Put it in.Gave it into.

The workmen.The doers of the work, i.e., the overseers or contractors. See Note on 2 Chronicles 24:12.

And they gave it to the workmen... the house. — So LXX. and Syriac. The Hebrew text says, and the doers of the work who were working in thehouse of Jehovah gave it for restoring and repairing the house. To whom the masters gave it is stated in next verse.

To repair.Libdôq, here only. The term is so used in Syriac. The original form of the verse is 2 Kings 22:5, where “the doers of the work” are first the masters, and then the men.

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