2 Chronicles 7:19

Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

But if you turn away and forsake the statutes and commandments I have set before you, and go and serve other gods and worship them,

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְאִם־תְּשׁוּב֣וּן אַתֶּ֔ם וַעֲזַבְתֶּם֙ חֻקּוֹתַ֣י וּמִצְוֺתַ֔י אֲשֶׁ֥ר נָתַ֖תִּי לִפְנֵיכֶ֑ם וַהֲלַכְתֶּ֗ם וַעֲבַדְתֶּם֙ אֱלֹהִ֣ים אֲחֵרִ֔ים וְהִשְׁתַּחֲוִיתֶ֖ם לָהֶֽם׃

Transliteration

But if wə-ʾim- təšûḇûn you ʾattem wa- ʿăzaḇtem my statutes ḥuqqôṯay û- my commandments miṣwōṯay ʾăšer nāṯattî before lipənêḵem wa- hălaḵtem wa- ʿăḇaḏtem ʾĕlōhîm ʾăḥērîm wə- hištaḥăwîṯem to them lāhem.

Grammar Details

• *wə-ʾim-*: conjunction with conditional particle - 'but if'
• *təšûḇûn*: qal imperfect, 2nd masculine plural - 'you turn back/away'
• *ʾattem*: personal pronoun, 2nd masculine plural - 'you'
• *wa-*: consecutive conjunction - 'and'
• *ʿăzaḇtem*: qal perfect, 2nd masculine plural - 'you forsake'
• *ḥuqqôṯay*: noun, feminine plural construct with 1st singular suffix - 'my statutes'
• *û-*: conjunction - 'and'
• *miṣwōṯay*: noun, feminine plural construct with 1st singular suffix - 'my commandments'
• *ʾăšer*: relative particle - 'which/that'
• *nāṯattî*: qal perfect, 1st singular - 'I have given'
• *lipənêḵem*: preposition with noun, masculine plural construct and 2nd masculine plural suffix - 'before you'
• *hălaḵtem*: qal perfect, 2nd masculine plural - 'you go'
• *ʿăḇaḏtem*: qal perfect, 2nd masculine plural - 'you serve'
• *ʾĕlōhîm*: noun, masculine plural - 'gods'
• *ʾăḥērîm*: adjective, masculine plural - 'other'
• *wə-*: conjunction - 'and'
• *hištaḥăwîṯem*: hishtafel perfect, 2nd masculine plural - 'you worship'
• *lāhem*: preposition with 3rd masculine plural suffix - 'to them'

Word Meanings

• *təšûḇûn*: you turn back, you return, you turn away
• *ʿăzaḇtem*: you forsake, you abandon, you leave
• *ḥuqqôṯay*: my statutes, my decrees, my ordinances
• *miṣwōṯay*: my commandments, my precepts, my orders
• *nāṯattî*: I have given, I placed, I set
• *lipənêḵem*: before you, in front of you, in your presence
• *hălaḵtem*: you go, you walk, you follow
• *ʿăḇaḏtem*: you serve, you worship, you work for
• *ʾĕlōhîm*: gods, deities, divine beings
• *ʾăḥērîm*: other, foreign, strange
• *hištaḥăwîṯem*: you worship, you bow down, you prostrate yourselves

Other Translations

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  But if ye turn away, and forsake my statutes and my commandments, which I have set before you, and shall go and serve other gods, and worship them;

• KJV1611 – Modern English

  But if you turn away and forsake My statutes and My commandments which I have set before you, and go and serve other gods, and worship them;

• King James Version 1611 (Original)

  But if ye turn away, and forsake my statutes and my commandments, which I have set before you, and shall go and serve other gods, and worship them;

• American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

  But if ye turn away,{H7725} and forsake{H5800} my statutes{H2708} and my commandments{H4687} which I have set{H5414} before{H6440} you, and shall go{H1980} and serve{H5647} other{H312} gods,{H430} and worship{H7812} them;

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

  But if ye turn away{H7725}{(H8799)}, and forsake{H5800}{(H8804)} my statutes{H2708} and my commandments{H4687}, which I have set{H5414}{(H8804)} before{H6440} you, and shall go{H1980}{(H8804)} and serve{H5647}{(H8804)} other{H312} gods{H430}, and worship{H7812}{(H8694)} them;

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  But yf ye turne backe, and forsake myne ordynaunces and commaundemetes which I haue layed before you, and so go youre waye, and serue other goddes, and worshippe them,

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  But if ye turne away, and forsake my statutes and my commandements which I haue set before you, and shall goe and serue other gods, and worshippe them,

