2 Chronicles 24 — The restoration of the temple and the murder of Jehoiada’s son — Hebrew and Greek compared
Disparate in this chapter: 24:27
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Chapter 24 — The restoration of the temple and the murder of Jehoiada’s son
Joash and the need for repairs
Verse 24:1 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 24:1] Joash was seven years old when he became king, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Zibiah from Beer-sheba.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 24:1] Joash was seven years old when he became king, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Sabia from Beersabee.
Classification & Notes
Same
Text: The accession age, reign length, and mother's home agree, with the normal differing name forms.
Verse 24:2 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 24:2] Joash did what was right in YHWH's eyes all the days of Jehoiada the priest.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 24:2] Joash did what was right before the Lord all the days of Jehoiada the priest.
Classification & Notes
Same
Text: Both limit the favorable assessment to the priest's lifetime.
Verse 24:3 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 24:3] Jehoiada took two wives for him, and he fathered sons and daughters.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 24:3] Jehoiada took two wives for him, and he fathered sons and daughters.
Classification & Notes
Same
Text: Both retain two wives and the resulting sons and daughters; Joash is understood as the beneficiary of the arrangement.
Verse 24:4 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 24:4] After this, Joash had it in his heart to restore YHWH's house.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 24:4] After this, it came into Joash's heart to repair the Lord's house.
Classification & Notes
Same
Text: Both introduce the king's intention to restore the sanctuary.
Verse 24:5 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 24:5] He gathered the priests and Levites and said to them, “Go out to Judah's cities and collect silver from all Israel to strengthen your God's house year by year. Hurry about the matter.” But the Levites did not hurry.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 24:5] He gathered the priests and Levites and said to them, “Go out to Judah's cities and collect silver from all Israel to strengthen the Lord's house year by year. Hurry to speak.” But the Levites did not hurry.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Hebrew has your God's house and haste concerning the task; Greek has the Lord's house and an instruction to speak quickly.
Verse 24:6 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 24:6] The king called Jehoiada the chief and said to him, “Why have you not required the Levites to bring from Judah and Jerusalem the levy of Moses, YHWH's servant, and of Israel's assembly, for the Tent of Testimony?”
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 24:6] King Joash called Jehoiada the ruler and said to him, “Why have you not overseen the Levites' bringing from Judah and Jerusalem what Moses the man of God prescribed when he assembled Israel for the Tent of Testimony?”
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Greek explicitly names Joash and makes the assembly Moses' action. Hebrew coordinates Moses' levy with Israel's assembly. Servant of YHWH becomes man of God.
Verse 24:7 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 24:7] For the sons of wicked Athaliah had broken into God's house and had also used all the holy things of YHWH's house for the Baals.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 24:7] For Athaliah was the lawless woman, and her sons had pulled down God's house; they had also used the holy things of the Lord's house for the Baalim.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Greek separates the mother's lawlessness into a clause and describes pulling down the house; Hebrew describes breaking into it and explicitly includes all its holy things.
The collection chest and restoration
Verse 24:8 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 24:8] The king gave the command, and they made one chest and placed it outside at the gate of YHWH's house.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 24:8] The king said, “Let a collection box be made and placed outside at the gate of the Lord's house.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Hebrew narrates the command's execution; Greek gives the king's direct instructions. Hebrew explicitly numbers one chest.
Verse 24:9 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 24:9] They made a proclamation in Judah and Jerusalem to bring to YHWH the levy that Moses, God's servant, had imposed on Israel in the wilderness.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 24:9] Let them proclaim in Judah and Jerusalem that they should bring to the Lord as Moses, God's servant, directed Israel in the wilderness.”
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Hebrew continues the executed arrangements and names the levy; Greek continues the king's instruction and refers generally to Moses' direction.
Verse 24:10 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 24:10] All the princes and all the people rejoiced. They brought their contributions and threw them into the chest until they had finished.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 24:10] All the rulers and all the people gave. They brought their contributions and put them into the collection box until it was full.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Hebrew opens with rejoicing and ends with completion of contributing; Greek opens with giving and ends with the box's fullness.
