"Even to the artificers and builders gave they {it}, to buy hewn stone, and timber for couplings, and to floor the houses…" — 2 Chronicles 34:11

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. {to floor: or, to rafter}”

— 2 Chronicles 34:11

Verse 10

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:

Verse 12

And the men did the work faithfully: and the overseers of them {were} Jahath and Obadiah, the Levites, of the sons of Merari; and Zechariah and Meshullam, of the sons of the Kohathites, to set {it} forward; and {other of} the Levites, all that could skill of instruments of musick.

2 Chronicles 34 — Context

And when they came to Hilkiah the high priest, they delivered the money that was brought into the house of God, which the Levites that kept the doors had gathered of the hand of Manasseh and Ephraim, and of all the remnant of Israel, and of all Judah and Benjamin; and they returned to Jerusalem.

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:

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. {to floor: or, to rafter}

Also {they were} over the bearers of burdens, and {were} overseers of all that wrought the work in any manner of service: and of the Levites {there were} scribes, and officers, and porters.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 33:4-7

Also he built altars in the house of the LORD, whereof the LORD had said, In Jerusalem shall my name be for ever.

2 Chronicles 33:22

But he did {that which was} evil in the sight of the LORD, as did Manasseh his father: for Amon sacrificed unto all the carved images which Manasseh his father had made, and served them;