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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• 29And the king sent and gathered all the elders of Judah and of 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 to me all the elders of your tribes, and your officers, that I may speak these words in their ears, and take heaven and earth to witness against them. (Deut. 31:28)
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2 Sam. 6:1• 1And David again gathered all the chosen men of Israel, thirty thousand. (2 Sam. 6:1)
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2 Chron. 29:20• 20And Hezekiah the king arose early, and gathered the princes of the city, and went up to the house of Jehovah. (2 Chron. 29:20)
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2 Chron. 30:2• 2And the king took counsel, and his princes, and the whole congregation in Jerusalem, to hold the passover in the second month. (2 Chron. 30:2)
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2 Chron. 34:29,30‑33• 29And the king sent and gathered all the elders of Judah and of Jerusalem.
 30And the king went up into the house of Jehovah, 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 which had been found in the house of Jehovah.
 31And the king stood in his place, and made a covenant before Jehovah, to walk after Jehovah, 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 that 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 removed all the abominations out of all the countries that belonged to the children of Israel, and made to serve all that were found in Israel,--to serve Jehovah their God: all his days they did not depart from following Jehovah, 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.