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2 Chronicles 33:19

in 2 Chronicles 33

His prayer and how God received his plea, as well as all his sin and unfaithfulness, and the sites where he built high places and set up Asherah poles and idols before he humbled himself, they are indeed written in the Records of the Seers.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

His prayer also, and how God was entreated of him, and all his sin and his trespass, and the places wherein he built high places, and set up the Asherim and the graven images, before he humbled himself, behold, they are written in the history of Hozai.

KJV

His prayer also, and how God was intreated of him, and all his sin, and his trespass, and the places wherein he built high places, and set up groves and graven images, before he was humbled: behold, they are written among the sayings of the seers.

This verse in 2 Chronicles 33

Commentary

2 notes on this verse
The seers - Most moderns adopt the translation given in the margin of the Authorized Version, making Hosai (or rather, Chozai) a proper name. The point is a doubtful one.

This site's exposition

the words of the seers that spake to him

on 2 Chronicles 33:18-20

Chronicles names its own sources here, the book of the kings of Israel and the sayings of the seers, a record Matthew Henry reads as drawn from Manasseh's own confession once God gave him repentance. 2 Kings 21:18 buries Manasseh in the garden of his own house, the garden of Uzza; Chronicles keeps only in his own house, the shorter form standing beside the fuller one without conflict. Amon his son succeeds him, and the chapter turns at once to measure the son against the father it has just finished redeeming.

How the passage was read

What the Jewish commentators add

On the verses either side of this one

and they buried him in his house Like “in his house.” In II Kings (21:18) it is written: “in the garden of his house.” He did not merit to be buried with his forefathers.
Rashi: France, 1040–1105 · Rashi on II Chronicles 33:20:1, via Sefaria, The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg

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. 4 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

21 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.

  • וּתְפִלָּת֣וֹand prayer his

    utefilatoH860572 times

  • וְהֵֽעָתֶר־and being entreated

    veheater-H6279

  • לוֹ֮by him

    lo

  • וְכָל־and all

    vekholH36055413 times

  • חַטָּאת֣וֹsin his

    chatatoH2403295 times

  • וּמַעְלוֹ֒and unfaithfulness his

    uma'loH460428 times

  • וְהַמְּקֹמ֗וֹתand the places

    vehamekomotH4725401 times

  • אֲשֶׁר֩which

    ʾasherH8345497 times

  • בָּנָ֨הhe built

    banahH1129376 times

  • בָהֶ֤םat them

    vahem

  • בָּמוֹת֙high places

    bamotH1116102 times

  • וְהֶעֱמִיד֙and he set up

    veheemidH5975521 times

  • הָאֲשֵׁרִ֣יםthe Asherah poles

    haasherimH84240 times

  • וְהַפְּסִלִ֔יםand the idols

    vehapesilimH645623 times

  • לִפְנֵ֖י<to> before

    lifneiH64402123 times

  • הִכָּנְע֑וֹhe humbled himself

    hikaneoH366536 times

  • הִנָּ֣םthere they

    hinamH2005316 times

  • כְּתוּבִ֔ים[are] written

    ketuvimH3789224 times

  • עַ֖לon

    ʾalH59215755 times

  • דִּבְרֵ֥י[the] words of

    divreiH16971440 times

  • חוֹזָֽי׃Hozai

    chozaiH2335

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

    1 John 1:9

    If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

    it leads to

    • Psalms 32:5

      Then I acknowledged my sin to You and did not hide my iniquity. I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the LORD,” and You forgave the guilt of my sin. Selah

    • Proverbs 28:13

      He who conceals his sins will not prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them will find mercy.

    • Jeremiah 33:8

      And I will cleanse them from all the iniquity they have committed against Me, and will forgive all their sins of rebellion against Me.

    • Psalms 51:2–5

      Wash me clean of my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin.

    • 1 John 1:7

      But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin.

  • Through

    Acts 9:11

    “Get up!” the Lord told him. “Go to the house of Judas on Straight Street and ask for a man from Tarsus named Saul, for he is praying.

    it leads to

    • Acts 9:30

      When the brothers learned of this, they took him down to Caesarea and sent him off to Tarsus.

    • Acts 11:25

      Then Barnabas went to Tarsus to look for Saul,

  • Through

    Romans 5:16

    Again, the gift is not like the result of the one man’s sin: The judgment that followed one sin brought condemnation, but the gift that followed many trespasses brought justification.

    it leads to

    • Acts 13:38–39

      Therefore let it be known to you, brothers, that through Jesus the forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you.

Where this verse is studied

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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.

This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.