2 Chronicles 23:13

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַתֵּ֡רֶא וְהִנֵּ֣ה הַמֶּלֶךְ֩ עוֹמֵ֨ד עַֽל־עַמּוּד֜וֹ בַּמָּב֗וֹא וְהַשָּׂרִ֣ים וְהַחֲצֹצְרוֹת֮ עַל־הַמֶּלֶךְ֒ וְכָל־עַ֨ם הָאָ֜רֶץ שָׂמֵ֗חַ וְתוֹקֵ֙עַ֙ בַּחֲצֹ֣צְר֔וֹת וְהַמְשֽׁוֹרֲרִים֙ בִּכְלֵ֣י הַשִּׁ֔יר וּמוֹדִיעִ֖ים לְהַלֵּ֑ל וַתִּקְרַ֤ע עֲתַלְיָ֙הוּ֙ אֶת־בְּגָדֶ֔יהָ וַתֹּ֖אמֶר קֶ֥שֶׁר קָֽשֶׁר׃

Transliteration

wə-tēreʾ and hinnēh the meleḵ ʿōmēḏ upon-ʿammûḏô in the māḇôʾ and the śārîm and the ḥăṣōṣərôṯ by-the meleḵ, and all-ʿam the ʾāreṣ śāmēaḥ and tôqēaʿ with ḥăṣōṣərôṯ and the məšôrərîm with kəlê the šîr and môḏîʿîm to hallēl wə-tiqraʿ ʿĂṯalyāhû ʾeṯ-bəḡāḏêhā wə-tōʾmer qešer qāšer.

Grammar Details

• *wə-tēreʾ*: Qal imperfect consecutive, 3rd feminine singular - and she saw
• *hinnēh*: interjection - behold
• *meleḵ*: noun, masculine singular - king
• *ʿōmēḏ*: Qal participle, masculine singular - standing
• *ʿammûḏô*: noun, masculine singular with 3rd masculine singular suffix - his pillar/column
• *māḇôʾ*: noun, masculine singular - entrance
• *śārîm*: noun, masculine plural - princes/officials
• *ḥăṣōṣərôṯ*: noun, feminine plural - trumpets
• *ʿam*: noun, masculine singular construct - people of
• *ʾāreṣ*: noun, feminine singular - land/earth
• *śāmēaḥ*: adjective, masculine singular - rejoicing
• *tôqēaʿ*: Qal participle, masculine singular - blowing
• *məšôrərîm*: Polel participle, masculine plural - singers
• *kəlê*: noun, masculine plural construct - instruments of
• *šîr*: noun, masculine singular - song/music
• *môḏîʿîm*: Hiphil participle, masculine plural - making known/teaching
• *hallēl*: Piel infinitive construct - to praise
• *wə-tiqraʿ*: Qal imperfect consecutive, 3rd feminine singular - and she tore
• *ʿĂṯalyāhû*: proper noun, feminine singular - Athaliah
• *bəḡāḏêhā*: noun, masculine plural with 3rd feminine singular suffix - her garments
• *wə-tōʾmer*: Qal imperfect consecutive, 3rd feminine singular - and she said
• *qešer*: noun, masculine singular - conspiracy
• *qāšer*: noun, masculine singular - conspiracy

Word Meanings

• *tēreʾ*: saw/beheld/observed
• *ʿōmēḏ*: standing/positioned/stationed
• *ʿammûḏô*: his pillar/his column/his stand
• *māḇôʾ*: entrance/entry/doorway
• *ḥăṣōṣərôṯ*: trumpets/horns
• *śāmēaḥ*: rejoicing/glad/happy
• *tôqēaʿ*: blowing/sounding/trumpeting
• *məšôrərîm*: singers/musicians
• *kəlê*: instruments/tools/implements
• *môḏîʿîm*: making known/teaching/instructing
• *hallēl*: to praise/to celebrate/to acclaim
• *qešer*: conspiracy/treason/plot

