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And Hilkiah gave the book to Shaphan who read it. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/22-9.htm" target="_top"><b>9</b></a></span>Shaphan the scribe came to the king and brought back word to the king and said, Your servants have emptied out the money that was found in the house, and have delivered it into the hand of the workmen who have the oversight of the house of the L<font size="1">ORD</font>. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/22-10.htm" target="_top"><b>10</b></a></span>Moreover, Shaphan the scribe told the king saying, Hilkiah the priest has given me a book. And Shaphan read it in the presence of the king. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/22-11.htm" target="_top"><b>11</b></a></span>When the king heard the words of the book of the law, he tore his clothes. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/22-12.htm" target="_top"><b>12</b></a></span>Then the king commanded Hilkiah the priest, Ahikam the son of Shaphan, Achbor the son of Micaiah, Shaphan the scribe, and Asaiah the kings servant saying, <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/22-13.htm" target="_top"><b>13</b></a></span>Go, inquire of the L<font size="1">ORD</font> for me and the people and all Judah concerning the words of this book that has been found, for great is the wrath of the L<font size="1">ORD</font> that burns against us, because our fathers have not listened to the words of this book, to do according to all that is written concerning us. <p><font color="#000000"><b><i>Huldah Predicts</i></b></font><p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/22-14.htm" target="_top"><b>14</b></a></span>So Hilkiah the priest, Ahikam, Achbor, Shaphan, and Asaiah went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe (now she lived in Jerusalem in the Second Quarter); and they spoke to her. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/22-15.htm" target="_top"><b>15</b></a></span>She said to them, Thus says the L<font size="1">ORD</font> God of Israel, Tell the man who sent you to me, <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/22-16.htm" target="_top"><b>16</b></a></span>thus says the L<font size="1">ORD</font>, Behold, I bring evil on this place and on its inhabitants, <i>even</i> all the words of the book which the king of Judah has read. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/22-17.htm" target="_top"><b>17</b></a></span>Because they have forsaken Me and have burned incense to other gods that they might provoke Me to anger with all the work of their hands, therefore My wrath burns against this place, and it shall not be quenched. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/22-18.htm" target="_top"><b>18</b></a></span>But to the king of Judah who sent you to inquire of the L<font size="1">ORD</font> thus shall you say to him, Thus says the L<font size="1">ORD</font> God of Israel, <i>Regarding</i> the words which you have heard, <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/22-19.htm" target="_top"><b>19</b></a></span>because your heart was tender and you humbled yourself before the L<font size="1">ORD</font> when you heard what I spoke against this place and against its inhabitants that they should become a desolation and a curse, and you have torn your clothes and wept before Me, I truly have heard you, declares the L<font size="1">ORD</font>. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/22-20.htm" target="_top"><b>20</b></a></span>Therefore, behold, I will gather you to your fathers, and you will be gathered to your grave in peace, and your eyes will not see all the evil which I will bring on this place. So they brought back word to the king. <p><br /><br /><a href="//www.lockman.org" target="_top">NASB ©1995</a><div class="vheading2">Parallel Verses</div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/2_kings/22.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />And Hilkiah the high priest said unto Shaphan the scribe, I have found the book of the law in the house of Jehovah. And Hilkiah delivered the book to Shaphan, and he read it.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/2_kings/22.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />And Helcias the high priest said to Saphan the scribe: I have found the book of the law in the house of the Lord: and Helcias gave the book to Saphan, and he read it. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/dbt/2_kings/22.htm">Darby Bible Translation</a></span><br />And Hilkijah the high priest said to Shaphan the scribe, I have found the book of the law in the house of Jehovah. And Hilkijah gave the book to Shaphan, and he read it.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/2_kings/22.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />And Hilkiah the high priest said unto Shaphan the scribe, I have found the book of the law in the house of the LORD. And Hilkiah delivered the book to Shaphan, and he read it.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/2_kings/22.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />And Hilkiah the high priest said to Shaphan the scribe, I have found the book of the law in the house of the LORD. And Hilkiah gave the book to Shaphan, and he read it.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/2_kings/22.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />Hilkiah the high priest said to Shaphan the scribe, "I have found the book of the law in the house of Yahweh." Hilkiah delivered the book to Shaphan, and he read it.