2 Chronicles 34:31

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

The king stood in his place, and made a covenant before Yahweh, to walk after Yahweh, and to keep his commandments, and his testimonies, and his statutes, with all his heart, and with all his soul, to perform the words of the covenant that were written in this book.

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עָמְד֗וֹ

ʻômed

H5977

“standing place · his”

Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular

Appears 6× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at 2 Chronicles 30:16

Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H5975

TWOT: 1637a

standing place

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 →

29: words
23: distinct lemmas
Historical: section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is עָמְד֗וֹ standing place H5977 — appearing just 6 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

עָמְד֗וֹ standing place H5977 occurs in 6 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

6 verbs
16 nouns
1 pronoun
3 prepositions
3 particles

Verb forms

וַיַּעֲמֹ֨ד Qal · Sequential Imperfect
וַיִּכְרֹ֣ת Qal · Sequential Imperfect
לָלֶ֜כֶת Qal · Infinitive Construct
וְלִשְׁמ֤וֹר Qal · Infinitive Construct
לַעֲשׂוֹת֙ Qal · Infinitive Construct
הַכְּתוּבִ֖ים Qal · Participle Passive

Repetition

Words recur within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

עַל upon H5921 ×2
הַבְּרִית֮ covenant H1285 ×2
יְהוָה֒ LORD H3068 ×2
בְּכָל all H3605 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 49 words from the Hebrew and 52 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 29 Hebrew tokens and 44 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 34:31 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 23:16 Jehoiada made a covenant between himself, and all the people, and the king, that they should be Yahweh's people.
2 Kings 11:14 and she looked, and, behold, the king stood by the pillar, as the manner was, and the captains and the trumpets by the king; and all the people of the land rejoiced, and blew trumpets. Then Athaliah tore her clothes, and cried, Treason! treason!
2 Kings 23:3 The king stood by the pillar, and made a covenant before Yahweh, to walk after Yahweh, and to keep his commandments, and his testimonies, and his statutes, with all [his] heart, and all [his] soul, to confirm the words of this covenant that were written in this book: and all the people stood to the covenant.
2 Chronicles 6:13 (for Solomon had made a brazen scaffold, five cubits long, and five cubits broad, and three cubits high, and had set it in the midst of the court; and on it he stood, and kneeled down on his knees before all the assembly of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven;)
2 Chronicles 15:12 They entered into the covenant to seek Yahweh, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and with all their soul;
2 Chronicles 29:10 Now it is in my heart to make a covenant with Yahweh, the God of Israel, that his fierce anger may turn away from us.
Exodus 24:6–8 Moses took half of the blood and put it in basins, and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar.
Deuteronomy 6:5 and you shall love Yahweh your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might.

Deuteronomy 29:10–15 You stand this day all of you before Yahweh your God; your heads, your tribes, your elders, and your officers, even all the men of Israel,
Joshua 24:25 So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and set them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.
2 Kings 11:4 In the seventh year Jehoiada sent and fetched the captains over hundreds of the Carites and of the guard, and brought them to him into the house of Yahweh; and he made a covenant with them, and took an oath of them in the house of Yahweh, and shown them the king's son.
2 Chronicles 15:15 All Judah rejoiced at the oath; for they had sworn with all their heart, and sought him with their whole desire; and he was found of them: and Yahweh gave them rest round about.
2 Chronicles 30:16 They stood in their place after their order, according to the law of Moses the man of God: the priests sprinkled the blood [which they received] of the hand of the Levites.
2 Chronicles 31:21 In every work that he began in the service of the house of God, and in the law, and in the commandments, to seek his God, he did it with all his heart, and prospered.
Nehemiah 9:38 Yet for all this we make a sure covenant, and write it; and our princes, our Levites, [and] our priests, seal to it.
Nehemiah 10:29 They joined with their brothers, their nobles, and entered into a curse, and into an oath, to walk in God's law, which was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of Yahweh our Lord, and his ordinances and his statutes;

Psalms 119:106 I have sworn, and have confirmed it, That I will obey your righteous ordinances.
Psalms 119:111–112 I have taken your testimonies as a heritage forever, For they are the joy of my heart.
Jeremiah 50:5 They shall inquire concerning Zion with their faces turned toward it, [saying], Come you, and join yourselves to Yahweh in an everlasting covenant that shall not be forgotten.
Ezekiel 46:2 The prince shall enter by the way of the porch of the gate outside, and shall stand by the post of the gate; and the priests shall prepare his burnt-offering and his peace-offerings, and he shall worship at the threshold of the gate: then he shall go forth; but the gate shall not be shut until the evening.
Luke 10:27–29 He answered, "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself."
Hebrews 8:6–13 But now he has obtained a more excellent ministry, by so much as he is also the mediator of a better covenant, which has been enacted on better promises.
Deuteronomy 29:1 These are the words of the covenant which Yahweh commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, besides the covenant which he made with them in Horeb.

