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2 Chronicleschapter 17

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2 Chronicles 17— Hebrew word study · with the Hebrew tradition

In Jewish life

Jewish practice and Jewish teaching both have something to say about 2 Chronicles 17. 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

2 rows sit beside their verses in the text, on 2 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.

2 Chronicles 17:3· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible

וַיְהִ֥יvayhiand he wasH1961יְהוָ֖הyahwehYahwehH3068עִם־ʾim-withH5973יְהוֹשָׁפָ֑טyehoshafatJehoshaphatH3092כִּ֣יkiforH3588הָלַ֗ךְhalakhhe walkedH1980בְּדַרְכֵ֞יbedarkheiin [the] ways ofH1870דָּוִ֤ידdavidDavidH1732אָבִיו֙ʾavivancestor hisH1הָרִ֣אשֹׁנִ֔יםharishonim<the> formerH7223וְלֹ֥אvelo'and notH3808דָרַ֖שׁdarashhe soughtH1875לַבְּעָלִֽים׃labealim<to> the BaalsH1168

Rashi on II Chronicles 17:3

RashiFrance, 1040–1105· Commentary
in the first ways of David, his father But not the last ways, when he sinned in the incident of Bathsheba, and when the Adversary enticed him to count Israel. This is the most accurate interpretation, but others explain “first” as meaning superior to Solomon and Rehoboam.

Read it in full at Sefaria · The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg

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