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2 Kings 22:7 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 7. 7Howbeit there was no reckoning made with them of the money that was delivered into their hand, because they dealt faithfully.
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Quick Meaning
This verse closes the thought unit with its stated result or transition: “Howbeit there was no reckoning made with them of the money that was delivered into their hand, because….” Its responsible meaning belongs to the complete movement “Temple-repair funds are entrusted to workers.”
Read It With
- 2 Kings 22:3–7
Read 2 Kings 22:7 with 22:3–7. The selected wording supplies one closing in the thought unit with its stated result or transition; the surrounding verses supply the causes, responses, and outcome summarized here: In Josiah's eighteenth year Shaphan is sent to Hilkiah to count collected money and pay overseers and craftspeople repairing the temple.
Why This Verse Appears Here
Within “Temple-repair funds are entrusted to workers,” 2 Kings 22:7 closes the thought unit with its stated result or transition through the wording “Howbeit there was no reckoning made with them of the money that was delivered into their hand, because….” Its placement is governed by this reviewed relationship: 2 Kings 22:1–2 establishes this prior movement: Eight-year-old Josiah reigns thirty-one years and is described as following David without turning aside. 2 Kings 22:3–7 continues the same royal, prophetic, household, military, reform, or exile movement; that evidenced relationship, rather than database adjacency alone, explains its placement.
Read 2 Kings 22:3–7 together
Why these verses belong together: 2 Kings 22:3–7 forms one scene or regnal notice: In Josiah's eighteenth year Shaphan is sent to Hilkiah to count collected money and pay overseers and craftspeople repairing the temple.
Verse 3. 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,
Verse 4. 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:
Verse 5. 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,
Verse 6. 6 Unto carpenters, and builders, and masons, and to buy timber and hewn stone to repair the house.
Verse 7. 7 Howbeit there was no reckoning made with them of the money that was delivered into their hand, because they dealt faithfully.
What Remains True
Religious reform and public worship remain answerable to truth, justice, affected people, complete covenant faithfulness, and consequences beyond a leader's lifetime. This unit tests that truth through the narrated movement: In Josiah's eighteenth year Shaphan is sent to Hilkiah to count collected money and pay overseers and craftspeople repairing the temple. In 2 Kings 22:7, the concrete line “Howbeit there was no reckoning made with them of the money that was delivered into their hand, because…” keeps that truth accountable to narrated evidence.
How It Can Shape Life
- The evidence to keep visible in this verse is “Howbeit there was no reckoning made with them of the money that was delivered into their hand, because….” Evaluate reform by its actual practices, limits, coercion, treatment of people, and long-term fruit rather than slogans, scale, or a leader's reputation. This response follows from the unit's own sequence: In Josiah's eighteenth year Shaphan is sent to Hilkiah to count collected money and pay overseers and craftspeople repairing the temple.
Continue in Context
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Read 2 Kings 22:3–7 — Temple-repair funds are entrusted to workersSources used for this Verse Lens
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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Supports: Exact reader-facing KJV wording, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete verse coverage for this thought unit.
Exact location: 2 Kings 22:3–7, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: 2 Kings
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Hebrew wording, morphology, names, royal formulas, clause relationships, older-English controls, and translation limits.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/2Kgs.xml, Masoretic words and morphology for 22:3–7
Open source ↗translation and translator notes
NET Bible: 2 Kings with translators' notes
Biblical Studies Press
Biblical Studies Press, 2006
Supports: A unit-bounded translation comparison plus only the lexical, grammatical, textual, historical, or older-English notes actually printed for these verses; silence is not treated as evidence.
Exact location: NET Bible 2 Kings PDF, printed pp. 662–663, translation and translator notes for 22:3–7
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