2 Chronicles 6:32

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

Moreover concerning the foreigner, who is not of your people Israel, when he shall come from a far country for your great name's sake, and your mighty hand, and your outstretched arm; when they shall come and pray toward this house:

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הַנָּכְרִ֗י

nokrîy

H5237

“the · foreign”

Particle, Definite Article + Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Absolute

Appears 46× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at Genesis 31:15

Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H5235 (second form)

TWOT: 1368c

foreign, alien - foreign - foreigner (substantive) - foreign woman, harlot - unknown, unfamiliar (figuratively)

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 →

23: words
21: distinct lemmas
Historical: section

Shared distinctive vocabulary

הַנָּכְרִ֗י foreign H5237 occurs in 45 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

4 verbs
7 nouns
4 adjectives
2 pronouns
3 prepositions
3 particles

Verb forms

וּבָ֣א Qal · Sequential Perfect
הַנְּטוּיָ֑ה Qal · Participle Passive
וּבָ֥אוּ Qal · Sequential Perfect
וְהִֽתְפַּלְל֖וּ Hithpael · Sequential Perfect

Repetition

Words recur within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

וּבָ֣א to enter H935 ×2
אֶל to H413 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 41 words from the Hebrew and 43 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 23 Hebrew tokens and 43 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 6:32 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

Isaiah 56:3–7 Neither let the foreigner, who has joined himself to Yahweh, speak, saying, Yahweh will surely separate me from his people; neither let the eunuch say, Behold, I am a dry tree.
1 Kings 8:41–43 Moreover concerning the foreigner, who is not of your people Israel, when he shall come out of a far country for your name's sake
Matthew 8:10–11 When Jesus heard it, he marveled, and said to those who followed, "Most assuredly I tell you, I haven't found so great a faith, not even in Israel.
Zechariah 14:16–17 It will happen that everyone who is left of all the nations that came against Jerusalem will go up from year to year to worship the King, Yahweh of Hosts, and to keep the feast of tents.
John 12:20 Now there were certain Greeks among those that went up to worship at the feast.
Acts 10:1–4 Now there was a certain man in Caesarea, Cornelius by name, a centurion of what was called the Italian Regiment,
Ephesians 2:12–13 that you were at that time separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world.
Exodus 3:19–20 I know that the king of Egypt won't give you permission to go, no, not by a mighty hand.

Exodus 12:48–49 When a stranger shall live as a foreigner with you, and will keep the Passover to Yahweh, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it; and he shall be as one who is born in the land: but no uncircumcised person shall eat of it.
Joshua 9:9 They said to him, From a very far country your servants are come because of the name of Yahweh your God: for we have heard the fame of him, and all that he did in Egypt,
Isaiah 60:1–10 Arise, shine; for your light is come, and the glory of Yahweh is risen on you.
Isaiah 66:20 They shall bring all your brothers out of all the nations for an offering to Yahweh, on horses, and in chariots, and in litters, and on mules, and on dromedaries, to my holy mountain Jerusalem, says Yahweh, as the children of Israel bring their offering in a clean vessel into the house of Yahweh.
Zechariah 8:22 Yes, many peoples and strong nations will come to seek Yahweh of Hosts in Jerusalem, and to entreat the favor of Yahweh."
Matthew 2:1 Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, wise men from the east came to Jerusalem, saying,
John 10:16 I have other sheep, which are not of this fold. I must bring them also, and they will hear my voice. They will become one flock with one shepherd.
Acts 2:10 Phrygia, Pamphylia, Egypt, the parts of Libya around Cyrene, visitors from Rome, both Jews and proselytes,

Acts 8:27–39 He arose and went; and behold, there was a man of Ethiopia, a eunuch of great authority under Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, who was over all her treasure, who had come to Jerusalem to worship.
Exodus 13:14 It shall be, when your son asks you in time to come, saying, 'What is this?' that you shall tell him, 'By strength of hand Yahweh brought us out from Egypt, from the house of bondage;
Exodus 18:8–12 Moses told his father-in-law all that Yahweh had done to Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel's sake, all the hardships that had come on them on the way, and how Yahweh delivered them.
Joshua 2:9 and she said to the men, I know that Yahweh has given you the land, and that the fear of you is fallen on us, and that all the inhabitants of the land melt away before you.
Ruth 1:16 Ruth said, "Don't entreat me to leave you, and to return from following after you, for where you go, I will go; and where you lodge, I will lodge; your people shall be my people, and your God my God;
Ruth 2:11–12 Boaz answered her, It has fully been shown me, all that you have done to your mother-in-law since the death of your husband; and how you have left your father and your mother, and the land of your birth, and have come to a people that you didn't know before.
1 Kings 10:1–2 When the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning the name of Yahweh, she came to prove him with hard questions.
2 Kings 5:3 She said to her mistress, Would that my lord were with the prophet who is in Samaria! then would he recover him of his leprosy.

2 Kings 5:8 It was so, when Elisha the man of God heard that the king of Israel had torn his clothes, that he sent to the king, saying, Why have you torn your clothes? let him come now to me, and he shall know that there is a prophet in Israel.
2 Kings 5:15 He returned to the man of God, he and all his company, and came, and stood before him; and he said, See now, I know that there is no God in all the earth, but in Israel: now therefore, please take a present from your servant.
Psalms 89:13 You have a mighty arm. Your hand is strong, and your right hand is exalted.
Matthew 12:42 The queen of the south will rise up in the judgment with this generation, and will condemn it, for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and behold, someone greater than Solomon is here.

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.

Hebrew 2 Chronicles 6:32 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וְגַ֣ם אֶל הַנָּכְרִ֗י אֲ֠שֶׁר לֹ֥א מֵעַמְּךָ֣ יִשְׂרָאֵל֮ הוּא֒ וּבָ֣א מֵאֶ֣רֶץ רְחוֹקָ֗ה לְמַ֨עַן שִׁמְךָ֤ הַגָּדוֹל֙ וְיָדְךָ֣ הַחֲזָקָ֔ה וּֽזְרֽוֹעֲךָ֖ הַנְּטוּיָ֑ה וּבָ֥אוּ וְהִֽתְפַּלְל֖וּ אֶל הַבַּ֥יִת הַזֶּֽה

Moreover concerning the foreigner, who is not of your people Israel, when he shall come from a far country for your great name's sake, and your mighty hand, and your outstretched arm; when they shall come and pray toward this house:

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Greek LXX 2 Chronicles 6:32 Septuagint · lemma form

καί πᾶς ἀλλότριος ὅς οὐ ἐκ ὁ λαός σύ ἰσραήλ εἰμί αὐτός καί ἔρχομαι ἐκ γῆ μακρόθεν διά ὁ ὄνομα σύ ὁ μέγας καί ὁ χείρ σύ ὁ κραταιός καί ὁ βραχίων σύ ὁ ὑψηλός καί ἔρχομαι καί προςεὔχομαι εἰς ὁ τόπος οὗτος

And every stranger who is not himself of your people Israel, and who shall have come from a distant land because of your great name, and your mighty hand, and your high arm; when they shall come and worship toward this place; —

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 6:32 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.

Lemma curates 59 commentaries, every one of them public domain or Creative Commons licensed, each selected and text-cleaned for this edition rather than reprinted as found. About our sources →

Tyndale Open Study Notes

Tyndale Open Resources

6:32-33 Petition 5: Solomon expressed concern for those from other nations who voluntarily joined the society of the covenant when they saw God’s blessings on those who obeyed it (Deut 4:6-8). These foreigners, no less than native Israelites, were the object of Solomon’s prayer for mercy before God.

Geneva Bible (1599)

Geneva Bible translators

He showeth that before God there is no deception of person, but all people that feareth him and worketh righteousness, are accepted, Acts 10:35.

