2 Chronicles 34:11 BSB

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.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

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

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.

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Commentary

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Albert Barnes

1798–1870

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

The “houses” intended are either the “chambers” which surrounded the temple on three sides 1Ki 6:5, or out-buildings attached to the courts. The “kings of Judah” intended are, no doubt, Manasseh and Amon.

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Original language & word study

15 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַֽיִּתְּנ֗וּ	vai.yi.te.Nu	and they gave [it]	H5414 →
לֶחָֽרָשִׁים֙	le.cha.ra.Shim	to the craftsmen	H2796 →
וְלַבֹּנִ֔ים	ve.la.bo.Nim	and to the builders	H1129 →
לִקְנוֹת֙	lik.nOt	to buy	H7069 →
אַבְנֵ֣י	'av.Nei	stones of	H68 →
מַחְצֵ֔ב	mach.Tzev	hewing	H4274 →
וְעֵצִ֖ים	ve.'e.Tzim	and wood<s>	H6086 →
לַֽמְחַבְּר֑וֹת	lam.cha.be.Rot	for the clamps	H4226 →
וּלְקָרוֹת֙	u.le.ka.rOt	and to make beams for	H7136 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
הַבָּ֣תִּ֔ים	ha.Ba.Tim	the houses	H1004 →
אֲשֶׁ֥ר	'a.Sher	which	H834 →
הִשְׁחִ֖יתוּ	hish.Chi.tu	they had ruined	H7843 →
מַלְכֵ֥י	mal.Khei	[the] kings of	H4428 →
יְהוּדָֽה׃	ye.hu.Dah	Judah	H3063 →

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2 Chronicles 33:22
And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, as his father Manasseh had done. Amon served and sacrificed to all the idols that his father Manasseh had made,
leads to
- 2 Kings 21:20
  And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, as his father Manasseh had done.
- 2 Chronicles 34:3–4
  In the eighth year of his reign, while he was still young, Josiah began to seek the God of his father David, and in the twelfth year he began to cleanse Judah and Jerusalem…
- 2 Chronicles 33:1–10
  Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem fifty-five years.
- 2 Kings 21:1–11
  Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem fifty-five years. His mother’s name was Hephzibah.
- Ezekiel 20:18
  In the wilderness I said to their children: ‘Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers or keep their ordinances or defile yourselves with their idols.