2 Chronicleschapter 11
23 verses · Ezra, by tradition · 450 to 400 BC · History
Original Language
2 Chronicles 11— Hebrew word study · with the Hebrew tradition
In Jewish life
Jewish practice and Jewish teaching both have something to say about 2 Chronicles 11. Three things follow: where it is read, what is done because of it, and how the rabbis have taught it. The purpose is to inform a Christian reader what Jews believe and how Judaism was and is practised.
Where the rabbis cite this chapter
4 rows sit beside their verses in the text, on 4 verses of this chapter. No row that speaks to the chapter as a whole is recorded. Every quote links to its full source.
Texts and citation data: Sefaria (sefaria.org); excerpts follow each version’s license, and every passage opens at its source.
How to read a word below: the Hebrewword, then how it sounds, then what it means, then its number in Strong’s concordance, a widely used lookup this site follows (H for Hebrew and Aramaic, G for Greek). Square brackets hold a word the English supplies that the Hebrew does not, angle brackets mark the Hebrew’s own grammatical elements that English renders as separate words, and the mark ס or פ is where the Hebrew manuscripts end a paragraph.
Do not fight your brethren, for this thing is from Me1
2 Chronicles 11:1· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on II Chronicles 11:1
and he assembled the house of Judah and Benjamin who were together on the border. Jerusalem belonged to both of them, and the Temple was built on their common border. In the section dealing with boundaries in Joshua, it explains how their border was shared.
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2 Chronicles 11:2· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
2 Chronicles 11:3· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
2 Chronicles 11:4· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Fifteen cities fortified in Judah and Benjamin5
2 Chronicles 11:5· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
2 Chronicles 11:6· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
2 Chronicles 11:7· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
2 Chronicles 11:8· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
2 Chronicles 11:9· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
2 Chronicles 11:10· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
2 Chronicles 11:11· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on II Chronicles 11:11
leaders chiefs and officers to guard the towns and the large cities.
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2 Chronicles 11:12· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Priests and Levites leave the north for Jerusalem13
2 Chronicles 11:13· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
2 Chronicles 11:14· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on II Chronicles 11:14
For the Levites had abandoned their open land that was in the entire land of the ten tribes.
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2 Chronicles 11:15· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on II Chronicles 11:15
priests for the high places i.e., Why did Jeroboam coerce them to abandon [their positions]? Because he stationed pagan priests for the satyrs.
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2 Chronicles 11:16· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
2 Chronicles 11:17· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rehoboam's wives, his sons, and a shrewd scattering18
2 Chronicles 11:18· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
2 Chronicles 11:19· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
2 Chronicles 11:20· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
2 Chronicles 11:21· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
2 Chronicles 11:22· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
2 Chronicles 11:23· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
