strkjv@2Kings:23:2
@ And the
king
went
up
into the
house
of the
LORD
, and all the
men
of
Judah
and all the
inhabitants
of
Jerusalem
with him, and the
priests
, and the
prophets
, and all the
people
, both
small
and
great
: and he
read
in their
ears
all the
words
of the
book
of the
covenant
which was
found
in the
house
of the
LORD
.
strkjv@2Kings:23:3
@ And the
king
stood
by a
pillar
, and
made
a
covenant
before
the
LORD
, to
walk
after
the
LORD
, and to
keep
his
commandments
and his
testimonies
and his
statutes
with all their
heart
and all their
soul
, to
perform
the
words
of this
covenant
that were
written
in this
book
. And all the
people
stood
to the
covenant
.
strkjv@2Kings:23:4
@ And the
king
commanded
Hilkiah
the
high
priest
, and the
priests
of the second
order
, and the
keepers
of the
door
, to bring
forth
out of the
temple
of the
LORD
all the
vessels
that were
made
for
Baal
, and for the
grove
, and for all the
host
of
heaven
: and he
burned
them
without
Jerusalem
in the
fields
of
Kidron
, and
carried
the
ashes
of them unto
Bethel
Beyth-.
strkjv@2Kings:23:5
@ And he put
down
the idolatrous
priests
, whom the
kings
of
Judah
had
ordained
to burn
incense
in the high
places
in the
cities
of
Judah
, and in the places round
about
Jerusalem
; them also that burned
incense
unto
Baal
, to the
sun
, and to the
moon
, and to the
planets
, and to all the
host
of
heaven
.
strkjv@2Kings:23:6
@ And he brought
out
the
grove
from the
house
of the
LORD
,
without
Jerusalem
, unto the
brook
Kidron
, and
burned
it at the
brook
Kidron
, and stamped it
small
to
powder
, and
cast
the
powder
thereof upon the
graves
of the
children
of the
people
.
strkjv@2Kings:23:7
@ And he brake
down
the
houses
of the
sodomites
, that were by the
house
of the
LORD
, where the
women
wove
hangings
for the
grove
.
strkjv@2Kings:23:8
@ And he
brought
all the
priests
out of the
cities
of
Judah
, and
defiled
the high
places
where the
priests
had burned
incense
, from
Geba
to
Beersheba
B@er, and brake
down
the high
places
of the
gates
that were in the entering
in
of the
gate
of
Joshua
the
governor
of the
city
, which were on a
mans
left
hand
at the
gate
of the
city
.
strkjv@2Kings:23:9
@ Nevertheless the
priests
of the high
places
came not
up
to the
altar
of the
LORD
in
Jerusalem
, but they did
eat
of the unleavened
bread
among
their
brethren
.
strkjv@2Kings:23:10
@ And he
defiled
Topheth
, which is in the
valley
of the
children
of
Hinnom
, that no
man
might make his
son
or his
daughter
to pass
through
the
fire
to
Molech
.
strkjv@2Kings:23:11
@ And he took
away
the
horses
that the
kings
of
Judah
had
given
to the
sun
, at the entering
in
of the
house
of the
LORD
, by the
chamber
of
Nathanmelech
N@than- the
chamberlain
, which was in the
suburbs
, and
burned
the
chariots
of the
sun
with
fire
.
strkjv@2Kings:23:12
@ And the
altars
that were on the
top
of the upper
chamber
of
Ahaz
, which the
kings
of
Judah
had
made
, and the
altars
which
Manasseh
had
made
in the
two
courts
of the
house
of the
LORD
, did the
king
beat
down
, and brake them
down
from thence, and
cast
the
dust
of them into the
brook
Kidron
.
strkjv@2Kings:23:13
@ And the high
places
that were
before
Jerusalem
, which were on the right
hand
of the
mount
of
corruption
, which
Solomon
the
king
of
Israel
had
builded
for
Ashtoreth
the
abomination
of the
Zidonians
, and for
Chemosh
the
abomination
of the
Moabites
, and for
Milcom
the
abomination
of the
children
of
Ammon
, did the
king
defile
.
strkjv@2Kings:23:14
@ And he brake in
pieces
the
images
, and cut
down
the
groves
, and
filled
their
places
with the
bones
of
men
.
strkjv@2Kings:23:15
@ Moreover the
altar
that was at
Bethel
Beyth-, and the high
place
which
Jeroboam
the
son
of
Nebat
, who made
Israel
to
sin
, had
made
, both that
altar
and the high
place
he brake
down
, and
burned
the high
place
, and
stamped
it small to
powder
, and
burned
the
grove
.
strkjv@2Kings:23:16
@ And as
Josiah
turned
himself, he
spied
the
sepulchres
that were there in the
mount
, and
sent
, and
took
the
bones
out of the
sepulchres
, and
burned
them upon the
altar
, and
polluted
it, according to the
word
of the
LORD
which the
man
of
God
proclaimed
, who
proclaimed
these
words
.
strkjv@2Kings:23:17
@ Then he
said
, What
title
is
that
that I
see
? And the
men
of the
city
told
him, It is the
sepulchre
of the
man
of
God
, which
came
from
Judah
, and
proclaimed
these
things
that thou hast
done
against the
altar
of
Bethel
Beyth-.
strkjv@2Kings:23:18
@ And he
said
, Let him
alone
; let no
man
move
his
bones
. So they let his
bones
alone
, with the
bones
of the
prophet
that came
out
of
Samaria
.
strkjv@2Kings:23:19
@ And all the
houses
also of the high
places
that were in the
cities
of
Samaria
, which the
kings
of
Israel
had
made
to provoke the LORD to
anger
,
Josiah
took
away
, and
did
to them according to all the
acts
that he had
done
in
Bethel
Beyth-.
strkjv@2Kings:23:20
@ And he
slew
all the
priests
of the high
places
that were there upon the
altars
, and
burned
mens
bones
upon them, and
returned
to
Jerusalem
.
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