2 Kings 22:7

Only they did not call them to account for the money that was given to them, because they dealt faithfully.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

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

6even to the carpenters, and builders, and masons, and also to purchase timber and hewn stones, to repair the breaches of the house.

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

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Cross References

Exodus 36:5And one said to Moses, The people bring an abundance too great in proportion to all the works which the Lord has appointed them to do.

2 Chronicles 24:14And when they had finished it, they brought to the king and to Jehoiada the remainder of the money, and they made vessels for the house of the Lord, vessels of service for whole burnt offerings, and gold and silver censers: and they offered up whole burnt offerings in the house of the Lord continually all the days of Jehoiada.

Proverbs 28:20A man worthy of credit shall be much blessed: 1 But the wicked shall not be unpunished. 1

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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