Ver. 29-32. Then the king sent and gathered From hence, to the end of ( 2 Chronicles 34:32 ) , the same account is given of the reading of the law to the people, and of the covenant the king and they made to serve the Lord, as in ( 2 Kings 23:1-3 ) .
27
And your heart was soft, and you made yourself low before God, on hearing his words about this place and its people, and with weeping and signs of grief have made yourself low before me, I have given ear to you, says the Lord God.
28
See, I will let you go to your fathers, and be put in your last resting-place in peace, and your eyes will not see all the evil which I will send on this place and on its people. So they took this news back to the king.
29
Then the king sent and got together all the responsible men of Judah and of Jerusalem.
30
And the king went up to the house of the Lord, with all the men of Judah and the people of Jerusalem, and the priests and the Levites and all the people, small and great; and they were present at his reading of the book of the law which had come to light in the house of the Lord.
31
Then the king, taking his place by the pillar, made an agreement before the Lord, to go in the way of the Lord, and to keep his orders and his decisions and his rules with all his heart and with all his soul, and to keep the words of the agreement recorded in this book.
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