2 Chronicles 31:11
in 2 Chronicles 31Then Hezekiah commanded them to prepare storerooms in the house of the LORD, and they did so.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
Then Hezekiah commanded to prepare chambers in the house of Jehovah; and they prepared them;
KJV
Then Hezekiah commanded to prepare chambers in the house of the Lord; and they prepared them,
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This verse in 2 Chronicles 31
Commentary
4 notes on this verseA commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
Private individuals brought their own first-fruits to the temple; but the tithes were levied by the Levites, who kept a faithful account of them in their several places of abode and transmitted the allotted proportion to the priests.
This site's exposition
prepare storerooms in the house of the LORD
on 2 Chronicles 31:11-13
Hezekiah orders chambers made ready in the temple to hold the heaps. Cononiah the Levite is set over them with his brother Shimei next under him, and ten further men are named as overseers beneath them. Chronicles keeps the names because the reform's success is carried by faithful hands.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
Then Hezekiah commanded to prepare chambers in the house of the Lord,.... Either to build new ones, or fit up those that were built: and they prepared them; got them ready to lay up the stores in.
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
To prepare chambers - To make granaries to lay up this superabundance.
How the passage was read
What the Jewish commentators add
to prepare the chambers in the House of the Lord in which to deposit the heave-offerings.
This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.
Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 4 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.
The words behind it
7 Hebrew wordsEvery 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.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וַיֹּ֣אמֶר | vaiyomer | and he said | H559 → | 5305 times |
| יְחִזְקִיָּ֗הוּ | yechizkiyahu | Hezekiah | H2396 → | 127 times |
| לְהָכִ֧ין | lehakhin | to prepare | H3559 → | 217 times |
| לְשָׁכ֛וֹת | leshakhot | rooms | H3957 → | |
| בְּבֵ֥ית | beveit | in [the] house of | H1004 → | 2046 times |
| יְהוָ֖ה | yahweh | Yahweh | H3068 → | 6520 times |
| וַיָּכִֽינוּ׃ | vaiyakhinu | and they prepared [them] | H3559 → | 217 times |
וַיֹּ֣אמֶרand he said
vaiyomerH559 →5305 times
יְחִזְקִיָּ֗הוּHezekiah
yechizkiyahuH2396 →127 times
לְהָכִ֧יןto prepare
lehakhinH3559 →217 times
לְשָׁכ֛וֹתrooms
leshakhotH3957 →
בְּבֵ֥יתin [the] house of
beveitH1004 →2046 times
יְהוָ֖הYahweh
yahwehH3068 →6520 times
וַיָּכִֽינוּ׃and they prepared [them]
vaiyakhinuH3559 →217 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
4 stopsEach 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
Nehemiah 13:5and had prepared for Tobiah a large room where they had previously stored the grain offerings, the frankincense, the temple articles, and the tithes of grain, new wine, and oil prescribed for the Levites,…
it leads to
- Nehemiah 10:38
A priest of Aaron’s line is to accompany the Levites when they collect the tenth, and the Levites are to bring a tenth of these tithes to the storerooms of the treasury in the…
- Numbers 18:21–24
Behold, I have given to the Levites all the tithes in Israel as an inheritance in return for the work they do, the service of the Tent of Meeting.
- Nehemiah 12:44
And on that same day men were appointed over the rooms that housed the supplies, contributions, firstfruits, and tithes. The portions specified by the Law for the priests and Levites were gathered into these…
- 2 Chronicles 34:11
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.
- Nehemiah 10:38
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.