2 Chronicles 25:3

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

Now it happened, when the kingdom was established to him, that he killed his servants who had killed the king his father.

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הַמַּמְלָכָ֖ה

mamlâkâh

H4467

“the · kingdom”

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

Appears 117× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at Genesis 10:10

Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H4427

TWOT: 1199f

kingdom, dominion, reign, sovereignty - kingdom, realm - sovereignty, dominion - reign

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

Grammatical profile

4 verbs
4 nouns
1 preposition
3 particles

Verb forms

וַיְהִ֕י Qal · Sequential Imperfect
חָזְקָ֥ה Qal · Perfect
וַֽיַּהֲרֹג֙ Qal · Sequential Imperfect
הַמַּכִּ֖ים Hiphil · Participle Active

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 22 words from the Hebrew and 25 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 20 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 25:3 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

2 Kings 14:5–22 It happened, as soon as the kingdom was established in his hand, that he killed his servants who had slain the king his father:
2 Chronicles 24:25–26 When they were departed for him (for they left him very sick), his own servants conspired against him for the blood of the sons of Jehoiada the priest, and killed him on his bed, and he died; and they buried him in the city of David, but they didn't bury him in the tombs of the kings.
Genesis 9:5–6 I will surely require your blood of your lives. At the hand of every animal I will require it. At the hand of man, even at the hand of every man's brother, I will require the life of man.
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.
Numbers 35:31–33 Moreover you shall take no ransom for the life of a murderer who is guilty of death; but he shall surely be put to death.

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.

Hebrew 2 Chronicles 25:3 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וַיְהִ֕י כַּאֲשֶׁ֛ר חָזְקָ֥ה הַמַּמְלָכָ֖ה עָלָ֑יו וַֽיַּהֲרֹג֙ אֶת עֲבָדָ֔יו הַמַּכִּ֖ים אֶת הַמֶּ֥לֶךְ אָבִֽיו

Now it happened, when the kingdom was established to him, that he killed his servants who had killed the king his father.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX 2 Chronicles 25:3 Septuagint · lemma form

καί γίγνομαι ὡς καταἵστημι ὁ βασιλεία ἐν χείρ αὐτός καί θανατόω ὁ παῖς αὐτός ὁ φονεύω ὁ βασιλεύς πατήρ αὐτός

And it came to pass, when the kingdom was established in his hand, that he killed his servants who had slain the king his father.

LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain

On this verse, The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 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 25:3 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 →

Trapp's Complete Commentary

John Trapp

2Ch 25:3 Now it came to pass, when the kingdom was established to him, that he slew his servants that had killed the king his father.

2Ch 25:4 But he slew not their children, but [did] as [it is] written in the law in the book of Moses, where the LORD commanded, saying, The fathers shall not die for the children, neither shall the children die for the fathers, but every man shall die for his own sin.

Ver. 3,4. {See Trapp on "2Ki 14:5"} {See Trapp on "2Ki 14:6"}

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.

Tyndale Open Study Notes

Tyndale Open Resources

25:3-4 Amaziah . . . executed the officials to avenge his father and carry out the justice prescribed in the Law.

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers

(3) The kingdom was established to him.—Or, The sovereignty (power) was confirmed to him. Vulg., “cumque roboratum videret sibi imperium.”

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

3. to him] R.V. unto him; LXX., ἐν χειρὶ αὐτοῦ; in Kings, “in his hand.”

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

Was established to him; Hebrew, hqzj This is kal conjugation of the verb, which we found in piel in ver. 5 of foregoing chapter, and there rendered "repair." The kal force of the word is simply to "be strong" (Gen_41:57; Jos_17:13; 2Ki_14:5) The hiph., to "make strong," or "confirm," as it is rendered here, is found in 2Ki_15:19. Again and again the disorders of the kingdom and the violent deaths of prophets and kings must have greatly contributed to nervous apprehensions, in fact only too just, when a new king ascended the throne. In the parallel and in passage last quoted the words, "in his hand," follow the verb. Amaziah both needed to get his own hand in, according to modern phrase, and to get things well into his hand. His servants. It may be held surprising that they should have been found "in the place," or should now be his servants at all. The explanation may be either that their guilt had not yet been known, or, if known, had not been fixed upon them.

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

It came about that

This phrase is used here to mark the beginning of a new part of the story. If your language has a way for doing this, you could consider using it here.

the Book of Moses

This is a reference to the books of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy.

translationWords

rule

servant

king

die

law

command

sin

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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 mamlâkâh (“kingdom”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

What does “kingdom” (mamlâkâh) contribute to the verse as a whole?
2 Kings 14:5–22 shares this passage’s theme. How do the two illuminate each other?
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 «וַיְהִ֕י» is Qal Sequential Imperfect. How does its form color the action?
Reading how Trapp's Complete Commentary and Tyndale Open Study Notes read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?

Things to notice

This verse counts 12 Hebrew ↔ 20 Greek words.
These translations choose different wording for 13 words in this verse.
11 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 12 words in this verse.