1. Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jedidah the daughter of Adaiah of Bozkath.
2. He did that which was right in the Lord’s eyes, and walked in all the way of David his father, and didn’t turn away to the right hand or to the left.
3. In the eighteenth year of king Josiah, the king sent Shaphan, the son of Azaliah the son of Meshullam, the scribe, to the Lord’s house, saying,
4. “Go up to Hilkiah the high priest, that he may count the money which is brought into the Lord’s house, which the keepers of the threshold have gathered of the people.
5. Let them deliver it into the hand of the workmen who have the oversight of the Lord’s house; and let them give it to the workmen who are in the Lord’s house, to repair the damage to the house,
6. to the carpenters, and to the builders, and to the masons, and for buying timber and cut stone to repair the house.
7. However there was no accounting made with them of the money that was delivered into their hand; for they dealt faithfully.”
8. Hilkiah the high priest said to Shaphan the scribe, “I have found the scroll of the Torah in the Lord’s house.” Hilkiah delivered the book to Shaphan, and he read it.