Josiah Reads the Book of the Covenant

23 ^(A)Then the king sent, and they gathered to him all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem. ² And the king went up to the house of Yahweh and all the men of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem with him, and the priests and the prophets and all the people, both small and great; and ^(B)he read in their hearing all the words of the book of the covenant ^(C)which was found in the house of Yahweh. ^3 (D)Then the king stood by the pillar and cut a covenant before Yahweh, ^(E)to walk after Yahweh, and to keep His commandments and His testimonies and His statutes with all his heart and all his soul, to establish the words of this covenant that were written in this book. And all the people ^[a]entered into the covenant.