2 Chronicles 24:5 BSB

2 Chronicles 24:5

So he gathered the priests and Levites and said, “Go out to the cities of Judah and collect the money due annually from all Israel, to repair the house of your God. Do it quickly.” The Levites, however, did not make haste.

BSB

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ASV

And he gathered together the priests and the Levites, and said to them, Go out unto the cities of Judah, and gather of all Israel money to repair the house of your God from year to year; and see that ye hasten the matter. Howbeit the Levites hastened it not.

KJV

And he gathered together the priests and the Levites, and said to them, Go out unto the cities of Judah, and gather of all Israel money to repair the house of your God from year to year, and see that ye hasten the matter. Howbeit the Levites hastened it not.

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Commentary

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Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

Gather of all Israel money - As the temple was the property of the whole nation, and the services performed in it were for the salvation of the people at large, it was right that each should come forward on an occasion of this kind, and lend a helping hand. This is the first instance of such a general collection for building or repairing a house of God. From year to year - It must have been in a state of great dilapidation, when it required such annual exertions to bring it into a thorough state of repair.

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Original language & word study

26 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיִּקְבֹּץ֮	vai.yik.Botz	and he assembled	H6908 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
הַכֹּהֲנִ֣ים	ha.ko.ha.Nim	the priests	H3548 →
וְהַלְוִיִּם֒	ve.hal.vi.Yim	and the Levites	H3881 →
וַיֹּ֣אמֶר	vai.Yo.mer	and he said	H559 →
לָהֶ֡ם	la.Hem	to them
צְא֣וּ	tze.'U	go out	H3318 →
לְעָרֵ֪י	le.'a.Rei	to [the] cities of	H5892 →
יְהוּדָ֟ה	ye.hu.Dah	Judah	H3063 →
וְקִבְצוּ֩	ve.kiv.Tzu	and collect	H6908 →
מִכָּל־	mi.kol	from all	H3605 →
יִשְׂרָאֵ֨ל	Yis.ra.'El	Israel	H3478 →
כֶּ֜סֶף	Ke.sef	money	H3701 →
לְחַזֵּ֣ק׀	le.cha.Zek	to repair	H2388 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
בֵּ֣ית	beit	[the] house of	H1004 →
אֱלֹֽהֵיכֶ֗ם	'e.lo.hei.Khem	God your	H430 →
מִדֵּ֤י	mi.Dei	as often as	H1767 →
שָׁנָה֙	sha.Nah	a year	H8141 →
בְּשָׁנָ֔ה	be.sha.Nah	in a year	H8141 →
וְאַתֶּ֖ם	ve.'a.Tem	and you	H859 →
תְּמַהֲר֣וּ	te.ma.ha.Ru	you will do quickly	H4116 →
לַדָּבָ֑ר	la.da.Var	<to> the matter	H1697 →
וְלֹ֥א	ve.Lo'	and not	H3808 →
מִֽהֲר֖וּ	mi.ha.Ru	they acted quickly	H4116 →
הַֽלְוִיִּֽם׃	Hal.vi.Yim	the Levites	H3881 →

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Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
2 Chronicles 29:3
In the first month of the first year of his reign, Hezekiah opened and repaired the doors of the house of the LORD.
leads to
- 2 Chronicles 28:24
  Then Ahaz gathered up the articles of the house of God, cut them into pieces, shut the doors of the house of the LORD, and set up altars of his own on every street…
- 2 Chronicles 29:7
  They also shut the doors of the portico and extinguished the lamps. They did not burn incense or present burnt offerings in the Holy Place of the God of Israel.
- Matthew 6:33
  But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be added unto you.
- Ecclesiastes 9:10
  Whatever you find to do with your hands, do it with all your might, for in Sheol, where you are going, there is no work or planning or knowledge or wisdom.
Through
2 Chronicles 21:2
Jehoram’s brothers, the sons of Jehoshaphat, were Azariah, Jehiel, Zechariah, Azariah, Michael, and Shephatiah; these were all sons of Jehoshaphat king of Israel.
leads to
- 2 Chronicles 12:6
  So the leaders of Israel and the king humbled themselves and said, “The LORD is righteous.”
- 2 Chronicles 23:2
  So they went throughout Judah and gathered the Levites from all the cities of Judah and the heads of the families of Israel. And when they came to Jerusalem,
- 2 Chronicles 33:18
  As for the rest of the acts of Manasseh, along with his prayer to his God and the words of the seers who spoke to him in the name of the LORD, the God…
- 2 Chronicles 28:19
  For the LORD humbled Judah because Ahaz king of Israel had thrown off restraint in Judah and had been most unfaithful to the LORD.