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2 Chronicles 36:23

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“This is what Cyrus king of Persia says: ‘The LORD, the God of heaven, who has given me all the kingdoms of the earth, has appointed me to build a house for Him at Jerusalem in Judah. Whoever among you belongs to His people, may the LORD his God be with him, and may he go up.’”

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, All the kingdoms of the earth hath Jehovah, the God of heaven, given me; and he hath charged me to build him a house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Whosoever there is among you of all his people, Jehovah his God be with him, and let him go up.

KJV

Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, All the kingdoms of the earth hath the Lord God of heaven given me; and he hath charged me to build him an house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Who is there among you of all his people? The Lord his God be with him, and let him go up.

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This verse in 2 Chronicles 36

Commentary

4 notes on this verse

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

The Lord his God be with him - “Let the Word of the Lord be his helper, and let him go up.” - Targum. See the notes on the beginning of Ezra. Thus ends the history of a people the most fickle, the most ungrateful, and perhaps on the whole the most sinful, that ever existed on the face of the earth. But what a display does all this give of the power, justice, mercy, and long-suffering of the Lord! There was no people like this people, and no God like their God.

This site's exposition

the LORD stirred the spirit of Cyrus

on 2 Chronicles 36:22-23

The Hebrew Bible's last chapter turns on a pagan king: “the LORD stirred the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia” to fulfill Jeremiah's word. The same words open Ezra 1:1-3, and Adam Clarke reads the two verses as carried from Ezra's opening.

This site's exposition

may the LORD his God be with him, and may he go up

Adam Clarke cites the Targum, which reads the blessing as the Word of the LORD being his helper. He closes his notes on the book with the LORD's power, justice, mercy and patience toward His people. Isaiah 44:28 and 45:1 name Cyrus as the LORD's shepherd and anointed.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

The destruction of Judah and Jerusalem is here coming on by degrees. God so ordered it to show that he has no pleasure in the ruin of sinners, but had rather they would turn and live, and therefore gives them both time and inducement to repent and waits to be gracious. The history of these reigns was more largely recorded in the last three chapters of the second of Kings.

The words behind it

30 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.

  • כֹּה־thus

    koh-H3541 →577 times

  • אָמַ֞רhe says

    ʾamarH559 →5305 times

  • כּ֣וֹרֶשׁ׀Cyrus

    koreshH3566 →15 times

  • מֶ֣לֶךְ[the] king of

    melekhH4428 →2525 times

  • פָּרַ֗סPersia

    parasH6539 →28 times

  • כָּל־all

    kol-H3605 →5413 times

  • מַמְלְכ֤וֹת[the] kingdoms of

    mamlekhotH4467 →117 times

  • הָאָ֙רֶץ֙the earth

    haaretzH776 →2504 times

  • נָ֣תַןhe has given

    natanH5414 →2011 times

  • לִ֗יto me

    li

  • יְהוָה֙Yahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • אֱלֹהֵ֣י[the] God of

    ʾeloheiH430 →2601 times

  • הַשָּׁמַ֔יִםthe heavens

    hashamayimH8064 →421 times

  • וְהֽוּא־and he

    vehu'-H1931 →1879 times

  • פָקַ֤דhe has appointed

    fakadH6485 →303 times

  • עָלַי֙<on> me

    ʾalaiH5921 →5755 times

  • לִבְנֽוֹת־to build

    livnot-H1129 →376 times

  • ל֣וֹfor him

    lo

  • בַ֔יִתa house

    vayitH1004 →2046 times

  • בִּירוּשָׁלִַ֖םin Jerusalem

    birushalimH3389 →643 times

  • אֲשֶׁ֣רwhich

    ʾasherH834 →5497 times

  • בִּֽיהוּדָ֑ה[is] in Judah

    bihudahH3063 →819 times

  • מִֽי־who?

    mi-H4310 →423 times

  • בָכֶ֣ם[is] among you

    vakhem

  • מִכָּל־from all

    mikolH3605 →5413 times

  • עַמּ֗וֹpeople his

    amoH5971 →1873 times

  • יְהוָ֧הYahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • אֱלֹהָ֛יוGod his

