7
he also toredown the altars and beat the Asherim and the carvedimages into powder, and choppeddownall the incensealtarsthroughout the land of Israel. Then he returned to Jerusalem.
8
Now in the eighteenth*year of his reign, when he had purged the land and the house, he sentShaphan the son of Azaliah, and Maaseiah an official of the city, and Joah the son of Joahaz the recorder, to repair the house of the LORD his God.
9
They came to Hilkiah the highpriest and delivered the money that was brought into the house of God, which the Levites, the doorkeepers, had collected from Manasseh and Ephraim, and from all the remnant of Israel, and from allJudah and Benjamin and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.