29Then the king sent and gathered together all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem.
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And the king sent, and they gathered unto him all the elders of Judah and of Jerusalem. …
Moreover as for me, God forbid that I should sin against the LORD in ceasing to pray for you: but I will teach you the good and the right way:
Now I have prepared with all my might for the house of my God the gold for things to be made of gold, and the silver for things of silver, and the brass for things of brass, the iron for things of iron, and wood for things of wood; onyx stones, and stones to be set, glistering stones, and of divers colours, and all manner of precious stones, and marble stones in abundance. …
She hath done what she could: she is come aforehand to anoint my body to the burying.
For the king had taken counsel, and his princes, and all the congregation in Jerusalem, to keep the passover in the second month.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 29-33)We have here an account of the further advances which Josiah made towards the reformation of his kingdom upon the hearing of the law read and the receipt of the message God sent him by the prophetess. Happy the people that had such a king; for here we find that, 1. They were well taught. He did not go about to force them to do their duty, till he had first instructed them in it. He called all the…
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