heaven and earth - This appears to have been a formula designating the Supreme God with several of the Asiatic nations. In the Persian inscriptions Ormazd is constantly called “the great god, who gave” (or made) “heaven and earth.”

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible (1834–1885) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

John Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Made heaven and earth - It seems Huram was not only a friend to the Jewish nation, but a proselyte to their religion, and that he worshipped Jehovah, the God of Israel, (who was now known by that name to the neighbour-nations) as the God that made heaven and earth, and the fountain of power as well as of being.

John Wesley, Explanatory Notes Upon the Whole Bible (1754–1765) — public domain. Text via the GEBible commentary corpus.

Rashi

Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki (Rashi)

endowed with understanding, of my father Huram He was my father’s ingenious craftsman, and he is also mine.

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.

Lesson kit

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2 Chronicles, in the Historical, opens this verse with 27 words (22 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Chûwrâm (“Huram”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

The word Chûwrâm carries the sense “Huram.” How does it shape the verse?
How does 1 Chronicles 8:5, which shares the word «Huram», read alongside this verse?
What does the repetition of “LORD” (2× in this one verse) do in 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?
«וַיֹּאמֶר֮» is a Qal Sequential Imperfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
Compare how Trapp's Complete Commentary and Joseph Benson's Commentary read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

Things to notice

This verse counts 27 Hebrew ↔ 14 Greek words.
These translations choose different wording for 19 words in this verse.
“LORD” occurs 2× in this single verse.
22 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 27 words in this verse.