2 Chronicleschapter 3
17 verses · Ezra, by tradition · 450 to 400 BC · History
Original Language
2 Chronicles 3— Hebrew word study · with the Hebrew tradition
In Jewish life
Jewish practice and Jewish teaching both have something to say about 2 Chronicles 3. 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.
Building on Moriah, where the LORD appeared to David1
2 Chronicles 3:1· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on II Chronicles 3:1
on Mount Moriah because the Holy One, blessed be He, appeared to David in the threshing floor of Ornan when the plague stopped, and that is Mount Moriah, David’s place.
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2 Chronicles 3:2· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
2 Chronicles 3:3· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
2 Chronicles 3:4· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
2 Chronicles 3:5· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
2 Chronicles 3:6· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
2 Chronicles 3:7· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
The most holy place, its cherubim, and the veil8
2 Chronicles 3:8· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
2 Chronicles 3:9· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
2 Chronicles 3:10· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
2 Chronicles 3:11· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on II Chronicles 3:11
And the wings of the cherubim - their length was twenty cubits How so?
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2 Chronicles 3:12· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
2 Chronicles 3:13· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on II Chronicles 3:13
standing on their feet on the floor of the House to the west.
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2 Chronicles 3:14· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on II Chronicles 3:14
And he made the dividing curtain of blue, purple and he hung it on the door that was in the cubit between the two partitions, through which they would enter the Holy of Holies.
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Jachin and Boaz set up before the house15
2 Chronicles 3:15· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on II Chronicles 3:15
thirty-five cubits long i.e., the height. And in I Kings (7:15): “And he cast the two pillars of copper, eighteen cubits, etc.
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2 Chronicles 3:16· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
2 Chronicles 3:17· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible