2 Raja-raja 23:1

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Sesudah itu raja menyuruh orang mengumpulkan semua tua-tua Yehuda dan Yerusalem.

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Sesudah itu raja menyuruh orang mengumpulkan semua tua-tua Yehuda dan Yerusalem.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Bermula, maka pada masa itu disuruhkan baginda akan orang menghimpunkan kepadanya segala tua-tua Yeruzalem dan Yehuda.

Contextual Overview

¹ And then the king sent, and there gathered vnto him all the elders of Iuda and of Hierusalem. ² And the king went vp into the house of the Lorde, with all the men of Iuda, and all the inhabitours of Hierusalem, with the priestes, and prophetes, and all the people both small and great: And he read in the eares of them al the wordes of the couenaunt which was founde in the house of the Lorde. ³ And the king stoode by a piller, & made a couenaunt before the Lorde, that they should walke after the Lorde, and kepe his commaundementes, his witnesses, and his statutes, with all their heart and all their soule, and make good the wordes of the sayde appoyntment, that were written in the foresayde booke: And all the people consented to the appoyntment.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the king: Deuteronomy 31:28, 2 Samuel 6:1, 2 Chronicles 29:20, 2 Chronicles 30:2, 2 Chronicles 34:29, 2 Chronicles 34:30-33

Reciprocal: 1 Chronicles 13:1 - consulted Matthew 1:10 - Josias

Cross-References

Genesis 17:17
But Abraham fell vppon his face, and laughed, and sayde in his heart: shall a chylde be borne vnto hym that is an hundreth yere olde? And shall Sara that is ninetie yere olde beare?

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the king sent, and they gathered unto him all the elders of Judah and of Jerusalem. Josiah sent messengers throughout the land, and convened all the principal men in it at Jerusalem.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER XXIII

Josiah reads in the temple to the elders of Judah, the priests,

the prophets, and the people, the book of the covenant which

had been found, 1, 2.

He makes a covenant, and the people stand to it, 3.

He destroys the vessels of Baal and Asherah, and puts down the

idolatrous priests; breaks down the houses of the sodomites,

and the high places; defiles Topheth; takes away the horses of

the sun; destroys the altars of Ahaz; breaks in pieces the

images; and breaks down and burns Jeroboam's altar at Beth-el,

4-15.

Fulfils the word of the prophet, who cried against the altar at

Beth-el, 16-18.

Destroys the high places in Samaria, slays the idolatrous

priests, and celebrates a great passover, 19-23;

and puts away all the dealers with familiar spirits, c., 24.

His eminent character he is mortally wounded at Megiddo, and

buried at Jerusalem, 25-30.

Jehoahaz reigns in his stead, and does evil in the sight of the

Lord, 31, 32.

Is dethroned by Pharaoh-nechoh; and Eliakim, his brother, called

also Jehoiakim, made king in his stead; the land is laid under

tribute by the king of Egypt, and Jehoiakim reigns wickedly,

33-37.

NOTES ON CHAP. XXIII