2Chronicles:34:14-33

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* Now when they brought out the money that was brought into the house of the LORD , Hilkiah the priest found the Book of the Law of the LORD given by Moses . * Then Hilkiah answered and said to Shaphan the scribe , "I have found the Book of the Law in the house of the LORD ." And Hilkiah gave the book to Shaphan . * So Shaphan carried the book to the king , bringing the king word , saying , "All that was committed to your servants they are doing . * And they have gathered the money that was found in the house of the LORD , and have delivered it into the hand of the overseers and the workmen ." * Then Shaphan the scribe told the king , saying , "Hilkiah the priest has given me a book ." And Shaphan read it before the king . * Thus it happened , when the king heard the words of the Law , that he tore his clothes . * Then the king commanded Hilkiah , Ahikam the son of Shaphan , Abdon the son of Micah , Shaphan the scribe , and Asaiah a servant of the king , saying , * "Go , inquire of the LORD for me , and for those who are left in Israel and Judah , concerning the words of the book that is found ; for great is the wrath of the LORD that is poured out on us , because our fathers have not kept the word of the LORD , to do according to all that is written in this book ." * So Hilkiah and those the king had appointed went to Huldah the prophetess , the wife of Shallum the son of Tokhath , the son of Hasrah , keeper of the wardrobe . (She dwelt in Jerusalem in the Second Quarter .) And they spoke to her to that effect . * Then she answered them , "Thus says the LORD God of Israel , "Tell the man who sent you to Me , * "Thus says the LORD : "Behold , I will bring calamity on this place and on its inhabitants , all the curses that are written in the book which they have read before the king of Judah , * because they have forsaken Me and burned incense to other gods , that they might provoke Me to anger with all the works of their hands . Therefore My wrath will be poured out on this place , and not be quenched ."" * But as for the king of Judah , who sent you to inquire of the LORD , in this manner you shall speak to him , "Thus says the LORD God of Israel : "Concerning the words which you have heard -- * because your heart was tender , and you humbled yourself before God when you heard His words against this place and against its inhabitants , and you humbled yourself before Me , and you tore your clothes and wept before Me , I also have heard you ," says the LORD . * "Surely I will gather you to your fathers , and you shall be gathered to your grave in peace ; and your eyes shall not see all the calamity which I will bring on this place and its inhabitants .""' So they brought back word to the king . * Then the king sent and gathered all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem . * The king went up to the house of the LORD , with all the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem--the priests and the Levites , and all the people , great and small . And he read in their hearing all the words of the Book of the Covenant which had been found in the house of the LORD . * Then the king stood in his place and made a covenant before the LORD , to follow the LORD , and to keep His commandments and His testimonies and His statutes with all his heart and all his soul , to perform the words of the covenant that were written in this book . * And he made all who were present in Jerusalem and Benjamin take a stand . So the inhabitants of Jerusalem did according to the covenant of God , the God of their fathers . * Thus Josiah removed all the abominations from all the country that belonged to the children of Israel , and made all who were present in Israel diligently serve the LORD their God . All his days they did not depart from following the LORD God of their fathers .

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