Lemma

Word-by-word Hebrew & Greek with Strong's lexicon

Link to this page

https://lemma.gebible.app/v/2-chronicles/7/22

Patron login

2 Chronicles 7:22

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) 2 Chronicles 7:22 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.
Download image
Cite this verse

2 Chronicles 7:22 (World English Bible). Public Domain. Lemma interlinear Bible study tool, https://lemma.gebible.app/v/2-chronicles/7/22.

Show BibTeX & RIS
BibTeX
RIS
English Translation
They shall answer, Because they forsook Yahweh, the God of their fathers, who brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold on other gods, and worshiped them, and served them: therefore has he brought all this evil on them.
World English Bible · Public Domain
Download a study sheet

One document with this verse’s original text, its word-by-word gloss line, the meaning frame, cross-references with their text, attributed commentary, and full source and license credits — printable, and it pastes into notes with its structure intact.

This verse Autodidact and up

Study sheet (.html) Plain text (.txt)

A passage Seminary Student

Up to 50 verses in one chapter. A passage sheet keeps up to 6 commentary sources and 12 cross-references per verse, in the order this page ranks them, and says so on the sheet whenever that leaves anything out. Ask for a single verse and you get the Autodidact verse sheet above.

Everything on this page stays free to read, with no account — the sheet is a download of what is already on screen, not access to it.

Want to remove ads? Support Godless Engineer
Compare translations 3

The same verse in 3 English versions, stacked beneath the original-language interlinear above. Click any original word for its lexicon entry.

Each is an independent rendering of the whole verse — the interlinear is not word-aligned to these translations.

Highlighted words mark where these versions differ — a whole-verse word diff, not a word-by-word alignment.

  • World English Bible Public Domain
    They shall answer, Because they forsook Yahweh, the God of their fathers, who brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold on other gods, and worshiped them, and served them: therefore has he brought all this evil on them.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And it shall be answered, Because they forsook the LORD God of their fathers, which brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold on other gods, and worshipped them, and served them: therefore hath he brought all this evil upon them.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    And they will say, ‘On account of which they forsook Yahweh, the God of their fathers who brought them out from the land of Egypt, and they laid hold of other gods and worshipped them and served them. On account of thus, he brought on them all this misery.’”

unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult).

Versions to compare (up to 4)

3 of 4 selected

Open full comparison →
Show all 18 translations

Every available English version of this verse, each an independent rendering of the whole verse.

  • World English Bible Public Domain
    They shall answer, Because they forsook Yahweh, the God of their fathers, who brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold on other gods, and worshiped them, and served them: therefore has he brought all this evil on them.
  • Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
    And others will answer, ‘Because they have forsaken the LORD, the God of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and have embraced other gods, worshiping and serving them—because of this, He has brought all this disaster upon them.’”
  • Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
    And others will answer, ‘Because they have forsaken the LORD, the God of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and have embraced other gods, worshiping and serving them—because of this, He has brought all this disaster upon them.’”
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And it shall be answered, Because they forsook the LORD God of their fathers, which brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold on other gods, and worshipped them, and served them: therefore hath he brought all this evil upon them.
  • American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
    And they shall answer, Because they forsook Jehovah, the God of their fathers, who brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold on other gods, and worshipped them, and served them: therefore hath he brought all this evil upon them.
  • Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
    And they shall answer, Because they forsook the LORD, the God of their fathers, which brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold on other gods, and worshipped them, and served them: therefore hath he brought all this evil upon them.
  • Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
    And they shall answere, Because they forsooke the Lord God of their fathers, which brought them out of the lande of Egypt, and haue taken holde on other gods, and haue worshipped them, and serued them, therefore hath he brought all this euill vpon them.
  • Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
    And they shall answer: Because they forsook the Lord the God of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold on strange gods, and adored them, and worshipped them: therefore all these evils are come upon them.
  • Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
    and they have said, Because that they have forsaken Jehovah, God of their fathers, who brought them out from the land of Egypt, and lay hold on other gods, and bow themselves to them, and serve them, therefore He hath brought upon them all this evil.'
  • Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    And they have said, Because that they have forsaken YHWH, God of their fathers, who brought them out from the land of Egypt, and lay hold on other gods, and bow themselves to them, and serve them, therefore He has brought all this calamity on them.”
  • Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
    Others will answer, 'Because they forsook Yahweh, their God, who had brought their ancestors out of the land of Egypt, and they laid hold of other gods and bowed down to them and worshiped them. That is why Yahweh has brought all this disaster on them.'”
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    And they will say, ‘On account of which they forsook Yahweh, the God of their fathers who brought them out from the land of Egypt, and they laid hold of other gods and worshipped them and served them. On account of thus, he brought on them all this misery.’”
  • Darby Bible Public Domain
    And they shall say, Because they forsook Jehovah the God of their fathers, who brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, and have attached themselves to other gods, and have worshipped them and served them; therefore he has brought upon them all this evil.
  • World Messianic Bible Public Domain
    They shall answer, ‘Because they abandoned the LORD, the God of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and took other gods, worshiped them, and served them. Therefore he has brought all this evil on them.’”
  • Webster's Bible Public Domain
    And it shall be answered, Because they forsook the LORD God of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold on other gods, and worshiped them, and served them: therefore hath he brought all this evil upon them.
  • Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    The answer will come, ‘Because they abandoned the Lord, the God of their fathers, who brought them out of Egypt, and have clung to other gods, worshiping them and serving them. That's why the Lord has brought all this trouble upon them.’”
  • Bible in Basic English Public Domain
    And their answer will be, Because they were turned away from the Lord, the God of their fathers, who took them out of the land of Egypt, and took for themselves other gods and gave them worship and became their servants: that is why he has sent all this evil on them.
  • JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
    And they shall answer: Because they forsook the LORD, the God of their fathers, who brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold on other gods, and worshipped them, and served them; therefore hath He brought all this evil upon them.'

