2 Chronicles 31:7 BSB

2 Chronicles 31:7

In the third month they began building up the heaps, and they finished in the seventh month.

BSB

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ASV

In the third month they began to lay the foundation of the heaps, and finished them in the seventh month.

KJV

In the third month they began to lay the foundation of the heaps, and finished them in the seventh month.

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Commentary

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John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)

In the third month they began to lay the foundation of the heaps..... The month Sivan, as the Targum, in which month was the feast of Pentecost, called the feast of the harvest, Exo 23:16, for then barley harvest was ended, and wheat harvest began, and the firstfruits were brought: and finished them in the seventh month; the month Tisri, as the Targum, in which was the feast of tabernacles, sometimes called the feast of ingathering, of the fruits of the earth, the wine, oil, &c. and so a proper time for bringing the tithes of all.

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Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

The third month - Compare 2Ch 29:3; 2Ch 30:2, 2Ch 30:13. The events hitherto described - the destruction of the high places, the re-appointment of the courses, and the re-establishment of the tithes followed so closely upon the Passover, that a month had not elapsed from the conclusion of the Feast before the gifts began to pour in. In the seventh month the harvest was completed; and the last tithes and first-fruits of the year would naturally come in then.

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8 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
בַּחֹ֙דֶשׁ֙	ba.Cho.desh	in the month	H2320 →
הַשְּׁלִשִׁ֔י	ha.she.li.Shi	<the> third	H7992 →
הֵחֵ֥לּוּ	he.Che.lu	they began	H2490 →
הָעֲרֵמ֖וֹת	ha.'a.re.Mot	the heaps	H6194 →
לְיִסּ֑וֹד	le.yi.Sod	to found	H3245 →
וּבַחֹ֥דֶשׁ	u.va.Cho.desh	and in the month	H2320 →
הַשְּׁבִיעִ֖י	ha.she.vi.'I	<the> seventh	H7637 →
כִּלּֽוּ׃ ס	ki.Lu	they finished	H3615 →

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Solomon Receives the Queen of Sheba — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

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