2 Chronicles 34:8-13

The Book of the Law Found

⁸ _s Now in the eighteenth year of his reign, when he had cleansed the land and the house, he sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, and Maaseiah the _t governor of the city, and Joah the son of Joahaz, _u the recorder, to repair the house of the Lord his God. ⁹ They came to _v Hilkiah the high priest and gave him the money that had been brought into the house of God, which the Levites, the keepers of the threshold, had collected from _q Manasseh and Ephraim and from all the remnant of Israel and from all Judah and Benjamin and from the inhabitants of Jerusalem. ¹⁰ And they gave it to the workmen who were working in the house of the Lord. And the workmen who were working in the house of the Lord gave it for repairing and restoring the house. ¹¹ They gave it to the carpenters and the builders to buy quarried stone, and timber for binders and _w beams for the buildings that the kings of Judah had let go to ruin. ¹² And the men did the work faithfully. Over them were set Jahath and Obadiah the Levites, of the sons of Merari, and Zechariah and Meshullam, of the sons of the Kohathites, to have oversight. _x The Levites, all who were skillful with instruments of music, ¹³ were over _y the burden-bearers and directed all who did work in every kind of service, and some of the Levites were scribes and officials and gatekeepers.

1. Cross References
   2 Chronicles 34:8 - 28
   Now in the eighteenth year of his reign, when he had cleansed the land and the house, he sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, and Maaseiah the governor of the city, and Joah the son of Joahaz, the recorder, to repair the house of the Lord his God.
   2 Kings 22:3 - 20
   In the eighteenth year of King Josiah, the king sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, son of Meshullam, the secretary, to the house of the Lord, saying.
   
2. Cross References
   2 Chronicles 18:25
   And the king of Israel said, "Seize Micaiah and take him back to Amon the governor of the city and to Joash the king's son.
   
3. Cross References
   2 Samuel 8:16
   Joab the son of Zeruiah was over the army, and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was recorder.
   
4. Cross References
   2 Chronicles 35:8
   And his officials contributed willingly to the people, to the priests, and to the Levites. Hilkiah, Zechariah, and Jehiel, the chief officers of the house of God, gave to the priests for the Passover offerings 2,600 Passover lambs and 300 bulls.
   
5. Cross References
   2 Chronicles 34:6
   And in the cities of Manasseh, Ephraim, and Simeon, and as far as Naphtali, in their ruins all around.
   
6. Cross References
   Nehemiah 2:8
   And a letter to Asaph, the keeper of the king's forest, that he may give me timber to make beams for the gates of the fortress of the temple, and for the wall of the city, and for the house that I shall occupy." And the king granted me what I asked, for the good hand of my God was upon me.
   
7. Cross References
   1 Chronicles 23:5
   4,000 gatekeepers, and 4,000 shall offer praises to the Lord with the instruments that I have made for praise.
   
8. Cross References
   2 Chronicles 2:2
   And Solomon assigned 70,000 men to bear burdens and 80,000 to quarry in the hill country, and 3,600 to oversee them.
   2 Chronicles 2:18
   Seventy thousand of them he assigned to bear burdens, 80,000 to quarry in the hill country, and 3,600 as overseers to make the people work.
   Nehemiah 4:10
   In Judah it was said, "The strength of those who bear the burdens is failing. There is too much rubble. By ourselves we will not be able to rebuild the wall.