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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, 30 he went up to the house of the Lord with all the men of Judah, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the priests and the Levites, and all the people, both great and small. In their hearing he read the entire contents of the book of the covenant that was discovered in the house of the Lord.

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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.