2 Chronicleschapter 7
22 verses · Ezra, by tradition · 450 to 400 BC · History
Original Language
2 Chronicles 7— Hebrew word study · with the Hebrew tradition
In Jewish life
Jewish practice and Jewish teaching both have something to say about 2 Chronicles 7. 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
6 rows sit beside their verses in the text, on 6 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.
Fire falls, glory fills, and Israel bows on the pavement1
2 Chronicles 7:1· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
2 Chronicles 7:2· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
2 Chronicles 7:3· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Fourteen days of feasting and glad hearts sent home4
2 Chronicles 7:4· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
2 Chronicles 7:5· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
2 Chronicles 7:6· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
2 Chronicles 7:7· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
2 Chronicles 7:8· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
2 Chronicles 7:9· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
2 Chronicles 7:10· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on II Chronicles 7:10
And on the twenty-third day of the seventh month, he dismissed the people which was the ninth [day] of the inauguration of the Temple, but in I Kings (8:66) it is written: “On the eighth day,” which was the twenty-second of the month.
Read it in full at Sefaria · The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg
2 Chronicles 7:11· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
If My people humble themselves, and the warning if they turn away12
2 Chronicles 7:12· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on II Chronicles 7:12
And the Lord appeared to Solomon at night in a vision of the night.
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2 Chronicles 7:13· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on II Chronicles 7:13
If I shut up.. if I command..or if I send corresponding to three prayers, “I shall hear..and forgive their sin, and heal their land.”
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2 Chronicles 7:14· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
2 Chronicles 7:15· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
2 Chronicles 7:16· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on II Chronicles 7:16
and My eyes and heart will be Jonathan renders (I Kings:3): “and My presence will rest there if My will is performed there at all times.” My eyes will be there if My heart and My will are there.
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2 Chronicles 7:17· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
2 Chronicles 7:18· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
2 Chronicles 7:19· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Radak on II Chronicles 7:19
But should you turn away. This means: you and the Israelite nation.
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 7:20· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on II Chronicles 7:20
I shall cast from before Me according to the condition between Me and you, viz. (Lev.: 14): “But if you do not heed Me.” What does it say there? (verse 31): “And I shall make your sanctuaries desolate.”
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2 Chronicles 7:21· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
2 Chronicles 7:22· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