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

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers

(32) Moreover concerning the stranger.—In this verse, 1Ki_8:41-42, are run together, probably by an error of transcription.

But is come.—And shall come.

For thy great name’s sake.—Kings, “for thy name sake (for they will hear of thy great name and thy mighty hand and thy stretched-out arm), and shall come and pray towards this house.” So nearly the Syriac and Arabic here.

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

32. but is come] R.V. when he shall come.

if they come] R.V. when they shall come.

in this house] R.V. toward this house; cp. 2Ch_6:29.

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.

The Pulpit Commentary

Vers. 32, 33. The stranger come from a far country for thy great Name"s sake. These two verses, with every clause in them, must be felt most refreshing by every reader; but they ought also to be particularly observed, as both corrective of a common but strictly erroneous impression as to exclusiveness and a genius of bigotry inhering in the setting apart of the Jewish race for a certain purpose in the Divine government and counsel, and also as revealing very significantly that that setting apart was nothing but a method and means to an end, as comprehensive and universal as the world itself The analogies, in fact, in the world"s history are linked, in one unbroken chain, to what sometimes seems to a mere reader of the Bible pages as an artificial and somewhat arbitrary decree or arrangement, (see amid many significant parallels, Exo_22:21; Num_15:13-17; Deu_10:19 Deu_31:12) Not of thy people Israel (Joh_10:16 Joh_12:20-26; Act_8:27) For thy great Name"s sake. The insertion of the adjective "great" here (lwOdG) is not Pentateuchal, but is found in Jos_7:9; in our parallel, Psa_76:1 Psa_99:3; Eze_36:23; Jer_10:6 Jer_44:26. All people of the earth. Not only are many of the psalms utterly in harmony with the spirit of this verse, but also the light of it is reflected brilliantly in such passages as Act_17:22-31. This house is called by thy Name; literally, thy Name is called upon (or perhaps, into) this house, meaning that God himself is invoked there, or present there in order that he may be constantly invoked.

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

Connecting Statement:

King Solomon continues praying.

who—because of your great name, your mighty hand, and your outstretched arm—comes

It is implied that the foreigners come because they hear about God's greatness. AT: "who hears about your great name, your mighty hand, and your outstretched arm—if he comes" (See: Assumed Knowledge and Implicit Information)

your great name

Here God's name represents his reputation. AT: "your great reputation" or "your greatness" (See: Metonymy)

your mighty hand, and your outstretched arm

These two phrases mean basically the same thing and refer to God's power. (See: Doublet and Metonymy)

prays toward this house

Praying toward Yahweh's temple shows that one is praying to Yahweh. (See: Symbolic Action)

may know your name

Here God's name represents his reputation. AT: "may know your reputation" or "may know your greatness" (See: Metonymy)

as do your own people Israel

"as your own people Israel know your name and fear you"

this house I have built is called by your name

The phrase "is called by your name" shows that God possesses and owns the house. This can be stated in active form. AT: "you own this house that I have built" (See: Active or Passive)

this house I have built

Solomon speaks of commanding the people to build the temple and telling them how to do it as if he himself had built it. See how you translated a similar phrase in 2 Chronicles 6:18. AT: "this house that your people have built under my leadership" or "this house that I and your people have built" (See: Synecdoche)

translationWords

alien

might

earth

fear

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 23 words (21 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is nokrîy (“foreign”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

How does “foreign” (nokrîy) shape what this verse is saying?
How does Genesis 31:15, which shares the word «foreign», read alongside this verse?
What does the repetition of “to enter” (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?
«וּבָ֣א» is a Qal Sequential Perfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
Compare how Tyndale Open Study Notes and Geneva Bible (1599) read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

Things to notice

This verse counts 23 Hebrew ↔ 43 Greek words.
These translations choose different wording for 24 words in this verse.
“to enter” occurs 2× in this single verse.
21 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 23 words in this verse.