2 Chronicles 30:23

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) 2 Chronicles 30:23 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.
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The whole assembly took counsel to keep other seven days; and they kept [other] seven days with gladness.
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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    The whole assembly took counsel to keep other seven days; and they kept [other] seven days with gladness.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And the whole assembly took counsel to keep other seven days: and they kept other seven days with gladness.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    And all the assembly consulted to do seven days after them, and they did seven days joyfully.

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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    The whole assembly took counsel to keep other seven days; and they kept [other] seven days with gladness.
  • Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
    The whole assembly agreed to observe seven more days, so they observed seven days with joy.
  • Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
    The whole assembly agreed to observe seven more days, so they observed seven days with joy.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And the whole assembly took counsel to keep other seven days: and they kept other seven days with gladness.
  • American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
    And the whole assembly took counsel to keep other seven days; and they kept `other' seven days with gladness.
  • Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
    And the whole congregation took counsel to keep other seven days: and they kept other seven days with gladness.
  • Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
    And the whole assembly tooke counsel to keepe it other seuen dayes. So they kept it seuen dayes with ioy.
  • Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
    And Ezechias spoke to the heart of all the Levites, that had good understanding concerning the Lord: and they ate during the seven days of the solemnity, immolating victims of peace offerings, and praising the Lord the God of their fathers.
  • Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
    And all the assembly take counsel to keep other seven days, and they keep seven days `with' joy;
  • Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    And all the assembly take counsel to keep [it] another seven days, and they keep [it for] seven days [with] joy;
  • Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
    The whole assembly then decided to celebrate for another seven days, and they did so with joy.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    And all the assembly consulted to do seven days after them, and they did seven days joyfully.
  • Darby Bible Public Domain
    And the whole congregation took counsel to observe other seven days; and they observed the seven days with gladness.
  • World Messianic Bible Public Domain
    The whole assembly took counsel to keep another seven days, and they kept another seven days with gladness.
  • Webster's Bible Public Domain
    And the whole assembly took counsel to keep other seven days: and they kept other seven days with gladness.
  • Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    Everyone then agreed to continue to celebrate the festival for seven more days. So for another seven days they celebrated, full of joy.
  • Bible in Basic English Public Domain
    And by the desire of all the people, the feast went on for another seven days, and they kept the seven days with joy.
  • JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
    And the whole congregation took counsel to keep other seven days; and they kept other seven days with gladness.

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וַיִּוָּֽעֲצוּ֙
yâʻats
H3289
“and · to counsel”
Conjunction + Verb, Niphal, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural
Part of Speech
Conjunction + Verb
Stem
Niphal
Form
Sequential Imperfect
Person
3rd Person
Gender
Masculine
Number
Plural
Full BDB Definition

Origin: a primitive root

TWOT: 887

to advise, consult, give counsel, counsel, purpose, devise, plan - (Qal) - to advise, counsel, give counsel, consult - counsellor (participle) - (Niphal) to consult together, exchange counsel, deliberate, counsel together - (Hithpael) to conspire
  1. כָּל kôl H3605 “all of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
  2. הַקָּהָ֔ל qâhâl H6951 “the · assembly” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
  3. לַעֲשׂ֕וֹת ʻâsâh H6213 “to do” Preposition + Verb, Qal, Infinitive Construct
  4. שִׁבְעַ֥ת shebaʻ H7651 “seven” Adjective, Cardinal number, Masculine, Singular, Construct
  5. יָמִ֖ים yôwm H3117 “days” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute
  6. אֲחֵרִ֑ים ʼachêr H312 “other” Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Plural, Absolute
  7. וַיַּֽעֲשׂ֥וּ ʻâsâh H6213 “and · to do” Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural
  8. שִׁבְעַת shebaʻ H7651 “seven” Adjective, Cardinal number, Masculine, Singular, Construct
  9. יָמִ֖ים yôwm H3117 “days” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute
  10. שִׂמְחָֽה simchâh H8057 “joy” Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute

About this verse

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11
words
8
distinct lemmas
Historical
section

Grammatical profile

  • 3 verbs
  • 5 nouns
  • 3 adjectives

Verb forms

  • וַיִּוָּֽעֲצוּ֙ Niphal · Sequential Imperfect
  • לַעֲשׂ֕וֹת Qal · Infinitive Construct
  • וַיַּֽעֲשׂ֥וּ Qal · Sequential Imperfect

Repetition

Words recur within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

  • לַעֲשׂ֕וֹת to do H6213 ×2
  • שִׁבְעַ֥ת seven H7651 ×2
  • יָמִ֖ים day H3117 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 18 words from the Hebrew and 17 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 15 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

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Topical passages linked to 2 Chronicles 30:23 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

  • 1 Kings 8:65 So Solomon held the feast at that time, and all Israel with him, a great assembly, from the entrance of Hamath to the brook of Egypt, before Yahweh our God, seven days and seven days, even fourteen days.
  • 2 Chronicles 7:9 On the eighth day they held a solemn assembly: for they kept the dedication of the altar seven days, and the feast seven days.

