For he joined with Yahweh; he didn't depart from following him, but kept his commandments, which Yahweh commanded Moses.
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For he joined with Yahweh; he didn't depart from following him, but kept his commandments, which Yahweh commanded Moses.
For he clave to the LORD, and departed not from following him, but kept his commandments, which the LORD commanded Moses.
And he clung to Yahweh, he did not turn away from after him, and he kept his commandments, which Yahweh had commanded Moses.
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For he joined with Yahweh; he didn't depart from following him, but kept his commandments, which Yahweh commanded Moses.
He remained faithful to the LORD and did not turn from following Him; he kept the commandments that the LORD had given Moses.
He remained faithful to the LORD and did not turn from following Him; he kept the commandments that the LORD had given Moses.
For he clave to the LORD, and departed not from following him, but kept his commandments, which the LORD commanded Moses.
For he clave to Jehovah; he departed not from following him, but kept his commandments, which Jehovah commanded Moses.
For he clave to the LORD, he departed not from following him, but kept his commandments, which the LORD commanded Moses.
For he claue to the Lord, and departed not from him, but kept his commandements, which the Lord had commanded Moses.
And he stuck to the Lord, and departed not from his steps, but kept his commandments, which the Lord commanded Moses.
and he cleaveth to Jehovah, he hath not turned aside from after Him, and keepeth His commands that Jehovah commanded Moses.
and he cleaves to YHWH, he has not turned aside from after Him, and keeps His commands that YHWH commanded Moses.
For he held on to Yahweh. He did not stop following him but kept his commandments, which Yahweh commanded Moses.
And he clung to Yahweh, he did not turn away from after him, and he kept his commandments, which Yahweh had commanded Moses.
And he clave to Jehovah, and did not turn aside from following him, but kept his commandments, which Jehovah commanded Moses.
For he joined with the LORD. He didn’t depart from following him, but kept his commandments, which the LORD commanded Moses.
For he cleaved to the LORD, and departed not from following him, but kept his commandments, which the LORD commanded Moses.
He stayed faithful to the Lord and did not give up following him. He kept the commandments that the Lord had given Moses.
For his heart was fixed on the Lord, not turning from his ways, and he did his orders which the Lord gave to Moses.
For he cleaved to the LORD, he departed not from following Him, but kept His commandments, which the LORD commanded Moses.
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Shared distinctive vocabulary
וַיִּדְבַּק֙ to cleave H1692 occurs in 52 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
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Repetition
A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 19 words from the Hebrew and 23 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 16 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.
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וַיִּדְבַּק֙ בַּֽיהוָ֔ה לֹא סָ֖ר מֵאַֽחֲרָ֑יו וַיִּשְׁמֹר֙ מִצְוֺתָ֔יו אֲשֶׁר צִוָּ֥ה יְהוָ֖ה אֶת מֹשֶֽׁה
For he joined with Yahweh; he didn't depart from following him, but kept his commandments, which Yahweh commanded Moses.
World English Bible · Public Domain
καί κολλάω ὁ κύριος οὐ ἀποἵστημι ὄπισθε αὐτός καί φυλάσσω ὁ ἐντολή αὐτός ὅσος ἐντέλλομαι μωυσῆς
And he clave to the Lord, he departed not from following him; and he kept his commandments, as many as he commanded Moses.
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 →
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.
וְאִדְבַּק בִּדְחַלְתָּא דַייָ לָא סְטָא מִבָּתַר פּוּלְחָנֵיהּ וּנְטַר פִּקוּדוֹהִי דְפַקֵיד יְיָ יַת מֹשֶׁה:
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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.
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2 Kings, in the Historical, opens this verse with 12 words (11 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is dâbaq (“to cleave”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on 2 Kings 18:6 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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Trapp's Complete Commentary
John Trapp
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
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
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.
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.
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible (1834–1885) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
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.
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Door43 World Missions Community
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