2 Chronicles 35:8

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

His princes gave for a freewill-offering to the people, to the priests, and to the Levites. Hilkiah and Zechariah and Jehiel, the rulers of the house of God, gave to the priests for the Passover offerings two thousand and six hundred [small cattle], and three hundred oxen.

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וִֽיחִיאֵ֗ל

Yᵉchîyʼêl

H3171

“and · Jehiel”

Conjunction + Noun, Proper

Appears 15× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at 1 Chronicles 15:18

Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H2421 and H410

TWOT: None

Jehiel = "God lives" - a Levite and one of the chief musicians in the time of David - a Gershonite Levite who had charge of the treasures in the time of David - son of Hachmoni and an officer of David and tutor of David's sons - a son of king Jehoshaphat of Judah put to death by his brother Jehoram - Hemanite who took part in the restoration of king Hezekiah - a Levite and overseer in the time of Hezekiah - a ruler of the temple during the reforms of Josiah - father of Obadiah of the sons of Joab in the time of Ezra - father of Shechaniah of the sons of Elam in the time of Ezra - a son of Elam who put away his foreign wife in the time of Ezra - a priest of the sons of Harim who also had to put away his foreign wife in the time of Ezra

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 →

21: words
19: distinct lemmas
Historical: section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is וִֽיחִיאֵ֗ל Jehiel H3171 — appearing just 15 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

וִֽיחִיאֵ֗ל Jehiel H3171 occurs in 14 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

2 verbs
14 nouns
5 adjectives

Verb forms

הֵרִ֑ימוּ Hiphil · Perfect
נָתְנ֣וּ Qal · Perfect

Repetition

Words recur within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

לַכֹּהֲנִ֥ים priest H3548 ×2
מֵא֔וֹת hundred H3967 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 47 words from the Hebrew and 54 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 21 Hebrew tokens and 40 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 35:8 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 29:31–33 Then Hezekiah answered, Now you have consecrated yourselves to Yahweh; come near and bring sacrifices and thank-offerings into the house of Yahweh. The assembly brought in sacrifices and thank-offerings; and as many as were of a willing heart [brought] burnt offerings.
1 Chronicles 9:20 Phinehas the son of Eleazar was ruler over them in time past, [and] Yahweh was with him.
1 Chronicles 24:4–5 There were more chief men found of the sons of Eleazar than of the sons of Ithamar; and [thus] were they divided: of the sons of Eleazar there were sixteen, heads of fathers' houses; and of the sons of Ithamar, according to their fathers' houses, eight.
1 Chronicles 29:6–9 Then the princes of the fathers' [houses], and the princes of the tribes of Israel, and the captains of thousands and of hundreds, with the rulers over the king's work, offered willingly;
1 Chronicles 29:17 I know also, my God, that you try the heart, and have pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of my heart I have willingly offered all these things: and now have I seen with joy your people, that are present here, offer willingly to you.
2 Chronicles 34:14–20 When they brought out the money that was brought into the house of Yahweh, Hilkiah the priest found the book of the law of Yahweh [given] by Moses.
Ezra 1:6 All those who were round about them strengthened their hands with vessels of silver, with gold, with goods, and with animals, and with precious things, besides all that was willingly offered.
Ezra 2:68–69 Some of the heads of fathers' [houses], when they came to the house of Yahweh which is in Jerusalem, offered willingly for the house of God to set it up in its place:

Ezra 7:16 and all the silver and gold that you shall find in all the province of Babylon, with the freewill-offering of the people, and of the priests, offering willingly for the house of their God which is in Jerusalem;
Ezra 8:25–35 and weighed to them the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, even the offering for the house of our God, which the king, and his counselors, and his princes, and all Israel there present, had offered:
Nehemiah 7:70–72 Some from among the heads of fathers' [houses] gave to the work. The governor gave to the treasury one thousand darics of gold, fifty basins, and five hundred thirty priests' garments.
Psalms 45:12 The daughter of Tyre comes with a gift. The rich among the people entreat your favor.
Jeremiah 29:25–26 Thus speaks Yahweh of Hosts, the God of Israel, saying, Because you have sent letters in your own name to all the people who are at Jerusalem, and to Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah, the priest, and to all the priests, saying,
Acts 2:44–45 All who believed were together, and had all things in common.
Acts 4:1 As they spoke to the people, the priests and the captain of the temple and the Sadducees came to them,
Acts 4:34–35 For neither was there among them any who lacked, for as many as were owners of lands or houses sold them, and brought the proceeds of the things that were sold,

