2 Chronicles 34:28

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

Behold, I will gather you to your fathers, and you shall be gathered to your grave in peace, neither shall your eyes see all the evil that I will bring on this place, and on the inhabitants of it. They brought back word to the king.

World English Bible · Public Domain

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קִבְרֹתֶיךָ֮

qeber

H6913

“graves · your”

Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular

Appears 67× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at Genesis 23:4

Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H6912

TWOT: 1984a

grave, sepulchre, tomb

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 →

25: words
22: distinct lemmas
Historical: section

Grammatical profile

6 verbs
9 nouns
2 pronouns
4 prepositions
4 particles

Verb forms

אֹֽסִפְךָ֜ Qal · Participle Active
וְנֶאֱסַפְתָּ֣ Niphal · Sequential Perfect
תִרְאֶ֣ינָה Qal · Imperfect
מֵבִ֛יא Hiphil · Participle Active
יֹשְׁבָ֑יו Qal · Participle Active
וַיָּשִׁ֥יבוּ Hiphil · Sequential Imperfect

Repetition

Words recur within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

אֹֽסִפְךָ֜ to gather H622 ×2
עַל upon H5921 ×2
אֶל to H413 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 46 words from the Hebrew and 49 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 25 Hebrew tokens and 42 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

Topical passages linked to 2 Chronicles 34:28 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

Psalms 37:37 Mark the perfect man, and see the upright, For there is a future for the man of peace.
Isaiah 39:8 Then said Hezekiah to Isaiah, Good is the word of Yahweh which you have spoken. He said moreover, For there shall be peace and truth in my days.
1 Kings 21:29 See you how Ahab humbles himself before me? because he humbles himself before me, I will not bring the evil in his days; but in his son's days will I bring the evil on his house.
2 Chronicles 35:24 So his servants took him out of the chariot, and put him in the second chariot that he had, and brought him to Jerusalem; and he died, and was buried in the tombs of his fathers. All Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah.
Isaiah 57:1–2 The righteous perishes, and no man lays it to heart; and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil [to come].
Jeremiah 15:1 Then said Yahweh to me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind would not be toward this people: cast them out of my sight, and let them go forth.
2 Kings 20:19 Then said Hezekiah to Isaiah, Good is the word of Yahweh which you have spoken. He said moreover, Isn't it so, if peace and truth shall be in my days?
2 Kings 22:20 Therefore, behold, I will gather you to your fathers, and you shall be gathered to your grave in peace, neither shall your eyes see all the evil which I will bring on this place. They brought the king word again.

Ezekiel 14:14–21 though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they should deliver but their own souls by their righteousness, says the Lord Yahweh.

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 34:28 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

הִנְנִ֨י אֹֽסִפְךָ֜ אֶל אֲבֹתֶ֗יךָ וְנֶאֱסַפְתָּ֣ אֶל קִבְרֹתֶיךָ֮ בְּשָׁלוֹם֒ וְלֹא תִרְאֶ֣ינָה עֵינֶ֔יךָ בְּכֹל֙ הָֽרָעָ֔ה אֲשֶׁ֨ר אֲנִ֥י מֵבִ֛יא עַל הַמָּק֥וֹם הַזֶּ֖ה וְעַל יֹשְׁבָ֑יו וַיָּשִׁ֥יבוּ אֶת הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ דָּבָֽר

Behold, I will gather you to your fathers, and you shall be gathered to your grave in peace, neither shall your eyes see all the evil that I will bring on this place, and on the inhabitants of it. They brought back word to the king.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX 2 Chronicles 34:28 Septuagint · lemma form

ἰδού προςτίθημι σύ πρός ὁ πατήρ σύ καί προςτίθημι πρός ὁ μνῆμα σύ ἐν εἰρήνη καί οὐ ὁράω ὁ ὀφθαλμός σύ ἐν πᾶς ὁ κακός ὅς ἐγώ ἐπιἄγω ἐπί ὁ τόπος οὗτος καί ἐπί ὁ καταοἰκέω αὐτός καί ἀποδίδωμι ὁ βασιλεύς λόγος

Behold, I will gather you to your fathers, and you shall be gathered to your grave in peace, and your eyes shall not look upon all the evils which I am bringing upon this place, and upon the inhabitants of it. And they brought back word to the king.

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 34:28 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 34:28 Behold, I will gather thee to thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered to thy grave in peace, neither shall thine eyes see all the evil that I will bring upon this place, and upon the inhabitants of the same. So they brought the king word again.

Ver. 28. Behold, I will gather thee.] See 2Ki 22:20.

All the evil.] War, and all the evils that attend it, as filth falleth into a sink.

So they brought the king word.] They were no way guilty of that fault which the Greeks call παραπρεσβεια, or delivering a wrong message.

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 Biblical Illustrator

Joseph S. Exell

2Ch_34:28

Behold, I will gather thee to thy fathers.

The saints refreshing

I. That God takes notice of every good thing His children do and rewards them for it even in this life.

II. How the Spirit of God in common matters doth raise up the soul to think highly of them. It sweetens death with the phrase of gathering.

III. That death is nothing but a gathering.

IV. That the changes of Gods children are for the better.

V. That burial is a comely and honourable thing.

VI. That death is less miserable than the ill which a man may live to see in this life

VII. That our times are in Gods hands.

VIII. That it is the sight of misery which works the deepest impression.

IX. That those which be dead in the Lord are freed from seeing of any evil or misery.

X. Another conclusion, that takes away their invocation of saints.

XI. That the lives of Gods children do keep back judgment and evil from the place where they live, and their death is a forerunner of judgment. Because--

1. Gracious men do make the times and the places good where they live.

2. Gracious men do bind God by their prayers.

XII. That the evils which we suffer are from the evil of sin.

XIII. That God will give good men faithful servants that shall deal faithfully with them. The messengers dealt faithfully with Josiah.

XIV. That the care of the commonwealth and of the Church is a duty.

The Biblical Illustrator, edited by Joseph S. Exell (c. 1880s–1900s) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Geneva Bible (1599)

Geneva Bible translators

It may appear that very few were touched with true repentance, seeing that God spared them for a time only for the king’s sake.

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

Adam Clarke's Commentary

Verse 28. Gathered to thy grave in peace] See particularly Clarke's note on "2Ki 22:20".

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

28. of the same] R.V. thereof. Cp. the similar promise made to Ahab (1Ki_21:29).

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

Peace. The country enjoyed peace, as Pharao was gone; (M.) and Josias did not witness the evils here denounced. T. --- This was a blessing. W.

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).

Rashi

Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki (Rashi)

and you shall be gathered to your graves in peace But was he not slain? It [means] in peace from this, that your eyes will not see all the evil that I am bringing upon this place and upon its inhabitants, i.e., the destruction of the Temple.

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.

Lesson kit

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2 Chronicles, in the Historical, opens this verse with 25 words (22 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is qeber (“grave”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

How does “grave” (qeber) shape what this verse is saying?
How does Psalms 37:37, which shares this passage’s theme, read alongside this verse?
What does the repetition of “to gather” (2× in this one verse) do in this verse?
These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
«אֹֽסִפְךָ֜» is a Qal Participle Active verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
Compare how Trapp's Complete Commentary and The Biblical Illustrator read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

Things to notice

This verse counts 25 Hebrew ↔ 42 Greek words.
These translations choose different wording for 13 words in this verse.
“to gather” occurs 2× in this single verse.
22 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 25 words in this verse.