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/2_kings/22.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> And Hilkiah the high priest saith unto Shaphan the scribe, 'A book of the law I have found in the house of Jehovah;' and Hilkiah giveth the book unto Shaphan, and he readeth it.<div class="vheading2">Library</div><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_g/the_rediscovered_law_and_its.htm">The Rediscovered Law and Its Effects</a><br></span><span class="snippet">'And Hilkiah the high priest said unto Shaphan the scribe, I have found the book of the law in the house of the Lord: and Hilkiah gave the book to Shaphan, and he read it. 9. And Shaphan the scribe came to the king, and brought the king word again, and said, Thy servants have gathered the money that was found in the house, and have delivered it into the hand of them that do the work, that have the oversight of the house of the Lord. 10. And Shaphan the scribe shewed the king, saying, Hilkiah the <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_g/the_rediscovered_law_and_its.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alexander Maclaren—</span><span class="citation2">Expositions of Holy Scripture</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/newman/parochial_and_plain_sermons_vol_viii/sermon_vii_josiah_a_pattern.htm">Josiah, a Pattern for the Ignorant. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">"Because thine heart was tender, and thou hast humbled thyself before the Lord, when thou heardest what I spake against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and hast rent thy clothes, and wept before Me; I also have heard thee, saith the Lord. Behold therefore, I will gather thee unto thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered into thy grave in peace; and thine eyes shall not see all the evil which I will bring upon this place."--2 Kings <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/newman/parochial_and_plain_sermons_vol_viii/sermon_vii_josiah_a_pattern.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">John Henry Newman—</span><span class="citation2">Parochial and Plain Sermons, Vol. VIII</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/merriam/the_chief_end_of_man/iii_a_travelers_note-book.htm">A Traveler's Note-Book</a><br></span><span class="snippet">A tourist who roams for a brief while through some great country like England or Russia may jot down a few of the impressions which come home to him, making no pretense at completeness or symmetry of description. So, one who has journeyed like a hasty traveler over some passages in that vast tract of years which we describe as the classic and Christian civilizations, notes down in the following pages a few of the salient features that have impressed him. He has already prefaced this with a sort <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/merriam/the_chief_end_of_man/iii_a_travelers_note-book.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">George S. Merriam—</span><span class="citation2">The Chief End of Man</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/aquinas/summa_theologica/whether_determinate_things_are_required.htm">Whether Determinate Things are Required for a Sacrament?</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Objection 1: It seems that determinate things are not required for a sacrament. For sensible things are required in sacraments for the purpose of signification, as stated above [4343](A[4]). But nothing hinders the same thing being signified by divers sensible things: thus in Holy Scripture God is signified metaphorically, sometimes by a stone (2 Kings 22:2; Zech. 3:9; 1 Cor. 10:4; Apoc. 4:3); sometimes by a lion (Is. 31:4; Apoc. 5:5); sometimes by the sun (Is. 60:19,20; Mal. 4:2), or by something <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/aquinas/summa_theologica/whether_determinate_things_are_required.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Saint Thomas Aquinas—</span><span class="citation2">Summa Theologica</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/calvin/the_institutes_of_the_christian_religion/chapter_18_the_instrumentality_of.htm">The Instrumentality of the Wicked Employed by God, While He Continues Free from Every Taint. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">1. The carnal mind the source of the objections which are raised against the Providence of God. A primary objection, making a distinction between the permission and the will of God, refuted. Angels and men, good and bad, do nought but what has been decreed by God. This proved by examples. 2. All hidden movements directed to their end by the unseen but righteous instigation of God. Examples, with answers to objections. 3. These objections originate in a spirit of pride and blasphemy. Objection, that <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/calvin/the_institutes_of_the_christian_religion/chapter_18_the_instrumentality_of.