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2 Kings 22:3

AzaliahJosiahMeshullamShaphan

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.

And it came to pass in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, that the king sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, the son of Meshullam, the scribe, to the house of the LORD, saying,

4 Go up to Hilkiah the high priest, that he may sum the silver which is brought into the house of the LORD, which the keepers of the door have gathered of the people:

5 And let them deliver it into the hand of the doers of the work, that have the oversight of the house of the LORD: and let them give it to the doers of the work which is in the house of the LORD, to repair the breaches of the house,

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BSB
Now in the eighteenth year of his reign, King Josiah sent the scribe, Shaphan son of Azaliah, the son of Meshullam, to the house of the LORD, saying,
KJV
And it came to pass in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, that the king sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, the son of Meshullam, the scribe, to the house of the LORD, saying,
WEB
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,
ASV
And it came to pass in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, that the king sent Shaphan, the son of Azaliah the son of Meshullam, the scribe, to the house of Jehovah, saying,
DARBY
And it came to pass in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, [that] the king sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, son of Meshullam, the scribe, to the house of Jehovah, saying,
BLB
And it came to pass in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, [that] the King sent Shaphan son of Azaliah son of Meshullam, the scribe, to the house of YHWH, saying,
ÅB
I kong Josias' attende år hendte det at kongen sendte statsskriveren Safan, sønn av Asalja, Mesullams sønn, til Herrens hus og sa:
OTB
I det attende året av kong Josjias regjering, sendte kongen Sjafan, sønn av Asalja, sønn av Mesjullam, skriveren, til Herrens hus og sa,
B1930
I kong Josias' attende år hendte det at kongen sendte statsskriveren Safan, sønn av Asalja, Mesullams sønn, til Herrens hus og sa:

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  • 2 Chronicles 34:3–33

    For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father: and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images.

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