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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.

31 Then the king stood by his pillar and entered into a covenant before the Lord to obey him and keep his commandments, his decrees, and his statutes with all his heart and soul, and thus carry out the words of the covenant that were written in this book.

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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.