to the carpenters, builders, and masons--to buy timber and dressed stone to repair the temple. to the carpentersThe Hebrew word for "carpenters" is "חָרָשׁ" (charash), which refers to craftsmen skilled in working with wood. In the ancient context, carpenters were essential for constructing and maintaining buildings, including the sacred spaces like the temple. Their work was not just manual labor but a form of artistry that contributed to the beauty and functionality of the temple. This highlights the importance of skilled labor in the service of God, reminding us that every talent can be used for His glory. builders
The term "builders" in Hebrew is "בּוֹנִים" (bonim), which signifies those who construct or establish. Builders were responsible for the structural integrity of the temple, ensuring that it stood firm and served its purpose as a place of worship. This role underscores the necessity of a strong foundation in both physical and spiritual endeavors. Just as the builders laid the groundwork for the temple, believers are called to build their lives on the solid foundation of faith in God. and masons
"Masons" translates from the Hebrew "גָּדַר" (gadar), meaning those who work with stone. Masons were crucial in shaping and fitting stones for the temple, symbolizing the precision and care required in God's work. The use of stone, a durable and lasting material, reflects the enduring nature of God's covenant with His people. It serves as a metaphor for the believer's life, which should be built with care and precision on the teachings of Christ. to buy timber
The phrase "to buy timber" indicates the procurement of wood, a vital resource for construction. Timber, often sourced from the cedars of Lebanon, was prized for its quality and strength. This purchase signifies the investment in resources necessary for the upkeep of the temple, illustrating the principle of stewardship. It reminds us that maintaining our spiritual lives requires intentional investment in resources that nurture our faith. and dressed stone
"Dressed stone" refers to stones that have been cut and prepared for building. The Hebrew word "מַסָּע" (massa) implies stones that are shaped and smoothed for a specific purpose. This preparation process is akin to the spiritual shaping believers undergo through discipleship and sanctification. Just as stones are dressed for their place in the temple, Christians are refined and prepared for their roles in God's kingdom. to repair the temple
The phrase "to repair the temple" highlights the restoration and renewal of the sacred space. The Hebrew word "חָזַק" (chazaq) means to strengthen or make firm. This repair was not merely physical but also symbolic of spiritual renewal. The temple, as the dwelling place of God among His people, required constant care and attention. Similarly, our spiritual lives need regular maintenance and renewal through prayer, study, and community, ensuring that we remain strong and vibrant in our faith. Persons / Places / Events 1. JosiahThe king of Judah who initiated the temple repairs. He was known for his reforms and dedication to restoring the worship of Yahweh. 2. HilkiahThe high priest during Josiah's reign, who played a significant role in the temple restoration and the discovery of the Book of the Law. 3. The Temple in JerusalemThe central place of worship for the Israelites, which had fallen into disrepair and was in need of restoration. 4. Carpenters, Builders, and MasonsSkilled laborers tasked with the physical work of repairing the temple, highlighting the importance of craftsmanship in service to God. 5. ShaphanThe scribe who was involved in the administration of the temple repairs and later read the Book of the Law to King Josiah. Teaching Points The Importance of StewardshipJust as Josiah prioritized the repair of the temple, we are called to be good stewards of the resources and responsibilities God has entrusted to us. Value of Skilled LaborThe involvement of carpenters, builders, and masons highlights the dignity and importance of skilled work in God's service. Every vocation can be an act of worship. Commitment to God's HouseThe restoration of the temple serves as a reminder of the need to maintain and honor places of worship, ensuring they reflect the glory of God. Leadership in ReformJosiah's leadership in initiating the temple repairs demonstrates the impact of godly leadership in bringing about spiritual and physical renewal. Community InvolvementThe collective effort in repairing the temple illustrates the power of community in achieving God's purposes. Bible Study Questions 1. How does the repair of the temple under Josiah's leadership inspire us to take action in our own communities or churches? 2. In what ways can we apply the principle of stewardship to our personal lives and resources? 3. How does the involvement of skilled laborers in the temple repairs inform our understanding of the value of different vocations in God's kingdom? 4. What lessons can we learn from Josiah's commitment to restoring the temple that can be applied to maintaining our spiritual lives? 5. How can we encourage and participate in community efforts that align with God's purposes, similar to the collective work seen in the temple repairs? Connections to Other Scriptures 2 Chronicles 34This chapter provides a parallel account of Josiah's reforms and the temple repairs, offering additional details about the events. Exodus 31Describes the craftsmanship of Bezalel and Oholiab in constructing the Tabernacle, emphasizing the value of skilled labor in sacred work. 1 Kings 6Details the original construction of Solomon's Temple, providing context for the significance of its repair. Nehemiah 3Chronicles the rebuilding of Jerusalem's walls, illustrating the communal effort in restoration projects. Haggai 1Calls the people to prioritize the rebuilding of the temple, underscoring the importance of maintaining God's house. People Achbor, Adaiah, Ahikam, Asahiah, Asaiah, Azaliah, David, Harhas, Hilkiah, Huldah, Jedidah, Josiah, Meshullam, Micaiah, Michaiah, Shallum, Shaphan, TikvahPlaces Bozkath, Jerusalem, Second QuarterTopics Artificers, Builders, Building, Buy, Buying, Carpenters, Cut, Dressed, Getting, Hewn, Masons, Purchase, Quarried, Repair, Repairers, Stone, Stone-cutters, Stones, Strengthen, Temple, Timber, Wall, Wood, WoodworkersDictionary of Bible Themes 2 Kings 22:6 5247 carpenters 2 Kings 22:3-6 5212 arts and crafts 2 Kings 22:3-7 4366 stones
5508 ruins 2 Kings 22:4-6 5415 money, uses of
7402 offerings 2 Kings 22:4-7 5414 money, stewardship
8251 faithfulness, to God 2 Kings 22:5-6 5240 building 2 Kings 22:5-7 8354 trustworthiness Library The Rediscovered Law and Its Effects
'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. 10. And Shaphan the scribe shewed the king, saying, Hilkiah the …
Alexander Maclaren—Expositions of Holy ScriptureJosiah, a Pattern for the Ignorant.
