2 Chronicles 26:7

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

God helped him against the Philistines, and against the Arabians who lived in Gur Baal, and the Meunim.

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1 first appearance in the Hebrew Bible

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בְּגוּר

Gûwr-Baʻal

H1485

“in/at · Gur-baal”

Preposition + Noun, Proper

Appears 2× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears here

Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H1481 and H1168

TWOT: None

Gur-baal = "dwelling of Baal" - a place in which dwelt Arabians; probably lying between Palestine and the Arabian peninsula

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 →

11: words
8: distinct lemmas
Historical: section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is בְּגוּר Gur-baal H1485 — appearing just 2 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

First appearance in Scripture

This word makes its first canonical appearance in the Hebrew Bible here:

בְּגוּר Gur-baal H1485

Grammatical profile

2 verbs
7 nouns
2 prepositions

Verb forms

וַיַּעְזְרֵ֨הוּ Qal · Sequential Imperfect
הַיֹּשְׁבִ֥ים Qal · Participle Active

Repetition

Words recur within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

עַל upon H5921 ×2
הערביים Arabian H6163 ×2
בְּגוּר Gur-baal H1485 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 18 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 11 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 26:7 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 21:16 Yahweh stirred up against Jehoram the spirit of the Philistines, and of the Arabians who are beside the Ethiopians:
1 Chronicles 5:20 They were helped against them, and the Hagrites were delivered into their hand, and all who were with them; for they cried to God in the battle, and he was entreated of them, because they put their trust in him.
1 Chronicles 12:18 Then the Spirit came on Amasai, who was chief of the thirty, [and he said], "We are yours, David, and on your side, you son of Jesse: peace, peace be to you, and peace be to your helpers; for your God helps you." Then David received them, and made them captains of the band.
2 Chronicles 14:11 Asa cried to Yahweh his God, and said, Yahweh, there is none besides you to help, between the mighty and him who has no strength: help us, Yahweh our God; for we rely on you, and in your name are we come against this multitude. Yahweh, you are our God; don't let man prevail against you.
2 Chronicles 17:11 Some of the Philistines brought Jehoshaphat presents, and silver for tribute; the Arabians also brought him flocks, seven thousand and seven hundred rams, and seven thousand and seven hundred male goats.
2 Chronicles 20:1 It happened after this, that the children of Moab, and the children of Ammon, and with them some of the Ammonites, came against Jehoshaphat to battle.
Psalms 18:29 For by you, I advance through a troop. By my God, I leap over a wall.
Psalms 18:34–35 He teaches my hands to war; So that my arms bend a bow of bronze.

Isaiah 14:29 Don't rejoice, O Philistia, all of you, because the rod that struck you is broken; for out of the serpent's root shall come forth an adder, and his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent.
Acts 26:22 Having therefore obtained the help that is from God, I stand to this day testifying both to small and great, saying nothing but what the prophets and Moses said would happen,

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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Hebrew 2 Chronicles 26:7 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וַיַּעְזְרֵ֨הוּ הָֽאֱלֹהִ֜ים עַל פְּלִשְׁתִּ֧ים וְעַל הערביים הָֽעַרְבִ֛ים הַיֹּשְׁבִ֥ים בְּגוּר בָּ֖עַל וְהַמְּעוּנִֽים

God helped him against the Philistines, and against the Arabians who lived in Gur Baal, and the Meunim.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX 2 Chronicles 26:7 Septuagint · lemma form

καί καταἰσχύω αὐτός κύριος ἐπί ὁ ἀλλόφυλος καί ἐπί ὁ ἄραψ ὁ καταοἰκέω ἐπί ὁ πέτρα καί ἐπί ὁ μιναῖος

And the Lord strengthened him against the Philistines, and against the Arabians that lived on the rock, and against the Minaeans.

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 26:7 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 26:7 And God helped him against the Philistines, and against the Arabians that dwelt in Gurbaal, and the Mehunims.

