2 Chronicles 7:17

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

As for you, if you will walk before me as David your father walked, and do according to all that I have commanded you, and will keep my statutes and my ordinances;

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וְחֻקַּ֥י

chôq

H2706

“and · statutes · my”

Conjunction + Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Singular

Appears 128× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at Genesis 47:22

Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H2710

TWOT: 728a

statute, ordinance, limit, something prescribed, due - prescribed task - prescribed portion - action prescribed (for oneself), resolve - prescribed due - prescribed limit, boundary - enactment, decree, ordinance - specific decree - law in general - enactments, statutes - conditions - enactments - decrees - civil enactments prescribed by God

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 →

15: words
14: distinct lemmas
Historical: section

Grammatical profile

5 verbs
6 nouns
1 pronoun
1 conjunction
2 particles

Verb forms

תֵּלֵ֣ךְ Qal · Imperfect
הָלַךְ֙ Qal · Perfect
וְלַעֲשׂ֕וֹת Qal · Infinitive Construct
צִוִּיתִ֑יךָ Piel · Perfect
תִּשְׁמֽוֹר Qal · Imperfect

Repetition

A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

כַּאֲשֶׁ֤ר which H834 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 32 words from the Hebrew and 31 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 15 Hebrew tokens and 27 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 7:17 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

Deuteronomy 4:40 You shall keep his statutes, and his commandments, which I command you this day, that it may go well with you, and with your children after you, and that you may prolong your days in the land, which Yahweh your God gives you, forever.
1 Kings 11:38 It shall be, if you will listen to all that I command you, and will walk in my ways, and do that which is right in my eyes, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as David my servant did; that I will be with you, and will build you a sure house, as I built for David, and will give Israel to you.
Ezekiel 36:27 I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and you shall keep my ordinances, and do them.
Zechariah 3:7 "Thus says Yahweh of hosts: 'If you will walk in my ways, and if you will keep my charge, then you also shall judge my house, and shall also keep my courts, and I will give you a place of access among these who stand by.
Deuteronomy 28:1–14 It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to the voice of Yahweh your God, to observe to do all his commandments which I command you this day, who Yahweh your God will set you on high above all the nations of the earth:
1 Kings 2:3 and keep the charge of Yahweh your God, to walk in his ways, to keep his statutes, [and] his commandments, and his ordinances, and his testimonies, according to that which is written in the law of Moses, that you may prosper in all that you do, and wherever you turn yourself.
1 Kings 3:14 If you will walk in my ways, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as your father David did walk, then I will lengthen your days.
1 Kings 8:25 Now therefore, Yahweh, the God of Israel, keep with your servant David my father that which you have promised him, saying, There shall not fail you a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel, if only your children take heed to their way, to walk before me as you have walked before me.

1 Kings 9:4–9 As for you, if you will walk before me, as David your father walked, in integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded you, and will keep my statutes and my ordinances;
1 Chronicles 28:9 You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Yahweh searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts: if you seek him, he will be found of you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.
Psalms 105:45 That they might keep his statutes, And observe his laws. Praise Yah!
John 14:21 One who has my commandments, and keeps them, that person is one who loves me. One who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will reveal myself to him."
John 15:10 If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and remain in his love.

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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Hebrew 2 Chronicles 7:17 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וְאַתָּ֞ה אִם תֵּלֵ֣ךְ לְפָנַ֗י כַּאֲשֶׁ֤ר הָלַךְ֙ דָּוִ֣יד אָבִ֔יךָ וְלַעֲשׂ֕וֹת כְּכֹ֖ל אֲשֶׁ֣ר צִוִּיתִ֑יךָ וְחֻקַּ֥י וּמִשְׁפָּטַ֖י תִּשְׁמֽוֹר

As for you, if you will walk before me as David your father walked, and do according to all that I have commanded you, and will keep my statutes and my ordinances;

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX 2 Chronicles 7:17 Septuagint · lemma form

καί σύ ἐάν πορεύομαι ἐναντίον ἐγώ ὡς δαυίδ ὁ πατήρ σύ καί ποιέω κατά πᾶς ὅς ἐντέλλω σύ καί ὁ πρόσταγμα ἐγώ καί ὁ κρίμα ἐγώ φυλάσσω

And if you will walk before me as David your father did, and will do according to all that I have commanded you, and will keep my ordinances and my judgments;

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 7:17 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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Joseph Benson's Commentary

2Ch 7:17-18. If thou wilt walk before me, &c. — He promises to establish and perpetuate Solomon’s kingdom, on condition that he persevered in his duty; assuring him, that if he hoped for the benefit of God’s covenant with David, he must imitate the example of David.

