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2 Chronicles 34:19

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When the king had heard the words of the law, he tore his clothes.

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16Shaphan 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.
17They have emptied out the money that was found in Yahweh’s house, and have delivered it into the hand of the overseers, and into the hand of the workmen.”
18Shaphan) the scribe told the king, saying, “Hilkiah the priest has delivered me a book.” Shaphan read from it to the king.
19When the king had heard the words of the law, he tore his clothes.
20The king commanded Hilkiah, Ahikam the son of Shaphan), Abdon the son of Micah, Shaphan the scribe, and Asaiah the king’s servant, saying,
21“Go inquire of Yahweh for me, and for those who are left in Israel and in Judah, concerning the words of the book that is found; for great is Yahweh’s wrath that is poured out on us, because our fathers have not kept Yahweh’s word, to do according to all that is written in this book.”
22So Hilkiah, and they whom the king had commanded, went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tokhath, the son of Hasrah, keeper of the wardrobe (now she lived in Jerusalem in the second quarter), and they spoke to her to that effect.

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