10Then Shaphan the scribe said to the king, Hilkiah the priest has given me a book; and he was reading it before the king.
11And the king, hearing the words of the book of the law, took his robe in his hands, violently parting it as a sign of his grief;
12And he gave orders to Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, and Achbor, the son of Micaiah, and Shaphan the scribe, and Asaiah the king's servant, saying,
13Go and get directions from the Lord for me and for the people and for all Judah, about the words of this book which has come to light; for great is the wrath of the Lord which is burning against us, because our fathers have not given ear to the words of this book, to do all the things which are recorded in it.
14So Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam and Achbor and Shaphan and Asaiah, went to Huldah the woman prophet, the wife of Shallum, the son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, keeper of the robes, (now she was living in Jerusalem, in the second part of the town;) and they had talk with her.
15And she said to them, The Lord, the God of Israel, says, Say to the man who sent you to me,
16These are the words of the Lord: See, I will send evil on this place and on its people, even everything which the king of Judah has been reading in the book;