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

Tyndale Open Study Notes

Tyndale Open Resources

7:17-18 God declared to Solomon that God’s Kingdom is eternal. Where 1 Kgs 9:5 states that one of his descendants will always be on the throne of Israel, the Chronicler says, One of your descendants will always rule over Israel. In the days of the Chronicler there was no throne in Israel, so his statement alludes to the Messiah (cp. Mic 5:2).

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers

(17) Walked.—Kings adds, “in perfectness of heart, and in uprightness.” So Syriac and Arabic.

And do.—So LXX., Vulg., and Arabic. The Heb. is wĕ-la‘asôth, “and to do,” a construction which the chronicler sometimes uses in continuation of a future (imperfect tense). But Kings has “to do,” an infinitive defining the former verb; and so the Syriac 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

17. shalt observe] R.V. wilt keep (as 1Ki_9:4).

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. 17, 18. These two verses glance at the first petition of Solomon"s prayer. (2Ch_6:15-17 See also 2Ch_3:12; 2Sa_7:12; 1Ch_22:10)

Vers. 17-22.

The Divine promise.

This is very large and generous, but it is always conditional. God never makes a promise which is absolutely unconditional. We can readily see that it is morally impossible for him to do so; it would be unrighteous, unwise, and, in the end, unkind so to do. tie must and does say, "If... then I will; if not then I will not." So was it (or so is it) with

I THE ROYAL FAMILY. God"s promise to David and to Solomon that the royal house should be established and should continue to reign was conditional on their allegiance to himself (: (1Ch_22:13 1Ch_28:7) "If thou wilt walk before me," etc. (ver. 17). The melancholy issue proved only too well that there was no possibility of the fulfilment of the hope apart from obedience to the will of God.

II THE NATION. God"s promises to Israel were great, but they, were conditional on its fidelity. In this passage the possibility of forfeiture is very fully stated (vers. 19-22). And in the long exile which the Jews suffered in Babylon, and in the terrible dispersion after the destruction of Jerusalem and the extinction of Israel as a nation, we find a fearful fulfilment of the solemn warning of the text. God deals with families and with nations now as he did with his own people. If they walk in truth, in wisdom, in righteousness, in godliness, they are established; but if they depart from faith and purity, they fall. History will furnish ample illustration of the doctrine; the observation of one long life will supply strong corroboration of its truth.

III THE INDIVIDUAL SOUL. God makes very great promises to us all; they are "exceeding great and precious". (2Pe_1:4) They include the forgiveness of sins, restoration to perfect Sonship, guidance and provision through all our earthly course, the preservation of our spiritual integrity in trial and temptation, a full response to our prayer and our Christian effort, peace in death, everlasting glory. But not one of these is promised to us irrespective of our attitude or our action. We must repent of our sin, and believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, if we would be forgiven and restored; we must seek first the kingdom of God, and ask honestly and sincerely for Divine help, if we would receive all needful blessings for the life that now is; we must shun the spiritual peril which we are not called upon to face, and strive against the enemy we have to encounter, if we would prevail against our adversaries; we must abide in Christ, if we would bear the fruits of the Spirit of God; we must be prayerful and persevering and devoted, if we would work a good work for our Lord and our race; we must be faithful unto death, if we would wear and win "the crown of life. C.

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

Lesson kit

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2 Chronicles, in the Historical, opens this verse with 15 words (14 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is chôq (“statute”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

What does “statute” (chôq) contribute to the verse as a whole?
How does Deuteronomy 4:40, which shares this passage’s theme, read alongside this verse?
What does the repetition of “which” (2× in this one verse) do in this verse?
These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
«תֵּלֵ֣ךְ» is a Qal Imperfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
Compare how Joseph Benson's Commentary and Tyndale Open Study Notes read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

Things to notice

This verse counts 15 Hebrew ↔ 27 Greek words.
These translations choose different wording for 8 words in this verse.
“which” occurs 2× in this single verse.
14 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 15 words in this verse.