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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Hebrew 2 Chronicles 30:23 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וַיִּוָּֽעֲצוּ֙ כָּל הַקָּהָ֔ל לַעֲשׂ֕וֹת שִׁבְעַ֥ת יָמִ֖ים אֲחֵרִ֑ים וַיַּֽעֲשׂ֥וּ שִׁבְעַת יָמִ֖ים שִׂמְחָֽה

The whole assembly took counsel to keep other seven days; and they kept [other] seven days with gladness.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX 2 Chronicles 30:23 Septuagint · lemma form

καί βουλεύω ὁ ἐκκλησία ἅμα ποιέω ἑπτά ἡμέρα ἄλλος καί ποιέω ἑπτά ἡμέρα ἐν εὐφροσύνη

And the congregation purposed together to keep other seven days: and they kept seven days with gladness.

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 30:23 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 30:23 And the whole assembly took counsel to keep other seven days: and they kept [other] seven days with gladness.

Ver. 23. And they kept other seven days.] Gaudet solennitas haec produci, as Augustine saith of the feast of pentecost. This they did, partly to make amends for their former neglect of this holy service, and partly to keep their hearts in so good a frame, to retain the gladness they had in the first seven: as the silkworm stretcheth forth herself before she spinneth her finest thread.

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.

Joseph Benson's Commentary

2Ch 30:23. They kept other seven days with gladness — Not in the same manner as they had done the former, but in the solemn worship of God, by sacrifices, and prayers, and praises, and public instructions of that great congregation, in the good knowledge of the Lord; which was very necessary for the people, after so long and dismal a night of ignorance, superstition, and idolatry.

Joseph Benson's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1811–1818) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers

(23) Took counsel.—Determined, the result of taking counsel (2Ch_30:2).

To keep.—Literally, to do or make.

Other seven days.—As a prolongation of the festivities. (Comp. 2Ch_7:9.)

With gladness.—Simhâh, an adverbial accusative. But some Hebrew MSS. express the with, as in 2Ch_7:10. The chronicler is fond of dwelling upon the joy of the ancient festivals, as though he would suggest greater whole-heartedness and magnificence to the people and princes of his own day.

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

23. assembly] R.V. congregation, as in 2Ch_30:13; 2Ch_30:17. LXX. ἡ ἐκκλησία.

other seven days] Cp. 2Ch_7:9 (Solomon’s Dedication Feast).

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

For Hezekiah king of Judah did give to the congregation one thousand bullocks, and seven thousand sheep,.... He separated them, as Kimchi interprets it, from his own herds and flocks; or out of his own substance, at his own expense purchased them; or lifted them up, as the word signifies, as heave offerings to the Lord; and gave them to the people for thank offerings to feast upon:

and the princes gave to the congregation one thousand bullocks, and ten thousand sheep: for the same purposes, following the king's example:

and a great number of priests sanctified themselves; besides those who had before, that they might be fit to offer this great number of sacrifices.

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

To keep other seven days - This was a voluntary addition to the requirements of the Law - the fruit and sign of the abounding zeal which characterized the time. Hezekiah and the princes probably proposed it to the people, and presented them with sacrificial animals.

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

Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

Joy, though not prescribed by the law. M. --- This we should call a work of supererogation, (W.) which gives Protestants so much offence. H.

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

Not in the same manner as they had done the former, with offering new paschal lambs, and eating only unleavened bread, (of which there is not the least intimation in the text,) but only in the solemn worship of God, by sacrifices, and prayers, and praises, and public instruction of that great congregation in the good knowledge of the Lord; which was so dear to Hezekiah, 2Ch 30:22, and at this time most seasonable and necessary for the people, after so long and dismal a night of ignorance, superstition, and idolatry, as both Israel and Judah had been involved in.

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

The Pulpit Commentary

This and the following verso should read as one. Hezekiah no doubt wished, by prolonging the feast and the joy, to make the more lasting impression on the people and the more hopeful conversion of 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

Hezekiah ... gave the assembly ... bulls and ... sheep as an offering

Hezekiah gave the animals to the people as an offering to the Lord for the people to eat.

one thousand bulls ... seven thousand sheep ... one thousand bulls ... ten thousand sheep and goats

"1,000 bulls ... 7,000 sheep ... 1,000 bulls ... 10,000 sheep and goats" (See: Numbers)

translationWords

king

kingdom of Judah

cow

ewe

goat

priest

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)

another seven days as it is explained: and they kept seven days of joy.

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.

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

Discussion questions

  1. How does “to counsel” (yâʻats) shape what this verse is saying?
  2. 1 Kings 8:65 shares this passage’s theme. How do the two illuminate each other?
  3. “to do” occurs 2× in this one verse. What is the effect of the repetition?
  4. 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?
  5. The verb «וַיִּוָּֽעֲצוּ֙» is Niphal Sequential Imperfect. How does its form color the action?
  6. Reading how Trapp's Complete Commentary and Joseph Benson's Commentary read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?

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