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2 Chronicles 31:11

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Then Hezekiah commanded them to prepare storerooms in the house of the LORD, and they did so.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

Then Hezekiah commanded to prepare chambers in the house of Jehovah; and they prepared them;

KJV

Then Hezekiah commanded to prepare chambers in the house of the Lord; and they prepared them,

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This verse in 2 Chronicles 31

Commentary

2 notes on this verse

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

on 2 Chronicles 31:11-18

Private individuals brought their own first-fruits to the temple; but the tithes were levied by the Levites, who kept a faithful account of them in their several places of abode and transmitted the allotted proportion to the priests.

This site's exposition

prepare chambers in the house

on 2 Chronicles 31:11-13

Storage has to be built for what devotion produced, so Hezekiah orders chambers made ready in the temple to hold the heaps. Cononiah the Levite is set over them with his brother Shimei next under him, and ten further men are named as overseers beneath them by the king's own commandment. Chronicles keeps the names because the reform's success is carried by faithful hands, not by the king's zeal standing alone.

How the passage was read

What the Jewish commentators add

to prepare the chambers in the House of the Lord in which to deposit the heave-offerings.
Rashi: France, 1040–1105 · Rashi on II Chronicles 31:11:1, via Sefaria, The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg

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. 4 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

7 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.

  • וַיֹּ֣אמֶרand he said

    vaiyomerH559 →5305 times

  • יְחִזְקִיָּ֗הוּHezekiah

    yechizkiyahuH2396 →127 times

  • לְהָכִ֧יןto prepare

    lehakhinH3559 →217 times

  • לְשָׁכ֛וֹתrooms

    leshakhotH3957 →

  • בְּבֵ֥יתin [the] house of

    beveitH1004 →2046 times

  • יְהוָ֖הYahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • וַיָּכִֽינוּ׃and they prepared [them]

    vaiyakhinuH3559 →217 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

9 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

1 Chronicles 23:28but their duty was to assist the descendants of Aaron with the service of the house of the LORD, being responsible for the courts and chambers, the purification of all the holy things, and the work of the service of the house of God,3 worksEzekiel 40:17Then he brought me into the outer court, and there were chambers and a pavement laid out all around the court. Thirty chambers faced the pavement,3 worksNehemiah 13:12–13and all Judah brought a tenth of the grain, new wine, and oil into the storerooms.2 worksNehemiah 13:5and had prepared for Tobiah a large room where they had previously stored the grain offerings, the frankincense, the temple articles, and the tithes of grain, new wine, and oil prescribed for the Levites, singers, and gatekeepers, along with the contributions for the priests.2 worksNehemiah 10:38–39A priest of Aaron’s line is to accompany the Levites when they collect the tenth, and the Levites are to bring a tenth of these tithes to the storerooms of the treasury in the house of our God.2 works1 Kings 6:5Against the walls of the temple and the inner sanctuary, Solomon built a chambered structure around the temple, in which he constructed the side rooms.2 works
The other 3 cross-references, with their words ▾
Ezekiel 40:29Its gate chambers, side pillars, and portico had the same measurements as the others. Both the gateway and its portico had windows all around; it was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide.2 worksEzekiel 40:7Each gate chamber was one rod long and one rod wide, and there were five cubits between the gate chambers. The inner threshold of the gate by the portico facing inward was one rod deep.2 worksJeremiah 35:2“Go to the house of the Rechabites, speak to them, and bring them to one of the chambers of the house of the LORD to offer them a drink of wine.”2 works

The walk

4 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

    Nehemiah 13:5

    and had prepared for Tobiah a large room where they had previously stored the grain offerings, the frankincense, the temple articles, and the tithes of grain, new wine, and oil prescribed for the Levites,…

    it leads to

    • Nehemiah 10:38

      A priest of Aaron’s line is to accompany the Levites when they collect the tenth, and the Levites are to bring a tenth of these tithes to the storerooms of the treasury in the…

    • Numbers 18:21–24

      Behold, I have given to the Levites all the tithes in Israel as an inheritance in return for the work they do, the service of the Tent of Meeting.

    • Nehemiah 12:44

      And on that same day men were appointed over the rooms that housed the supplies, contributions, firstfruits, and tithes. The portions specified by the Law for the priests and Levites were gathered into these…

    • 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.

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.
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This page draws on Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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