כִּ֛י אִֽם אֶת יְהוָ֥ה אֱלֹהֵיכֶ֖ם תִּירָ֑אוּ וְהוּא֙ יַצִּ֣יל אֶתְכֶ֔ם מִיַּ֖ד כָּל אֹיְבֵיכֶֽם
but Yahweh your God shall you fear; and he will deliver you out of the hand of all your enemies.
World English Bible · Public Domain
2 Kings 17:39
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) 2 Kings 17:39 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.
English Translation
but Yahweh your God shall you fear; and he will deliver you out of the hand of all your enemies.
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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
but Yahweh your God shall you fear; and he will deliver you out of the hand of all your enemies.
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King James Version Public Domain
But the LORD your God ye shall fear; and he shall deliver you out of the hand of all your enemies.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
except you shall fear Yahweh your God, and he, he will deliver you from the hand of all of your enemies.”
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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Every available English version of this verse, each an independent rendering of the whole verse.
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World English Bible Public Domain
but Yahweh your God shall you fear; and he will deliver you out of the hand of all your enemies.
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
but worship the LORD your God, and He will deliver you from the hands of all your enemies.”
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
but worship the LORD your God, and He will deliver you from the hands of all your enemies.”
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King James Version Public Domain
But the LORD your God ye shall fear; and he shall deliver you out of the hand of all your enemies.
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
but Jehovah your God shall ye fear; and he will deliver you out of the hand of all your enemies.
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
but the LORD your God shall ye fear; and he shall deliver you out of the hand of all your enemies.
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
But feare the Lord your God, and he will deliuer you out of the handes of all your enemies.
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
But fear the Lord your God, and he shall deliver you out of the hand of all your enemies.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
but Jehovah your God ye do fear, and He doth deliver you out of the hand of all your enemies;'
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
but you fear your God YHWH, and He delivers you out of the hand of all your enemies”;
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
But Yahweh your God is who you will honor. He will rescue you from the might of your enemies.”
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
except you shall fear Yahweh your God, and he, he will deliver you from the hand of all of your enemies.”
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Darby Bible Public Domain
but ye shall fear Jehovah your God, and he shall deliver you out of the hand of all your enemies.
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
But you shall fear the LORD your God, and he will deliver you out of the hand of all your enemies.”
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
But the LORD your God ye shall fear; and he will deliver you out of the hand of all your enemies.
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
You must worship only the Lord your God, and he will save you from all your enemies.”
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
And you are to give worship to the Lord your God; for it is he who will give you salvation from the hands of all who are against you.
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
but the LORD your God shall ye fear; and He will deliver you out of the hand of all your enemies.'
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יַצִּ֣יל
nâtsal
H5337
“to rescue”
Verb, Hiphil, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- Appears 213× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at Genesis 31:9
- Part of Speech
- Verb
- Stem
- Hiphil
- Form
- Imperfect
- Person
- 3rd Person
- Gender
- Masculine
- Number
- Singular
Full BDB Definition
to snatch away, deliver, rescue, save, strip, plunder
- (Niphal)
- to tear oneself away, deliver oneself
- to be torn out or away, be delivered
- (Piel)
- to strip off, spoil
- to deliver
- (Hiphil)
- to take away, snatch away
- to rescue, recover
- to deliver (from enemies or troubles or death)
- to deliver from sin and guilt
- (Hophal) to be plucked out
- (Hithpael) to strip oneself
- כִּ֛י kîy H3588 “that” Conjunction
- אִֽם ʼim H518 “if” Conjunction
- אֶת ʼêth H853 “-” Particle, Direct Object
- יְהוָ֥ה Yᵉhôvâh H3068 “LORD” Noun, Proper
- אֱלֹהֵיכֶ֖ם ʼĕlôhîym H430 “God(s) · your” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 2nd Person, Masculine, Plural
- תִּירָ֑אוּ yârêʼ H3372 “to fear” Verb, Qal, Imperfect, 2nd Person, Masculine, Plural
- וְהוּא֙ hûwʼ H1931 “and · he” Conjunction + Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- יַצִּ֣יל nâtsal H5337 “to rescue” Verb, Hiphil, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- אֶתְכֶ֔ם ʼêth H853 “- · you” Particle, Direct Object + Suffix, Personal, 2nd Person, Masculine, Plural
- מִיַּ֖ד yâd H3027 “from · hand of” Preposition + Noun, Common, Both, Singular, Construct
- כָּל kôl H3605 “all of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
- אֹיְבֵיכֶֽם ʼôyêb H341 “enemy · you” Verb, Qal, Participle Active, Masculine, Plural, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 2nd Person, Masculine, Plural
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 →
- 12
- words
- 11
- distinct lemmas
- Historical
- section
Grammatical profile
- 3 verbs
- 4 nouns
- 1 pronoun
- 2 conjunctions
- 2 particles
Verb forms
- תִּירָ֑אוּ Qal · Imperfect
- יַצִּ֣יל Hiphil · Imperfect
- אֹיְבֵיכֶֽם Qal · Participle Active
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 20 words from the Hebrew and 17 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 12 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
9Topical passages linked to 2 Kings 17:39 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.
