John Gill Commentary 2 Kings 22

Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign
And must be born when his father was but sixteen, for Amon lived but twenty four years, (2 Kings 21:19) ,

and he reigned thirty and one years in Jerusalem ;
and so must die at thirty nine years of age:

and his mother's name was Jedidah, the daughter of Adaiah of Boscath ;
a city of the tribe of Judah, (See Gill on Joshua 15:39).

And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord
In the affair of religious worship especially, as well as in other things:

and walked in all the ways of David his father ;
in his religious ways, in which he never departed from his God:

and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left ;
but kept an even, constant, path of worship and duty, according to the law of God.

And it came to pass in the eighteenth year of King Josiah
Not of his age, but of his reign, as appears from (2 Chronicles 34:8) nor is what follows the first remarkable act he did in a religious way; for elsewhere we read of what he did in the eighth and twelfth years of his reign, (2 Chronicles 34:3–7) ,

that the king sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, the son of Meshullam the
scribe, to the house of the Lord ;
the king's secretary; the Septuagint version is, the scribe of the house of the Lord, and so the Vulgate Latin version; that kept the account of the expenses of the temple; with him two others were sent, (2 Chronicles 34:8) ,

saying :
as follows.

Go up to Hilkiah the high priest
Who has an apartment in the temple; there was an Hilkiah, a priest, in those times, who was the father of Jeremiah the prophet, (Jeremiah 1:1Jeremiah 1:2) , whom an Arabic writer ^F12 takes to be the same with this; but it is not likely:

that he may sum the silver which is brought into the house of the Lord
which the people voluntarily offered for the repairing of it; this he would have the priest take an account of, that the sum total might be known; his meaning is, that he should take it out of the chest in which it was put, and count it, that it might be known what it amounted to; see (2 Kings 12:9 2 Kings 12:10) , some understand this of melting and coining the silver thus given

which the keepers of the door have gathered of the people :
who were Levites, (2 Chronicles 34:9) , either porters of the door, or rather the treasurers, as the Targum; the keepers of the vessels of the sanctuary, that had the care of them, as the Jewish commentators generally interpret it.

FOOTNOTES:

• F12: Abulpharag. Hist. Dynast. p. 68.

And let them deliver it into the hand of the doers of the work ,
that have the oversight of the house of the Lord
That were overseers of the workmen, whose names are mentioned, (2 Chronicles 34:12) into their hands the money was to be delivered by the high priest, when he had taken the account of it, and perhaps along with the king's scribe, see (2 Kings 12:10) ,

and let them give it to the doers of the work, which is in the house of
the Lord, to repair the breaches of the house
as their wages for their work; it seems it had not been repaired from the times of Jehoash, a space of two hundred and eighteen years, according to the Jewish chronology ^F13 ; but Kimchi and Abarbinel make it two hundred and twenty four.

FOOTNOTES:

• F13: Seder Olam Rabba, c. 24. p. 67.