2 Kings 22:3-7

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

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)