2 Chronicles 24:4
in 2 Chronicles 24Some time later, Joash set his heart on repairing the house of the LORD.
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
And it came to pass after this, that Joash was minded to restore the house of Jehovah.
KJV
And it came to pass after this, that Joash was minded to repair the house of the Lord.
⋯
This verse in 2 Chronicles 24
Commentary
3 notes on this verseThis site's exposition
was minded to repair
on 2 Chronicles 24:4-7
Chronicles alone explains why the house needed repair: the sons of Athaliah, that wicked woman, had broken into the house of God and given its dedicated things to the Baals, so the project answers a specific act of desecration rather than mere age. Joash orders the Levites to gather money by the commandment of Moses for the tabernacle of witness, but the Levites hasten it not, and the king must call Jehoiada to account for the delay. Where 2 Kings 12 records the same slow start without naming a cause, Chronicles supplies the motive: Baal worship had already reached inside the temple once, under the very queen Jehoiada had helped overthrow.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
And it came to pass after this,.... After his marriage, when he was about twenty or twenty one years of age, perhaps: that Joash was minded to repair the house of the Lord; which in some places might be fallen to decay, having been built one hundred and fifty years or more, and in others defaced by Athaliah, and needed ornamenting, see 2Ki 12:4.
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
To repair the house of the Lord - During the reigns of Joram and Athaliah, the temple of God had been pillaged to enrich that of Baal, and the whole structure permitted to fall into decay; see 2Ch 24:7.
The words behind it
10 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וַיְהִ֖י | vayhi | and it was | H1961 → | 3559 times |
| אַחֲרֵיכֵ֑ן | ʾachareikhen | after this | H310 →H3651 → | 715 times |
| הָיָה֙ | hayah | it was | H1961 → | 3559 times |
| עִם־ | ʾim- | with | H5973 → | 1050 times |
| לֵ֣ב | lev | [the] heart of | H3820 → | 595 times |
| יוֹאָ֔שׁ | yoash | Joash | H3101 → | 47 times |
| לְחַדֵּ֖שׁ | lechadesh | to renew | H2318 → | 10 times |
| אֶת־ | ʾet- | <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| בֵּ֥ית | beit | [the] house of | H1004 → | 2046 times |
| יְהוָֽה׃ | yahweh | Yahweh | H3068 → | 6520 times |
וַיְהִ֖יand it was
vayhiH1961 →3559 times
אַחֲרֵיכֵ֑ןafter this
הָיָה֙it was
hayahH1961 →3559 times
עִם־with
ʾim-H5973 →1050 times
לֵ֣ב[the] heart of
levH3820 →595 times
יוֹאָ֔שׁJoash
yoashH3101 →47 times
לְחַדֵּ֖שׁto renew
lechadeshH2318 →10 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.
Where this verse is studied
On this page
Studies1
About 2 Chronicles
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and W. H. Bennett, The Books of Chronicles (Expositor's Bible).