2 Chronicles 8:15

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) 2 Chronicles 8:15 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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They didn't depart from the commandment of the king to the priests and Levites concerning any matter, or concerning the treasures.
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The same verse in 3 English versions, stacked beneath the original-language interlinear above. Click any original word for its lexicon entry.

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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    They didn't depart from the commandment of the king to the priests and Levites concerning any matter, or concerning the treasures.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And they departed not from the commandment of the king unto the priests and Levites concerning any matter, or concerning the treasures.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    And they did not turn from the commandment of the king regarding the priests and the Levites concerning any matter, or concerning the treasuries.

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

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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    They didn't depart from the commandment of the king to the priests and Levites concerning any matter, or concerning the treasures.
  • Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
    They did not turn aside from the king’s command regarding the priests or the Levites or any matter concerning the treasuries.
  • Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
    They did not turn aside from the king’s command regarding the priests or the Levites in any matter, including that of the treasuries.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And they departed not from the commandment of the king unto the priests and Levites concerning any matter, or concerning the treasures.
  • American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
    And they departed not from the commandment of the king unto the priests and Levites concerning any matter, or concerning the treasures.
  • Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
    And they departed not from the commandment of the king unto the priests and Levites concerning any matter, or concerning the treasures.
  • Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
    And they declined not from the commandement of the King, concerning the Priests and the Leuites, touching al things, and touching the treasures.
  • Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
    And the priests and Levites departed not from the king's commandments, as to any thing that he had commanded, and as to the keeping of the treasures.
  • Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
    And they have not turned aside `from' the command of the king concerning the priests and the Levites, in reference to any matter, and to the treasures.
  • Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    And they have not turned aside [from] the command of the king concerning the priests and the Levites, in reference to any matter, and to the treasures.
  • Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
    These people did not deviate from the commands of the king to the priests and Levites concerning any matter, or concerning the storerooms.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    And they did not turn from the commandment of the king regarding the priests and the Levites concerning any matter, or concerning the treasuries.
  • Darby Bible Public Domain
    and they did not depart from the commandment of the king to the priests and the Levites concerning any matter, nor concerning the treasures.
  • World Messianic Bible Public Domain
    They didn’t depart from the commandment of the king to the priests and Levites concerning any matter or concerning the treasures.
  • Webster's Bible Public Domain
    And they departed not from the commandment of the king to the priests and Levites concerning any matter, or concerning the treasures.
  • Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    They followed David's instructions exactly regarding the priests, the Levites, and anything to do with the treasuries.
  • Bible in Basic English Public Domain
    All the orders given by the king to the priests and Levites, in connection with any business or stores, were done with care.
  • JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
    And they departed not from the commandment of the king unto the priests and Levites concerning any matter, or concerning the treasures.

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וְלָאֹצָרֽוֹת
ʼôwtsâr
H214
“and · to/for the · storehouses”
Conjunction + Preposition, Determined + Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute
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Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H686

TWOT: 154a

treasure, storehouse - treasure (gold, silver, etc) - store, supplies of food or drink - treasure-house, treasury - treasure-house - storehouse, magazine - treasury - magazine of weapons (figuratively of God's armoury) - storehouses (of God for rain, snow, hail, wind, sea)
  1. וְלֹ֣א lôʼ H3808 “and · not” Conjunction + Particle, Negative
  2. סָרוּ֩ çûwr H5493 “to turn aside” Verb, Qal, Perfect, 3rd Person, Common, Plural
  3. מִצְוַ֨ת mitsvâh H4687 “commandment of” Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct
  4. הַמֶּ֜לֶךְ melek H4428 “the · king” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
  5. עַל ʻal H5921 “upon” Preposition
  6. הַכֹּהֲנִ֧ים kôhên H3548 “the · priests” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute
  7. וְהַלְוִיִּ֛ם Lêvîyîy H3881 “and · the · Levites” Conjunction + Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Plural, Absolute
  8. לְכָל kôl H3605 “to/for · all of” Preposition + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
  9. דָּבָ֖ר dâbâr H1697 “word” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute

