2 Kings 22:13

Josiah sends them to inquire of the LORD, fearing God's great wrath over the nation's disobedience. He recognizes the seriousness of Judah's sin.

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• Exod 20:5you shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them, for I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me,
• Neh 9:3They stood up in their place, and read in the book of the law of Yahweh their God a fourth part of the day; and a fourth part they confessed, and worshiped Yahweh their God.
• Deut 31:17–18Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall come on them; so that they will say in that day, ‘Haven’t these evils come on us because our God is not among us?’
• Deut 29:23–28and that all of its land is sulfur, salt, and burning, that it is not sown, doesn’t produce, nor does any grass grow in it, like the overthrow of Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, which Yahweh overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath;
• Deut 4:23–27Be careful, lest you forget the covenant of Yahweh your God, which he made with you, and make yourselves an engraved image in the form of anything which Yahweh your God has forbidden you.
• Jer 37:17then Zedekiah the king sent, and fetched him. The king asked him secretly in his house, and said, “Is there any word from Yahweh?” Jeremiah said, “There is.” He said also, “You will be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon.”
• Jas 1:22–25But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.
• 1 Chr 10:13–14So Saul died for his trespass which he committed against Yahweh, because of Yahweh’s word, which he didn’t keep; and also because he asked counsel of one who had a familiar spirit, to inquire,
• 1 Kgs 22:7–8But Jehoshaphat said, “Isn’t there here a prophet of Yahweh, that we may inquire of him?”
• Lam 5:7Our fathers sinned, and are no more; We have borne their iniquities.
• Rom 4:15For the law produces wrath, for where there is no law, neither is there disobedience.
• Ezek 14:3–4“Son of man, these men have taken their idols into their heart, and put the stumbling block of their iniquity before their face. Should I be inquired of at all by them?
• Ps 106:6We have sinned with our fathers. We have committed iniquity. We have done wickedly.
• 2 Chr 29:6For our fathers were unfaithful, and have done that which was evil in Yahweh our God’s sight, and have forsaken him, and have turned away their faces from the habitation of Yahweh, and turned their backs.
• Prov 3:6In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.
• Dan 9:10neither have we obeyed Yahweh our God’s voice, to walk in his laws, which he set before us by his servants the prophets.
• Neh 8:8–9They read in the book, in the law of God, distinctly; and they gave the sense, so that they understood the reading.
• Jer 16:12and you have done evil more than your fathers; for, behold, you walk every one after the stubbornness of his evil heart, so that you don’t listen to me.
• Amos 3:7Surely the Lord Yahweh will do nothing, unless he reveals his secret to his servants the prophets.
• Dan 9:5–8we have sinned, and have dealt perversely, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even turning aside from your precepts and from your ordinances;
• 2 Chr 34:21“Go inquire of Yahweh for me, and for those who are left in Israel and in Judah, concerning the words of the book that is found; for great is Yahweh’s wrath that is poured out on us, because our fathers have not kept Yahweh’s word, to do according to all that is written in this book.”
• Jer 44:17But we will certainly perform every word that has gone out of our mouth, to burn incense to the queen of the sky, and to pour out drink offerings to her, as we have done, we and our fathers, our kings and our princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem; for then had we plenty of food, and were well, and saw no evil.
• Ps 25:14The friendship of Yahweh is with those who fear him. He will show them his covenant.
• 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.
• Rom 7:9I was alive apart from the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
• Rev 6:17for the great day of his wrath has come; and who is able to stand?”
• Ps 76:7You, even you, are to be feared. Who can stand in your sight when you are angry?
• Ezek 20:1–3In the seventh year, in the fifth month, the tenth day of the month, some of the elders of Israel came to inquire of Yahweh, and sat before me.
• Jer 21:1–2The word which came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, when king Zedekiah sent to him Pashhur the son of Malchijah, and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah, the priest, saying,
• 2 Kgs 3:11But Jehoshaphat said, “Isn’t there a prophet of Yahweh here, that we may inquire of Yahweh by him?” One of the king of Israel’s servants answered, “Elisha the son of Shaphat, who poured water on the hands of Elijah, is here.”
• Nah 1:6Who can stand before his indignation? Who can endure the fierceness of his anger? His wrath is poured out like fire, and the rocks are broken apart by him.

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