Now in the eighteenth year of his reign, when he had purged the land, and the house, he sent Shaphan the son of Azali´ah, and Ma-asei´ah the governor of the city, and Jo´ah the son of Jo´ahaz the recorder, to repair the house of the Lord his God.
and say, Thus saith the king, Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I come in peace.