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Hilkiah the high priest told Shaphan the court secretary, “I have found the book of the law
So
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,
Josiah
He did what was right in the Lord’s sight and walked in all the ways of his ancestor David;
because your heart was tender and you humbled yourself before the Lord
Then he commanded Hilkiah the priest, Ahikam
When the king heard the words of the book of the law, he tore his clothes.
because they have abandoned Me and burned incense to other gods in order to provoke Me with all the work of their hands. My wrath will be kindled against this place, and it will not be quenched.
“Go up to Hilkiah the high priest so that he may total up the money brought into the Lord’s temple—the money the doorkeepers have collected from the people.
“Go and inquire of the Lord for me, the people, and all Judah about the instruction in this book that has been found. For great is the Lord’s wrath that is kindled against us because our ancestors have not obeyed the words of this book in order to do everything written about us.”
therefore, I will indeed gather you to your fathers, and you will be gathered to your grave in peace.
Then they reported
Then Shaphan the court secretary told the king, “Hilkiah the priest has given me a book,” and Shaphan read it in the presence of the king.
She said to them, “This is what the Lord God of Israel says, ‘Say to the man who sent you to Me:
This is what the Lord says: I am about to bring disaster on this place and on its inhabitants, fulfilling all the words of the book that the king of Judah has read,
Then Shaphan the court secretary went to the king and reported,
They are to give it to the carpenters, builders, and masons to buy timber and quarried stone to repair the temple.
But no accounting is to be required from them for the money put into their hands since they work with integrity.”
It is to be put into the hands of 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.
Say this to the king of Judah who sent you to inquire of the Lord: This is what the Lord God of Israel says: As for the words that you heard,