2 Kings 22:3–9

JOSIAH REPAIRS THE TEMPLE

³In the eighteenth year of King Josiah, the king sent the court secretary Shaphan son of Azaliah, son of Meshullam, to the Lord’s temple,^a 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.^{b 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.^{c 6}They are to give it to the carpenters, builders, and masons to buy timber and quarried stone to repair the temple.^{d 7}But no accounting is to be required from them for the silver given to them since they work with integrity.”^e

THE BOOK OF THE LAW FOUND

⁸The high priest Hilkiah told the court secretary Shaphan, “I have found the book of the law^f in the Lord’s temple,” and he gave the book to Shaphan, who read it.

⁹Then the court secretary Shaphan went to the king and reported,^B “Your servants have emptied out the silver that was found in the temple and have given it to those doing the work—those who oversee the Lord’s temple.”