¹³ Meanwhile all Judah stood before the Lord, with their little ones, their wives, and their children.

³ Then Jehoshaphat was afraid and set his face ^(A)to seek the Lord, and ^(B)proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah. ⁴ And Judah assembled to seek help from the Lord; from all the cities of Judah they came to seek the Lord.

⁸ but let man and ^(A)beast be covered with sackcloth, and let them call out mightily to God. ^(B)Let everyone turn from his evil way and from ^(C)the violence that is in his hands.

¹⁰ “You are standing today, all of you, before the Lord your God: the heads of your tribes,^[a] your elders, and your officers, all the men of Israel, ¹¹ your little ones, your wives, and the ^(A)sojourner who is in your camp, from ^(B)the one who chops your wood to the one who draws your water,

³⁶ For seven days you shall present food offerings to the Lord. ^(A)On the eighth day you shall hold a holy convocation and present a food offering to the Lord. It is a ^(B)solemn assembly; you shall not do any ordinary work.

^2 (A)And the Israelites^[a] separated themselves from all foreigners and stood and confessed their sins and the iniquities of their fathers. ^3 (B)And they stood up in their place and read from the Book of the Law of the Lord their God for a quarter of the day; for another quarter of it they made confession and worshiped the Lord their God.

¹⁸ And day by day, from the first day to the last day, ^(A)he read from the Book of the Law of God. They kept the feast seven days, and ^(B)on the eighth day there was a solemn assembly, according to the rule.