New Revised Standard Version
Then the king sent word and gathered together all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem.

Contemporary English Version
King Josiah called together the leaders of Judah and Jerusalem.

New American Bible
The king then had all the elders of Judah and of Jerusalem summoned before him.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he called together all the ancients of Juda and Jerusalem.

And he called together all the ancients of Juda and Jerusalem.

the king

1 Samuel 12:23 And far from me be this sin against the Lord, that I should cease to pray for you: and I will teach you the good and right way.

1 Chronicles 29:2 And I with all my ability have prepared the expenses for the house of my God. Gold for vessels of gold, and silver for vessels of silver, brass for things of brass, iron for things of iron, wood for things of wood: and onyx stones, and stones like alabaster, and of divers colours, and all manner of precious stones, and marble of Paros in great abundance.

Mark 14:8 She hath done what she could: she is come beforehand to anoint my body for the burial.

gathered

2 Chronicles 30:2 For the king, taking counsel, and the princes, and all the assembly of Jerusalem, decreed to keep the phase the second month.

2 Kings 23:1-3 And they brought the king word again what she had said. And he sent: and all the ancients of Juda and Jerusalem were assembled to him. . . .