2 Chronicles 33:2

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) 2 Chronicles 33:2 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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He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, after the abominations of the nations whom Yahweh cast out before the children of Israel.
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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, after the abominations of the nations whom Yahweh cast out before the children of Israel.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    But did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, like unto the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD had cast out before the children of Israel.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    And he did what was evil in the eyes of Yahweh, like the abominations of the nations whom Yahweh had driven out from before the sons of Israel.

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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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, after the abominations of the nations whom Yahweh cast out before the children of Israel.
  • Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
    And he did evil in the sight of the LORD by following the abominations of the nations that the LORD had driven out before the Israelites.
  • Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
    And he did evil in the sight of the LORD by following the abominations of the nations that the LORD had driven out before the Israelites.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    But did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, like unto the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD had cast out before the children of Israel.
  • American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
    And he did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, after the abominations of the nations whom Jehovah cast out before the children of Israel.
  • Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
    And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, after the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.
  • Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
    And he did euill in the sight of the Lord, like the abominations of the heathen, who the Lord had cast out before the children of Israel.
  • Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
    And he did evil before the Lord, according to all the abominations of the nations, which the Lord cast out before the children of Israel:
  • Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
    and he doth the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah, like the abominations of the nations that Jehovah dispossessed from the presence of the sons of Israel,
  • Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    and he does evil in the eyes of YHWH, like the abominations of the nations that YHWH dispossessed from the presence of the sons of Israel,
  • Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
    He did what was evil in the sight of Yahweh, like the disgusting things of the nations whom Yahweh had driven out before the people of Israel.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    And he did what was evil in the eyes of Yahweh, like the abominations of the nations whom Yahweh had driven out from before the sons of Israel.
  • Darby Bible Public Domain
    And he did evil in the sight of Jehovah, like the abominations of the nations that Jehovah had dispossessed from before the children of Israel.
  • World Messianic Bible Public Domain
    He did that which was evil in the LORD’s sight, after the abominations of the nations whom the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.
  • Webster's Bible Public Domain
    But did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, like the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD had cast out before the children of Israel.
  • Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    He did evil in the Lord's sight by following the disgusting religious practices of the nations that the Lord had driven out before the Israelites.
  • Bible in Basic English Public Domain
    He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, copying the disgusting ways of the nations whom the Lord had sent out of the land before the children of Israel.
  • JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
    And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, after the abominations of the nations, whom the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.

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כְּתֽוֹעֲבוֹת֙
tôwʻêbah
H8441
“like/as · abominations of”
Preposition + Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Construct
Part of Speech
Preposition + Noun
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Feminine
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Full BDB Definition

Origin: act part of H8581

TWOT: 2530a

a disgusting thing, abomination, abominable - in ritual sense (of unclean food, idols, mixed marriages) - in ethical sense (of wickedness etc)
  1. וַיַּ֥עַשׂ ʻâsâh H6213 “and · to do” Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
  2. הָרַ֖ע raʻ H7451 “the · evil” Particle, Definite Article + Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
  3. בְּעֵינֵ֣י ʻayin H5869 “in/at · eyes of” Preposition + Noun, Common, Both, Dual, Construct
  4. יְהוָ֑ה Yᵉhôvâh H3068 “LORD” Noun, Proper
  5. הַגּוֹיִ֔ם gôwy H1471 “the · nations” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute
  6. אֲשֶׁר֙ ʼăsher H834 “which” Particle, Relative
  7. הוֹרִ֣ישׁ yârash H3423 “to inherit” Verb, Hiphil, Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
  8. יְהוָ֔ה Yᵉhôvâh H3068 “LORD” Noun, Proper
  9. מִפְּנֵ֖י pânîym H6440 “from · face(s) of” Preposition + Noun, Common, Both, Plural, Construct
  10. בְּנֵ֥י bên H1121 “sons of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct
  11. יִשְׂרָאֵֽל Yisrâʼêl H3478 “Israel” Noun, Proper

About this verse

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12
words
11
distinct lemmas
Historical
section

Grammatical profile

  • 2 verbs
  • 8 nouns
  • 1 adjective
  • 1 particle

Verb forms

  • וַיַּ֥עַשׂ Qal · Sequential Imperfect
  • הוֹרִ֣ישׁ Hiphil · Perfect

Repetition

A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

  • יְהוָ֑ה LORD H3068 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 26 words from the Hebrew and 34 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

