Holy Bible
(King James Version)
Second
Kings: Chapter 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 Je-dai-ah 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 Sha-phan the son of Az-a-li-ah, the son of Me-shul-lam, the
scribe, to the house of the LORD, saying,
4. Go up to Hil-ki-ah 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:
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,
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 Hil-ki-ah the high priest said unto Sha-phan the scribe, I have
found the book of the law in the house of the LORD. And Hilkiah
gave the book to Sha-han, and he read it.
9. And Sha-phan 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 Sha-phan the scribe shewed the king, saying, Hil-ki-ah 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 Hil-ki-ah the priest, and A-hi-kam the son of
Sha-phan, and Ach-bor the son of Mi-chai-ah, and Shaphan the scribe, and
As-a-hi-ah a servant of the king's, saying,
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.
14. So Hil-ki-ah the priest, and A-hi-kam, and Ach-bor, and Sha-phan,
and As-a-hi-ah, went unto Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the
son of Tik-vah, the son of Har-has, 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 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;
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 has 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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