And it shall be in that day, a statement of Jehovah, the sound of a cry from the Fish Gate, and a howling from the Second, and a great breaking from the hills.
And Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam, and Achbor, and Shaphan, and Asahiah, went to Huldah, the prophetess, the wife of Shallum, the son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, the keeper of the wardrobe; and she lived in Jerusalem, in the second quarter. And they spoke with her.
And Solomon began to build the house of Jehovah at Jerusalem, in Mount Moriah, where He appeared to his father David, in the place that David had prepared, in the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite;
And Jehovah saved Hezekiah and the people of Jerusalem from the hand of Sennacherib the king of Assyria, and from the hand of all; and He led them on every side.
And after this he built an outer wall to the city of David, on the west of Gihon, in the valley, and turned around Ophel, and he made it exceedingly high, and he put commanders of the army in all the cities he had in Judah.
And Hilkiah and those of the king went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvath, the son of Hasrah, the keeper of the robes; and she was living in Jerusalem in the Second. And they spoke to her about this.
and from above the Ephraim Gate, and above the Old Gate, and above the Fish Gate, and the Tower of Hananeel, and the Tower of Meah, even to the Sheep Gate. And they stood still in the Prison Gate.
For I have heard a voice as of one weakened, the anguish as one bearing her first child, the voice of Zion’s daughter gasping and spreading her palms, saying, Woe is to me now, for my soul faints because of murderers!
And you shall know that I am Jehovah when their slain shall be in the midst of their idols round about their altars, on every high hill, in all the tops of the mountains, and under every green tree, and under every leafy oak, the place where they gave there a soothing aroma to all their idols.
And they will howl the songs of the temple in that day, a statement of the Lord Jehovah. The corpses shall be many; in every place one shall throw them out, saying, Hush!
Be silent before the face of the Lord Jehovah, for the day of Jehovah is near. For Jehovah has appointed a sacrifice; He has consecrated ones He called.