2 Chronicles 34:29

Josiah Renews the Covenant

29 Then the king summoned all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem. 1

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 people, and because you have humbled yourself before Me and have torn your clothes and wept before Me, I have heard you,’ declares the LORD.
28 ‘Now 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 calamity that I will bring on this place and on its people.’” So they brought her answer back to the king.
29 Then the king summoned all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem.
30 And he went up to the house of the LORD with all the people of Judah and Jerusalem, as well as the priests and the Levites—all the people great and small—and in their hearing he read all the words of the Book of the Covenant that had been found in the house of the LORD.
31 So the king stood by the pillar and made a covenant before the LORD to follow the LORD and to keep His commandments, decrees, and statutes with all his heart and all his soul, and to carry out the words of the covenant that were written in this book.

Cross References 1

  • 1. (2 Kings 23:1–3)
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