6. the workers, and with the rest of it they can buy wood and stone for the repair work.
7. They are honest, so we won't ask them to keep track of the money.
8. While Shaphan was at the temple, Hilkiah handed him a book and said, “Look what I found here in the temple—The Book of God's Law.”Shaphan read it,
9. then went back to Josiah and reported, “Your officials collected the money in the temple and gave it to the men supervising the repairs.
10. But there's something else, Your Majesty. The priest Hilkiah gave me this book.” Then Shaphan read it out loud.
11. When Josiah heard what was in The Book of God's Law, he tore his clothes in sorrow.
12. At once he called together Hilkiah, Shaphan, Ahikam son of Shaphan, Achbor son of Micaiah, and his own servant Asaiah. He said,
13. “The Lord must be furious with me and everyone else in Judah, because our ancestors did not obey the laws written in this book. Go and find out what the Lord wants us to do.”
14. The five men left straight away and went to talk with Huldah the prophet. Her husband was Shallum, who was in charge of the king's clothes. Huldah lived in the northern part of Jerusalem, and when they met in her home,
15. she said:You were sent here by King Josiah, and this is what the Lord God of Israel says to him:
16. “Josiah, I am the Lord! And I will see to it that this country and everyone living in it will be destroyed. It will happen just as this book says.
17. The people of Judah have rejected me. They have offered sacrifices to foreign gods and have worshipped their own idols. I cannot stand it any longer. I am furious.