What Does 2 Chronicles 36:14 Mean?

properly, assemblage; used only adverbially also, even, yea, though; often repeated as correl. both...and

properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)

“Moreover all the chief”

a head person (of any rank or class)

“of the priests”

literally one officiating, a priest; also (by courtesy) an acting priest (although a layman)

“and the people”

a people (as a congregated unit); specifically, a tribe (as those of israel); hence (collectively) troops or attendants; figuratively, a flock

“much”

to increase (in whatever respect)

“transgressed”

properly, to cover up; used only figuratively, to act covertly, i.e., treacherously

“very”

treachery, i.e., sin

properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)

“after all the abominations”

properly, something disgusting (morally), i.e., (as noun) an abhorrence; especially idolatry or (concretely) an idol

“of the heathen”

a foreign nation; hence, a gentile; also (figuratively) a troop of animals, or a flight of locusts

“and polluted”

to be foul, especially in a ceremial or moral sense (contaminated)

properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)

“the house”

a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.)

“of the LORD”

(the) self-existent or eternal; jeho-vah, jewish national name of god

who, which, what, that; also (as an adverb and a conjunction) when, where, how, because, in order that, etc

“which he had hallowed”

to be (causatively, make, pronounce or observe as) clean (ceremonially or morally)

“in Jerusalem”

jerushalaim or jerushalem, the capital city of palestine