^2 (A)“Hear the words of this covenant, and speak to the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

^8 (A)Yet they did not obey or incline their ear, ^(B)but everyone walked in the stubbornness of his evil heart. Therefore I brought upon them all ^(C)the words of this covenant, which I commanded them to do, but they did not.”

³ And the king stood ^(A)by the pillar and ^(B)made a covenant before the Lord, ^(C)to walk after the Lord and to keep his commandments and his testimonies and his statutes with all his heart and all his soul, to perform the words of this covenant that were written in this book. And all the people joined in the covenant.