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">John Calvin—</span><span class="citation2">The Institutes of the Christian Religion</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maspero/history_of_egypt_chaldaea_syria_babylonia_and_assyria_v_8/chapter_iiithe_medes_and_the.htm">The Medes and the Second Chaldaean Empire</a><br></span><span class="snippet">THE FALL OF NINEVEH AND THE RISE OF THE CHALDAEAN AND MEDIAN EMPIRES--THE XXVIth EGYPTIAN DYNASTY: CYAXARES, ALYATTES, AND NEBUCHADREZZAR. The legendary history of the kings of Media and the first contact of the Medes with the Assyrians: the alleged Iranian migrations of the Avesta--Media-proper, its fauna and flora; Phraortes and the beginning of the Median empire--Persia proper and the Persians; conquest of Persia by the Medes--The last monuments of Assur-bani-pal: the library of Kouyunjik--Phraortes <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maspero/history_of_egypt_chaldaea_syria_babylonia_and_assyria_v_8/chapter_iiithe_medes_and_the.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">G. Maspero—</span><span class="citation2">History Of Egypt, Chaldaea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, V 8</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/knox/the_first_blast_of_the_trumpet/title_page.htm">The First Blast of the Trumpet</a><br></span><span class="snippet">The English Scholar's Library etc. No. 2. The First Blast of the Trumpet &c. 1558. The English Scholar's Library of Old and Modern Works. No. 2. The First Blast of the Trumpet &c. 1558. Edited by EDWARD ARBER, F.S.A., etc., LECTURER IN ENGLISH LITERATURE, ETC., UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, LONDON. SOUTHGATE, LONDON, N. 15 August 1878. No. 2. (All rights reserved.) CONTENTS. Bibliography vii-viii Introduction <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/knox/the_first_blast_of_the_trumpet/title_page.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">John Knox—</span><span class="citation2">The First Blast of the Trumpet</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/augustine/on_care_to_be_had_for_the_dead_/16_why_should_we_not.htm">Why Should we not Believe These to be Angelic Operations through Dispensation of The...</a><br></span><span class="snippet">16. Why should we not believe these to be angelic operations through dispensation of the providence of God, Who maketh good use of both good things and evil, according to the unsearchable depth of His judgments? whether thereby the minds of mortals be instructed, or whether deceived; whether consoled, or whether terrified: according as unto each one there is to be either a showing of mercy, or a taking of vengeance, by Him to Whom, not without a meaning, the Church doth sing "of mercy and of judgment." <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/augustine/on_care_to_be_had_for_the_dead_/16_why_should_we_not.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">St. Augustine—</span><span class="citation2">On Care to Be Had for the Dead. </span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/calvin/the_institutes_of_the_christian_religion/chapter_8_the_credibility_of.htm">The Credibility of Scripture Sufficiently Proved in So Far as Natural Reason Admits. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">1. Secondary helps to establish the credibility of Scripture. I. The arrangement of the sacred volume. II. Its dignity. III. Its truth. IV. Its simplicity. V. Its efficacy. 2. The majesty conspicuous in the writings of the Prophets. 3. Special proofs from the Old Testament. I. The antiquity of the Books of Moses. 4. This antiquity contrasted with the dreams of the Egyptians. II. The majesty of the Books of Moses. 5. The miracles and prophecies of Moses. A profane objection refuted. 6. Another profane <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/calvin/the_institutes_of_the_christian_religion/chapter_8_the_credibility_of.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">John Calvin—</span><span class="citation2">The Institutes of the Christian Religion</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/white/the_story_of_prophets_and_kings/chapter_33_the_book_of.htm">The Book of the Law</a><br></span><span class="snippet">The silent yet powerful influences set in operation by the messages of the prophets regarding the Babylonian Captivity did much to prepare the way for a reformation that took place in the eighteenth year of Josiah's reign. This reform movement, by which threatened judgments were averted for a season, was brought about in a wholly unexpected manner through the discovery and study of a portion of Holy Scripture that for many years had been strangely misplaced and lost. Nearly a century before, during <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/white/the_story_of_prophets_and_kings/chapter_33_the_book_of.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Ellen Gould White—</span><span class="citation2">The Story of Prophets and Kings</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/barrows/companion_to_the_bible/chapter_ix_authorship_of_the.htm">Authorship of the Pentateuch. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">The term Pentateuch is composed of the two Greek words, pente, five, and teuchos, which in later Alexandrine usage signified book. It denotes, therefore, the collection of five books; or, the five books of the law considered as a whole. 1. In our inquiries respecting the authorship of the Pentateuch, we begin with the undisputed fact that it existed in its present form in the days of Christ and his apostles, and had so existed from the time of Ezra. When the translators of the Greek version, <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/barrows/companion_to_the_bible/chapter_ix_authorship_of_the.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">E. P. 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