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to the carpenters, builders, and masons--to buy timber and dressed stone to repair the temple.
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to the carpenters, builders, and masons—

Skilled artisans were entrusted with restoring the Lord’s house, joining practical labor to the nation’s renewed devotion to God. Their craftsmanship preserved both the strength and beauty of the temple, Israel’s central place of worship.

2Ki 12:11-12 Then they would put the counted money into the hands…
2Ch 24:12 Then the king and Jehoiada would give the money…
1Ch 22:15 You also have many workers: stonecutters, masons…

to buy timber and dressed stone

Durable materials were purchased for lasting repairs, recalling the care taken in Solomon’s original temple construction. Timber and carefully prepared stone reflected reverence for the holy place and anticipated Christ, the chief cornerstone upon whom God’s people are built.

1Ki 5:17-18 And the king commanded them to quarry large, costly stones…
1Ch 22:2 So David gave orders to gather the foreigners…
1Ch 22:14 Now behold, I have taken great pains to provide…

to repair the temple.

The neglected condition of the temple exposed Judah’s spiritual decline under earlier kings. Josiah’s restoration of the building prepared the way for the discovery of the Book of the Law and the reforms that followed. Repairing the house of God represented a renewed commitment to covenant faithfulness, pointing beyond the physical sanctuary to Christ’s work of cleansing and building His people as God’s dwelling place.

2Ki 12:4-5 Then Joash said to the priests, “Collect all the money…
2Ch 24:4-5 Some time later, Joash set his heart on repairing the house.…
2Ch 34:8-10 Now in the eighteenth year of his reign,…

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

2. Hilkiah
The 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 Jerusalem
The central place of worship for the Israelites, which had fallen into disrepair and was in need of restoration.

4. Carpenters, Builders, and Masons
Skilled laborers tasked with the physical work of repairing the temple, highlighting the importance of craftsmanship in service to God.

5. Shaphan
The 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 Stewardship
Just 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 Labor
The 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 House
The 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 Reform
Josiah's leadership in initiating the temple repairs demonstrates the impact of godly leadership in bringing about spiritual and physical renewal.

Community Involvement
The 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 34
This chapter provides a parallel account of Josiah's reforms and the temple repairs, offering additional details about the events.

Exodus 31
Describes the craftsmanship of Bezalel and Oholiab in constructing the Tabernacle, emphasizing the value of skilled labor in sacred work.

1 Kings 6
Details the original construction of Solomon's Temple, providing context for the significance of its repair.

Nehemiah 3
Chronicles the rebuilding of Jerusalem's walls, illustrating the communal effort in restoration projects.

Haggai 1
Calls the people to prioritize the rebuilding of the temple, underscoring the importance of maintaining God's house.
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
Artificers, Builders, Building, Buy, Buying, Carpenters, Cut, Dressed, Getting, Hewn, Masons, Purchase, Quarried, Repair, Repairers, Stone, Stone-cutters, Stones, Strengthen, Temple, Timber, Wall, Wood, Woodworkers
Dictionary 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 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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