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2 Chronicles 23:5

in 2 Chronicles 23

a third shall be at the royal palace, and a third at the Foundation Gate, while all the others are in the courtyards of the house of the LORD.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

and a third part shall be at the king’s house; and a third part at the gate of the foundation: and all the people shall be in the courts of the house of Jehovah.

KJV

And a third part shall be at the king’s house; and a third part at the gate of the foundation: and all the people shall be in the courts of the house of the Lord.

This verse in 2 Chronicles 23

Commentary

3 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

shall keep watch at the doors

on 2 Chronicles 23:4-7

Jehoiada's plan turns on one restriction the parallel in Kings does not carry. “No one is to enter the house of the LORD except the priests and those Levites who serve”, since “they are consecrated”. Chronicles builds it around the temple's line between holy and common ground.

This site's exposition

a third at the Foundation Gate

The watch is split three ways: one company at the royal palace, one at the Foundation Gate, and the rest in the temple courts. Jamieson, Fausset and Brown read the division as a guard for the king's person, with the other bodies holding the doors and gates.

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 people were divided into three bodies; one attended as guards to the king, while the other two were posted at all the doors and gates, and the captains and military officers who entered the temple unarmed to lull suspicion, were furnished with weapons out of the sacred armory, where David had deposited his trophies of victory and which was reopened on this occasion.

The words behind it

11 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.

  • וְהַשְּׁלִשִׁית֙and the third [part]

    vehashelishitH7992 →107 times

  • בְּבֵ֣ית[will be] at [the] house of

    beveitH1004 →2046 times

  • הַמֶּ֔לֶךְthe king

    hamelekhH4428 →2525 times

  • וְהַשְּׁלִשִׁ֖יתand the third [part]

    vehashelishitH7992 →107 times

  • בְּשַׁ֣עַר[will be] at [the] gate of

    beshaarH8179 →374 times

  • הַיְס֑וֹדthe foundation

    haysodH3247 →

  • וְכָל־and all

    vekholH3605 →5413 times

  • הָעָ֔םthe people

    haamH5971 →1873 times

  • בְּחַצְר֖וֹת[will be] in [the] courts of

    bechatzrotH2691 →191 times

  • בֵּ֥ית[the] house of

    beitH1004 →2046 times

  • יְהוָֽה׃Yahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

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

The walk

5 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

    Acts 3:2

    And a man who was lame from birth was being carried to the temple gate called Beautiful, where he was put every day to beg from those entering the temple courts.

    it leads to

    • Acts 14:8

      In Lystra there sat a man crippled in his feet, who was lame from birth and had never walked.

    • John 9:8

      At this, his neighbors and those who had formerly seen him begging began to ask, “Isn’t this the man who used to sit and beg?”

    • Luke 16:20

      And a beggar named Lazarus lay at his gate, covered with sores

    • Acts 10:31

      and said, ‘Cornelius, your prayer has been heard, and your gifts to the poor have been remembered before God.

    • Luke 18:35

      As Jesus drew near to Jericho, a blind man was sitting beside the road, begging.

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 on the Old Testament; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible and Keil, The Books of the Chronicles.