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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>2 Kings 22:16 Catholic Bible: the following message from the LORD: "I am going to punish Jerusalem and all its people, as written in the book that the king has read. </title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/catholic/2_kings/22-16.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/15002new8.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../vmenus/2_kings/22-16.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmcc/2_kings/22-16.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="/catholic/">Bible</a> > <a href="/gntd/2_kings/1.htm">2 Kings</a> > <a href="/gntd/2_kings/22.htm">Chapter 22</a> > Verse 16</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div><div id="ad1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/ad1.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../2_kings/22-15.htm" title="2 Kings 22:15">◄</a> 2 Kings 22:16 <a href="../2_kings/22-17.htm" title="2 Kings 22:17">►</a></div></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Verse</b><a href="/nabre/2_kings/22.htm" class="clickchap" style="color:#552200" title="Click any translation name for full chapter">  (Click for Chapter)</a></div><div id="par"><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gntd/2_kings/22.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />the following message from the LORD: "I am going to punish Jerusalem and all its people, as written in the book that the king has read. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/2_kings/22.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />Thus says the LORD, I will indeed bring disaster on this place and on its inhabitants—all the words of the book that the king of Judah has read.<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cevd/2_kings/22.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />"Josiah, I am the LORD! And I will see to it that this country and everyone living in it will be destroyed. It will happen just as this book says. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/2_kings/22.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />Thus says the LORD: I am about to bring evil upon this place and upon its inhabitants—all the words of the book which the king of Judah has read.<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drbc/2_kings/22.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />Thus saith the Lord: Behold, I will bring evils upon this place, and upon the inhabitants thereof, all the words of the law which the king of Juda hath read:<div class="vheading2">Treasury of Scripture Knowledge</div><p class="tsk2">Thus saith the Lord: Behold, I will bring evils upon this place, and upon the inhabitants thereof, all the words of the law which the king of Juda hath read:</p><p class="hdg">Behold.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../2_kings/20-17.htm">2 Kings 20:17</a> Behold the days shall come, that all that is in thy house, and that thy fathers have laid up in store unto this day, shall be carried into Babylon: nothing shall be left, saith the Lord.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../2_kings/21-12.htm">2 Kings 21:12,13</a> Therefore thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel: Behold, I will bring on evils upon Jerusalem and Juda: that whosoever shall hear of them, both his ears shall tingle. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../2_chronicles/34-24.htm">2 Chronicles 34:24,25</a> Thus saith the Lord: Behold I will bring evils upon this place, and upon the inhabitants thereof, and all the curses that are written in this book which they read before the king of Juda. . . . </p><p class="hdg">all the words.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../2_kings/25-1.htm">2 Kings 25:1-4</a> And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, the tenth day of the month, that Nabuchodonosor, king of Babylon, came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem: and they surrounded it: and raised works round about it. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../leviticus/26-15.htm">Leviticus 26:15-46</a> If you despise my laws, and contemn my judgments so as not to do those things which are appointed by me, and to make void my covenant: . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../deuteronomy/28-15.htm">Deuteronomy 28:15-68</a> But if thou wilt not hear the voice of the Lord thy God, to keep and to do all his commandments and ceremonies, which I command thee this day, all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../deuteronomy/29-18.htm">Deuteronomy 29:18-23</a> Lest perhaps there should be among you a man or a woman, a family or a tribe, whose heart is turned away this day from the Lord our God, to go and serve the gods of those nations: and there should be among you a root bringing forth gall and bitterness. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../deuteronomy/30-17.htm">Deuteronomy 30:17,18</a> But if thy heart be turned away, so that thou wilt not hear, and being deceived with error thou adore strange gods, and serve them: . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../deuteronomy/31-16.htm">Deuteronomy 31:16-18</a> And the Lord said to Moses: Behold thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, and this people rising up will go a fornicating after strange gods in the land, to which it goeth in to dwell: there will they forsake me, and will make void the covenant, which I have made with them, . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../deuteronomy/32-15.htm">Deuteronomy 32:15-26</a> The beloved grew fat, and kicked: he grew fat, and thick and gross, he forsook God who made him, and departed from God his saviour. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../joshua/23-13.htm">Joshua 23:13,15</a> Know ye for a certainty that the Lord your God will not destroy them before your face, but they shall be a pit and a snare in your way, and a stumbling-block at your side, and stakes in your eyes, till he take you away and destroy you from off this excellent land, which he hath given you. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../daniel/9-11.htm">Daniel 9:11-14</a> And all Israel have transgressed thy law, and have turned away from hearing thy voice, and the malediction, and the curse, which is written in the book of Moses, the servant of God, is fallen upon us, because we have sinned against him. . . . </p></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/drbc/2_kings/22.htm">Huldah's Prophecy</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">15</span>And she said to them: Thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel: Tell the man that sent you to me: <span class="reftext">16</span><span class="highl">Thus saith the Lord: Behold, I will bring evils upon this place, and upon the inhabitants thereof, all the words of the law which the king of Juda hath read:</span><span class="reftext">17</span>Because they have forsaken me, and have sacrificed to strange gods, provoking me by all the works of their hands: therefore my indignation shall be kindled against this place, and shall not be quenched.…<div class="vheading2">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="../deuteronomy/29-27.htm">Deuteronomy 29:27</a></span><br />Therefore the wrath of the Lord was kindled against this land, to bring upon it all the curses that are written in this volume:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../2_kings/22-15.htm">2 Kings 22:15</a></span><br />And she said to them: Thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel: Tell the man that sent you to me:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../jeremiah/11-11.htm">Jeremiah 11:11</a></span><br />Wherefore thus saith the Lord: Behold I will bring in evils upon them, which they shall not be able to escape: and they shall cry to me, and I will not hearken to them.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../daniel/9-11.htm">Daniel 9:11</a></span><br />And all Israel have transgressed thy law, and have turned away from hearing thy voice, and the malediction, and the curse, which is written in the book of Moses, the servant of God, is fallen upon us, because we have sinned against him.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><div class="vheading2">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/2_kings/22-13.htm">Book</a> <a href="/2_kings/21-12.htm">Disaster</a> <a href="/2_kings/21-20.htm">Evil</a> <a href="/2_kings/19-26.htm">Inhabitants</a> <a href="/2_kings/22-13.htm">Judah</a> <a href="/2_kings/22-10.htm">Read</a> <a href="/2_kings/19-29.htm">Thereof</a> <a href="/2_kings/22-13.htm">Words</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/2_kings/23-2.htm">Book</a> <a href="/2_kings/22-20.htm">Disaster</a> <a href="/2_kings/22-20.htm">Evil</a> <a 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