2 Chronicles 35:16

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) 2 Chronicles 35:16 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.
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So all the service of Yahweh was prepared the same day, to keep the Passover, and to offer burnt-offerings on the altar of Yahweh, according to the commandment of king Josiah.
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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    So all the service of Yahweh was prepared the same day, to keep the Passover, and to offer burnt-offerings on the altar of Yahweh, according to the commandment of king Josiah.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    So all the service of the LORD was prepared the same day, to keep the passover, and to offer burnt offerings upon the altar of the LORD, according to the commandment of king Josiah.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    And all the service of Yahweh was prepared on that day to do the Passover and to offer burnt offerings on the altar of Yahweh, according to the commandment of King Josiah.

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 all the service of Yahweh was prepared the same day, to keep the Passover, and to offer burnt-offerings on the altar of Yahweh, according to the commandment of king Josiah.
  • Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
    So on that day the entire service of the LORD was carried out for celebrating the Passover and offering burnt offerings on the altar of the LORD, according to the command of King Josiah.
  • Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
    So on that day the entire service of the LORD was carried out for celebrating the Passover and offering burnt offerings on the altar of the LORD, according to the command of King Josiah.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    So all the service of the LORD was prepared the same day, to keep the passover, and to offer burnt offerings upon the altar of the LORD, according to the commandment of king Josiah.
  • American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
    So all the service of Jehovah was prepared the same day, to keep the passover, and to offer burnt-offerings upon the altar of Jehovah, according to the commandment of king Josiah.
  • Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
    So all the service of the LORD was prepared the same day, to keep the passover, and to offer burnt offerings upon the altar of the LORD, according to the commandment of king Josiah.
  • Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
    So all the seruice of the Lord was prepared the same day, to keepe the Passeouer, and to offer burnt offerings vpon the altar of the Lord, according to the commandement of King Iosiah.
  • Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
    So all the service of the Lord was duly accomplished that day, both in keeping the phase, and offering holocausts upon the altar of the Lord, according to the commandment of king Josias.
  • Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
    And all the service of Jehovah is prepared on that day, to keep the passover, and to cause to ascend burnt-offering upon the altar of Jehovah, according to the command of king Josiah.
  • Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    And all the service of YHWH is prepared on that day to keep the Passover and to cause burnt-offering to ascend on the altar of YHWH, according to the command of King Josiah.
  • Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
    So, at that time the entire service of Yahweh was carried out for the celebration of the Passover and to offer burnt offerings on the altar of Yahweh, as King Josiah commanded.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    And all the service of Yahweh was prepared on that day to do the Passover and to offer burnt offerings on the altar of Yahweh, according to the commandment of King Josiah.
  • Darby Bible Public Domain
    And all the service of Jehovah was prepared the same day, to hold the passover, and to offer burnt-offerings on the altar of Jehovah according to the commandment of king Josiah.
  • World Messianic Bible Public Domain
    So all the service of the LORD was prepared the same day, to keep the Passover, and to offer burnt offerings on the LORD’s altar, according to the commandment of King Josiah.
  • Webster's Bible Public Domain
    So all the service of the LORD was prepared the same day, to keep the passover, and to offer burnt-offerings upon the altar of the LORD, according to the commandment of king Josiah.
  • Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    So on that day the whole Passover service of the Lord took place, including the presenting of burnt offerings on the altar of the Lord, as King Josiah had ordered.
  • Bible in Basic English Public Domain
    So everything needed for the worship of the Lord was made ready that same day, for the keeping of the Passover and the offering of burned offerings on the altar of the Lord, as King Josiah had given orders.
  • JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
    So all the service of the LORD was prepared the same day, to keep the passover, and to offer burnt-offerings upon the altar of the LORD, according to the commandment of king Josiah.

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הַפֶּ֔סַח
peçach
H6453
“the · Passover”
Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
Part of Speech
Particle + Noun
Type
Common
Gender
Masculine
Number
Singular
State
Absolute
Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H6452

TWOT: 1786a

passover - sacrifice of passover - animal victim of the passover - festival of the passover
  1. וַ֠תִּכּוֹן kûwn H3559 “and · to be established” Conjunction + Verb, Niphal, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Feminine, Singular
  2. כָּל kôl H3605 “all of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
  3. עֲבוֹדַ֨ת ʻăbôdâh H5656 “service of” Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct
  4. יְהוָ֜ה Yᵉhôvâh H3068 “LORD” Noun, Proper
  5. בַּיּ֤וֹם yôwm H3117 “in/at the · day” Preposition, Determined + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
  6. הַהוּא֙ hûwʼ H1931 “the · he” Particle, Definite Article + Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
  7. לַעֲשׂ֣וֹת ʻâsâh H6213 “to do” Preposition + Verb, Qal, Infinitive Construct
  8. וְהַעֲל֣וֹת ʻâlâh H5927 “and · to go up” Conjunction + Verb, Hiphil, Infinitive Construct
  9. עֹל֔וֹת ʻôlâh H5930 “burnt offerings” Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Absolute
  10. עַ֖ל ʻal H5921 “upon” Preposition
  11. מִזְבַּ֣ח mizbêach H4196 “altar of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
  12. יְהוָ֑ה Yᵉhôvâh H3068 “LORD” Noun, Proper
  13. כְּמִצְוַ֖ת mitsvâh H4687 “like/as · commandment of” Preposition + Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct
  14. הַמֶּ֥לֶךְ melek H4428 “the · king” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
  15. יֹאשִׁיָּֽהוּ Yôʼshîyâh H2977 “Josiah” Noun, Proper

About this verse

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16
words
15
distinct lemmas
Historical
section

Shared distinctive vocabulary

הַפֶּ֔סַח Passover H6453 occurs in 46 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

  • 3 verbs
  • 11 nouns
  • 1 pronoun
  • 1 preposition

Verb forms

  • וַ֠תִּכּוֹן Niphal · Sequential Imperfect
  • לַעֲשׂ֣וֹת Qal · Infinitive Construct
  • וְהַעֲל֣וֹת Hiphil · Infinitive Construct

Repetition

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

  • יְהוָ֜ה LORD H3068 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 31 words from the Hebrew and 38 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 16 Hebrew tokens and 30 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.

Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.

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Hebrew 2 Chronicles 35:16 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וַ֠תִּכּוֹן כָּל עֲבוֹדַ֨ת יְהוָ֜ה בַּיּ֤וֹם הַהוּא֙ לַעֲשׂ֣וֹת הַפֶּ֔סַח וְהַעֲל֣וֹת עֹל֔וֹת עַ֖ל מִזְבַּ֣ח יְהוָ֑ה כְּמִצְוַ֖ת הַמֶּ֥לֶךְ יֹאשִׁיָּֽהוּ

So all the service of Yahweh was prepared the same day, to keep the Passover, and to offer burnt-offerings on the altar of Yahweh, according to the commandment of king Josiah.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX 2 Chronicles 35:16 Septuagint · lemma form

καί καταὀρθόω καί ἑτοιμάζω πᾶς ὁ λειτουργία κύριος ἐν ὁ ἡμέρα ἐκεῖνος ὁ ποιέω ὁ φασεχ καί φέρω ὁ ὁλοκαύτωμα ἐπί ὁ θυσιαστήριον κύριος κατά ὁ ἐντολή ὁ βασιλεύς ιωσίας

So all the service of the Lord was duly ordered and prepared in that day, for keeping the passover, and offering the whole burnt sacrifices on the altar of the Lord, according to the command of king Josias.

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 35:16 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 35:16 So all the service of the LORD was prepared the same day, to keep the passover, and to offer burnt offerings upon the altar of the LORD, according to the commandment of king Josiah.

Ver. 16. Upon the altar of the Lord.] Which typified the godhead of Christ - not the cross properly - sanctifying the sacrifice offered thereon.

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

(16) The same day.—On that day, i.e., “at that time”(2Ch_35:17.)

To offer burnt offerings.—To burn the fat of the Passover victims, and of the peace offerings. The verse summarises the foregoing account. (Comp. 2Ch_35:10.)

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

16. the same day] Lit. “on that day,” i.e. the fourteenth of Nisan.

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 all the service of the Lord was prepared the same day,.... With every sacrifice, and for all sorts of persons:

to keep the passover, and to offer burnt offerings upon the altar of the Lord; which were required to be done on that day:

according to the commandment of King Josiah; which was, that every thing be provided, prepared, and done, as the law required.

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

The same day; literally, that day, as next verse, "at that time." No stress belongs to the day as the same day evidently.

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 entire service of Yahweh was carried out

This refers to everything associated with the preparation, the sacrifice, and the worship of Yahweh during the Passover. The word "service" can be expressed as a verb and this can be stated in active form. AT: "they did everything that needed to be done to serve Yahweh" (See: Abstract Nouns and Active or Passive)

kept the Passover

This is an idiom. AT: "observed the Passover" or "celebrated the Passover" (See: Idiom)

then the Festival of Unleavened Bread

This refers to celebrating the festival. AT: "then kept the Festival of Unleavened Bread" or "then celebrated the Festival of Unleavened Bread" (See: Ellipsis)

translationWords

altar

Josiah

command

people group

festival

unleavened bread

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

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 16 words (15 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is peçach (“Passover”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

  1. How does “Passover” (peçach) shape what this verse is saying?
  2. How does Exodus 12:11, which shares the word «Passover», read alongside this verse?
  3. What does the repetition of “LORD” (2× in this one verse) do in this verse?
  4. These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
  5. «וַ֠תִּכּוֹן» is a Niphal Sequential Imperfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
  6. Compare how Trapp's Complete Commentary and Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

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