2 Kings 22:1-7 ▼

1 Josiah was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jedidah the daughter of Adaiah; she was from Bozkath.

2 He did what was right in the LORD’s sight and walked in all the ways of his ancestor David; he did not turn to the right or the left.

3 In the eighteenth year of King Josiah, the king sent the court secretary Shaphan son of Azaliah, son of Meshullam, to the LORD’s temple, saying,

4 “Go up to the high priest Hilkiah so that he may total up the silver brought into the LORD’s temple—the silver the doorkeepers have collected from the people.

5 It is to be given to those doing the work—those who oversee the LORD’s temple. They in turn are to give it to the workmen in the LORD’s temple to repair the damage.

6 They are to give it to the carpenters, builders, and masons to buy timber and quarried stone to repair the temple.

7 But no accounting is to be required from them for the silver given to them since they work with integrity.”