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2 Chronicles 17:8

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accompanied by certain Levites—Shemaiah, Nethaniah, Zebadiah, Asahel, Shemiramoth, Jehonathan, Adonijah, Tobijah, and Tob-adonijah—along with the priests Elishama and Jehoram.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

and with them the Levites, even Shemaiah, and Nethaniah, and Zebadiah, and Asahel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehonathan, and Adonijah, and Tobijah, and Tob-adonijah, the Levites; and with them Elishama and Jehoram, the priests.

KJV

And with them he sent Levites, even Shemaiah, and Nethaniah, and Zebadiah, and Asahel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehonathan, and Adonijah, and Tobijah, and Tob–adonijah, Levites; and with them Elishama and Jehoram, priests.

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This verse in 2 Chronicles 17

Commentary

4 notes on this verse
And with them he sent Levites,.... With the five princes he sent nine Levites: even Shemaiah, and Nethaniah, and Zebadiah, and Asahel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehonathan, and Adonijah, and Tobijah, and Tobadonijah, Levites; of whom we nowhere else read; no doubt they were principal persons, and fit for the work they were sent about: and with them Elishama and Jehoram, priests; whose lips were to keep knowledge, and at whose mouth the law was to be sought, Mal 2:7.

This site's exposition

to teach in the cities of Judah

on 2 Chronicles 17:7-9

In the third year Jehoshaphat sends five princes, nine Levites and two priests through all the cities of Judah, and they carry the book of the law of the Lord with them as they go. Nothing in Samuel or Kings parallels this mission; it is Chronicles' own material, an itinerant teaching program built on the written word a century before Josiah's workmen find a forgotten copy of that same law in the temple. Barnes takes the book carried to be the Pentateuch essentially as it stands, brought along because full copies of the law were scarce, and Gill reads the teaching itself as the people's duty toward God and man, taught from the text and confirmed by its own authority.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

Note, Ministers, when they go to teach the people, should have their Bibles with them. How happy he was in the favour of his God, who signally owned and blessed him: The Lord was with him (

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The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

Time and unbroken opportunities were afforded for carrying out fully this excellent plan of home education, for the kingdom enjoyed internal tranquillity as well as freedom for foreign wars. It is conformable to the pious style of the sacred historian to trace this profound peace to the "fear of the Lord having fallen on all kingdoms of the lands that were round about Judah."

The words behind it

17 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.

  • וְעִמָּהֶ֣םand [were] with them

    veimahemH5973 →1050 times

  • הַלְוִיִּ֗םthe Levites

    halviyimH3881 →291 times

  • שְֽׁמַֽעְיָ֡הוּShemaiah

    shema'yahuH8098 →41 times

  • וּנְתַנְיָ֡הוּand Nethaniah

    unetanyahuH5418 →

  • וּזְבַדְיָ֡הוּand Zebadiah

    uzevadyahuH2069 →

  • וַעֲשָׂהאֵ֡לand Asahel

    vaasahelH6214 →

  • וּשְׁמִֽירָמ֡וֹתand Shemiramoth

    ushemirimotH8070 →

  • וִֽיהוֹנָתָן֩and Jonathan

    vihonatanH3083 →

  • וַאֲדֹ֨נִיָּ֧הוּand Adonijah

    vaadoniyahuH138 →

  • וְטֽוֹבִיָּ֛הוּand Tobijah

    vetoiyahuH2900 →

  • וְט֥וֹבand Tob-

    vetovH2899 →

  • אֲדוֹנִיָּ֖הAdonijah

    ʾadoniyahH2899 →

  • הַלְוִיִּ֑םthe Levites

    halviyimH3881 →291 times

  • וְעִמָּהֶ֛םand [were] with them

    veimahemH5973 →1050 times

  • אֱלִישָׁמָ֥עElishama

    ʾelishama'H476 →

  • וִֽיהוֹרָ֖םand Jehoram

    vihoramH3088 →29 times

  • הַכֹּהֲנִֽים׃the priests

    hakohanimH3548 →750 times

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

Related verses

3 in all, six open

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

    Malachi 2:7

    For the lips of a priest should preserve knowledge, and people should seek instruction from his mouth, because he is the messenger of the LORD of Hosts.

    it leads to

    • Deuteronomy 21:5

      And the priests, the sons of Levi, shall come forward, for the LORD your God has chosen them to serve Him and pronounce blessings in His name and to give a ruling in every…

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • 2 Timothy 2:24–25

      And a servant of the Lord must not be quarrelsome, but must be kind to everyone, able to teach, and forbearing.

    • Leviticus 10:11

      so that you may teach the Israelites all the statutes that the LORD has given them through Moses.”

    • 2 Corinthians 5:20

      Therefore we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were making His appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ: Be reconciled to God.

    • Ezra 7:10

      For Ezra had set his heart to study the Law of the LORD, to practice it, and to teach its statutes and ordinances in Israel.

  • Through

    2 Chronicles 19:8

    Moreover, Jehoshaphat appointed in Jerusalem some of the Levites, priests, and heads of the Israelite families to judge on behalf of the LORD and to settle disputes. And they lived in Jerusalem.

    it leads to

    • 2 Chronicles 17:8–9

      accompanied by certain Levites—Shemaiah, Nethaniah, Zebadiah, Asahel, Shemiramoth, Jehonathan, Adonijah, Tobijah, and Tob-adonijah—along with the priests Elishama and Jehoram.

    • 1 Chronicles 26:29

      From the Izharites, Chenaniah and his sons had the outside duties as officers and judges over Israel.

    • Deuteronomy 17:8–13

      If a case is too difficult for you to judge, whether the controversy within your gates is regarding bloodshed, lawsuits, or assaults, you must go up to the place the LORD your God will…

About 2 Chronicles

Solomon Receives the Queen of Sheba, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Solomon Receives the Queen of Sheba, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
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This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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