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When they brought out the money that was brought into the house of the LORD, Hilkiyah the Kohen found the book of the law of the LORD [given] by Moshe.
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Hilkiyah answered Shafan the Sofer, I have found the book of the law in the house of the LORD. Hilkiyah delivered the book to Shafan.
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Shafan carried the book to the king, and moreover brought back word to the king, saying, All that was committed to your servants, they are doing.
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They have emptied out the money that was found in the house of the LORD, and have delivered it into the hand of the overseers, and into the hand of the workmen.
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Shafan the Sofer told the king, saying, Hilkiyah the Kohen has delivered me a book. Shafan read therein before the king.
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It happened, when the king had heard the words of the law, that he tore his clothes.
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The king commanded Hilkiyah, and Achikam the son of Shafan, and `Avdon the son of Mikhah, and Shafan the Sofer, and `Asayah the king's servant, saying,
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Go you, inquire of the LORD for me, and for those who are left in Yisra'el and in Yehudah, 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.
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So Hilkiyah, and they whom the king [had commanded], went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tokhat, the son of Hasrah, keeper of the wardrobe; (now she lived in Yerushalayim in the second quarter;) and they spoke to her to that effect.
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She said to them, Thus says the LORD, the God of Yisra'el: Tell you the man who sent you to me,
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Thus says the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil on this place, and on the inhabitants of it, even all the curses that are written in the book which they have read before the king of Yehudah.