Jehoshaphat was afraid, and he resolved(A) to seek the Lord. Then he proclaimed a fast(B) for all Judah,

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National Confession of Sin

On the twenty-fourth day of this month(A) the Israelites assembled; they were fasting, wearing sackcloth, and had put dust on their heads.(B)

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so you must go and read from the scroll—which you wrote at my dictation[a]—the words of the Lord in the hearing of the people at the temple of the Lord on a day of fasting. Read his words in the hearing of all the Judeans who are coming from their cities.

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Footnotes

  1. 36:6 Lit wrote from my mouth

Baruch Reads the Scroll

In the fifth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah, king of Judah, in the ninth month,(A) all the people of Jerusalem and all those coming in from Judah’s cities into Jerusalem proclaimed a fast before the Lord.(B)

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