Acts 5:26 Then the captain went with the officers, and brought them without violence, for they were afraid that the people might stone them.
2 Corinthians 8:12 For if the readiness is there, it is acceptable according to what you have, not according to what you don't have.
2 Corinthians 9:7 Let each man give according as he has determined in his heart; not grudgingly, or under compulsion; for God loves a cheerful giver.

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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Hebrew 2 Chronicles 35:8 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וְשָׂרָ֞יו לִנְדָבָ֥ה לָעָ֛ם לַכֹּהֲנִ֥ים וְלַלְוִיִּ֖ם הֵרִ֑ימוּ חִלְקִיָּ֨ה וּזְכַרְיָ֜הוּ וִֽיחִיאֵ֗ל נְגִידֵי֙ בֵּ֣ית הָאֱלֹהִ֔ים לַכֹּהֲנִ֞ים נָתְנ֣וּ לַפְּסָחִ֗ים אַלְפַּ֨יִם֙ וְשֵׁ֣שׁ מֵא֔וֹת וּבָקָ֖ר שְׁלֹ֥שׁ מֵאֽוֹת

His princes gave for a freewill-offering to the people, to the priests, and to the Levites. Hilkiah and Zechariah and Jehiel, the rulers of the house of God, gave to the priests for the Passover offerings two thousand and six hundred [small cattle], and three hundred oxen.

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Greek LXX 2 Chronicles 35:8 Septuagint · lemma form

καί ὁ ἄρχων αὐτός ἀποἄρχω ὁ λαός καί ὁ ἱερεύς καί λευείτης δίδωμι χελκιας καί ζαχαριας καί ιιηλ ὁ ἄρχων οἶκος ὁ θεός ὁ ἱερεύς καί δίδωμι εἰς ὁ φασεχ πρόβατον καί ἀμνός καί ἔριφος δισχίλιοι ἑξακόσιοι καί μόσχος τριακόσιοι

And his princes gave an offering to the people, and to the priests, and to the Levites: and Chelcias and Zacharias and Jeiel the chief men gave to the priests of the house of God, they even gave for the passover sheep, and lambs, and kids, two thousand six hundred, and three hundred calves.

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 35:8 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 35:8 And his princes gave willingly unto the people, to the priests, and to the Levites: Hilkiah and Zechariah and Jehiel, rulers of the house of God, gave unto the priests for the passover offerings two thousand and six hundred [small cattle], and three hundred oxen.

Ver. 8. And his princes gave willingly.] Heb., To liberality. See the force of good example. These princes were none of the best, as appears in Zephaniah.

Two thousand and six hundred small cattle.] This these priests could not have done had they not been wealthy and well-underlaid, as we say.

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.

Joseph Benson's Commentary

2Ch 35:8. And his princes gave willingly — Not the political, but ecclesiastical princes, or the chief of the priests and Levites, whose names here follow. Unto the people, priests, and Levites — For the use of any of the families of them, as need should be. For they supposed the thirty- thousand, which the king had given, were not sufficient for all the families.

Joseph Benson's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1811–1818) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown

his princes--These gave to the priests and Levites; as those of Hezekiah's princes (Ch2 30:24). They were ecclesiastical princes; namely, Hilkiah the high priest (Ch2 34:9). Zechariah, probably the second priest of the Eleazar (Kg2 16:18), and Jehiel, of the Ithamar line. And as the Levitical tribes were not yet sufficiently provided (Ch2 35:9), some of their eminent brethren who had been distinguished in Hezekiah's time (Ch2 31:12-15), gave a large additional contribution for the use of the Levites exclusively.

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

(8) And his princes . . . Levites.—And his princes for a free-will offering (Lev_7:16) to the people, to the priests, and to the Levites had presented heave-offerings. How many victims they gave is not specified. Some words may have fallen out of the text. (Comp. 2Ch_30:24.) Hilkiah is introduced quite abruptly in the text as it stands.