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  But and if ye turne away, and forsake my statutes & my commaundementes which I haue set before you, and shall go and serue other gods, and worship them:

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  But if ye turn away, and forsake my statutes and my commandments, which I have set before you, and shall go and serve other gods, and worship them;

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  But if you turn away, and forsake my statutes and my commandments which I have set before you, and shall go and serve other gods, and worship them;

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  and if ye turn back -- ye -- and have forsaken My statutes, and My commands, that I have placed before you, and have gone and served other gods, and bowed yourselves to them -- then I have plucked them from off My ground that I have given to them,

• American Standard Version (1901)

  But if ye turn away, and forsake my statutes and my commandments which I have set before you, and shall go and serve other gods, and worship them;

• American Standard Version (1901)

  But if ye turn away, and forsake my statutes and my commandments which I have set before you, and shall go and serve other gods, and worship them;

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  But if you are turned away from me, and do not keep my orders and my laws which I have put before you, but go and make yourselves servants to other gods, giving them worship:

• World English Bible (2000)

  But if you turn away, and forsake my statutes and my commandments which I have set before you, and shall go and serve other gods, and worship them;

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  “But if you people ever turn away from me, fail to obey the regulations and rules I instructed you to keep, and decide to serve and worship other gods,

Referenced Verses

• Deut 28:15 : 15 But if you will not listen to the voice of the LORD your God and carefully follow all His commandments and statutes I am commanding you today, then all these curses will come upon you and overtake you.
• Lev 26:14 : 14 But if you will not listen to me and will not carry out all these commandments,
• Lev 26:33-46 : 33 I will scatter you among the nations and will draw out a sword after you. Your land will be desolate and your cities will lie in ruins. 34 Then the land will enjoy its sabbaths as long as it lies desolate and you are in the land of your enemies; then the land will rest and enjoy its sabbaths. 35 As long as it lies desolate, it will have the rest it did not have during the sabbaths while you lived there. 36 As for those of you who survive, I will bring weakness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. The sound of a driven leaf will put them to flight, and they will flee as though running from a sword, though no one pursues them. 37 They will stumble over one another as if fleeing from the sword, though no one pursues them. You will not be able to stand before your enemies. 38 You will perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies will consume you. 39 Those of you who remain will waste away in their iniquity in the lands of your enemies; and also because of the iniquities of their ancestors, they will waste away with them. 40 But if they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their ancestors—their unfaithfulness with which they were unfaithful to me, and also how they walked contrary to me— 41 so that I also walked contrary to them and brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised hearts are humbled, and they accept their punishment for their iniquity, 42 then I will remember my covenant with Jacob, and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham, and I will remember the land. 43 For the land will be abandoned by them and will enjoy its sabbaths while it lies desolate without them; they will accept their punishment for their iniquity, because they rejected my judgments and their soul abhorred my statutes. 44 Yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject them or abhor them so as to destroy them completely, breaking my covenant with them, for I am the LORD their God. 45 For their sake, I will remember the covenant with their ancestors, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations to be their God: I am the LORD. 46 These are the statutes, judgments, and laws the LORD established between himself and the sons of Israel through Moses on Mount Sinai.
• Deut 4:23-27 : 23 Be careful not to forget the covenant of the LORD your God, which He made with you, and not to make for yourselves a carved image in the form of anything He has forbidden you. 24 For the LORD your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God. 25 When you have children and grandchildren and have grown old in the land, and if you act corruptly and make a carved image in the form of anything, doing what is evil in the sight of the LORD your God to provoke Him to anger, 26 I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you today that you will surely be quickly destroyed from the land you are crossing the Jordan to possess. You will not extend your days there but will be utterly destroyed. 27 The LORD will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number among the nations where the LORD will lead you.
