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2 Chronicles 15:7

New American Standard Bible (NASB ©1995) [2]
— “But you, be strong and do not lose courage, for there is reward for your work.”
King James Version (KJV 1769) [2]
— Be ye strong therefore, and let not your hands be weak: for your work shall be rewarded.
English Revised Version (ERV 1885)
— But be ye strong, and let not your hands be slack: for your work shall be rewarded.
American Standard Version (ASV 1901) [2]
— But be ye strong, and let not your hands be slack; for your work shall be rewarded.
Webster's Revision of the KJB (WEB 1833)
— Be ye strong therefore, and let not your hands be weak; for your work shall be rewarded.
Darby's Translation (DBY 1890)
— But as for you, be firm and let not your hands be weak; for there is a reward for your deeds.
Rotherham's Emphasized Bible (EBR 1902)
— Ye, therefore, be strong, and let not your hands be slack,—for there is a reward for your work!
Young's Literal Translation (YLT 1898)
— and ye, be ye strong, and let not your hands be feeble, for there is a reward for your work.'
Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision (DR 1750)
— Do you therefore take courage, and let not your hands be weakened: for there shall be a reward for your work.
Geneva Bible (GNV 1560)
— Be ye strong therefore, and let not your handes be weake: for your worke shall haue a rewarde.
Original King James Bible (AV 1611) [2]
— Be ye strong therefore, and let not your hands bee weake: for your worke shall be rewarded.
Lamsa Bible (1957)
— Because we had forsaken our God and would not listen to the voice of his servants, the prophets; so he rewarded us according to our works.
Brenton Greek Septuagint (LXX, Restored Names)
— But be ye strong, and let not your hands be weakened: for there is a reward for your work.
Full Hebrew Names / Holy Name KJV (2008) [2] [3]
— Be ye strong therefore, and let not your hands be weak: for your work shall be rewarded.

Strong's Numbers & Hebrew NamesHebrew Old TestamentColor-Code/Key Word Studies
Be ye strong 2388
{2388} Prime
חָזַק
chazaq
{khaw-zak'}
A primitive root; to fasten upon; hence to seize, be strong (figuratively courageous, causatively strengthen, cure, help, repair, fortify), obstinate; to bind, restrain, conquer.
z8798
<8798> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851)
Mood - Imperative (See H8810)
Count - 2847
x859
(0859) Complement
אַתָּה
'attah
{at-taw'}
A primitive pronoun of the second person; thou and thee, or (plural) ye and you.
therefore, and let not x408
(0408) Complement
אַל
'al
{al}
A negative particle (akin to H3808); not (the qualified negation, used as a deprecative); once (Job 24:25) as a noun, nothing.
your hands 3027
{3027} Prime
יָד
yad
{yawd}
A primitive word; a hand (the open one (indicating power, means, direction, etc.), in distinction from H3709, the closed one); used (as noun, adverb, etc.) in a great variety of applications, both literally and figuratively, both proximate and remote.
be weak: 7503
{7503} Prime
רָפָה
raphah
{raw-faw'}
A primitive root; to slacken (in many applications, literally or figuratively).
z8799
<8799> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851)
Mood - Imperfect (See H8811)
Count - 19885
for x3588
(3588) Complement
כִּי
kiy
{kee}
A primitive particle (the full form of the prepositional prefix) indicating causal relations of all kinds, antecedent or consequent; (by implication) very widely used as a relative conjugation or adverb; often largely modified by other particles annexed.
your work 6468
{6468} Prime
פְּעֻלָּה
p@`ullah
{peh-ool-law'}
Feminine passive participle of H6466; (abstractly) work.
shall be 3426
{3426} Prime
יֵשׁ
yesh
{yaysh}
Perhaps from an unused root meaning to stand out, or exist; entity; used adverbially or as a copula for the substantive verb (H1961); there is or are (or any other form of the verb to be, as may suit the connection).
rewarded. 7939
{7939} Prime
שָׂכָר
sakar
{saw-kawr'}
From H7986; payment of contract; concretely salary, fare, maintenance; by implication compensation, benefit.
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary

2 Chronicles 15:7

_ _ Be ye strong — Great resolution and indomitable energy would be required to persevere in the face of the opposition your reforming measures will encounter.