Verse 24:11 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 24:11] Whenever the chest was brought by the Levites to the king's oversight, and they saw that there was much silver, the king's scribe and the chief priest's officer came, emptied the chest, lifted it, and returned it to its place. They did this day after day and gathered much silver.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 24:11] Whenever the collection box was brought by the Levites to the king's overseers, and they saw that the silver had increased, the king's scribe and the high priest's overseer came, emptied the collection box, and restored it to its place. They did this day after day and gathered much silver.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Greek makes the royal overseers explicit persons and omits the separate action of lifting the chest.
Verse 24:12 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 24:12] The king and Jehoiada gave it to those doing the work of service for YHWH's house. They hired stonecutters and craftsmen to restore YHWH's house, and also workers in iron and bronze to strengthen YHWH's house.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 24:12] The king and Jehoiada the priest gave it to those doing the work for the service of the Lord's house. They hired stonecutters and carpenters to repair the Lord's house, and smiths of iron and bronze to repair the Lord's house.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Greek adds the priestly title and repeats repair, where Hebrew varies restore and strengthen. Both name stone, wood or craft work, iron, and bronze.
Verse 24:13 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 24:13] The workers did their work, and restoration advanced through their hands. They set God's house in its proper condition and strengthened it.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 24:13] The workers did their work, and the extent of the work increased through their hands. They set the Lord's house in its standing place and strengthened it.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Hebrew uses a healing or restoration expression and God's house; Greek has increasing length or extent and the Lord's house.
Verse 24:14 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 24:14] When they finished, they brought the remaining silver before the king and Jehoiada. He made it into articles for YHWH's house: articles for service and offering, bowls, and articles of gold and silver. They offered burnt offerings continually in YHWH's house all Jehoiada's days.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 24:14] When they finished, they brought the remaining silver to the king and Jehoiada. They made articles for the Lord's house: articles for the service of burnt offerings and golden and silver incense vessels. They offered burnt offerings continually in the Lord's house all Jehoiada's days.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Greek compresses the vessel list into service articles for burnt offerings and incense vessels of gold and silver; Hebrew separately lists bowls and gold and silver articles. The Hebrew offering term and vessel identification remain lexically uncertain.
Jehoiada’s death and the rejected prophets
Verse 24:15 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 24:15] Jehoiada grew old, full of days, and died. He was one hundred thirty years old when he died.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 24:15] Jehoiada grew old, full of days, and died, being one hundred thirty years old at his death.
Classification & Notes
Same
Text: Both give the priest's death at one hundred thirty.
Verse 24:16 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 24:16] They buried him in David's city with the kings, because he had done good in Israel and toward God and His house.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 24:16] They buried him in David's city with the kings, because he had done good toward Israel and toward God and His house.
Classification & Notes
Same
Text: Both explain the priest's royal burial by his service to Israel, God, and the sanctuary.
Verse 24:17 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 24:17] After Jehoiada died, Judah's princes came and bowed down to the king. Then the king listened to them.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 24:17] After Jehoiada's death, Judah's rulers came in and bowed down to the king. Then the king listened to them.
Classification & Notes
Same
Text: Both make the priest's death the turning point for the rulers' influence.
Verse 24:18 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 24:18] They abandoned the house of YHWH, the God of their fathers, and served the Asherahs and idols. Wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem because of this guilt of theirs.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 24:18] They abandoned the Lord, the God of their fathers, and served the Astartes and idols. Wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem on that day.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Hebrew explicitly abandons the house and grounds wrath in guilt; Greek directly abandons the Lord and gives a time expression, on that day. Asherahs become Astartes.
Verse 24:19 Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 24:19] He sent prophets among them to bring them back to YHWH. They testified against them, but they would not listen.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 24:19] He sent prophets to them to turn them back to the Lord, but they did not listen. They testified to them, but they did not listen.
Classification & Notes
Divergent
Text: Greek repeats their refusal to listen before and after the prophets' testimony; Hebrew gives it once.
Verse 24:20 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 24:20] The Spirit of God clothed Zechariah son of Jehoiada the priest. He stood above the people and said to them, “Thus says God: Why do you transgress YHWH's commandments? You will not prosper. Because you have abandoned YHWH, He has abandoned you.”