"Because thine heart was tender, and thou hast humbled thyself before the Lord, when thou heardest what I spake against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and hast rent thy clothes, and wept before Me; I also have heard thee, saith the Lord. Behold therefore, I will gather thee unto thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered into thy grave in peace; and thine eyes shall not see all the evil which I will bring upon this place."--2 Kings …
John Henry Newman—Parochial and Plain Sermons, Vol. VIII A Traveler's Note-Book
A tourist who roams for a brief while through some great country like England or Russia may jot down a few of the impressions which come home to him, making no pretense at completeness or symmetry of description. So, one who has journeyed like a hasty traveler over some passages in that vast tract of years which we describe as the classic and Christian civilizations, notes down in the following pages a few of the salient features that have impressed him. He has already prefaced this with a sort …
George S. Merriam—The Chief End of Man Whether Determinate Things are Required for a Sacrament?
Objection 1: It seems that determinate things are not required for a sacrament. For sensible things are required in sacraments for the purpose of signification, as stated above [4343](A[4]). But nothing hinders the same thing being signified by divers sensible things: thus in Holy Scripture God is signified metaphorically, sometimes by a stone (2 Kings 22:2; Zech. 3:9; 1 Cor. 10:4; Apoc. 4:3); sometimes by a lion (Is. 31:4; Apoc. 5:5); sometimes by the sun (Is. 60:19,20; Mal. 4:2), or by something …
Saint Thomas Aquinas—Summa Theologica The Instrumentality of the Wicked Employed by God, While He Continues Free from Every Taint.
1. The carnal mind the source of the objections which are raised against the Providence of God. A primary objection, making a distinction between the permission and the will of God, refuted. Angels and men, good and bad, do nought but what has been decreed by God. This proved by examples. 2. All hidden movements directed to their end by the unseen but righteous instigation of God. Examples, with answers to objections. 3. These objections originate in a spirit of pride and blasphemy. Objection, that …
John Calvin—The Institutes of the Christian Religion The Medes and the Second Chaldaean Empire
THE FALL OF NINEVEH AND THE RISE OF THE CHALDAEAN AND MEDIAN EMPIRES--THE XXVIth EGYPTIAN DYNASTY: CYAXARES, ALYATTES, AND NEBUCHADREZZAR. The legendary history of the kings of Media and the first contact of the Medes with the Assyrians: the alleged Iranian migrations of the Avesta--Media-proper, its fauna and flora; Phraortes and the beginning of the Median empire--Persia proper and the Persians; conquest of Persia by the Medes--The last monuments of Assur-bani-pal: the library of Kouyunjik--Phraortes …
G. Maspero—History Of Egypt, Chaldaea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, V 8 The First Blast of the Trumpet
The English Scholar's Library etc. No. 2. The First Blast of the Trumpet &c. 1558. The English Scholar's Library of Old and Modern Works. No. 2. The First Blast of the Trumpet &c. 1558. Edited by EDWARD ARBER, F.S.A., etc., LECTURER IN ENGLISH LITERATURE, ETC., UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, LONDON. SOUTHGATE, LONDON, N. 15 August 1878. No. 2. (All rights reserved.) CONTENTS. Bibliography vii-viii Introduction …
John Knox—The First Blast of the Trumpet Why Should we not Believe These to be Angelic Operations through Dispensation of The...
