2 Chronicles 34:29
New International Version
Then the king called together all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem.

New Living Translation
Then the king summoned all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem.

English Standard Version
Then the king sent and gathered together all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem.

Berean Standard Bible
Then the king summoned all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem.

King James Bible
Then the king sent and gathered together all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem.

New King James Version
Then the king sent and gathered all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem.

New American Standard Bible
Then the king sent word and gathered all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem.

NASB 1995
Then the king sent and gathered all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem.

NASB 1977
Then the king sent and gathered all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem.

Legacy Standard Bible
Then the king sent and gathered all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem.

Amplified Bible
Then the king sent word and gathered all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem.

Christian Standard Bible
So the king sent messengers and gathered all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
So the king sent messengers and gathered all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem.

American Standard Version
Then the king sent and gathered together all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And the King sent, and all the Elders of Yehuda and of Jerusalem were assembled to him.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And the king sent and gathered the elders of Juda and Jerusalem.

Contemporary English Version
King Josiah called together the leaders of Judah and Jerusalem.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he called together all the ancients of Juda and Jerusalem.

English Revised Version
Then the king sent and gathered together all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Then the king sent for all the respected leaders of Judah and Jerusalem to join him.

Good News Translation
King Josiah summoned all the leaders of Judah and Jerusalem,

International Standard Version
The king sent word to gather all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem.

JPS Tanakh 1917
Then the king sent and gathered together all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem.

Literal Standard Version
And the king sends and gathers all the elderly of Judah and Jerusalem,

Majority Standard Bible
Then the king summoned all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem.

New American Bible
The king then had all the elders of Judah and of Jerusalem summoned before him.

NET Bible
The king summoned all the leaders of Judah and Jerusalem.

New Revised Standard Version
Then the king sent word and gathered together all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem.

New Heart English Bible
Then the king sent and gathered together all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem.

Webster's Bible Translation
Then the king sent and convened all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem.

World English Bible
Then the king sent and gathered together all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem.

Young's Literal Translation
And the king sendeth and gathereth all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem,

Additional Translations ...
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Context
Josiah Renews the Covenant
29Then the king summoned all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem. 30And he went up to the house of the LORD with all the people of Judah and Jerusalem, as well as the priests and the Levites—all the people small and great—and in their hearing he read all the words of the Book of the Covenant that had been found in the house of the LORD.…

Cross References
2 Kings 23:1
Then the king summoned all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 34:28
Now I will indeed gather you to your fathers, and you will be gathered to your grave in peace. Your eyes will not see all the calamity that I will bring on this place and on its inhabitants.'" So they brought her answer back to the king.


Treasury of Scripture

Then the king sent and gathered together all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem.

the king

1 Samuel 12:23
Moreover as for me, God forbid that I should sin against the LORD in ceasing to pray for you: but I will teach you the good and the right way:

1 Chronicles 29:2
Now I have prepared with all my might for the house of my God the gold for things to be made of gold, and the silver for things of silver, and the brass for things of brass, the iron for things of iron, and wood for things of wood; onyx stones, and stones to be set, glistering stones, and of divers colours, and all manner of precious stones, and marble stones in abundance.

Mark 14:8
She hath done what she could: she is come aforehand to anoint my body to the burying.

gathered

2 Chronicles 30:2
For the king had taken counsel, and his princes, and all the congregation in Jerusalem, to keep the passover in the second month.

2 Kings 23:1-3
And the king sent, and they gathered unto him all the elders of Judah and of Jerusalem…

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2 Chronicles 34
1. Josiah's good reign
3. He destroys idolatry
8. He takes order for the repair of the temple
14. Hilkiah, having found a book of the law,
21. Josiah sends to Huldah to enquire of the Lord
23. Huldah prophesies the destruction of Jerusalem, but respite thereof in Josiah's time
29. Josiah, causing it to be read in a solemn assembly, renews the covenant with God














(29-33) The king reads the Book to the assembly, and renews the covenant. (Comp. 2Kings 23:1)

Verse 29. - The wise, religious, and unselfish conduct of the king is clearly betokened in the course he took, as narrated here and in the succeeding three verses.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Then the king
הַמֶּ֑לֶךְ (ham·me·leḵ)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 4428: A king

summoned
וַיִּשְׁלַ֖ח (way·yiš·laḥ)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 7971: To send away, for, out

all
כָּל־ (kāl-)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every

the elders
זִקְנֵ֥י (ziq·nê)
Adjective - masculine plural construct
Strong's 2205: Old

of Judah
יְהוּדָ֖ה (yə·hū·ḏāh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3063: Judah -- 'praised', a son of Jacob, also the southern kingdom, also four Israelites

and Jerusalem.
וִירוּשָׁלִָֽם׃ (wî·rū·šā·lim)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's 3389: Jerusalem -- probably 'foundation of peace', capital city of all Israel


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