What other biblical leaders gathered people for covenant renewal like in 2 Chronicles 34:29? Moses convened the entire nation on the plains of Moab for a covenant-renewal ceremony: “You stand today, all of you, before the LORD your God… to enter into the covenant of the LORD your God” (Deuteronomy 29:10-13). Joshua gathered “all the tribes of Israel to Shechem” and challenged them to choose whom they would serve; the people pledged, and “Joshua made a covenant with the people that day” (Joshua 24:1, 25). Samuel summoned Israel to Mizpah, called them to repentance, and “there they confessed, ‘We have sinned against the LORD’” (1 Samuel 7:5-6), renewing their commitment under his leadership. King Asa assembled Judah, Benjamin, and many defectors from Israel in Jerusalem: “They entered into a covenant to seek the LORD, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and soul” (2 Chronicles 15:9-15). During Joash’s enthronement, the priest Jehoiada “made a covenant between the LORD, the king, and the people that they would be the LORD’s people” (2 Kings 11:17; cf. 2 Chronicles 23:16). Hezekiah gathered officials and Levites, declaring, “Now it is in my heart to make a covenant with the LORD” (2 Chronicles 29:10), then led the nation in renewed worship and Passover observance (2 Chronicles 30–31). Ezra, moved by national sin, saw “a large assembly of Israelites… weeping bitterly” and joined them in swearing “to put away all these foreign wives” (Ezra 10:1-3, 5, 12). Nehemiah read the Law publicly, the people wept, rejoiced, and later bound themselves: “We are making a binding agreement, putting it in writing” (Nehemiah 8:1-12; 9:38; 10:28-29). These leaders—Moses, Joshua, Samuel, Asa, Jehoiada with Joash, Hezekiah, Ezra, and Nehemiah—each gathered the nation to reaffirm the covenant, mirroring Josiah’s assembly in 2 Chronicles 34:29. |