And Hilkiah the high priest said to Shaphan the scribe, I have found the Book of the Law in the house of Jehovah; and Hilkiah gave the book to Shaphan, and he read it.
And Shaphan brought the Book in to the king, and brought the king back word again, saying, All that has been given into the hand of your servants, they are doing.
And the king went up to the house of Jehovah and every man of Judah, and those living in Jerusalem, and the priests, and the Levites, and all the ones living there from the great to the small; and he read in their ears all the words of the Book of the Covenant found in the house of Jehovah.
And all the people gathered as one man into the plaza before the Water Gate. And they spoke to Ezra the scribe to bring the Book of the Law of Moses, which Jehovah had commanded to Israel.
And it shall be, when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, he shall write for himself a copy of this Law in a book, from before the Levitical priests.