Skip to content
mannafest.faith
Read

2 Chronicles 24:12

in 2 Chronicles 24

Then the king and Jehoiada would give the money to those who supervised the labor on the house of the LORD to hire stonecutters and carpenters to restore the house of the LORD, as well as workers in iron and bronze to repair the house of the LORD.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And the king and Jehoiada gave it to such as did the work of the service of the house of Jehovah; and they hired masons and carpenters to restore the house of Jehovah, and also such as wrought iron and brass to repair the house of Jehovah.

KJV

And the king and Jehoiada gave it to such as did the work of the service of the house of the Lord, and hired masons and carpenters to repair the house of the Lord, and also such as wrought iron and brass to mend the house of the Lord.

⋯

This verse in 2 Chronicles 24

Commentary

3 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

the king and Jehoiada gave

on 2 Chronicles 24:12-14

The money passes to workmen who repair and strengthen the house, and the text names its own audit: the workmen wrought faithfully and the work was perfected, the same trust 2 Kings 12:15 rests its accounting on. But where Kings states plainly that no bowls, snuffers or vessels of gold and silver were made from the repair fund, Chronicles records that the leftover money, once the house stood finished, did furnish vessels to minister and to offer withal. The two accounts read as two stages of one project, repair first and vessels after, and burnt offerings resume continually all the days of Jehoiada, the phrase that already marks the limit named at verse 2.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

He never was sincere, never acted from principle, but in compliance to Jehoiada, who had helped him to the crown, and because he had been protected in the temple and rose upon the ruins of idolatry; and therefore, when the wind turned, he turned with it. His good counsellor left him, and was by death removed from him. It was a mercy to him and his kingdom that Jehoiada lived so long-130 years (

quarantine:debris (2026-07-29) — unbalanced-parens

And the king and Jehoiada gave it to such as did the work of the service of the house of the Lord,.... That is, they gave it to those who were overseers of them, to pay them with it, 2Ki 12:11. and hired masons and carpenters to repair the house of the Lord see 2Ki 12:12. and also such as wrought iron and brass to mend the house of the Lord; where it required any work of that kind.

The words behind it

24 Hebrew words

Every 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.

  • וַיִּתְּנֵ֨הוּand he gave it

    vaiyitenehuH5414 →2011 times

  • הַמֶּ֜לֶךְthe king

    hamelekhH4428 →2525 times

  • וִֽיהוֹיָדָ֗עand Jehoiada

    vihoyada'H3077 →51 times

  • אֶל־to

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • עוֹשֵׂה֙[the] doer of

    osehH6213 →2628 times

  • מְלֶ֙אכֶת֙[the] work of

    melekhetH4399 →167 times

  • עֲבוֹדַ֣ת[the] service of

    avodatH5656 →145 times

  • בֵּית־[the] house of

    beit-H1004 →2046 times

  • יְהוָ֔הYahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • וַיִּֽהְי֤וּand they were

    vaiyihyuH1961 →3559 times

  • שֹׂכְרִים֙hiring

    sokherimH7936 →

  • חֹצְבִ֣יםstone cutters

    chotzevimH2672 →25 times

  • וְחָרָשִׁ֔יםand craftsmen

    vecharashimH2796 →37 times

  • לְחַדֵּ֖שׁto renew

    lechadeshH2318 →10 times

  • בֵּ֣ית[the] house of

    beitH1004 →2046 times

  • יְהוָ֑הYahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • וְ֠גַםand also

    vegamH1571 →769 times

  • לְחָרָשֵׁ֤י<to> craftsmen of

    lecharasheiH2796 →37 times

  • בַרְזֶל֙iron

    varzelH1270 →76 times

  • וּנְחֹ֔שֶׁתand bronze

    unechoshetH5178 →140 times

  • לְחַזֵּ֖קto repair

    lechazekH2388 →291 times

  • 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.

Related verses

3 in all, six open

The walk

5 stops

Each 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

    1 Kings 5:15

    Solomon had 70,000 porters and 80,000 stonecutters in the mountains,

    it leads to

    • 1 Kings 9:20–22

      As for all the people who remained of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites (the people who were not Israelites)—

    • 2 Chronicles 2:17–18

      Solomon numbered all the foreign men in the land of Israel following the census his father David had conducted, and there were found to be 153,600 in all.

    • Ezra 2:58

      The temple servants and descendants of the servants of Solomon numbered 392 in all.

    • Nehemiah 7:57

      The descendants of the servants of Solomon: the descendants of Sotai, the descendants of Sophereth, the descendants of Perida,

    • Nehemiah 7:60

      The temple servants and descendants of the servants of Solomon numbered 392 in all.

Where this verse is studied

On this page

Studies1

About 2 Chronicles

Solomon Receives the Queen of Sheba, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Solomon Receives the Queen of Sheba, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
2 Chronicles: the study guide →Read 2 Chronicles 24 →

This page draws on John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Keil, The Books of the Chronicles and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

Read on in 2 Chronicles 24 →