2 Chronicleschapter 16
14 verses · Ezra, by tradition · 450 to 400 BC · History
Original Language
2 Chronicles 16— Hebrew word study · with the Hebrew tradition
In Jewish life
Jewish practice and Jewish teaching both have something to say about 2 Chronicles 16. 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
3 rows sit beside their verses in the text, on 3 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.
Silver and gold sent to Ben-hadad instead of to God1
2 Chronicles 16:1· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Radak on II Chronicles 16:1
In the thirty-sixth year of the reign of Asa, Baasha initiated a war. How could this be?
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 16:2· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
2 Chronicles 16:3· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
2 Chronicles 16:4· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
2 Chronicles 16:5· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
2 Chronicles 16:6· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Hanani's rebuke, and a seer put in the prison house7
2 Chronicles 16:7· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
2 Chronicles 16:8· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
2 Chronicles 16:9· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
2 Chronicles 16:10· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Diseased in his feet, Asa seeks physicians and dies11
2 Chronicles 16:11· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
2 Chronicles 16:12· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on II Chronicles 16:12
until his ailment spread upward The swelling in his feet spread from the sole of his foot to the top of his head.
Read it in full at Sefaria · The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg
2 Chronicles 16:13· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
2 Chronicles 16:14· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on II Chronicles 16:14
and divers kinds These are kinds of spices, and the spices were prepared with the perfumer’s art, a mixture. The meaning is: prepared with the perfumer’s art.
Read it in full at Sefaria · The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg