2nd Kings Chapter 22 verse 11 Holy Bible
And it came to pass, when the king had heard the words of the book of the law, that he rent his clothes.
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And the king, hearing the words of the book of the law, took his robe in his hands, violently parting it as a sign of his grief;
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And it came to pass when the king heard the words of the book of the law, that he rent his garments.
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And it came to pass, when the king had heard the words of the book of the law, that he rent his clothes.
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And it came to pass, when the king had heard the words of the book of the law, that he rent his clothes.
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It happened, when the king had heard the words of the book of the law, that he tore his clothes.
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And it cometh to pass, at the king's hearing the words of the book of the law, that he rendeth his garments,
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 11. - And it came to pass, when the king had heard the words of the book of the Law, that he rent his clothes. To Josiah the book was evidently, as to Hilkiah, in some sort a discovery. It was not, however, a wholly new thing; rather, he accepted it as the recovery of a thing that was known to have been lost, and was now happily found. And in accepting it he regarded it as authoritative. It was not to him "a book of Law" (Ewald), but "the book of the Law." We can well imagine that, although the book may have been lost early in Manasseh's reign, yet echoes of it had lingered on (1) in the liturgies of the Jehovistic worship; (2) in the teachings of the prophets; (3) in the traditional teaching of religious families; so that the pious ear recognized its phrases as familiar. . . .
