2 Chronicles 34:18 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

¹⁸ Then Shaphan the secretary told the king, “Hilkiah the priest has given me a book.” And Shaphan read it before the king.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁸ Then Shaphan the scribe told the king, saying, Hilkiah the priest hath given me a book. And Shaphan read it before the king.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁸ Then Shaphan the scribe said to the king, Hilkiah the priest has given me a book. And Shaphan read it before the king.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁸ And Shaphan the scribe told the king, saying, Hilkiah the priest hath delivered me a book. And Shaphan read therein before the king.

Common English Bible

¹⁸ Then the secretary Shaphan told the king, “The priest Hilkiah has given me a scroll,” and he read it out loud before the king.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁸ After this, Hilkiah the priest gave to me this book." And when he had read it in the presence of the king,

2 Chronicles 34:18 Cross References

2 Kings 18:18

And when they called for the king, there came out to them Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebnah the secretary, and Joah the son of Asaph, the recorder.

2 Chronicles 34:17

They have emptied out the money that was found in the house of the Lord and have delivered it into the hand of the overseers and the workmen.”

2 Chronicles 34:19

When the king heard the words of the law he rent his clothes.

Psalm 119:46

I will also speak of thy testimonies before kings, and shall not be put to shame;

Deuteronomy 17:19

and it shall be with him, and he shall read in it all the days of his life, that he may learn to fear the Lord his God, by keeping all the words of this law and these statutes, and doing them;

Joshua 1:8

This book of the law shall not depart out of your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it; for then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall have good success.