2 Chronicles 24:12

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

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

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לְחַדֵּ֖שׁ

châdash

H2318

“to renew”

Preposition + Verb, Piel, Infinitive Construct

Appears 10× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at 1 Samuel 11:14

Full BDB Definition

Origin: a primitive root

TWOT: 613

to be new, renew, repair - (Piel) - to renew, make anew - to repair - (Hithpael) to renew oneself

About this verse

These counts appear in no published source. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged text and Lemma’s own curated glosses. What Lemma adds →

24: words
19: distinct lemmas
Historical: section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is לְחַדֵּ֖שׁ to renew H2318 — appearing just 10 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

לְחַדֵּ֖שׁ to renew H2318 occurs in 10 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

7 verbs
14 nouns
1 preposition
2 particles

Verb forms

וַיִּתְּנֵ֨הוּ Qal · Sequential Imperfect
עוֹשֵׂה֙ Qal · Participle Active
וַיִּֽהְי֤וּ Qal · Sequential Imperfect
שֹׂכְרִים֙ Qal · Participle Active
חֹצְבִ֣ים Qal · Participle Active
לְחַדֵּ֖שׁ Piel · Infinitive Construct
לְחַזֵּ֖ק Piel · Infinitive Construct

Repetition

Words recur within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

בֵּית house H1004 ×3
יְהוָ֔ה LORD H3068 ×3
וְחָרָשִׁ֔ים craftsman H2796 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 46 words from the Hebrew and 46 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — the same length.

A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.

Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.

In the original languages it is 24 Hebrew tokens and 36 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.

Cross-references

Topical passages linked to 2 Chronicles 24:12 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

1 Kings 5:15 Solomon had seventy thousand who bore burdens, and eighty thousand who were stone cutters in the mountains;
2 Chronicles 34:9–11 They came to Hilkiah the high priest, and delivered the money that was brought into the house of God, which the Levites, the keepers of the threshold, had gathered of the hand of Manasseh and Ephraim, and of all the remnant of Israel, and of all Judah and Benjamin, and of the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

Cross-references courtesy of OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.

These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.

Hebrew 2 Chronicles 24:12 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וַיִּתְּנֵ֨הוּ הַמֶּ֜לֶךְ וִֽיהוֹיָדָ֗ע אֶל עוֹשֵׂה֙ מְלֶ֨אכֶת֙ עֲבוֹדַ֣ת בֵּית יְהוָ֔ה וַיִּֽהְי֤וּ שֹׂכְרִים֙ חֹצְבִ֣ים וְחָרָשִׁ֔ים לְחַדֵּ֖שׁ בֵּ֣ית יְהוָ֑ה וְ֠גַם לְחָרָשֵׁ֤י בַרְזֶל֙ וּנְחֹ֔שֶׁת לְחַזֵּ֖ק אֶת בֵּ֥ית יְהוָֽה

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

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Greek LXX 2 Chronicles 24:12 Septuagint · lemma form

καί δίδωμι αὐτός ὁ βασιλεύς καί ιωδαε ὁ ἱερεύς ὁ ποιέω ὁ ἔργον εἰς ὁ ἐργασία οἶκος κύριος καί μισθέω λατόμος καί τέκτων ἐπισκευάζω ὁ οἶκος κύριος καί χαλκεύς σίδηρος καί χαλκοῦς ἐπισκευάζω ὁ οἶκος κύριος

And the king and Jodae the priest gave it to the workmen employed in the service of the house of the Lord, and they hired masons and carpenters to repair the house of the Lord, also smiths and braziers to repair the house of the Lord.

LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain

On this verse, Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers discusses the Septuagint’s reading. Read the note in Commentary ↓

Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →

Commentary

Notes on 2 Chronicles 24:12 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.

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Tyndale Open Study Notes

Tyndale Open Resources

24:12-14 The book of Kings indicates that the funds collected for repairing the Temple were used only for wages (2 Kgs 12:13-14); Chronicles further explains that the funds were used for Temple artifacts only after the repairs were completed.

Geneva Bible (1599)

Geneva Bible translators

Signifying that this thing was done by advice and counsel, and not by any one man’s affection.

Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain. Text via Bolls.life.

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers

(12) To such as did the work of the service of the house of the Lord.—Heb., to the doer (‘ôséh) perhaps in a collective sense. Here, as in 1Ch_23:24, some MSS., and LXX., Syriac, and Vulgate, read the plural (‘ôsê). So also the Arabic and Targum here. Those who had charge of the building, probably certain Levitical “inspectors of works,” are meant. Vulg.: “Qui præërant operibus domus.” Comp. 2Ki_12:11 : “into the hand of the doers of the work, who were charged with the house of the Lord.”

And hired.—Rather, and they (i.e., the superintendents of works) were (from time to time) hiring masons (hewers) and carpenters. (See 1Ch_22:15.)

To mend—i.e., to repair (2Ch_24:4).

The chronicler has abridged here considerably. (Comp. 2Ki_12:12.)

A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne

12. to repair] R.V. to restore (as 2Ch_24:4).

to mend] R.V. to repair.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

John Gill's Exposition

And when they had finished it,.... The repairs of the house, all that were necessary:

they brought the rest of the money before the king and Jehoiada: that is, the overseers, when they had paid the workmen, brought what was left of the money collected to the king and the priest, to dispose of as they should think fit:

whereof were made vessels for the house of the Lord; in the room of such that Athaliah and her sons had taken away, and converted to the use of Baal; for though it is said, Kg2 12:13, that none were made of this money, the meaning is, that none were made of it until the work was finished, and the workmen paid:

even vessels to minister and offer withal; which, according to Jarchi, were pestles and mortars to beat spices with; but Kimchi thinks they were small vessels with which they drew wine out of the bin for drink offerings: and spoons and vessels of gold and silver: see Kg2 12:13,

and they offered burnt offerings in the house of the Lord continually all the days of Jehoiada; the daily sacrifice, morning and evening.

John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

The Pulpit Commentary

Gave it to such as did the work of the service; i.e. the persons responsible for the work, or "that had the oversight of it". (2Ki_12:11) Carpenters. It is preferable to render here literally workmen or workers. Probably this clause purports that those responsible, as above, hired masons and workmen. And also such as wrought. Supply the preposition found in the Hebrew text, "to" before "such," and render again the same word (yver; j;) literally, workers of iron and brass.

The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Lesson kit

Teaching starters — assembled from the data on this page, not authored interpretation. Every prompt links to the verse data it draws on. Edit before teaching.

2 Chronicles, in the Historical, opens this verse with 24 words (19 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is châdash (“to renew”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

The word châdash carries the sense “to renew.” How does it shape the verse?
How does 1 Samuel 11:14, which shares the word «to renew», read alongside this verse?
What does the repetition of “house” (3× in this one verse) do in this verse?
These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
«וַיִּתְּנֵ֨הוּ» is a Qal Sequential Imperfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
Compare how Tyndale Open Study Notes and Geneva Bible (1599) read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

Things to notice

This verse counts 24 Hebrew ↔ 36 Greek words.
These translations choose different wording for 21 words in this verse.
“house” occurs 3× in this single verse.
19 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 24 words in this verse.