2CH 34

2 Chronicles 34:11

WEB

They gave it to the carpenters and to the builders to buy cut stone and timber for couplings, and to make beams for the houses which the kings of Judah had destroyed.

BSB

They also gave money to the carpenters and builders to buy dressed stone, as well as timbers for couplings and beams for the buildings that the kings of Judah had allowed to deteriorate.

KJV

Even to the artificers and builders gave they it, to buy hewn stone, and timber for couplings, and to floor the houses which the kings of Judah had destroyed.

Matthew Henry

Verses 8–13

2 Chronicles 34:8–13

Here, 1. Orders are given by the king for the repair of the temple, Ch2 34:8. When he had purged the house of the corruptions of it he began to fit it up for the services that were to be performed in it. Thus we must do by the spiritual temple of the heart, get it cleansed from the pollutions of sin, and then renewed, so as to be transformed into the image of God. Josiah, in this order, calls God the Lord his God. Those that truly love God will love the habitation of his house. 2. Care is taken about it, effectual care. The Levites went about the country and gathered money towards it, which was returned to the three trustees mentioned, Ch2 34:8. They brought it to Hilkiah the high priest (Ch2 34:9), and he and they put it into the hands of workmen, both overseers and labourers, who undertook to do it by the great, as we say, or in the gross, Ch2 34:10, Ch2 34:11. It is observed that the workmen were industrious and honest: They did the work faithfully (Ch2 34:12); and workmen are not completely faithful if they are not both careful and diligent, for a confidence is reposed in them that they will be so. It is also intimated that the overseers were ingenious; for it is said that all those were employed to inspect this work who were skilful in instruments of music; not that their skill in music could be of any use in architecture, but it was an evidence that they were men of sense and ingenuity, and particularly that their genius lay towards the mathematics, which qualified them very much for this trust. Witty men are then wise men when they employ their wit in doing good, in helping their friends, and, as they have opportunity, in serving the public. Observe, in this work, how God dispenses his gifts variously; here were some that were bearers of burdens, cut out for bodily labour and fit to work. Here were others (made meliori luto - of finer materials) that had skill in music, and they were overseers of those that laboured, and scribes and officers. The former were the hands: these were the heads. They had need of one another, and the work needed both. Let not the overseers of the work despise the bearers of burdens, nor let those that work in the service grudge at those whose office it is to direct; but let each esteem and serve the other in love, and let God have the glory and the church the benefit of the different gifts and dispositions of both.

Cross-references: 2Chr 34:8 · 2Chr 34:9 · 2Chr 34:10 · 2Chr 34:11 · 2Chr 34:12

Hebrew interlinear

H5414

נָתַןnâthan/naw-than'/

v — give, put, make

Derivation: a primitive root;

to give, used with greatest latitude of application (put, make, etc.)

KJV: add, apply, appoint, ascribe, assign, × avenge, × be (healed), bestow, bring (forth, hither), cast, cause, charge, come, commit, consider, count, cry, deliver (up), direct, distribute, do, × doubtless, × without fail, fasten, frame, × get, give (forth, over, up), grant, hang (up), × have, × indeed, lay (unto charge, up), (give) leave, lend, let (out), lie, lift up, make, O that, occupy, offer, ordain, pay, perform, place, pour, print, × pull, put (forth), recompense, render, requite, restore, send (out), set (forth), shew, shoot forth (up), sing, slander, strike, (sub-) mit, suffer, × surely, × take, thrust, trade, turn, utter, weep, willingly, withdraw, would (to) God, yield.

נָתַן

vb — give

נָתַן 2007 vb. give, put, set

Qal 1917

1. give

2. Put, set

3. Make, constitute

Niph. 82

1. be given

2. Be put, set

Hoph.

1.

a. be given, bestowed

b. = be given to one for wife

2. be put upon

H2796

חָרָשׁchârâsh/khaw-rawsh'/

n-m — fabricator

Derivation: from 2790;

a fabricator or any material

KJV: artificer, ( ) carpenter, craftsman, engraver, maker, mason, skilful, ( ) smith, worker, workman, such as wrought.

