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Selected Verse: 2 Kings 22:5 - King James

Verse         Translation Text
2Ki 22:5 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,

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Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834]
See the marginal reference. The "doers" of the first part of the verse are the contractors, or overseers, who undertook the general superintendence; they are to be distinguished from a lower class of "doers," the actual laborers, carpenters, and masons of the latter portion of the verse.

Which is in the house of the Lord - Rather, "who are," etc.; i. e., the persons who were actually employed in the temple.
 
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