• Deut 28:36-68 : 36 The LORD will drive you and the king you set over yourself to a nation that neither you nor your ancestors have known, and there you will serve other gods made of wood and stone. 37 You will become an object of horror, a byword, and a taunt among all the peoples to which the LORD will drive you. 38 You will sow much seed in the field but gather little, because locusts will consume it. 39 You will plant vineyards and cultivate them, but you will not drink their wine or gather their grapes, for worms will eat them. 40 You will have olive trees throughout your territory, but you will not anoint yourself with oil, for your olives will drop off prematurely. 41 You will have sons and daughters, but they will not remain with you, because they will go into captivity. 42 Swarms of insects will take possession of all your trees and the produce of your land. 43 The foreigner who resides among you will rise higher and higher above you, but you will sink lower and lower. 44 He will lend to you, but you will not lend to him. He will be the head, and you will be the tail. 45 All these curses will come upon you, pursue you, and overtake you until you are destroyed, because you did not obey the voice of the LORD your God by keeping His commandments and statutes that He commanded you. 46 These curses will become a sign and a wonder against you and your descendants forever. 47 Because you did not serve the LORD your God joyfully and wholeheartedly in the time of abundance. 48 You will serve your enemies whom the LORD will send against you, in hunger, thirst, nakedness, and total destitution. He will put an iron yoke on your neck until He has destroyed you. 49 The LORD will bring a nation against you from far away, from the ends of the earth, like an eagle swooping down, a nation whose language you will not understand. 50 It will be a fierce and ruthless nation, showing no respect for the old and no mercy for the young. 51 They will eat the offspring of your livestock and the produce of your land until you are destroyed. They will leave you no grain, new wine, or fresh oil, no calves of your herds or lambs of your flocks, until they have wiped you out. 52 They will lay siege to all the cities throughout your land until your high fortified walls, in which you trusted, come down. They will besiege all the cities in the land the LORD your God has given you. 53 Because of the suffering your enemy inflicts upon you during the siege, you will eat the fruit of your womb—the flesh of your sons and daughters whom the LORD your God has given you. 54 Even the most tender and refined man among you will begrudge his brother, the wife he embraces, and the rest of his children who are still alive. 55 He will not share with any of them the flesh of his children that he is eating, because he has nothing else during the suffering and siege that your enemy will inflict on all your cities. 56 The most tender and delicate woman among you, so refined that she would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground, will begrudge the husband she loves, her son, and her daughter. 57 She will secretly eat her afterbirth and the children she bears during the siege and suffering that your enemy inflicts upon your cities, because she is in dire need of food. 58 If you do not carefully follow all the words of this law that are written in this book, and do not fear this glorious and awesome name—the LORD your God— 59 then the LORD will bring extraordinary plagues upon you and your descendants, severe and lasting plagues, and terrible and enduring diseases. 60 He will bring back upon you all the diseases of Egypt, which you dreaded, and they will cling to you. 61 The LORD will also bring upon you every sickness and plague not written in this Book of the Law, until you are completely destroyed. 62 You who were as numerous as the stars in the sky will be left few in number, because you did not obey the voice of the LORD your God. 63 Just as it pleased the LORD to make you prosper and multiply, so it will please Him to ruin and destroy you. You will be uprooted from the land you are entering to possess. 64 Then the LORD will scatter you among all nations, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you will serve other gods—gods of wood and stone, which neither you nor your ancestors have known. 65 Among those nations, you will find no peace, and no resting place for the sole of your foot. There the LORD will give you an anxious heart, failing eyes, and a despairing soul. 66 Your life will hang in doubt before you. You will be filled with fear night and day, and you will not be sure of your life. 67 In the morning you will say, ‘If only it were evening!’ and in the evening you will say, ‘If only it were morning!’ because of the terror that will fill your hearts and the sights your eyes will see. 68 The LORD will bring you back to Egypt in ships, in the way I said you would never see again. There, you will sell yourselves to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one will buy you.
• Josh 23:15-16 : 15 But just as all the good things the LORD your God promised you have come to pass, so too the LORD will bring upon you the bad things He threatened, until He has destroyed you from this good land that the LORD your God has given you. 16 If you violate the covenant of the LORD your God, which He commanded you, and go and serve other gods and bow down to them, the anger of the LORD will burn against you, and you will quickly perish from the good land He has given you.
• 1 Sam 12:25 : 25 But if you persist in doing evil, both you and your king will be swept away.
• 1 Kgs 9:6-7 : 6 'But if you or your descendants turn away from Me and do not keep My commands and statutes that I have given you, and you go and serve other gods and bow down to them, 7 then I will cut off Israel from the land I have given them, and I will reject this temple I have consecrated for My name. Israel will then become a proverb and an object of ridicule among all peoples.
• 1 Kgs 11:4-8 : 4 As Solomon grew older, his wives turned his heart after other gods, and his heart was not fully devoted to the LORD his God as the heart of David his father had been. 5 Solomon followed Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, and Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites. 6 So Solomon did evil in the eyes of the LORD; he did not fully follow the LORD as David his father had done. 7 At that time Solomon built a high place for Chemosh, the abomination of Moab, on the hill east of Jerusalem, and for Molech, the abomination of the Ammonites. 8 He did the same for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and offered sacrifices to their gods.
• 1 Chr 28:9 : 9 And you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father and serve Him with wholehearted devotion and a willing mind, for the LORD searches every heart and understands every intent of the thoughts. If you seek Him, He will be found by you; but if you forsake Him, He will reject you forever.