KJV King James Version
Unto carpenters, and builders, and masons, and to buy timber and hewn stone to repair the house.
VERSE STUDY • KJV
2 Kings 22:6
Unto carpenters, and builders, and masons, and to buy timber and hewn stone to repair the house.
Read it in 5 translations
BSB Berean Standard Bible
to the carpenters, builders, and masons—to buy timber and dressed stone to repair the temple.
WEB World English Bible
to the carpenters, and to the builders, and to the masons, and for buying timber and cut stone to repair the house.
ASV 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.
YLT 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;
Surrounding context — 2 Kings 22
3 And it came to pass in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, [that] the king sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, the son of Meshullam, the scribe, to the house of the LORD, saying,
4 Go up to Hilkiah the high priest, that he may sum the silver which is brought into the house of the LORD, which the keepers of the door have gathered of the people:
5 And let them deliver it into the hand of the doers of the work, that have the oversight of the house of the LORD: and let them give it to the doers of the work which [is] in the house of the LORD, to repair the breaches of the house,
6 Unto carpenters, and builders, and masons, and to buy timber and hewn stone to repair the house.
7 Howbeit there was no reckoning made with them of the money that was delivered into their hand, because they dealt faithfully.
8 And Hilkiah the high priest said unto Shaphan the scribe, I have found the book of the law in the house of the LORD. And Hilkiah gave the book to Shaphan, and he read it.
9 And Shaphan the scribe came to the king, and brought the king word again, and said, Thy servants have gathered the money that was found in the house, and have delivered it into the hand of them that do the work, that have the oversight of the house of the LORD.
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לֶחָ֣רָשִׁ֔יםH2796 · cha.rashartificerוְלַבֹּנִ֖יםH1129 · ba.nahto buildוְלַגֹּֽדְרִ֑יםH1443 · ga.darto wall up/offוְלִקְנ֤וֹתH7069 · qa.nahto buyעֵצִים֙H6086 · etstree: woodוְאַבְנֵ֣יH68 · e.venstoneמַחְצֵ֔בH4274 · mach.tsevhewingלְחַזֵּ֖קH2388 · cha.zaqto strengthen: strengthenאֶת־H853 · et[Obj.]הַבָּֽיִת׃H1004 · betplace
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