3. In the eighteenth year of king Josiah, the king sent Shaphan, the son of Azaliah the son of Meshullam, the scribe, to the Lord’s house, saying,
4. “Go up to Hilkiah the high priest, that he may count the money which is brought into the Lord’s house, which the keepers of the threshold have gathered of the people.
5. Let them deliver it into the hand of the workmen who have the oversight of the Lord’s house; and let them give it to the workmen who are in the Lord’s house, to repair the damage to the house,
6. to the carpenters, and to the builders, and to the masons, and for buying timber and cut stone to repair the house.