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2 Kings 11:7

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the two divisions that would go off duty on the Sabbath are to guard the house of the LORD for the king.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And the two companies of you, even all that go forth on the sabbath, shall keep the watch of the house of Jehovah about the king.

KJV

And two parts of all you that go forth on the sabbath, even they shall keep the watch of the house of the Lord about the king.

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This verse in 2 Kings 11

Commentary

3 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

keep the watch of the house

on 2 Kings 11:7-9

The other two-thirds, who would ordinarily go off duty, stay instead to ring the king himself, a wall of armed men across the width of the temple court with orders to kill anyone who breaks the ranks. Every captain does exactly as Jehoiada commanded, and the narrator gives the plot's execution in one sentence of compliance, no hesitation recorded on either side. The coup's success rests on discipline kept inside a priesthood, not on a battle fought in the open.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

), for good order contributes very much to the expediting and accomplishing of any great enterprise. Let every man know, and keep, and make good, his post, and then the work will be done quickly. When the guards were fixed, then the king was brought forth,

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The words behind it

13 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.

  • וּשְׁתֵּ֤יand [the] two

    usheteiH8147 →768 times

  • הַיָּדוֹת֙the hands

    haiyadotH3027 →1618 times

  • בָּכֶ֔םin <the> you

    bakhem

  • כֹּ֖לall

    kolH3605 →5413 times

  • יֹצְאֵ֣י[those who] go out

    yotzeeiH3318 →1067 times

  • הַשַּׁבָּ֑ת<of> the sabbath

    hashabatH7676 →110 times

  • וְשָֽׁמְר֛וּand they will keep

    veshameruH8104 →468 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • מִשְׁמֶ֥רֶת[the] watch of

    mishmeretH4931 →78 times

  • בֵּית־[the] house of

    beit-H1004 →2046 times

  • יְהוָ֖הYahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • אֶל־to

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • הַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃the king

    hamelekhH4428 →2525 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

7 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

    2 Kings 11:5

    and commanded them, “This is what you are to do: A third of you who come on duty on the Sabbath shall guard the royal palace,

    it leads to

    • 1 Chronicles 9:25

      Their relatives came from their villages at fixed times to serve with them for seven-day periods.

    • 2 Kings 11:19

      He took with him the commanders of hundreds, the Carites, the guards, and all the people of the land, and they brought the king down from the house of the LORD and entered the…

    • Luke 1:8–9

      One day while Zechariah’s division was on duty and he was serving as priest before God,

    • 1 Chronicles 23:3–6

      The Levites thirty years of age or older were counted, and the total number of men was 38,000.

    • Jeremiah 26:10

      When the officials of Judah heard these things, they went up from the king’s palace to the house of the LORD and sat there at the entrance of the New Gate.

  • Through

    2 Chronicles 23:6

    No one is to enter the house of the LORD except the priests and those Levites who serve; they may enter because they are consecrated, but all the people are to obey the requirement…

    it leads to

    • 1 Chronicles 23:28–32

      but their duty was to assist the descendants of Aaron with the service of the house of the LORD, being responsible for the courts and chambers, the purification of all the holy things, and…

    • 2 Kings 11:6–7

      a third shall be at the gate of Sur, and a third at the gate behind the guards. You are to take turns guarding the temple—

About 2 Kings

The Death of Athaliah — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
The Death of Athaliah — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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