2 Chronicles 23:14

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

Jehoiada the priest brought out the captains of hundreds who were set over the host, and said to them, Have her forth between the ranks; and whoever follows her, let him be slain with the sword: for the priest said, Don't kill her in the house of Yahweh.

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הַשְּׂדֵר֔וֹת

sᵉdêrâh

H7713

“the · rows”

Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Absolute

Appears 4× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at 1 Kings 6:9

Full BDB Definition

Origin: from an unused root meaning to regulate

TWOT: 1467b

row, rank (of soldiers) - rows, ranks - technical term of building - meaning unknown

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 →

25: words
19: distinct lemmas
Historical: section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is הַשְּׂדֵר֔וֹת row H7713 — appearing just 4 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

הַשְּׂדֵר֔וֹת row H7713 occurs in 4 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

8 verbs
10 nouns
1 adjective
3 prepositions
1 conjunction
2 particles

Verb forms

וַיּוֹצֵא֩ Hiphil · Sequential Imperfect
פְּקוּדֵ֣י Qal · Participle Passive
וַיֹּ֤אמֶר Qal · Sequential Imperfect
הֽוֹצִיא֨וּהָ֙ Hiphil · Imperative
וְהַבָּ֥א Qal · Participle Active
יוּמַ֣ת Hophal · Imperfect
אָמַ֣ר Qal · Perfect
תְמִית֖וּהָ Hiphil · Imperfect

Repetition

Words recur within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

וַיּוֹצֵא֩ to go out H3318 ×2
הַכֹּהֵ֜ן priest H3548 ×2
וַיֹּ֤אמֶר to say H559 ×2
מִבֵּ֣ית house H1004 ×2
יוּמַ֣ת to die H4191 ×2
אֲלֵהֶם֙ to H413 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 48 words from the Hebrew and 57 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 25 Hebrew tokens and 41 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 23:14 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

Exodus 21:14 If a man schemes and comes presumptuously on his neighbor to kill him, you shall take him from my altar, that he may die.
2 Kings 10:25 It happened, as soon as he had made an end of offering the burnt offering, that Jehu said to the guard and to the captains, Go in, and kill them; let none come forth. They struck them with the edge of the sword; and the guard and the captains cast them out, and went to the city of the house of Baal.
2 Kings 11:8 You shall compass the king round about, every man with his weapons in his hand; and he who comes within the ranks, let him be slain: and be you with the king when he goes out, and when he comes in.
2 Kings 11:15 Jehoiada the priest commanded the captains of hundreds who were set over the host, and said to them, Have her forth between the ranks; and him who follows her kill with the sword. For the priest said, Don't let her be slain in the house of Yahweh.
Ezekiel 9:7 He said to them, Defile the house, and fill the courts with the slain: go you forth. They went forth, and struck in the city.

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.

Hebrew 2 Chronicles 23:14 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וַיּוֹצֵא֩ יְהוֹיָדָ֨ע הַכֹּהֵ֜ן אֶת שָׂרֵ֥י הַמֵּא֣וֹת פְּקוּדֵ֣י הַחַ֗יִל וַיֹּ֤אמֶר אֲלֵהֶם֙ הֽוֹצִיא֨וּהָ֙ אֶל מִבֵּ֣ית הַשְּׂדֵר֔וֹת וְהַבָּ֥א אַחֲרֶ֖יהָ יוּמַ֣ת בֶּחָ֑רֶב כִּ֚י אָמַ֣ר הַכֹּהֵ֔ן לֹ֥א תְמִית֖וּהָ בֵּ֥ית יְהוָֽה

Jehoiada the priest brought out the captains of hundreds who were set over the host, and said to them, Have her forth between the ranks; and whoever follows her, let him be slain with the sword: for the priest said, Don't kill her in the house of Yahweh.

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Greek LXX 2 Chronicles 23:14 Septuagint · lemma form

καί ἐκἔρχομαι ιωδαε ὁ ἱερεύς καί ἐντέλλω ιωδαε ὁ ἱερεύς ὁ ἑκατόνταρχος καί ὁ ἀρχηγός ὁ δύναμις καί εἶπον αὐτός ἐκβάλλω αὐτός ἐκτός ὁ οἶκος καί εἰςἔρχομαι ὀπίσω αὐτός καί ἀποθνήσκω μάχαιρα ὅτι εἶπον ὁ ἱερεύς μή ἀποθνήσκω ἐν οἶκος κύριος

And Jodae the priest went forth, and Jodae the priest charged the captains of hundreds, even the captains of the host, and said to them, Thrust her forth outside the house, and follow her, and let her be slain with the sword. For the priest said, Let her not be slain in the house of the Lord.

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 →

Commentary

Notes on 2 Chronicles 23:14 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 23:14 Then Jehoiada the priest brought out the captains of hundreds that were set over the host, and said unto them, Have her forth of the ranges: and whoso followeth her, let him be slain with the sword. For the priest said, Slay her not in the house of the LORD.

Ver. 14. Have her forth.] See 2Ki 11:15. Their fingers even itched to be slaying her in the very temple; so hateful had she made herself.

