2 Chronicles 34:10 - Easy To Read Version Then the Levites paid the men that supervised the work on the Lord’s temple. And the supervisors paid the workers that fixed the Lord’s temple. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition They delivered it to the workmen who had oversight of the Lord's house, who gave it to repair and restore the temple: American Standard Version (1901) And they delivered it into the hand of the workmen that had the oversight of the house of Jehovah; and the workmen that wrought in the house of Jehovah gave it to mend and repair the house: Common English Bible They handed it over to the supervisors in charge of the LORD’s temple, who in turn paid it to those working on, repairing, and restoring the LORD’s temple. Catholic Public Domain Version they delivered it into the hands of those who were in charge of the workers in the house of the Lord, so that they might repair the temple, and restore whatever was weak. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Which they delivered into the hands of them that were over the workmen in the house of the Lord, to repair the temple, and mend all that was weak. |
They gave the money to carpenters and builders to buy large rocks that were already cut, and to buy wood. The wood was used to build again the buildings and to make beams for the buildings. In the past, the kings of Judah did not take care of the temple buildings. Those buildings had become old and ruined.
Those men came to Hilkiah the high priest. They gave him the money that people gave for God’s temple. The Levite doorkeepers had collected this money from the people of Manasseh, Ephraim, and from all the Israelites that were left. They also collected this money from all Judah, Benjamin, and all the people living in Jerusalem.
Then those people who had come back from captivity gave money to the stonecutters and carpenters. And those people gave food, wine, and olive oil. They used these things to pay the people of Tyre and Sidon to bring cedar logs from Lebanon. Those people wanted to bring the logs in ships to the sea coast town of Joppa like \{Solomon did when he built\} the first temple. Cyrus king of Persia gave permission for them to do these things.