2 Kings 22:7
But let there be no reckoning made with them of the money which they receive, but let them have it in their power, and in their trust.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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Exodus 36:5Said to Moses: The people offereth more than is necessary.
2 Chronicles 24:14And when they had finished all the works, they brought the rest of the money before the king and Joiada: and with it were made vessels for the temple for the ministry, and for holocausts and bowls, and other vessels of gold and silver : and holocausts were offered in the house of the Lord continually all the days of Joiada.
Proverbs 28:20A faithful man shall be much praised: but he that maketh haste to be rich, shall not be innocent.
1 Corinthians 4:2Here now it is required among the dispensers, that a man be found faithful.
2 Timothy 2:2And the things which thou hast heard of me by many witnesses, the same commend to faithful men, who shall be fit to teach others also.
Matthew Henry on 2 Kings 22:2-11
Josiah's Pious Reign; the Book of the Law Read. ( b. c. 623.) 1 Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned thirty and one years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Jedidah, the daughter of Adaiah of Boscath. 2 And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord , and walked in all the way of David his father, and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left. 3 And it came to pass in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, that the king sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, the son of… Read the whole commentary →