2 Chronicles 34:32

And he made all the people in Jerusalem and Benjamin give their word to keep it. And the people of Jerusalem kept the agreement of God, the God of their fathers.

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In The King James Version

And he caused all that were present in Jerusalem and Benjamin to stand to it. And the inhabitants of Jerusalem did according to the covenant of God, the God of their fathers.

In Context

31Then the king, taking his place by the pillar, made an agreement before the Lord, to go in the way of the Lord, and to keep his orders and his decisions and his rules with all his heart and with all his soul, and to keep the words of the agreement recorded in this book.

33Josiah took away all the disgusting things out of all the lands of the children of Israel, and made all who were in Israel servants of the Lord their God. And as long as he was living they were true to the Lord, the God of their fathers.

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Cross References

Genesis 18:19For I have made him mine so that he may give orders to his children and those of his line after him, to keep the ways of the Lord, to do what is good and right: so that the Lord may do to Abraham as he has said.

2 Chronicles 15:12And they made an agreement to be true to the Lord, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and all their soul;

2 Chronicles 30:12And in Judah the power of God gave them one heart to do the orders of the king and the captains, which were taken as the word of the Lord.

Ezra 10:3Let us now make an agreement with our God to put away all the wives and all their children, if it seems right to my lord and to those who go in fear of the words of our God; and let it be done in keeping with the law.

Jeremiah 3:10But for all this, her false sister Judah has not come back to me with all her heart, but with deceit, says the Lord.

Matthew Henry on 2 Chronicles 34:30-33

29 Then the king sent and gathered together all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem. 30 And the king went up into the house of the Lord , and all the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the priests, and the Levites, and all the people, great and small: and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant that was found in the house of the Lord . 31 And the king stood in his place, and made a covenant before the Lord , to walk after the Lord , and to keep his commandments, and his… Read the whole commentary →

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