2 Chronicles 35:10

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So the service was prepared, and the priests stood in their place, and the Levites by their divisions, according to the king's commandment.
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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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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    So the service was prepared, and the priests stood in their place, and the Levites by their divisions, according to the king's commandment.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    So the service was prepared, and the priests stood in their place, and the Levites in their courses, according to the king's commandment.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    And the service was prepared, and the priests stood at their places, and the Levites by their divisions, according to the commandment of the king.

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
    So the service was prepared, and the priests stood in their place, and the Levites by their divisions, according to the king's commandment.
  • Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
    So the service was prepared; the priests stood in their places and the Levites in their divisions according to the king’s command.
  • Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
    So the service was prepared; the priests stood in their places and the Levites in their divisions according to the king’s command.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    So the service was prepared, and the priests stood in their place, and the Levites in their courses, according to the king's commandment.
  • American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
    So the service was prepared, and the priests stood in their place, and the Levites by their courses, according to the king's commandment.
  • Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
    So the service was prepared, and the priests stood in their place, and the Levites by their courses, according to the king’s commandment.
  • Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
    Thus the seruice was prepared, and the Priests stoode in their places, also the Leuites in their orders, according to the Kings commandement:
  • Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
    And the ministry was prepared, and the priests stood in their office: the Levites also in their companies, according to the king's commandment.
  • Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
    And the service is prepared, and the priests stand on their station, and the Levites on their courses, according to the command of the king,
  • Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    And the service is prepared, and the priests stand on their station, and the Levites on their divisions, according to the command of the king,
  • Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
    So the service was prepared, and the priests stood in their places, with the Levites by their divisions, in response to the king's command.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    And the service was prepared, and the priests stood at their places, and the Levites by their divisions, according to the commandment of the king.
  • Darby Bible Public Domain
    And the service was prepared, and the priests stood in their place, and the Levites in their divisions, according to the king's commandment.
  • World Messianic Bible Public Domain
    So the service was prepared, and the priests stood in their place, and the Levites by their divisions, according to the king’s commandment.
  • Webster's Bible Public Domain
    So the service was prepared, and the priests stood in their place, and the Levites in their courses, according to the king's commandment.
  • Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    Once the preparations had been completed, the priests stood where they had been assigned and the Levites took their places in their divisions as the king had ordered.
  • Bible in Basic English Public Domain
    So everything was made ready and the priests took their places with the Levites in their divisions, as the king had said.
  • JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
    So the service was prepared, and the priests stood in their place, and the Levites by their courses, according to the king's commandment.

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עָמְדָ֛ם
ʻômed
H5977
“standing place · their”
Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural
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Noun
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Common
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Masculine
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Singular
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Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H5975

TWOT: 1637a

standing place
  1. וַתִּכּ֖וֹן kûwn H3559 “and · to be established” Conjunction + Verb, Niphal, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Feminine, Singular
  2. הָעֲבוֹדָ֑ה ʻăbôdâh H5656 “the · service” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
  3. וַיַּֽעַמְד֨וּ ʻâmad H5975 “and · to stand” Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural
  4. הַכֹּהֲנִ֧ים kôhên H3548 “the · priests” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute
  5. עַל ʻal H5921 “upon” Preposition
  6. וְהַלְוִיִּ֥ם Lêvîyîy H3881 “and · the · Levites” Conjunction + Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Plural, Absolute
  7. עַל ʻal H5921 “upon” Preposition
  8. מַחְלְקוֹתָ֖ם machălôqeth H4256 “courses · their” Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural
  9. כְּמִצְוַ֥ת mitsvâh H4687 “like/as · commandment of” Preposition + Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct
  10. הַמֶּֽלֶךְ melek H4428 “the · king” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute

About this verse

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11
words
10
distinct lemmas
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Notable vocabulary

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

Shared distinctive vocabulary

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

Grammatical profile

  • 2 verbs
  • 7 nouns
  • 2 prepositions

Verb forms

  • וַתִּכּ֖וֹן Niphal · Sequential Imperfect
  • וַיַּֽעַמְד֨וּ Qal · Sequential Imperfect

Repetition

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

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 23 words from the Hebrew and 26 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.

Cross-references

3

Topical passages linked to 2 Chronicles 35:10 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 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.
  • Ezra 6:18 They set the priests in their divisions, and the Levites in their courses, for the service of God, which is at Jerusalem; as it is written in the book of Moses.
  • 2 Chronicles 35:4–5 Prepare yourselves after your fathers' houses by your divisions, according to the writing of David king of Israel, and according to the writing of Solomon his son.

