2Chronicles:34:14-33

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* And when they brought out the money that had been brought into the house of Jehovah , Hilkijah the priest found the book of the law of Jehovah by Moses . * Then Hilkijah spoke and said to Shaphan the scribe , I have found the book of the law in the house of Jehovah . And Hilkijah gave the book to Shaphan . * And Shaphan carried the book to the king . And moreover he brought the king word again saying , All that was committed to the hand of thy servants , they do ; * and they have emptied out the money that was found in the house of Jehovah , and have delivered it into the hand of the overseers , and into the hand of the workmen . * And Shaphan the scribe informed the king saying , Hilkijah the priest has given me a book . And Shaphan read out of it before the king . * And it came to pass when the king heard the words of the law , that he rent his garments . * And the king commanded Hilkijah , and Ahikam the son of Shaphan , and Abdon the son of Micah , and Shaphan the scribe , and Asaiah a servant of the king , saying , * Go , inquire of Jehovah for me , and for them that are left in Israel and in Judah , concerning the words of the book which is found ; for great is the wrath of Jehovah that is poured out upon us , because our fathers have not kept the word of Jehovah , to do according to all that is written in this book . * And Hilkijah and they that the king [had appointed ] went to Huldah the prophetess , the wife of Shallum the son of Tokehath , son of Hasrah , keeper of the wardrobe : now she dwelt in Jerusalem in the second quarter [of the town ]; and they spoke with her to that effect . * And she said to them , Thus saith Jehovah the God of Israel : Tell the man that sent you to me , * Thus saith Jehovah : Behold , I will bring evil upon this place , and upon the inhabitants thereof , all the curses that are written in the book which they have read before the king of Judah . * Because they have forsaken me , and have burned incense unto other gods , that they might provoke me to anger with all the works of their hands ; therefore my fury shall be poured out upon this place , and shall not be quenched . * But to the king of Judah , who sent you to inquire of Jehovah , thus shall ye say to him : Thus saith Jehovah the God of Israel touching the words which thou hast heard : * Because thy heart was tender , and thou didst humble thyself before God , when thou heardest his words against this place and against the inhabitants thereof , and humbledst thyself before me , and didst rend thy garments and weep before me , I also have heard [thee ], saith Jehovah . * Behold , I will gather thee unto thy fathers , and thou shalt be gathered to thy grave in peace ; and thine eyes shall not see all the evil that I will bring upon this place , and upon the inhabitants thereof . And they brought the king word again . * And the king sent and gathered all the elders of Judah and of Jerusalem . * And the king went up into the house of Jehovah , and all the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem , and the priests and the Levites , and all the people , great and small ; and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant which had been found in the house of Jehovah . * And the king stood in his place , and made a covenant before Jehovah , to walk after Jehovah , and to keep his commandments and his testimonies and his statutes with all his heart and with all his soul , to perform the words of the covenant that are written in this book . * And he caused all that were present in Jerusalem and Benjamin to stand [to it ]. And the inhabitants of Jerusalem did according to the covenant of God , the God of their fathers . * And Josiah removed all the abominations out of all the countries that belonged to the children of Israel , and made to serve all that were found in Israel , -- to serve Jehovah their God : all his days they did not depart from following Jehovah , the God of their fathers .

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