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2 Kings 23:32Kgs.23.3

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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Translations

Louis Segond 1910

Le roi se tenait sur l'estrade, et il traita alliance devant l'Eternel, s'engageant à suivre l'Eternel, et à observer ses ordonnances, ses préceptes et ses lois, de tout son coeur et de toute son âme, afin de mettre en pratique les paroles de cette alliance, écrites dans ce livre. Et tout le peuple entra dans l'alliance.

KJV

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.

Patristic reading

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  • Thomas Aquinas

    Summa Theologica

    eans of examples taken from objects of sense. Hence it is said in commendation of David's prophecy ( 2 Kings 23:3 ): "The strong one of Israel spoke to me," and further on ( 2 Kings 23:4 ): "As the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, shineth in the morning without clouds."…

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