2 Chronicles 20:13
in 2 Chronicles 20Meanwhile all the men of Judah, with their wives and children and little ones, were standing before the LORD.
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ASV
And all Judah stood before Jehovah, with their little ones, their wives, and their children.
KJV
And all Judah stood before the Lord, with their little ones, their wives, and their children.
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This verse in 2 Chronicles 20
Commentary
4 notes on this verseLittle ones - Whom they used to present before the Lord in times of great distress, to stir up themselves to more fervent prayers, their eyes being upon their harmless and tender children, and to move God to compassion, because God hath declared, that he will be prevailed with, by such methods as these.
This site's exposition
with their little ones
All Judah stands before the LORD with their little ones, their wives, and their children, one verse the narrator did not owe the record. The nation waits for its answer as households, and the children hear the prayer whose deliverance they will inherit.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
And all Judah stood before the Lord,....
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
Jehoshaphat stood . . . in the house of the Lord, before the new court--that is, the great or outer court (2Ch 4:9) called the new court, probably from having been at that time enlarged or beautified.
How the passage was read
What the Jewish commentators add
also their infants It is customary that when troops attack a country, the infants, wives, and children flee the villages to the fortified cities.
This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.
Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 3 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.
The words behind it
9 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וְכָ֨ל־ | vekhol- | and all | H3605 → | 5413 times |
| יְהוּדָ֔ה | yehudah | Judah | H3063 → | 819 times |
| עֹמְדִ֖ים | ʾomedim | [were] standing | H5975 → | 521 times |
| לִפְנֵ֣י | lifnei | <to> before | H6440 → | 2123 times |
| יְהוָ֑ה | yahweh | Yahweh | H3068 → | 6520 times |
| גַּם־ | gam- | also | H1571 → | 769 times |
| טַפָּ֖ם | tapam | little one[s] their | H2945 → | |
| נְשֵׁיהֶ֥ם | nesheihem | wives their | H802 → | 781 times |
| וּבְנֵיהֶֽם׃ פ | uveneihem | and children their | H1121 → | 4930 times |
וְכָ֨ל־and all
vekhol-H3605 →5413 times
יְהוּדָ֔הJudah
yehudahH3063 →819 times
עֹמְדִ֖ים[were] standing
ʾomedimH5975 →521 times
לִפְנֵ֣י<to> before
lifneiH6440 →2123 times
יְהוָ֑הYahweh
yahwehH3068 →6520 times
גַּם־also
gam-H1571 →769 times
טַפָּ֖םlittle one[s] their
tapamH2945 →
נְשֵׁיהֶ֥םwives their
nesheihemH802 →781 times
וּבְנֵיהֶֽם׃ פand children their
uveneihemH1121 →4930 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
Ezra 10:1While Ezra prayed and made this confession, weeping and falling facedown before the house of God, a very large assembly of Israelites—men, women, and children—gathered around him, and the people wept bitterly as well.
it leads to
- Daniel 9:20
While I was speaking, praying, confessing my sin and that of my people Israel, and presenting my petition before the LORD my God concerning His holy mountain—
- Psalms 119:136
My eyes shed streams of tears because Your law is not obeyed.
- Romans 9:2
I have deep sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart.
- Daniel 9:20
Through
Jonah 3:5And the Ninevites believed God. They proclaimed a fast and dressed in sackcloth, from the greatest of them to the least.
it leads to
- Luke 11:32
The men of Nineveh will stand at the judgment with this generation and condemn it; for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and now One greater than Jonah is here.
- Daniel 9:3
So I turned my attention to the Lord God to seek Him by prayer and petition, with fasting, sackcloth, and ashes.
- Joel 2:12–17
“Yet even now,” declares the LORD, “return to Me with all your heart, with fasting, weeping, and mourning.”
- Matthew 12:41
The men of Nineveh will stand at the judgment with this generation and condemn it; for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and now One greater than Jonah is here.
- Luke 11:32
Through
Acts 21:5But when our time there had ended, we set out on our journey. All the disciples, with their wives and children, accompanied us out of the city and knelt down on the beach to…
it leads to
- Acts 20:36
When Paul had said this, he knelt down with all of them and prayed.
- Acts 20:36
About 2 Chronicles
Who and where
1 name in this verse with a page on the site.
This page draws on Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and W. H. Bennett, The Books of Chronicles (Expositor's Bible).