2Chronicles:34-35
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Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign ,
and he reigned in Jerusalem one and thirty years .
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And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD ,
and walked in the ways of David his father ,
and declined neither to the right hand ,
nor to the left .
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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 groves ,
and the carved images ,
and the molten images .
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And they brake down the altars of Baalim in his presence ;
and the images ,
that were on high above them ,
he cut down ;
and the groves ,
and the carved images ,
and the molten images ,
he brake in pieces ,
and made dust of them ,
and strowed it upon the graves of them that had sacrificed unto them .
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And he burnt the bones of the priests upon their altars ,
and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem .
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And so did he in the cities of Manasseh ,
and Ephraim ,
and Simeon ,
even unto Naphtali ,
with their mattocks round about .
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And when he had broken down the altars and the groves ,
and had beaten the graven images into powder ,
and cut down all the idols throughout all the land of Israel ,
he returned to Jerusalem .
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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 the LORD his God .
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And when they came to Hilkiah the high priest ,
they delivered the money that was brought into the house of God ,
which the Levites that kept the doors had gathered of the hand of Manasseh and Ephraim ,
and of all the remnant of Israel ,
and of all Judah and Benjamin ;
and they returned to Jerusalem .
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And they put it in the hand of the workmen that had the oversight of the house of the LORD ,
and they gave it to the workmen that wrought in the house of the LORD ,
to repair and amend the house :
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Even to the artificers and builders gave they it ,
to buy hewn stone ,
and timber for couplings ,
and to floor the houses which the kings of Judah had destroyed .
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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 other of the Levites ,
all that could skill of instruments of musick .
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Also they were over the bearers of burdens ,
and were overseers of all that wrought the work in any manner of service :
and of the Levites there were scribes ,
and officers ,
and porters .
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And when they brought out the money that was brought into the house of the LORD ,
Hilkiah the priest found a book of the law of the LORD given by Moses .
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And Hilkiah answered and said to Shaphan the scribe ,
I have found the book of the law in the house of the LORD .
And Hilkiah delivered the book to Shaphan .
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And Shaphan carried the book to the king ,
and brought the king word back again ,
saying ,
All that was committed to thy servants ,
they do it .
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And they have gathered together the money that was found in the house of the LORD ,
and have delivered it into the hand of the overseers ,
and to the hand of the workmen .
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Then Shaphan the scribe told the king ,
saying ,
Hilkiah the priest hath given me a book .
And Shaphan read it before the king .
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And it came to pass ,
when the king had heard the words of the law ,
that he rent his clothes .
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And the king commanded Hilkiah ,
and Ahikam the son of Shaphan ,
and Abdon the son of Micah ,
and Shaphan the scribe ,
and Asaiah a servant of the king '
s ,
saying ,
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Go ,
enquire of the LORD for me ,
and for them that are left in Israel and in Judah ,
concerning the words of the book that is found :
for great is the wrath of the LORD that is poured out upon us ,
because our fathers have not kept the word of the LORD ,
to do after all that is written in this book .
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And Hilkiah ,
and they that the king had appointed ,
went to Huldah the prophetess ,
the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvath ,
the son of Hasrah ,
keeper of the wardrobe ; (
now she dwelt in Jerusalem in the college :)
and they spake to her to that effect .
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And she answered them ,
Thus saith the LORD God of Israel ,
Tell ye the man that sent you to me ,
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Thus saith the LORD ,
Behold ,
I will bring evil upon this place ,
and upon the inhabitants thereof ,
even all the curses that are written in the book which they have read before the king of Judah :
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Because they have forsaken me ,
and have burned incense unto other gods ,
that they might provoke me to anger with all the works of their hands ;
therefore my wrath shall be poured out upon this place ,
and shall not be quenched .
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And as for the king of Judah ,
who sent you to enquire of the LORD ,
so shall ye say unto him ,
Thus saith the LORD God of Israel concerning the words which thou hast heard ;
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Because thine heart was tender ,
and thou didst humble thyself before God ,
when thou heardest his words against this place ,
and against the inhabitants thereof ,
and humbledst thyself before me ,
and didst rend thy clothes ,
and weep before me ;
I have even heard thee also ,
saith the LORD .
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Behold ,
I will gather thee to thy fathers ,
and thou shalt be gathered to thy grave in peace ,
neither shall thine eyes see all the evil that I will bring upon this place ,
and upon the inhabitants of the same .
So they brought the king word again .
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Then the king sent and gathered together all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem .
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And the king went up into the house of the LORD ,
and all the men of Judah ,
and the inhabitants of Jerusalem ,
and the priests ,
and the Levites ,
and all the people ,
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 the LORD .
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And the king stood in his place ,
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 his heart ,
and with all his soul ,
to perform the words of the covenant which are written in this book .
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And he caused all that were present in Jerusalem and Benjamin to stand to it .
