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Selected Verse: 2 Chronicles 23:13 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| 2Ch 23:13 |
Strong Concordance |
And she looked [07200], and, behold, the king [04428] stood [05975] at his pillar [05982] at the entering in [03996], and the princes [08269] and the trumpets [02689] by the king [04428]: and all the people [05971] of the land [0776] rejoiced [08056], and sounded [08628] with trumpets [02689], also the singers [07891] with instruments [03627] of musick [07892], and such as taught [03045] to sing praise [01984]. Then Athaliah [06271] rent [07167] her clothes [0899], and said [0559], Treason [07195], Treason [07195]. |
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King James |
And she looked, and, behold, the king stood at his pillar at the entering in, and the princes and the trumpets by the king: and all the people of the land rejoiced, and sounded with trumpets, also the singers with instruments of musick, and such as taught to sing praise. Then Athaliah rent her clothes, and said, Treason, Treason. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
| behold, the king stood at his pillar at the entering in--The king's pillar was in the people's court, opposite that of the priests'. The young king, arrayed in the royal insignia, had been brought out of the inner, to stand forth in the outer court, to the public view. Some think that he stood on the brazen scaffold of Solomon, erected beside the pillar [see on Ch2 6:13]. |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
| At the entering in - i. e. at, or near, the opening from the main chamber of the temple into the holy of holies. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| Rejoiced - To see a rod sprung out of the stem of Jesse! To see what they despaired of ever seeing, a king of the house of David. |
13 For Solomon [08010] had made [06213] a brasen [05178] scaffold [03595], of five [02568] cubits [0520] long [0753], and five [02568] cubits [0520] broad [07341], and three [07969] cubits [0520] high [06967], and had set [05414] it in the midst [08432] of the court [05835]: and upon it he stood [05975], and kneeled down [01288] upon his knees [01290] before all the congregation [06951] of Israel [03478], and spread forth [06566] his hands [03709] toward heaven [08064],