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And let them deliver it into the hands of the supervisors of those doing the work on the house of the LORD, who in turn are to give it to the workmen repairing the damages to the house of the LORD--
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And let them deliver it into the hands of the supervisors of those doing the work on the house of the LORD
This phrase indicates a structured approach to temple restoration, emphasizing accountability and proper management. The "supervisors" were likely Levites or trusted officials, reflecting the importance of maintaining the sanctity and integrity of the temple work. This mirrors the organizational structure seen in Exodus 36:1-7, where skilled workers were appointed for the construction of the Tabernacle. The "house of the LORD" refers to Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem, a central place of worship and national identity for Israel. The temple's condition reflects the spiritual state of the nation, and its repair signifies a return to covenant faithfulness.

who in turn are to give it to the workmen repairing the damages to the house of the LORD—
The "workmen" were skilled laborers, possibly including carpenters, masons, and metalworkers, as seen in 1 Kings 5:13-18 during the original construction of the temple. The phrase "repairing the damages" suggests neglect or desecration, likely due to the idolatrous practices of previous kings, such as Manasseh, who defiled the temple (2 Kings 21:4-7). This restoration effort under King Josiah is part of a broader religious reform, aligning with the rediscovery of the Book of the Law (2 Kings 22:8). The physical restoration of the temple symbolizes spiritual renewal and a return to the worship of Yahweh, prefiguring the ultimate restoration through Jesus Christ, who referred to His body as the temple (John 2:19-21).

Persons / Places / Events
1. Josiah
The king of Judah who initiated the repair of the temple. He was known for his reforms and dedication to restoring the worship of Yahweh.

2. Hilkiah
The high priest during Josiah's reign, responsible for overseeing the temple's restoration and discovering the Book of the Law.

3. The House of the LORD
Refers to Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem, which had fallen into disrepair due to neglect and idolatry.

4. Supervisors of the Work
These were the officials appointed to oversee the temple repairs, ensuring that the work was done properly and funds were used appropriately.

5. Workers
The craftsmen and laborers tasked with the physical restoration of the temple, including carpenters, builders, and masons.
Teaching Points
The Importance of Stewardship
Just as Josiah ensured the temple funds were used wisely, we are called to be good stewards of the resources God has entrusted to us.

Restoration Requires Community Effort
The repair of the temple was a collaborative effort involving various roles. Similarly, the church today requires the diverse gifts and cooperation of its members to thrive.

Revival Begins with Leadership
Josiah's leadership was crucial in initiating reform. Spiritual revival often begins with leaders who are committed to God's Word and His purposes.

The Role of Accountability
The supervisors ensured that the work was done correctly and funds were used appropriately. Accountability is vital in maintaining integrity within the church and our personal lives.

Prioritizing God's House
Josiah prioritized the repair of the temple, demonstrating the importance of maintaining places of worship. We should prioritize our spiritual lives and the communal worship of God.
Bible Study Questions
1. How does Josiah's commitment to repairing the temple challenge us in our stewardship of God's resources today?

2. In what ways can we contribute to the "restoration" of our local church or community, similar to the workers in the temple?

3. What role does leadership play in spiritual revival, and how can we support our leaders in this endeavor?

4. How can we implement accountability in our personal and communal spiritual practices to ensure integrity and faithfulness?

5. Reflect on the importance of maintaining and prioritizing places of worship in your life. How can this be practically applied in your daily routine?
Connections to Other Scriptures
2 Chronicles 34
This chapter parallels the account in 2 Kings 22, providing additional details about Josiah's reforms and the discovery of the Book of the Law.

Exodus 25-31
These chapters describe the original construction of the Tabernacle, highlighting the importance of skilled labor and proper oversight in building a place of worship.

Nehemiah 3
This chapter details the rebuilding of Jerusalem's walls, emphasizing the collaborative effort and dedication required for restoration projects.
Sermons
Josiah: the Temple Again RepairedJ. Orr 2 Kings 22:1-7
A Monarch of Rare Virtue, and a God of Retributive JusticeDavid Thomas, D. D.2 Kings 22:1-20
A Monarch of Rare Virtue, and a God of Retributive JusticeD. Thomas 2 Kings 22:1-20
Josiah and the Book of the LawMonday Club Sermons2 Kings 22:1-20
Josiah's ReformationAlex. Whyte, D. D.2 Kings 22:1-20
People
Achbor, Adaiah, Ahikam, Asahiah, Asaiah, Azaliah, David, Harhas, Hilkiah, Huldah, Jedidah, Josiah, Meshullam, Micaiah, Michaiah, Shallum, Shaphan, Tikvah
Places
Bozkath, Jerusalem, Second Quarter
Topics
Appointed, Breach, Breaches, Damaged, Damages, Deliver, Doers, Lord's, Making, Overseers, Oversight, Pay, Repair, Repairing, Strengthen, Supervise, Temple, Workers, Workmen
Dictionary of Bible Themes
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
     5403   masons
     5433   occupations

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 Scripture

Josiah, 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

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