Unto carpenters, and builders, and masons, and to buy timber and hewn stone to repair the house.
The funds were directed to carpenters, builders, and masons and to the purchase of timber and cut stone for restoring the house of worship, and this work of repair was already in progress under Josiah when the long-lost book of the law came to light. The finding of that book and its earnest study led to a thorough reformation in the eighteenth year of his reign, by which the threatened judgments upon the nation were held back for a season. Warnings of the coming Babylonian captivity given through prophetic voices had already been stirring hearts and thus helped open the way for that reform movement.
The funds were directed to carpenters, builders, and masons and to the purchase of timber and cut stone for restoring the house of worship, and this work of repair was already in progress under Josiah when the long-lost book of the law came to light. The finding of that book and its earnest study led to a thorough reformation in the eighteenth year of his reign, by which the threatened judgments upon the nation were held back for a season. Warnings of the coming Babylonian captivity given through prophetic voices had already been stirring hearts and thus helped open the way for that reform movement.