Literal Standard Version (2020), Covenant Press — licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API (eBible.org). Unlocked Literal Bible (unfoldingWord) — licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API (eBible.org). unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult). Free Bible Version, Dr. Jonathan Gallagher — licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API (eBible.org).

Word by word

More ways to search: Search by grammar → Find every occurrence → Compare this word →

Practice this passage: Drill this verse → Learn its vocabulary →

אֲחֵרִ֔ים
ʼachêr
H312
“other”
Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Plural, Absolute
Part of Speech
Adjective
Type
Adjective
Gender
Masculine
Number
Plural
State
Absolute
Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H309

TWOT: 68a

another, other, following - following, further - other, different
  1. וְאָמְר֗וּ ʼâmar H559 “and · to say” Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Sequential Perfect, 3rd Person, Common, Plural
  2. עַל֩ ʻal H5921 “upon” Preposition
  3. אֲשֶׁ֨ר ʼăsher H834 “which” Particle, Relative
  4. עָֽזְב֜וּ ʻâzab H5800 “to leave” Verb, Qal, Perfect, 3rd Person, Common, Plural
  5. אֶת ʼêth H853 “-” Particle, Direct Object
  6. יְהוָ֣ה Yᵉhôvâh H3068 “LORD” Noun, Proper
  7. אֱלֹהֵ֣י ʼĕlôhîym H430 “God(s) of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct
  8. אֲבֹתֵיהֶ֗ם ʼâb H1 “fathers · their” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural
  9. אֲשֶׁ֣ר ʼăsher H834 “which” Particle, Relative
  10. הוֹצִיאָם֮ yâtsâʼ H3318 “to go out · them” Verb, Hiphil, Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural
  11. מֵאֶ֣רֶץ ʼerets H776 “from · land of” Preposition + Noun, Common, Both, Singular, Construct
  12. מִצְרַיִם֒ Mitsrayim H4714 “Egypt” Noun, Proper
  13. וַֽיַּחֲזִ֨יקוּ֙ châzaq H2388 “and · to strengthen” Conjunction + Verb, Hiphil, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural
  14. בֵּאלֹהִ֣ים ʼĕlôhîym H430 “in/at · God(s)” Preposition + Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute
  15. וַיִּשְׁתַּחֲו֥וּ shâchâh H7812 “and · to bow down” Conjunction + Verb, Hithpael, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural
  17. וַיַּֽעַבְד֑וּם ʻâbad H5647 “and · to serve · them” Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural
  18. עַל ʻal H5921 “upon” Preposition
  19. כֵּן֙ kên H3651 “thus” Particle, Demonstrative
  20. הֵבִ֣יא bôwʼ H935 “to enter” Verb, Hiphil, Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
  21. עֲלֵיהֶ֔ם ʻal H5921 “upon · them” Preposition + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural
  22. אֵ֥ת ʼêth H853 “-” Particle, Direct Object
  23. כָּל kôl H3605 “all of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
  24. הָרָעָ֖ה raʻ H7451 “the · evil” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
  25. הַזֹּֽאת zôʼth H2063 “the · this” Particle, Definite Article + Pronoun, Demonstrative, Feminine, Singular

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 →

26
words
20
distinct lemmas
Historical
section

Grammatical profile

  • 7 verbs
  • 8 nouns
  • 1 adjective
  • 1 pronoun
  • 4 prepositions
  • 5 particles

Verb forms

  • וְאָמְר֗וּ Qal · Sequential Perfect
  • עָֽזְב֜וּ Qal · Perfect
  • הוֹצִיאָם֮ Hiphil · Perfect
  • וַֽיַּחֲזִ֨יקוּ֙ Hiphil · Sequential Imperfect
  • וַיִּשְׁתַּחֲו֥וּ Hithpael · Sequential Imperfect
  • וַיַּֽעַבְד֑וּם Qal · Sequential Imperfect
  • הֵבִ֣יא Hiphil · Perfect

Repetition

Words recur within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

  • עַל֩ upon H5921 ×3
  • אֱלֹהֵ֣י God H430 ×2
  • אֲשֶׁ֨ר which H834 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 43 words from the Hebrew and 45 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 26 Hebrew tokens and 36 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.

