2 Chronicleschapter 19
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Original Language
2 Chronicles 19— Hebrew word study · with the Hebrew tradition
In Jewish life
Jewish practice and Jewish teaching both have something to say about 2 Chronicles 19. 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.
Shouldest thou help the ungodly? Jehu meets the king1
2 Chronicles 19:1· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
2 Chronicles 19:2· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
2 Chronicles 19:3· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Judges appointed: you judge not for man, but for the LORD4
2 Chronicles 19:4· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
2 Chronicles 19:5· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on II Chronicles 19:5
And he appointed judges When the seer told him, “good things were found in you, for you abolished the asheroth,” he approached the Sepher Torah [to see] whether he had abolished them properly.
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2 Chronicles 19:6· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on II Chronicles 19:6
for you do not judge for man The meaning is: Do not think in your heart: What difference does it make if we pervert the law to declare our friends innocent and pervert the rights of the poor and favor the rich?
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2 Chronicles 19:7· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on II Chronicles 19:7
for with the Lord your God there is neither injustice, favoritism, nor bribe-taking and He is with you in judgment; therefore, He does not wish you to commit injustice in judgment.
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2 Chronicles 19:8· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
2 Chronicles 19:9· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
2 Chronicles 19:10· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on II Chronicles 19:10
between blood[shed] and blood[shed] between the bloodshed of an unintentional murder and an intentional one.
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2 Chronicles 19:11· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on II Chronicles 19:11
and may the Lord be with the good with the one who performs that which is good and upright.
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