2 Chronicleschapter 8
18 verses · Ezra, by tradition · 450 to 400 BC · History
Original Language
2 Chronicles 8— Hebrew word study · with the Hebrew tradition
In Jewish life
Jewish practice and Jewish teaching both have something to say about 2 Chronicles 8. 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
4 rows sit beside their verses in the text, on 4 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.
Cities built, labor levied, Pharaoh's daughter moved out1
2 Chronicles 8:1· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
2 Chronicles 8:2· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
2 Chronicles 8:3· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
2 Chronicles 8:4· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
2 Chronicles 8:5· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
2 Chronicles 8:6· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
2 Chronicles 8:7· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
2 Chronicles 8:8· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
2 Chronicles 8:9· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
2 Chronicles 8:10· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
2 Chronicles 8:11· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on II Chronicles 8:11
Solomon brought up from the City of David That is Zion, for he let her dwell in the City of David when he married her, and she was there until he completed building his palace.
Read it in full at Sefaria · The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg
Worship by the ordinance of Moses, and ships sent to Ophir12
2 Chronicles 8:12· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on II Chronicles 8:12
on the altar of the Lord This was the copper altar that Solomon built.
Read it in full at Sefaria · The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg
2 Chronicles 8:13· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
2 Chronicles 8:14· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
2 Chronicles 8:15· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Radak on II Chronicles 8:15
They did not depart miṣvat ha-melekh. This elides a prepositional mem: it means mi-miṣvat ha-melekh (=from the commandment of the king).
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 8:16· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on II Chronicles 8:16
until this day [from] the founding of the House of the Lord From the day of its founding until its completion.
Read it in full at Sefaria · The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg
2 Chronicles 8:17· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
2 Chronicles 8:18· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
