2 Chronicles 35:23

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

The archers shot at king Josiah; and the king said to his servants, Have me away; for I am sore wounded.

World English Bible · Public Domain

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יֹאשִׁיָּ֑הוּ

Yôʼshîyâh

H2977

“Josiah”

Noun, Proper

Appears 53× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at 1 Kings 13:2

Full BDB Definition

Origin: from the same root as H803 and H3050

TWOT: None

Josiah = "whom Jehovah heals" - son of Amon by Jedidah who succeeded his father to the throne of Judah and reigned for 31 years; his reign is noteworthy for the great revivals back to the worship of Jehovah which he led - a returned exile and son of Zephaniah at whose house took place the solemn and symbolical crowning of Joshua the high priest in the time of Zechariah the prophet

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 →

11: words
9: distinct lemmas
Historical: section

Shared distinctive vocabulary

יֹאשִׁיָּ֑הוּ Josiah H2977 occurs in 48 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

5 verbs
4 nouns
1 conjunction
1 adverb

Verb forms

וַיֹּרוּ֙ Hiphil · Sequential Imperfect
הַיֹּרִ֔ים Qal · Participle Active
וַיֹּ֨אמֶר Qal · Sequential Imperfect
הַעֲבִיר֔וּנִי Hiphil · Imperative
הָחֳלֵ֖יתִי Hophal · Perfect

Repetition

Words recur within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

וַיֹּרוּ֙ to throw H3384 ×2
לַמֶּ֖לֶךְ king H4428 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 21 words from the Hebrew and 22 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 11 Hebrew tokens and 19 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 35:23 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

1 Kings 22:34 A certain man drew his bow at a venture, and struck the king of Israel between the joints of the armor: therefore he said to the driver of his chariot, Turn your hand, and carry me out of the host; for I am severely wounded.
Genesis 49:23 The archers have sorely grieved him, Shot at him, and persecute him:
2 Kings 8:29 King Joram returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which the Syrians had given him at Ramah, when he fought against Hazael king of Syria. Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to see Joram the son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he was sick.
2 Kings 9:24 Jehu drew his bow with his full strength, and struck Joram between his arms; and the arrow went out at his heart, and he sunk down in his chariot.
Lamentations 3:13 He has caused the shafts of his quiver to enter into my reins.
2 Chronicles 18:33 A certain man drew his bow at a venture, and struck the king of Israel between the joints of the armor. Therefore he said to the driver of the chariot, Turn your hand, and carry me out of the host; for I am sore wounded.

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.

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Hebrew 2 Chronicles 35:23 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וַיֹּרוּ֙ הַיֹּרִ֔ים לַמֶּ֖לֶךְ יֹאשִׁיָּ֑הוּ וַיֹּ֨אמֶר הַמֶּ֤לֶךְ לַעֲבָדָיו֙ הַעֲבִיר֔וּנִי כִּ֥י הָחֳלֵ֖יתִי מְאֹֽד

The archers shot at king Josiah; and the king said to his servants, Have me away; for I am sore wounded.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX 2 Chronicles 35:23 Septuagint · lemma form

καί τοξεύω ὁ τοξότης ἐπί βασιλεύς ιωσίας καί εἶπον ὁ βασιλεύς ὁ παῖς αὐτός ἐκἄγω ἐγώ ὅτι πονέω σφόδρα

And the archers shot at king Josias; and the king said to his servants, Take me away, for I am severely wounded.

LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain

On this verse, Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers discusses the Septuagint’s reading. Read the note in Commentary ↓

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 35:23 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 35:23 And the archers shot at king Josiah; and the king said to his servants, Have me away; for I am sore wounded.

Ver. 23. For I am sore wounded.] There wanted not those malignants, likely, that would say, It was just upon him for his foolhardiness and impiety in pulling down those things which his predecessors had set up, &c.

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

(23) And the archers shot.—Comp. the death of Ahab (2Ch_18:33, and of Saul, 1Ch_10:3).

Have me away.—LXX., Ἐξαγάγετέ με. “Take me out” (of the war-chariot).

For I am sore wounded.—So Ahab. (2Ch_18:33).

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

23. the archers shot] Cp. the death of Ahab, 2Ch_18:33. 1Es_1:29 has an inferior reading, viz. “the princes came down against king Josias.”

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

And his servants therefore took him out of that chariot,.... Dead, and had him to Jerusalem, and buried him; See Gill on Kg2 23:30,

and all Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah; he having been so good a king, so tender of them, and such an happy instrument in restoring the true religion, and the service of God; this was the sense of the generality of them, who were sincere in their mourning; but it is not improbable that those who were inclined to idolatry were secretly glad, though they dissembled mourning with the rest.

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

unfoldingWord translationNotes

Door43 World Missions Community

All Judah and Jerusalem

"Judah" and "Jerusalem" represent the people who live there. AT: "All the people of Judah and Jerusalem" (See: Metonymy)

translationWords

archer

servant

chariot

Jerusalem

die

bury

grave

mourn

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

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2 Chronicles, in the Historical, opens this verse with 11 words (9 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Yôʼshîyâh (“Josiah”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

The word Yôʼshîyâh carries the sense “Josiah.” How does it shape the verse?
How does 1 Kings 13:2, which shares the word «Josiah», read alongside this verse?
What does the repetition of “to throw” (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?
«וַיֹּרוּ֙» is a Hiphil Sequential Imperfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
Compare how Trapp's Complete Commentary and Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

Things to notice

This verse counts 11 Hebrew ↔ 19 Greek words.
These translations choose different wording for 7 words in this verse.
“to throw” occurs 2× in this single verse.
9 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 11 words in this verse.