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 24:20] The Spirit of God clothed Azarias, the priest, son of Jehoiada. He stood above the people and said, “Thus says the Lord: Why do you transgress the Lord's commandments? You will not prosper. Because you have abandoned the Lord, He will abandon you.”
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Hebrew names Zechariah and introduces God's speech; Greek names Azarias and introduces the Lord's speech. Hebrew declares abandonment as accomplished; Greek predicts it. Greek's priestly title grammatically describes Azarias.
Verse 24:21 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 24:21] They conspired against him and stoned him at the king's command in the courtyard of YHWH's house.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 24:21] They attacked him and stoned him by the command of King Joash in the courtyard of the Lord's house.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Greek explicitly names the commanding king; Hebrew describes a conspiracy. Saints: Saint John Chrysostom, Homily on Matthew 74.2, lists identification with Jehoiada's son among competing explanations of Matthew's Zechariah and stresses the added outrage of killing a holy person in a holy place. He does not settle that identity here [S2].
Verse 24:22 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 24:22] King Joash did not remember the steadfast kindness that Jehoiada, the victim's father, had shown him, but killed his son. As he died, he said, “May YHWH see and call to account!”
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 24:22] Joash did not remember the mercy that Jehoiada, the victim's father, had shown him, but put his son to death. As he was dying, he said, “May the Lord see and judge!”
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Greek omits the king's title and explicitly says judge; Hebrew's seek or investigate is rendered call to account. The father in both is the slain man's father, not Joash's.
Invasion, assassination, and succession
Verse 24:23 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 24:23] At the turn of the year, the army of Aram came up against him. They entered Judah and Jerusalem, destroyed all the people's princes from among the people, and sent all their spoil to the king of Damascus.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 24:23] After the year's completion, Syria's army came up against him. It came against Judah and Jerusalem, and they destroyed all the people's rulers among the people and sent all their spoils to the king of Damascus.
Classification & Notes
Similar
Text: Both describe the Syrian invasion, destruction of the ruling group, and transfer of spoils to Damascus; the time formulas differ slightly.
Verse 24:24 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 24:24] Although Aram's army came with few men, YHWH gave a very great army into their hand, because they had abandoned YHWH, the God of their fathers. They executed judgments against Joash.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 24:24] Although Syria's army arrived with few men, God delivered a very great army into their hands, because they had abandoned the Lord, the God of their fathers. He executed judgments against Joash.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: The delivering agent is YHWH in Hebrew, God in Greek. Hebrew ends with plural agents executing judgment; Greek ends with a singular agent, naturally the preceding God.
Verse 24:25 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 24:25] When they left him, leaving him with many illnesses, his servants conspired against him because of the blood of the sons of Jehoiada the priest. They killed him on his bed, and he died. They buried him in David's city, but did not bury him in the tombs of the kings.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 24:25] After they left him, leaving him with grave illnesses, his servants attacked him because of the blood of the son of Jehoiada the priest. They put him to death on his bed, and he died. They buried him in David's city, but did not bury him in the tomb of the kings.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Hebrew has plural sons of Jehoiada; Greek has singular son. Both retain the assassination on his bed and exclusion from the royal burial place.
Verse 24:26 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 24:26] These were those who conspired against him: Zabad son of Shimeath the Ammonite woman, and Jehozabad son of Shimrith the Moabite woman.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 24:26] Those who attacked him were Zabed son of Samath, the Ammonite, and Jozabed son of Somaroth, the Moabite,
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Hebrew explicitly identifies two mothers through feminine ethnic adjectives; Greek has masculine forms, whose attachment to the named man or his parent is not fixed here.
Verse 24:27 Disparate
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 24:27] As for his sons, the many oracles against him, and the founding work of God's house, they are written in the exposition of the Book of the Kings. His son Amaziah reigned in his place.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 24:27] and all his sons; the five came against him. The remaining matters are written in the writing of the kings. His son Amaziah reigned in his place.
Classification & Notes
Disparate
Text: Greek connects all his sons with the preceding attackers and mentions five coming against him. Hebrew instead lists sons, numerous oracles, and sanctuary work as topics in a royal exposition. The Greek has no corresponding oracle or building notice; its pronoun and five remain unexplained.