2 Chronicles 9:16

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

[he made] three hundred shields of beaten gold; three hundred [shekels] of gold went to one shield: and the king put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon.

World English Bible · Public Domain

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שָׁח֔וּט

shâchaṭ

H7820

“beaten”

Verb, Qal, Participle Passive, Masculine, Singular, Absolute

Appears 5× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at 1 Kings 10:16

Full BDB Definition

Origin: a primitive root [identical with H7819 through the idea of striking]

TWOT: 2362

to beat, hammer - (Qal) beaten (participle) - (TWOT) to kill, slaughter

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 →

17: words
13: distinct lemmas
Historical: section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is שָׁח֔וּט to beat H7820 — appearing just 5 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

שָׁח֔וּט to beat H7820 occurs in 4 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

3 verbs
8 nouns
5 adjectives
1 preposition

Verb forms

שָׁח֔וּט Qal · Participle Passive
יַעֲלֶ֖ה Hiphil · Imperfect
וַיִּתְּנֵ֣ם Qal · Sequential Imperfect

Repetition

Words recur within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

וּשְׁלֹשׁ three H7969 ×2
מֵא֤וֹת hundred H3967 ×2
מָֽגִנִּים֙ shield H4043 ×2
זָהָ֣ב gold H2091 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 30 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 17 Hebrew tokens and 22 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 9:16 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

1 Kings 7:2 For he built the house of the forest of Lebanon; the length of it was one hundred cubits, and the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits, on four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams on the pillars.

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 9:16 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וּשְׁלֹשׁ מֵא֤וֹת מָֽגִנִּים֙ זָהָ֣ב שָׁח֔וּט שְׁלֹ֤שׁ מֵאוֹת֙ זָהָ֔ב יַעֲלֶ֖ה עַל הַמָּגֵ֣ן הָאֶחָ֑ת וַיִּתְּנֵ֣ם הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ בְּבֵ֖ית יַ֥עַר הַלְּבָנֽוֹן

[he made] three hundred shields of beaten gold; three hundred [shekels] of gold went to one shield: and the king put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX 2 Chronicles 9:16 Septuagint · lemma form

καί τριακόσιοι ἀσπίς ἐλάτη χρυσοῦς τριακόσιοι χρυσοῦς ἀναφέρω ἐπί ὁ ἀσπίς ἕκαστος καί δίδωμι αὐτός ὁ βασιλεύς ἐν οἶκος δρυμός ὁ λιβάνος

And three hundred buckles of beaten gold: the weight of three hundred gold shekels went to one buckler: and the king placed them in the house of the forest of Lebanon.

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 9:16 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 →

Geneva Bible (1599)

Geneva Bible translators

Or, pounds called mina, whereof every one seemed to make an hundred shekels.

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

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers

(16) Shields.—Maginnîm. The mâgçn was a rouud or oval shield, about half the size of the “target” (çinnah), with which it is often contrasted; e.g., Psa_35:2; LXX., ἀσπίδα.

Three hundred shekels of gold.—Kings, three manehs of gold. The maneh or mina (Assyrian, mana), was 1-60th part of a talent, and was equivalent to fifty or sixty shekels. Either the reading of our text is an error of transcription (sh’losh mç’ôth for sh’losheth manîm), or the word shekels is wrongly supplied in our version, and we ought rather to read drachms (100 drachms = 1 mina). The Syriac reads, “And three minas of gold wrought on the handle of one shield;” so also the Arabic.

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

16. shields] See note on 2Ch_9:15.

the house of the forest of Lebanon] So called probably because it was built of cedar of Lebanon (1Ki_7:2). It was in Jerusalem and seems to have existed as late as the time of Isaiah (Isa_22:8) as an armoury.

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.

Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

Pieces. In 3 Kings, we read, three pounds. --- Wood; or, "in the palace of the forest of Libanus," (3 Kings x. 17.; Calmet) as it is expressed in the Septuagint. (Tirinus)

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).

Rashi

Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki (Rashi)

the forest of Lebanon Solomon built a huge house in Jerusalem, as is proven further, and Shishak took all those shields (below 12:9), and he made them (sic) from an abundance of the large trees of Lebanon, as it is written in I Kings (7:2): “And he built the house of the forest of Lebanon, etc. on four rows, etc.,” and there he deposited those shields, and that is what is written (Isa. 22:8): “and you looked on that day to the weapons of the house of the forest.”

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 17 words (13 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is shâchaṭ (“to beat”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

How does “to beat” (shâchaṭ) shape what this verse is saying?
1 Kings 10:16 shares the word «to beat» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
“three” occurs 2× in this one verse. What is the effect of the repetition?
These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
The verb «שָׁח֔וּט» is Qal Participle Passive. How does its form color the action?
Reading how Geneva Bible (1599) and Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?

Things to notice

This verse counts 17 Hebrew ↔ 22 Greek words.
These translations choose different wording for 10 words in this verse.
“three” occurs 2× in this single verse.
13 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 17 words in this verse.