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drb @2Kings:23:1 @And they brought the king word again what she had said . And he sent : and all the ancients of Juda and Jerusalem were assembled to him . drb @2Kings:23:2 @And the king went up to the temple of the Lord , and all the men of Juda , and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem with him , the priests and the prophets , and all the people both little and great : and in the hearing of them all he read all the words of the book of the covenant , which was found in the house of the Lord . drb @2Kings:23:3 @And the king stood upon the step : and made a covenant with the Lord , to walk after the Lord , and to keep his commandments , and his testimonies and his ceremonies , with all their heart , and with all their soul , and to perform the words of this covenant , which were written in that book : and the people agreed to the covenant . drb @2Kings:23:4 @And the king commanded Helcias the high priest , and the priests of the second order , and the doorkeepers , to cast out of the temple of the Lord all the vessels that had been made for Baal , and for the grove , and for all the host of heaven : and he burnt them without Jerusalem in the valley of Cedron , and he carried the ashes of them to Bethel . drb @2Kings:23:5 @And he destroyed the soothsayers , whom the kings of Juda had appointed to sacrifice in the high places in the cities of Juda , and round about Jerusalem : them also that burnt incense to Baal , and to the sun , and to the moon , and to the twelve signs , and to all the host of heaven . drb @2Kings:23:6 @And he caused the grove to be carried out from the house of the Lord without Jerusalem to the valley of Cedron , and he burnt it there , and reduced it to dust , and cast the dust upon the graves of the common people . drb @2Kings:23:7 @He destroyed also the pavilions of the effeminate , which were in the house of the Lord , for which the women wove as it were little dwellings for the grove . drb @2Kings:23:8 @And he gathered together all the priests out of the cities of Juda : and he defiled the high places , where the priests offered sacrifice , from Gabaa to Bersabee : and he broke down the altars of the gates that were in the entering in of the gate of Josue governor of tile city , which was on the left hand of the gate of the city . drb @2Kings:23:9 @However the priests of the high places came not up to the altar of the Lord in Jerusalem : but only ate of the unleavened bread among their brethren . drb @2Kings:23:10 @And he defiled Topheth , which is in the valley of the son of Ennom : that no man should consecrate there his son or his daughter through fire to Moloch . drb @2Kings:23:11 @And he took away the horses which the kings of Juda had given to the sun , at the entering in of the temple of the Lord , near the chamber of Nathanmelech the eunuch , who was in Pharurim : and he burnt the chariots of the sun with fire . drb @2Kings:23:12 @And the altars that were upon the top of the upper chamber of Achaz , which the kings of Juda had made , and the altars which Manasses had made in the two courts of the temple of the Lord , the king broke down : and he ran from thence , and cast the ashes of them into the torrent Cedron . drb @2Kings:23:13 @The high places also that were at Jerusalem on the right side of the Mount of Offence , O which Solomon king of Israel had built to Astaroth the idol of the Sidonians , and to Chamos the scandal of Moab , and to Melchom the abomination of the children of Ammon , the king defiled . drb @2Kings:23:14 @And he broke in pieces the statues , and cut down the groves : and he filled their places with the bones of dead men . drb @2Kings:23:15 @Moreover the altar also that was at Bethel , and the high place , which Jeroboam the son of Nabat , who made Israel to sin , had made : both the altar , and the high place he broke down and burnt , and reduced to powder , and burnt the grove . drb @2Kings:23:16 @And as Josias turned himself , he saw there the sepulchres that were in the mount : and he sent and took the bones out of the sepulchres , and burnt them upon the altar , and defiled it according to the word of the Lord , which the man of God spoke , who had foretold these things . drb @2Kings:23:17 @And he said : What is that monument which I see ? And the men of that city answered : It is the sepulchre of the man of God , who came from Juda , and foretold these things which thou hast done upon the altar of Bethel . drb @2Kings:23:18 @And he said : Let him alone , let no man move his bones drb @2Kings:23:19 @Moreover all the temples of the high places , which were in the cities of Samaria , which the kings of Israel had made to provoke the Lord , Josias took away : and he did to them according to all the acts that he had done in Bethel . drb @2Kings:23:20 @And he slew all the priests of the high places , that were there , upon the altars : and he burnt men 's bones upon them : and returned to Jerusalem . drb @2Kings:23:21 @And he commanded all the people , saying : Keep the phase to the Lord your God , according as it is written in the book of this covenant . drb @2Kings:23:22 @Now there was no such a phase kept from the days of the judges , who judged Israel , nor in all the days of the kings of Israel , and of the kings of Juda , drb @2Kings:23:23 @As was this phase that was kept to the Lord in Jerusalem , in the eighteenth year of king Josias . drb @2Kings:23:24 @Moreover the diviners by spirits , and soothsayers , and the figures of idols , and the uncleannesses , and the abominations , that had been in the land of Juda , and Jerusalem , Josias took away : that he might perform the words of the law , that were written in the book which Helcias the priest had found in the temple of the Lord . drb @2Kings:23:25 @There was no king before him like unto him , that returned to the Lord with all his heart , and with all his soul , and with ail his strength , according to all the law of Moses : neither after him did there arise any like him . drb @2Kings:23:26 @But yet the Lord turned not away from the wrath of his great indignation , wherewith his anger was kindled against Juda : because of the provocations , wherewith Manasses had provoked him . drb @2Kings:23:27 @And the Lord said : I will remove Juda also from before my face , as I have removed Israel : and I will cast off this city Jerusalem , which I chose , and the house , of which I said : My name shall be there . drb @2Kings:23:28 @Now the rest of the acts of Josias , and all that he did , are they not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Juda ? drb @2Kings:23:29 @In his days Pharao Nechao king of Egypt went up against the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates : and king Josias went to meet him : and was slain at Mageddo , when he had seen him . drb @2Kings:23:30 @And his servants carried him dead from Mageddo : and they brought him to Jerusalem , and buried him in Iris own sepulchre . And the people of the land took Joachaz the son of Josias : and they anointed him , and made him king in his father 's stead . drb @2Kings:23:31 @Joachaz was three and twenty years old when he began to reign , and he reigned three months in Jerusalem : the name of his mother was Amital , the daughter of Jeremias of Lobna . drb @2Kings:23:32 @And he did evil before the Lord , according to all that his fathers had done . drb @2Kings:23:33 @And Pharao Nechao bound him at Rebla , which is in the land of Emath , that he should not reign in Jerusalem : and he set a fine upon the land , of a hundred talents of silver , and a talent of gold . drb @2Kings:23:34 @And Pharao Nechao made Eliacim the son of Josias king in the room of Josias his father : and turned his name to Joakim . And he took Joachaz away and carried him into Egypt , and he died there . drb @2Kings:23:35 @And Joakim gave the silver and the gold to Pharao , after he had taxed the land for every man , to contribute according to the commandment of Pharao : and he exacted both the silver and the gold of the people of the land , of every man according to his ability : to give to Pharao Nechao . drb @2Kings:23:36 @Joakim was five and twenty years old when he began to reign : and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem : the name of his mother was Zebida the daughter of Phadaia of Ruma . drb @2Kings:23:37 @And he did evil before the Lord according to all that his fathers had done .

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