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2 Kings 22:1	Yoshiyahu was eight years old when he began to reign; and he reigned thirty-one years in Yerushalayim: and his mother's name was Yedidah the daughter of `Adayah of Botzkat.
2 Kings 22:2	He did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD, and walked in all the way of David his father, and didn't turn aside to the right hand or to the left.
2 Kings 22:3	It happened in the eighteenth year of king Yoshiyahu, that the king sent Shafan, the son of Atzalyahu the son of Meshullam, the Torah-teacher, to the house of the LORD, saying,
2 Kings 22:4	Go up to Chilkiyah the kohen gadol, that he may sum the money which is brought into the house of the LORD, which the keepers of the threshold have gathered of the people:
2 Kings 22:5	and let them deliver it into the hand of the workmen who have the oversight of the house of the LORD; and let them give it to the workmen who are in the house of the LORD, to repair the breaches of the house,
2 Kings 22:6	to the carpenters, and to the builders, and to the masons, and for buying timber and hewn stone to repair the house.
2 Kings 22:7	However there was no reckoning made with them of the money that was delivered into their hand; for they dealt faithfully.
2 Kings 22:8	Chilkiyah the kohen gadol said to Shafan the Torah-teacher, I have found the book of the law in the house of the LORD. Chilkiyah delivered the book to Shafan, and he read it.
2 Kings 22:9	Shafan the Torah-teacher came to the king, and brought the king word again, and said, Your servants have emptied out the money that was found in the house, and have delivered it into the hand of the workmen who have the oversight of the house of the LORD.
2 Kings 22:10	Shafan the Torah-teacher told the king, saying, Chilkiyah the kohen has delivered me a book. Shafan read it before the king.
2 Kings 22:11	It happened, when the king had heard the words of the book of the law, that he tore his clothes.
2 Kings 22:12	The king commanded Chilkiyah the kohen, and Achikam the son of Shafan, and `Akhbor the son of Mikhayahu, and Shafan the Torah-teacher, and `Asayah the king's servant, saying,
2 Kings 22:13	Go you, inquire of the LORD for me, and for the people, and for all Yehudah, 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 listened to the words of this book, to do according to all that which is written concerning us.
2 Kings 22:14	So Chilkiyah the kohen, and Achikam, and `Akhbor, and Shafan, and `Asayah, went to Chuldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvah, the son of Charchas, keeper of the wardrobe (now she lived in Yerushalayim in the second quarter); and they talked with her.
2 Kings 22:15	She said to them, Thus says the LORD, the God of Yisra'el: Tell you the man who sent you to me,
2 Kings 22:16	Thus says the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil on this place, and on the inhabitants of it, even all the words of the book which the king of Yehudah has read.
2 Kings 22:17	Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense to other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the work of their hands, therefore my wrath shall be kindled against this place, and it shall not be quenched.
2 Kings 22:18	But to the king of Yehudah, who sent you to inquire of the LORD, thus shall you tell him, Thus says the LORD, the God of Yisra'el: As touching the words which you have heard,
2 Kings 22:19	because your heart was tender, and you did humble yourself before the LORD, when you heard what I spoke against this place, and against the inhabitants of it, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and have torn your clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard you, says the LORD.
2 Kings 22:20	Therefore, behold, I will gather you to your fathers, and you shall be gathered to your grave in shalom, neither shall your eyes see all the evil which I will bring on this place. They brought the king word again.

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