חָרָשׁ

n.m — graver

חָרָשׁ n.m. graver, artificer

H1129

בָּנָהbânâh/baw-naw'/

v — build

Derivation: a primitive root;

to build (literally and figuratively)

KJV: (begin to) build(-er), obtain children, make, repair, set (up), × surely.

בָּנָה

vb — build

בָּנָה 373 vb. build

Qal build

Niph.

1.

a. be built

b. be rebuilt

2.

a. (fig.) of restored exiles, = established

b. established, made permanent

H7069

קָנָהqânâh/kaw-naw'/

v — erect, create, procure, sell, own

Derivation: a primitive root;

to erect, i.e. create; by extension, to procure, especially by purchase (causatively, sell); by implication to own

KJV: attain, buy(-er), teach to keep cattle, get, provoke to jealousy, possess(-or), purchase, recover, redeem, × surely, × verily.

קָנָה

vb — get

קָנָה 84 vb. get, acquire

Qal 81

1. get, acquire (all poet.)

2. elsewhere buy

Niph. be bought

Hiph. caused (one) to purchase me, i.e. made me a bondman

H68

אֶבֶןʼeben/eh'-ben/

n-f — stone

Derivation: from the root of 1129 through the meaning to build;

a stone

KJV: carbuncle, mason, plummet, (chalk-, hail-, head-, sling-) stone(-ny), (divers) weight(-s).

אֶ֫בֶן

n.f — stone

אֶ֫בֶן 274 n.f. stone

1. in natural state

2. stone, as material

3. precious stone, gen. with modifying word

4. stone containing metal, = ore

5. a weight, as orig. stone

6. plummet

7. objects like stone

8. in sim. (mostly poet.) of sinking in water

9. In topogr. terms

H4274

מַחְצֵבmachtsêb/makh-tsabe'/

n-m — hewing, quarry

Derivation: from 2672;

properly, a hewing; concretely, a quarry

KJV: hewed(-n).

מַחְצֵב

n.[m.] — hewing

מַחְצֵב n.[m.] hewing, alw. = hewn stones

H6086

עֵץʻêts/ates/

n-m — tree, wood

Derivation: from 6095;

a tree (from its firmness); hence, wood (plural sticks)

KJV: carpenter, gallows, helve, pine, plank, staff, stalk, stick, stock, timber, tree, wood.

עֵץ

n.m — tree

עֵץ 329 n.m. tree, trees, wood

1. (c. 150 t.)

a. a standing tree

b. coll. trees

2. (c. 175 t.; c. 120 t. pl., to denote pieces [or articles] of wood)

H4226

מְחַבְּרָהmᵉchabbᵉrâh/mekh-ab-ber-aw'/

n-f — joiner, brace, cramp

Derivation: from 2266;

a joiner, i.e. brace or cramp

KJV: coupling, joining.

מְחַבְּרָה

n.f — binder

[מְחַבְּרָה] n.f. binder, clamp, joint

H7136

קָרָהqârâh/kaw-raw'/

v — light upon, bring about, impose timbers

Derivation: a primitive root;

to light upon (chiefly by accident); causatively, to bring about; specifically, to impose timbers (for roof or floor)

KJV: appoint, lay (make) beams, befall, bring, come (to pass unto), floor, (hap) was, happen (unto), meet, send good speed.

קָרָה

vb — encounter

[קָרָה] vb. encounter, meet, befall

Qal

1. encounter, meet

2. befall

Niph.

1. encounter, meet without pre-arrangement

2. chance to be present

Hiph.

1. of י׳, cause (the right thing, good fortune) to occur

2. of Israel, ye shall (cause cities to occur rightly for yourselves, i.e.) select cities as suitable.

קָרָה

vb. denom — lay the beams of

[קָרָה] vb. denom. Pi. lay the beams of, furnish with beams

H853

אֵתʼêth/ayth/

prt — self, even, namely

Derivation: apparent contracted from 226 in the demonstrative sense of entity;

properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)

KJV: [as such unrepresented in English].

