2 Kings 22:11
And it came to pass, when the king had heard the words of the book of the law, that he rent his clothes.
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2 Kings 22:19Because yours heart was tender, and you have humbled yourself before the LORD, when you heard what I spoke against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and have rent your clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard you, says the LORD.
Psalms 119:120My flesh trembles for fear of you; and I am afraid of your judgments.
Jeremiah 36:16Now it came to pass, when they had heard all the words, they were afraid both one and the other, and said unto Baruch, We will surely tell the king of all these words.
Joel 2:13And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the LORD your God: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repents him of the evil.
Matthew Henry on 2 Kings 22:2-11
Josiah's Pious Reign; the Book of the Law Read. ( b. c. 623.) 1 Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned thirty and one years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Jedidah, the daughter of Adaiah of Boscath. 2 And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord , and walked in all the way of David his father, and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left. 3 And it came to pass in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, that the king sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, the son of… Read the whole commentary →