Even to the artificers and builders gave they it, to buy hewn stone, and timber for couplings, and to floor the houses which the kings of Judah had destroyed.
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Gill's Exposition
And the men did that work faithfully,.... The labouring men, as also their inspectors, see Kg2 22:7.
and the overseers of them were Jahath and Obadiah, the Levites, of the sons of Merari; the third…
Barnes' Notes
The “houses” intended are either the “chambers” which surrounded the temple on three sides 1Ki 6:5, or out-buildings attached to the courts. The “kings of Judah” intended are, no doubt, Manasseh and…
Here, 1. Orders are given by the king for the repair of the temple, Ch2 34:8. When he had purged the house of the corruptions of it he began to fit it up for the services that were to be performed in…
Cambridge Bible
to the artificers and builders R.V. to the carpenters and to the builders.
to floor R.V. to make beams for.
the houses Cp. 1Ch 28:11.