2 Kings 22:7

Nevertheless shall there be no reckoning made with them for the money that is delivered into their hand, because they deal faithfully.

Leeser Tanakh

In The King James Version

Howbeit there was no reckoning made with them of the money that was delivered into their hand, because they dealt faithfully.

In Context

6Unto the carpenters, and the builders, and the masons, and to buy timber and hewn stones to repair the house.

8And Chilkiyahu the high-priest said unto Shaphan the scribe, A book of the law have I found in the house of the Lord. And Chilkiyah gave the book to Shaphan, and he read it.

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Cross References

Exodus 36:5And they said unto Moses, thus, The people bring more than is required for the service of the work, which the Lord hath commanded to make.

2 Chronicles 24:14And when they had completed it, they brought before the king and Yehoyada' the rest of the money, and they made of it vessels for the house of the Lord, the vessels of the service and for the sacrificing, and the spoons, and [other] vessels of gold and silver. And they offered burnt-offerings in the house of the Lord continually all the days of Yehoyada'.

Proverbs 28:20A faithful man will abound with blessings; but he that maketh haste to be rich will not go unpunished.

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 →

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