2 Chronicles 24:8

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

So the king commanded, and they made a chest, and set it outside at the gate of the house of Yahweh.

World English Bible · Public Domain

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חֽוּצָה

chûwts

H2351

“outside · toward”

Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute + Suffix, Demonstrative

Appears 164× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at Genesis 6:14

Full BDB Definition

Origin: (both forms fem. in the pl.) from an unused root meaning to sever

TWOT: 627a

outside, outward, street, the outside

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 →

10: words
10: distinct lemmas
Historical: section

Grammatical profile

3 verbs
6 nouns
1 adjective

Verb forms

וַיֹּ֣אמֶר Qal · Sequential Imperfect
וַֽיַּעֲשׂ֖וּ Qal · Sequential Imperfect
וַֽיִּתְּנֻ֛הוּ Qal · Sequential Imperfect

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 21 words from the Hebrew and 24 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.

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 10 Hebrew tokens and 13 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 24:8 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

2 Kings 12:8–9 The priests consented that they should take no [more] money from the people, neither repair the breaches of the house.
Mark 12:41 Jesus sat down opposite the treasury, and saw how the multitude cast money into the treasury. Many who were rich cast in much.

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

Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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Hebrew 2 Chronicles 24:8 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וַיֹּ֣אמֶר הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ וַֽיַּעֲשׂ֖וּ אֲר֣וֹן אֶחָ֑ד וַֽיִּתְּנֻ֛הוּ בְּשַׁ֥עַר בֵּית יְהוָ֖ה חֽוּצָה

So the king commanded, and they made a chest, and set it outside at the gate of the house of Yahweh.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX 2 Chronicles 24:8 Septuagint · lemma form

καί εἶπον ὁ βασιλεύς γίγνομαι γλωσσόκομον καί τίθημι ἐν πύλη οἶκος κύριος ἔξω

And the king said, Let a box be made, and let it be put at the gate of the house of the Lord without.

LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain

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 24:8 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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Trapp's Complete Commentary

John Trapp

2Ch 24:8 And at the king’s commandment they made a chest, and set it without at the gate of the house of the LORD.

Ver. 8. And at the king’s commandment.] See 2Ki 12:9.

And set it without at the gate.] Near the altar, that men might be encouraged to it, as to an offering made to God, saith Wolphius.

John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Joseph Benson's Commentary

2Ch 24:8-9. And set it at the gate of the house, &c. — That is, of the court of the people, whither all manner of persons might come to offer. To bring in to the Lord the collection that Moses laid upon Israel — That is, a collection answerable to it.

Joseph Benson's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1811–1818) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Adam Clarke's Commentary

Verse 8. They made a chest] 2Kg 12:4, &c.

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible (1810–1826) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers

(8) And at the king’s commandment they made.—Literally, And the king said (commanded), and they made. (Comp. 2Ki_12:9 : “And Jehoiada the priest took a chest, and bored a hole in its lid;” details characteristic of a more original account.)

And set it without—i.e., outside of the Temple proper. The chest stood in the court, just inside the gate.

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

8. And at the king’s commandment] R.V. So the king commanded, and.…

a chest] Heb. a single chest (to receive all contributions).

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 all the princes and all the people rejoiced,.... When they heard the proclamation, and understood for what use the money was to be given, and in what manner; all was agreeable and pleasing to them:

and brought in, and cast into the chest; through the hole that was in the lid of it, Kg2 12:9,

until they had made an end: everyone had given as much as he could, or thought fit to give.

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

Matthew Poole's English Annotations

i.e. Of the court of the people, whither all manner of persons might come to offer.

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

The Pulpit Commentary

A chest; Hebrew, dja wOra "one chest." This is more accurately described in ver. 9 of the parallel. Without at the gate of the house of the Lord; i.e. in the court opposite the porch, and, as we learn from the parallel, by the side of the altar of burnt offering. Now, not the priests generally, but simply those who kept the door, (probably the north Eze_11:3-5) receiving the contributions of the people at their hands, into their own hands deposited them in the one chest.

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

unfoldingWord translationNotes

Door43 World Missions Community

a chest

a large wooden box

they made a proclamation

"they proclaimed" or "they announced"

All the leaders and all the people

This is a generalization. Some people probably did not respond this way. (See: Hyperbole and Generalization)

translationWords

preach

desert

unfoldingWord translationNotes — © Distant Shores Media and the Door43 World Missions Community, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Source: git.door43.org/Door43/en_tn.

Rashi

Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki (Rashi)

and they made one chest and in II Kings (12:10), it is written: “and he bored a hole in its door,” and through that hole they would cast the hallowed things, but they did not open the door lest a thief come and steal from it.

and they placed it in the gate of the House of the Lord, to the outside so that all the generous people would be able to come and deposit the donation to the Lord therein.

Rashi on the Tanakh — English translations: “The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg” (CC BY 4.0); “Pentateuch with Rashi's commentary by M. Rosenbaum and A.M. Silbermann, 1929-1934” (public domain); “The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J” (CC BY 4.0); and “The Book of Joshua, Metsudah Publications, 1997” (CC BY 4.0). Text via Sefaria.

Lesson kit

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2 Chronicles, in the Historical, opens this verse with 10 words (10 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is chûwts (“outside”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

What does “outside” (chûwts) contribute to the verse as a whole?
2 Kings 12:8–9 shares this passage’s theme. How do the two illuminate each other?
The translations on this page render this verse differently — a whole-verse word diff, not a word-by-word alignment. What might account for the different wordings?
The verb «וַיֹּ֣אמֶר» is Qal Sequential Imperfect. How does its form color the action?
Reading how Trapp's Complete Commentary and Joseph Benson's Commentary read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?

Things to notice

This verse counts 10 Hebrew ↔ 13 Greek words.
These translations choose different wording for 11 words in this verse.
10 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 10 words in this verse.