    ʾelohavH430 →2601 times

  • עִמּ֖וֹ[be] with him

    imoH5973 →1050 times

  • וְיָֽעַל׃and let him go up

    veyaalH5927 →890 times

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

Related verses

16 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

Psalms 75:5–7Do not lift up your horn against heaven or speak with an outstretched neck.’”3 worksDaniel 4:35All the peoples of the earth are counted as nothing, and He does as He pleases with the army of heaven and the peoples of the earth. There is no one who can restrain His hand or say to Him, ‘What have You done?’”3 worksDaniel 2:21He changes the times and seasons; He removes kings and establishes them. He gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to the discerning.3 worksDaniel 2:37You, O king, are the king of kings, to whom the God of heaven has given sovereignty, power, strength, and glory.3 worksEzra 7:13I hereby decree that any volunteers among the Israelites in my kingdom, including the priests and Levites, may go up with you to Jerusalem.3 worksIsaiah 44:26–28who confirms the message of His servant and fulfills the counsel of His messengers, who says of Jerusalem, ‘She will be inhabited,’ and of the cities of Judah, ‘They will be rebuilt, and I will restore their ruins,’3 works
The other 10 cross-references, with their words ▾
Zechariah 2:6–7“Get up! Get up! Flee from the land of the north,” declares the LORD, “for I have scattered you like the four winds of heaven,” declares the LORD.3 worksDaniel 5:23Instead, you have exalted yourself against the Lord of heaven. The vessels from His house were brought to you, and as you drank wine from them with your nobles, wives, and concubines, you praised your gods of silver and gold, bronze and iron, wood and stone, which cannot see or hear or understand. But you have failed to glorify the God who holds in His hand your very breath and all your ways.3 worksRomans 8:31What then shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?3 worksDeuteronomy 2:24“Arise, set out, and cross the Arnon Valley. See, I have delivered into your hand Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land. Begin to take possession of it and engage him in battle.3 worksIsaiah 41:2Who has aroused one from the east and called him to his feet in righteousness? He hands nations over to him and subdues kings before him. He turns them to dust with his sword, to windblown chaff with his bow.3 worksDaniel 5:18As for you, O king, the Most High God gave your father Nebuchadnezzar sovereignty and greatness, glory and honor.2 works1 Chronicles 29:5for the gold work and the silver work, and for all the work to be done by the craftsmen. Now who will volunteer to consecrate himself to the LORD today?”2 works1 Chronicles 22:16in gold and silver, bronze and iron—craftsmen beyond number. Now begin the work, and may the LORD be with you.”2 worksJeremiah 50:21Go up against the land of Merathaim, and against the residents of Pekod. Kill them and devote them to destruction. Do all that I have commanded you,” declares the LORD.2 worksRevelation 16:11and curse the God of heaven for their pains and sores; yet they did not repent of their deeds.1 works

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

    Daniel 2:21

    He changes the times and seasons; He removes kings and establishes them. He gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to the discerning.

    it leads to

    • Psalms 75:5–7

      Do not lift up your horn against heaven or speak with an outstretched neck.’”

    • Psalms 31:14–15

      But I trust in You, O LORD; I say, “You are my God.”

    • Psalms 113:7–8

      He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the dump

    • Daniel 4:17

      This decision is the decree of the watchers, the verdict declared by the holy ones, so that the living will know that the Most High rules over the kingdom of mankind and gives it…

    • Daniel 7:25

      He will speak out against the Most High and oppress the saints of the Most High, intending to change the appointed times and laws; and the saints will be given into his hand for…

  • Through

    Daniel 4:35

    All the peoples of the earth are counted as nothing, and He does as He pleases with the army of heaven and the peoples of the earth. There is no one who can restrain…

    it leads to

    • Job 42:2

      “I know that You can do all things and that no plan of Yours can be thwarted.

    • Psalms 135:6

      The LORD does all that pleases Him in the heavens and on the earth, in the seas and in all their depths.

    • Psalms 115:3

      Our God is in heaven; He does as He pleases.

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.
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