2 Kings 23:27

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

Yahweh said, I will remove Judah also out of my sight, as I have removed Israel, and I will cast off this city which I have chosen, even Jerusalem, and the house of which I said, My name shall be there.

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וּ֠מָאַסְתִּי

mâʼaç

H3988

“and · to reject”

Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Sequential Perfect, 1st Person, Common, Singular

Appears 76× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at Leviticus 26:15

Full BDB Definition

Origin: a primitive root

TWOT: 1139 , 1140

to reject, despise, refuse - (Qal) - to reject, refuse - to despise - (Niphal) to be rejected - (Niphal) to flow, run

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 →

27: words
19: distinct lemmas
Historical: section

Grammatical profile

7 verbs
8 nouns
1 pronoun
1 preposition
1 adverb
9 particles

Verb forms

וַיֹּ֣אמֶר Qal · Sequential Imperfect
אָסִיר֙ Hiphil · Imperfect
הֲסִרֹ֖תִי Hiphil · Perfect
וּ֠מָאַסְתִּי Qal · Sequential Perfect
בָּחַ֨רְתִּי֙ Qal · Perfect
אָמַ֔רְתִּי Qal · Perfect
יִהְיֶ֥ה Qal · Imperfect

Repetition

Words recur within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

וַיֹּ֣אמֶר to say H559 ×2
אָסִיר֙ to turn aside H5493 ×2
כַּאֲשֶׁ֥ר which H834 ×3

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 41 words from the Hebrew and 39 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 27 Hebrew tokens and 35 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 Kings 23:27 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

2 Kings 18:11 The king of Assyria carried Israel away to Assyria, and put them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes,
2 Kings 21:13 I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria, and the plummet of the house of Ahab; and I will wipe Jerusalem as a man wipes a dish, wiping it and turning it upside down.
2 Kings 17:18 Therefore Yahweh was very angry with Israel, and removed them out of his sight: there was none left but the tribe of Judah only.
2 Kings 17:20 Yahweh rejected all the seed of Israel, and afflicted them, and delivered them into the hand of spoilers, until he had cast them out of his sight.
2 Kings 21:4 He built altars in the house of Yahweh, of which Yahweh said, In Jerusalem will I put my name.
Jeremiah 33:24 Don't you consider what this people has spoken, saying, The two families which Yahweh did choose, he has cast them off? thus do they despise my people, that they should be no more a nation before them.
Deuteronomy 29:27–28 therefore the anger of Yahweh was kindled against this land, to bring on it all the curse that is written in this book;
1 Kings 8:29 that your eyes may be open toward this house night and day, even toward the place of which you have said, My name shall be there; to listen to the prayer which your servant shall pray toward this place.

1 Kings 9:3 Yahweh said to him, I have heard your prayer and your supplication, that you have made before me: I have made this house holy, which you have built, to put my name there forever; and my eyes and my heart shall be there perpetually.
2 Kings 21:7 He set the engraved image of Asherah, that he had made, in the house of which Yahweh said to David and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, will I put my name forever;
2 Kings 24:3 Surely at the commandment of Yahweh came this on Judah, to remove them out of his sight, for the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he did,
2 Kings 25:11 The residue of the people who were left in the city, and those who fell away, who fell to the king of Babylon, and the residue of the multitude, did Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carry away captive.
Psalms 51:11 Don't throw me from your presence, And don't take your holy Spirit from me.
Jeremiah 31:37 Thus says Yahweh: If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, then will I also cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done, says Yahweh.
Lamentations 2:7 The Lord has cast off his altar, he has abhorred his sanctuary; He has given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces: They have made a noise in the house of Yahweh, as in the day of a solemn assembly.
Ezekiel 23:32–35 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: You shall drink of your sister's cup, which is deep and large; you shall ridiculed and had in derision; it contains much.

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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Hebrew 2 Kings 23:27 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וַיֹּ֣אמֶר יְהוָ֗ה גַּ֤ם אֶת יְהוּדָה֙ אָסִיר֙ מֵעַ֣ל פָּנַ֔י כַּאֲשֶׁ֥ר הֲסִרֹ֖תִי אֶת יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל וּ֠מָאַסְתִּי אֶת הָעִ֨יר הַזֹּ֤את אֲשֶׁר בָּחַ֨רְתִּי֙ אֶת יְר֣וּשָׁלִַ֔ם וְאֶת הַבַּ֔יִת אֲשֶׁ֣ר אָמַ֔רְתִּי יִהְיֶ֥ה שְׁמִ֖י שָֽׁם

Yahweh said, I will remove Judah also out of my sight, as I have removed Israel, and I will cast off this city which I have chosen, even Jerusalem, and the house of which I said, My name shall be there.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX 2 Kings 23:27 Septuagint · lemma form

καί εἶπον κύριος καί γέ ὁ ἰούδας ἀποἵστημι ἀπό ὁ πρόσωπον ἐγώ καθώς ἀποἵστημι ὁ ἰσραήλ καί ἀποὠθέω ὁ πόλις οὗτος ὅς ἐκλέγω ὁ ἰερουσαλήμ καί ὁ οἶκος ὅς εἶπον εἰμί ὁ ὄνομα ἐγώ ἐκεῖ

And the Lord said, I will also remove Juda from my presence, as I removed Israel, and will reject this city which I have chosen even Jerusalem, and the house of which I said, My name shall be there.

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.

