וַיִּ֥בֶן מִזְבְּח֖וֹת לְכָל צְבָ֣א הַשָּׁמָ֑יִם בִּשְׁתֵּ֖י חַצְר֥וֹת בֵּית יְהוָֽה
He built altars for all the host of the sky in the two courts of the house of Yahweh.
World English Bible · Public Domain
2 Chronicles 33:5
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) 2 Chronicles 33:5 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.
English Translation
He built altars for all the host of the sky in the two courts of the house of Yahweh.
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The same verse in 3 English versions, stacked beneath the original-language interlinear above. Click any original word for its lexicon entry.
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Highlighted words mark where these versions differ — a whole-verse word diff, not a word-by-word alignment.
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World English Bible Public Domain
He built altars for all the host of the sky in the two courts of the house of Yahweh.
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King James Version Public Domain
And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And he built altars for all the host of the heavens in the two courts of the house of Yahweh.
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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Every available English version of this verse, each an independent rendering of the whole verse.
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World English Bible Public Domain
He built altars for all the host of the sky in the two courts of the house of Yahweh.
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
In both courtyards of the house of the LORD, he built altars to all the host of heaven.
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
In both courtyards of the house of the LORD, he built altars to all the host of heaven.
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King James Version Public Domain
And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD.
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of Jehovah.
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD.
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
And he built altars for all the hoste of the heauen in the two courtes of the house of the Lord.
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
And he built them for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the Lord.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
And he buildeth altars to all the host of the heavens in the two courts of the house of Jehovah.
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
And he builds altars for all the host of the heavens in the two courts of the house of YHWH.
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
He built altars for all the stars of heaven in the two courtyards of the house of Yahweh.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And he built altars for all the host of the heavens in the two courts of the house of Yahweh.
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Darby Bible Public Domain
And he built altars to all the host of heaven in both courts of the house of Jehovah.
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
He built altars for all the army of the sky in the two courts of the LORD’s house.
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD.
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
He built these altars to worship the sun, moon, and stars in both courtyards of the Lord's Temple.
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
And he made altars for all the stars of heaven in the two outer squares of the house of the Lord.
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD.
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חַצְר֥וֹת
châtsêr
H2691
“courts of”
Noun, Common, Both, Plural, Construct
- Appears 190× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at Genesis 25:16
- Part of Speech
- Noun
- Type
- Common
- Gender
- Both
- Number
- Plural
- State
- Construct
Full BDB Definition
court, enclosure
- enclosures
- court
- settled abode, settlement, village, town
- וַיִּ֥בֶן bânâh H1129 “and · to build” Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- מִזְבְּח֖וֹת mizbêach H4196 “altars” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute
- לְכָל kôl H3605 “to/for · all of” Preposition + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
- צְבָ֣א tsâbâʼ H6635 “army of” Noun, Common, Both, Singular, Construct
- הַשָּׁמָ֑יִם shâmayim H8064 “the · heaven(s)” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute
- בִּשְׁתֵּ֖י shᵉnayim H8147 “in/at · two” Preposition + Adjective, Cardinal number, Feminine, Dual, Construct
- חַצְר֥וֹת châtsêr H2691 “courts of” Noun, Common, Both, Plural, Construct
- בֵּית bayith H1004 “house of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
- יְהוָֽה Yᵉhôvâh H3068 “LORD” Noun, Proper
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 →
- 9
- words
- 9
- distinct lemmas
- Historical
- section
Grammatical profile
- 1 verb
- 7 nouns
- 1 adjective
Verb forms
- וַיִּ֥בֶן Qal · Sequential Imperfect
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 19 words from the Hebrew and 20 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 9 Hebrew tokens and 14 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
3Topical passages linked to 2 Chronicles 33:5 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 4:9 Furthermore he made the court of the priests, and the great court, and doors for the court, and overlaid the doors of them with brass.
- Jeremiah 32:34–35 But they set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to defile it.
- Ezekiel 8:7–18 He brought me to the door of the court; and when I looked, behold, a hole in the wall.
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.
καί οἰκοδομέω θυσιαστήριον πᾶς ὁ στρατιά ὁ οὐρανός ἐν ὁ δύο αὐλή οἶκος κύριος
And he built altars to all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the Lord.
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 →
Lesson kit
Teaching starters — assembled from the data on this page, not authored interpretation. Every prompt links to the verse data it draws on. Edit before teaching.
2 Chronicles, in the Historical, opens this verse with 9 words (9 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is châtsêr (“court”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- The word châtsêr carries the sense “court.” How does it shape the verse?
- How does 2 Chronicles 4:9, which shares this passage’s theme, read alongside this verse?
- These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
- «וַיִּ֥בֶן» is a Qal Sequential Imperfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
- Compare how Trapp's Complete Commentary and Adam Clarke's Commentary read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?
Things to notice
- This verse counts 9 Hebrew ↔ 14 Greek words.
- These translations choose different wording for 5 words in this verse.
- 9 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 9 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on 2 Chronicles 33:5 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
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.
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible (1810–1826) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword 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.
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary
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).