2 Kings 22:3-7
Christian Standard Bible
Josiah Repairs the Temple
3 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,(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)
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