2 Chronicles 34:19

When Josiah hears the words of the law, he tears his clothes in grief. He responds to Scripture with deep conviction and humility.

Cross-references · 11

• Josh 7:6Joshua tore his clothes, and fell to the earth on his face before Yahweh’s ark until the evening, he and the elders of Israel; and they put dust on their heads.
• Gal 2:19For I, through the law, died to the law, that I might live to God.
• 2 Kgs 22:19because your heart was tender, and you humbled yourself before Yahweh, when you heard what I spoke against this place, and against its inhabitants, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and have torn your clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard you,’ says Yahweh.
• Rom 3:20Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight. For through the law comes the knowledge of sin.
• Jer 36:22–24Now the king was sitting in the winter house in the ninth month: and there was a fire in the brazier burning before him.
• 2 Kgs 19:1When king Hezekiah heard it, he tore his clothes, covered himself with sackcloth, and went into Yahweh’s house.
• Rom 7:7–11What shall we say then? Is the law sin? May it never be! However, I wouldn’t have known sin, except through the law. For I wouldn’t have known coveting, unless the law had said, “You shall not covet.”
• Gal 3:10–13For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse. For it is written, “Cursed is everyone who doesn’t continue in all things that are written in the book of the law, to do them.”
• 2 Kgs 22:11When the king had heard the words of the book of the law, he tore his clothes.
• Joel 2:13Tear your heart, and not your garments, and turn to Yahweh, your God; for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and relents from sending calamity.
• Deut 28:3–68You shall be blessed in the city, and you shall be blessed in the field.

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