]2KI-22:1 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.

2KI-22:2 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.

2KI-22:3 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,

2KI-22:4 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:

2KI-22:5 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,

2KI-22:6 Unto carpenters, and builders, and masons, and to buy

timber and hewn stone to repair the house.

2KI-22:7 Howbeit there was no reckoning made with them of the

money that was delivered into their hand, because they dealt

faithfully.

2KI-22:8 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.

2KI-22:9 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.

2KI-22:10 And Shaphan the scribe showed the king, saying,

Hilkiah the priest hath delivered me a book. And Shaphan read it

before the king.

2KI-22:11 And it came to pass, when the king had heard the words

of the book of the law, that he rent his clothes.

2KI-22:12 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,

2KI-22:13 Go ye, inquire 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.

2KI-22:14 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.

2KI-22:15 And she said unto them, Thus saith the LORD God of

Israel, Tell the man that sent you to me.

2KI-22:16 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:

2KI-22:17 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.

2KI-22:18 But to the king of Judah which sent you to inquire of

the LORD, thus shall ye say to him, Thus saith the LORD God of

Israel, [As touching] the words which thou hast heard;

2KI-22:19 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.

2KI-22:20 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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