Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 2 Chronicles 31:7
In the third month they began to lay the foundation of the heaps, and finished [them] in the seventh month.
7. the third month ] The Feast of Harvest took place at the beginning of this month and seven weeks later the Feast of Ingathering followed.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
The third month – Compare 2Ch 29:3; 2Ch 30:2, 2Ch 30:13. The events hitherto described – the destruction of the high places, the re-appointment of the courses, and the re-establishment of the tithes followed so closely upon the Passover, that a month had not elapsed from the conclusion of the Feast before the gifts began to pour in. In the seventh month the harvest was completed; and the last tithes and first-fruits of the year would naturally come in then.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
Verse 7. In the third month] “The month Sivan; the seventh, Tisri.” – Targum.
The heaps] The vast collections of grain which they had from the tithes over and above their own consumption; see 2Ch 31:10.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
In the third month, to wit, of the sacred year, Exo 12:2 in which their harvest began.
In the seventh month; in which their harvest ended and the feast of tabernacles was kept, Exo 23:16; Lev 23:34.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
In the third month they began to lay the foundation of the heaps….. The month Sivan, as the Targum, in which month was the feast of Pentecost, called the feast of the harvest, Ex 23:16, for then barley harvest was ended, and wheat harvest began, and the firstfruits were brought:
and finished them in the seventh month; the month Tisri, as the Targum, in which was the feast of tabernacles, sometimes called the feast of ingathering, of the fruits of the earth, the wine, oil, &c. and so a proper time for bringing the tithes of all.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(7) In the third month.And so at the end of wheat-harvest, the third month (Sivan) answering to our MayJune. Pentecost, the Feast of Harvest, or Firstfruits, fell in this month.
To lay the foundation.To found, or lay. Heb., lsd, a curious form only met with here. (Comp. lsd, Isa. 51:16.)
In the seventh month.Tisri (September to October), in which was held the great Feast of Tabernacles, after all the fruits had been gathered in, and the vintage was over.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
7. The foundation of the heaps The beginning of the piles, or collections, of corn, wine, and oil. They began to heap up their stores of material for the continual service.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
2Ch 31:7 In the third month they began to lay the foundation of the heaps, and finished [them] in the seventh month.
Ver. 7. In the third month. ] About pentecost which is called the feast of harvest.
They began to lay the foundation of the heaps.
And finished them in the seventh month.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
third . . . seventh: i.e. Sivan, Thammuz, Ah, Elul, Ethanim.
to lay the foundation: i.e. to begin to build up the heaps.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
third month i.e. June.
seventh month i.e. October.
Fuente: Scofield Reference Bible Notes
Lev 23:16-24