אֵת

mark of the accusative

אֵת the mark of the accusative, prefixed as a rule only to nouns that are definite

H1004

בַּיִתbayith/bah'-yith/

n-m — a house

Derivation: probably from 1129 abbreviated;

a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.)

KJV: court, daughter, door, + dungeon, family, + forth of, × great as would contain, hangings, home(born), (winter) house(-hold), inside(-ward), palace, place, + prison, + steward, + tablet, temple, web, + within(-out).

בֵּית

prep — between

בֵּית fem. of בַּיִן, בֵּין prep. between

בַּ֫יִת

n.m — house

בַּ֫יִת 2034 n.m. house

1. house

2. place

3. receptacle

4. of house as containing a family

5. household, family (592 t.)

6. house, including household affairs

7. lit. housewards, hence metaph. inwards

8. מִבַּיִת

a. adv. on the inside

b. prep. within

H834

אֲשֶׁרʼăsher/ash-er'/

r — who, which, what, that, when, where, how, because, in order that

Derivation: a primitive relative pronoun (of every gender and number);

who, which, what, that; also (as an adverb and a conjunction) when, where, how, because, in order that, etc.

KJV: × after, × alike, as (soon as), because, × every, for, + forasmuch, + from whence, + how(-soever), × if, (so) that ((thing) which, wherein), × though, + until, + whatsoever, when, where (+ -as, -in, -of, -on, -soever, -with), which, whilst, + whither(-soever), who(-m, -soever, -se). As it is indeclinable, it is often accompanied by the personal pronoun expletively, used to show the connection.

אֲשֶׁר

part. of relation — who

אֲשֶׁר part. of relation A sign of relation, bringing the clause introduced by it into relation with an antecedent clause.

בַאֲשֶׁר

adv — in which

בַאֲשֶׁר

a. in (that) which

b. adv. in (the place) where

c. conj. in that, inasmuch as

d. on account of whom?

כַּאֲשֶׁר

conj — according as

כַּאֲשֶׁר conj. according as, as, when

1. according to that which, according as, as

2. with a causal force, in so far as, since

3. with a temporal force, when

מֵאֲשֶׁר

adv — who

מֵאֲשֶׁר

a. from (or than) that which

b. adv. from (the place) where

c. conj. from (the fact) that …, since

H7843

שָׁחַתshâchath/shaw-khath'/

v — decay, ruin

Derivation: a primitive root;

to decay, i.e. (causatively) ruin (literally or figuratively)

KJV: batter, cast off, corrupt(-er, thing), destroy(-er, -uction), lose, mar, perish, spill, spoiler, × utterly, waste(-r).

שָׁחַת

vb — go to ruin

[שָׁחַת] 161 vb. go to ruin (?)

Niph. be marred, spoiled

Pi.

1. spoil, ruin

2. pervert, corrupt

Hiph.

1. spoil, ruin

2. pervert, corrupt

Hoph. spoiled, ruined

H4428

מֶלֶךְmelek/meh'-lek/

n-m — king

Derivation: from 4427;

a king

KJV: king, royal.

מֶ֫לֶךְ

n.m — king

מֶ֫לֶךְ 2513 n.m. king

H3063

יְהוּדָהYᵉhûwdâh/yeh-hoo-daw'/

n-pr-m — Jehudah

Derivation: from 3034; celebrated;

Jehudah (or Judah), the name of five Israelites; also of the tribe descended from the first, and of its territory

KJV: Judah.

יְהוּדָה

n.pr.m — Judah

יְהוּדָה 820 n.pr.m. et terr. Judah

I. n.pr.m.

1. son of Jacob and Leah

2. tribe descended from Judah

3. nation, of southern kingdom under dynasty of David, as distinguished from northern kingdom of Ephraim or Israel

4. Levite, Ezra’s time

5. an overseer of Jerus.

6. Levite musician

7. priest

II. n.pr.terr. land of Judah

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