2 Chronicles 29:22

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

So they killed the bulls, and the priests received the blood, and sprinkled it on the altar: and they killed the rams, and sprinkled the blood on the altar: they killed also the lambs, and sprinkled the blood on the altar.

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וַיְקַבְּל֤וּ

qâbal

H6901

“and · to receive”

Conjunction + Verb, Piel, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural

Appears 14× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at Exodus 26:5

Full BDB Definition

Origin: a primitive root

TWOT: 1980

to take, receive, be before - (Piel) - to take, choose, receive - to accept - to accept, assume - (Hiphil) - to show oppositeness - to correspond, receive one to the other

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 →

18: words
10: distinct lemmas
Historical: section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is וַיְקַבְּל֤וּ to receive H6901 — appearing just 14 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

וַיְקַבְּל֤וּ to receive H6901 occurs in 12 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

7 verbs
10 nouns
1 particle

Verb forms

וַֽיִּשְׁחֲטוּ֙ Qal · Sequential Imperfect
וַיְקַבְּל֤וּ Piel · Sequential Imperfect
וַֽיִּזְרְק֖וּ Qal · Sequential Imperfect
וַיִּשְׁחֲט֣וּ Qal · Sequential Imperfect
וַיִּזְרְק֤וּ Qal · Sequential Imperfect
וַֽיִּשְׁחֲטוּ֙ Qal · Sequential Imperfect
וַיִּזְרְק֥וּ Qal · Sequential Imperfect

Repetition

Words recur within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

וַֽיִּשְׁחֲטוּ֙ to slaughter H7819 ×3
הַדָּ֔ם blood H1818 ×3
וַֽיִּזְרְק֖וּ to scatter H2236 ×3
הַמִּזְבֵּ֑חָה altar H4196 ×3

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 41 words from the Hebrew and 41 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.

Cross-references

Topical passages linked to 2 Chronicles 29:22 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

Leviticus 4:18 He shall put some of the blood on the horns of the altar which is before Yahweh, that is in the Tent of Meeting; and the rest of the blood he shall pour out at the base of the altar of burnt offering, which is at the door of the Tent of Meeting.
Leviticus 8:19 He killed it; and Moses sprinkled the blood on the altar round about.
Leviticus 8:24 He brought Aaron's sons; and Moses put some of the blood on the tip of their right ear, and on the thumb of their right hand, and on the great toe of their right foot; and Moses sprinkled the blood on the altar round about.
Leviticus 1:5 He shall kill the bull before Yahweh. Aaron's sons, the priests, shall present the blood and sprinkle the blood around on the altar that is at the door of the Tent of Meeting.
Leviticus 4:7 The priest shall put some of the blood on the horns of the altar of sweet incense before Yahweh, which is in the tent of meeting; and he shall pour out all the blood of the bull out at the base of the altar of burnt offering, which is at the door of the Tent of Meeting.
Leviticus 4:34 The priest shall take some of the blood of the sin offering with his finger, and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering; and all the rest of its blood he shall pour out at the base of the altar.
Leviticus 8:14–15 He brought the bull of the sin offering, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the bull of the sin offering.
Hebrews 9:21–22 Moreover he sprinkled the tabernacle and all the vessels of the ministry in like manner with the blood.

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 29:22 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וַֽיִּשְׁחֲטוּ֙ הַבָּקָ֔ר וַיְקַבְּל֤וּ הַכֹּֽהֲנִים֙ אֶת הַדָּ֔ם וַֽיִּזְרְק֖וּ הַמִּזְבֵּ֑חָה וַיִּשְׁחֲט֣וּ הָאֵלִ֗ים וַיִּזְרְק֤וּ הַדָּם֙ הַמִּזְבֵּ֔חָה וַֽיִּשְׁחֲטוּ֙ הַכְּבָשִׂ֔ים וַיִּזְרְק֥וּ הַדָּ֖ם הַמִּזְבֵּֽחָה

So they killed the bulls, and the priests received the blood, and sprinkled it on the altar: and they killed the rams, and sprinkled the blood on the altar: they killed also the lambs, and sprinkled the blood on the altar.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX 2 Chronicles 29:22 Septuagint · lemma form

καί θύω ὁ μόσχος καί δέχομαι ὁ ἱερεύς ὁ αἷμα καί προςχέω ἐπί ὁ θυσιαστήριον καί θύω ὁ κριός καί προςχέω ὁ αἷμα ἐπί ὁ θυσιαστήριον καί θύω ὁ ἀμνός καί περιχέω ὁ αἷμα ὁ θυσιαστήριον

And they killed the calves, and the priests received the blood, and poured it on the altar: and they killed the rams, and poured the blood upon the altar: also they killed the lambs, and poured the blood round the altar.