- 1 Samuel 12:24 Only fear Yahweh, and serve him in truth with all your heart; for consider how great things he has done for you.
- Luke 1:74–75 To grant to us that we, being delivered out of the hand of our enemies, should serve him without fear,
- 2 Kings 17:36 but Yahweh, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt with great power and with an outstretched arm, him shall you fear, and to him shall you bow yourselves, and to him shall you sacrifice:
- Nehemiah 9:27 Therefore you delivered them into the hand of their adversaries, who distressed them: and in the time of their trouble, when they cried to you, you heard from heaven; and according to your manifold mercies you gave them saviors who saved them out of the hand of their adversaries.
- Jeremiah 10:7 Who should not fear you, King of the nations? for to you does it appertain; because among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their royal estate, there is none like you.
- Matthew 10:28 Don't be afraid of those who kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul. Rather, fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in Gehenna.
- Luke 1:50 His mercy is for generations of generations on those who fear him.
- Isaiah 8:12–14 Don't you say, "A conspiracy!" concerning all about which this people shall say, "A conspiracy!" neither fear their fear, nor be in dread [of it].
- Luke 1:71 Salvation from our enemies, and from the hand of all who hate us;
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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.
These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.
ὅτι ἀλλά ἤ ὁ κύριος θεός σύ φοβέω καί αὐτός ἐκαἱρέω σύ ἐκ πᾶς ὁ ἐχθρός σύ
But you⌃ shall fear the Lord your God, and he shall deliver you from all your enemies.
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 →
Targum (Aramaic paraphrase)
The Targum is the ancient Jewish Aramaic paraphrase of the Hebrew Scriptures — an interpretive translation, not the Hebrew text itself. Onkelos (literal) and Pseudo-Jonathan (expansive) render the Torah, and Jonathan the Prophets. Coverage is partial: where no permissively-licensed English translation exists for a verse, only the Aramaic is shown. This is verse-level text, not a word-by-word alignment to the Hebrew.
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Targum Jonathan Prophets (Joshua–Malachi)
אֱלָהֵין מִן קֳדָם יְיָ אֱלָהָכוֹן תִּדַחֲלוּן וְהוּא יְשֵׁיזֵיב יַתְכוֹן מִיַד כָּל בַּעֲלֵי דְבָבֵיכוֹן:
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Targum Jonathan — Aramaic: “Mikraot Gedolot” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “London "Chaldee Paraphrase," 1871” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.
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 Kings, in the Historical, opens this verse with 12 words (11 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is nâtsal (“to rescue”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- What does “to rescue” (nâtsal) contribute to the verse as a whole?
- 1 Samuel 12:24 shares this passage’s theme. How do the two illuminate each other?
- These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
- The verb «תִּירָ֑אוּ» is Qal Imperfect. How does its form color the action?
- Reading how Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers and John Gill's Exposition read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?
Things to notice
- This verse counts 12 Hebrew ↔ 17 Greek words.
- These translations choose different wording for 5 words in this verse.
- 11 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 12 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on 2 Kings 17:39 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 →
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers
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
John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
Matthew Poole's English Annotations
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
The Pulpit Commentary
The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Scofield Reference Notes
C. I. Scofield
The Scofield Reference Bible (1917 edition), notes by C. I. Scofield — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
unfoldingWord translationNotes
Door43 World Missions Community
unfoldingWord translationNotes — © Distant Shores Media and the Door43 World Missions Community, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Source: git.door43.org/Door43/en_tn.