2 Kings 23:1

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.

• וַיִּשְׁלַ֖חand he sent

  vaiyishlachH7971 →845 times

• הַמֶּ֑לֶךְthe king

  hamelekhH4428 →2525 times

• וַיַּאַסְפ֣וּand they gathered

  vaiyaasfuH622 →200 times

• אֵלָ֔יוto him

  ʾelavH413 →5510 times

• כָּל־all

  kol-H3605 →5413 times

• זִקְנֵ֥י[the] elders of

  zikneiH2205 →178 times

• יְהוּדָ֖הJudah

  yehudahH3063 →819 times

• וִירוּשָׁלִָֽם׃and Jerusalem

  virushalimH3389 →643 times

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

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

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

  Deuteronomy 31:28

  Assemble before me all the elders of your tribes and all your officers so that I may speak these words in their hearing and call heaven and earth to witness against them.

  it leads to

  • Deuteronomy 32:1

    Give ear, O heavens, and I will speak; hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.

  • Deuteronomy 4:26

    I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you this day that you will quickly perish from the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess. You will not live long upon it,…

  • Deuteronomy 30:19

    I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you today that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing. Therefore choose life, so that you and your descendants may live,

  • Luke 19:40

    “I tell you,” He answered, “if they remain silent, the very stones will cry out.”

• Through

  2 Chronicles 30:2

  For the king and his officials and the whole assembly in Jerusalem had decided to keep the Passover in the second month,

  it leads to

  • Numbers 9:10–11

    “Tell the Israelites: ‘When any one of you or your descendants is unclean because of a dead body, or is away on a journey, he may still observe the Passover to the LORD.

  • 2 Chronicles 30:13

    In the second month, a very great assembly gathered in Jerusalem to celebrate the Feast of Unleavened Bread.

  • Proverbs 15:22

    Plans fail for lack of counsel, but with many advisers they succeed.

• Through

  2 Samuel 6:1

  David again assembled the chosen men of Israel, thirty thousand in all.

  it leads to

  • 1 Chronicles 13:1–4

    Then David conferred with all his leaders, the commanders of hundreds and of thousands.