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2 Chronicles 34:19-25

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19When the king heard the words of the Law, he tore his robes. 20He gave these orders to Hilkiah, Ahikam son of Shaphan, Abdon son of Micah, Also called Akbor son of Micaiah Shaphan the secretary and Asaiah the king’s attendant:

21“Go and inquire of the LORD for me and for the remnant in Israel and Judah about what is written in this book that has been found. Great is the LORD ’s anger that is poured out on us because those who have gone before us have not kept the word of the LORD ; they have not acted in accordance with all that is written in this book.”

22Hilkiah and those the king had sent with him One Hebrew manuscript, Vulgate and Syriac; most Hebrew manuscripts do not have had sent with him. went to speak to the prophet Huldah, who was the wife of Shallum son of Tokhath, Also called Tikvah the son of Hasrah, Also called Harhas keeper of the wardrobe. She lived in Jerusalem, in the New Quarter. 23She said to them, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: Tell the man who sent you to me, 24‘This is what the LORD says: I am going to bring disaster on this place and its people—all the curses written in the book that has been read in the presence of the king of Judah. 25Because they have forsaken me and burned incense to other gods and aroused my anger by all that their hands have made, Or by everything they have done my anger will be poured out on this place and will not be quenched.’