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New Living Translation

2 Kings 22:6

They will need to hire carpenters, builders, and masons. Also have them buy the timber and the finished stone needed to repair the Temple.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Carpentry;   Honesty;   Josiah;   Liberality;   Mason;   Scribe (S);   Secretary (Recordist);   Shaphan;   Stones;   Temple;   Thompson Chain Reference - Arts and Crafts;   Masons;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Kings;   Temple, the First;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Josiah;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Zephaniah;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Josiah;   Shaphan;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Hezekiah;   Josiah;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Jeremiah;   Kings, 1 and 2;   Masons;   Woodworker;   Zephaniah, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Canon of the Old Testament;   Deuteronomy;   Gedaliah;   Hexateuch;   Hilkiah;   Huldah;   Idolatry;   Israel;   Jerusalem;   Shaphan;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Hilkiah ;   Josiah ;   Masons;   Shaphan ;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Moses, the Man of God;   Kingdom of Judah;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Carpenter;   Crafts;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Artisans;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for February 22;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
They are to give it to the carpenters, builders, and masons to buy timber and quarried stone to repair the temple.
Hebrew Names Version
to the carpenters, and to the builders, and to the masons, and for buying timber and hewn stone to repair the house.
King James Version
Unto carpenters, and builders, and masons, and to buy timber and hewn stone to repair the house.
English Standard Version
(that is, to the carpenters, and to the builders, and to the masons), and let them use it for buying timber and quarried stone to repair the house.
New Century Version
the carpenters, builders, and bricklayers. Also use the money to buy timber and cut stone to repair the Temple.
New English Translation
including craftsmen, builders, and masons, and should buy wood and chiseled stone for the repair work.
Amplified Bible
that is, [have them give the money] to the carpenters and the builders and the masons—and to buy timber and cut stones to repair the house (temple).
New American Standard Bible
to the carpenters, the builders, the masons, and for buying timber and cut stone to repair the house.
World English Bible
to the carpenters, and to the builders, and to the masons, and for buying timber and hewn stone to repair the house.
Geneva Bible (1587)
To wit, vnto the artificers and carpenters & masons, and to bye timber, and hewed stone to repaire the house.
Legacy Standard Bible
to the craftsmen and the builders and the masons and for buying timber and hewn stone to repair the house.
Berean Standard Bible
to the carpenters, builders, and masons-to buy timber and dressed stone to repair the temple.
Contemporary English Version
the workers, and with the rest of it they can buy wood and stone for the repair work.
Complete Jewish Bible
the carpenters, construction-workers and stonemasons — and to purchase timber and worked stone for doing the repairs on the building."
Darby Translation
to the carpenters and the builders and the masons, and to buy timber and hewn stone to repair the house.
Easy-to-Read Version
Use that money for the carpenters, stonemasons, and stonecutters. Also use that money to buy the timber and cut stones that are needed to repair the Temple.
George Lamsa Translation
To the carpenters and to the builders and masons, and to buy timber and hewn stone to repair the house of the LORD.
Good News Translation
the carpenters, the builders, and the masons, and buy the timber and the stones used in the repairs.
Lexham English Bible
to the skilled craftsmen, to the builders, to the masons, and to buy timber and hewing stones to repair the temple.
Literal Translation
to the carpenters, and to the builders, and to the masons, and to buy wood and cut stone to strengthen the house;
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
vnto the carpenters, and buylders, & masons, and to them yt bie timber & fre stone for the repairinge of the house:
American Standard Version
unto the carpenters, and to the builders, and to the masons, and for buying timber and hewn stone to repair the house.
Bible in Basic English
To the woodworkers and the builders and the stone-cutters; and for getting wood and cut stones for the building up of the house.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Euen vnto carpenters and masons, and workers vpon the walles, and for to bye tymber and free stone, to repaire the temple.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
unto the carpenters, and to the builders, and to the masons; and for buying timber and hewn stone to repair the house.'--
King James Version (1611)
Unto carpenters, and builders, and masons, and to buy timber and hewen stone, to repaire the house.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
even to the carpenters, and builders, and masons, and also to purchase timber and hewn stones, to repair the breaches of the house.
English Revised Version
unto the carpenters, and to the builders, and to the masons; and for buying timber and hewn stone to repair the house.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
that is, to carpenteris, and to masouns, and to hem that maken brokun thingis, and that trees and stoonus of quarieris be bouyt, to reparele the temple of the Lord;
Update Bible Version
to the carpenters, and to the builders, and to the masons, and for buying timber and cut stone to repair the house.
Webster's Bible Translation
To carpenters, and builders, and masons, and to buy timber, and hewn stone to repair the house.
New King James Version
to carpenters and builders and masons--and to buy timber and hewn stone to repair the house.
New Life Bible
Have them pay the builders and the men who work with wood and with stone. Have them use it for buying wood and cut stone needed to work on the house.
New Revised Standard
that is, to the carpenters, to the builders, to the masons; and let them use it to buy timber and quarried stone to repair the house.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
to the carpenters, and to the builders, and to the masons, - and to buy timber, and hewn stones, for repairing the house.
Douay-Rheims Bible
That is, to carpenters and masons, and to such as mend breaches: and that timber may be bought, and stones out of the quarries, to repair the temple of the Lord.
Revised Standard Version
that is, to the carpenters, and to the builders, and to the masons, as well as for buying timber and quarried stone to repair the house.
Young's Literal Translation
to artificers, and to builders, and [to repairers of] the wall, and to buy wood and hewn stones to strengthen the house;
New American Standard Bible (1995)
to the carpenters and the builders and the masons and for buying timber and hewn stone to repair the house.

