2 Chronicles 24:12 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹² The king and Jehoiada gave it to those who had charge of the work of the house of the Lord, and they hired masons and carpenters to restore the house of the Lord and also workers in iron and bronze to repair the house of the Lord.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² And the king and Jehoiada gave it to those who did the work of the temple service; and they hired masons and carpenters and also those who worked in iron and bronze to repair the house of the Lord.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² And the king and Jehoiada gave it to such as did the work of the service of the house of Jehovah; and they hired masons and carpenters to restore the house of Jehovah, and also such as wrought iron and brass to repair the house of Jehovah.

Common English Bible

¹² The king and Jehoiada would give it to those in charge of the work on the LORD’s temple who in turn hired masons and carpenters to renovate the LORD’s temple, as well as metalworkers for the iron and bronze to repair the LORD’s temple.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² And the king and Jehoiada gave it to those who were in charge of the works of the house of the Lord. Then with it they hired hewers of stone, and artisans of every kind, so that they might repair the house of the Lord, and also so that the works of iron and of brass, which had begun to fall, would be reinforced.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹² And the king and Joiada gave it to those who were over the works of the house of the Lord. But they hired with it stonecutters and artificers of every kind of work, to repair the house of the Lord: and such as wrought in iron and brass, to uphold what began to be falling.

2 Chronicles 24:12 Cross References

2 Samuel 5:11

King Hiram of Tyre sent messengers to David, along with cedar trees and carpenters and masons who built David a house.

1 Kings 5:15

Solomon also had seventy thousand laborers and eighty thousand stonecutters in the hill country,

2 Chronicles 24:11

Whenever the chest was brought to the king’s officers by the Levites, when they saw that there was a large amount of silver in it, the king’s secretary and the officer of the chief priest would come and empty the chest and take it and return it to its place. So they did day after day and collected silver in abundance.

2 Chronicles 24:13

So those who were engaged in the work labored, and the repairing went forward at their hands, and they restored the house of God to its proper condition and strengthened it.

2 Chronicles 24:27

Accounts of his sons, and of the many oracles against him, and of the rebuilding of the house of God are written in the Commentary on the Book of the Kings. And his son Amaziah succeeded him.

2 Chronicles 34:8

In the eighteenth year of his reign, when he had cleansed the land and the house, he sent Shaphan son of Azaliah, Maaseiah the governor of the city, and Joah son of Joahaz, the recorder, to repair the house of the Lord his God.