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From the commission, “Inquire ye of Jehovah for me and for the people and for all Judah (i.e., the whole kingdom) concerning the words of this book of the law that has been found, for great is the wrath of the Lord which has been kindled against us, because our fathers have not heard ...,” we may infer that the curses of the law upon the despisers of the commandments of God in Lev 26; Deu 28:1, and other passages, had been read to the king. אֶת־יי דָּרַשׁ means to inquire the will of the Lord, what He has determined concerning the king, his people, and the kingdom. עַל שָׁמַע signifies here to hearken to anything, to observe it, for which אֶל is used elsewhere. עַל כָּתַב, to prescribe for performance. עָלֵינוּ, “prescribed for us,” is quite appropriate, since the law was not only given to the fathers to obey, but also to the existing generation-a fact which Thenius has overlooked with his conjecture עָלָיו. To render the king's alarm and his fear of severe judgments from God intelligible, there is no need for the far-fetched and extremely precarious hypothesis, that just at that time the Scythians had invaded and devastated the land.