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2 Chronicles 34:15 Explained in Context
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Verse 15. 15And Hilkiah answered and said to Shaphan the scribe, I have found the book of the law in the house of the LORD. And Hilkiah delivered the book to Shaphan.
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Role in This Section
This verse advances the thought unit through its next action, speech, or consequence: “And Hilkiah answered and said to Shaphan the scribe, I have found the book of the law in….” Its responsible meaning belongs to the complete movement “The found law book brings Josiah to grief and inquiry.”
Read It With
- 2 Chronicles 34:14–21
Read 2 Chronicles 34:15 with 34:14–21. The selected wording supplies one step in the thought unit through its next action, speech, or consequence; the surrounding verses supply the causes, responses, and outcome summarized here: Hilkiah finds a book of the law, Shaphan reports the work and reads it, Josiah tears his clothes, and the king sends officials to inquire because the ancestors did not keep its words.
Why It Needs Context
2 Chronicles 34:15 depends on 34:14–21; isolating “And Hilkiah answered and said to Shaphan the scribe, I have found the book of the law in…” would detach a supporting action, quotation, name, number, object, or transition from “The found law book brings Josiah to grief and inquiry.”
Read 2 Chronicles 34:14–21 together
Why these verses belong together: 2 Chronicles 34:14–21 forms the complete movement “The found law book brings Josiah to grief and inquiry”: Hilkiah finds a book of the law, Shaphan reports the work and reads it, Josiah tears his clothes, and the king sends officials to inquire because the ancestors did not keep its words.
Verse 14. 14 And when they brought out the money that was brought into the house of the LORD, Hilkiah the priest found a book of the law of the LORD given by Moses.
Verse 15. 15 And Hilkiah answered and said to Shaphan the scribe, I have found the book of the law in the house of the LORD. And Hilkiah delivered the book to Shaphan.
Verse 16. 16 And Shaphan carried the book to the king, and brought the king word back again, saying, All that was committed to thy servants, they do it.
Verse 17. 17 And they have gathered together the money that was found in the house of the LORD, and have delivered it into the hand of the overseers, and to the hand of the workmen.
Verse 18. 18 Then Shaphan the scribe told the king, saying, Hilkiah the priest hath given me a book. And Shaphan read it before the king.
Verse 19. 19 And it came to pass, when the king had heard the words of the law, that he rent his clothes.
Verse 20. 20 And the king commanded Hilkiah, and Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and Abdon the son of Micah, and Shaphan the scribe, and Asaiah a servant of the king’s, saying,
Verse 21. 21 Go, enquire of the LORD for me, and for them that are left in Israel and in Judah, concerning the words of the book that is found: for great is the wrath of the LORD that is poured out upon us, because our fathers have not kept the word of the LORD, to do after all that is written in this book.
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