2 Kings 12:14
in 2 Kings 12Instead, it was paid to those doing the work, and with it they repaired the house of the LORD.
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
for they gave that to them that did the work, and repaired therewith the house of Jehovah.
KJV
But they gave that to the workmen, and repaired therewith the house of the Lord.
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This verse in 2 Kings 12
Commentary
4 notes on this verseThis site's exposition
silver basins, wick trimmers, sprinkling bowls
on 2 Kings 12:13-14
No “silver basins, wick trimmers, sprinkling bowls, trumpets, or any articles of gold or silver” came out of this money. Every shekel was “paid to those doing the work,” and to the house, repair before adornment, until the walls stood before any vessel was replaced.
This site's exposition
paid to those doing the work
Albert Barnes read the verse as the writer's point that no deduction from the money slowed the repairs. Chronicles adds what became of the surplus. Barnes tied the need for new vessels to the use of the old ones in Baal worship under Ahaziah and Athaliah, citing 2 Chronicles 24:7.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
But they gave that to the workmen, and repaired therewith the house of the Lord. They took care that the workmen should first be paid for the repairs of the temple.
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
Howbeit there were not made . . . bowls, &c.--When the repairs of the temple had been completed, the surplus was appropriated to the purchase of the temple furniture.
How the passage was read
What the Jewish commentators add
Silver pitchers, musical instruments. They are musical instruments. 12 Although Scripture in II Divrei Hayomim:14 indicates that they used this money for making ministering vessels, the Gemara in Maseches Kesubos 106b explains that the primary purpose of this money was for repairs.
1 more on this passage, in their own words ▾
And the masons. The builders of the wall, the architects’ apprentices.
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. 3 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
9 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| כִּֽי־ | ki- | for | H3588 → | 4482 times |
| לְעֹשֵׂ֥י | leosei | to [the] doers of | H6213 → | 2628 times |
| הַמְּלָאכָ֖ה | hamelakhah | the work | H4399 → | 167 times |
| יִתְּנֻ֑הוּ | yitenuhu | they gave it | H5414 → | 2011 times |
| וְחִזְּקוּ־ | vechizeku- | and they repaired | H2388 → | 291 times |
| ב֖וֹ | vo | with it | ||
| אֶת־ | ʾet- | <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| בֵּ֥ית | beit | [the] house of | H1004 → | 2046 times |
| יְהוָֽה׃ | yahweh | Yahweh | H3068 → | 6520 times |
כִּֽי־for
ki-H3588 →4482 times
לְעֹשֵׂ֥יto [the] doers of
leoseiH6213 →2628 times
הַמְּלָאכָ֖הthe work
hamelakhahH4399 →167 times
יִתְּנֻ֑הוּthey gave it
yitenuhuH5414 →2011 times
וְחִזְּקוּ־and they repaired
vechizeku-H2388 →291 times
ב֖וֹwith it
vo
אֶת־<obj.>
ʾet-H853 →10935 times
בֵּ֥ית[the] house of
beitH1004 →2046 times
יְהוָֽה׃Yahweh
yahwehH3068 →6520 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
Where this verse is studied
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About 2 Kings
This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments; Jamieson Fausset and Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible and John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763).