2 Kings 22:11 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹¹ When the king heard the words of the book of the law, he tore his clothes.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹¹ And it came to pass, when the king had heard the words of the book of the law, that he rent his clothes.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹¹ And when the king heard the words of the Book of the Law, he rent his clothes.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹¹ And it came to pass, when the king had heard the words of the book of the law, that he rent his clothes.

Common English Bible

¹¹ As soon as the king heard what the Instruction scroll said, he ripped his clothes.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹¹ and the king had heard the words of the book of the law of the Lord, he tore his garments.

2 Kings 22:11 Cross References

2 Chronicles 34:19

When the king heard the words of the law, he tore his clothes.

Joel 2:13

rend your hearts and not your clothing. Return to the Lord your God, for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, abounding in steadfast love, and relenting from punishment.

Jeremiah 36:24

Yet neither the king nor any of his servants who heard all these words was alarmed, nor did they tear their garments.

2 Kings 22:19

because your heart was penitent and you humbled yourself before the Lord, when you heard how I spoke against this place and against its inhabitants, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and because you have torn your clothes and wept before me, I also have heard you, says the Lord.

Joshua 7:6

Then Joshua tore his clothes and fell to the ground on his face before the ark of the Lord until the evening, he and the elders of Israel, and they put dust on their heads.

Genesis 37:34

Then Jacob tore his garments and put sackcloth on his loins and mourned for his son many days.

2 Kings 22:10

Shaphan the secretary informed the king, “The priest Hilkiah has given me a book.” Shaphan then read it aloud to the king.

Amos 2:4

Thus says the Lord: For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because they have rejected the instruction of the Lord and have not kept his statutes, but they have been led astray by the same lies after which their ancestors walked.

Psalm 119:120

My flesh trembles for fear of you, and I am afraid of your judgments.

Isaiah 66:2

All these things my hand has made, so all these things are mine, says the Lord. But this is the one to whom I will look, to the humble and contrite in spirit who trembles at my word.

Jeremiah 36:16

When they heard all the words, they turned to one another in alarm and said to Baruch, “We certainly must report all these words to the king.”