Moreover, Shaphan the scribe told the king saying, "Hilkiah the priest has given me a book." And Shaphan read it in the presence of the king.Obviously, the Law had been forgotten long ago. The book had apparently been misplaced or hidden away and forgotten some time before, probably many generations. Now it has been found again, and the king is made aware of it for the first time.
This make me wonder, what has the king been doing until now, that he believed in God and followed His commands? And what have the priests been doing? It seems that for generations, they have all been acting on oral tradition, which was obviously incomplete. The Law in its entirety had been lost, and now is suddenly re-found, so how far off-track had the priests' memory or other sources taken them? How much did they suddenly have to fix?
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