Referenced Verses

• Num 10:1-9 : 1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 2 Make thee two trumpets of silver; of a whole piece shalt thou make them: that thou mayest use them for the calling of the assembly, and for the journeying of the camps. 3 And when they shall blow with them, all the assembly shall assemble themselves to thee at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. 4 And if they blow but with one trumpet, then the princes, which are heads of the thousands of Israel, shall gather themselves unto thee. 5 When ye blow an alarm, then the camps that lie on the east parts shall go forward. 6 When ye blow an alarm the second time, then the camps that lie on the south side shall take their journey: they shall blow an alarm for their journeys. 7 But when the congregation is to be gathered together, ye shall blow, but ye shall not sound an alarm. 8 And the sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow with the trumpets; and they shall be to you for an ordinance for ever throughout your generations. 9 And if ye go to war in your land against the enemy that oppresseth you, then ye shall blow an alarm with the trumpets; and ye shall be remembered before the LORD your God, and ye shall be saved from your enemies. 10 Also in the day of your gladness, and in your solemn days, and in the beginnings of your months, ye shall blow with the trumpets over your burnt offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings; that they may be to you for a memorial before your God: I am the LORD your God.
• Judg 7:8 : 8 So the people took victuals in their hand, and their trumpets: and he sent all the rest of Israel every man unto his tent, and retained those three hundred men: and the host of Midian was beneath him in the valley.
• Judg 7:18-22 : 18 When I blow with a trumpet, I and all that are with me, then blow ye the trumpets also on every side of all the camp, and say, The sword of the LORD, and of Gideon. 19 So Gideon, and the hundred men that were with him, came unto the outside of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch; and they had but newly set the watch: and they blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers that were in their hands. 20 And the three companies blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers, and held the lamps in their left hands, and the trumpets in their right hands to blow withal: and they cried, The sword of the LORD, and of Gideon. 21 And they stood every man in his place round about the camp: and all the host ran, and cried, and fled. 22 And the three hundred blew the trumpets, and the LORD set every man's sword against his fellow, even throughout all the host: and the host fled to Bethshittah in Zererath, and to the border of Abelmeholah, unto Tabbath.
• 1 Kgs 1:39-40 : 39 And Zadok the priest took an horn of oil out of the tabernacle, and anointed Solomon. And they blew the trumpet; and all the people said, God save king Solomon. 40 And all the people came up after him, and the people piped with pipes, and rejoiced with great joy, so that the earth rent with the sound of them.
• 1 Kgs 18:17-18 : 17 And it came to pass, when Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab said unto him, Art thou he that troubleth Israel? 18 And he answered, I have not troubled Israel; but thou, and thy father's house, in that ye have forsaken the commandments of the LORD, and thou hast followed Baalim.
• 2 Kgs 9:13 : 13 Then they hasted, and took every man his garment, and put it under him on the top of the stairs, and blew with trumpets, saying, Jehu is king.
• 2 Kgs 9:23 : 23 And Joram turned his hands, and fled, and said to Ahaziah, There is treachery, O Ahaziah.
• 2 Kgs 23:3 : 3 And the king stood by a pillar, and made a covenant before the LORD, to walk after the LORD, and to keep his commandments and his testimonies and his statutes with all their heart and all their soul, to perform the words of this covenant that were written in this book. And all the people stood to the covenant.
• 1 Chr 12:40 : 40 Moreover they that were nigh them, even unto Issachar and Zebulun and Naphtali, brought bread on asses, and on camels, and on mules, and on oxen, and meat, meal, cakes of figs, and bunches of raisins, and wine, and oil, and oxen, and sheep abundantly: for there was joy in Israel.
• 1 Chr 15:16-22 : 16 And David spake to the chief of the Levites to appoint their brethren to be the singers with instruments of musick, psalteries and harps and cymbals, sounding, by lifting up the voice with joy. 17 So the Levites appointed Heman the son of Joel; and of his brethren, Asaph the son of Berechiah; and of the sons of Merari their brethren, Ethan the son of Kushaiah; 18 And with them their brethren of the second degree, Zechariah, Ben, and Jaaziel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Unni, Eliab, and Benaiah, and Maaseiah, and Mattithiah, and Elipheleh, and Mikneiah, and Obededom, and Jeiel, the porters. 19 So the singers, Heman, Asaph, and Ethan, were appointed to sound with cymbals of brass; 20 And Zechariah, and Aziel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Unni, and Eliab, and Maaseiah, and Benaiah, with psalteries on Alamoth; 21 And Mattithiah, and Elipheleh, and Mikneiah, and Obededom, and Jeiel, and Azaziah, with harps on the Sheminith to excel. 22 And Chenaniah, chief of the Levites, was for song: he instructed about the song, because he was skilful.
• 1 Chr 15:24 : 24 And Shebaniah, and Jehoshaphat, and Nethaneel, and Amasai, and Zechariah, and Benaiah, and Eliezer, the priests, did blow with the trumpets before the ark of God: and Obededom and Jehiah were doorkeepers for the ark.
• 1 Chr 15:27 : 27 And David was clothed with a robe of fine linen, and all the Levites that bare the ark, and the singers, and Chenaniah the master of the song with the singers: David also had upon him an ephod of linen.
• 1 Chr 25:1-8 : 1 Moreover David and the captains of the host separated to the service of the sons of Asaph, and of Heman, and of Jeduthun, who should prophesy with harps, with psalteries, and with cymbals: and the number of the workmen according to their service was: 2 Of the sons of Asaph; Zaccur, and Joseph, and Nethaniah, and Asarelah, the sons of Asaph under the hands of Asaph, which prophesied according to the order of the king. 3 Of Jeduthun: the sons of Jeduthun; Gedaliah, and Zeri, and Jeshaiah, Hashabiah, and Mattithiah, six, under the hands of their father Jeduthun, who prophesied with a harp, to give thanks and to praise the LORD. 4 Of Heman: the sons of Heman; Bukkiah, Mattaniah, Uzziel, Shebuel, and Jerimoth, Hananiah, Hanani, Eliathah, Giddalti, and Romamtiezer, Joshbekashah, Mallothi, Hothir, and Mahazioth: 5 All these were the sons of Heman the king's seer in the words of God, to lift up the horn. And God gave to Heman fourteen sons and three daughters. 6 All these were under the hands of their father for song in the house of the LORD, with cymbals, psalteries, and harps, for the service of the house of God, according to the king's order to Asaph, Jeduthun, and Heman. 7 So the number of them, with their brethren that were instructed in the songs of the LORD, even all that were cunning, was two hundred fourscore and eight. 8 And they cast lots, ward against ward, as well the small as the great, the teacher as the scholar.
• 2 Chr 34:31 : 31 And the king stood in his place, and made a covenant before the LORD, to walk after the LORD, and to keep his commandments, and his testimonies, and his statutes, with all his heart, and with all his soul, to perform the words of the covenant which are written in this book.
• Ps 14:5 : 5 There were they in great fear: for God is in the generation of the righteous.
• Prov 11:10 : 10 When it goeth well with the righteous, the city rejoiceth: and when the wicked perish, there is shouting.
• Prov 29:2 : 2 When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn.
• Eccl 9:12 : 12 For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.
• Rom 2:1-2 : 1 Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same things. 2 But we are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth against them which commit such things.