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2 Kings 22:18

Literal Fulfillment Agency Representation Prophetic Methods of Communication

“But to the king of Judah which sent you to enquire of the Lord, thus shall ye say to him, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, As touching the words which thou hast heard;”

Thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, and upon the inhabitants thereof, even all the words of the book which the king of Judah hath read:

Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the works of their hands; therefore my wrath shall be kindled against this place, and shall not be quenched.

But to the king of Judah which sent you to enquire of the Lord, thus shall ye say to him, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, As touching the words which thou hast heard;

Because thine heart was tender, and thou hast humbled thyself before the Lord, when thou heardest what I spake against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and hast rent thy clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard thee, saith the Lord.

Behold therefore, I will gather thee unto thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered into thy grave in peace; and thine eyes shall not see all the evil which I will bring upon this place. And they brought the king word again.

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Literal Fulfillment

The verse itself does not describe prophetic events, but rather introduces a message from the Lord to the king. The "words which thou hast heard" refer to the reading of the newly discovered Book of the Law, not a prophecy whose fulfillment is being described.

Agency Representation

The verse itself doesn't explicitly detail the *mechanisms* or *conventions* of agency; it simply presents a direct message from God delivered through a prophet to a king. While the concept of agency is clearly at play (the prophet is God's messenger), the verse doesn't *explain* it in terms of ancient Near Eastern conventions. One could argue that the verse is simply a straightforward declaration of divine communication, and the "agency representation" is an interpretive layer added by the read

Prophetic Methods of Communication

The verse describes a message being delivered *to* the king, not the method by which the prophet *received* the message from God. It only states that the king sent people to "enquire of the Lord," implying a prophetic consultation, but doesn't detail the communication method used by the prophet to receive God's word.

Literal Fulfillment

Related Verses

2 Chronicles 34:26

“And as for the king of Judah, who sent you to enquire of the Lord, so shall ye say unto him, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel concerning the words which thou hast heard;”

2 Kings 22:15

“And she said unto them, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Tell the man that sent you to me,”

2 Chronicles 34:23

“And she answered them, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Tell ye the man that sent you to me,”

2 Kings 22:3

“And it came to pass in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, that the king sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, the son of Meshullam, the scribe, to the house of the Lord, saying,”

2 Kings 20:16

“And Isaiah said unto Hezekiah, Hear the word of the Lord.”

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