34:16 Shaphan brought the scroll to the king and reported, 1 “Your servants are doing everything assigned to them.
34:17 They melted down the silver in the Lord’s temple 2 and handed it over to the supervisors of the construction foremen.”
34:18 Then Shaphan the scribe told the king, “Hilkiah the priest has given me a scroll.” Shaphan read it out loud before the king.
1 tnHeb “returned still the king a word, saying.”
2 tnHeb “that was found in the house of the Lord.”