^3 (A)The king stood by the pillar and made a covenant before the Lord, ^(B)to walk after the Lord, and to keep His commandments and His testimonies and His statutes with all his heart and all his soul, to carry out the words of this covenant that were written in this book. And all the people ^[a]entered into the covenant.

²⁹ are joining with their ^[a]kinsmen, their nobles, and are ^[b](A)taking on themselves a curse and an oath to walk in God’s law, which was given through Moses, God’s servant, and to keep and to observe all the commandments of ^[c]God our Lord, and His ordinances and His statutes;