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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Hebrew 2 Chronicles 34:31 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וַיַּעֲמֹ֨ד הַמֶּ֜לֶךְ עַל עָמְד֗וֹ וַיִּכְרֹ֣ת אֶֽת הַבְּרִית֮ לִפְנֵ֣י יְהוָה֒ לָלֶ֜כֶת אַחֲרֵ֣י יְהוָ֗ה וְלִשְׁמ֤וֹר אֶת מִצְוֺתָיו֙ וְעֵֽדְוֺתָ֣יו וְחֻקָּ֔יו בְּכָל לְבָב֖וֹ וּבְכָל נַפְשׁ֑וֹ לַעֲשׂוֹת֙ אֶת דִּבְרֵ֣י הַבְּרִ֔ית הַכְּתוּבִ֖ים עַל הַסֵּ֥פֶר הַזֶּֽה

The king stood in his place, and made a covenant before Yahweh, to walk after Yahweh, and to keep his commandments, and his testimonies, and his statutes, with all his heart, and with all his soul, to perform the words of the covenant that were written in this book.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX 2 Chronicles 34:31 Septuagint · lemma form

καί ἵστημι ὁ βασιλεύς ἐπί ὁ στῦλος καί διατίθημι διαθήκη ἐναντίον κύριος ὁ πορεύομαι ἐνώπιον κύριος ὁ φυλάσσω ὁ ἐντολή αὐτός καί μαρτύριον αὐτός καί πρόσταγμα αὐτός ἐν ὅλος καρδία καί ἐν ὅλος ψυχή ὁ λόγος ὁ διαθήκη ὁ γράφω ἐπί ὁ βιβλίον οὗτος

And the king stood at a pillar, and made a covenant before the Lord, to walk before the Lord, to keep his commandments and testimonies, and his ordinances, with all his heart and with all his soul, so as to perform the words of the covenant that were written in this book.

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 34:31 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 →

Adam Clarke's Commentary

Verse 31. Made a covenant] See on 2Kg 23:3. And see the notes on that and the preceding chapter, for the circumstances detailed here.

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible (1810–1826) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers

(31) In his place.—‘Al ‘omdô, “on his stand;” 2Ch_23:13 (Authorised Version, “at his pillar”). Kings has ‘al hâ’ammûd, which appears to be synonymous; “on the dais.”

A covenant.—The covenant.

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

31. to walk after the Lord] Cp. Deu_10:12-13.

which are written] R.V. that were written.

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 king stood in his place; i.e. not simplyin his order, but upon his royal pedestal, or platform; possibly following a mere suggestion, originating with the word used in the parallel, "by his pillar" (so Revised Version).

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

stood in his place

This refers to the place where the king stood at the temple. AT: "stood where he was supposed to stand at the entrance to the temple" (See: Assumed Knowledge and Implicit Information)

walk after Yahweh

The way a person lives is spoken of as if that person were walking on a path, and "to walk after" someone is a metonym for doing what that other person does or wants others to do. AT: "live obeying Yahweh" (See: Metaphor and Metonymy)

his commandments, his regulations, and his statutes

These words all share similar meanings. Together they emphasize everything that Yahweh had commanded in the law. (See: Doublet)

with all his heart and all his soul

The idiom "with all his heart" means "completely" and "with all his soul" means "with all his being." These two phrases have similar meanings. AT: "with all his being" or "with all his energy" (See: Idiom and Doublet)

that were written in this book

This can be translated in active form. AT: "that this book contained" (See: Active or Passive)

all who were found in Jerusalem and Benjamin

This can be stated in active form. AT: "all who lived in Jerusalem and Benjamin" (See: Active or Passive)

stand by the covenant

This is an idiom. AT: "accept the terms of the covenant" or "promise to obey the covenant" (See: Idiom)

translationWords

walk

command

decree

statute

Benjamin

obey

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)

with all his heart and with all his soul as he found written there, (Deut. 30:2): “And you will return to the Lord your God, etc. with all your heart and with all your soul.”

in his place An expression of נִצָּבִים, standing.

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

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 29 words (23 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is ʻômed (“standing place”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

The word ʻômed carries the sense “standing place.” How does it shape the verse?
How does 2 Chronicles 30:16, which shares the word «standing place», read alongside this verse?
What does the repetition of “upon” (2× in this one verse) do in this verse?
These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
«וַיַּעֲמֹ֨ד» is a Qal Sequential Imperfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
Compare how Adam Clarke's Commentary and Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

Things to notice

This verse counts 29 Hebrew ↔ 44 Greek words.
These translations choose different wording for 13 words in this verse.
“upon” occurs 2× in this single verse.
23 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 29 words in this verse.