Ver. 7. That dwelt in Gurbaal.] Which is the same with Gerar, saith the Gloss: where Abimelech once reigned, and Abraham sojourned.

And the Mehunims.] Called by profane authors Scenites.

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.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown

Gur-baal--thought by some to be Gerar, and by others Gebal.

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 7. And God helped him] "And the WORD of the Lord helped him against the Philistines, and against the Arabians who lived in Gerar, and the plains of Meun." - Targum. These are supposed to be the Arabs which are called the Meuneons, or Munites, or Meonites.

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

(7) The Philistines, and . . . the Arabians.—They are named together in 2Ch_17:11 also. Their seat, Gur-Baal, only mentioned here, is unknown. The Targum makes it Gerar; the LXX. apparently Petra (in Edom). The reading Gedor-Baal has been proposed.

The Mehunims (Heb., Me’ûnîm) are the Maonites, or people of Maon (Ma’ân), near Mount Seir. (See Note on 2Ch_20:1.)

(The Syriac and Arabic omit from “wall of Ashdod” 2Ch_26:6, to “gifts to Uzziah,” 2Ch_26:8.)

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

7. Gur-baal] An unidentified place; a “Gur” is mentioned in 2Ki_9:27. A slight correction of the Heb. would give, “in Gerar (cp. Gen_20:1) and against the Meunim.”

Mehunims] R.V. Meunim; cp. 2Ch_20:1 (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.

John Gill's Exposition

And the Ammonites gave gifts to Uzziah,.... As tributaries to him, or; however, as desirous to live in friendship with him:

and his name spread abroad, even to the entering in of Egypt; so far he carried his arms, and conquered the countries that lay between Palestine and Egypt:

for he strengthened himself exceedingly; his kingdom and its coasts from the force of enemies.

John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

On the Mehunims or Maonites, see Jdg 10:12 note.

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible (1834–1885) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

Gurbaal. Gerera, (S. Jerom, Trad.) or Gebal, Psalm lxxxii. 8. Sept. "the rock," or Petra, in Arabia, where Stephanus places the Gabalenes. --- Ammonites. Heb. mehunim. Sept. "Mineans," (chap. xx. 1.; H.) upon the Red Sea, (Stephanus) or Mediterranean, (Pliny vi. 28,) or in Arabia Felix. Strabo) M.

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).

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible

Daniel D. Whedon

7. And against the Arabians — These also injured Israel in the days of Jehoram. 2Ch_21:16. The position of Gur-baal is unknown; but from its association here with the Mehunims, we infer that it was somewhere in the vicinity of Mount Seir. On the Mehunims, or Maonites, see notes on 2Ch_20:1; 1Ch_4:41; and Jdg_10:12.

Daniel D. Whedon (gen. ed.), Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1874–1909) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

The Pulpit Commentary

Gur-baal. Though nothing is known of this place (the meaning of which is "abode of Baal," perhaps from some temple of Baal), yet its companion Maon, the city of the Mehunim (2Ch_22:1; Jud_1:10:12) shows whereabouts it was.

The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Lesson kit

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2 Chronicles, in the Historical, opens this verse with 11 words (8 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Gûwr-Baʻal (“Gur-baal”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

How does “Gur-baal” (Gûwr-Baʻal) shape what this verse is saying?
This is the first place “Gur-baal” appears in Scripture (first appears here). What does its debut here establish?
How does 2 Chronicles 21:16, which shares this passage’s theme, read alongside this verse?
What does the repetition of “upon” (2× in this one verse) do in this verse?
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?
«וַיַּעְזְרֵ֨הוּ» is a Qal Sequential Imperfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
Compare how Trapp's Complete Commentary and Jamieson, Fausset & Brown read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

Things to notice

1 word makes its first canonical appearance in Scripture here.
This verse counts 11 Hebrew ↔ 20 Greek words.
These translations choose different wording for 10 words in this verse.
“upon” occurs 2× in this single verse.
8 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 11 words in this verse.