2 Chronicles 34:29

Affirmation of the Covenant by Josiah and the People

29 So the king sent [messengers] and gathered all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 34:29 Meaning and Commentary

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 ) .

2 Chronicles 34:29 In-Context

27 because your heart was tender and you humbled yourself before God when you heard His words against this place and against its inhabitants, and because you humbled yourself before Me, and you tore your clothes and wept before Me, I Myself have heard'-this is the Lord speaking.
28 'I will indeed gather you to your fathers, and you will be gathered to your grave in peace. Your eyes will not see all the disaster that I am bringing on this place and on its inhabitants.' " Then they reported to the king.
29 So the king sent [messengers] and gathered all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem.
30 Then the king went up to the Lord's temple with all the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, as well as the priests and the Levites-all the people from great to small. He read in their hearing all the words of the book of the covenant that had been found in the Lord's temple.
31 Next the king stood at his post and made a covenant in the Lord's presence to follow the Lord and to keep His commandments, His decrees, and His statutes with all his heart and with all his soul in order to carry out the words of the covenant written in this book.
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