וַיְהִ֤י אִתָּם֙ בְּבֵ֣ית הָֽאֱלֹהִ֔ים מִתְחַבֵּ֖א שֵׁ֣שׁ שָׁנִ֖ים וַעֲתַלְיָ֖ה מֹלֶ֥כֶת עַל הָאָֽרֶץ
He was with them hid in the house of God six years: and Athaliah reigned over the land.
World English Bible · Public Domain
2 Chronicles 22:12
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) 2 Chronicles 22:12 appears in the Hebrew Old Testament. The text above is from the Westminster Leningrad Codex. Each word links to its Strong’s number, a concise gloss, and parsing drawn from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible morphology. Click any word for its full Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB) entry.
English Translation
He was with them hid in the house of God six years: and Athaliah reigned over the land.
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The same verse in 3 English versions, stacked beneath the original-language interlinear above. Click any original word for its lexicon entry.
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World English Bible Public Domain
He was with them hid in the house of God six years: and Athaliah reigned over the land.
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King James Version Public Domain
And he was with them hid in the house of God six years: and Athaliah reigned over the land.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And he was with them in the house of God, hiding himself six years. And Athaliah was reigning over the land.
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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Every available English version of this verse, each an independent rendering of the whole verse.
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World English Bible Public Domain
He was with them hid in the house of God six years: and Athaliah reigned over the land.
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
And Joash remained hidden with them in the house of God for six years while Athaliah ruled the land.
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
And Joash remained hidden with them in the house of God for six years while Athaliah ruled the land.
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King James Version Public Domain
And he was with them hid in the house of God six years: and Athaliah reigned over the land.
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
And he was with them hid in the house of God six years: and Athaliah reigned over the land.
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
And he was with them hid in the house of God six years: and Athaliah reigned over the land.
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
And hee was with them hid in the house of God sixe yeeres, whiles Athaliah reigned ouer the land.
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
And he was with them hid in the house of God six years, during which Athalia reigned over the land.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
And he is with them in the house of God hiding himself six years, and Athaliah is reigning over the land.
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
And he is with them in the house of God hiding himself [for] six years, and Athaliah is reigning over the land.
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
He was with them, hidden in the house of God for six years, while Athaliah reigned over the land.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And he was with them in the house of God, hiding himself six years. And Athaliah was reigning over the land.
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Darby Bible Public Domain
and he was with them hid in the house of God six years. And Athaliah reigned over the land.
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
He was with them hidden in God’s house six years while Athaliah reigned over the land.
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
And he was with them hid in the house of God six years: and Athaliah reigned over the land.
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
And they kept Joash hidden with them in God's Temple for six years while Athaliah ruled the country.
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
And she kept him safe with her in the house of God for six years, while Athaliah was ruling the land.
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
And he was with them hid in the house of God six years; and Athaliah reigned over the land.
