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1 Josi­ah was eight years old when he be­gan to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem one and thir­ty years. 2 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. 3 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. 4 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. 5 And he burnt the bones of the priests upon their al­tars, and cleansed Ju­dah and Jerusalem. 6 And ­so did he in the cities of Man­asseh, and Ephraim, and Sime­on, even unto Naph­tali, with their mat­tocks round about. 7 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. 8 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. 9 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. 10 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: 11 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. 12 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. 13 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. 14 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. 15 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. 16 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. 17 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. 18 Then Shaphan the scribe told the king, say­ing, Hilki­ah the priest hath giv­en me a book. And Shaphan read it be­fore the king. 19 And it came to pass, when the king had heard the words of the law, that he rent his clothes. 20 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, 21 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. 22 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. 23 And she an­swered them, Thus saith the LORD God of Is­rael, Tell ye the man that sent you to me, 24 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: 25 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. 26 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; 27 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. 28 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. 29 Then the king sent and gath­ered to­geth­er all the el­ders of Ju­dah and Jerusalem. 30 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. 31 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. 32 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. 33 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.