He built altars in the house of Yahweh, of which Yahweh said, In Jerusalem shall my name be forever.
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He built altars in the house of Yahweh, of which Yahweh said, In Jerusalem shall my name be forever.
Also he built altars in the house of the LORD, whereof the LORD had said, In Jerusalem shall my name be for ever.
And he built altars in the house of Yahweh, about which Yahweh had said, “In Jerusalem, my name will be forever.”
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He built altars in the house of Yahweh, of which Yahweh said, In Jerusalem shall my name be forever.
Manasseh also built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD had said, “My Name will remain in Jerusalem forever.”
Manasseh also built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD had said, “My Name will remain in Jerusalem forever.”
Also he built altars in the house of the LORD, whereof the LORD had said, In Jerusalem shall my name be for ever.
And he built altars in the house of Jehovah, whereof Jehovah said, In Jerusalem shall my name be for ever.
And he built altars in the house of the LORD, whereof the LORD said, In Jerusalem shall my name be forever.
Also he built altars in the house of the Lord, whereof the Lord had saide, In Ierusalem shall my Name be for euer.
He built also altars in the house of the Lord, whereof the Lord had said: In Jerusalem shall my name be for ever.
And he hath built altars in the house of Jehovah of which Jehovah had said, `In Jerusalem is My name to the age.'
And he has built altars in the house of YHWH of which YHWH had said, “My Name is in Jerusalem for all time.”
Manasseh built altars in the house of Yahweh, although Yahweh had commanded, “It is in Jerusalem that my name will be forever.”
And he built altars in the house of Yahweh, about which Yahweh had said, “In Jerusalem, my name will be forever.”
And he built altars in the house of Jehovah, of which Jehovah had said, In Jerusalem shall my name be for ever.
He built altars in the LORD’s house, of which the LORD said, “My name shall be in Jerusalem forever.”
Also he built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD had said, In Jerusalem shall my name be for ever.
He built altars in the Lord's Temple, about which the Lord had said, “I shall be honored in Jerusalem forever.”
And he made altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord had said, In Jerusalem will my name be for ever.
And he built altars in the house of the LORD, whereof the LORD said: 'In Jerusalem shall My name be for ever.'
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Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 19 words from the Hebrew and 23 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.
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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 18 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.
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וּבָנָ֥ה מִזְבְּח֖וֹת בְּבֵ֣ית יְהוָ֑ה אֲשֶׁר֙ אָמַ֣ר יְהוָ֔ה בִּירוּשָׁלִַ֥ם יִֽהְיֶה שְּׁמִ֖י לְעוֹלָֽם
He built altars in the house of Yahweh, of which Yahweh said, In Jerusalem shall my name be forever.
World English Bible · Public Domain
καί οἰκοδομέω θυσιαστήριον ἐν οἶκος κύριος ὅς εἶπον κύριος ἐν ἰερουσαλήμ εἰμί ὁ ὄνομα ἐγώ εἰς ὁ αἰών
And he built altars in the house of the Lord, concerning which the Lord said, In Jerusalem shall be my name for ever.
LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain
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2 Chronicles, in the Historical, opens this verse with 11 words (10 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is bânâh (“to build”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on 2 Chronicles 33:4 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.
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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.
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers
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
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.
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.
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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.