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2 Chronicles 24:11

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Whenever the chest was brought by the Levites to the king’s overseers and they saw that there was a large amount of money, the royal scribe and the officer of the high priest would come and empty the chest and carry it back to its place. They did this daily and gathered the money in abundance.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And it was so, that, at what time the chest was brought unto the king’s officers by the hand of the Levites, and when they saw that there was much money, the king’s scribe and the chief priest’s officer came and emptied the chest, and took it, and carried it to its place again. Thus they did day by day, and gathered money in abundance.

KJV

Now it came to pass, that at what time the chest was brought unto the king’s office by the hand of the Levites, and when they saw that there was much money, the king’s scribe and the high priest’s officer came and emptied the chest, and took it, and carried it to his place again. Thus they did day by day, and gathered money in abundance.

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This verse in 2 Chronicles 24

Commentary

4 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

a chest was made and placed

on 2 Chronicles 24:8-11

Second Kings 12:9 credits Jehoiada with boring a hole in a chest's lid. Chronicles credits the king's command and places the chest “outside, at the gate of the house of the LORD”. It adds a detail Kings omits: “All the officers and all the people rejoiced” and filled the chest.

This site's exposition

They did this daily and gathered the money in abundance

The chest is emptied under witnesses, “the royal scribe and the officer of the high priest”, so neither palace nor priesthood handles the money alone. Barnes reads the Hebrew so that the Levites empty the chest in the scribe's presence. The daily emptying shows how much the people brought.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Now it came to pass, that at what time the chest was brought unto the king's office by the hand of the Levites,....

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

The king’s scribe ... came and emptied ... - Rather, “the king’s scribe came ... and they emptied” etc. i. e. the Levites who brought the chest from the temple emptied it in the presence of the scribe.

The words behind it

34 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַיְהִ֡יand it was

    vayhiH1961 →3559 times

  • בְּעֵת֩at [the] time

    beetH6256 →296 times

  • יָבִ֨יא[when] someone brought

    yavi'H935 →2568 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • הָֽאָר֜וֹןthe chest

    haaronH727 →202 times

  • אֶל־to

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • פְּקֻדַּ֣ת[the] overseer of

    pekudatH6486 →32 times

  • הַמֶּלֶךְ֮the king

    hamelekhH4428 →2525 times

  • בְּיַ֣דby [the] hand of

    beyadH3027 →1618 times

  • הַלְוִיִּם֒the Levites

    halviyimH3881 →291 times

  • וְכִרְאוֹתָ֞םand just as saw they

    vekhirotamH7200 →1300 times

  • כִּי־that

    ki-H3588 →4482 times

  • רַ֣ב[was] much

    ravH7227 →454 times

  • הַכֶּ֗סֶףthe money

    hakesefH3701 →403 times

  • וּבָ֨אand he came

    uva'H935 →2568 times

  • סוֹפֵ֤ר[the] scribe of

    soferH5608 →159 times

  • הַמֶּ֙לֶךְ֙the king

    hamelekhH4428 →2525 times

  • וּפְקִיד֙and [the] officer of

    ufekidH6496 →

  • כֹּהֵ֣ן[the] priest of

    kohenH3548 →750 times

  • הָרֹ֔אשׁthe head

    haroshH7218 →599 times

  • וִיעָ֙רוּ֙so they may pour out

    viaruH6168 →

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • הָ֣אָר֔וֹןthe chest

    haaronH727 →202 times

  • וְיִשָּׂאֻ֖הוּand they took it

    veyisauhuH5375 →656 times

  • וִֽישִׁיבֻ֣הוּand they returned it

    vishivuhuH7725 →1056 times

  • אֶל־to

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • מְקֹמ֑וֹplace its

    mekomoH4725 →401 times

  • כֹּ֤הthus

    kohH3541 →577 times

  • עָשׂוּ֙they did

    ʾasuH6213 →2628 times

  • לְי֣וֹם׀to a day

    leyomH3117 →2304 times

  • בְּי֔וֹםin a day

    beyomH3117 →2304 times

  • וַיַּֽאַסְפוּ־and they gathered

    vaiyaasfu-H622 →200 times

  • כֶ֖סֶףmoney

    khesefH3701 →403 times

  • לָרֹֽב׃to abundance

    laroH7230 →149 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

2 in all, six open

The walk

5 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    1 Corinthians 16:2

    On the first day of every week, each of you should set aside a portion of his income, saving it up, so that when I come no collections will be needed.

    it leads to

    • Malachi 3:9–10

      You are cursed with a curse, yet you—the whole nation—are still robbing Me.

    • Acts 20:7

      On the first day of the week we came together to break bread. Since Paul was ready to leave the next day, he talked to them and kept on speaking until midnight.

    • Luke 16:10

      Whoever is faithful with very little will also be faithful with much, and whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest with much.

    • Deuteronomy 8:18

      But remember that it is the LORD your God who gives you the power to gain wealth, in order to confirm His covenant that He swore to your fathers even to this day.

    • Deuteronomy 15:11–14

      For there will never cease to be poor in the land; that is why I am commanding you to open wide your hand to your brother and to the poor and needy in your…

Where this verse is studied

About 2 Chronicles

Saphan Reading the Book of the Law to Josiah, Philip Galle, engraving after Maarten van Heemskerck, 1569, Royal Library of Belgium. Public domain.
Saphan Reading the Book of the Law to Josiah, Philip Galle, engraving after Maarten van Heemskerck, 1569, Royal Library of Belgium. Public domain.
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869) and John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763).

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