11. When the king had heard the words of the scroll of the Torah, he tore his clothes.
12. The king commanded Hilkiah the priest, Ahikam the son of Shaphan, Achbor the son of Micaiah, Shaphan the scribe, and Asaiah the king’s servant, saying,
13. “Go inquire of the Lord for me, and for the people, and for all Judah, concerning the words of this book that is found; for great is the Lord’s wrath that is kindled against us, because our fathers have not listened to the words of this book, to do according to all that which is written concerning us.”
14. So Hilkiah the priest, Ahikam, Achbor, Shaphan, and Asaiah, went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe (now she lived in Jerusalem in the second quarter); and they talked with her.
15. She said to them, “the Lord the God of Israel says, ‘Tell the man who sent you to me,
16. “the Lord says, ‘Behold, I will bring evil on this place, and on its inhabitants, even all the words of the book which the king of Judah has read.