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* And the king sent , and they gathered to him all the elders of Judah and of Jerusalem . * And the king went up to the house of 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 * And the king stood by the pillar , and made a covenant before LORD to walk after LORD , and to keep his commandments , and his testimonies , and his statutes , with all [his ] heart , and all [his ] soul , to confirm the words of this coven * And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest , and the priests of the second order , and the keepers of the threshold , to bring forth out of the temple of LORD all the vessels that were made for Baal , and for the Asherah , and for a * 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 ; those also who burned incense to Baal , to the sun , and * And he brought out the Asherah from the house of LORD , outside Jerusalem , to the brook Kidron , and burned it at the brook Kidron , and beat it to dust , and cast the dust of it upon the graves of the common people . * And he broke down the houses of the sodomites that were in the house of LORD where the women wove hangings for the Asherah . * 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 . And he broke down the high places of the gates that were at the entrance of the ga * Nevertheless the priests of the high places did not come up to the altar of LORD in Jerusalem , but they ate unleavened bread among their brothers . * And he defiled Topheth , which is in the valley of the sons of Hinnom , that no man might make his son or his daughter to pass through the fire to Molech . * And he took away the horses that the kings of Judah had given to the sun , at the entrance of the house of LORD , by the chamber of Nathan-melech the chamberlain , which was in the suburbs . And he burned the chariots of the sun with f * And the altars that were on the roof 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 LORD , the king broke down , and beat [them ] down from the * And the king defiled 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 built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians , and for Chemosh th * And he broke in pieces the pillars , and cut down the Asherim , and filled their places with the bones of men . * Moreover the altar that was at Bethel , and the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat , who made Israel to sin , had made , even that altar and the high place he broke down . And he burned the high place and beat it to dust , and bu * And as Josiah turned himself , he noticed the sepulchers that were there in the mount . And he sent , and took the bones out of the sepulchers , and burned them upon the altar , and defiled it , according to the word of LORD which the ma * Then he said , What monument is that which I see ? And the men of the city told him , It is the sepulcher of the man of God who came from Judah , and proclaimed these things that thou have done against the altar of Bethel . * And he said , Let him be ; let no man move his bones . So they let his bones alone , with the bones of the prophet who came out of Samaria . * And Josiah also took away all the houses of the high places that were in the cities of Samaria , which the kings of Israel had made to provoke [LORD ] to anger . And he did to them according to all the acts that he had done in Bethel . * And he killed all the priests of the high places that were there , upon the altars , and burned men 's bones upon them . And he returned to Jerusalem . * And the king commanded all the people , saying , Keep the Passover to LORD your God , as it is written in this book of the covenant . * Surely such a Passover was not kept from the days of the judges who judged Israel , nor in all the days of the kings of Israel , nor of the kings of Judah . * But in the eighteenth year of king Josiah this Passover was kept to LORD in Jerusalem . * Moreover Josiah put away the psychics , and the wizards , and the teraphim , and the idols , and all the abominations that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem , that he might perform the words of the law which were written i * And there was no king before him like him , who turned to LORD with all his heart , and with all his soul , and with all his might , according to all the law of Moses ; neither arose any like him after him . * Notwithstanding , LORD did not turn from the fierceness of his great wrath , with which his anger was kindled against Judah , because of all the provocations with which Manasseh had provoked him . * And LORD said , I will remove Judah also out of my sight as I have removed Israel , and I will cast off this city which I have chosen , even Jerusalem , and the house of which I said , My name shall be there . * 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 ? * In his days Pharaoh-necoh king of Egypt went up against the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates , and king Josiah went against him . And [Pharaoh-necoh ] killed him at Megiddo when he had seen him . * And his servants carried him in a chariot dead from Megiddo , and brought him to Jerusalem , and buried him in his own sepulcher . And the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah , and anointed him , and made him king in his * Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he began to reign , and he reigned three months in Jerusalem . And his mother 's name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah . * And he did that which was evil in the sight of LORD , according to all that his fathers had done . * And Pharaoh-necoh put him in bonds at Riblah in the land of Hamath , that he might not reign in Jerusalem . And he put the land to a tribute of a hundred talents of silver , and a talent of gold . * And Pharaoh-necoh made Eliakim the son of Josiah king in the place of Josiah his father , and changed his name to Jehoiakim . But he took Jehoahaz away , and he came to Egypt , and died there . * 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 from the people of the land , of every one according to his t * Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he began to reign , and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem . And his mother 's name was Zebidah the daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah . * And he did that which was evil in the sight of LORD , according to all that his fathers had done .

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