2 Chronicles 31:7 They began doing this in the third month and finished in the seventh month.

◄ 2 Chronicles 31:7 ►

Parallel Verses

New International Version
They began doing this in the third month and finished in the seventh month.

English Standard Version
In the third month they began to pile up the heaps, and finished them in the seventh month.

New American Standard Bible
In the third month they began to make the heaps, and finished them by the seventh month.

King James Bible
In the third month they began to lay the foundation of the heaps, and finished them in the seventh month.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
In the third month they began building up the piles, and they finished in the seventh month.

International Standard Version
They began to make these piles of gifts during the third month, and it took them until the seventh month to finish.

American Standard Version
In the third month they began to lay the foundation of the heaps, and finished them in the seventh month.

Douay-Rheims Bible
In the third month they began to lay the foundations of the heaps, and in the seventh month, they finished them.

Darby Bible Translation
In the third month they began to lay the heaps, and finished them in the seventh month.

Young's Literal Translation
in the third month they have begun to lay the foundation of the heaps, and in the seventh month they have finished.

Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

31:1-21 Hezekiah destroys idolatry. - After the passover, the people of Israel applied with vigour to destroy the monuments of idolatry. Public ordinances should stir us up to cleanse our hearts, our houses, and shops, from the filth of sin, and the idolatry of covetousness, and to excite others to do the same. The after-improvement of solemn ordinances, is of the greatest importance to personal, family, and public religion. When they had tasted the sweetness of God's ordinance in the late passover, they were free in maintaining the temple service. Those who enjoy the benefit of a settled ministry, will not grudge the expense of it. In all that Hezekiah attempted in God's service, he was earnest and single in his aim and dependence, and was prospered accordingly. Whether we have few or many talents intrusted to us, may we thus seek to improve them, and encourage others to do the same. What is undertaken with a sincere regard to the glory of God, will succeed to our own honour and comfort at last.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

6, 7. and laid them by heaps—The contributions began to be sent in shortly after the celebration of the passover, which had taken place in the middle of the second month. Some time would elapse before the king's order reached all parts of the kingdom. The wheat harvest occurred in the third month, so that the sheaves of that grain, being presented before any other, formed "the foundation," an under-layer in the corn stores of the temple. The first-fruits of their land produce which were successively sent in all the summer till the close of the fruit and vintage season, that is, the seventh month, continued to raise heap upon heap.