Deuteronomy 31:11
Hebrew Bible
10 He commanded them: “At the end of seven years, at the appointed time of the cancellation of debts, at the Feast of Shelters, 11 when all Israel comes to appear before the Lord your God in the place he chooses, you must read this law before them within their hearing. 12 Gather the people—men, women, and children, as well as the resident foreigners in your villages—so they may hear and thus learn about and fear the Lord your God and carefully obey all the words of this law.
Date: 6th Century B.C.E. (Final composition) (based on scholarly estimates)
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2 Kings 23:2
Hebrew Bible
1 The king summoned all the leaders of Judah and Jerusalem. 2 The king went up to the Lord’s temple, accompanied by all the people of Judah, all the residents of Jerusalem, the priests, and the prophets. All the people were there, from the youngest to the oldest. He read in their ears2 all the words of the scroll of the covenant that had been discovered in the Lord’s temple. 3 The king stood by the pillar and renewed the covenant before the Lord, agreeing to follow the Lord and to obey his commandments, laws, and rules with all his heart and being, by carrying out the terms of this covenant recorded on this scroll. All the people agreed to keep the covenant.
Date: 6th Century B.C.E. (Final composition) (based on scholarly estimates)
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Notes and References
"... In D, Moses says to gather all the people and “in the place that He will choose, you shall read this instruction in front of all Israel in their ears” (Deuteronomy 31:11). Josiah summons all the people of Judah to the divinely chosen place (Jerusalem), and “he read in their ears” the scroll of instruction (2 Kings 23:2). (The idiom “to read in their ears” occurs in only one other place in the Deuteronomistic history) ..."
Friedman, Richard Elliott
The Bible with Sources Revealed: A New View Into the Five Books of Moses
(p. 25) Harper San Francisco, 2005
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