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27 since your heart was penitent and you humbled yourself before God when you heard his words spoken against this place and its inhabitants and tore your garments and wept before me, I in turn have listened, declares the Lord. 28 I will gather you to your ancestors, and you shall be taken to your grave in peace. Your eyes will not live to behold all the disaster that I will inflict upon this place and its inhabitants.’ ” Then the representatives of the king brought back this answer to him.

29 Renewal of the Covenant.[a] Thereupon, after the king convened all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem,

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 34:29 This great liturgy describes a kind of anticipation, the reunion of the Jewish community around the temple after the Exile.