This house, which is so high, everyone who passes by it shall be astonished, and shall say, ‘Why has Yahweh done this to this land and to this house?’
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This house, which is so high, everyone who passes by it shall be astonished, and shall say, ‘Why has Yahweh done this to this land and to this house?’
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And this house, which is high, shall be an astonishment to every one that passeth by it; so that he shall say, Why hath the LORD done thus unto this land, and unto this house?
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And this house, which is so high, every one that passeth by it shall be astonished, and shall say: Why hath the LORD done thus unto this land, and to this house?
Cross-references (11)
Passages linked to 2 Chronicles 7:21 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Jeremiah 22:8-9 “Many nations will pass by this city, and they will each ask his neighbor, ‘Why has Yahweh done this to this great city?’ Then they will answer, ‘Because they abandoned the covenant of Yahweh their God, worshiped other gods, and served them.’ ”
- Jeremiah 16:10-12 It will happen, when you tell this people all these words, and they ask you, ‘Why has Yahweh pronounced all this great evil against us?’ or ‘What is our iniquity? or ‘What is our sin that we have committed against Yahweh our God?’ then you shall tell them, ‘Because your fathers have forsaken me,’ says Yahweh, ‘and have walked after other gods, have served them, have worshiped them, have forsaken me, and have not kept my law. You have done evil more than your fathers, for behold, you each walk after the stubbornness of his evil heart, so that you don’t listen to me.
- Jeremiah 19:8 I will make this city an astonishment and a hissing. Everyone who passes by it will be astonished and hiss because of all its plagues.
- Deuteronomy 29:24-28 Even all the nations will say, “Why has Yahweh done this to this land? What does the heat of this great anger mean?” Then men will say, “Because they abandoned the covenant of Yahweh, the God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them out of the land of Egypt, and went and served other gods and worshiped them, gods that they didn’t know and that he had not given to them. Therefore Yahweh’s anger burned against this land, to bring on it all the curses that are written in this book. Yahweh rooted them out of their land in anger, in wrath, and in great indignation, and thrust them into another land, as it is today.”
- 1 Kings 9:8-9 Though this house is so high, yet everyone who passes by it will be astonished and hiss; and they will say, ‘Why has Yahweh done this to this land, and to this house?’ and they will answer, ‘Because they abandoned Yahweh their God, who brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and embraced other gods, and worshiped them, and served them. Therefore Yahweh has brought all this evil on them.’ ”
- 2 Chronicles 29:8 Therefore Yahweh’s wrath was on Judah and Jerusalem, and he has delivered them to be tossed back and forth, to be an astonishment, and a hissing, as you see with your eyes.
- Jeremiah 5:19 It will happen when you say, ‘Why has Yahweh our God done all these things to us?’ Then you shall say to them, ‘Just as you have forsaken me and served foreign gods in your land, so you will serve strangers in a land that is not yours.’
- Jeremiah 13:22 If you say in your heart, “Why have these things come on me?” Your skirts are uncovered because of the greatness of your iniquity, and your heels suffer violence.
- Jeremiah 22:28 Is this man Coniah a despised broken vessel? Is he a vessel in which no one delights? Why are they cast out, he and his offspring, and cast into a land which they don’t know?
- Jeremiah 49:17 “Edom will become an astonishment. Everyone who passes by it will be astonished, and will hiss at all its plagues.
- Jeremiah 50:13 Because of Yahweh’s wrath she won’t be inhabited, but she will be wholly desolate. Everyone who goes by Babylon will be astonished, and hiss at all her plagues.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 21. Shall be an astonishment] The manner in…
Verse 21. Shall be an astonishment] The manner in which these disobedient people have been destroyed is truly astonishing: no nation was ever so highly favoured, and none ever so severely and signally punished.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 21. which is high] Reader, which was high. The…
21. which is high] Reader, which was high. The past tense is used by a kind of anticipation, as though the Speaker spoke from a later standpoint than the age of Solomon.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (21) And this house, which is high.—A correction of…
(21) And this house, which is high.—A correction of Kings: “and this house shall be high,” which appears meaningless in the context. But the Syriac (and Arabic) here and in Kings has, “And this house shall be laid waste” (nehwê hreb); and the Targum of Kings combines both readings thus: “And this house which is high shall be laid waste” (y’hê harîb). It appears, therefore, that the original reading of the Heb. text was, “And this house shall become ruinous heaps” (‘îyîn, “heaps,” not ‘elyôn, “high”). (Comp. Mic_3:12. The mistake is as old as the LXX., ύ οἶκος οὗτος ὁ ὑψηλός.)
Shall be an astonishment to every one that passeth by it.—Every one that passeth by it shall be astonished: πᾶς ὁ διαπορευόμενος αὐτὸν ἐκστήσεται, LXX. Syriac, “Every one that passeth by it shall stop and shake his head, and sway with his hand, and say “. . . Kings adds, “and shall hiss” (certainly original).
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain The Hebrew text of the first sentence of this…
The Hebrew text of the first sentence of this verse differs here from that in the parallel; but, in fact, neither text reads satisfactorily and smoothly. The parallel (1Ki_9:8) inserts the little word at," though without italics, and which" in italic type. The at" is no doubt intended to be condoned as supposed to belong to the word astonished; the following verb hiss also permitting, though not requiring, the appendage. Not leaning to the text of the parallel (which shows no rv,a) and which shows the substantive verb in the future tense hy,hyi), we need not find any particular difficulty in rendering our present text, And this house, which is most high (the word well favours this idea), shall be an astonishment to every passer by. The Septuagint reads simply, "This lofty house." Why hath the Lord done this? (see Deu_29:24; Jer_22:8, Jer_22:9) To the "astonishment" prophesied here the parallel adds, "shall hiss in a forcible expression found first in 2Ch_29:8, and afterwards inand (Mic_6:16) in Jeremiah (Jer_18:16 Jer_19:8 Jer_25:9; Lam_2:15, Lam_2:16)
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 will be shocked
will be shocked
"will be amazed"
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will hiss
This is how they would show that they are shocked by what happened to the temple (See: Symbolic Action)
they forsook Yahweh
"they were unfaithful to Yahweh" or "they did not obey Yahweh"
who had brought their ancestors out of the land of Egypt
This phrase tells why they should have worshiped God. (See: Distinguishing versus Informing or Reminding)
they laid hold of other gods
Here "laid hold of" represents choosing to be loyal to them. AT: "they chose to be loyal to other gods" (See: Metaphor)
bowed down to them and worshiped them
These two phrases mean the same thing. The phrase "bowed down to them" describes the posture that people used in worship. (See: Parallelism)
translationWords
temple
forsake
Yahweh
Egypt
bow
worship
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