2 Kings 23:1
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Josiah’s Reformation
23 Then the king directed that all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem should be gathered to him.(A)
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2 Chronicles 34:29-33
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The Covenant Renewed
29 Then the king sent word and gathered together all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem.(A) 30 The king went up to the house of the Lord, with all the people of Judah, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the priests and the Levites, all the people both great and small; he read in their hearing all the words of the book of the covenant that had been found in the house of the Lord.(B) 31 The king stood in his place and made a covenant before the Lord, to follow the Lord, keeping his commandments, his decrees, and his statutes, with all his heart and all his soul, to perform the words of the covenant that were written in this book.(C) 32 Then he made all who were present in Jerusalem and in Benjamin pledge themselves to it. And the inhabitants of Jerusalem acted according to the covenant of God, the God of their ancestors. 33 Josiah took away all the abominations from all the territory that belonged to the people of Israel and made all who were in Israel serve the Lord their God. All his days they did not turn away from following the Lord the God of their ancestors.(D)
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2 Chronicles 30:2
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2 For the king and his officials and all the assembly in Jerusalem had taken counsel to keep the Passover in the second month(A)
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2 Chronicles 29:20
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Temple Worship Restored
20 Then King Hezekiah rose early, assembled the officials of the city, and went up to the house of the Lord.
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2 Samuel 6:1
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David Brings the Ark to Jerusalem
6 David again gathered all the chosen men of Israel, thirty thousand.
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Deuteronomy 31:28
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28 Assemble to me all the elders of your tribes and your officials, so that I may recite these words in their hearing and call heaven and earth to witness against them.(A)
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