列王纪下 23:2

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

王登上耶和華的殿，猶大眾人、耶路撒冷所有的居民，還有祭司、先知和眾民，不論大小，都一同前往。王就把在耶和華殿發現的約書所記的一切話都念給他們聽。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
王 和 犹 大 众 人 与 耶 路 撒 冷 的 居 民 ， 并 祭 司 、 先 知 ， 和 所 有 的 百 姓 ， 无 论 大 小 ， 都 一 同 上 到 耶 和 华 的 殿 ； 王 就 把 耶 和 华 殿 里 所 得 的 约 书 念 给 他 们 听 。

Contextual Overview

¹ Then the king gathered all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem together. ² He went up to the Temple of the Lord , and all the people from Judah and Jerusalem went with him. The priests, prophets, and all the people—from the least important to the most important—went with him. He read to them all the words of the Book of the Agreement that was found in the Temple of the Lord . ³ The king stood by the pillar and made an agreement in the presence of the Lord to follow the Lord and obey his commands, rules, and laws with his whole being, and to obey the words of the agreement written in this book. Then all the people promised to obey the agreement.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

both small and great: Heb. from small even unto great, Genesis 19:11, 1 Samuel 5:9, 1 Samuel 30:2, 2 Chronicles 15:13, Esther 1:5, Job 3:19, Psalms 115:13, Acts 26:22, Revelation 20:12

he read: Deuteronomy 31:10-13, 2 Chronicles 17:9, Nehemiah 8:1-8, Nehemiah 9:3, Nehemiah 13:1

the book: 2 Kings 22:8, Deuteronomy 31:26, 1 Kings 8:9

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 31:11 - shalt read 2 Chronicles 31:1 - all Israel 2 Chronicles 34:30 - the book Nehemiah 5:12 - I called Jeremiah 11:2 - General Jeremiah 34:8 - had

Cross-References

Genesis 13:18
So Abram moved his tents and went to live near the great trees of Mamre at the city of Hebron. There he built an altar to the Lord .

Genesis 23:14
Ephron answered Abraham,

Genesis 23:15
"Sir, the land is worth ten pounds of silver, but I won't argue with you over the price. Take the land, and bury your dead wife."

Genesis 23:16
Abraham agreed and paid Ephron in front of the Hittite witnesses. He weighed out the full price, ten pounds of silver, and they counted the weight as the traders normally did.

Genesis 23:19
After this, Abraham buried his wife Sarah in the cave in the field of Machpelah, near Mamre. (Mamre was later called Hebron in the land of Canaan.)

Genesis 27:41
After that Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing from Isaac. He thought to himself, "My father will soon die, and I will be sad for him. Then I will kill Jacob."

Genesis 50:10
When they came to the threshing floor of Atad, near the Jordan River, they cried loudly and bitterly for his father. Joseph's time of sorrow continued for seven days.

Numbers 13:22
They went through the southern area to Hebron, where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the descendants of Anak lived. (The city of Hebron had been built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)

Numbers 20:29
and when all the people learned that Aaron was dead, everyone in Israel cried for him for thirty days.

Deuteronomy 34:8
The Israelites cried for Moses for thirty days, staying in the plains of Moab until the time of sadness was over.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the king went up into the house of the Lord,.... To the temple, from his palace:

and all the men of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem with him: they met him there:

and the priests, and the prophets; the prophets Jeremiah, Zephaniah, and Uriah, who, though they might not be at Jerusalem when the book of the law was found, yet, upon this message of the king's, might come up thither from the countries where they were; the Targum interprets the word "scribes": and some take them to be the sons of the prophets, their disciples; in 2 Chronicles 34:30 they are called Levites:

and all the people, both small and great; a very numerous assembly:

and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant which was found in the house of the Lord: that is, he caused it to be read by others, and perhaps by more than one, the congregation being so large.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The prophets - The suggestion to regard this word an error of the pen for “Levites,” which occurs in Chronicles (marginal reference), is unnecessary. For though Zephaniah, Urijah, and Jeremiah are all that we can name as belonging to the order at the time, there is no reason to doubt that Judaea contained others whom we cannot name. “Schools of the prophets” were as common in Judah as in Israel.

He read - The present passage is strong evidence that the Jewish kings could read. The solemn reading of the Law - a practice commanded in the Law itself once in seven years Deuteronomy 31:10-13 - had been intermitted, at least for the last 75 years, from the date of the accession of Manasseh.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Kings 23:2. The king went up into the house of the Lord — Here is another very singular circumstance. The high priest, scribes, priest, and prophets, are gathered together, with all the elders of the people, and the king himself reads the book of the covenant which had been lately found! It is strange that either the high priest, Jeremiah, Zephaniah, or some other of the prophets, who were certainly there present, did not read the sacred book! It is likely that the king considered himself a mediator between God and them, and therefore read and made the covenant.