_ _ your work shall be rewarded — What you do in the cause and for the glory of God will assuredly be followed by the happiest results both to yourself and your subjects.

Matthew Henry's Commentary

See commentary on 2 Chronicles 15:1-7.

John Wesley's Explanatory Notes

2 Chronicles 15:7

Be strong — Go on resolutely to maintain God's worship and to root out idolatry, as you have begun to do; for this is the only method of preserving yourselves from such calamities as your predecessors have felt.

Geneva Bible Translation Notes

2 Chronicles 15:7

Be ye strong therefore, and let not your hands be weak: for your (d) work shall be rewarded.

(d) Your confidence and trust in God will not be frustrated.

Cross-Reference Topical ResearchStrong's Concordance
ye strong:

Joshua 1:7 Only be thou strong and very courageous, that thou mayest observe to do according to all the law, which Moses my servant commanded thee: turn not from it [to] the right hand or [to] the left, that thou mayest prosper whithersoever thou goest.
Joshua 1:9 Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the LORD thy God [is] with thee whithersoever thou goest.
1 Chronicles 28:20 And David said to Solomon his son, Be strong and of good courage, and do [it]: fear not, nor be dismayed: for the LORD God, [even] my God, [will be] with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee, until thou hast finished all the work for the service of the house of the LORD.
Psalms 27:14 Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD.
Isaiah 35:3-4 Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees. ... Say to them [that are] of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not: behold, your God will come [with] vengeance, [even] God [with] a recompence; he will come and save you.
Daniel 10:19 And said, O man greatly beloved, fear not: peace [be] unto thee, be strong, yea, be strong. And when he had spoken unto me, I was strengthened, and said, Let my lord speak; for thou hast strengthened me.
1 Corinthians 16:13 Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong.
Ephesians 6:10 Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.

your work:

Genesis 15:1 After these things the word of the LORD came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I [am] thy shield, [and] thy exceeding great reward.
Ruth 2:12 The LORD recompense thy work, and a full reward be given thee of the LORD God of Israel, under whose wings thou art come to trust.
Psalms 19:11 Moreover by them is thy servant warned: [and] in keeping of them [there is] great reward.
Psalms 58:11 So that a man shall say, Verily [there is] a reward for the righteous: verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth.
Matthew 5:12 Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great [is] your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.
Matthew 5:46 For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same?
Matthew 6:1 Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven.
Matthew 6:4 That thine alms may be in secret: and thy Father which seeth in secret himself shall reward thee openly.
Matthew 6:6 But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.
Matthew 6:18 That thou appear not unto men to fast, but unto thy Father which is in secret: and thy Father, which seeth in secret, shall reward thee openly.
Matthew 10:41-42 He that receiveth a prophet in the name of a prophet shall receive a prophet's reward; and he that receiveth a righteous man in the name of a righteous man shall receive a righteous man's reward. ... And whosoever shall give to drink unto one of these little ones a cup of cold [water] only in the name of a disciple, verily I say unto you, he shall in no wise lose his reward.
Luke 6:35 But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and [to] the evil.
Romans 4:4-5 Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt. ... But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.
1 Corinthians 3:8 Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one: and every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labour.
1 Corinthians 3:14 If any man's work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward.
1 Corinthians 9:17-18 For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward: but if against my will, a dispensation [of the gospel] is committed unto me. ... What is my reward then? [Verily] that, when I preach the gospel, I may make the gospel of Christ without charge, that I abuse not my power in the gospel.
1 Corinthians 15:58 Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.
Colossians 3:24 Knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ.
Hebrews 6:10 For God [is] not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister.
Hebrews 10:35 Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward.
2 John 1:8 Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but that we receive a full reward.
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Chain-Reference Bible SearchCross References with Concordance

Gn 15:1. Jsh 1:7, 9. Ru 2:12. 1Ch 28:20. Ps 19:11; 27:14; 58:11. Is 35:3. Dn 10:19. Mt 5:12, 46; 6:1, 4, 6, 18; 10:41. Lk 6:35. Ro 4:4. 1Co 3:8, 14; 9:17; 15:58; 16:13. Ep 6:10. Col 3:24. He 6:10; 10:35. 2Jn 1:8.

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