Now (A)in the eighteenth year of King Josiah, the king sent Shaphan, the son of Azaliah the son of Meshullam the scribe, to the house of the Lord, saying, (B)Go up to Hilkiah the high priest, and have him [a]count all the money brought into the house of the Lord, which the doorkeepers have collected from the people. (C)And have them hand it over to the workmen who have the oversight of the house of the Lord, and have them give it to the workmen who are in the house of the Lord to repair the [b]damage to the house: to the carpenters, the builders, the masons, and for buying timber and cut stone to repair the house. However, (D)no accounting shall be made with them for the money handed over to them, because they deal honestly.”

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 22:4 Or total
  2. 2 Kings 22:5 Lit breach

In the eighteenth year of his reign, King Josiah sent Shaphan son of Azaliah and grandson of Meshullam, the court secretary, to the Temple of the Lord. He told him, “Go to Hilkiah the high priest and have him count the money the gatekeepers have collected from the people at the Lord’s Temple. Entrust this money to the men assigned to supervise the restoration of the Lord’s Temple. Then they can use it to pay workers to repair the Temple. They will need to hire carpenters, builders, and masons. Also have them buy the timber and the finished stone needed to repair the Temple. But don’t require the construction supervisors to keep account of the money they receive, for they are honest and trustworthy men.”

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