16. Why should we not believe these to be angelic operations through dispensation of the providence of God, Who maketh good use of both good things and evil, according to the unsearchable depth of His judgments? whether thereby the minds of mortals be instructed, or whether deceived; whether consoled, or whether terrified: according as unto each one there is to be either a showing of mercy, or a taking of vengeance, by Him to Whom, not without a meaning, the Church doth sing "of mercy and of judgment." …
St. Augustine—On Care to Be Had for the Dead. The Credibility of Scripture Sufficiently Proved in So Far as Natural Reason Admits.
1. Secondary helps to establish the credibility of Scripture. I. The arrangement of the sacred volume. II. Its dignity. III. Its truth. IV. Its simplicity. V. Its efficacy. 2. The majesty conspicuous in the writings of the Prophets. 3. Special proofs from the Old Testament. I. The antiquity of the Books of Moses. 4. This antiquity contrasted with the dreams of the Egyptians. II. The majesty of the Books of Moses. 5. The miracles and prophecies of Moses. A profane objection refuted. 6. Another profane …
John Calvin—The Institutes of the Christian Religion Authorship of the Pentateuch.
The term Pentateuch is composed of the two Greek words, pente, five, and teuchos, which in later Alexandrine usage signified book. It denotes, therefore, the collection of five books; or, the five books of the law considered as a whole. 1. In our inquiries respecting the authorship of the Pentateuch, we begin with the undisputed fact that it existed in its present form in the days of Christ and his apostles, and had so existed from the time of Ezra. When the translators of the Greek version, …
E. P. Barrows—Companion to the Bible Synagogues: their Origin, Structure and Outward Arrangements
It was a beautiful saying of Rabbi Jochanan (Jer. Ber. v. 1), that he who prays in his house surrounds and fortifies it, so to speak, with a wall of iron. Nevertheless, it seems immediately contradicted by what follows. For it is explained that this only holds good where a man is alone, but that where there is a community prayer should be offered in the synagogue. We can readily understand how, after the destruction of the Temple, and the cessation of its symbolical worship, the excessive value attached …
Alfred Edersheim—Sketches of Jewish Social Life The Greater Prophets.
1. We have already seen (Chap. 15, Nos. 11 and 12) that from Moses to Samuel the appearances of prophets were infrequent; that with Samuel and the prophetical school established by him there began a new era, in which the prophets were recognized as a distinct order of men in the Theocracy; and that the age of written prophecy did not begin till about the reign of Uzziah, some three centuries after Samuel. The Jewish division of the latter prophets--prophets in the more restricted sense of the …
E. P. Barrows—Companion to the Bible Of the Power of Making Laws. The Cruelty of the Pope and his Adherents, in this Respect, in Tyrannically Oppressing and Destroying Souls.
1. The power of the Church in enacting laws. This made a source of human traditions. Impiety of these traditions. 2. Many of the Papistical traditions not only difficult, but impossible to be observed. 3. That the question may be more conveniently explained, nature of conscience must be defined. 4. Definition of conscience explained. Examples in illustration of the definition. 5. Paul's doctrine of submission to magistrates for conscience sake, gives no countenance to the Popish doctrine of the obligation …
John Calvin—The Institutes of the Christian Religion Of the Effects of those Prerogatives.
From these prerogatives there will arise to the elect in heaven, five notable effects:-- 1. They shall know God with a perfect knowledge (1 Cor. i. 10), so far as creatures can possibly comprehend the Creator. For there we shall see the Word, the Creator; and in the Word, all creatures that by the Word were created; so that we shall not need to learn (of the things which were made) the knowledge of him by whom all things were made. The most excellent creatures in this life, are but as a dark veil …
Lewis Bayly—The Practice of Piety Meditations for one that is Like to Die.
If thy sickness be like to increase unto death, then meditate on three things:--First, How graciously God dealeth with thee. Secondly, From what evils death will free thee. Thirdly, What good death will bring unto thee. The first sort of Meditations are, to consider God's favourable dealing with thee. 1. Meditate that God uses this chastisement of thy body but as a medicine to cure thy soul, by drawing thee, who art sick in sin, to come by repentance unto Christ, thy physician, to have thy soul healed …
Lewis Bayly—The Practice of Piety Kings
The book[1] of Kings is strikingly unlike any modern historical narrative. Its comparative brevity, its curious perspective, and-with some brilliant exceptions--its relative monotony, are obvious to the most cursory perusal, and to understand these things is, in large measure, to understand the book. It covers a period of no less than four centuries. Beginning with the death of David and the accession of Solomon (1 Kings i., ii.) it traverses his reign with considerable fulness (1 Kings iii.-xi.), …
John Edgar McFadyen—Introduction to the Old Testament Links 2 Kings 22:6 NIV2 Kings 22:6 NLT2 Kings 22:6 ESV2 Kings 22:6 NASB2 Kings 22:6 KJV
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