2 Chronicles 34:8

6 And so he did in the cities of Manasseh, Ephraim, and Simeon, as far as Naphtali and all around, with axes.

7 When he had broken down the altars and the wooden images, had ^abeaten the carved images into powder, and cut down all the incense altars throughout all the land of Israel, he returned to Jerusalem.

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8 ^aIn the eighteenth year of his reign, when he had purged the land and the¹ temple, he sent ^bShaphan the son of Azaliah, Maaseiah the ^cgovernor of the city, and Joah the son of Joahaz the recorder, to repair the house of the Lord his God.

9 When they came to Hilkiah the high priest, they delivered ^athe money that was brought into the house of God, which the Levites who kept the doors had gathered from the hand of Manasseh and Ephraim, from all the ^bremnant of Israel, from all Judah and Benjamin, and which they had brought back to Jerusalem.

10 Then they put it in the hand of the foremen who had the oversight of the house of the Lord; and they gave it to the workmen who worked in the house of the Lord, to repair and restore the house.

11 They gave it to the craftsmen and builders to buy hewn stone and timber for beams, and to floor the houses which the kings of Judah had destroyed.

12 And the men did the work faithfully. Their overseers were Jahath and Obadiah the Levites, of the sons of Merari, and Zechariah and Meshullam, of the sons of the Kohathites, to supervise. Others of the Levites, all of whom were skillful with instruments of music,

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Definitions of words in 2 Chronicles 34:8:

Azaliah {Hitchcock's Bible Names}
Azaliah {International Standard Bible Encyclopedia}

City {Easton's Bible Dictionary}
City {International Standard Bible Encyclopedia}

He {International Standard Bible Encyclopedia}

His {International Standard Bible Encyclopedia}

House {Easton's Bible Dictionary}
House {International Standard Bible Encyclopedia}

Joah {Easton's Bible Dictionary}
Joah {Hitchcock's Bible Names}
Joah {International Standard Bible Encyclopedia}

Joahaz {Easton's Bible Dictionary}
Joahaz {Hitchcock's Bible Names}
Joahaz {International Standard Bible Encyclopedia}

Land {International Standard Bible Encyclopedia}

Maaseiah {Easton's Bible Dictionary}
Maaseiah {Hitchcock's Bible Names}
Maaseiah {International Standard Bible Encyclopedia}

Recorder {Easton's Bible Dictionary}
Recorder {International Standard Bible Encyclopedia}

Reign {International Standard Bible Encyclopedia}

Repair {International Standard Bible Encyclopedia}

Sent {International Standard Bible Encyclopedia}

Year {Easton's Bible Dictionary}
Year {International Standard Bible Encyclopedia}

God {Easton's Bible Dictionary}

Lord {Easton's Bible Dictionary}

Ain {Hitchcock's Bible Names}

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