2 Kings 23:1 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹ Then the king directed that all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem should be gathered to him.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹ And the king sent, and they gathered unto him all the elders of Judah and of Jerusalem.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹ KING JOSIAH sent and gathered to him all the elders of Judah and of Jerusalem.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹ And the king sent, and they gathered unto him all the elders of Judah and of Jerusalem.

Common English Bible

¹ the king sent a message, and all of Judah’s and Jerusalem’s elders gathered before him.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹ And they reported to the king what she had said. And he sent, and all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem were gathered to him.

2 Kings 23:1 Cross References

2 Chronicles 30:2

For the king and his officials and all the assembly in Jerusalem had taken counsel to keep the Passover in the second month

2 Chronicles 29:20

Then King Hezekiah rose early, assembled the officials of the city, and went up to the house of the Lord.

Deuteronomy 31:28

Assemble to me all the elders of your tribes and your officials, so that I may recite these words in their hearing and call heaven and earth to witness against them.

2 Samuel 6:1

David again gathered all the chosen men of Israel, thirty thousand.

2 Kings 23:2

The king went up to the house of the Lord, and with him went all the people of Judah, all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the priests, the prophets, and all the people, both small and great; he read in their hearing all the words of the book of the covenant that had been found in the house of the Lord.

Joshua 24:1

Then Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem and summoned the elders, the heads, the judges, and the officers of Israel, and they presented themselves before God.

2 Chronicles 34:1

Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign; he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem.