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2 Chronicleschapter 13

22 verses · Ezra, by tradition · 450 to 400 BC · History

Original Language

2 Chronicles 13— Hebrew word study · with the Hebrew tradition

In Jewish life

Jewish practice and Jewish teaching both have something to say about 2 Chronicles 13. 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.

Abijah on Mount Zemaraim: God Himself is with us as captain1

2 Chronicles 13:1· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible

בִּשְׁנַ֛תbishnatin yearH8141שְׁמוֹנֶ֥הshemoneheight-H8083עֶשְׂרֵ֖הʾesrehteenH6240לַמֶּ֣לֶךְlamelekhof the kingH4428יָרָבְעָ֑םyaraveamJeroboamH3379וַיִּמְלֹ֥ךְvaiyimlokhand he became kingH4427אֲבִיָּ֖הʾaviyahAbijahH29עַל־ʾal-overH5921יְהוּדָֽה׃yehudahJudahH3063

Radak on II Chronicles 13:1

RadakProvence, 1160–1235· Commentary
In the eighteenth year of King Jeroboam, Abijah became king. We do not know why his assumption of the kingship was delayed one year.

Read it in full at Sefaria · The Commentary of Radak to Chronicles: A Translation with Introduction and Supercommentary, by Yitzhak Berger, Brown University, 2007

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