2 Chronicleschapter 1
17 verses · Ezra, by tradition · 450 to 400 BC · History
Original Language
2 Chronicles 1— Hebrew word study · with the Hebrew tradition
In Jewish life
Jewish practice and Jewish teaching both have something to say about 2 Chronicles 1. 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.
Solomon seeks God at the tent in Gibeon1
2 Chronicles 1:1· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on II Chronicles 1:1
And Solomon strengthened himself because the Lord his God was with him.
Read it in full at Sefaria · The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg
2 Chronicles 1:2· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
2 Chronicles 1:3· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
2 Chronicles 1:4· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
2 Chronicles 1:5· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
2 Chronicles 1:6· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Ask what I shall give thee: wisdom chosen over riches7
2 Chronicles 1:7· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
2 Chronicles 1:8· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
2 Chronicles 1:9· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
2 Chronicles 1:10· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on II Chronicles 1:10
and I shall go forth before this people and come in And also, a king requires a wise heart to know how to judge, and I am young and tender.
Read it in full at Sefaria · The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg
2 Chronicles 1:11· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on II Chronicles 1:11
Since this was in your heart For a person does not request this thing unless he has the fear of Heaven in his heart, as it is stated (Ex.:21): “But you must seek out from the people men of ability, God-fearing men.”
Read it in full at Sefaria · The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg
2 Chronicles 1:12· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
2 Chronicles 1:13· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Radak on II Chronicles 1:13
Solomon went la-bamah asher be-Giv‘on to Jerusalem. The lamed of la-bamah is not in place of a mem as R.
Read it in full at Sefaria · The Commentary of Radak to Chronicles: A Translation with Introduction and Supercommentary, by Yitzhak Berger, Brown University, 2007
Chariots, horses, and silver as common as stones14
2 Chronicles 1:14· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on II Chronicles 1:14
and he left them in the chariot cities He left some of those horsemen and chariots in the chariot cities; since the king’s chariots were there, those cities were called the chariot cities, and some of them he left with him in Jerusalem.
Read it in full at Sefaria · The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg
2 Chronicles 1:15· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
2 Chronicles 1:16· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
2 Chronicles 1:17· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible