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2 Kings 20:21

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) 2 Kings 20:21 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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Hezekiah slept with his fathers; and Manasseh his son reigned in his place.
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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    Hezekiah slept with his fathers; and Manasseh his son reigned in his place.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And Hezekiah slept with his fathers: and Manasseh his son reigned in his stead.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    And Hezekiah lay down with his fathers, and Manasseh his son reigned in his place.

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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    Hezekiah slept with his fathers; and Manasseh his son reigned in his place.
  • Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
    And Hezekiah rested with his fathers, and his son Manasseh reigned in his place.
  • Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
    And Hezekiah rested with his fathers, and his son Manasseh reigned in his place.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And Hezekiah slept with his fathers: and Manasseh his son reigned in his stead.
  • American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
    And Hezekiah slept with his fathers; and Manasseh his son reigned in his stead.
  • Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
    And Hezekiah slept with his fathers: and Manasseh his son reigned in his stead.
  • Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
    And Hezekiah slept with his fathers: and Manasseh his sonne reigned in his steade.
  • Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
    And Ezechias slept with his fathers, and Manasses his son reigned in his stead.
  • Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
    And Hezekiah lieth with his fathers, and reign doth Manasseh his son in his stead.
  • Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    And Hezekiah lies with his fathers, and his son Manasseh reigns in his stead.
  • Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
    Hezekiah slept with his ancestors, and Manasseh his son became king in his place.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    And Hezekiah lay down with his fathers, and Manasseh his son reigned in his place.
  • Darby Bible Public Domain
    And Hezekiah slept with his fathers; and Manasseh his son reigned in his stead.
  • World Messianic Bible Public Domain
    Hezekiah slept with his fathers, and Manasseh his son reigned in his place.
  • Webster's Bible Public Domain
    And Hezekiah slept with his fathers: and Manasseh his son reigned in his stead.
  • Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    Hezekiah died, and his son Manasseh succeeded him as king.
  • Bible in Basic English Public Domain
    And Hezekiah went to rest with his fathers; and Manasseh his son became king in his place.
  • JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
    And Hezekiah slept with his fathers; and Manasseh his son reigned in his stead.

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חִזְקִיָּ֖הוּ
Chizqîyâh
H2396
“Hezekiah”
Noun, Proper
Part of Speech
Noun
Type
Proper
Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H2388 and H3050

TWOT: None

Hezekiah or Hizkiah or Hizkijah = "Jehovah is my strength" - 12th king of Judah, son of Ahaz and Abijah; a good king in that he served Jehovah and did away with idolatrous practices - great-great-grandfather of Zephaniah the prophet - son of Neariah, a descendant of David - head of a family of returning exiles in the time of Nehemiah
  1. וַיִּשְׁכַּ֥ב shâkab H7901 “and · to lie down” Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
  2. עִם ʻim H5973 “with” Preposition
  3. אֲבֹתָ֑יו ʼâb H1 “fathers · his” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
  4. וַיִּמְלֹ֛ךְ mâlak H4427 “and · to reign” Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
  5. מְנַשֶּׁ֥ה Mᵉnashsheh H4519 “Manasseh” Noun, Proper
  6. בְנ֖וֹ bên H1121 “son · his” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
  7. תַּחְתָּֽיו tachath H8478 “under · him” Preposition + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular

About this verse

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Grammatical profile

  • 2 verbs
  • 4 nouns
  • 2 prepositions

Verb forms

  • וַיִּשְׁכַּ֥ב Qal · Sequential Imperfect
  • וַיִּמְלֹ֛ךְ Qal · Sequential Imperfect

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 13 words from the Hebrew and 14 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.

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Cross-references

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Topical passages linked to 2 Kings 20:21 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

  • 2 Chronicles 32:33 Hezekiah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the ascent of the tombs of the sons of David: and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem did him honor at his death. Manasseh his son reigned in his place.
  • 1 Kings 2:10 David slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David.
  • 1 Kings 11:43 Solomon slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David his father: and Rehoboam his son reigned in his place.
  • 1 Kings 14:31 Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David: and his mother's name was Naamah the Ammonitess. Abijam his son reigned in his place.
  • 2 Kings 21:1 Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign; and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Hephzibah.
  • 2 Kings 21:18 Manasseh slept with his fathers, and was buried in the garden of his own house, in the garden of Uzza: and Amon his son reigned in his place.
  • 2 Chronicles 26:23 So Uzziah slept with his fathers; and they buried him with his fathers in the field of burial which belonged to the kings; for they said, He is a leper: and Jotham his son reigned in his place.