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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Hebrew 2 Chronicles 35:10 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וַתִּכּ֖וֹן הָעֲבוֹדָ֑ה וַיַּֽעַמְד֨וּ הַכֹּהֲנִ֧ים עַל עָמְדָ֛ם וְהַלְוִיִּ֥ם עַל מַחְלְקוֹתָ֖ם כְּמִצְוַ֥ת הַמֶּֽלֶךְ

So the service was prepared, and the priests stood in their place, and the Levites by their divisions, according to the king's commandment.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX 2 Chronicles 35:10 Septuagint · lemma form

καί καταὀρθόω ὁ λειτουργία καί ἵστημι ὁ ἱερεύς ἐπί ὁ στάσις αὐτός καί ὁ λευείτης ἐπί ὁ διαίρεσις αὐτός κατά ὁ ἐντολή ὁ βασιλεύς

And the service was duly ordered, and the priests stood in their place, and the Levites in their divisions, according to the command of 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 35:10 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

2Ch 35:10 So the service was prepared, and the priests stood in their place, and the Levites in their courses, according to the king’s commandment.

Ver. 10. According to the king’s commandment.] Kings in those days commanded the priests, as well as others, to do their duties. That great Heteroclite of Rome acknowledgeth not any such right of theirs. Volumus te scire te in temporali et spirituali nobis subiacere, &c., said Pope Boniface in a brave [bravado] of his to Philip the Fair, king of France.

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.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown

So the service was prepared, &c.--All the necessary preparations having been completed, and the appointed time having arrived for the passover, the solemnity was celebrated. One remarkable feature in the account is the prominent part that was taken by the Levites in the preparation of the sacrifices; namely, the killing and stripping of the skins, which were properly the peculiar duties of the priests; but as those functionaries were not able to overtake the extraordinary amount of work and the Levites had been duly sanctified for the service, they were enlisted for the time in this priestly employment. At the passover in Hezekiah's time, the Levites officiated in the same departments of duty, the reason assigned for that deviation from the established rule being the unprepared state of many of the people (Ch2 30:17). But on this occasion the whole people had been duly sanctified, and therefore the exceptional enlistment of the Levites' services must have been rendered unavoidably necessary from the multitudes engaged in celebrating the passover.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown — Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers

(10) So the service was prepared.—The preparations were completed. (See 2Ch_35:4; 2Ch_35:16)

In their place.—On their stand (2Ch_30:16).

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

10. in their courses] R.V. by their courses.

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.

John Gill's Exposition

So the service was prepared,.... Every thing was got ready both for the passover and the feast of unleavened bread, for all sorts of people, rich and poor:

and the priests stood in their place; in their court near the altar, to sprinkle the blood of the sacrifices about it, as in the following verse:

and the Levites in their courses; whose turn it was to officiate:

according to the king's commandment, Ch2 35:4.

John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

The Pulpit Commentary

According to the king"s commandment. (see 2Ch_30:16, where the sanction is referred further back, "according to the Law of Moses, the man of God

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

the service was prepared

This can be translated in active form. AT: "they prepared everything they needed so they could perform the Passover" (See: Active or Passive)

their divisions

the groups into which the people had divided the priests and Levites. See how you translated this in 2 Chronicles 35:4.

the blood that they received from the Levites' hand

Here the word "hand" refers to the Levites. AT: "the blood that the Levites gave them" (See: Synecdoche)

ancestral houses of the people

The word "house" is a metonym for the family that lives in the house. AT: "the families that were the descendants of their ancestors" (See: Metonymy)

translationWords

servant

priest

king

command

Passover

lamb

blood

receive

burnt offering

Yahweh

law

unfoldingWord translationNotes — © Distant Shores Media and the Door43 World Missions Community, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Source: git.door43.org/Door43/en_tn.

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2 Chronicles, in the Historical, opens this verse with 11 words (10 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

  1. What does “standing place” (ʻômed) contribute to the verse as a whole?
  2. How does 2 Chronicles 30:16, which shares the word «standing place», read alongside this verse?
  3. What does the repetition of “upon” (2× in this one verse) do in this verse?
  4. These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
  5. «וַתִּכּ֖וֹן» is a Niphal Sequential Imperfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
  6. Compare how Trapp's Complete Commentary and Jamieson, Fausset & Brown read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

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