2 Chronicles 29:4 BSB

2 Chronicles 29:4

Then he brought in the priests and Levites and gathered them in the square on the east side.

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ASV

And he brought in the priests and the Levites, and gathered them together into the broad place on the east,

KJV

And he brought in the priests and the Levites, and gathered them together into the east street,

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8 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיָּבֵ֥א	vai.ya.Ve'	and he brought	H935 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
הַכֹּהֲנִ֖ים	ha.ko.ha.Nim	the priests	H3548 →
וְאֶת־	ve.'Et	and <obj.>	H853 →
הַלְוִיִּ֑ם	hal.vi.Yim	the Levites	H3881 →
וַיַּֽאַסְפֵ֖ם	vai.ya.'as.Fem	and he gathered them	H622 →
לִרְח֥וֹב	lir.Chov	to [the] open place of	H7339 →
הַמִּזְרָֽח׃	ha.miz.Rach	the east	H4217 →

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Jeremiah 19:2
and go out to the Valley of Ben-hinnom near the entrance of the Potsherd Gate. Proclaim there the words I speak to you,
leads to
- Joshua 15:8
  From there the border went up the Valley of Hinnom along the southern slope of the Jebusites (that is, Jerusalem) and ascended to the top of the hill that faces the Valley of Hinnom…
- 2 Kings 23:10
  He also desecrated Topheth in the Valley of Ben-hinnom so that no one could sacrifice his son or daughter in the fire to Molech.
- 2 Chronicles 33:6
  He sacrificed his sons in the fire in the Valley of Hinnom. He practiced sorcery, divination, and witchcraft, and consulted mediums and spiritists. He did great evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking…
Through
2 Chronicles 32:6
Hezekiah appointed military commanders over the people and gathered the people in the square of the city gate. Then he encouraged them, saying,
leads to
- 2 Chronicles 30:22
  And Hezekiah encouraged all the Levites who performed skillfully before the LORD. For seven days they ate their assigned portion, sacrificing fellowship offerings and giving thanks to the LORD, the God of their fathers.
- Isaiah 40:2
  “Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and proclaim to her that her forced labor has been completed; her iniquity has been pardoned. For she has received from the hand of the LORD double for all her…
- Ezra 10:9
  So within the three days, all the men of Judah and Benjamin assembled in Jerusalem, and on the twentieth day of the ninth month, all the people sat in the square at the house…
- Nehemiah 8:16
  And the people went out, brought back branches, and made booths on their own rooftops, in their courtyards, in the court of the house of God, and in the squares by the Water Gate…

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Solomon Receives the Queen of Sheba — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

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