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,
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Scribe of. Hebrew, "to the temple. "(Chaldean; Syriac) It is not certain that there was such an officer as scribe of the temple; but the king's secretary was ordered by Joas to take an account of the money contributed, chap. xii. 10. (Calmet)
Josias followed the same plan. (Tirinus)