2 Kings 22:1-7 ▼

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

2 And he did what was right in the sight of Yahweh and walked in all the way of his father David and did not turn aside to the right or to the left.

3 Now it happened in the eighteenth year of King Josiah, that the king sent Shaphan, the son of Azaliah the son of Meshullam the scribe, to the house of Yahweh saying,

4 “Go up to Hilkiah the high priest that he may count the money brought into the house of Yahweh which the doorkeepers have gathered from the people.

5 And let them give it into the hand of those who do the work, who have the oversight of the house of Yahweh, and let them give it to those who do the work, who are in the house of Yahweh, to repair the damages of the house,

6 to the craftsmen and the builders and the masons and for buying timber and hewn stone to repair the house.

7 Only no accounting shall be made with them for the money given into their hands, for they deal faithfully.”