2 Chronicles 31:7
in 2 Chronicles 31In the third month they began building up the heaps, and they finished in the seventh month.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
In the third month they began to lay the foundation of the heaps, and finished them in the seventh month.
KJV
In the third month they began to lay the foundation of the heaps, and finished them in the seventh month.
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This verse in 2 Chronicles 31
Commentary
5 notes on this verseIn the third month they began to lay the foundation of the heaps..... The month Sivan, as the Targum, in which month was the feast of Pentecost, called the feast of the harvest, Exo 23:16, for then barley harvest was ended, and wheat harvest began, and the firstfruits were brought: and finished them in the seventh month; the month Tisri, as the Targum, in which was the feast of tabernacles, sometimes called the feast of ingathering, of the fruits of the earth, the wine, oil, &c. and so a proper time for bringing the tithes of all.
This site's exposition
brought in abundance the firstfruits
on 2 Chronicles 31:5-7
Once the command goes out the response is immediate and large: firstfruits of grain, wine, oil and honey come in from Israel and Judah alike, and the tithe is laid by heaps rather than measured. Gill reads the two building months by the calendar's own feasts, the third month holding Pentecost's early harvest and the seventh month holding the ingathering of Tabernacles, so the heaps span the full agricultural year. A tithe that had lapsed under Ahaz returns to more than the temple can immediately use.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
The account given to Hezekiah concerning those heaps. He questioned the priests and Levites concerning them, why they did not use what was paid in, but hoarded it up thus, (
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The Nineteenth Century2 voices
A commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
The third month - Compare 2Ch 29:3; 2Ch 30:2, 2Ch 30:13. The events hitherto described - the destruction of the high places, the re-appointment of the courses, and the re-establishment of the tithes followed so closely upon the Passover, that a month had not elapsed from the conclusion of the Feast before the gifts began to pour in. In the seventh month the harvest was completed; and the last tithes and first-fruits of the year would naturally come in then.
In the third month - “The month Sivan; the seventh, Tisri.” - Targum. The heaps - The vast collections of grain which they had from the tithes over and above their own consumption; see 2Ch 31:10.
The words behind it
8 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| בַּחֹ֙דֶשׁ֙ | bachodesh | in the month | H2320 → | 284 times |
| הַשְּׁלִשִׁ֔י | hashelishi | <the> third | H7992 → | 107 times |
| הֵחֵ֥לּוּ | hechelu | they began | H2490 → | 143 times |
| הָעֲרֵמ֖וֹת | haaremot | the heaps | H6194 → | 11 times |
| לְיִסּ֑וֹד | leyisod | to found | H3245 → | 43 times |
| וּבַחֹ֥דֶשׁ | uvachodesh | and in the month | H2320 → | 284 times |
| הַשְּׁבִיעִ֖י | hashevii | <the> seventh | H7637 → | 98 times |
| כִּלּֽוּ׃ ס | kilu | they finished | H3615 → | 208 times |
בַּחֹ֙דֶשׁ֙in the month
bachodeshH2320 →284 times
הַשְּׁלִשִׁ֔י<the> third
hashelishiH7992 →107 times
הֵחֵ֥לּוּthey began
hecheluH2490 →143 times
הָעֲרֵמ֖וֹתthe heaps
haaremotH6194 →11 times
לְיִסּ֑וֹדto found
leyisodH3245 →43 times
וּבַחֹ֥דֶשׁand in the month
uvachodeshH2320 →284 times
הַשְּׁבִיעִ֖י<the> seventh
hasheviiH7637 →98 times
כִּלּֽוּ׃ סthey finished
kiluH3615 →208 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
About 2 Chronicles
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.