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2 Kings 22
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- Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and
he reigned thirty and one years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was
Jedidah, the daughter of Adaiah of Boscath.
- 2
- And he did that which was right in the sight of the
LORD, and walked in all the way of David his father, and turned not aside to
the right hand or to the left.
- 3
- And it came to pass in the eighteenth year of king
Josiah, that the king sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, the son of Meshullam,
the scribe, to the house of the LORD, saying,
- 4
- Go up to Hilkiah the high priest, that he may sum the
silver which is brought into the house of the LORD, which the keepers of the
door have gathered of the people:
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- And let them deliver it into the hand of the doers of
the work, that have the oversight of the house of the LORD: and let them give
it to the doers of the work which is in the house of the LORD, to repair the
breaches of the house,
- 6
- Unto carpenters, and builders, and masons, and to buy
timber and hewn stone to repair the house.
- 7
- Howbeit there was no reckoning made with them of the
money that was delivered into their hand, because they dealt faithfully.
- 8
- And Hilkiah the high priest said unto Shaphan the
scribe, I have found the book of the law in the house of the LORD. And Hilkiah
gave the book to Shaphan, and he read it.
- 9
- And Shaphan the scribe came to the king, and brought the
king word again, and said, Thy servants have gathered the money that was found
in the house, and have delivered it into the hand of them that do the work,
that have the oversight of the house of the LORD.
- 10
- And Shaphan the scribe shewed the king, saying, Hilkiah
the priest hath delivered me a book. And Shaphan read it before the king.
- 11
- And it came to pass, when the king had heard the words
of the book of the law, that he rent his clothes.
- 12
- And the king commanded Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam
the son of Shaphan, and Achbor the son of Michaiah, and Shaphan the scribe,
and Asahiah a servant of the king's, saying,
- 13
- Go ye, enquire of the LORD for me, and for the people,
and for all Judah, concerning the words of this book that is found: for great
is the wrath of the LORD that is kindled against us, because our fathers have
not hearkened unto the words of this book, to do according unto all that which
is written concerning us.
- 14
- So Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam, and Achbor, and
Shaphan, and Asahiah, went unto Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the
son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe; (now she dwelt in
Jerusalem in the college;) and they communed with her.
- 15
- And she said unto them, Thus saith the LORD God of
Israel, Tell the man that sent you to me,
- 16
- Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil upon this
place, and upon the inhabitants thereof, even all the words of the book which
the king of Judah hath read:
- 17
- Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense
unto other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the works of
their hands; therefore my wrath shall be kindled against this place, and shall
not be quenched.
- 18
- But to the king of Judah which sent you to enquire of
the LORD, thus shall ye say to him, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, As
touching the words which thou hast heard;
- 19
- Because thine heart was tender, and thou hast humbled
thyself before the LORD, when thou heardest what I spake against this place,
and against the inhabitants thereof, that they should become a desolation and
a curse, and hast rent thy clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard
thee, saith the LORD.
- 20
- Behold therefore, I will gather thee unto thy fathers,
and thou shalt be gathered into thy grave in peace; and thine eyes shall not
see all the evil which I will bring upon this place. And they brought the king
word again.
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