The Meaning of 2 Kings 22:7 Explained

2 Kings 22:7

KJV: Howbeit there was no reckoning made with them of the money that was delivered into their hand, because they dealt faithfully.

YLT: only, the silver that is given into their hand is not reckoned with them, for in faithfulness they are dealing.

Darby: But no reckoning was made with them of the money that was given into their hand, because they dealt faithfully.

ASV: Howbeit there was no reckoning made with them of the money that was delivered into their hand; for they dealt faithfully.

KJV Reverse Interlinear

Howbeit there was no reckoning made  with them of the money  that was delivered  into their hand,  because they dealt  faithfully. 

What does 2 Kings 22:7 Mean?

Context Summary

2 Kings 22:1-13 - Finding The Lost Law
In the midst of a dissolute court, Josiah's young life grew as a palm on the desert-waste. At the age of sixteen he sought the Lord, and at eighteen he became even more earnest and devoted, as though some special quickening had passed over his soul and led him to set about the repair of the Temple. In this he was greatly aided by Hilkiah. It was a fair sunrise, though the day was prematurely overcast.
During the process of renovation a copy of the Book of the Law was discovered, and Shaphan read it before the king. It is supposed that the passage which he recited and which so greatly moved his soul, was Deuteronomy 28:1-68; Deuteronomy 29:1-29; Deuteronomy 30:1-20, where are enumerated the awful consequences that would follow the failure to observe God's law. What ruthless havoc had Manasseh wrought, that all the copies of the Law had become destroyed! It reminds us of the wholesale burning of the Bible in Tyndale "˜s day! The housebreaker is always careful to extinguish the light that might reveal his presence and lead to his identification. Let us not hesitate to preach the whole counsel of God, and not hide the inevitable doom of the ungodly. It is by the Word that the Holy Spirit convicts of sin. [source]

Chapter Summary: 2 Kings 22

1  Josiah's good reign
3  He takes care for the repair of the temple
8  Hilkiah having found a book of the law,
12  Josiah sends to Huldah to enquire of the Lord
15  Huldah prophesies the destruction of Jerusalem, but respite thereof in Josiah's time

What do the individual words in 2 Kings 22:7 mean?

However no there need be accounting made with them of the money delivered into their hand because faithfully they deal
אַ֚ךְ לֹא־ יֵחָשֵׁ֣ב אִתָּ֔ם הַכֶּ֖סֶף הַנִּתָּ֣ן עַל־ יָדָ֑ם כִּ֥י בֶאֱמוּנָ֖ה הֵ֥ם עֹשִֽׂים

אַ֚ךְ  However 
Parse: Adverb
Root: אַךְ  
Sense: indeed, surely (emphatic).
לֹא־  no 
Parse: Adverb, Negative particle
Root: הֲלֹא 
Sense: not, no.
יֵחָשֵׁ֣ב  there  need  be  accounting  made 
Parse: Verb, Nifal, Imperfect, third person masculine singular
Root: חָשַׁב 
Sense: to think, plan, esteem, calculate, invent, make a judgment, imagine, count.
אִתָּ֔ם  with  them 
Parse: Preposition, third person masculine plural
Root: אֵת 
Sense: with, near, together with.
הַכֶּ֖סֶף  of  the  money 
Parse: Article, Noun, masculine singular
Root: כֶּסֶף  
Sense: silver, money.
הַנִּתָּ֣ן  delivered 
Parse: Article, Verb, Nifal, Participle, masculine singular
Root: יָתַן 
Sense: to give, put, set.
עַל־  into 
Parse: Preposition
Root: עַל 
Sense: upon, on the ground of, according to, on account of, on behalf of, concerning, beside, in addition to, together with, beyond, above, over, by, on to, towards, to, against.
יָדָ֑ם  their  hand 
Parse: Noun, feminine singular construct, third person masculine plural
Root: יָד  
Sense: hand.
כִּ֥י  because 
Parse: Conjunction
Root: כִּי 
Sense: that, for, because, when, as though, as, because that, but, then, certainly, except, surely, since.
בֶאֱמוּנָ֖ה  faithfully 
Parse: Preposition-b, Noun, feminine singular
Root: אֱמוּנָה  
Sense: firmness, fidelity, steadfastness, steadiness.
עֹשִֽׂים  deal 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Participle, masculine plural
Root: עָשָׂה 
Sense: to do, fashion, accomplish, make.