2 Chronicles 23:15

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

So they made way for her; and she went to the entrance of the horse gate to the king's house: and they killed her there.

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מְב֥וֹא

mâbôwʼ

H3996

“entrance of”

Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct

Appears 23× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at Deuteronomy 11:30

Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H935

TWOT: 212b

entrance, a coming in, entering - sunset - sunset - sunset, west

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 →

12: words
11: distinct lemmas
Historical: section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is מְב֥וֹא entrance H3996 — appearing just 23 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

מְב֥וֹא entrance H3996 occurs in 23 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

3 verbs
6 nouns
2 prepositions
1 adverb

Verb forms

וַיָּשִׂ֤ימוּ Qal · Sequential Imperfect
וַתָּב֛וֹא Qal · Sequential Imperfect
וַיְמִית֖וּהָ Hiphil · Sequential Imperfect

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 25 words from the Hebrew and 24 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 12 Hebrew tokens and 19 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 23:15 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

Nehemiah 3:28 Above the horse gate repaired the priests, everyone over against his own house.
2 Chronicles 22:10 Now when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the seed royal of the house of Judah.
Jeremiah 31:40 The whole valley of the dead bodies and of the ashes, and all the fields to the brook Kidron, to the corner of the horse gate toward the east, shall be holy to Yahweh; it shall not be plucked up, nor thrown down any more forever.
Judges 1:7 Adoni-bezek said, "Seventy kings, having their thumbs and their great toes cut off, gathered [their food] under my table: as I have done, so God has requited me." They brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.
Psalms 5:6 You will destroy those who speak lies. Yahweh abhors the blood-thirsty and deceitful man.
Psalms 55:23 But you, God, will bring them down into the pit of destruction. Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days, But I will trust in you.
Matthew 7:2 For with whatever judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you.
James 2:13 For judgment is without mercy to him who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.

Revelation 16:5–7 I heard the angel of the waters saying, "You are righteous, who are and who were, you Holy One, because you have judged these things.

Cross-references courtesy of OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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Hebrew 2 Chronicles 23:15 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וַיָּשִׂ֤ימוּ לָהּ֙ יָדַ֔יִם וַתָּב֛וֹא אֶל מְב֥וֹא שַֽׁעַר הַסּוּסִ֖ים בֵּ֣ית הַמֶּ֑לֶךְ וַיְמִית֖וּהָ שָֽׁם

So they made way for her; and she went to the entrance of the horse gate to the king's house: and they killed her there.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX 2 Chronicles 23:15 Septuagint · lemma form

καί δίδωμι αὐτός ἄνεσις καί διαἔρχομαι διά ὁ πύλη ὁ ἱππεύς ὁ οἶκος ὁ βασιλεύς καί θανατόω αὐτός ἐκεῖ

So they let her go out; and she went through the horsemen's gate of the house of the king, and they killed her there.

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 23:15 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 23:15 So they laid hands on her; and when she was come to the entering of the horse gate by the king’s house, they slew her there.

Ver. 15. So they laid hands on her.] {a} Which she once thought none durst have done; but the craftiest and strongest creatures are taken and slain by men.

“ Elephas grandis est, et occiditur:

Leo fortis est, et occiditur:

Cave multos, si singulos non times, ”

said the comedian covertly to Maximinus the emperor, who professed to fear no man: but when his head was soon after brought to Rome, all ran to the altars to thank the gods; and Balbinus, who succeeded him, sacrificed hecatombs, commanding the same to be done throughout the empire. {b}

{a} Or, They made a lane for her.

{b} Capitolin.

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.

Adam Clarke's Commentary

Verse 15. Of the horse-gate] See on 2Kg 11:16.

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

(15) So they laid hands on her.—Rather, And they made way for her on both sides. LXX., καὶ ἔδωκαν αὐτῇ ἄνεσιν. Syriac, “And they made room for her.”

To the entering of the horse gate.—Kings reads: “And she went by the way of the entry of the horses into the king’s house.” Syriac, “And she entered into the way of the entry of the horses, and was killed there.”

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

15. they laid hands on her] R.V. they made way for her.

and when she was come to the entering of the horse gate by the king’s house, they etc.] R.V. and she went to the entry of the horse gate to the king’s house: and they etc.

the horse gate] Perhaps the “gate of the foundation” (2Ch_23:5, note).

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.

Rashi

Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki (Rashi)

And they made a place for her a place to escape.

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 12 words (11 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is mâbôwʼ (“entrance”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

How does “entrance” (mâbôwʼ) shape what this verse is saying?
How does Deuteronomy 11:30, which shares the word «entrance», read alongside this verse?
These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
«וַיָּשִׂ֤ימוּ» is a Qal Sequential Imperfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
Compare how Trapp's Complete Commentary and Adam Clarke's Commentary read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

Things to notice

This verse counts 12 Hebrew ↔ 19 Greek words.
These translations choose different wording for 16 words in this verse.
11 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 12 words in this verse.