King James Version
2 Kings 23:1 in the King James Version says “And the king sent, and they gathered unto him all the elders of Judah and of Jerusalem.” — study this verse from 2 Kings chapter 23 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And the king sent, and they gathered unto him all the elders of Judah and of Jerusalem.”
2 Kings 23:1 · KJV
And the king sent, and they gathered unto him all the elders of Judah and of Jerusalem.
And the king went up into the house of the LORD, and all the men of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem with him, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the people, both small and great: and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant which was found in the house of the LORD. both: Heb. from small even unto great
And the king stood by a pillar, 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 their heart and all their soul, to perform the words of this covenant that were written in this book. And all the people stood to the covenant.
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“and they gathered”
H622to gather for any purpose; hence, to receive, take away, i.e., remove (destroy, leave behind, put up, restore, etc.)
properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
“of Judah”
H3063jehudah (or judah), the name of five israelites; also of the tribe descended from the first, and of its territory
“and of Jerusalem”
H3389jerushalaim or jerushalem, the capital city of palestine
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