Thematic Bible
2 Kings 22:1 (show verse)
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 Kings 22:2 (show verse)
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.
2 Kings 22:3 (show verse)
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,
2 Kings 22:4 (show verse)
"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;
2 Kings 22:5 (show verse)
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 -
2 Kings 22:6 (show verse)
even unto carpenters and masons, and for to buy timber and free stone to repair the house.
2 Kings 22:7 (show verse)
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."
2 Kings 22:8 (show verse)
And Hilkiah the high priest said to Shaphan the scribe, "I have found the book of the law in the temple of the LORD." And Hilkiah gave the book to Shaphan, and he read it.
2 Kings 22:9 (show verse)
And then Shaphan the scribe went to the king and brought him word again, and said, "Thy servants poured out the silver that was found in the temple, and have delivered it unto the workmen that have the oversight of the house of the LORD."
2 Kings 22:10 (show verse)
Furthermore Shaphan the scribe showed the king saying, "Hilkiah the priest hath delivered me here a book." And Shaphan read it before the king.
2 Kings 22:11 (show verse)
And the king, as soon as he had heard the words of the book of the law, he rent his clothes
2 Kings 22:12 (show verse)
and commanded Hilkiah the priest and Ahikam the son of Shaphan and Achbor the son of Micaiah, and Shaphan the scribe, and Asaiah a servant of the king's, saying,
2 Kings 22:13 (show verse)
"Go ye and seek of the LORD for me, and the people, and for all Judah; concerning the words of this book that is found. For it is a great wrath of the LORD that is kindled upon us, that our fathers have not hearkened unto the words of this book, to do in all points as it is written therein."
2 Kings 22:14 (show verse)
And Hilkiah the high priest and Ahikam, Achbor, Shaphan, and Asaiah went unto Huldah the Prophetess, wife of Shallum the son of Tikvah the son of Harahas keeper of the robes - which Prophetess dwelt in Jerusalem in the second ward - and communed with her.
2 Kings 22:15 (show verse)
And she said to them, "Thus sayeth the LORD God of Israel: 'Tell the man that sent you to me,
2 Kings 22:16 (show verse)
thus sayeth the LORD: behold I will bring evil upon this place and on the dwellers therein - even all the words of the book which the king of Judah hath read -
2 Kings 22:17 (show verse)
because they have forsaken me and have burnt offerings unto other gods, to anger me with all the works of their hands. Therefore is my wrath kindled against this place, and shall not be quenched.
2 Kings 22:18 (show verse)
But to the king of Judah which sent you to enquire of the LORD, so shall ye say: thus sayeth the LORD God of Israel, as touching the words which thou heardest.
2 Kings 22:19 (show verse)
Because thine heart did melt and thou meekedest thyself before me, the LORD, when thou heardest what I spake against this place and the inhabiters of the same, how that it should be destroyed and made accursed: and tearest thy clothes and weepest before me: of that also I have heard sayeth the LORD.
2 Kings 22:20 (show verse)
And therefore, see, I will receive ye unto thy fathers and will fetch thee unto thy grave in peace, thine eyes shall see none of the evil which I will bring upon this place." And they brought the king word again.