Verse 1

The king sent messengers, and they gathered to him all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem.

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Referenced Verses

  • Deut 31:28 : 28 'Assemble before me all the elders of your tribes and all your officials, so that I can speak these words in their hearing and call heaven and earth to testify against them.
  • 2 Sam 6:1 : 1 David again gathered all the chosen men of Israel, thirty thousand in number.
  • 2 Chr 29:20 : 20 Early in the morning, King Hezekiah gathered the city officials and went up to the house of the LORD.
  • 2 Chr 30:2 : 2 The king, his officials, and the whole assembly in Jerusalem decided to observe the Passover in the second month.
  • 2 Chr 34:29-33 : 29 Then the king sent and gathered all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem. 30 The king went up to the house of the LORD with all the men of Judah, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the priests, the Levites, and all the people, from the greatest to the least. He read in their hearing all the words of the Book of the Covenant that had been found in the house of the LORD. 31 The king stood in his place and made a covenant before the LORD to follow the LORD, to keep His commandments, decrees, and statutes with all his heart and all his soul, and to carry out the words of the covenant written in this book. 32 He had everyone in Jerusalem and Benjamin pledge themselves to it. So the inhabitants of Jerusalem acted according to the covenant of God, the God of their ancestors. 33 Josiah removed all the detestable idols from all the territories belonging to the Israelites, and he compelled everyone in Israel to serve the LORD their God. Throughout his reign, they did not turn aside from following the LORD, the God of their ancestors.