וַיַּ֥עַשׂ הַיָּשָׁ֖ר בְּעֵינֵ֣י יְהוָ֑ה כְּכֹ֥ל אֲשֶׁר עָשָׂ֖ה אֲמַצְיָ֥הוּ אָבִֽיו
He did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, according to all that his father Amaziah had done.
World English Bible · Public Domain
2 Chronicles 26:4
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) 2 Chronicles 26:4 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 did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, according to all that his father Amaziah had done.
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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.
Each is an independent rendering of the whole verse — the interlinear is not word-aligned to these translations.
Highlighted words mark where these versions differ — a whole-verse word diff, not a word-by-word alignment.
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World English Bible Public Domain
He did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, according to all that his father Amaziah had done.
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King James Version Public Domain
And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father Amaziah did.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And he did what was right in the eyes of Yahweh, according to all that Amaziah his father had done.
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 did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, according to all that his father Amaziah had done.
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, just as his father Amaziah had done.
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, just as his father Amaziah had done.
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King James Version Public Domain
And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father Amaziah did.
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
And he did that which was right in the eyes of Jehovah, according to all that his father Amaziah had done.
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
And he did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD, according to all that his father Amaziah had done.
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
And hee did vprightly in the sight of the Lord, according to al that his father Amaziah did.
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
And he did that which was right in the eyes of the Lord, according to all that Amasias his father had done.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
And he doth that which is right in the eyes of Jehovah, according to all that Amaziah his father did,
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
And he does that which is right in the eyes of YHWH, according to all that his father Amaziah did,
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
He did what was right in the eyes of Yahweh, following the example of his father, Amaziah, in everything.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And he did what was right in the eyes of Yahweh, according to all that Amaziah his father had done.
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Darby Bible Public Domain
And he did what was right in the sight of Jehovah, according to all that his father Amaziah had done.
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
He did that which was right in the LORD’s eyes, according to all that his father Amaziah had done.
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father Amaziah did.
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
He did what was right in the Lord's sight as his father Amaziah had done.
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, as his father Amaziah had done.
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
And he did that, which was right in the eyes of the LORD, according to all that his father Amaziah had done.
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אֲמַצְיָ֥הוּ
ʼĂmatsyâh
H558
“Amaziah”
Noun, Proper
- Appears 40× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at 2 Kings 12:21
- Part of Speech
- Noun
- Type
- Proper
Full BDB Definition
Amaziah = "Jehovah is mighty"
- a king of Judah, son Joash, father of Azariah
- a priest of Bethel under Jeroboam II
- father of Joshah, of the tribe of Simeon
- a Levite tabernacle singer in David's day
- וַיַּ֥עַשׂ ʻâsâh H6213 “and · to do” Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- הַיָּשָׁ֖ר yâshâr H3477 “the · upright” Particle, Definite Article + Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
- בְּעֵינֵ֣י ʻayin H5869 “in/at · eyes of” Preposition + Noun, Common, Both, Dual, Construct
- יְהוָ֑ה Yᵉhôvâh H3068 “LORD” Noun, Proper
- כְּכֹ֥ל kôl H3605 “like/as · all” Preposition + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
- אֲשֶׁר ʼăsher H834 “which” Particle, Relative
- עָשָׂ֖ה ʻâsâh H6213 “to do” Verb, Qal, Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- אֲמַצְיָ֥הוּ ʼĂmatsyâh H558 “Amaziah” Noun, Proper
- אָבִֽיו ʼâb H1 “father · his” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
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 →
- 9
- words
- 8
- distinct lemmas
- Historical
- section
Shared distinctive vocabulary
אֲמַצְיָ֥הוּ Amaziah H558 occurs in 39 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
- 2 verbs
- 5 nouns
- 1 adjective
- 1 particle
Verb forms
- וַיַּ֥עַשׂ Qal · Sequential Imperfect
- עָשָׂ֖ה Qal · Perfect
Repetition
A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:
- וַיַּ֥עַשׂ to do H6213 ×2
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 20 words from the Hebrew and 21 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 9 Hebrew tokens and 14 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
1Topical passages linked to 2 Chronicles 26:4 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.
- 2 Chronicles 25:2 He did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, but not with a perfect heart.
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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 ποιέω ὁ εὐθής ἐνώπιον κύριος κατά πᾶς ὅσος ποιέω αμασιας ὁ πατήρ αὐτός
And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, according to all that Amasias his father did.
LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain
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
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2 Chronicles, in the Historical, opens this verse with 9 words (8 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is ʼĂmatsyâh (“Amaziah”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- The word ʼĂmatsyâh carries the sense “Amaziah.” How does it shape the verse?
- 2 Kings 12:21 shares the word «Amaziah» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
- “to do” occurs 2× in this one verse. What is the effect of the repetition?
- These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
- The verb «וַיַּ֥עַשׂ» is Qal Sequential Imperfect. How does its form color the action?
- Reading how Trapp's Complete Commentary and The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?
Things to notice
- This verse counts 9 Hebrew ↔ 14 Greek words.
- These translations choose different wording for 8 words in this verse.
- “to do” occurs 2× in this single verse.
- 8 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 9 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on 2 Chronicles 26:4 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
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.
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.
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
Matthew Poole's English Annotations
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword 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.
unfoldingWord translationNotes
Door43 World Missions Community
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)
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.