Download image

Cross-references

8

Topical passages linked to 2 Chronicles 7:22 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

  • Lamentations 4:13–15 [It is] because of the sins of her prophets, [and] the iniquities of her priests, That have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her.
  • Daniel 9:12 He has confirmed his words, which he spoke against us, and against our judges who judged us, by bringing on us a great evil; for under the whole sky has not been done as has been done on Jerusalem.
  • Judges 2:12–13 and they forsook Yahweh, the God of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the gods of the peoples who were round about them, and bowed themselves down to them: and they provoked Yahweh to anger.
  • 2 Chronicles 36:17 Therefore he brought on them the king of the Chaldeans, who killed their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion on young man or virgin, old man or gray-headed: he gave them all into his hand.
  • Jeremiah 1:16 I will utter my judgments against them touching all their wickedness, in that they have forsaken me, and have burned incense to other gods, and worshiped the works of their own hands.
  • Lamentations 2:16–17 All your enemies have opened their mouth wide against you; They hiss and gnash the teeth; they say, We have swallowed her up; Certainly this is the day that we looked for; we have found, we have seen it.
  • Ezekiel 14:23 They shall comfort you, when you see their way and their doings; and you shall know that I have not done without cause all that I have done in it, says the Lord Yahweh.
  • Ezekiel 36:17–20 Son of man, when the house of Israel lived in their own land, they defiled it by their way and by their doings: their way before me was as the uncleanness of a woman in her impurity.

Cross-references courtesy of OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

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 7:22 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וְאָמְר֗וּ עַל֩ אֲשֶׁ֨ר עָֽזְב֜וּ אֶת יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהֵ֣י אֲבֹתֵיהֶ֗ם אֲשֶׁ֣ר הוֹצִיאָם֮ מֵאֶ֣רֶץ מִצְרַיִם֒ וַֽיַּחֲזִ֨יקוּ֙ בֵּאלֹהִ֣ים אֲחֵרִ֔ים וַיִּשְׁתַּחֲו֥וּ לָהֶ֖ם וַיַּֽעַבְד֑וּם עַל כֵּן֙ הֵבִ֣יא עֲלֵיהֶ֔ם אֵ֥ת כָּל הָרָעָ֖ה הַזֹּֽאת

They shall answer, Because they forsook Yahweh, the God of their fathers, who brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold on other gods, and worshiped them, and served them: therefore has he brought all this evil on them.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX 2 Chronicles 7:22 Septuagint · lemma form

καί εἶπον διότι ἐν καταλείπω κύριος ὁ θεός ὁ πατήρ αὐτός ὁ ἐκἄγω αὐτός ἐκ γῆ αἴγυπτος καί ἀντιλαμβάνω θεός ἕτερος καί προςκυνέω αὐτός καί δουλεύω αὐτός διά οὗτος ἐπιἄγω ἐπί αὐτός πᾶς ὁ κακία οὗτος

And men shall say, Because they forsook the Lord God of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and they attached themselves to other gods, and worshipped them, and served them: and therefore he has brought upon them all this evil.

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 7:22 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 →

Trapp's Complete Commentary

John Trapp

2Ch 7:22 And it shall be answered, Because they forsook the LORD God of their fathers, which brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold on other gods, and worshipped them, and served them: therefore hath he brought all this evil upon them.

Ver. 22. And it shall be answered.] Or, And they shall answer. {1Ki 9:9} Non quidem omnes, sed pii et rerum periti. The godly who shall say so.

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.

Adam Clarke's Commentary

Verse 22. Because they forsook the Lord] While they cleaved to God, the most powerful enemy could make no impression on them; but when they forsook him, then the weakest and most inconsiderable of their foes harassed, oppressed, and reduced them to bondage and misery. It was by no personal prowess, genuine heroism, or supereminent military tactics, that the Jews were enabled to resist and overcome their enemies; it was by the Divine power alone; for, destitute of this, they were even worse than other men.

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

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers

(22) And it shall be answered.—And men shall say.

Hath he brought.—Kings, “hath Jehovah brought.” (So 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

22. it shall be answered] Render, men shall say.

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.

Lesson kit

Teaching starters — assembled from the data on this page, not authored interpretation. Every prompt links to the verse data it draws on. Edit before teaching.

2 Chronicles, in the Historical, opens this verse with 26 words (20 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is ʼachêr (“other”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

  1. How does “other” (ʼachêr) shape what this verse is saying?
  2. How does Lamentations 4:13–15, which shares this passage’s theme, read alongside this verse?
  3. What does the repetition of “upon” (3× in this one verse) do in this verse?
  4. These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
  5. «וְאָמְר֗וּ» is a Qal Sequential Perfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
  6. Compare how Trapp's Complete Commentary and Adam Clarke's Commentary read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

Things to notice

Reading settings

Reading text

Shown beneath each verse's original-language words.

Old Testament
Old Testament edition

Read the OT as the Masoretic Hebrew (MT) or the Greek Septuagint (LXX).

English shown for the Greek Septuagint (in the Hebrew ↔ Greek comparison).

Comparing translations? Open the Compare panel on any verse page to stack up to four side by side.