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2 Kings 23

2 Kings 23:1 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Andp the king
melek (Hebrew #4428)
a king
KJV usage: king, royal.
Pronounce: meh'-lek
Origin: from 4427
sent
shalach (Hebrew #7971)
to send away, for, or out (in a great variety of applications)
KJV usage: X any wise, appoint, bring (on the way), cast (away, out), conduct, X earnestly, forsake, give (up), grow long, lay, leave, let depart (down, go, loose), push away, put (away, forth, in, out), reach forth, send (away, forth, out), set, shoot (forth, out), sow, spread, stretch forth (out).
Pronounce: shaw-lakh'
Origin: a primitive root
, and they gathered
'acaph (Hebrew #622)
to gather for any purpose; hence, to receive, take away, i.e. remove (destroy, leave behind, put up, restore, etc.)
KJV usage: assemble, bring, consume, destroy, felch, gather (in, together, up again), X generally, get (him), lose, put all together, receive, recover (another from leprosy), (be) rereward, X surely, take (away, into, up), X utterly, withdraw.
Pronounce: aw-saf'
Origin: a primitive root
unto him all the elders
zaqen (Hebrew #2205)
old
KJV usage: aged, ancient (man), elder(-est), old (man, men and...women), senator.
Pronounce: zaw-kane'
Origin: from 2204
of Judah
Yhuwdah (Hebrew #3063)
celebrated; Jehudah (or Judah), the name of five Israelites; also of the tribe descended from the first, and of its territory
KJV usage: Judah.
Pronounce: yeh-hoo-daw'
Origin: from 3034
and of Jerusalem
Yruwshalaim (Hebrew #3389)
a dual (in allusion to its two main hills (the true pointing, at least of the former reading, seems to be that of 3390)); probably from (the passive participle of) 3384 and 7999; founded peaceful; Jerushalaim or Jerushalem, the capital city of Palestine
KJV usage: Jerusalem.
Pronounce: yer-oo-shaw-lah'-im
Origin: rarely Yruwshalayim {yer-oo- shaw-lah'-yim}
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2 Chron. 34:29• 29Then the king sent and gathered together all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem. (2 Chron. 34:29)
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Cross References

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1-2:  Josiah causes the book to be read in a solemn assembly.
3:  He renews the covenant of the Lord.
4-14:  He destroys idolatry.
15-20:  He burns dead men's bones upon the altar of Beth-el, as was fore-prophesied.
21-23:  He keeps a most solemn passover.
24-25:  He puts away witches and all abomination.
26-28:  God's final wrath against Judah.
29-30:  Josiah, provoking Pharaoh-nechoh, is slain at Megiddo.
31-35:  Jehoahaz, succeeding him, is imprisoned by Pharaoh-nechoh, who makes Jehoiakim king.
36-37:  Jehoiakim's wicked reign.
the king.
Deut. 31:28• 28Gather unto me all the elders of your tribes, and your officers, that I may speak these words in their ears, and call heaven and earth to record against them. (Deut. 31:28)
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2 Sam. 6:1• 1Again, David gathered together all the chosen men of Israel, thirty thousand. (2 Sam. 6:1)
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2 Chron. 29:20• 20Then Hezekiah the king rose early, and gathered the rulers of the city, and went up to the house of the Lord. (2 Chron. 29:20)
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2 Chron. 30:2• 2For the king had taken counsel, and his princes, and all the congregation in Jerusalem, to keep the passover in the second month. (2 Chron. 30:2)
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2 Chron. 34:29,30‑33• 29Then the king sent and gathered together all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem.
 30And the king went up into the house of the Lord, and all the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the priests, and the Levites, and all the people, great and small: and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant that was found in the house of the Lord.
 31And the king stood in his place, and made a covenant before the Lord, to walk after the Lord, and to keep his commandments, and his testimonies, and his statutes, with all his heart, and with all his soul, to perform the words of the covenant which are written in this book.
 32And he caused all that were present in Jerusalem and Benjamin to stand to it. And the inhabitants of Jerusalem did according to the covenant of God, the God of their fathers.
 33And Josiah took away all the abominations out of all the countries that pertained to the children of Israel, and made all that were present in Israel to serve, even to serve the Lord their God. And all his days they departed not from following the Lord, the God of their fathers. (2 Chron. 34:29,30‑33)

J. N. Darby Translation

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