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2 Chronicles 23:3

in 2 Chronicles 23

the whole assembly made a covenant with the king in the house of God. “Behold, the king’s son!” said Jehoiada. “He must reign, just as the LORD promised concerning the descendants of David.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And all the assembly made a covenant with the king in the house of God. And he said unto them, Behold, the king’s son shall reign, as Jehovah hath spoken concerning the sons of David.

KJV

And all the congregation made a covenant with the king in the house of God. And he said unto them, Behold, the king’s son shall reign, as the Lord hath said of the sons of David.

This verse in 2 Chronicles 23

Commentary

3 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

just as the LORD promised concerning

The whole assembly makes “a covenant with the king in the house of God”. Jehoiada states its ground: “He must reign, just as the LORD promised concerning the descendants of David”. The claim reaches back to the covenant of 1 Chronicles 17, where the throne is called the LORD's own.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

): The king's son shall reign, must reign, as the Lord hath said. His eye to the promise, and dependence upon that, added a great deal of glory to this undertaking.

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The Nineteenth Century1 voice

By “all the congregation” here is meant the persons referred to in 2Ch 23:2.

The words behind it

20 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.

  • וַיִּכְרֹ֨תand it made

    vaiyikhrotH3772 →288 times

  • כָּל־all

    kol-H3605 →5413 times

  • הַקָּהָ֥לthe assembly

    hakahalH6951 →123 times

  • בְּרִ֛יתa covenant

    beritH1285 →284 times

  • בְּבֵ֥יתin [the] house of

    beveitH1004 →2046 times

  • הָאֱלֹהִ֖ים<the> God

    haelohimH430 →2601 times

  • עִם־with

    ʾim-H5973 →1050 times

  • הַמֶּ֑לֶךְthe king

    hamelekhH4428 →2525 times

  • וַיֹּ֣אמֶרand he said

    vaiyomerH559 →5305 times

  • לָהֶ֗םto them

    lahem

  • הִנֵּ֤הhere!

    hinehH2009 →843 times

  • בֶן־[the] son of

    ven-H1121 →4930 times

  • הַמֶּ֙לֶךְ֙the king

    hamelekhH4428 →2525 times

  • יִמְלֹ֔ךְhe will reign

    yimlokhH4427 →348 times

  • כַּאֲשֶׁ֛רjust as

    kaasherH834 →5497 times

  • דִּבֶּ֥רhe spoke

    diberH1696 →1141 times

  • יְהוָ֖הYahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • עַל־on

    ʾal-H5921 →5755 times

  • בְּנֵ֥י[the] sons of

    beneiH1121 →4930 times

  • דָוִֽיד׃David

    davidH1732 →999 times

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

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    2 Chronicles 21:7

    Yet the LORD was unwilling to destroy the house of David, because of the covenant He had made with David, and since He had promised to maintain a lamp for David and his descendants…

    it leads to

    • 1 Kings 11:36

      I will give one tribe to his son, so that My servant David will always have a lamp before Me in Jerusalem, the city where I chose to put My Name.

    • Psalms 132:17–18

      There I will make a horn grow for David; I have prepared a lamp for My anointed one.

  • Through

    2 Samuel 7:12

    And when your days are fulfilled and you rest with your fathers, I will raise up your descendant after you, who will come from your own body, and I will establish his kingdom.

    it leads to

    • Acts 2:30

      But he was a prophet and knew that God had promised him on oath that He would place one of his descendants on his throne.

    • 1 Kings 8:20

      Now the LORD has fulfilled the word that He spoke. I have succeeded my father David, and I sit on the throne of Israel, as the LORD promised. I have built the house for…

  • Through

    1 Kings 2:4

    and so that the LORD may fulfill His promise to me: ‘If your descendants take heed to walk faithfully before Me with all their heart and soul, you will never fail to have a…

    it leads to

    • 2 Kings 20:3

      “Please, O LORD, remember how I have walked before You faithfully and with wholehearted devotion; I have done what was good in Your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.

    • 2 Samuel 7:25

      And now, O LORD God, confirm forever the word You have spoken concerning Your servant and his house. Do as You have promised,

  • Through

    2 Chronicles 6:16

    Therefore now, O LORD, God of Israel, keep for Your servant, my father David, what You promised when You said: ‘You will never fail to have a man to sit before Me on the…

    it leads to

    • 1 Kings 2:4

      and so that the LORD may fulfill His promise to me: ‘If your descendants take heed to walk faithfully before Me with all their heart and soul, you will never fail to have a…

  • Through

    2 Kings 11:17

    Then Jehoiada made a covenant between the LORD and the king and the people that they would be the LORD’s people. He also made a covenant between the king and the people.

    it leads to

    • 2 Samuel 5:3

      So all the elders of Israel came to the king at Hebron, where King David made with them a covenant before the LORD. And they anointed him king over Israel.

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.

This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Keil, The Books of the Chronicles and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.