# 2 Kings 22:19

> because your heart was tender and you humbled yourself before the LORD when you heard what I spoke against this place and against its people, that they would become a desolation and a curse, and because you have torn your clothes and wept before Me, I have heard you,’ declares the LORD.

— 2 Kings 22:19, Berean Standard Bible

## When

- c. 622-609 BC (dated by the text itself)
- Date source: 2 Kings 22:3 dates the finding of the Book of the Law by the eighteenth year of Josiah.

## Who ruled

- **Neco II**, pharaoh of Egypt, 610-595 BC · Source: Babylonian Chronicles (ABC 5), Battle of Carchemish; Herodotus II
- **Josiah**, king of Judah, 640-609 BC · Source: 2 Kings 22-23; 2 Chronicles 34-35; his death at Megiddo falls in the Egyptian campaign of 609 BC, which the Babylonian Chronicles record

## See also

- Psalms 51:17 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/psalms/51/17
- 1 Kings 21:29 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/1-kings/21/29
- Exodus 10:3 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/exodus/10/3
- Isaiah 57:15 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/isaiah/57/15
- 1 Samuel 24:5 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/1-samuel/24/5
- Micah 6:8 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/micah/6/8
- 1 Peter 5:5-6 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/1-peter/5/5
- Isaiah 66:5 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/isaiah/66/5

Cross-references: OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0.

## This document

- Canonical: https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/2-kings/22/19
- Whole chapter: https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/2-kings/22
- License: Scripture: Berean Standard Bible (BSB), public domain. Source: Scriptoria (scriptoria.digital).