What Does 2 Chronicles 34:10 Mean in the King James?
And they put it in the hand of the workmen that had the oversight of the house of the LORD, and they gave it to the workmen that wrought in the house of the LORD, to repair and amend the house:
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
Repair here means making firm again: the house is restored when accountable hands turn oversight into strengthening work.
THE MEANING
Restoration reaches the house through an accountable chain: those entrusted with its oversight place resources in the hands of workers, who strengthen and repair it. Damage meets careful, practical work; responsibility reaches all the way to the place where repair happens.
THE ROOT
לְחַזֵּק
lekhazzeq
GROWS FROM
חזק
chazaq
To be firm or strong; to strengthen or make firm.
The word names more than patching damage: it is making the house firm again. This root can also mean to hold fast, so repair becomes strength made tangible, a secure hold restored.
ALSO GROWS
chazaq: Be strong, become firm, or prevail.
חָזַק
The work restores the house’s firmness, not merely its appearance.
heḥĕzîq: Take hold of or hold fast.
הֶחֱזִיק
The same root can describe a firm grasp; here, strength takes shape through work that holds the house together.
לְבַדֵּק
lebaddeq
GROWS FROM
בדק
badaq
To examine, inspect, or test; in this building context, to repair.
The word translated “amend” carries the sense of inspecting what needs attention. Its word family also names a breach, linking careful examination to the gap the repair addresses.
ALSO GROWS
badaq: Examine, inspect, or test.
בָּדַק
The repair is attentive to the actual condition of the house, not a vague idea of improvement.
bedek: A breach or gap in a structure.
בֶּדֶק
The related word names the damage to be repaired, joining the act of inspection to the opening that needs attention.
THE PATTERN
A dwelling is restored when responsibility, skilled hands, and shared labor meet in the work itself.
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.So built we the wall; and all the wall was joined together unto the half thereof: for the people had a mind to work.For we are labourers together with God: ye are God’s husbandry, ye are God’s building.THE THREAD
Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees.The word translated “Strengthen” comes from the same root, חזק (chazaq), as the word for repairing the house. Isaiah speaks of weak hands made strong; here the house is strengthened through the hands at work.
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