What Does 2 Kings 22:5 Mean in the King James?

And let them deliver it into the hand of the doers of the work, that have the oversight of the house of the LORD: and let them give it to the doers of the work which is in the house of the LORD, to repair the breaches of the house,

2 Kings 22:5 · KJV

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THE KEY

Repair is a chain of trust: resources pass through oversight and reach the hands that strengthen what has cracked.

THE MEANING

The house of the LORD is cared for through an ordered passage: what is entrusted to its overseers is placed with the workers. Their task is concrete, to strengthen the house where it is damaged. Sacred care reaches the structure itself, through accountable hands and practical work.

WHAT THIS UNDOES

The verse undoes the idea that reverence for the LORD’s house needs no material care: here, repair requires resources, oversight, and skilled work.

THE ROOT

לְחַזֵּק

leḥazzēq

GROWS FROM

חזק

ḥ-z-q

To be strong or become firm; in this form, to strengthen or make firm.

The word rendered “repair” carries the sense of strengthening. The breach is not only covered over; the vulnerable place is made firm, so repair means restoring strength where it has given way.

ALSO GROWS

ḥāzaq: Be strong; become firm.

חָזַק

This is the root’s basic movement: the house’s repair is about becoming firm.

ḥizzēq: Strengthen; reinforce.

חִזֵּק

This form makes the strengthening active: the workers bring strength to the damaged structure.

הַמֻּפְקָדִים

hamufqadim

GROWS FROM

פקד

p-q-d

To attend to, appoint, muster, or take account of; here, to be appointed or charged with responsibility.

“oversight” in this verse is hamufqadim. The overseers are not merely watching from a distance; the word presents them as people charged with attending to the house. Their role is part of the repair itself: entrusted responsibility guides resources toward the work.

ALSO GROWS

pāqad: Attend to; appoint; take account of.

פָּקַד

This root holds together assignment and attention: oversight means being charged to attend to the house.

peqūddāh: Charge; appointment; oversight.

פְּקֻדָּה

This related noun expresses the entrusted responsibility through which the repair work is directed.

THE PATTERN

What is damaged is strengthened through entrusted work that reaches the place of need.

So the workmen wrought, and the work was perfected by them, and they set the house of God in his state, and strengthened it.

2 Chronicles 24:13 · KJVThe house becomes firm through the workmen’s labor, echoing the strengthening at the center of this verse.

So built we the wall; and all the wall was joined together unto the half thereof: for the people had a mind to work.

Nehemiah 4:6 · KJVThe broken wall is restored as people give their effort to the work of joining it together.

For we are labourers together with God: ye are God’s husbandry, ye are God’s building.

1 Corinthians 3:9 · KJVThe image of God’s building joins shared labor with the care of what belongs to God.

THE THREAD

So the workmen wrought, and the work was perfected by them, and they set the house of God in his state, and strengthened it.

2 Chronicles 24:13 · KJV

The same Hebrew root ⁨חזק⁩ (ḥ-z-q), meaning “be strong” or “strengthen,” appears in both verses. Here the work is directed toward strengthening the house; the connected verse makes the result visible as the house is strengthened.

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