and he charged the messenger, saying, "When you have made an end of telling all the things concerning the war to the king,
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and he charged the messenger, saying, "When you have made an end of telling all the things concerning the war to the king,
And charged the messenger, saying, When thou hast made an end of telling the matters of the war unto the king,
And he commanded the messenger, saying, “When you have finished to speak to the king all of the things of the battle,
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and he charged the messenger, saying, "When you have made an end of telling all the things concerning the war to the king,
and instructed the messenger, “When you have finished giving the king all the details of the battle,
and instructed the messenger, “When you have finished giving the king a full account of the battle,
And charged the messenger, saying, When thou hast made an end of telling the matters of the war unto the king,
and he charged the messenger, saying, When thou hast made an end of telling all the things concerning the war unto the king,
and he charged the messenger, saying, When thou hast made an end of telling all the things concerning the war unto the king,
And he charged the messenger, saying, When thou hast made an ende of telling all the matters of the warre vnto the King,
And he charged the messenger, saying: When thou hast told all the words of the battle to the king,
and commandeth the messenger, saying, `At thy finishing all the matters of the war to speak unto the king,
and commands the messenger, saying, “At your finishing all the matters of the war to speak to the king,
he commanded the messenger, saying, “When you have finished telling all the things concerning the war to the king,
And he commanded the messenger, saying, “When you have finished to speak to the king all of the things of the battle,
and charged the messenger, saying, When thou hast ended telling the matters of the war to the king,
and he commanded the messenger, saying, “When you have finished telling all the things concerning the war to the king,
And charged the messenger, saying, When thou hast made an end of telling the matters of the war to the king,
He ordered the messenger, saying, “When you've finished telling the king all about the battle,
And he gave orders to the man who took the news, saying, After you have given the king all the news about the war,
and he charged the messenger, saying: 'When thou hast made an end of telling all the things concerning the war unto the king,
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Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 23 words from the Hebrew and 20 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.
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In the original languages it is 12 Hebrew tokens and 18 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.
The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.
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וַיְצַ֥ו אֶת הַמַּלְאָ֖ךְ לֵאמֹ֑ר כְּכַלּוֹתְךָ֗ אֵ֛ת כָּל דִּבְרֵ֥י הַמִּלְחָמָ֖ה לְדַבֵּ֥ר אֶל הַמֶּֽלֶךְ
and he charged the messenger, saying, "When you have made an end of telling all the things concerning the war to the king,
World English Bible · Public Domain
καί ἐντέλλω ὁ ἄγγελος λέγω ἐν ὁ συντελέω σύ πᾶς ὁ λόγος ὁ πόλεμος λαλέω πρός ὁ βασιλεύς
And he charged the messenger, saying, When you have finished reporting all the events of the war 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 →
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.
וּפַקֵיד יַת אִזְגַדָא לְמֵימָר כְּשֵׁצָיוּתָךְ יַת כָּל עִסְקֵי קְרָבָא לְמַלָלָא עִם מַלְכָּא:
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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 Samuel, in the Historical, opens this verse with 12 words (11 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is kâlâh (“to finish”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on 2 Samuel 11:19 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.
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.
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).