2 Chronicles 9:7

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

Happy are your men, and happy are these your servants, who stand continually before you, and hear your wisdom.

World English Bible · Public Domain

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אַשְׁרֵ֣י

ʼesher

H835

“blessed”

Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute

Appears 45× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at Deuteronomy 33:29

Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H833

TWOT: 183a

happiness, blessedness - often used as interjection - blessed are

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 →

11: words
10: distinct lemmas
Historical: section

Shared distinctive vocabulary

אַשְׁרֵ֣י blessed H835 occurs in 42 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

2 verbs
7 nouns
1 pronoun
1 particle

Verb forms

הָעֹמְדִ֤ים Qal · Participle Active
וְשֹׁמְעִ֖ים Qal · Participle Active

Repetition

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

אַשְׁרֵ֣י blessed H835 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 19 words from the Hebrew and 18 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 11 Hebrew tokens and 17 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 9:7 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

Deuteronomy 33:9 Who said of his father, and of his mother, I have not seen him; Neither did he acknowledge his brothers, Nor knew he his own children: For they have observed your word, Keep your covenant.
1 Kings 10:8 Happy are your men, happy are these your servants, who stand continually before you, [and] who hear your wisdom.
Psalms 27:4 One thing I have asked of Yahweh, that I will seek after, That I may dwell in the house of Yahweh all the days of my life, To see Yahweh's beauty, And to inquire in his temple.
Psalms 84:10–12 For a day in your courts is better than a thousand. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, Than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.
Proverbs 3:3 Don't let kindness and truth forsake you. Bind them around your neck. Write them on the tablet of your heart.
Proverbs 3:14 For her good profit is better than getting silver, And her return is better than fine gold.
Proverbs 8:34 Blessed is the man who hears me, Watching daily at my gates, Waiting at my door posts.
Proverbs 10:21 The lips of the righteous feed many, But the foolish die for lack of understanding.

Proverbs 13:20 One who walks with wise men grows wise, But a companion of fools suffers harm.
Luke 10:39–42 She had a sister called Mary, who also sat at Jesus' feet, and heard his word.
Luke 11:28 But he said, "On the contrary, blessed are those who hear the word of God, and keep it."

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 9:7 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

אַשְׁרֵ֣י אֲנָשֶׁ֔יךָ וְאַשְׁרֵ֖י עֲבָדֶ֣יךָ אֵ֑לֶּה הָעֹמְדִ֤ים לְפָנֶ֨יךָ֙ תָּמִ֔יד וְשֹׁמְעִ֖ים אֶת חָכְמָתֶֽךָ

Happy are your men, and happy are these your servants, who stand continually before you, and hear your wisdom.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX 2 Chronicles 9:7 Septuagint · lemma form

μακάριος ὁ ἀνήρ μακάριος ὁ παῖς σύ οὗτος ὁ παραἵστημι σύ διά πᾶς καί ἀκούω σοφία σύ

Blessed are your men, blessed are these your servants, who stand before you continually, and hear your wisdom.

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 9:7 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 9:7 Happy [are] thy men, and happy [are] these thy servants, which stand continually before thee, and hear thy wisdom.

Ver. 7. Which stand continually before thee.] Those that saw Christ in the flesh had therein a happiness; {Mat 13:17} how much more such as see him in heaven! See on 1Ki 10:8.

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.

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers

(7) And happy . . . and hear.—The conjunctions weaken the rhetorical effect of the verse, and are not read in Kings.

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

unfoldingWord translationNotes

Door43 World Missions Community

How blessed are your people

This is an exclamation that shows her amazement. AT: "Your people are greatly blessed" (See: Exclamations)

how blessed are your servants who constantly stand before you

This is an exclamation that shows her amazement. AT: "your servants who constantly stand before you are greatly blessed" (See: Exclamations)

they hear your wisdom

Hear "wisdom" represents the wise things that he says. AT: "they hear the wise things that you say" (See: Metonymy)

who has taken pleasure in you, who placed you on his throne

These phrases tell why people should praise Yahweh. AT: "because he has taken pleasure in you and placed you on his throne" (See: Distinguishing versus Informing or Reminding)

who has taken pleasure in you

"who is pleased with you"

who placed you on his throne, to be king for Yahweh your God

The idea of being on Yahweh's throne represents having the authority to rule as Yahweh does. Being king "for Yahweh" means to represent Yahweh as king. AT: "who gave you authority to rule as he does, to represent Yahweh your God as king" (See: Metonymy)

in order to establish them forever

Possible meanings are 1) "establish" represents helping them in general. AT: "in order to help them forever" or 2) "establish" represents making them strong as a nation. AT: "in order to make them a nation forever" (See: Metaphor)

for you to do justice and righteousness

The abstract nouns "justice" and "righteousness" can be expressed with the words "fairly" and "righteously." AT: "for you to rule fairly and righteously" or "for you to do what is just and right" (See: Abstract Nouns)

translationWords

bless

people group

Yahweh

God

throne

king

Israel

eternity

just

righteous

unfoldingWord translationNotes — © Distant Shores Media and the Door43 World Missions Community, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Source: git.door43.org/Door43/en_tn.

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

Discussion questions

The word ʼesher carries the sense “blessed.” How does it shape the verse?
Deuteronomy 33:29 shares the word «blessed» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
“blessed” occurs 2× in this one verse. What is the effect of the repetition?
These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
The verb «הָעֹמְדִ֤ים» is Qal Participle Active. How does its form color the action?
Reading how Trapp's Complete Commentary 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 11 Hebrew ↔ 17 Greek words.
These translations choose different wording for 11 words in this verse.
“blessed” occurs 2× in this single verse.
10 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 11 words in this verse.