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the king commanded Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and Achbor the son of
Michaiah, and Shaphan the scribe, and Asahiah a servant of the king’s, saying,
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Go ye, enquire
of the L
ORD
for me, and for the people, and for all Judah, concerning the words of this book that is
found: for great is the wrath of the L
ORD
that is kindled against us, because our fathers have not
hearkened unto the words of this book, to do according unto all that which is written concerning
us.
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So Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam, and Achbor, and Shaphan, and Asahiah, went unto Huldah
the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe;
(now she dwelt in Jerusalem in the college;) and they communed with her.
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And she said unto them, Thus saith the L
ORD
God of Israel, Tell the man that sent you to me,
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Thus saith the L
ORD
, Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, and upon the inhabitants thereof,
even
all the words of the book which the king of Judah hath read:
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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 wrath shall be kindled against this place, and shall not be
quenched.
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But to the king of Judah which sent you to enquire of the L
ORD
, thus shall ye say to
him, Thus saith the L
ORD
God of Israel,
As touching
the words which thou hast heard;
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Because
thine heart was tender, and thou hast humbled thyself before the L
ORD
, when thou heardest what I
spake against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, that they should become a desolation
and a curse, and hast rent thy clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard
thee,
saith the L
ORD
.
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Behold therefore, I will gather thee unto thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered into thy grave in
peace; and thine eyes shall not see all the evil which I will bring upon this place. And they brought
the king word again.
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And the king sent, and they gathered unto him all the elders of Judah and of Jerusalem.
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And the
king went up into the house of the L
ORD
, and all the men of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem
with him, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the people, both small and great: and he read in
their ears all the words of the book of the covenant which was found in the house of the L
ORD
.
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And the king stood by a pillar, and made a covenant before the L
ORD
, to walk after the L
ORD
,
and to keep his commandments and his testimonies and his statutes with all
their
heart and all
their
soul, to perform the words of this covenant that were written in this book. And all the people stood
to the covenant.
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And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second
order, and the keepers of the door, to bring forth out of the temple of the L
ORD
all the vessels that
were made for Baal, and for the grove, and for all the host of heaven: and he burned them without
Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, and carried the ashes of them unto Bethel.
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And he put down
the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in
the cities of Judah, and in the places round about Jerusalem; them also that burned incense unto
Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven.
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And he brought
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