2 Chronicles 5:3

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) 2 Chronicles 5:3 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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And all the men of Israel assembled themselves to the king at the feast, which was [in] the seventh month.
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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    And all the men of Israel assembled themselves to the king at the feast, which was [in] the seventh month.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    Wherefore all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto the king in the feast which was in the seventh month.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    And all the men of Israel assembled to the king at the feast; it was the seventh month.

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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    And all the men of Israel assembled themselves to the king at the feast, which was [in] the seventh month.
  • Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
    So all the men of Israel came together to the king at the feast in the seventh month.
  • Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
    So all the men of Israel came together to the king at the feast in the seventh month.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    Wherefore all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto the king in the feast which was in the seventh month.
  • American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
    nd all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto the king at the feast, which was `in' the seventh month.
  • Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
    And all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto the king at the feast, which was in the seventh month.
  • Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
    And all ye men of Israel assembled vnto the King at the feast: it was in ye seuenth moneth.
  • Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
    And all the men of Israel came to the king in the solemn day of the seventh month.
  • Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
    And assembled unto the king are all the men of Israel in the feast -- it `is' the seventh month;
  • Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    And all the men of Israel are assembled to the king in the celebration—it [is] the seventh month;
  • Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
    All the men of Israel assembled before the king at the feast, which was in the seventh month.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    And all the men of Israel assembled to the king at the feast; it was the seventh month.
  • Darby Bible Public Domain
    And all the men of Israel assembled themselves to the king at the feast, that of the seventh month.
  • World Messianic Bible Public Domain
    So all the men of Israel assembled themselves to the king at the feast, which was in the seventh month.
  • Webster's Bible Public Domain
    Wherefore all the men of Israel assembled themselves to the king in the feast which was in the seventh month.
  • Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    So all the Israelites gathered to be with the king at the feast which is in the seventh month.
  • Bible in Basic English Public Domain
    And all the men of Israel came together to the king at the feast in the seventh month.
  • JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
    And all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto the king at the feast, which was in the seventh month.

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וַיִּקָּהֲל֧וּ
qâhal
H6950
“and · to assemble”
Conjunction + Verb, Niphal, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural
Part of Speech
Conjunction + Verb
Stem
Niphal
Form
Sequential Imperfect
Person
3rd Person
Gender
Masculine
Number
Plural
Full BDB Definition

Origin: a primitive root

TWOT: 1991

to assemble, gather - (Niphal) to assemble - for religious reasons - for political reasons - (Hiphil) to summon an assembly - for war, judgment - for religious purposes
  1. אֶל ʼêl H413 “to” Preposition
  2. הַמֶּ֛לֶךְ melek H4428 “the · king” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
  3. כָּל kôl H3605 “all of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
  4. אִ֥ישׁ ʼîysh H376 “man of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
  5. יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל Yisrâʼêl H3478 “Israel” Noun, Proper
  6. בֶּחָ֑ג chag H2282 “in/at the · feast” Preposition, Determined + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
  7. ה֖וּא hûwʼ H1931 “he” Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
  8. הַחֹ֥דֶשׁ chôdesh H2320 “the · month” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
  9. הַשְּׁבִעִֽי shᵉbîyʻîy H7637 “the · seventh” Particle, Definite Article + Adjective, Ordinal number, Masculine, Singular, Absolute

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וַיִּקָּהֲל֧וּ to assemble H6950 occurs in 39 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

  • 1 verb
  • 6 nouns
  • 1 adjective
  • 1 pronoun
  • 1 preposition

Verb forms

  • וַיִּקָּהֲל֧וּ Niphal · Sequential Imperfect

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 20 words from the Hebrew and 16 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 10 Hebrew tokens and 15 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

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Topical passages linked to 2 Chronicles 5:3 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 8:2 All the men of Israel assembled themselves to king Solomon at the feast, in the month Ethanim, which is the seventh month.
  • 2 Chronicles 7:8–10 So Solomon held the feast at that time seven days, and all Israel with him, a very great assembly, from the entrance of Hamath to the brook of Egypt.
  • Leviticus 23:34–36 "Speak to the children of Israel, and say, 'On the fifteenth day of this seventh month is the feast of tents for seven days to Yahweh.

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Hebrew 2 Chronicles 5:3 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וַיִּקָּהֲל֧וּ אֶל הַמֶּ֛לֶךְ כָּל אִ֥ישׁ יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל בֶּחָ֑ג ה֖וּא הַחֹ֥דֶשׁ הַשְּׁבִעִֽי

And all the men of Israel assembled themselves to the king at the feast, which was [in] the seventh month.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX 2 Chronicles 5:3 Septuagint · lemma form

καί ἐκκλησιάζω πρός ὁ βασιλεύς πᾶς ἀνήρ ἰσραήλ ἐν ὁ ἑορτή οὗτος ὁ μήν ἕβδομος

And all Israel were assembled to the king in the feast, this is the seventh month.

LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain

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Commentary

Notes on 2 Chronicles 5:3 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 5:3 Wherefore all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto the king in the feast which [was] in the seventh month.

Ver. 3. In the seventh month.] Called Ethanim: haply from the many festivals therein observed. And Solomon fitly taketh that time for the dedication of the temple.

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.

Tyndale Open Study Notes

Tyndale Open Resources

5:3 The dedication of the Temple took place during the annual Festival of Shelters, which is held in early autumn. This seven-day festival required a pilgrimage to the central place of worship (Deut 16:13-15). The seventh month marked the end of Israel’s harvest season, allowing landowners to leave for a week without concern for fields or crops.

Tyndale Open Study Notes — © Tyndale Open Resources, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

Geneva Bible (1599)

Geneva Bible translators

When the things were dedicated and brought into the Temple.

Called in Hebrew Ethanim, containing part of September and part of October, 1 Kings 8:2, which moveth the Jews called the first month, because they say, that the world was created in that month, and after they came from Egypt, they began at March: but because this opinion is uncertain, we make March ever the first, as best writers do.

Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain. Text via Bolls.life.

Adam Clarke's Commentary

Verse 3. The feast] "That is, the feast of tabernacles, which was held in the seventh month." - Targum. See 1Kg 8:2.

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

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne

3. the feast] i.e. the Feast of Tabernacles.

in the seventh month] In 1 Kings the name of the month is given as Ethanim, but this word was perhaps obsolete when the Chronicler wrote; at any rate we know that in post-biblical times the seventh month was called Tisri.

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.

Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

Day, the eighth, 3 Kings viii. 2.

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).

The Pulpit Commentary

In the feast which in the seventh month; i.e. the Feast of Tabernacles. This commenced on the fifteenth of the seventh month, named Ethanim. (see 1Ki_8:2) With this the festivals of the sacred year closed.

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

Scofield Reference Notes

C. I. Scofield

seventh month

i.e. October.

The Scofield Reference Bible (1917 edition), notes by C. I. Scofield — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Rashi

Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki (Rashi)

on the festival the festival of Succoth.

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.

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2 Chronicles, in the Historical, opens this verse with 10 words (10 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is qâhal (“to assemble”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

  1. What does “to assemble” (qâhal) contribute to the verse as a whole?
  2. Exodus 32:1 shares the word «to assemble» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
  3. These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
  4. The verb «וַיִּקָּהֲל֧וּ» is Niphal Sequential Imperfect. How does its form color the action?
  5. Reading how Trapp's Complete Commentary and Tyndale Open Study Notes read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?

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