He set the porters at the gates of the house of Yahweh, that no one who was unclean in anything should enter in.
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He set the porters at the gates of the house of Yahweh, that no one who was unclean in anything should enter in.
And he set the porters at the gates of the house of the LORD, that none which was unclean in any thing should enter in.
And he stationed gatekeepers at the gates of the house of Yahweh, and unclean in any way did not enter.
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He set the porters at the gates of the house of Yahweh, that no one who was unclean in anything should enter in.
He stationed gatekeepers at the gates of the house of the LORD, so that nothing unclean could enter for any reason.
He stationed gatekeepers at the gates of the house of the LORD, so that no one who was in any way unclean could enter.
And he set the porters at the gates of the house of the LORD, that none which was unclean in any thing should enter in.
And he set the porters at the gates of the house of Jehovah, that none that was unclean in anything should enter in.
And he set the porters at the gates of the house of the LORD, that none which was unclean in any thing should enter in.
And he set porters by the gates of ye house of the Lord, that none that was vncleane in any thing, should enter in.
He appointed also porters in the gates of the house of the Lord, that none who was unclean in any thing should enter in.
and he stationeth the gatekeepers over the gates of the house of Jehovah, and the unclean in anything doth not go in.
and he stations the gatekeepers over the gates of the house of YHWH, and the unclean in anything do not go in.
Jehoiada set guards at the gates of the house of Yahweh, so that no one that was unclean in any way should enter.
And he stationed gatekeepers at the gates of the house of Yahweh, and unclean in any way did not enter.
And he set the doorkeepers at the gates of the house of Jehovah, that no one unclean in anything should enter in.
He set the gatekeepers at the gates of the LORD’s house, that no one who was unclean in anything should enter in.
And he set the porters at the gates of the house of the LORD, that none who was unclean in any thing should enter.
He placed gatekeepers at the entrances to the Lord's Temple, so that no one unclean for any reason could enter.
And he put door-keepers at the doors of the Lord's house, to see that no one who was unclean in any way might come in.
And he set the porters at the gates of the house of the LORD, that none that was unclean in any thing should enter in.
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הַשּׁ֣וֹעֲרִ֔ים gatekeeper H7778 occurs in 37 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
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Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 23 words from the Hebrew and 23 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 11 Hebrew tokens and 16 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.
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וַֽיַּעֲמֵד֙ הַשּׁ֣וֹעֲרִ֔ים עַֽל שַׁעֲרֵ֖י בֵּ֣ית יְהוָ֑ה וְלֹֽא יָבֹ֥א טָמֵ֖א לְכָל דָּבָֽר
He set the porters at the gates of the house of Yahweh, that no one who was unclean in anything should enter in.
World English Bible · Public Domain
καί ἵστημι ὁ πυλωρός ἐπί ὁ πύλη οἶκος κύριος καί οὐ εἰςἔρχομαι ἀκάθαρτος εἰς πᾶς πρᾶγμα
And the porters stood at the gates of the house of the Lord, that no one unclean in any respect should enter in.
LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain
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2 Chronicles, in the Historical, opens this verse with 11 words (11 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is shôwʻêr (“gatekeeper”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on 2 Chronicles 23:19 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
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
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.
Rashi
Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki (Rashi)
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.