2 Kings 22:1-7 - Josiah Becomes King In Judah

¹ Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned thirty one years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Jedidah the daughter of Adaiah of Bozkath. ² And he did that seemed right in the sight of the LORD, and walked in all the ways of David his father, and bowed neither to the righthand nor to the left.

³ And the eighteenth year of his reign king Josiah sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah the son of Meshullam the scribe to the house of the LORD, saying, ⁴ "Go to Hilkiah the high priest, and let him sum the silver that is brought into the house of the LORD, which the keepers of the doors have gathered of the people; ⁵ and let them deliver it into the hands of the workmen that have the oversight of the house of the LORD, which shall give it to them that work upon the house of the LORD, to repair the decayed places thereof - ⁶ even unto carpenters and masons, and for to buy timber and free stone to repair the house. ⁷ Howbeit, let no reckoning be made with them of the money that is delivered into their hands, but let them do it of their conscience."