2 Kings 7:15

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They went after them to the Jordan: and, behold, all the way was full of garments and vessels, which the Syrians had cast away in their haste. The messengers returned, and told the king.
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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    They went after them to the Jordan: and, behold, all the way was full of garments and vessels, which the Syrians had cast away in their haste. The messengers returned, and told the king.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And they went after them unto Jordan: and, lo, all the way was full of garments and vessels, which the Syrians had cast away in their haste. And the messengers returned, and told the king.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    And they went after them to the Jordan, and behold, all of the road full with clothes and equipment that Aram had thrown away in their hastening themselves. And the messengers returned, and they declared to the king.

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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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    They went after them to the Jordan: and, behold, all the way was full of garments and vessels, which the Syrians had cast away in their haste. The messengers returned, and told the king.
  • Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
    And they tracked them as far as the Jordan, and indeed, the whole way was littered with the clothing and equipment the Arameans had thrown off in haste. So the scouts returned and told the king.
  • Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
    And they tracked them as far as the Jordan, and indeed, the whole way was littered with the clothing and equipment the Arameans had thrown off in haste. So the scouts returned and told the king.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And they went after them unto Jordan: and, lo, all the way was full of garments and vessels, which the Syrians had cast away in their haste. And the messengers returned, and told the king.
  • American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
    And they went after them unto the Jordan: and, lo, all the way was full of garments and vessels, which the Syrians had cast away in their haste. And the messengers returned, and told the king.
  • Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
    And they went after them unto Jordan: and, lo, all the way was full of garments and vessels, which the Syrians had cast away in their haste. And the messengers returned, and told the king.
  • Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
    And they went after them vnto Iorden, and loe, all the way was full of clothes and vessels which the Aramites had cast from them in their hast: and the messengers returned, and told ye King.
  • Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
    And they went after them as far as the Jordan: and behold all the way was full of garments, and vessels, which the Syrians had cast away in their fright, and the messengers returned end told the king.
  • Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
    And they go after them unto the Jordan, and lo, all the way is full of garments and vessels that the Aramaeans have cast away in their haste, and the messengers turn back and declare to the king.
  • Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    And they go after them to the Jordan, and behold, all the way is full of garments and vessels that the Arameans have cast away in their haste, and the messengers return and declare [it] to the king.
  • Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
    They went after them to the Jordan, and all the road was full of clothes and equipment that the Arameans had cast away in their hurry. So the messengers returned and told the king.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    And they went after them to the Jordan, and behold, all of the road full with clothes and equipment that Aram had thrown away in their hastening themselves. And the messengers returned, and they declared to the king.
  • Darby Bible Public Domain
    And they went after them to the Jordan; and behold, all the way was full of garments and materials, which the Syrians had cast away in their haste. And the messengers returned and told the king.
  • World Messianic Bible Public Domain
    They went after them to the Jordan; and behold, all the path was full of garments and equipment which the Syrians had cast away in their haste. The messengers returned and told the king.
  • Webster's Bible Public Domain
    And they went after them to Jordan: and lo, all the way was full of garments and vessels, which the Syrians had cast away in their haste. And the messengers returned, and told the king.
  • Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    They went after them as far as the Jordan, and the whole way was full of clothing and equipment the Arameans had thrown aside as they ran away. The messengers returned and reported to the king.
  • Bible in Basic English Public Domain
    And they went after them as far as Jordan; and all the road was covered with clothing and vessels dropped by the Aramaeans in their flight. So those who were sent went back and gave the news to the king.
  • JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
    And they went after them unto the Jordan; and, lo, all the way was full of garments and vessels, which the Arameans had cast away in their haste. And the messengers returned, and told the king.

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בהחפזם
châphaz
H2648
“in/at · to hurry · them”
Preposition + Verb, Niphal, Infinitive Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural
Part of Speech
Preposition + Verb
Stem
Niphal
Form
Infinitive Construct
Full BDB Definition

