strkjv@2Kings:23:1
@ And the
king
sent
, and they
gathered
unto him all the
elders
of
Judah
and of
Jerusalem
.
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
.
strkjv@2Kings:23:21
@ And the
king
commanded
all the
people
,
saying
,
Keep
the
passover
unto the
LORD
your
God
, as it is
written
in the
book
of this
covenant
.
strkjv@2Kings:23:22
@ Surely there was not
holden
such a
passover
from the
days
of the
judges
that
judged
Israel
, nor in all the
days
of the
kings
of
Israel
, nor of the
kings
of
Judah
;
strkjv@2Kings:23:23
@ But in the
eighteenth
sh@
year
of
king
Josiah
, wherein this
passover
was
holden
to the
LORD
in
Jerusalem
.
strkjv@2Kings:23:24
@ Moreover the workers with familiar
spirits
, and the
wizards
yidd@, and the
images
, and the
idols
, and all the
abominations
that were
spied
in the
land
of
Judah
and in
Jerusalem
, did
Josiah
put
away
, that he might
perform
the
words
of the
law
which were
written
in the
book
that
Hilkiah
the
priest
found
in the
house
of the
LORD
.
strkjv@2Kings:23:25
@ And like unto him was there no
king
before
him, that
turned
to the
LORD
with all his
heart
, and with all his
soul
, and with all his
might
m@, according to all the
law
of
Moses
; neither
after
him
arose
there any like him.
strkjv@2Kings:23:26
@ Notwithstanding the
LORD
turned
not from the
fierceness
of his
great
wrath
, wherewith his
anger
was
kindled
against
Judah
, because of all the
provocations
that
Manasseh
had
provoked
him withal.
strkjv@2Kings:23:27
@ And the
LORD
said
, I will
remove
Judah
also out of my
sight
, as I have
removed
Israel
, and will cast
off
this
city
Jerusalem
which I have
chosen
, and the
house
of which I
said
, My
name
shall be there.
strkjv@2Kings:23:28
@ Now the
rest
of the
acts
of
Josiah
, and all that he
did
, are they not
written
in the
book
of the
chronicles
of the
kings
of
Judah
?
strkjv@2Kings:23:29
@ In his
days
Pharaohnechoh
oh
king
of
Egypt
went
up
against the
king
of
Assyria
to the
river
Euphrates
: and
king
Josiah
went
against
him; and he
slew
him at
Megiddo
, when he had
seen
him.
strkjv@2Kings:23:30
@ And his
servants
carried him in a
chariot
dead
from
Megiddo
, and
brought
him to
Jerusalem
, and
buried
him in his own
sepulchre
. And the
people
of the
land
took
Jehoahaz
the
son
of
Josiah
, and
anointed
him, and made him
king
in his
fathers
stead.
strkjv@2Kings:23:31
@
Jehoahaz
was
twenty
and
three
years
old
when he began to
reign
; and he
reigned
three
months
in
Jerusalem
. And his
mothers
name
was
Hamutal
, the
daughter
of
Jeremiah
of
Libnah
.
strkjv@2Kings:23:32
@ And he
did
that which was
evil
in the
sight
of the
LORD
, according to all that his
fathers
had
done
.
strkjv@2Kings:23:33
@ And
Pharaohnechoh
ohput him in
bands
at
Riblah
in the
land
of
Hamath
, that he might not
reign
in
Jerusalem
; and
put
the
land
to a
tribute
of an
hundred
talents
of
silver
, and a
talent
of
gold
.
strkjv@2Kings:23:34
@ And
Pharaohnechoh
ohmade
Eliakim
the
son
of
Josiah
king
in the room of
Josiah
his
father
, and
turned
his
name
to
Jehoiakim
, and
took
Jehoahaz
away
: and he
came
to
Egypt
, and
died
there.
strkjv@2Kings:23:35
@ And
Jehoiakim
gave
the
silver
and the
gold
to
Pharaoh
; but he
taxed
the
land
to
give
the
money
according to the
commandment
of
Pharaoh
: he
exacted
the
silver
and the
gold
of the
people
of the
land
, of every
one
according to his
taxation
, to
give
it unto
Pharaohnechoh
oh.
strkjv@2Kings:23:36
@
Jehoiakim
was
twenty
and
five
years
old
when he began to
reign
; and he
reigned
eleven
H6240
years
in
Jerusalem
. And his
mothers
name
was
Zebudah
, the
daughter
of
Pedaiah
of
Rumah
.
strkjv@2Kings:23:37
@ And he
did
that which was
evil
in the
sight
of the
LORD
, according to all that his
fathers
had
done
.
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