The Meaning of 2 Kings 22:6 Explained

2 Kings 22:6

KJV: Unto carpenters, and builders, and masons, and to buy timber and hewn stone to repair the house.

YLT: to artificers, and to builders, and to repairers of the wall, and to buy wood and hewn stones to strengthen the house;

Darby: to the carpenters and the builders and the masons, and to buy timber and hewn stone to repair the house.

ASV: unto the carpenters, and to the builders, and to the masons, and for buying timber and hewn stone to repair the house.

KJV Reverse Interlinear

Unto carpenters,  and builders,  and masons,  and to buy  timber  and hewn  stone  to repair  the house. 

What does 2 Kings 22:6 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 22:6 mean?

to carpenters and builders and masons and to buy timber and stone hewn to repair - the house
לֶחָ֣רָשִׁ֔ים וְלַבֹּנִ֖ים וְלַגֹּֽדְרִ֑ים וְלִקְנ֤וֹת עֵצִים֙ וְאַבְנֵ֣י מַחְצֵ֔ב לְחַזֵּ֖ק אֶת־ הַבָּֽיִת

לֶחָ֣רָשִׁ֔ים  to  carpenters 
Parse: Preposition-l, Article, Noun, masculine plural
Root: חֶרֶשׁ 
Sense: craftsman, artisan, engraver, graver, artificer.
וְלַבֹּנִ֖ים  and  builders 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Preposition-l, Article, Verb, Qal, Participle, masculine plural
Root: בָּנָה  
Sense: to build, rebuild, establish, cause to continue.
וְלַגֹּֽדְרִ֑ים  and  masons 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Preposition-l, Article, Verb, Qal, Participle, masculine plural
Root: גָּדַר  
Sense: to wall up, wall off, close off, build a wall.
וְלִקְנ֤וֹת  and  to  buy 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Preposition-l, Verb, Qal, Infinitive construct
Root: קָנָה 
Sense: to get, acquire, create, buy, possess.
עֵצִים֙  timber 
Parse: Noun, masculine plural
Root: עֵץ  
Sense: tree, wood, timber, stock, plank, stalk, stick, gallows.
וְאַבְנֵ֣י  and  stone 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Noun, feminine plural construct
Root: אֶבֶן  
Sense: stone (large or small).
מַחְצֵ֔ב  hewn 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular
Root: מַחְצֵב  
Sense: hewing, hewn.
לְחַזֵּ֖ק  to  repair 
Parse: Preposition-l, Verb, Piel, Infinitive construct
Root: חָזַק  
Sense: to strengthen, prevail, harden, be strong, become strong, be courageous, be firm, grow firm, be resolute, be sore.
אֶת־  - 
Parse: Direct object marker
Root: אֹות 
Sense: sign of the definite direct object, not translated in English but generally preceding and indicating the accusative.
הַבָּֽיִת  the  house 
Parse: Article, Noun, masculine singular
Root: בַּיִת 
Sense: house.

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