Origin: a primitive root

TWOT: 708

to hurry, flee, hasten, fear, be terrified - (Qal) to be in a hurry, be alarmed - (Niphal) to be in a hurry
  1. וַיֵּלְכ֣וּ yâlak H3212 “and · to walk” Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural
  2. אַחֲרֵיהֶם֮ ʼachar H310 “after · them” Preposition + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural
  3. עַד ʻad H5704 “until” Preposition
  4. הַיַּרְדֵּן֒ Yardên H3383 “the · Jordan” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Proper
  5. וְהִנֵּ֣ה hinnêh H2009 “and · behold” Conjunction + Particle, Demonstrative
  6. כָל kôl H3605 “all of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
  7. הַדֶּ֗רֶךְ derek H1870 “the · way” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Both, Singular, Absolute
  8. מְלֵאָ֤ה mâlêʼ H4392 “full” Adjective, Adjective, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
  9. בְגָדִים֙ beged H899 “garments” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute
  10. וְכֵלִ֔ים kᵉlîy H3627 “and · vessels” Conjunction + Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute
  11. אֲשֶׁר ʼăsher H834 “which” Particle, Relative
  12. הִשְׁלִ֥יכוּ shâlak H7993 “to throw” Verb, Hiphil, Perfect, 3rd Person, Common, Plural
  13. אֲרָ֖ם ʼĂrâm H758 “Aram” Noun, Proper
  14. בְּחָפְזָ֑ם châphaz H2648 “in/at · to hurry · them” Preposition + Verb, Qal, Infinitive Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural
  15. וַיָּשֻׁ֨בוּ֙ shûwb H7725 “and · to return” Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural
  16. הַמַּלְאָכִ֔ים mălʼâk H4397 “the · messengers” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute
  17. וַיַּגִּ֖דוּ nâgad H5046 “and · to make known” Conjunction + Verb, Hiphil, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural
  18. לַמֶּֽלֶךְ melek H4428 “to/for the · king” Preposition, Determined + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute

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 →

19
words
18
distinct lemmas
Historical
section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is בהחפזם to hurry H2648 — appearing just 10 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

בהחפזם to hurry H2648 occurs in 9 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

  • 6 verbs
  • 8 nouns
  • 1 adjective
  • 2 prepositions
  • 2 particles

Verb forms

  • וַיֵּלְכ֣וּ Qal · Sequential Imperfect
  • הִשְׁלִ֥יכוּ Hiphil · Perfect
  • בהחפזם Niphal · Infinitive Construct
  • בְּחָפְזָ֑ם Qal · Infinitive Construct
  • וַיָּשֻׁ֨בוּ֙ Qal · Sequential Imperfect
  • וַיַּגִּ֖דוּ Hiphil · Sequential Imperfect

Repetition

A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

  • בהחפזם to hurry H2648 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 34 words from the Hebrew and 38 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 19 Hebrew tokens and 31 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

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Topical passages linked to 2 Kings 7:15 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

  • Esther 1:7 They gave them drink in vessels of gold (the vessels being diverse one from another), and royal wine in abundance, according to the bounty of the king.
  • Job 2:4 Satan answered Yahweh, and said, "Skin for skin. Yes, all that a man has will he give for his life.
  • Isaiah 2:20 In that day, men shall cast away their idols of silver, And their idols of gold, Which have been made for themselves to worship, To the moles and to the bats;
  • Isaiah 10:3 What will you do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which shall come from far? to whom will you flee for help? and where will you leave your glory?
  • Isaiah 22:24 They shall hang on him all the glory of his father's house, the offspring and the issue, every small vessel, from the cups even to all the pitchers.
  • Isaiah 31:7 For in that day they shall cast away every man his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which your own hands have made to you for a sin.
  • Ezekiel 18:31 Cast away from you all your transgressions, in which you have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will you die, house of Israel?
  • Matthew 16:26 For what will it profit a man, if he gains the whole world, and forfeits his life? Or what will a man give in exchange for his life?
  • Matthew 24:16–18 then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains.
  • Philippians 3:7–8 However, what things were gain to me, these have I counted loss for Christ.
  • Hebrews 12:1 Therefore let us also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before 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.

Hebrew 2 Kings 7:15 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וַיֵּלְכ֣וּ אַחֲרֵיהֶם֮ עַד הַיַּרְדֵּן֒ וְהִנֵּ֣ה כָל הַדֶּ֗רֶךְ מְלֵאָ֤ה בְגָדִים֙ וְכֵלִ֔ים אֲשֶׁר הִשְׁלִ֥יכוּ אֲרָ֖ם בהחפזם בְּחָפְזָ֑ם וַיָּשֻׁ֨בוּ֙ הַמַּלְאָכִ֔ים וַיַּגִּ֖דוּ לַמֶּֽלֶךְ

They went after them to the Jordan: and, behold, all the way was full of garments and vessels, which the Syrians had cast away in their haste. The messengers returned, and told the king.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX 2 Kings 7:15 Septuagint · lemma form

καί πορεύομαι ὀπίσω αὐτός ἕως ὁ ἰορδάνης καί ἰδού πᾶς ὁ ὁδός πλήρης ἱμάτιον καί σκεῦος ὅς ῥίπτω συρία ἐν ὁ θαμβέω αὐτός καί ἐπιστρέφω ὁ ἄγγελος καί ἀναἀγγέλλω ὁ βασιλεύς

And they went after them even to Jordan: and, behold, all the way was full of garments and vessels, which the Syrians had cast away in their panic. and the messengers returned, and brought word to the king.

