2 Chronicles 24:13 - Exposition

The work was perfected by their hands. The margin gives the literal rendering, "healing" or health, or, i.e; recovery, "went up upon the work." The lively figure of the Hebrew word used ( אֲרוּכָה ) is very intelligible. The term is employed in only five other places, viz. Nehemiah 4:7 (Authorized Version, "The walls were made up; " Revised Version better, The repairing of the walls went forward ) ; Isaiah 58:8 ; Jeremiah 8:22 ; Jeremiah 30:17 ; Jeremiah 33:6 ; in each of which four instances, in both Authorized Version and Revised Version, the literal rendering " health " or " healing " is found. In his state ; equivalent to in its stateliness, perhaps the idea of the Hebrew word מַתְכֻּנְהּוֹ [only used four other times, and then rendered once "tale" ( Exodus 5:8 ), twice "composition" ( 2 Chronicles 30:1-27 :32, 37), once "measure" ( Ezekiel 45:11 )], being measure, or proportion, or rate.