2 Chronicles 7 — Fire, Dedication, and the Divine Answer — Hebrew and Greek compared
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Chapter 7 — Fire, Dedication, and the Divine Answer
Fire and the dedication feast
Verse 7:1 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 7:1] When Solomon finished praying, fire came down from heaven and consumed the burnt offering and sacrifices, and YHWH’s glory filled the house.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 7:1] When Solomon finished praying, fire came down from heaven and consumed the whole burnt offerings and sacrifices, and the Lord’s glory filled the house.
Classification & Notes
Similar
Text: Hebrew’s burnt offering is singular or collective; Greek explicitly has plural whole burnt offerings. Both describe heavenly fire and the house filled with glory.
Verse 7:2 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 7:2] The priests could not enter YHWH’s house, because YHWH’s glory had filled YHWH’s house.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 7:2] The priests could not enter the Lord’s house at that time, because the Lord’s glory had filled the house.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Greek adds at that time and does not repeat the Lord’s with the final house.
Verse 7:3 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 7:3] All Israel’s sons saw the fire descending and YHWH’s glory upon the house. They bowed with their faces to the earth upon the pavement, worshiped, and thanked YHWH: “For He is good, for His steadfast love endures forever.”
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 7:3] All Israel’s sons saw the fire descending and the Lord’s glory upon the house. They fell face down to the earth upon the stone pavement, worshiped, and praised the Lord: “For it is good, for His mercy endures forever.”
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Greek explicitly identifies stone pavement and has praise rather than thanksgiving. As in 5:13, its good is neuter, while Hebrew predicates goodness of YHWH.
Verse 7:4 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 7:4] The king and all the people were offering sacrifices before YHWH.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 7:4] The king and all the people were sacrificing offerings before the Lord.
Classification & Notes
Same
Text: Both describe the king and people jointly offering sacrifice.
Verse 7:5 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 7:5] King Solomon offered a sacrifice of twenty-two thousand cattle and a hundred and twenty thousand sheep. The king and all the people dedicated God’s house.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 7:5] Solomon offered the sacrifice: twenty-two thousand calves and a hundred and twenty thousand flock animals. The king and all the people dedicated God’s house.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Greek has calves and flock animals, Hebrew cattle and sheep or goats. The quantities agree, and Greek omits king before Solomon in the opening clause.
Verse 7:6 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 7:6] The priests stood at their posts, and the Levites had YHWH’s musical instruments that King David had made to thank YHWH, “For His steadfast love endures forever,” as David praised through their hands. The priests sounded trumpets opposite them, while all Israel stood.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 7:6] The priests stood at their watches, and the Levites had instruments for the Lord’s songs belonging to King David, to give thanks before the Lord, “For His mercy endures forever,” with David’s hymns through their hands. The priests sounded trumpets on the trumpets opposite them, while all Israel stood.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Hebrew explicitly says David made the instruments; Greek has a compressed possessive construction and names David’s hymns. Greek also explicitly repeats trumpets as the instrument sounded.
Verse 7:7 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 7:7] Solomon sanctified the middle of the court before YHWH’s house, for he offered the burnt offerings and the fat of the peace offerings there, because the bronze altar Solomon had made could not hold the burnt offering, grain offering, and fat portions.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 7:7] Solomon sanctified the middle of the court in the Lord’s house, for he offered the whole burnt offerings and the fat of the salvation offerings there, because the bronze altar Solomon had made was not sufficient to receive the whole burnt offerings, the manaa, and the fat portions.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Greek locates the court in the house rather than before it, calls the peace offerings salvation offerings, and borrows manaa for the grain offering. Both explain the need for additional sacrificial space.
Verse 7:8 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 7:8] Solomon kept the feast at that time for seven days, with all Israel, a very great assembly, from Lebo-hamath to Egypt’s wadi.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 7:8] Solomon kept the feast at that time for seven days, with all Israel, a very great assembly, from the entrance of Aimath to Egypt’s torrent.
Classification & Notes
Similar
Text: The seven-day feast and geographical extent agree; Greek translates the entrance element of the northern place name.
Verse 7:9 Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 7:9] On the eighth day they held a solemn assembly, for they had kept the altar’s dedication for seven days and the feast for seven days.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 7:9] On the eighth day he held a closing celebration, for he had celebrated the altar’s dedication as a feast for seven days.
Classification & Notes
Divergent
Text: Hebrew explicitly distinguishes seven days of dedication and seven days of festival. Greek has only one seven-day expression and joins dedication with feast; it also uses a singular subject and a closing celebration. The second seven-day period is not supplied in Greek.
Verse 7:10 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 7:10] On the twenty-third day of the seventh month he sent the people to their tents, rejoicing and glad of heart over the good that YHWH had done for David, Solomon, and His people Israel.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 7:10] On the twenty-third day of the seventh month he sent the people to their dwellings, rejoicing and with a good heart over the good things the Lord had done for David, Solomon, and His people Israel.
Classification & Notes
Similar
Text: The dismissal date and beneficiaries of divine goodness agree; Hebrew retains tents where Greek has dwellings.
