What Does 2 Chronicles 24:12 Mean in the King James?
And the king and Jehoiada gave it to such as did the work of the service of the house of the LORD, and hired masons and carpenters to repair the house of the LORD, and also such as wrought iron and brass to mend the house of the LORD.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
The Hebrew names repair as two acts together: making the house new and making it strong.
THE MEANING
The verse shows resources passing to people who renew and strengthen the LORD’s house through skilled labor. Its wording joins funding, craft, and service in one act: what is made new is also made firm.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
Repair is only a surface touch-up; the verse describes both renewal and reinforcement.
THE ROOT
לְחַדֵּשׁ
leḥaddēsh
GROWS FROM
חדש
New; to make new or renew.
The verb translated “repair” means “to make new.” Restoration here carries the sense of renewal, while the verse’s second repair verb adds the distinct work of strengthening.
ALSO GROWS
ḥadash: New.
חָדָשׁ
The adjective makes the renewal within “repair” visible: the work brings newness to the house.
ḥodesh: New moon; month.
חֹדֶשׁ
This related word links renewal with the return of a new cycle, adding a sense of fresh beginning to the work.
לְחַזֵּק
leḥazzēq
GROWS FROM
חזק
To be strong or firm; to strengthen.
The second verb names reinforcement: restoration gives the house firmness as well as newness. English “repair” and “mend” carry two Hebrew actions side by side, renewing and strengthening.
ALSO GROWS
ḥazaq: Strong; firm.
חָזָק
This adjective shows the condition the repair aims to give the house: strength and firmness.
ḥazaqah: Strength; firmness.
חֲזָקָה
The noun form echoes the work of making the house strong, not merely covering damage.
עֲבוֹדַת
ʿavodat
GROWS FROM
עבד
To work or serve.
The passage calls this skilled labor “the work of the service” of the house. Service and handwork meet in the same scene: repairing the building is itself part of serving it.
ALSO GROWS
ʿavodah: Work; service.
עֲבוֹדָה
This noun appears in the verse’s phrase for the service of the house, binding labor to service.
ʿeved: Servant; worker.
עֶבֶד
The related word for a servant shows the same root linking service with work performed.
THE PATTERN
A shared work takes shape when provision meets skilled hands and their labor serves a larger structure.
Them hath he filled with wisdom of heart, to work all manner of work, of the engraver, and of the cunning workman, and of the embroiderer, in blue, and in purple, in scarlet, and in fine linen, and of the weaver, even of them that do any work, and of those that devise cunning work.They gave money also unto the masons, and to the carpenters; and meat, and drink, and oil, unto them of Zidon, and to them of Tyre, to bring cedar trees from Lebanon to the sea of Joppa, according to the grant that they had of Cyrus king of Persia.According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder, I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon. But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon.THE THREAD
Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.The word translated “renew” is חַדֵּשׁ (ḥaddēsh, “renew”), from the same root חדש (ḥadash, “new; renew”) as the word translated “repair” here. The same root names restoration of the house and renewal within the reader.
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