And whoso followeth her.] As none did in this condition. And the like befell her mother Jezebel, Nero, and other tyrants.

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

To join with her party, and to maintain her authority.

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

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown

Slay her not in the house of the Lord . . . and when she was come to the entering of the horse gate by the king's house, they slew her there--The high priest ordered her immediately to be taken out of the temple grounds and put to death. "And they laid hands on her; and she went by the way by the which horses came into the king's house: and there was she slain" (Kg2 11:16). "Now, we are not to suppose that horses came into [the king's house] of residence, but into the king's (horses') house or hippodrome (the gate of the king's mules) [JOSEPHUS], he had built for them on the southeast of the temple, in the immediate vicinity of the horse gate in the valley of Kedron--a valley which was at that time a kind of desecrated place by the destruction of idols and their appurtenances" (Kg2 23:2, Kg2 23:6, Kg2 23:12) [BARCLAY, City of the Great King].

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 14. And whoso followeth her, let him be slain with the sword.] He who takes her part, or endeavours to prevent the present revolution, let him be immediately slain.

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

(14) Then.—And. This verse is the same as 2Ki_11:15, with a few formal variations.

Brought out.—Kings, “commanded.” The Heb. words are so nearly alike that one may easily be a corruption of the other. The Syriac and Arabic agree with Kings. The LXX. gives both readings.

Have her forth of the ranges.—Make her go out between the ranks of guards.

Let him be slain.—An explanation of the form used in Kings (the infinitive).

Slay her not.—Ye must not slay her. Kings, “Let her not be slain.” So the Syriac here.

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

14. brought out] Read (as 2 Kin.) commanded.

of the ranges] R.V. between the ranks; she was to be taken out between two lines of guards.

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

Brought out, axewOYw,for "commanded" in the parallel, wXyw; and this is probably right, the Hebrew in our text probably a clerical or copyist"s error. The ranges; twOrdec. This word is found only in three other places, viz. twice in the parallel (its vers. 8, 15), Revised Version "ranks," and in 1Ki_6:9, where it is rendered in the Authorized Version "the boards," but in the Revised Version "the planks," and margin "rows." The ranges are commonly supposed to mean the ranks or rows of soldiers. The Vulgate (septa templi) has understood them to mean the precincts of the temple. The indications of the remarkable but not uncommon prepositional expression, tyBemiAla, (enjoying the analogy of ether compounded prepositional expressions, as ngGmiAla xWjmiAla) favours the idea that Jehoiada said, Have her forth from inside "the house of the Lord" (ver. 12), to within your ranks, and there take care to make a way for her, no one with immature zeal following to slay her there, at the jeopardy of his own life, for under no case let her be slain in the house of the Lord.

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

Jehoiada

Translate this man's name as in 2 Chronicles 22:11. (See: How to Translate Names)

the commanders of hundreds

The phrase "commander of hundreds" is probably an official title for a military officer. Possible meanings are 1) the word "hundreds" represents the exact amount of soldiers that these commanders led. AT: "the commanders of 100 soldiers" or 2) the word translated as "hundreds" does not represent an exact number, but is the name of a military division. See how you translated this in 2 Chronicles 23:1. AT: "the commanders of military divisions" (See: Numbers)

who were over the army

"who were leaders in the army"

Bring her out between the ranks

Possible meanings are 1) "Surround her and bring her out of the temple courtyard" or 2) "Remove her from the people in the temple courtyard"

anyone who follows her, let him be killed with the sword

This can be stated in active form. It is implied that people who followed her would be trying to help her. AT: "Use your sword to kill anyone who comes to help her" (See: Active or Passive and Assumed Knowledge and Implicit Information)

For the priest had said

"For Jehoiada the priest had said"

as she went into the entrance of the Horse Gate of the king's house

Some versions have "and took her to the Horse Gate near the entrance of the kings' house"

the king's house

"the royal palace"

translationWords

sword

horse

gate

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

Rashi

Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki (Rashi)

the ranks - Heb. הַשְּׂדֵרוֹת. Rashi (II Kings 11:8) explains: the place of the king’s entry from his palace to the House of the Lord. I do not know the origin of the word, and Jonathan rendered it as “rows” [like סְדָרִים].

and whoever follows her is to be put to death Do not allow her to go out by way of the exit of the forecourt to the city, lest she find helpers who will join her.

and whoever follows her to her aid.

is to be put to death Put him to death.

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 25 words (19 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is sᵉdêrâh (“row”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

How does “row” (sᵉdêrâh) shape what this verse is saying?
1 Kings 6:9 shares the word «row» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
“to go out” occurs 2× in this one verse. What is the effect of the repetition?
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?
The verb «וַיּוֹצֵא֩» is Hiphil Sequential Imperfect. How does its form color the action?
Reading how Trapp's Complete Commentary and Geneva Bible (1599) read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?

Things to notice

This verse counts 25 Hebrew ↔ 41 Greek words.
These translations choose different wording for 30 words in this verse.
“to go out” occurs 2× in this single verse.
19 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 25 words in this verse.