¹¹When the king heard the words of the Book of the Law,^u he tore his robes. ¹²He gave these orders to Hilkiah the priest, Ahikam^v son of Shaphan, Akbor son of Micaiah, Shaphan the secretary and Asaiah the king’s attendant:^w ¹³“Go and inquire^x of the Lord for me and for the people and for all Judah about what is written in this book that has been found. Great is the Lord’s anger^y that burns against us because those who have gone before us have not obeyed the words of this book; they have not acted in accordance with all that is written there concerning us.”

¹⁴Hilkiah the priest, Ahikam, Akbor, Shaphan and Asaiah went to speak to the prophet^z Huldah, who was the wife of Shallum son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe. She lived in Jerusalem, in the New Quarter.

¹⁵She said to them, “This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: Tell the man who sent you to me, ¹⁶‘This is what the Lord says: I am going to bring disaster^a on this place and its people, according to everything written in the book^b the king of Judah has read. ¹⁷Because they have forsaken^c me and burned incense to other gods and aroused my anger by all the idols their hands have made,^a my anger will burn against this place and will not be quenched.’

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Footnotes

aOr by everything they have done

Cross references

uver 8
v 2 Ki 25:22; Jer 26:24; 39:14
w 1 Sa 8:14
xSee Ge 25:22; See 1 Sa 9:9
y Dt 29:24–28; See 31:17; Isa 5:25; 42:25; Am 2:4
zSee Ex 15:20
aSee Dt 31:29; See Jos 23:15; Jer 6:19; 11:11; 18:11; 35:17
b Da 9:11
cSee 1 Ki 9:9