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Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign ;
and he reigned thirty and one years in Jerusalem .
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And he did that which was right in the eyes of Jehovah ,
and walked in the ways of David his father ,
and turned not aside to the right hand or 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 Asherim ,
and the graven images ,
and the molten images .
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And they brake 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 brake in pieces ,
and made dust of them ,
and strewed 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 purged Judah and Jerusalem .
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And so did he in the cities of Manasseh and Ephraim and Simeon ,
even unto Naphtali ,
in their ruins round about .
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And he brake 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 .
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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 Jehovah his God .
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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 .
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And they delivered it into the hand of the workmen that had the oversight of the house of Jehovah ;
and the workmen that wrought in the house of Jehovah gave it to mend and repair the house ;
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even to the carpenters and to the builders gave they it ,
to buy hewn stone ,
and timber for couplings ,
and to make beams for 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 others of the Levites ,
all that were skilful with instruments of music .
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Also they were over the bearers of burdens ,
and set forward all that did the work in every manner of service :
and of the Levites there were scribes ,
and officers ,
and porters .