Rulers of the house of God.—2Ch_31:13; 1Ch_9:11. Hilkiah was high priest (2Ch_34:9); Zechariah perhaps his deputy, “the second priest” (2Ki_25:18); Jehiel may have been the head of the line of Ithamar, which still existed even after the return (Ezr_8:2).

Oxen, i.e., “bullocks” (2Ch_35:7).

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

8. willingly] The A.V. is better here than the R.V. (“for a free will offering”).

rulers of the house of God] Cp. 1Ch_9:11, note.

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 princes gave willingly to the people, to the priests and the Levites,.... Besides, to some other families, they gave also to poor priests and Levites, which the king's bounty did not extend to; and these princes were not secular, but ecclesiastical princes, as follows:

Hilkiah, and Zechariah, and Jehiel, rulers of the house; of the temple; Hilkiah was high priest, and the other two were chief priests, the one of the line of Eleazar, and the other of the line of Ithamar:

these gave unto the priests for the passover lambs; 2600 small cattle; which were lambs, or kids, or both:

and three hundred oxen; for peace offerings on the seven days of unleavened bread, to feast upon.

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

Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

Offered. Heb. "gave to the people." H. --- Rulers: the first alone was high priest. C. --- Small cattle: literally, cattle of different sorts;" commixtim. Protestants supply, "small cattle," which is not in Hebrew. H. --- Syriac and Arabic have, "sheep;" but we had best follow (C.) the Sept. "sheep, both lambs and kids." Either would suffice, Ex. xii. 5.

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).

Matthew Poole's English Annotations

His princes; not the political, but ecclesiastical princes, or the chief of the priests and Levites, whose names here follow.

To the priests and to the Levites, for the use of any of the families of any of them, as need should be; for they supposed the 30,000 which the king had given were not sufficient for all the families. Or, the king gave his cattle to the people only, or principally, for they only are mentioned for that gift, 2Ch 35:7. And therefore these persons here named give their cattle not only to the people, but also to the priests and to the Levites, as it is here expressed. And the Levites being not yet sufficiently provided for, some of their brethren, named 2Ch 35:9, gave 5000 more peculiarly unto the Levites, as is there said.

Rulers of the house of God; for so they were; Hilkiah being the high priest, and the other the two chief priests, of the two lines of Eleazar and Ithamar, who many times were to officiate in the high priest’s stead, and were in power and dignity next to him, and were in some sort joint commissioners with him in ruling the affairs of the temple.

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible

Daniel D. Whedon

8. His princes gave willingly — That is, as appears in the sequel, the priestly and Levitical princes; the former giving to the priests, the latter to the Levites. As the king contributed of the flock all the lambs and kids for the passover offerings, (2Ch_35:7,) the gifts of the princes must have been, like the king’s offering of bullocks, for the freewill offerings and various sacrificial meals. Compare the account of Hezekiah’s passover, 2Ch_30:13-26.

Daniel D. Whedon (gen. ed.), Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1874–1909) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

The Pulpit Commentary

The princes; i.e. the three immediately mentioned by name. Jehiel. (see Ezr_8:2)

The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

John Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Princes - Not the political, but ecclesiastical princes, or the chief of the priests and Levites, whose names here follow. Levites - For the use of any of the families of them, as need should be. For they supposed the thirty thousand which the king had given were not sufficient for all the families.

John Wesley, Explanatory Notes Upon the Whole Bible (1754–1765) — public domain. Text via the GEBible commentary corpus.

Lesson kit

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2 Chronicles, in the Historical, opens this verse with 21 words (19 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Yᵉchîyʼêl (“Jehiel”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

How does “Jehiel” (Yᵉchîyʼêl) shape what this verse is saying?
1 Chronicles 15:18 shares the word «Jehiel» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
“priest” occurs 2× in this one verse. What is the effect of the repetition?
These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
The verb «הֵרִ֑ימוּ» is Hiphil Perfect. How does its form color the action?
Reading how Trapp's Complete Commentary and Joseph Benson's Commentary read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?

Things to notice

This verse counts 21 Hebrew ↔ 40 Greek words.
These translations choose different wording for 22 words in this verse.
“priest” occurs 2× in this single verse.
19 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 21 words in this verse.