2 Kings 22:7

However, no accounting shall be asked of them for the money delivered into their hand, for they deal faithfully.”

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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

6to the carpenters, and to the builders, and to the masons, and for buying timber and cut stone to repair the house.

8Hilkiah the high priest said to Shaphan the scribe, “I have found the book of the law in the LORD’s house.” Hilkiah delivered the book to Shaphan, and he read it.

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Cross References

Exodus 36:5They spoke to Moses, saying, “The people have brought much more than enough for the service of the work which the LORD commanded to make.”

2 Chronicles 24:14When they had finished, they brought the rest of the money before the king and Jehoiada, from which were made vessels for the LORD’s house, even vessels with which to minister and to offer, including spoons and vessels of gold and silver. They offered burnt offerings in the LORD’s house continually all the days of Jehoiada.

Proverbs 28:20A faithful man is rich with blessings; but one who is eager to be rich will not go unpunished.

1 Corinthians 4:2Here, moreover, it is required of stewards that they be found faithful.

2 Timothy 2:2The things which you have heard from me among many witnesses, commit the same things to faithful men who will be able 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 →

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