The Meaning of 2 Chronicles 29:14 Explained

2 Chronicles 29:14

KJV: And of the sons of Heman; Jehiel, and Shimei: and of the sons of Jeduthun; Shemaiah, and Uzziel.

YLT: and of the sons of Heman: Jehiel and Shimei; and of the sons of Jeduthun: Shemaiah and Uzziel --

Darby: and of the sons of Heman, Jehiel and Shimei; and of the sons of Jeduthun, Shemaiah and Uzziel.

ASV: and of the sons of Heman, Jehuel and Shimei; and of the sons of Jeduthun, Shemaiah and Uzziel.

KJV Reverse Interlinear

And of the sons  of Heman;  Jehiel,  and Shimei:  and of the sons  of Jeduthun;  Shemaiah,  and Uzziel. 

What does 2 Chronicles 29:14 Mean?

Context Summary

2 Chronicles 29:12-24 - Removing Uncleanness
The names of the assisting Levites are specially mentioned, because their obedient cooperation counted for so much in the national reconstruction. For eight days the priests and they wrought in the great work of cleansing the Temple of the filthiness which had accumulated through neglect. The drift of the sand-storm, the havoc of weeds, the multitudes of living things that come from the air and the earth to brood and breed in neglected buildings, had wrought sad disfigurement and dilapidation in the holy and beautiful house which David and Solomon had built for God.
Deterioration of heart and life, of Church and State, is the sure result of neglect. The garden of the sluggard could hardly be more useless or perilous to the ordered cultivation around, than is the heart of man, when it neglects the culture of its spiritual affinities. We were made for God and cannot be perfectly healthy or happy apart from Him. These sins must be expiated by blood. A deep lesson is contained in 2 Chronicles 29:20-24. See Hebrews 9:22. [source]

Chapter Summary: 2 Chronicles 29

1  Hezekiah's good reign
3  He restores religion
5  He exhorts the Levites
12  They sanctify themselves, and cleanse the house of God
20  Hezekiah offers solemn sacrifices,
24  wherein the Levites are more forward than the priests

What do the individual words in 2 Chronicles 29:14 mean?

and of the sons of Heman Jehiel Jehiel and Shimei - of Jeduthun Shemaiah and Uzziel
וּמִן־ בְּנֵ֥י הֵימָ֖ן [יחואל] (יְחִיאֵ֣ל) וְשִׁמְעִ֑י ס יְדוּת֔וּן שְׁמַֽעְיָ֖ה וְעֻזִּיאֵֽל

בְּנֵ֥י  of  the  sons 
Parse: Noun, masculine plural construct
Root: בֵּן 
Sense: son, grandson, child, member of a group.
הֵימָ֖ן  of  Heman 
Parse: Proper Noun, masculine singular
Root: הֵימָן  
Sense: a wise man to whom Solomon was compared.
[יחואל]  Jehiel 
Parse: Proper Noun, masculine singular
(יְחִיאֵ֣ל)  Jehiel 
Parse: Proper Noun, masculine singular
Root: יְחוּאֵל 
Sense: a Levite and one of the chief musicians in the time of David.
וְשִׁמְעִ֑י  and  Shimei 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Proper Noun, masculine singular
Root: שִׁמְעִי  
Sense: a Benjamite, son of Gera of the house of Saul in the time of David.
ס  - 
Parse: Punctuation
יְדוּת֔וּן  of  Jeduthun 
Parse: Proper Noun, masculine singular
Root: יְדוּתוּן 
Sense: a Levite of the family of Merari and the chief of one of the 3 choirs of the temple whose descendants also formed one of the perpetual temple choirs; he is named at the beginning of 3 Psalms (39, 62, 77) either as the composer or the recipient of those Psalms but most likely as the leader of the choir by which those Psalms were to be sung.
שְׁמַֽעְיָ֖ה  Shemaiah 
Parse: Proper Noun, masculine singular
Root: שְׁמַעְיָה 
Sense: a prophet of the Lord in the reign of king Rehoboam of Judah.
וְעֻזִּיאֵֽל  and  Uzziel 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Proper Noun, masculine singular
Root: עֻזִּיאֵל  
Sense: the 4th son of Kohath and grandson of Levi, uncle of Moses and Aaron.