Therefore as the tongue of fire devours the stubble, and as the dry grass sinks down in the flame, so their root will decay, and their blossom go up as dust, because they have rejected the law of YHWH Almighty, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
They came to Hilkiah the high priest and delivered the money that was brought into God’s house, which the Levites, the keepers of the threshold, had gathered from the hands of Manasseh, Ephraim, of all the remnant of Israel, of all Judah and Benjamin, and of the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
Moreover he commanded the people who lived in Jerusalem to give the portion of the priests and the Levites, that they might give themselves to YHWH’s law.
This book of the law must not depart from your mouth, but you are to meditate on it day and night, so that you may observe to do all that is written in it; for then you are to make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.
When they had called to the king, Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebnah the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder came out to them.