Go, enquire of the Lord. — The verse is virtually identical with 2 Kings 22:13.

For them that are left... Judah. — An alteration of, “and for the people and for all Judah” (Kings). The chronicler thinks of the remnant in the northern kingdom.

Poured out. — Kings, “kindled against.” (So LXX.) This was probably the original reading, as the wrath which Josiah dreaded had not yet been poured out upon Judah. But the chronicler remembered the ruin of the ten tribes.

Kept. — Kings, “hearkened to” shamĕ’û, as here, instead of shâmĕrû; and so LXX. and Syriac.

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