Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 2 Kings 22:6
Unto carpenters, and builders, and masons, and to buy timber and hewn stone to repair the house.
6. unto [R.V. adds the ] carpenters, and [R.V. to the ] builders, and [R.V. to the ] masons ] All the words are definite in the original.
and to buy [R.V. for buying ] timber ] The contractors had to provide both materials and labour from the money which was put at their disposal, and they were apparently persons who could be trusted to make the best possible provision without oversight.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Either hewed or cut out of the quarries, or to be hewed and fitted to the building.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
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.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
2Ki 22:6 Unto carpenters, and builders, and masons, and to buy timber and hewn stone to repair the house.
Ver. 6. To buy timber and hewn stone. ] For the very stone walls also temporis iniuria et hominum incuria were much decayed.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
the house. Some codices, with two early printed editions, and Septuagint, read “the breaches of the house”, as in 2Ki 22:5.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
carpenters: or, artificers, Exo 28:11, Exo 35:35, Exo 38:23
builders: 2Ki 12:11, Gen 4:17, 1Ki 5:18, 1Ki 6:12
masons: or, repairers of the wall, 2Ki 12:12, Isa 58:12, Eze 22:30
Reciprocal: 2Ki 12:5 – let them repair 1Ch 22:2 – masons 2Ch 34:10 – in the hand Ezr 3:7 – gave money