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Topical passages linked to 2 Chronicles 33:2 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 28:3 Moreover he burnt incense in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and burnt his children in the fire, according to the abominations of the nations whom Yahweh cast out before the children of Israel.
  • Deuteronomy 18:9 When you are come into the land which Yahweh your God gives you, you shall not learn to do after the abominations of those nations.
  • Leviticus 18:24–30 "'Don't defile yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations which I am casting out before you were defiled.
  • Leviticus 20:22–23 "'You shall therefore keep all my statutes, and all my ordinances, and do them; that the land, where I am bringing you to dwell, may not vomit you out.
  • Deuteronomy 12:31 You shall not do so to Yahweh your God: for every abomination to Yahweh, which he hates, have they done to their gods; for even their sons and their daughters do they burn in the fire to their gods.
  • Deuteronomy 18:14 For these nations, that you shall dispossess, listen to those who practice sorcery, and to diviners; but as for you, Yahweh your God has not allowed you so to do.
  • 2 Kings 17:11 and there they burnt incense in all the high places, as did the nations whom Yahweh carried away before them; and they worked wicked things to provoke Yahweh to anger;
  • 2 Kings 17:15 They rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified to them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and [went] after the nations that were round about them, concerning whom Yahweh had charged those who they should not do like them.
  • 2 Kings 21:2 He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, after the abominations of the nations whom Yahweh cast out before the children of Israel.
  • 2 Kings 21:9 But they didn't listen: and Manasseh seduced them to do that which is evil more than did the nations whom Yahweh destroyed before the children of Israel.
  • 2 Chronicles 36:14 Moreover all the chiefs of the priests, and the people, trespassed very greatly after all the abominations of the nations; and they polluted the house of Yahweh which he had made holy in Jerusalem.
  • Ezra 9:14 shall we again break your commandments, and join in affinity with the peoples that do these abominations? would not you be angry with us until you had consumed us, so that there should be no remnant, nor any to escape?
  • Jeremiah 15:4 I will cause them to be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth, because of Manasseh, the son of Hezekiah, king of Judah, for that which he did in Jerusalem.
  • Ezekiel 11:12 and you shall know that I am Yahweh: for you have not walked in my statutes, neither have you executed my ordinances, but have done after the ordinances of the nations that are round about you.
  • Psalms 106:35–40 But mixed themselves with the nations, And learned their works.

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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Hebrew 2 Chronicles 33:2 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וַיַּ֥עַשׂ הָרַ֖ע בְּעֵינֵ֣י יְהוָ֑ה כְּתֽוֹעֲבוֹת֙ הַגּוֹיִ֔ם אֲשֶׁר֙ הוֹרִ֣ישׁ יְהוָ֔ה מִפְּנֵ֖י בְּנֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵֽל

He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, after the abominations of the nations whom Yahweh cast out before the children of Israel.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX 2 Chronicles 33:2 Septuagint · lemma form

καί ποιέω ὁ πονηρός ἐναντίον κύριος ἀπό πᾶς ὁ βδέλυγμα ὁ ἔθνος ὅς ἐκὀλεθρεύω κύριος ἀπό πρόσωπον ὁ υἱός ἰσραήλ

And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, according to all the abominations of the heathen, whom the Lord destroyed from before the face of the children of Israel.

LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain

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Commentary

Notes on 2 Chronicles 33:2 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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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne

2. But did … like unto] R.V. And he did … after (so 2 Kin.).

had cast out] R.V. cast out (so 2 Kin.). The Hebrew of 2Ch_33:2 exactly corresponds in Chron. and 2 Kin.

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.

Trapp's Complete Commentary

John Trapp

2Ch 33:2 But did [that which was] evil in the sight of the LORD, like unto the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD had cast out before the children of Israel.

Ver. 2. But he did that which was evil.] He quickly made mad Work, as we say, turning all upside down. So great is the loss of good princes, when they die: and so suddenly can God cause the sun to go down over a nation, even at noonday, for the just punishment of such ungrateful wretches as love darkness better than light, because their works are evil. See on 2Ki 21:2.

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 Pulpit Commentary

The abominations of the heathen. (see Deu_18:9-14)

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

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2 Chronicles, in the Historical, opens this verse with 12 words (11 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is tôwʻêbah (“abomination”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

  1. How does “abomination” (tôwʻêbah) shape what this verse is saying?
  2. 2 Chronicles 28:3 shares this passage’s theme. How do the two illuminate each other?
  3. “LORD” occurs 2× in this one verse. What is the effect of the repetition?
  4. These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
  5. The verb «וַיַּ֥עַשׂ» is Qal Sequential Imperfect. How does its form color the action?
  6. Reading how The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges and Trapp's Complete Commentary read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?

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