Matthew Henry Presbyterian @wholebiblehenry

We hear no more of the repairing of the temple: no doubt that good work went on well; but the book of the law that was found in it occupies us now, and well it may. It is not laid up in the king's cabinet as a piece of antiquity, a rarity to be admired, but it is read before the king.

Commenting on 2 Kings 22:11-20

John Gill Reformed Baptist @doctorgill

And it came to pass, when the king had heard the words of the book of the law,.... From whence it appears that he had never wrote out a copy of it, as the kings of Israel were ordered to do, when they came to the throne, Deu 17:18 nor had read it, at least not the whole of it; and yet it seems strange...

Keil & Delitzsch Lutheran @keilanddelitzsch

2Ki 22:11-12 In his alarm at the words of the book of the law that had been read to him, Josiah rent his clothes, and sent a deputation to the prophetess Huldah, to make inquiry of Jehovah through her concerning the things which he had heard from the law.

Commenting on 2 Kings 22:11-12