2 Chronicles 34:23
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New International Version (©2011)
She said to them, "This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: Tell the man who sent you to me,

New Living Translation (©2007)
She said to them, "The LORD, the God of Israel, has spoken! Go back and tell the man who sent you,

English Standard Version (©2001)
And she said to them, “Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: ‘Tell the man who sent you to me,

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
She said to them, "Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, 'Tell the man who sent you to Me,

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And she answered them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Tell ye the man that sent you to me,

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
She said to them, "This is what Yahweh, the God of Israel says: Say to the man who sent you to Me,

International Standard Version (©2012)
In response, she replied: "This is what the LORD God of Israel says: 'Tell the man who sent you to me,

NET Bible (©2006)
and she said to them: "This is what the LORD God of Israel says: 'Say this to the man who sent you to me:

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
She told them, "This is what the LORD God of Israel says: Tell the man who sent you to me,

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And she answered them, Thus says the LORD God of Israel, Tell the man that sent you to me,

American King James Version
And she answered them, Thus said the LORD God of Israel, Tell you the man that sent you to me,

American Standard Version
And she said unto them, Thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel: Tell ye the man that sent you unto me,

Douay-Rheims Bible
And she answered them: Thus saith the Lord the God of Israel: Tell the man that sent you to me:

Darby Bible Translation
And she said to them, Thus saith Jehovah the God of Israel: Tell the man that sent you to me,

English Revised Version
And she said unto them, Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel: tell ye the man that sent you unto me,

Webster's Bible Translation
And she answered them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Tell ye the man that sent you to me.

World English Bible
She said to them, "Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel: 'Tell the man who sent you to me,

Young's Literal Translation
And she saith to them, 'Thus said Jehovah, God of Israel, Say to the man who hath sent you unto me,

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

34:1-33 Josiah's good reign in Judah. - As the years of infancy cannot be useful to our fellow-creatures, our earliest youth should be dedicated to God, that we may not waste any of the remaining short space of life. Happy and wise are those who seek the Lord and prepare for usefulness at an early age, when others are pursuing sinful pleasures, contracting bad habits, and forming ruinous connexions. Who can express the anguish prevented by early piety, and its blessed effects? Diligent self-examination and watchfulness will convince us of the deceitfulness and wickedness of our own hearts, and the sinfulness of our lives. We are here encouraged to humble ourselves before God, and to seek unto him, as Josiah did. And believers are here taught, not to fear death, but to welcome it, when it takes them away from the evil to come. Nothing hastens the ruin of a people, nor ripens them for it, more than their disregard of the attempts made for their reformation. Be not deceived, God is not mocked. The current and tide of affections only turns at the command of Him who raises up those that are dead in trespasses and sins. We behold peculiar loveliness, in the grace the Lord bestows on those, who in tender years seek to know and to love the Saviour. Hath Jesus, the Day-spring from on high, visited you? Can you trace your knowledge of this light and life of man, like Josiah, from your youth? Oh the unspeakable happiness of becoming acquainted with Jesus from our earliest years!

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 23. - The oracular answer of Huldah, contained in this and the following five verses, is very closely paralleled by the six verses of 2 Kings 22:15-20.

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Huldah's Prophecy
22And Hilkiah, and they that the king had appointed, went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvath, the son of Hasrah, keeper of the wardrobe; (now she dwelled in Jerusalem in the college:) and they spoke to her to that effect. 23And she answered them, Thus said the LORD God of Israel, Tell you the man that sent you to me, 24Thus said the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil on this place, and on the inhabitants thereof, even all the curses that are written in the book which they have read before the king of Judah: …

2 Chronicles 34:22 Hilkiah and those the king had sent with him went to speak to the prophet Huldah, who was the wife of Shallum son of Tokhath, the son of Hasrah, keeper of the wardrobe. She lived in Jerusalem, in the New Quarter.
2 Chronicles 34:24 This is what the LORD says: I am going to bring disaster on this place and its people--all the curses written in the book that has been read in the presence of the king of Judah.