2 Kings 22:1-4
2 Kings 22:1
Josiah was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jedidah the daughter of Adaiah; she was from Bozkath.
2 Kings 22:2
He did what was right in the Lord’s sight and walked in all the ways of his ancestor David; he did not turn to the right or the left.
2 Kings 22:3
In the eighteenth year of King Josiah, the king sent the court secretary Shaphan son of Azaliah, son of Meshullam, to the Lord’s temple, saying,
2 Kings 22:4
“Go up to the high priest Hilkiah so that he may total up the silver brought into the Lord’s temple — the silver the doorkeepers have collected from the people.