וַיַּ֥עַשׂ הָרַ֖ע בְּעֵינֵ֣י יְהוָ֑ה כְּכֹ֥ל אֲשֶׁר עָשָׂ֖ה אָבִֽיו
He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, according to all that his father had done.
World English Bible · Public Domain
2 Kings 24:9
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) 2 Kings 24:9 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
He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, according to all that his father had done.
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Compare translations 3
The same verse in 3 English versions, stacked beneath the original-language interlinear above. Click any original word for its lexicon entry.
Each is an independent rendering of the whole verse — the interlinear is not word-aligned to these translations.
Highlighted words mark where these versions differ — a whole-verse word diff, not a word-by-word alignment.
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World English Bible Public Domain
He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, according to all that his father had done.
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King James Version Public Domain
And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father had done.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And he did evil in the eyes of Yahweh, like all that his father had done.
unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult).
Show all 18 translations
Every available English version of this verse, each an independent rendering of the whole verse.
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World English Bible Public Domain
He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, according to all that his father had done.
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, just as his father had done.
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, just as his father had done.
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King James Version Public Domain
And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father had done.
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
And he did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, according to all that his father had done.
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father had done.
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
And he did euill in the sight of the Lord, according to all that his father had done.
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
And he did evil before the Lord, according to all that his father had done.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
and he doth the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah, according to all that his fathers did.
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
and he does evil in the eyes of YHWH, according to all that his fathers did.
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
He did what was evil in the sight of Yahweh; he did all that his father had done.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And he did evil in the eyes of Yahweh, like all that his father had done.
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Darby Bible Public Domain
And he did evil in the sight of Jehovah, according to all that his father had done.
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
He did that which was evil in the LORD’s sight, according to all that his father had done.
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father had done.
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
Jehoiachin did what was evil in the Lord's sight, just as his father had done.
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, as his father had done.
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father had done.
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הָרַ֖ע
raʻ
H7451
“the · evil”
Particle, Definite Article + Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
- Appears 666× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at Genesis 2:9
- Part of Speech
- Particle + Adjective
- Type
- Adjective
- Gender
- Masculine
- Number
- Singular
- State
- Absolute
Full BDB Definition
bad, evil (adjective)
- bad, disagreeable, malignant
- bad, unpleasant, evil (giving pain, unhappiness, misery)
- evil, displeasing
- bad (of its kind - land, water, etc)
- bad (of value)
- worse than, worst (comparison)
- sad, unhappy
- evil (hurtful)
- bad, unkind (vicious in disposition)
- bad, evil, wicked (ethically)
- in general, of persons, of thoughts
- deeds, actions
- evil, distress, misery, injury, calamity (noun masculine)
- evil, distress, adversity
- evil, injury, wrong
- evil (ethical)
- evil, misery, distress, injury (noun feminine)
- evil, misery, distress
- evil, injury, wrong
- evil (ethical)
- וַיַּ֥עַשׂ ʻâsâh H6213 “and · to do” Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- הָרַ֖ע raʻ H7451 “the · evil” Particle, Definite Article + Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
- בְּעֵינֵ֣י ʻayin H5869 “in/at · eyes of” Preposition + Noun, Common, Both, Dual, Construct
- יְהוָ֑ה Yᵉhôvâh H3068 “LORD” Noun, Proper
- כְּכֹ֥ל kôl H3605 “like/as · all” Preposition + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
- אֲשֶׁר ʼăsher H834 “which” Particle, Relative
- עָשָׂ֖ה ʻâsâh H6213 “to do” Verb, Qal, Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- אָבִֽיו ʼâb H1 “father · his” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
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 →
- 8
- words
- 7
- distinct lemmas
- Historical
- section
Grammatical profile
- 2 verbs
- 4 nouns
- 1 adjective
- 1 particle
Verb forms
- וַיַּ֥עַשׂ Qal · Sequential Imperfect
- עָשָׂ֖ה Qal · Perfect
Repetition
A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:
- וַיַּ֥עַשׂ to do H6213 ×2
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 19 words from the Hebrew and 20 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 8 Hebrew tokens and 14 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.
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.
καί ποιέω ὁ πονηρός ἐν ὀφθαλμός κύριος κατά πᾶς ὅσος ποιέω ὁ πατήρ αὐτός
And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, according to all that his father did.
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)
וַעֲבַד דְבִישׁ קֳדָם יְיָ כְּכֹל דַעֲבַד אֲבוּהִי:
(no public-domain English translation for this verse)
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 8 words (7 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is raʻ (“evil”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- The word raʻ carries the sense “evil.” How does it shape the verse?
- What does the repetition of “to do” (2× in this one verse) do in this verse?
- These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
- «וַיַּ֥עַשׂ» is a Qal Sequential Imperfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
- Compare how Trapp's Complete Commentary and Jamieson, Fausset & Brown read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?
Things to notice
- This verse counts 8 Hebrew ↔ 14 Greek words.
- These translations choose different wording for 7 words in this verse.
- “to do” occurs 2× in this single verse.
- 7 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 8 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on 2 Kings 24:9 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
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.
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown — Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
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.
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
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.