I det attende året av sitt styre, da landet og tempelet var renset, sendte han Sjafan, sønn av Asalja, Maaseja, byens leder, og Joa, sønn av Joakas, sekretæren, for å reparere det som var skadet i Herrens hus, hans Gud.
Now in the eighteenth year of his rule, when the land and the house had been made clean, he sent Shaphan, the son of Azaliah, and Maaseiah, the ruler of the town, and Joah, the son of Joahaz, the recorder, to make good what was damaged in the house of the Lord his God.