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And the king sent ,
and they gathered unto him all the elders of Judah and of Jerusalem .
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And the king went up into the house of the 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 of the book of the covenant which was found in the house of the LORD .
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And the king stood by a pillar ,
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 their heart and all their soul ,
to perform the words of this covenant that were written in this book .
And all the people stood to the covenant .
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And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest ,
and the priests of the second order ,
and the keepers of the door ,
to bring forth out of the temple of the LORD all the vessels that were made for Baal ,
and for the grove ,
and for all the host of heaven :
and he burned them without Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron ,
and carried the ashes of them unto Bethel .
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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 ;
them also that burned incense unto Baal ,
to the sun ,
and to the moon ,
and to the planets ,
and to all the host of heaven .
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And he brought out the grove from the house of the LORD ,
without Jerusalem ,
unto the brook Kidron ,
and burned it at the brook Kidron ,
and stamped it small to powder ,
and cast the powder thereof upon the graves of the children of the people .
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And he brake down the houses of the sodomites ,
that were by the house of the LORD ,
where the women wove hangings for the grove .
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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 brake down the high places of the gates that were in the entering in of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city ,
which were on a man '
s left hand at the gate of the city .
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Nevertheless the priests of the high places came not up to the altar of the LORD in Jerusalem ,
but they did eat of the unleavened bread among their brethren .
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And he defiled Topheth ,
which is in the valley of the children of Hinnom ,
that no man might make his son or his daughter to pass through the fire to Molech .
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And he took away the horses that the kings of Judah had given to the sun ,
at the entering in of the house of the LORD ,
by the chamber of Nathanmelech the chamberlain ,
which was in the suburbs ,
and burned the chariots of the sun with fire .
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And the altars that were on the top 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 the LORD ,
did the king beat down ,
and brake them down from thence ,
and cast the dust of them into the brook Kidron .
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And 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 builded for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Zidonians ,
and for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites ,
and for Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon ,
did the king defile .
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And he brake in pieces the images ,
and cut down the groves ,
and filled their places with the bones of men .
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Moreover the altar that was at Bethel ,
and the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat ,
who made Israel to sin ,
had made ,
both that altar and the high place he brake down ,
and burned the high place ,
and stamped it small to powder ,
and burned the grove .
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And as Josiah turned himself ,
he spied the sepulchres that were there in the mount ,
and sent ,
and took the bones out of the sepulchres ,
and burned them upon the altar ,
and polluted it ,
according to the word of the LORD which the man of God proclaimed ,
who proclaimed these words .
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Then he said ,
What title is that that I see ?
And the men of the city told him ,
It is the sepulchre of the man of God ,
which came from Judah ,
and proclaimed these things that thou hast done against the altar of Bethel .
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And he said ,
Let him alone ;
let no man move his bones .
So they let his bones alone ,
with the bones of the prophet that came out of Samaria .
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And all the houses also of the high places that were in the cities of Samaria ,
which the kings of Israel had made to provoke the LORD to anger ,
Josiah took away ,
and did to them according to all the acts that he had done in Bethel .
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And he slew all the priests of the high places that were there upon the altars ,
and burned men '
s bones upon them ,
and returned to Jerusalem .
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And the king commanded all the people ,
saying ,
Keep the passover unto the LORD your God ,
as it is written in the book of this covenant .
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Surely there was not holden such a passover from the days of the judges that judged Israel ,
nor in all the days of the kings of Israel ,
nor of the kings of Judah ;
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But in the eighteenth year of king Josiah ,
wherein this passover was holden to the LORD in Jerusalem .
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Moreover the workers with familiar spirits ,
and the wizards ,
and the images ,
and the idols ,
and all the abominations that were spied in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem ,
did Josiah put away ,
that he might perform the words of the law which were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of the LORD .
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And like unto him was there no king before him ,
that turned to the LORD with all his heart ,
and with all his soul ,
and with all his might ,
according to all the law of Moses ;
neither after him arose there any like him .
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Notwithstanding the LORD turned not from the fierceness of his great wrath ,
wherewith his anger was kindled against Judah ,
because of all the provocations that Manasseh had provoked him withal .
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And the LORD said ,
I will remove Judah also out of my sight ,
as I have removed Israel ,
and will cast off this city Jerusalem which I have chosen ,
and the house of which I said ,
My name shall be there .
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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 ?
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In his days Pharaohnechoh king of Egypt went up against the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates :
and king Josiah went against him ;
and he slew him at Megiddo ,
when he had seen him .
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And his servants carried him in a chariot dead from Megiddo ,
and brought him to Jerusalem ,
and buried him in his own sepulchre .
And the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah ,
and anointed him ,
and made him king in his father '
s stead .