The Meaning of 2 Chronicles 34:11 Explained

2 Chronicles 34:11

KJV: Even to the artificers and builders gave they it, to buy hewn stone, and timber for couplings, and to floor the houses which the kings of Judah had destroyed.

YLT: and they give it to artificers, and to builders, to buy hewn stones, and wood for couplings and for beams to the houses that the kings of Judah had destroyed.

Darby: they gave it to the carpenters and the builders, to buy hewn stone, and timber for the joists, and to floor the houses that the kings of Judah had destroyed.

ASV: even to the carpenters and to the builders gave they it, to buy hewn stone, and timber for couplings, and to make beams for the houses which the kings of Judah had destroyed.

KJV Reverse Interlinear

Even to the artificers  and builders  gave  they [it], to buy  hewn  stone,  and timber  for couplings,  and to floor  the houses  which the kings  of Judah  had destroyed. 

What does 2 Chronicles 34:11 Mean?

Context Summary

2 Chronicles 34:1-11 - A Toting King's Noble Leadership
Josiah was as much better than his father Amon, as Manasseh had been worse than Hezekiah. How strange to find such a pure young soul in the heart of Amon's court! What led the boy to such moral and religious attainments? Perhaps his grandfather, Manasseh, unable to change his son, focused his prayers and influence on his grandson. It is probable, also, that considerable influence for good resulted from the discovery that he had been the subject of prophecy. See 1 Kings 13:2. He felt encouraged to apprehend that for which he had been apprehended years before. Though no prophet's voice has predicted the program and attainments of our lives, they are well known in heaven, and we are summoned to realize God's great ideals for us.
The call of Jeremiah, also so nearly coincides with the commencement of Josiah's reforms that we can scarcely regard the two facts as unconnected. At any rate the king's earlier efforts seem to have been coincident with the first appearance of the prophet-statesman in the king's court at Jerusalem. [source]

Chapter Summary: 2 Chronicles 34

1  Josiah's good reign
3  He destroys idolatry
8  He takes order for the repair of the temple
14  Hilkiah, having found a book of the law,
21  Josiah sends to Huldah to enquire of the Lord
23  Huldah prophesies the destruction of Jerusalem, but respite thereof in Josiah's time
29  Josiah, causing it to be read in a solemn assembly, renews the covenant with God

What do the individual words in 2 Chronicles 34:11 mean?

And they gave [it] to the craftsmen and builders to buy stone hewn and timber for beams and to floor - the houses which had destroyed the kings of Judah
וַֽיִּתְּנ֗וּ לֶחָֽרָשִׁים֙ וְלַבֹּנִ֔ים לִקְנוֹת֙ אַבְנֵ֣י מַחְצֵ֔ב וְעֵצִ֖ים לַֽמְחַבְּר֑וֹת וּלְקָרוֹת֙ אֶת־ הַבָּ֣תִּ֔ים אֲשֶׁ֥ר הִשְׁחִ֖יתוּ מַלְכֵ֥י יְהוּדָֽה

וַֽיִּתְּנ֗וּ  And  they  gave  [it] 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Verb, Qal, Consecutive imperfect, third person masculine plural
Root: יָתַן 
Sense: to give, put, set.
לֶחָֽרָשִׁים֙  to  the  craftsmen 
Parse: Preposition-l, Article, Noun, masculine plural
Root: חֶרֶשׁ 
Sense: craftsman, artisan, engraver, graver, artificer.
וְלַבֹּנִ֔ים  and  builders 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Preposition-l, Article, Verb, Qal, Participle, masculine plural
Root: בָּנָה  
Sense: to build, rebuild, establish, cause to continue.
לִקְנוֹת֙  to  buy 
Parse: Preposition-l, Verb, Qal, Infinitive construct
Root: קָנָה 
Sense: to get, acquire, create, buy, possess.
אַבְנֵ֣י  stone 
Parse: Noun, feminine plural construct
Root: אֶבֶן  
Sense: stone (large or small).
מַחְצֵ֔ב  hewn 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular
Root: מַחְצֵב  
Sense: hewing, hewn.
וְעֵצִ֖ים  and  timber 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Noun, masculine plural
Root: עֵץ  
Sense: tree, wood, timber, stock, plank, stalk, stick, gallows.
לַֽמְחַבְּר֑וֹת  for  beams 
Parse: Preposition-l, Article, Noun, feminine plural
Root: מְחַבְּרֹות  
Sense: binder, clamp, joint.
וּלְקָרוֹת֙  and  to  floor 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Preposition-l, Verb, Piel, Infinitive construct
Root: קָרָה 
Sense: to encounter, meet, befall, happen, come to meet.
אֶת־  - 
Parse: Direct object marker
Root: אֹות 
Sense: sign of the definite direct object, not translated in English but generally preceding and indicating the accusative.
הַבָּ֣תִּ֔ים  the  houses 
Parse: Article, Noun, masculine plural
Root: בַּיִת 
Sense: house.
הִשְׁחִ֖יתוּ  had  destroyed 
Parse: Verb, Hifil, Perfect, third person common plural
Root: שָׁחַת  
Sense: to destroy, corrupt, go to ruin, decay.
מַלְכֵ֥י  the  kings 
Parse: Noun, masculine plural construct
Root: מֶלֶךְ 
Sense: king.
יְהוּדָֽה  of  Judah 
Parse: Proper Noun, masculine singular
Root: יְהוּדָה  
Sense: the son of Jacob by Leah.

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