What Does 2 Chronicles 24:13 Mean?
So the makers of the work made, and the work went up by their hands, and they stood the house of God on its footing, and strengthened it.
Key words are shown with the Hebrew or Greek and what each word meant.
Selah Decoded Version The Selah Decoded Version renders what the Hebrew and Greek words meant to the people who first heard them.
King James wording
King James Version
So the workmen wrought, and the work was perfected by them, and they set the house of God in his state, and strengthened it.THE KEY
The Hebrew word behind “perfected” carries the sense of restoration, while the house is also set back into its proper measure and made firm.
THE MEANING
The work before you receives restoration through the hands engaged in it. What is out of order can return to its proper measure and become firm. Completion, restored order, and strength appear as parts of one work.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that damage means something has lost its place forever: the house is repaired and strengthened, not discarded.
THE ROOT
אֲרוּכָה
arukah
GROWS FROM
ארך
ʾ-r-k
To be long; to lengthen.
“went up” in this verse is arukah. The Hebrew word אֲרוּכָה (arukah, restoration or repair) belongs to the lengthening family ארך (ʾ-r-k, to be long or lengthen). The work’s completion carries a shade of recovery and restoration alongside finishing.
ALSO GROWS
orekh: Length
אֹרֶךְ
This related word makes the root’s sense of extension audible beneath the idea of repair.
he'erikh: To lengthen or prolong
הֶאֱרִיךְ
The same root can describe something being extended, giving restoration a shade of renewed continuance.
מַתְכֻּנְתּוֹ
matkunato
GROWS FROM
תכן
t-k-n
To weigh or measure; to set in due proportion.
“state” in this verse is matkunato. The house is set עַל מַתְכֻּנְתּוֹ (al matkunato, according to its measure or pattern). Restoration includes returning the house to the proportion proper to it before making it firm.
ALSO GROWS
matkonet: Measure or prescribed pattern
מַתְכֹּנֶת
This related form reveals that the house is established according to a measure, not merely left standing.
takan: To weigh or measure
תָּכַן
The root’s measuring sense makes “in his state” carry the added idea of being set in due proportion.
וַיְאַמְּצוּהוּ
vay'ammetzuhu
GROWS FROM
אמץ
ʾ-m-ṣ
To be strong; to make firm or strong.
“strengthened” in this verse is vay'ammetzuhu. The root used to make the house strong also describes a person being strong or courageous. In Hebrew, firmness can belong to a structure and to the people who work on it.
ALSO GROWS
ve'ematz: Be strong; be courageous
וֶאֱמָץ
The same root describes strength as a quality a person can embody, as in “be strong” in Joshua 1:6.
ammits: Mighty or strong
אַמִּיץ
This related form applies the root’s strength to a person or force, echoing the firmness given to the house.
THE PATTERN
Wholeness in a dwelling takes shape as coordinated hands bring its parts into their proper measure.
Thus all the work of the dwelling, the tent of meeting, was finished. And the children of Israel did according to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so they did.So we built the wall, and all the wall was tied together to half of it, for the people had heart to work.from whom the whole body, joined together and knit by every joint that supplies, according to the working in the measure of each part, makes the growth of the body for the building up of itself in love.THE THREAD
For I will bring up healing for you, and I will heal you of your wounds, declares the LORD, for they called you the driven away, saying, This is Zion, no one seeks her.The same Hebrew word אֲרוּכָה (arukah, restoration or health) appears in the promise to restore health. The shared word joins the house’s repair to a wounded person’s recovery: restoration rises where damage has been.
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