2 Kings 22:6 - The Scriptures 2009

⁶ to carpenters and to builders and to stonemasons, and to buy timber and hewn stone to strengthen the house.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ unto carpenters, and builders, and masons, and to buy timber and hewn stone to repair the house.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ That is, to the carpenters, builders, and masons–and to buy timber and hewn stone to repair the house.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁶ unto the carpenters, and to the builders, and to the masons, and for buying timber and hewn stone to repair the house.

Common English Bible

⁶ the carpenters, the builders, and the masons. It should be used to pay for lumber and quarried stone to repair the temple.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ specifically, to carpenters and masons, and to those who mend gaps, and so that wood may be purchased, and stones from the quarries, in order to repair the temple of the Lord.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁶ 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.

2 Kings 22:6 Cross References

2 Samuel 5:11

Now Ḥiram sovereign of Tsor sent messengers to Dawiḏ, and cedar trees, and carpenters and masons. And they built a house for Dawiḏ.

2 Kings 12:12

and to stonemasons and stonecutters, and for buying timber and hewn stone to strengthen the breach of the House of יהוה, and for all that was paid out to strengthen the House.

2 Kings 22:5

“And let them give it into the hand of those doing the work, who are the overseers in the House of יהוה. And let them give it to those who are in the House of יהוה doing the work, to strengthen the breach of the house,

2 Kings 22:7

“However, let not the silver given into their hand be reckoned with them, for they are acting trustworthily.”

1 Chronicles 22:2

And Dawiḏ commanded to gather the foreigners who were in the land of Yisra’ĕl. And he appointed stonemasons to cut hewn stones to build the House of Elohim.