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* Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign ; and he reigned thirty and one years in Jerusalem . * And he did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh , and walked in the ways of David his father , and didn 't turn aside to the right hand or to the left . * For in the eighth year of his reign , while he was yet young , he began to seek after the God of David his father ; and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places , and the Asherim , and the graven images , and the molten images . * And they broke down the altars of the Baalim in his presence ; and the sun-images that were on high above them he hewed down ; and the Asherim , and the graven images , and the molten images , he broke in pieces , and made dust of them , and strewed it on the graves [of them ] that had sacrificed to them . * And he burnt the bones of the priests on their altars , and purged Judah and Jerusalem . * And [so he did ] in the cities of Manasseh and Ephraim and Simeon , even to Naphtali , he searched their houses round about . * And he broke down the altars , and beat the Asherim and the graven images into powder , and hewed down all the sun-images throughout all the land of Israel , and returned to Jerusalem . * Now in the eighteenth year of his reign , when he had purged the land and the house , he sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah , and Maaseiah the governor of the city , and Joah the son of Joahaz the recorder , to repair the house of Yahweh his God . * And they came to Hilkiah the high priest , and delivered the money that was brought into the house of God , which the Levites , the keepers of the threshold , had gathered of the hand of Manasseh and Ephraim , and of all the remnant of Israel , and of all Judah and Benjamin , and of the inhabitants of Jerusalem . * And they delivered it into the hand of the workmen who had the oversight of the house of Yahweh ; and the workmen who wrought in the house of Yahweh gave it to mend and repair the house ; * even to the carpenters and to the builders they gave it , to buy cut stone , and timber for couplings , and to make beams for the houses which the kings of Judah had destroyed . * And the men did the work faithfully : and the overseers of them were Jahath and Obadiah , the Levites , of the sons of Merari ; and Zechariah and Meshullam , of the sons of the Kohathites , to set it forward ; and [others of ] the Levites , all who were skillful with instruments of music . * Also they were over the bearers of burdens , and set forward all who did the work in every manner of service : and of the Levites there were scribes , and officers , and porters . * And when they brought out the money that was brought into the house of Yahweh , Hilkiah the priest found the Book of the Law of Yahweh [given ] by Moses . * And Hilkiah answered and said to Shaphan the scribe , I have found the Book of the Law in the house of Yahweh . And Hilkiah delivered the book to Shaphan . * And Shaphan carried the book to the king , and moreover brought back word to the king , saying , All that was committed to your slaves , they are doing . * And they have emptied out the money that was found in the house of Yahweh , and have delivered it into the hand of the overseers , and into the hand of the workmen . * And Shaphan the scribe told the king , saying , Hilkiah the priest has delivered a book to me . And Shaphan read it before the king . * And it came to pass , when the king had heard the words of the law , that he rent his clothes . * And the king commanded Hilkiah , and Ahikam the son of Shaphan , and Abdon the son of Micah , and Shaphan the scribe , and Asaiah the king 's slave , saying , * Go (note :){+}(:note ), inquire of Yahweh for me , and for those who are left in Israel and in Judah , concerning the words of the book that was found ; for great is the wrath of Yahweh that is poured out on us , because our fathers have not kept the word of Yahweh , to do according to all that is written in this book . * So Hilkiah , and those whom the king [had commanded ], went to Huldah the prophetess , the wife of Shallum the son of Tokhath , the son of Hasrah , keeper of the wardrobe ; (now she dwelt in Jerusalem in the second quarter ;) and they spoke to her to that effect . * And she said to them , This is what Yahweh , the God of Israel , says : Tell (note :){+}(:note ) the man who sent you {+} to me , * Thus says Yahweh , Look , I will bring evil on this place , and on its inhabitants , even all the curses that are written in the book which they have read before the king of Judah . * Because they have forsaken me , and have burned incense to other gods , that they might provoke me to anger with all the works of their hands ; therefore is my wrath poured out on this place , and it will not be quenched . * But to the king of Judah , who sent you (note :){+}(:note ) to inquire of Yahweh , thus you {+} will say to him , This is what Yahweh , the God of Israel , says : As concerning the words which you have heard , * because your heart was tender , and you humbled yourself before God , when you heard his words against this place , and against its inhabitants , and have humbled yourself before me , and have rent your clothes , and wept before me ; I also have heard you , says Yahweh . * Look , I will gather you to your fathers , and you will be gathered to your grave in peace , neither will your eyes see all the evil that I will bring on this place , and on its inhabitants . And they brought back word to the king . * Then the king sent and gathered together all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem . * And the king went up to the house of Yahweh , and all the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem , and the priests , and the Levites , and all the people , both great and small : and he read in their ears all the words of the Book of the Covenant that was found in the house of Yahweh . * And the king stood in his place , and made a covenant before Yahweh , to walk after Yahweh , and to keep his commandments , and his testimonies , and his statutes , with all his heart , and with all his soul , to perform the words of the covenant that were written in this book . * Then he caused all who were found in Jerusalem and Benjamin to stand . And the inhabitants of Jerusalem did according to the covenant of God , the God of their fathers . * And Josiah took away all the disgusting things out of all the countries that pertained to the sons of Israel , and made all who were found in Israel to serve , even to serve Yahweh their God . All his days they did not depart from following Yahweh , the God of their fathers .

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