²⁷ My tabernacle also shall be with them: yea, I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

¹⁵ And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?

¹ The king sent, and they gathered to him all the elders of Judah and of Jerusalem.

² The king went up to the house of Yahweh, 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 Yahweh.

³ The king stood by the pillar, and made a covenant before Yahweh, to walk after Yahweh, and to keep his commandments, and his testimonies, and his statutes, with all [his] heart, and all [his] soul, to confirm the words of this covenant that were written in this book: and all the people stood to the covenant.