2 Chronicles 9:7
in 2 Chronicles 9How blessed are your men! How blessed are these servants of yours who stand continually before you and hear your wisdom!
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ASV
Happy are thy men, and happy are these thy servants, that stand continually before thee, and hear thy wisdom.
KJV
Happy are thy men, and happy are these thy servants, which stand continually before thee, and hear thy wisdom.
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This verse in 2 Chronicles 9
Commentary
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How blessed are your men
on 2 Chronicles 9:7-8
Her blessing moves to God, “who has delighted in you to set you on His throne to be king for the LORD your God”. The words match 1 Chronicles 28:5 and 29:23, where Solomon sits on the throne of the LORD, and here a foreign queen says the same.
The words behind it
11 Hebrew wordsEvery 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.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| אַשְׁרֵ֣י | ʾashrei | how blessed! | H835 → | |
| אֲנָשֶׁ֔יךָ | ʾanasheikha | [are] people your | H582 → | 566 times |
| וְאַשְׁרֵ֖י | veashrei | and how blessed! | H835 → | |
| עֲבָדֶ֣יךָ | ʾavadeikha | [are] servants your | H5650 → | 799 times |
| אֵ֑לֶּה | ʾeleh | these | H428 → | 746 times |
| הָעֹמְדִ֤ים | haomedim | who stand | H5975 → | 521 times |
| לְפָנֶ֙יךָ֙ | lefaneikha | <to> before you | H6440 → | 2123 times |
| תָּמִ֔יד | tamid | continually | H8548 → | 104 times |
| וְשֹׁמְעִ֖ים | veshomeim | and [who] hear | H8085 → | 1159 times |
| אֶת־ | ʾet- | <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| חָכְמָתֶֽךָ׃ | chakhematekha | wisdom your | H2451 → | 153 times |
אַשְׁרֵ֣יhow blessed!
ʾashreiH835 →
אֲנָשֶׁ֔יךָ[are] people your
ʾanasheikhaH582 →566 times
וְאַשְׁרֵ֖יand how blessed!
veashreiH835 →
עֲבָדֶ֣יךָ[are] servants your
ʾavadeikhaH5650 →799 times
אֵ֑לֶּהthese
ʾelehH428 →746 times
הָעֹמְדִ֤יםwho stand
haomedimH5975 →521 times
לְפָנֶ֙יךָ֙<to> before you
lefaneikhaH6440 →2123 times
תָּמִ֔ידcontinually
tamidH8548 →104 times
וְשֹׁמְעִ֖יםand [who] hear
veshomeimH8085 →1159 times
אֶת־<obj.>
ʾet-H853 →10935 times
חָכְמָתֶֽךָ׃wisdom your
chakhematekhaH2451 →153 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach 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
Proverbs 3:3Never let loving devotion or faithfulness leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart.
it leads to
- 2 Corinthians 3:3
It is clear that you are a letter from Christ, the result of our ministry, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on…
- Proverbs 7:3
Tie them to your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart.
- Hebrews 10:16
“This is the covenant I will make with them after those days, declares the Lord. I will put My laws in their hearts and inscribe them on their minds.”
- Deuteronomy 11:18–21
Fix these words of mine in your hearts and minds; tie them as reminders on your hands and bind them on your foreheads.
- Malachi 2:6
True instruction was in his mouth, and nothing false was found on his lips. He walked with Me in peace and uprightness, and he turned many from iniquity.
- 2 Corinthians 3:3
Through
Proverbs 8:34Blessed is the man who listens to me, watching daily at my doors, waiting at the posts of my doorway.
it leads to
- Luke 11:28
But He replied, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it.”
- Matthew 7:24
Therefore everyone who hears these words of Mine and acts on them is like a wise man who built his house on the rock.
- Proverbs 3:13
Blessed is the man who finds wisdom, the man who acquires understanding,
- Luke 11:28
About 2 Chronicles

This page draws on John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.
