¹⁴ Afterward he rebuilt the outer wall of the City of David, west of the Gihon^(A) spring in the valley, as far as the entrance of the Fish Gate^(B) and encircling the hill of Ophel;^(C) he also made it much higher. He stationed military commanders in all the fortified cities in Judah.

²² Hilkiah and those the king had sent with him^[a] went to speak to the prophet^(A) Huldah, who was the wife of Shallum son of Tokhath,^[b] the son of Hasrah,^[c] keeper of the wardrobe. She lived in Jerusalem, in the New Quarter.

¹³ And they will know that I am the Lord, when their people lie slain among their idols^(A) around their altars, on every high hill and on all the mountaintops, under every spreading tree and every leafy oak^(B)—places where they offered fragrant incense to all their idols.^(C)

³ “In that day,” declares the Sovereign Lord, “the songs in the temple will turn to wailing.^[a](A) Many, many bodies—flung everywhere! Silence!^(B)”