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 →

Commentary

Notes on 2 Chronicles 29:22 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 29:22 So they killed the bullocks, and the priests received the blood, and sprinkled [it] on the altar: likewise, when they had killed the rams, they sprinkled the blood upon the altar: they killed also the lambs, and they sprinkled the blood upon the altar.

Ver. 22. They sprinkled the blood upon the altar.] Whereby was typified the application of Christ’s precious blood purging the conscience from dead works, {Heb 9:14} appeasing God’s wrath, {Rom 3:25} purchasing the Church, {Act 20:28} ratifying the covenant, {Heb 9:18} opening the Holy of Holies, and giving entrance. {Heb 10:11}

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.

Geneva Bible (1599)

Geneva Bible translators

For without sprinkling of blood nothing could be sanctified, Heb. 9:21; Exod. 24:8.

Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain. Text via Bolls.life.

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers

(22) Received the blood.—Caught it in bowls of sprinkling (Num_8:14).

And sprinkled it on the altar.—Threw it against (literally, towards) the altar (Lev_8:19; Lev_8:24).

Likewise, when.—And they slaughtered the rams . . . and they slaughtered the lambs. The three clauses of the verse are symmetrical. The repetition is a mark of the writer’s anxiety to show how carefully the legitimate ritual was observed in each instance.

Killed.—Slaughtered (shahat; σφάζω, Gen_37:31). Specially used of slaying sacrificial victims (Lev_1:5).

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

22. received the blood] In basins with which they dashed (not “sprinkled”) the blood against the altar. This dashing was different from the sprinkling with the finger.

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 priests killed them,.... The seven he goats; for of the killing of the bullocks, rams, and lambs, mention is made before, Ch2 29:2.

and they made reconciliation with their blood upon the altar, to make atonement for all Israel; typical of the reconciliation and atonement made for the whole spiritual Israel of God by the sacrifice of Christ:

for the king commanded that the burnt offering, and the sin offering, should be made

for all Israel; not only for the tribes of Judah and Benjamin, and for as many of the rest of the tribes as were come over to them, and dwelt among them; but even for the ten tribes also, sadly guilty of idolatry, and for whose reformation and good this pious prince was concerned, see Ch2 30:1.

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

The Pulpit Commentary

Received sprinkled. The sprinkling of the blood marked the expiation (Lev_4:7, Lev_4:18, 30 5:9 8:14, 15; Heb_9:12-14, Heb_9:19-22)

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

they killed the bulls, and the priests received the blood

"the priests killed the bulls and took the blood"

they laid their hands on them

"the king and people in the assembly laid their hands on them"

that a burnt offering and a sin offering should be made for all Israel

This can be stated in active form. AT: "that the priests should make a burnt offering and a sin offering for all Israel" (See: Active or Passive)

translationWords

blood

assembly

sin offering

atonement

Israel

unfoldingWord translationNotes — © Distant Shores Media and the Door43 World Missions Community, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Source: git.door43.org/Door43/en_tn.

Lesson kit

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2 Chronicles, in the Historical, opens this verse with 18 words (10 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is qâbal (“to receive”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

What does “to receive” (qâbal) contribute to the verse as a whole?
How does Exodus 26:5, which shares the word «to receive», read alongside this verse?
What does the repetition of “to slaughter” (3× in this one verse) do in this verse?
These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
«וַֽיִּשְׁחֲטוּ֙» is a Qal Sequential Imperfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
Compare how Trapp's Complete Commentary and Geneva Bible (1599) read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

Things to notice

These translations choose different wording for 14 words in this verse.
“to slaughter” occurs 3× in this single verse.
10 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 18 words in this verse.