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וַעֲתַלְיָ֖ה
ʻĂthalyâh
H6271
“and · Athaliah”
Conjunction + Noun, Proper
- Appears 17× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at 2 Kings 8:26
- Part of Speech
- Conjunction + Noun
- Type
- Proper
Full BDB Definition
Athaliah = "afflicted of the Lord"
- son of Jeroham of the tribe of Benjamin (noun proper masculine)
- father of Jeshaiah of the sons of Elam who was one of the heads of a family who returned with Ezra from exile (noun proper masculine)
- the daughter of Ahab and Jezebel and the wife of king Jehoram of Judah; killer of all the members of the royal family of Judah with the exception of one baby named Joash who was hidden by the high priest Jehoiada until 6 years had passed and Jehoiada led the revolution to put him on the throne, overthrowing Athaliah and putting her to death (noun proper feminine)
- וַיְהִ֤י hâyâh H1961 “and · to be” Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- אִתָּם֙ ʼêth H854 “with · them” Preposition + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural
- בְּבֵ֣ית bayith H1004 “in/at · house of” Preposition + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
- הָֽאֱלֹהִ֔ים ʼĕlôhîym H430 “the · God(s)” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute
- מִתְחַבֵּ֖א châbâʼ H2244 “hiding” Verb, Hithpael, Participle Active, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
- שֵׁ֣שׁ shêsh H8337 “six” Adjective, Cardinal number, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
- שָׁנִ֖ים shâneh H8141 “years” Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Absolute
- וַעֲתַלְיָ֖ה ʻĂthalyâh H6271 “and · Athaliah” Conjunction + Noun, Proper
- מֹלֶ֥כֶת mâlak H4427 “reigning” Verb, Qal, Participle Active, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
- עַל ʻal H5921 “upon” Preposition
- הָאָֽרֶץ ʼerets H776 “the · land” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Both, Singular, Absolute
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 →
- 11
- words
- 11
- distinct lemmas
- Historical
- section
Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is וַעֲתַלְיָ֖ה Athaliah H6271 — appearing just 17 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
וַעֲתַלְיָ֖ה Athaliah H6271 occurs in 17 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
- 3 verbs
- 5 nouns
- 1 adjective
- 2 prepositions
Verb forms
- וַיְהִ֤י Qal · Sequential Imperfect
- מִתְחַבֵּ֖א Hithpael · Participle Active
- מֹלֶ֥כֶת Qal · Participle Active
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 18 words from the Hebrew and 19 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 11 Hebrew tokens and 17 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
6Topical passages linked to 2 Chronicles 22:12 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.
- Psalms 12:8 The wicked walk on every side, When what is vile is exalted among the sons of men.
- Psalms 27:5 For in the day of trouble he will keep me secretly in his pavilion. In the covert of his tent he will hide me. He will lift me up on a rock.
- Psalms 73:14 For all day long have I been plagued, And punished every morning.
- Psalms 73:18–19 Surely you set them in slippery places. You throw them down to destruction.
- Jeremiah 12:1 Righteous are you, Yahweh, when I contend with you; yet would I reason the cause with you: why does the way of the wicked prosper? why are all they at ease who deal very treacherously?
- Habakkuk 1:12 Aren't you from everlasting, Yahweh my God, my Holy One? We will not die. Yahweh, you have appointed him for judgment. You, Rock, have established him to punish.
Cross-references courtesy of OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).
Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint
The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.
These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.
καί εἰμί μετά αὐτός ἐν οἶκος ὁ θεός κατακρύπτω ἕξ ἔτος καί γοθολια βασιλεύω ἐπί ὁ γῆ
And he was with him hid in the house of God six years; and Gotholia reigned over the land.
LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain
On this verse, Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers discusses the Septuagint’s reading. Read the note in Commentary ↓
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 →
Lesson kit
Teaching starters — assembled from the data on this page, not authored interpretation. Every prompt links to the verse data it draws on. Edit before teaching.
2 Chronicles, in the Historical, opens this verse with 11 words (11 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is ʻĂthalyâh (“Athaliah”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- How does “Athaliah” (ʻĂthalyâh) shape what this verse is saying?
- How does 2 Kings 8:26, which shares the word «Athaliah», read alongside this verse?
- These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
- «וַיְהִ֤י» is a Qal Sequential Imperfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
- Compare how The Biblical Illustrator and Geneva Bible (1599) read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?
Things to notice
- This verse counts 11 Hebrew ↔ 17 Greek words.
- These translations choose different wording for 5 words in this verse.
- 11 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 11 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on 2 Chronicles 22:12 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.
Lemma curates 59 commentaries, every one of them public domain or Creative Commons licensed, each selected and text-cleaned for this edition rather than reprinted as found. About our sources →
The Biblical Illustrator
Joseph S. Exell
The Biblical Illustrator, edited by Joseph S. Exell (c. 1880s–1900s) — 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.
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown
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
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
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
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.
The Pulpit Commentary
The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.