And the inhabitants of Jerusalem did according to the covenant of God ,
the God of their fathers .
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And Josiah took away all the abominations out of all the countries that pertained to the children of Israel ,
and made all that were present in Israel to serve ,
even to serve the LORD their God .
And all his days they departed not from following the LORD ,
the God of their fathers .
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Moreover Josiah kept a passover unto the LORD in Jerusalem :
and they killed the passover on the fourteenth day of the first month .
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And he set the priests in their charges ,
and encouraged them to the service of the house of the LORD ,
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And said unto the Levites that taught all Israel ,
which were holy unto the LORD ,
Put the holy ark in the house which Solomon the son of David king of Israel did build ;
it shall not be a burden upon your shoulders :
serve now the LORD your God ,
and his people Israel ,
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And prepare yourselves by the houses of your fathers ,
after your courses ,
according to the writing of David king of Israel ,
and according to the writing of Solomon his son .
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And stand in the holy place according to the divisions of the families of the fathers of your brethren the people ,
and after the division of the families of the Levites .
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So kill the passover ,
and sanctify yourselves ,
and prepare your brethren ,
that they may do according to the word of the LORD by the hand of Moses .
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And Josiah gave to the people ,
of the flock ,
lambs and kids ,
all for the passover offerings ,
for all that were present ,
to the number of thirty thousand ,
and three thousand bullocks :
these were of the king '
s substance .
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And his princes gave willingly unto the people ,
to the priests ,
and to the Levites :
Hilkiah and Zechariah and Jehiel ,
rulers of the house of God ,
gave unto the priests for the passover offerings two thousand and six hundred small cattle ,
and three hundred oxen .
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Conaniah also ,
and Shemaiah and Nethaneel ,
his brethren ,
and Hashabiah and Jeiel and Jozabad ,
chief of the Levites ,
gave unto the Levites for passover offerings five thousand small cattle ,
and five hundred oxen .
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So the service was prepared ,
and the priests stood in their place ,
and the Levites in their courses ,
according to the king '
s commandment .
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And they killed the passover ,
and the priests sprinkled the blood from their hands ,
and the Levites flayed them .
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And they removed the burnt offerings ,
that they might give according to the divisions of the families of the people ,
to offer unto the LORD ,
as it is written in the book of Moses .
And so did they with the oxen .
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And they roasted the passover with fire according to the ordinance :
but the other holy offerings sod they in pots ,
and in caldrons ,
and in pans ,
and divided them speedily among all the people .
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And afterward they made ready for themselves ,
and for the priests :
because the priests the sons of Aaron were busied in offering of burnt offerings and the fat until night ;
therefore the Levites prepared for themselves ,
and for the priests the sons of Aaron .
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And the singers the sons of Asaph were in their place ,
according to the commandment of David ,
and Asaph ,
and Heman ,
and Jeduthun the king '
s seer ;
and the porters waited at every gate ;
they might not depart from their service ;
for their brethren the Levites prepared for them .
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So all the service of the LORD was prepared the same day ,
to keep the passover ,
and to offer burnt offerings upon the altar of the LORD ,
according to the commandment of king Josiah .
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And the children of Israel that were present kept the passover at that time ,
and the feast of unleavened bread seven days .
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And there was no passover like to that kept in Israel from the days of Samuel the prophet ;
neither did all the kings of Israel keep such a passover as Josiah kept ,
and the priests ,
and the Levites ,
and all Judah and Israel that were present ,
and the inhabitants of Jerusalem .
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In the eighteenth year of the reign of Josiah was this passover kept .
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After all this ,
when Josiah had prepared the temple ,
Necho king of Egypt came up to fight against Carchemish by Euphrates :
and Josiah went out against him .
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But he sent ambassadors to him ,
saying ,
What have I to do with thee ,
thou king of Judah ?
I come not against thee this day ,
but against the house wherewith I have war :
for God commanded me to make haste :
forbear thee from meddling with God ,
who is with me ,
that he destroy thee not .
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Nevertheless Josiah would not turn his face from him ,
but disguised himself ,
that he might fight with him ,
and hearkened not unto the words of Necho from the mouth of God ,
and came to fight in the valley of Megiddo .
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And the archers shot at king Josiah ;
and the king said to his servants ,
Have me away ;
for I am sore wounded .
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His servants therefore took him out of that chariot ,
and put him in the second chariot that he had ;
and they brought him to Jerusalem ,
and he died ,
and was buried in one of the sepulchres of his fathers .
And all Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah .
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And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah :
and all the singing men and the singing women spake of Josiah in their lamentations to this day ,
and made them an ordinance in Israel :
and ,
behold ,
they are written in the lamentations .
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Now the rest of the acts of Josiah ,
and his goodness ,
according to that which was written in the law of the LORD ,
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And his deeds ,
first and last ,
behold ,
they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah .
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Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah ,
and made him king in his father '
s stead in Jerusalem .
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