Contextual Overview

1 Josiah was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem thirty-one years. His mother was Jedidah, the daughter of Adaiah from Bozkath. 2 He did what was pleasing in the Lord 's sight and followed the example of his ancestor David. He did not turn away from doing what was right. 3 In the eighteenth year of his reign, King Josiah sent Shaphan son of Azaliah and grandson of Meshullam, the court secretary, to the Temple of the Lord . He told him, 4 "Go to Hilkiah the high priest and have him count the money the gatekeepers have collected from the people at the Lord 's Temple. 5 Entrust this money to the men assigned to supervise the restoration of the Lord 's Temple. Then they can use it to pay workers to repair the Temple. 6 They will need to hire carpenters, builders, and masons. Also have them buy the timber and the finished stone needed to repair the Temple. 7 But don't require the construction supervisors to keep account of the money they receive, for they are honest and trustworthy men." 8 Hilkiah the high priest said to Shaphan the court secretary, "I have found the Book of the Law in the Lord 's Temple!" Then Hilkiah gave the scroll to Shaphan, and he read it. 9 Shaphan went to the king and reported, "Your officials have turned over the money collected at the Temple of the Lord to the workers and supervisors at the Temple." 10 Shaphan also told the king, "Hilkiah the priest has given me a scroll." So Shaphan read it to the king.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

carpenters: or, artificers, Exodus 28:11, Exodus 35:35, Exodus 38:23

builders: 2 Kings 12:11, Genesis 4:17, 1 Kings 5:18, 1 Kings 6:12

masons: or, repairers of the wall, 2 Kings 12:12, Isaiah 58:12, Ezekiel 22:30

Reciprocal: 2 Kings 12:5 - let them repair 1 Chronicles 22:2 - masons 2 Chronicles 34:10 - in the hand Ezra 3:7 - gave money

Cross-References

Isaiah 53:6
All of us, like sheep, have strayed away. We have left God's paths to follow our own. Yet the Lord laid on him the sins of us all.
Matthew 8:17
This fulfilled the word of the Lord through the prophet Isaiah, who said, "He took our sicknesses and removed our diseases."
John 19:17
Carrying the cross by himself, he went to the place called Place of the Skull (in Hebrew, Golgotha).
1 Peter 2:24
He personally carried our sins in his body on the cross so that we can be dead to sin and live for what is right. By his wounds you are healed.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Unto carpenters, and builders, and masons,.... Who were employed, some in mending the woodwork, and others in repairing the stone walls

and to buy timber and hewn stone to repair the house; not only money was to be given them for their workmanship, but to buy timber and stone to work with.


 
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