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)

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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)
    וַאֲזַלוּ בַתְרֵיהוֹן עַד יַרְדְנָא וְהָא כָל אוֹרְחָא מַלְיָא לְבוּשִׁין וּמָנִין דִרְמוֹ אֱנַשׁ אֲרָם בְּאִתְבָּעוּתְהוֹן לְמֶעְרַק וְתָבוּ אִזְגַדַיָא וְחַוִיאוּ לְמַלְכָּא:

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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 7:15 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 7:15 And they went after them unto Jordan: and, lo, all the way [was] full of garments and vessels, which the Syrians had cast away in their haste. And the messengers returned, and told the king.

Ver. 15. Full of garments and vessels.] Impedimenta domestica vel bellica, whatsoever might encumber or dog them in their flight. Oh that in the race of religion we could cast away every weight! {Heb 12:1}

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.

Adam Clarke's Commentary

Verse 15. All the way was full of garments and vessels] A manifest proof of the hurry and precipitancy with which they fled.

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible (1810–1826) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers

(15) In their haste.—Comp. 1Sa_23:6; Psa_48:6; Psa_104:7—passages which prove that the Hebrew text is right here, and the Hebrew margin wrong.

Unto Jordan.—Not all the way to the river, which would be at least twenty miles, but in the direction of it.

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

15. unto Jordan] When the heaven-sent noise caused the Syrians to imagine that the Hittites from the north and the Egyptians from the south were upon them, the only safe road would be to make for the Jordan eastward and, after crossing it, to conceal themselves in the mountains on the other side.

the messengers returned] After the Jordan had been reached there could be no more doubt, there was now no fear of an enemy in ambush.

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

And they went after them unto Jordan,.... Not finding them in the camp, and knowing the rout they would take to their own land, they went as far as Jordan, over which they must pass:

and, lo, all the way was full of garments and vessels which the Syrians had cast away in their haste; in their fright and flight, such of their clothes as hindered them in running; and their armour, as Josephus (c) seems rightly to understand the word used, these they threw away for quicker dispatch:

and the messengers returned and told the king: that it was as the lepers said, and what they themselves had seen.

(c) Ut supra. (Antiqu. l. 9. c. 4. sect. 5.)

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

The Syrians had fled probably by the great road which led from Samaria to Damascus through Geba, En-gannim, Beth-shean, and Aphek. It crosses the Jordan at the Jisr Mejamia, about thirty-five miles northeast of Samaria.

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

Matthew Poole's English Annotations

In their haste, or, in their fear, or consternation, wherewith God struck them.

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

The Pulpit Commentary

And they went after them unto Jordan. The charioteers, finding the camp really empty, discovering no ambush, and coming upon abundant signs of a hasty and perturbed flight, followed upon the track of the fugitives until they reached the Jordan, probably in the vicinity of Beth-shah, which lay on the ordinary route between Samaria and Damascus. Convinced by what they saw that the Syrians had really withdrawn into their own country, they pursued no further, but returned to Samaria. And, lo, all the way was full of garments and vessels, which the Syrians had cast away in their haste. Cloaks, shawls, shields, and even swords and spears, would be cast away as impedimenta hindrances to a rapid flight.

These strewed the line of the retreating army"s march. And the messengers returned, and told the king. Gave a full and complete account of what they had seen.

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

Rashi

Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki (Rashi)

In their haste. In their hurry to escape.

Rashi on the Tanakh — English translations: “The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg” (CC BY 4.0); “Pentateuch with Rashi's commentary by M. Rosenbaum and A.M. Silbermann, 1929-1934” (public domain); “The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J” (CC BY 4.0); and “The Book of Joshua, Metsudah Publications, 1997” (CC BY 4.0). Text via Sefaria.

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2 Kings, in the Historical, opens this verse with 19 words (18 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is châphaz (“to hurry”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

  1. What does “to hurry” (châphaz) contribute to the verse as a whole?
  2. How does Deuteronomy 20:3, which shares the word «to hurry», read alongside this verse?
  3. What does the repetition of “to hurry” (2× in this one verse) do in this verse?
  4. These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
  5. «וַיֵּלְכ֣וּ» is a Qal Sequential Imperfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
  6. Compare how Trapp's Complete Commentary and Adam Clarke's Commentary read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

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