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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Hebrew 2 Kings 20:21 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וַיִּשְׁכַּ֥ב חִזְקִיָּ֖הוּ עִם אֲבֹתָ֑יו וַיִּמְלֹ֛ךְ מְנַשֶּׁ֥ה בְנ֖וֹ תַּחְתָּֽיו

Hezekiah slept with his fathers; and Manasseh his son reigned in his place.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX 2 Kings 20:21 Septuagint · lemma form

καί κοιμάω εζεκιας μετά ὁ πατήρ αὐτός καί θάπτω ἐν πόλις δαυίδ καί βασιλεύω μανασσῆς υἱός αὐτός ἀντί αὐτός

And Ezekias slept with his fathers: and Manasses his son reigned in his stead.

LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain

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Targum (Aramaic paraphrase)

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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.

  1. Targum Jonathan Prophets (Joshua–Malachi)
    וּשְׁכִיב חִזְקִיָהוּ עִם אֲבָהָתוֹהִי וּמְלַךְ מְנַשֶׁה בְּרֵיהּ תְּחוֹתוֹהִי:

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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.

Commentary

Notes on 2 Kings 20:21 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

2Ki 20:21 And Hezekiah slept with his fathers: and Manasseh his son reigned in his stead.

Ver. 21. And Hezekiah slept, &c.] He was most honourably buried, {2Ch 32:33} placed above all the house of David, as he exceeded them all in virtue.

And Manasseh his son reigned in his stead.] A degenerate plant of so noble a vine. Heroum filii noxae. Sic Caligula fuit optimi viri Germanici filius; sic Antonini, Commodus ille bipedum nequissimus.

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.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne

21. Hezekiah slept with his fathers] The Chronicler adds ‘and they buried him in the chiefest (R.V. the ascent) of the sepulchres of the sons of David; and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem did him honour at his death’. The change of rendering in the R.V. is necessary and shews us that it was not in the tombs of the kings that Hezekiah was buried, but in some place of an elevated character near thereto. From this time the kings of Judah are no longer laid in the tombs of the kings.

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.

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible

Daniel D. Whedon

21. Slept with his fathers — According to 2Ch_32:33 he was “buried in the chiefest [rather, the ascent] of the sepulchres of the sons of David.” Why he was not buried in the royal sepulchre does not appear; surely not because he was unworthy, for none equalled him in trusting Jehovah, (2Ki_18:5,) “and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem did him honour at his death.” 2Ch_32:33. Perhaps he had chosen this spot for his grave; or perhaps, as Thenius supposes, there was no more room in the royal tomb.

Daniel D. Whedon (gen. ed.), Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1874–1909) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

The Pulpit Commentary

And Hezekiah slept with his fathers. The writer of Chronicles adds, "And they buried him in the chiefest," or rather, in the topmost, "of the sepulchers of the sons of David". (2Ch_32:33) The catacomb of David being now full, Hezekiah and his descendants (2Ki_21:18, 26 23:30) had to he buried elsewhere. The tomb of Hezekiah was either over the catacomb of David, or on the ascent which led to it. And Manasseh his son reigned in his stead. (See 2Ch 50. s.c; and Josephus, "Ant. Jud:," 10:3.

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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2 Kings, in the Historical, opens this verse with 8 words (8 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Chizqîyâh (“Hezekiah”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

  1. How does “Hezekiah” (Chizqîyâh) shape what this verse is saying?
  2. How does 2 Chronicles 32:33, which shares this passage’s theme, read alongside this verse?
  3. These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
  4. «וַיִּשְׁכַּ֥ב» is a Qal Sequential Imperfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
  5. Compare how Trapp's Complete Commentary and The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

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