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2 Chronicles 34:28

in 2 Chronicles 34

‘Now I will indeed gather you to your fathers, and you will be gathered to your grave in peace. Your eyes will not see all the calamity that I will bring on this place and on its inhabitants.’” So they brought her answer back to the king.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

Behold, I will gather thee to thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered to thy grave in peace, neither shall thine eyes see all the evil that I will bring upon this place, and upon the inhabitants thereof. And they brought back word to the king.

KJV

Behold, I will gather thee to thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered to thy grave in peace, neither shall thine eyes see all the evil that I will bring upon this place, and upon the inhabitants of the same. So they brought the king word again.

This verse in 2 Chronicles 34

Commentary

4 notes on this verse

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

And good people are here taught to be so far from fearing death as to welcome it rather when it takes them away from the evil to come. See how the property of it is altered by making it the matter of a promise: Thou shalt be gathered to thy grave in peace, housed in that ark, as Noah, when a deluge is coming.

This site's exposition

Tell the man who sent you

on 2 Chronicles 34:23-28

“This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says” opens both halves of her word. The judgment for generations of forsaking the LORD stands. Josiah's tender heart, his humbling, his torn clothes and his tears win a mercy inside it: “you will be gathered to your grave in peace”.

This site's exposition

you will be gathered to your grave in peace

Josiah later died of wounds from Megiddo, 35:23 and 24. The promise of peace is measured by its last clause: he would not see the calamity. Matthew Henry reads the promise as a good man taken away before the evil comes, as Isaiah 57:1 says of the righteous.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

proposed

Gathered to thy grave in peace - See particularly the note on 2Ki 22:20 (note).

The words behind it

25 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.

  • הִנְנִ֨יhere I

    hiniH2005 →316 times

  • אֹֽסִפְךָ֜[will] gather you

    ʾosifkhaH622 →200 times

  • אֶל־to

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • אֲבֹתֶ֗יךָancestors your

    ʾavoteikhaH1 →1212 times

  • וְנֶאֱסַפְתָּ֣and you will be gathered

    veneesaftaH622 →200 times

  • אֶל־to

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • קִבְרֹתֶיךָ֮grave<s> your

    kivroteichaH6913 →67 times

  • בְּשָׁלוֹם֒in peace

    beshalomH7965 →236 times

  • וְלֹא־and not

    velo'-H3808 →5168 times

  • תִרְאֶ֣ינָהthey will look

    tireinahH7200 →1300 times

  • עֵינֶ֔יךָeyes your

    ʾeineikhaH5869 →887 times

  • בְּכֹל֙on all

    bekholH3605 →5413 times

  • הָֽרָעָ֔הthe distress

    haraahH7451 →662 times

  • אֲשֶׁ֨רwhich

    ʾasherH834 →5497 times

  • אֲנִ֥יI

    ʾaniH589 →874 times

  • מֵבִ֛יא[am] about to bring

    mevi'H935 →2568 times

  • עַל־on

    ʾal-H5921 →5755 times

  • הַמָּק֥וֹםthe place

    hamakomH4725 →401 times

  • הַזֶּ֖ה<the> this

    hazehH2088 →1180 times

  • וְעַל־and on

    veal-H5921 →5755 times

  • יֹשְׁבָ֑יוinhabitants its

    yoshevavH3427 →1079 times

  • וַיָּשִׁ֥יבוּand they brought back

    vaiyashivuH7725 →1056 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • הַמֶּ֖לֶךְthe king

    hamelekhH4428 →2525 times

  • דָּבָֽר׃ פword

    davarH1697 →1440 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

    Jeremiah 15:1

    Then the LORD said to me: “Even if Moses and Samuel should stand before Me, My heart would not go out to this people. Send them from My presence, and let them go.

    it leads to

    • Ezekiel 14:14

      then even if these three men—Noah, Daniel, and Job—were in it, their righteousness could deliver only themselves, declares the Lord GOD.

    • Ezekiel 14:20–21

      then as surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, even if Noah, Daniel, and Job were in it, they could not deliver their own sons or daughters. Their righteousness could deliver only themselves.

    • Jeremiah 14:11

      Then the LORD said to me, “Do not pray for the well-being of this people.

    • Jeremiah 11:14

      As for you, do not pray for these people. Do not raise up a cry or a prayer on their behalf, for I will not be listening when they call out to Me in…

    • Psalms 106:23

      So He said He would destroy them— had not Moses His chosen one stood before Him in the breach to divert His wrath from destroying them.

  • Through

    Psalms 37:37

    Consider the blameless and observe the upright, for posterity awaits the man of peace.

    it leads to

    • Isaiah 32:17

      The work of righteousness will be peace; the service of righteousness will be quiet confidence forever.

    • Isaiah 57:1–2

      The righteous perish, and no one takes it to heart; devout men are swept away, while no one considers that the righteous are guided from the presence of evil.

  • Through

    1 Kings 21:29

    “Have you seen how Ahab has humbled himself before Me? Because he has humbled himself before Me, I will not bring the calamity during his days, but I will bring it upon his house…

    it leads to

    • 2 Peter 3:9

      The Lord is not slow in keeping His promise as some understand slowness, but is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish but everyone to come to repentance.

Where this verse is studied

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 Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Charles Spurgeon, The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Sermon No. 748, Self-Humbling and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.