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2 Kingschapter 21

26 verses · Jeremiah, by tradition · 6th century BC · History

Original Language

2 Kings 21— Hebrew word study · with the Hebrew tradition

In Jewish life

Jewish practice and Jewish teaching both have something to say about 2 Kings 21. 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.

The reading

The yearly cycle does not read 2 Kings 21. The Haftarah is drawn from the Prophets a passage at a time rather than continuously, so most chapters of most prophetic books are never read in the service, and this is one of them.

The verse numbers here are the ones a Hebrew Bible carries, which differ from an English Bible by a verse or two in several places. The Sephardi reading is named only where this site records a difference; communities vary beyond what is listed. What these books are, and how a Christian reader meets them →

Where the rabbis cite this chapter

3 rows sit beside their verses in the text, on 3 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.

I will wipe Jerusalem as a man wipeth a dish10

2 Kings 21:10· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible

וַיְדַבֵּ֧רvaydaberand he spokeH1696יְהוָ֛הyahwehYahwehH3068בְּיַד־beyad-by [the] hand ofH3027עֲבָדָ֥יוʾavadavservants hisH5650הַנְּבִיאִ֖יםhaneviimthe prophetsH5030לֵאמֹֽר׃lemor<to> sayingH559

Rashi on II Kings 21:10

RashiFrance, 1040–1105· Commentary
Through His servants the prophets. Nachum and Chavakuk, but because Menashe was wicked, they were not referred to with his name to explain that they were [prophesying] in his time.

Read it in full at Sefaria · The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J

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