2 Chronicles 6:5

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

Since the day that I brought forth my people out of the land of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel to build a house in, that my name might be there; neither chose I any man to be prince over my people Israel:

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נָגִ֖יד

nâgîyd

H5057

“ruler”

Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute

Appears 44× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at 1 Samuel 9:16

Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H5046

TWOT: 1289b

leader, ruler, captain, prince - ruler, prince - prince-overseer - ruler (in other capacities) - princely things

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 →

27: words
22: distinct lemmas
Historical: section

Shared distinctive vocabulary

נָגִ֖יד ruler H5057 occurs in 44 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

6 verbs
14 nouns
2 prepositions
1 adverb
4 particles

Verb forms

הוֹצֵ֣אתִי Hiphil · Perfect
בָחַ֣רְתִּֽי Qal · Perfect
לִבְנ֣וֹת Qal · Infinitive Construct
לִהְי֥וֹת Qal · Infinitive Construct
בָחַ֣רְתִּֽי Qal · Perfect
לִהְי֥וֹת Qal · Infinitive Construct

Repetition

Words recur within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

עַמִּי֮ people H5971 ×2
בָחַ֣רְתִּֽי to choose H977 ×2
יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל Israel H3478 ×2
לִהְי֥וֹת to be H1961 ×2
לֹא not H3808 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 49 words from the Hebrew and 49 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — the same length.

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 27 Hebrew tokens and 41 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 6:5 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

Exodus 20:24 You shall make an altar of earth for me, and shall sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your peace-offerings, your sheep and your oxen. In every place where I record my name I will come to you and I will bless you.
Exodus 23:21 Pay attention to him, and listen to his voice. Don't provoke him, for he will not pardon your disobedience, for my name is in him.
Deuteronomy 12:5 But to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose out of all your tribes, to put his name there, even to his habitation shall you seek, and there you shall come;
Deuteronomy 12:11 then it shall happen that to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there, there shall you bring all that I command you: your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, your tithes, and the heave-offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which you vow to Yahweh.
1 Samuel 10:24 Samuel said to all the people, "You see him whom Yahweh has chosen, that there is none like him among all the people?" All the people shouted, and said, [Long] live the king.
1 Samuel 13:13–14 Samuel said to Saul, You have done foolishly; you have not kept the commandment of Yahweh your God, which he commanded you: for now would Yahweh have established your kingdom on Israel forever.
1 Samuel 15:23 For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as idolatry and teraphim. Because you have rejected the word of Yahweh, he has also rejected you from being king.
2 Samuel 7:6–7 for I have not lived in a house since the day that I brought up the children of Israel out of Egypt, even to this day, but have walked in a tent and in a tent.

2 Samuel 7:15–16 but my loving kindness shall not depart from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away before you.
1 Kings 8:16 Since the day that I brought forth my people Israel out of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel to build a house, that my name might be there; but I chose David to be over my people Israel.
Daniel 9:19 Lord, hear; Lord, forgive; Lord, listen and do; don't defer, for your own sake, my God, because your city and your people are called by your name.

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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

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

Hebrew 2 Chronicles 6:5 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

מִן הַיּ֗וֹם אֲשֶׁ֨ר הוֹצֵ֣אתִי אֶת עַמִּי֮ מֵאֶ֣רֶץ מִצְרַיִם֒ לֹא בָחַ֣רְתִּֽי בְעִ֗יר מִכֹּל֙ שִׁבְטֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לִבְנ֣וֹת בַּ֔יִת לִהְי֥וֹת שְׁמִ֖י שָׁ֑ם וְלֹא בָחַ֣רְתִּֽי בְאִ֔ישׁ לִהְי֥וֹת נָגִ֖יד עַל עַמִּ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵֽל

Since the day that I brought forth my people out of the land of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel to build a house in, that my name might be there; neither chose I any man to be prince over my people Israel:

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX 2 Chronicles 6:5 Septuagint · lemma form

ἀπό ὁ ἡμέρα ὅς ἀναἄγω ὁ λαός ἐγώ ἐκ γῆ αἴγυπτος οὐ ἐκλέγω ἐν πόλις ἀπό πᾶς φυλή ἰσραήλ ὁ οἰκοδομέω οἶκος ὁ εἰμί ὄνομα ἐγώ ἐκεῖ καί οὐ ἐκλέγω ἐν ἀνήρ ὁ εἰμί εἰς ἡγέομαι ἐπί ὁ λαός ἐγώ ἰσραήλ

From the day when I brought up my people out of the land of Egypt, I chose no city of all the tribes of Israel, to build a house that my name should be there; neither did I choose a man to be a leader over my people Israel.

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 6:5 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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Geneva Bible (1599)

Geneva Bible translators

Or, Temple.

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

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers

(5) My people out of the land of Egypt.—Kings, “My people Israel out of Egypt.” (Comp 2Ch_5:10.) The Syr. and Arab. have Israel here also.

Neither chose I any man to be a ruler (nâgîd) over my people Israel.—Neither this sentence nor the following is found in the parallel passage, where the second half of 2Ch_6:6 forms the last clause of the preceding verse (1Ki_8:16). The Syriac and Arabic here follow Kings as often. There is nothing in the language against the supposition that the words originally formed part of the older text.

Neither chose I any man.—Saul was originally the people’s, not God’s, choice. Holy Scripture nowhere teaches that the vox populi is identical with the vox Dei. (See 1Sa_8:5, and Bishop Wordsworth’s Note.)

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

5. neither chose I any man to be a ruler over my people Israel] The Chronicler regards Saul as rejected rather than chosen; 1Ch_10:13-14.

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

I chose no city, neither chose I any man. The tabernacle and all it contained had but travelled from place to place, and rested at temporary halting-places; and from Moses" time all the leaders of the people Israel had been men in whom vested no permanent and no intrinsic authority (1Sa_16:1-15; 2Sa_24:18-25)

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

Rashi

Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki (Rashi)

Since the day that I brought forth For this too You spoke to my father.

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.

Lesson kit

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2 Chronicles, in the Historical, opens this verse with 27 words (22 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is nâgîyd (“ruler”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

How does “ruler” (nâgîyd) shape what this verse is saying?
How does 1 Samuel 9:16, which shares the word «ruler», read alongside this verse?
What does the repetition of “people” (2× in this one verse) do in this verse?
The translations on this page render this verse differently — a whole-verse word diff, not a word-by-word alignment. What might account for the different wordings?
«הוֹצֵ֣אתִי» is a Hiphil Perfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
Compare how Geneva Bible (1599) and Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

Things to notice

This verse counts 27 Hebrew ↔ 41 Greek words.
These translations choose different wording for 12 words in this verse.
“people” occurs 2× in this single verse.
22 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 27 words in this verse.