2 Kings 22:3
"And it came to pass in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, that the king sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, the son of Meshullam, the scribe, to the house of the LORD, saying,"
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Commentary
Gill's Exposition
And it came to pass in the eighteenth year of King Josiah,.... Not of his age, but of his reign, as appears from Ch2 34:8 nor is what follows the
first remarkable act he did in a religious way; for elsewhere we read of what he did in the eighth and twelfth years of his reign, Ch2 34:3 , that the king sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, the son of Meshullam the scribe, to the house of the Lord; the king's secretary; the Septuagint version is, the scribe of the house of the Lord, and so the Vulgate Latin version; that kept the account of the expenses of the temple; with him two others were sent, Ch2 34:8 , saying: as follows.