About this verse

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10
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10
distinct lemmas
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Grammatical profile

  • 1 verb
  • 7 nouns
  • 1 preposition
  • 1 particle

Verb forms

  • סָרוּ֩ Qal · Perfect

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 21 words from the Hebrew and 25 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 19 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 8:15 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

  • Exodus 39:42–43 According to all that Yahweh commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did all the work.
  • 1 Kings 7:51 Thus all the work that king Solomon worked in the house of Yahweh was finished. Solomon brought in the things which David his father had dedicated, [even] the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, and put them in the treasuries of the house of Yahweh.
  • 1 Chronicles 9:29 Some of them also were appointed over the furniture, and over all the vessels of the sanctuary, and over the fine flour, and the wine, and the oil, and the frankincense, and the spices.
  • 2 Chronicles 30:12 Also on Judah came the hand of God to give them one heart, to do the commandment of the king and of the princes by the word of Yahweh.
  • 1 Chronicles 26:20–26 Of the Levites, Ahijah was over the treasures of the house of God, and over the treasures of the dedicated things.

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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.

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Hebrew 2 Chronicles 8:15 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וְלֹ֣א סָרוּ֩ מִצְוַ֨ת הַמֶּ֜לֶךְ עַל הַכֹּהֲנִ֧ים וְהַלְוִיִּ֛ם לְכָל דָּבָ֖ר וְלָאֹצָרֽוֹת

They didn't depart from the commandment of the king to the priests and Levites concerning any matter, or concerning the treasures.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX 2 Chronicles 8:15 Septuagint · lemma form

οὐ παραἔρχομαι ὁ ἐντολή ὁ βασιλεύς περί ὁ ἱερεύς καί ὁ λευείτης εἰς πᾶς λόγος καί εἰς ὁ θησαυρός

They transgressed not the commandments of the king concerning the priests and the Levites with regard to everything else, and with regard to the treasures.

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 8:15 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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Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown

SOLOMON'S FESTIVAL SACRIFICES. (Ch2 8:15-18)

they departed not from the commandment of the king--that is, David, in any of his ordinances, which by divine authority he established.

unto the priests and Levites concerning any matter, or concerning the treasures--either in regulating the courses of the priests and Levites, or in the destination of his accumulated treasures to the construction and adornment of the temple.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown — Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

Adam Clarke's Commentary

Verse 15. The commandment of the king] The institutions of David.

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

(15) And they departed not from the commandment of the king.—From has fallen out of the Heb. text, and must be restored. So three MSS. and the versions.

The king=David.

Unto.—Concerning; literally, upon.

Concerning any matter, or concerning the treasures.—With reference to any matter and (especially) with reference to the treasures. (See 1Ch_26:20-28.) 2Ch_8:14-15 assure us that the arrangements of David, as described in 1 Chronicles 24-26, were faithfully observed by his successor.

A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

John Gill's Exposition

Then went Solomon to Eziongeber,.... Being now at leisure to look after his navy, to carry on merchandise; and of this, and the following verse, and the reconciliation of them with Kg1 9:26; see Gill on Kg1 9:26, Kg1 9:27, Kg1 9:28.

Next: 2 Chronicles Chapter 9

John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

Treasures. The regulations of David were exactly observed. (Calmet)

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

Considering the last clause of the previous verse, the king probably designs David, not Solomon. The commandment concerning the treasures. (See, with the exposition, 1Ch_26:20-32. Comp. also our 2Ch_35:3-5)

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 10 words (10 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is ʼôwtsâr (“storehouse”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

  1. What does “storehouse” (ʼôwtsâr) contribute to the verse as a whole?
  2. Exodus 39:42–43 shares this passage’s theme. How do the two illuminate each other?
  3. These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
  4. The verb «סָרוּ֩» is Qal Perfect. How does its form color the action?
  5. Reading how Jamieson, Fausset & Brown and Adam Clarke's Commentary read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?

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