18:37 Eliakim son of Hilkiah, the palace supervisor, accompanied by Shebna the scribe and Joah son of Asaph, the secretary, went to Hezekiah with their clothes torn 1 and reported to him what the chief adviser had said.
22:3 In the eighteenth year of King Josiah’s reign, the king sent the scribe Shaphan son of Azaliah, son of Meshullam, to the Lord’s temple with these orders: 2
22:8 Hilkiah the high priest informed Shaphan the scribe, “I found the law scroll in the Lord’s temple.” Hilkiah gave the scroll to Shaphan and he read it. 22:9 Shaphan the scribe went to the king and reported, 3 “Your servants melted down the silver in the temple 4 and handed it over to the construction foremen assigned to the Lord’s temple.”
1 sn As a sign of grief and mourning.
2 tn Heb “with these orders, saying.”
3 tn Heb “returned the king a word and said.”
4 tn Heb “that was found in the house.”