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2 Chronicles 21:9

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So Jehoram crossed into Edom with his officers and all his chariots. When the Edomites surrounded him and his chariot commanders, he rose up and attacked by night.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

Then Jehoram passed over with his captains, and all his chariots with him: and he rose up by night, and smote the Edomites that compassed him about, and the captains of the chariots.

KJV

Then Jehoram went forth with his princes, and all his chariots with him: and he rose up by night, and smote the Edomites which compassed him in, and the captains of the chariots.

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This verse in 2 Chronicles 21

Commentary

3 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

Edom rebelled against the hand

on 2 Chronicles 21:8-10

Edom “rebelled against the hand of Judah and appointed their own king”. Jehoram breaks out by night from the Edomites who had surrounded him, but the province is lost. Verse 10 says Edom has stayed in revolt “to this day”, the writer's words for a break that outlived the reign.

This site's exposition

he rose up and attacked by night

Edom had been subject to Judah since David's garrisons. Jamieson, Fausset and Brown note that under Jehoshaphat it was governed by a deputy, as 1 Kings 22:47 records. The parallel at 2 Kings 8:21 adds that his troops fled home, so the escape saved the king and lost the province.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

the Edomites revolted--That nation had been made dependent by David, and down to the time of Jehoshaphat was governed by a tributary ruler (1Ki 22:47;

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How the passage was read

What the Jewish commentators add

On the verses either side of this one

And Edom rebelled Was it not already stated above (verse 8): “In his days, Edom rebelled?” But this is the manner of Scripture: because a verse is interposed, and it now wishes to continue with “then Libnah rebelled,” it repeats the [original words] stating, “And Edom rebelled.
Rashi: France, 1040–1105 · Rashi on II Chronicles 21:10:1, via Sefaria, The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg

This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.

Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 4 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.

The words behind it

18 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַיַּֽעֲבֹ֤רand he passed over

    vaiyaavorH5674 →556 times

  • יְהוֹרָם֙Jehoram

    yehoramH3088 →29 times

  • עִם־with

    ʾim-H5973 →1050 times

  • שָׂרָ֔יוcommanders his

    saravH8269 →421 times

  • וְכָל־and all

    vekholH3605 →5413 times

  • הָרֶ֖כֶבthe chariotry

    harekhevH7393 →119 times

  • עִמּ֑וֹwith him

    imoH5973 →1050 times

  • וַיְהִי֙and it was

    vayhiH1961 →3559 times

  • קָ֣םhe arose

    kamH6965 →628 times

  • לַ֔יְלָהnight

    laylahH3915 →233 times

  • וַיַּ֗ךְand he struck down

    vaiyakhH5221 →499 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • אֱדוֹם֙Edom

    ʾedomH123 →99 times

  • הַסּוֹבֵ֣בwhich was surrounding

    hasovevH5437 →161 times

  • אֵלָ֔יו<to> him

    ʾelavH413 →5510 times

  • וְאֵ֖תand <obj.>

    veetH853 →10935 times

  • שָׂרֵ֥י[the] commanders of

    sareiH8269 →421 times

  • הָרָֽכֶב׃the chariotry

    harakhevH7393 →119 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Where this verse is studied

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About 2 Chronicles

Saphan Reading the Book of the Law to Josiah, Philip Galle, engraving after Maarten van Heemskerck, 1569, Royal Library of Belgium. Public domain.
Saphan Reading the Book of the Law to Josiah, Philip Galle, engraving after Maarten van Heemskerck, 1569, Royal Library of Belgium. Public domain.
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This page draws on Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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