The Lord’s answer and warning
Verse 7:11 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 7:11] Solomon completed YHWH’s house and the king’s house. Everything that came into Solomon’s heart to do in YHWH’s house and in his own house, he accomplished successfully.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 7:11] Solomon completed the Lord’s house and the king’s house. Everything Solomon desired in his soul to do in the Lord’s house and in his own house prospered.
Classification & Notes
Similar
Text: Hebrew speaks of Solomon’s heart and his accomplishing the work; Greek speaks of his soul and the work prospering.
Verse 7:12 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 7:12] YHWH appeared to Solomon at night and said to him, “I have heard your prayer and chosen this place for Myself as a house of sacrifice.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 7:12] God appeared to Solomon at night and said to him, “I have heard your prayer and chosen this place for Myself as a house of sacrifice.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: The speaker is introduced as YHWH in Hebrew and God in Greek. Both describe a night appearance without explicitly calling it a dream.
Verse 7:13 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 7:13] If I shut heaven so that there is no rain, if I command the locust to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among My people,
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 7:13] If I shut heaven so that there is no rain, if I command the locust to devour the tree, or if I send death among My people,
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: The locust’s object is the land in Hebrew and the tree in Greek, possibly collective vegetation. Greek renders pestilence as death.
Verse 7:14 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 7:14] and My people over whom My name is called humble themselves, pray, seek My face, and turn from their evil ways, then I will hear from heaven, forgive their sin, and heal their land.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 7:14] and My people over whom My name has been invoked feel shame, pray, seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, be propitious toward their sins, and heal their land.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Hebrew describes humbling themselves and forgiveness of sin; Greek describes feeling shame and propitious favor toward sins. Both include prayer, seeking God, moral return, and healing of the land.
Verse 7:15 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 7:15] Now My eyes will be open and My ears attentive to the prayer of this place.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 7:15] Now My eyes will be open and My ears attentive to the prayer of this place.
Classification & Notes
Same
Text: Both directly answer the request for attentive eyes and ears in 6:40.
Verse 7:16 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 7:16] Now I have chosen and sanctified this house for My name to be there forever. My eyes and My heart will be there all the days.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 7:16] Now I have chosen and sanctified this house for My name to be there forever. My eyes and My heart will be there all the days.
Classification & Notes
Same
Text: The choice, sanctification, enduring name, and attention of eyes and heart agree.
Verse 7:17 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 7:17] As for you, if you walk before Me as David your father walked, doing everything I commanded you and keeping My statutes and judgments,
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 7:17] As for you, if you walk before Me as David your father did, doing everything I commanded you and keeping My ordinances and judgments,
Classification & Notes
Same
Text: Both address Solomon personally and condition the following promise on obedience.
Verse 7:18 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 7:18] then I will establish your royal throne, as I covenanted with David your father, saying, ‘You will never lack a man ruling in Israel.’
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 7:18] then I will establish the throne of your kingdom, as I covenanted with David your father, saying, ‘A man leading in Israel will not be removed from you.’
Classification & Notes
Similar
Text: Both preserve the covenantal promise of a continuing ruler, using different idioms for his not being cut off or removed.
Verse 7:19 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 7:19] But if you turn away and abandon My statutes and commandments that I placed before you, and go and serve other gods and worship them,
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 7:19] But if you turn away and abandon My ordinances and commandments that I placed before you, and go and render service to other gods and worship them,
Classification & Notes
Same
Text: Both shift to plural you and warn against abandonment of the commandments and worship of other gods.
Verse 7:20 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 7:20] then I will uproot them from My land that I gave them, and this house that I sanctified for My name I will cast away from My presence. I will make it a proverb and a taunt among all peoples.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 7:20] then I will remove you from the land that I gave them, and this house that I sanctified for My name I will turn away from My presence. I will make it a parable and a tale among all nations.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Hebrew shifts to them and calls the land My land; Greek retains you but then says gave them, and omits My before land. Hebrew’s taunt has a more explicitly derisive sense than Greek’s tale.
Verse 7:21 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 7:21] This house, which was exalted—everyone passing by it will be appalled and say, ‘Why has YHWH done this to this land and this house?’
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 7:21] This lofty house—everyone passing through it will be astonished and say, ‘For what reason has the Lord done this to this land and this house?’
Classification & Notes
Similar
Text: Hebrew describes the house’s former exaltation and passersby; Greek calls it lofty and describes passing through it. Both ask the reason for its fate.
Verse 7:22 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 7:22] They will say, ‘Because they abandoned YHWH, their fathers’ God, who brought them out of Egypt’s land, and took hold of other gods, worshiped them, and served them. Therefore He brought all this calamity upon them.’”
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 7:22] They will say, ‘Because they abandoned the Lord, their fathers’ God, who brought them out of Egypt’s land, and attached themselves to other gods, worshiped them, and served them. Therefore He brought all this calamity upon them.’”
Classification & Notes
Same
Text: Both interpret the disaster as the consequence of abandoning the God of the exodus for other gods.