2 Chronicleschapter 12
16 verses · Ezra, by tradition · 450 to 400 BC · History
Original Language
2 Chronicles 12— Hebrew word study · with the Hebrew tradition
In Jewish life
Jewish practice and Jewish teaching both have something to say about 2 Chronicles 12. 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
5 rows sit beside their verses in the text, on 5 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.
Forsaking the law, Judah is left to Shishak1
2 Chronicles 12:1· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
2 Chronicles 12:2· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
2 Chronicles 12:3· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
2 Chronicles 12:4· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
2 Chronicles 12:5· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
2 Chronicles 12:6· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
2 Chronicles 12:7· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on II Chronicles 12:7
They have humbled themselves; I shall not destroy them A similar instance is found below (14: 6): “The land is still before us for we have sought, etc. we have sought.” So is the custom of the Scriptures, that when it interrupts in the middle, it repeats the word.
Read it in full at Sefaria · The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg
2 Chronicles 12:8· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Gold shields carried off and replaced with brass9
2 Chronicles 12:9· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
2 Chronicles 12:10· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
2 Chronicles 12:11· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Radak on II Chronicles 12:11
To the ta of the guards. [This means]: to the room of the guards.
Read it in full at Sefaria · The Commentary of Radak to Chronicles: A Translation with Introduction and Supercommentary, by Yitzhak Berger, Brown University, 2007
2 Chronicles 12:12· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on II Chronicles 12:12
And when he humbled himself, the Lord’s wrath returned from him He should have stated this above immediately when he said, “And Shishak.. marched,” but he interrupted in between because he had to mention, “And..made instead of them shields of copper.”
Read it in full at Sefaria · The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg
A reign summed up: he prepared not his heart to seek the LORD13
2 Chronicles 12:13· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on II Chronicles 12:13
And King Rehoboam strengthened himself in Jerusalem And he explains why, because when he was first made king, he was forty-one years old; therefore, he had the strength and the power to strengthen himself.
Read it in full at Sefaria · The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg
2 Chronicles 12:14· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
2 Chronicles 12:15· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on II Chronicles 12:15
in the words of Shemaiah the prophet Every prophet would write his book, containing that which he prophesied, and this is the Shemaiah who was mentioned above (11:2,:5).
Read it in full at Sefaria · The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg
2 Chronicles 12:16· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible