2 Kings 22:18-20

Hilkiah Finds the Book of the Law

¹⁸ But to the king of Judah, who sent you to inquire of the Lord, thus shall you say to him, Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: Regarding the words that you have heard, ¹⁹ _q because your heart was penitent, and you _r humbled yourself before the Lord, when you heard how I spoke against this place and against its inhabitants, that they should become _s a desolation and _t a curse, and you _u have torn your clothes and wept before me, I also have heard you, declares the Lord. ²⁰ Therefore, behold, I will gather you to your fathers, and _v you shall be gathered to your grave in peace, and your eyes shall not see all the disaster that I will bring upon this place.'" And they brought back word to the king.

1. Cross References
   Psalms 51:17
   The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.
   Isaiah 57:15
   For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: "I dwell in the high and holy place, and also with him who is of a contrite and lowly spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly, and to revive the heart of the contrite.
   
2. Cross References
   1 Kings 21:29
   "Have you seen how Ahab has humbled himself before me? Because he has humbled himself before me, I will not bring the disaster in his days; but in his son's days I will bring the disaster upon his house."
   
3. Cross References
   Leviticus 26:31 - 32
   And I will lay your cities waste and will make your sanctuaries desolate, and I will not smell your pleasing aromas.
   2 Chronicles 30:7
   Do not be like your fathers and your brothers, who were faithless to the Lord God of their fathers, so that he made them a desolation, as you see.
   Jeremiah 25:18
   Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, its kings and officials, to make them a desolation and a waste, a hissing and a curse, as at this day.
   Jeremiah 44:22
   The Lord could no longer bear your evil deeds and the abominations that you committed. Therefore your land has become a desolation and a waste and a curse, without inhabitant, as it is this day.
   Micah 6:16
   For you have kept the statutes of Omri, and all the works of the house of Ahab; and you have walked in their counsels, that I may make you a desolation, and your inhabitants a hissing; so you shall bear the scorn of my people.
   
4. Cross References
   Jeremiah 24:9
   I will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a reproach, a byword, a taunt, and a curse in all the places where I shall drive them.
   Jeremiah 26:6
   Then I will make this house like Shiloh, and I will make this city a curse for all the nations of the earth.'
   Jeremiah 44:22
   The Lord could no longer bear your evil deeds and the abominations that you committed. Therefore your land has become a desolation and a waste and a curse, without inhabitant, as it is this day.
   
5. Cross References
   2 Kings 22:11
   When the king heard the words of the Book of the Law, he tore his clothes.
   
6. Cross References
   Psalms 37:37
   Mark the blameless and behold the upright, for there is a future for the man of peace.
   Isaiah 57:1 - 2
   The righteous man perishes, and no one lays it to heart; devout men are taken away, while no one understands. For the righteous man is taken away from calamity.