Targum Jonathan Prophets (Joshua–Malachi)

וַאֲמַר יְיָ אַף יַת דְבֵית יְהוּדָה אַגְלֵי מֵאַרְעָא בֵּית שְׁכִנְתִּי כְּמָא דְאַגְלֵיתִי יַת יִשְׂרָאֵל וְאַרְחִיק יַת קַרְתָּא הָדָא דְאִתְרְעֵיתִי בִּירוּשְׁלֵם וּבְבֵיתָא דַאֲמָרֵית יְהִי שְׁמִי תַּמָן:

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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 23:27 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

2Ki 23:27 And the LORD said, I will remove Judah also out of my sight, as I have removed Israel, and will cast off this city Jerusalem which I have chosen, and the house of which I said, My name shall be there.

Ver. 27. I will remove Judah also out of my sight.] Who was now grown worse than Israel, {Jer 3:11} and was therefore worse, because she should have been better warned by the others’ harms.

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.

Joseph Benson's Commentary

2Ki 23:27. I will cast off this city, and the house of which I said, My name shall be there — God promised upon conditions, in sundry places expressed, that his name should be there. These conditions they broke, and therefore God justly made them to know his breach of promise.

Joseph Benson's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1811–1818) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne

27. and will cast off this city Jerusalem which I have chosen] R.V. this city which I have chosen, even Jerusalem. This rendering preserves the order of the Hebrew. More than this cannot be said in its favour.

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

In his days Pharaohnechoh king of Egypt,.... Who is called in the Targum Pharaoh the lame, because he was lame in his feet, perhaps gouty; Herodotus (x) also calls him Necos the son of Psammiticus; now it was in the last days of Josiah this king reigned in Egypt, or however that the following event was:

that he went up against the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates; to Carchemish, a city situated upon it; see Ch2 35:26, the king he went against was the king of Babylon, who had conquered the Assyrian monarchy, and therefore called king of it; some take him to be Nabopolassar; according to Marsham (y), he was Chyniladanus:

and King Josiah went against him; to stop him, that he might not pass through his country, and attack the king of Babylon, whose ally, perhaps, Josiah was; or, however, thought himself obliged to him by the privileges, power, and authority he allowed him to exercise in the land of Israel:

and he slew him at Megiddo, when he had seen him; as soon as they came face to face, and engaged in battle, see Kg2 14:8 that is Pharaoh slew Josiah at the first onset. Megiddo was a city in the tribe of Manasseh, Jos 17:11. Herodotus (z) calls it Magdolus, which seems to be a city on the borders of Egypt, the same with Migdol, Jer 44:1 where he says Pharoahnechoh conquered the Syrians; in Josephus (a) it is called Mendes very wrongly. Josiah seems to have engaged in this action without consulting the Lord and his prophets.

(x) Euterpe, sive, l. 2. c. 158. (y) Chronic. Secul. 18. p. 568. (z) Ibid. c. 159. (a) Antiqu. l. 10. c. 5. sect. 1.

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

It added to the guilt of Judah that she had had the warning of her sister Israel’s example, and had failed to profit by it.

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible (1834–1885) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

Matthew Poole's English Annotations

To wit, upon the conditions in sundry places expressed, which they broke, and therefore God justly made them to know his breach of promise, as he threatens, Num 14:34.

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible

Daniel D. Whedon

27. The Lord said — By the prophets.

Out of my sight — Not out of his knowledge and remembrance. But hitherto Judah had stood as the specially favoured of Jehovah — as in the Divine presence — and the light and smile of his countenance had shone upon them; but now this nearness must end.

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 the Lord said God said in his secret counsels, came to the determination, and pronounced the sentence in his thoughtsI will remove Judah also out of my sight, as I have removed Israel. (comp. 2Ki_17:18, "Therefore the Lord was very angry with Israel, and removed them out of his sight The sins of Judah were now as great as those of Israel had been; therefore her punishment must be the same, as God is no respecter of persons. And I will east off this city Jerusalem which I have chosen. (comp. 1Ki_8:44, 48 11:13, 32, 36, etc.) God "chose" Jerusalem when he put it into the heart of David to bring up the ark thither. (2Sa_6:1-17) And the house of which I said, My Name shall he there (see Deu_12:11; 1Ki_8:29, etc.) A visible confirmation was given to all that David and Solomon had done in establishing the temple at Jerusalem as the head-quarters of the national religion, when "fire came down from heaven, and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices" made there, and "the glory of the Lord filled the house" (2Ch_7:1; comp. 2Ch_5:13, 2Ch_5:14)

The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

John Wesley's Explanatory Notes

I said - Upon the conditions in sundry places expressed, which they broke, and therefore God justly made them to know his breach of promise.

John Wesley, Explanatory Notes Upon the Whole Bible (1754–1765) — public domain. Text via the GEBible commentary corpus.

Lesson kit

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2 Kings, in the Historical, opens this verse with 27 words (19 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is mâʼaç (“to reject”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

How does “to reject” (mâʼaç) shape what this verse is saying?
2 Kings 18:11 shares this passage’s theme. How do the two illuminate each other?
“to say” 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 «וַיֹּ֣אמֶר» is Qal Sequential Imperfect. How does its form color the action?
Reading how Trapp's Complete Commentary and Joseph Benson's Commentary read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?

Things to notice

This verse counts 27 Hebrew ↔ 35 Greek words.
These translations choose different wording for 16 words in this verse.
“to say” occurs 2× in this single verse.
19 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 27 words in this verse.