20;
20 Therefore I will gather you to
your ancestors, and you will be buried in Peace. Your eyes will not see all the
disaster I am going to bring on this place.’” So they took her answer
back to the king. (2)
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16 ‘This
is what the Lord says: I am going
to bring disaster on this place and its people, according to everything written
in the book the king of Judah has read.
(7)
17 Because they have forsaken Me
and burned incense to other gods and aroused My anger by all the idols their
hands have made, My anger will burn against this place and will not be quenched.’
18 Tell the king of
Judah, who sent you to inquire of the Lord, ‘This is what the
Lord, the God of Israel, says
concerning the words you heard:
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7 But
they need not account for the money entrusted to them, because they are honest
in their dealings.” (7)
8 Hilkiah the high
priest said to Shaphan the secretary, “I have found the Book of the Law in the
temple of the Lord.” He gave it to Shaphan, who
read it.
9 Then Shaphan the
secretary went to the king and reported to him: “Your officials have paid out
the money that was in the temple of the Lord and have entrusted
it to the workers and supervisors at the temple.”
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13 “Go
and inquire of the Lord
for me and for the people and for all Judah about what is written in this book
that has been found. Great is the Lord’s
anger that burns against us because those who have gone before us have not
obeyed the words of this book; they have not acted in accordance with all that
is written there concerning us.”
(4)
14 Hilkiah the priest,
Ahikam, Akbor, Shaphan and Asaiah went to speak to the prophet Huldah, who was
the wife of Shallum son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe.
She lived in Jerusalem, in the New Quarter.
15 She said to them,
“This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: Tell
the man who sent you to me,
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4 “Go up to Hilkiah the high priest and have him get ready
the money that has been brought into the temple of the Lord, which the doorkeepers have collected from the people. (4)
5 Have them entrust
it to the men appointed to supervise the work on the temple. And have these men
pay the workers who repair the temple of the Lord—
6 the carpenters, the builders
and the masons. Also have them purchase timber and dressed stone to repair the
temple.
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19 Because
your heart was responsive and you humbled yourself before the Lord when you heard what I have spoken against this place and its
people—that they would become a curse and be laid waste—and because you tore your
robes and wept in My Presence, I also have heard you, declares the Lord. (1)
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10 Then
Shaphan the secretary informed the king, “Hilkiah the priest has given me a
book.” And Shaphan read from it in the presence of the king. (1)
11 When the king heard
the words of the Book of the Law, he tore his robes.
12 He gave these
orders to Hilkiah the priest, Ahikam son of Shaphan, Akbor son of Micaiah,
Shaphan the secretary and Asaiah the king’s attendant:
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22 Josiah was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem thirty-one
years. His mother’s name was Jedidah daughter of Adaiah; she was from Bozkath. (1)
2 He did what was Right in the Eyes
of the Lord and followed completely the ways of his father David,
not turning aside to the right or to the left.
3 In the eighteenth year of his reign, King Josiah
sent the secretary, Shaphan son of Azaliah, the son of Meshullam, to the temple
of the Lord. He said:
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