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1 And the king sent, and they gath­ered unto him all the el­ders of Ju­dah and of Jerusalem. 2 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. 3 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. 4 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. 5 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. 6 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. 7 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. 8 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. 9 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. 10 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. 11 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. 12 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. 13 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. 14 And he brake in pieces the im­ages, and cut down the groves, and filled their places with the bones of men. 15 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. 16 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. 17 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. 18 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. 19 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. 20 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. 21 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. 22 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; 23 But in the eigh­teenth year of king Josi­ah, wherein this passover was hold­en to the LORD in Jerusalem. 24 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. 25 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. 26 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. 27 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. 28 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? 29 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. 30 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. 31 Je­hoa­haz was twen­ty and 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. 32 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, ac­cord­ing to all that his fa­thers had done. 33 And Pharaohne­choh put him in bands at Ri­blah in the land of Hamath, that he might not reign in Jerusalem; and put the land to a trib­ute of an hun­dred tal­ents of sil­ver, and a tal­ent of gold. 34 And Pharaohne­choh made Eli­akim the son of Josi­ah king in the room of Josi­ah his fa­ther, and turned his name to Je­hoiakim, and took Je­hoa­haz away: and he came to Egypt, and died there. 35 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 of the peo­ple of the land, of ev­ery one ac­cord­ing to his tax­a­tion, to give it unto Pharaohne­choh. 36 Je­hoiakim was twen­ty and five years old when he be­gan to reign; and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Ze­bu­dah, the daugh­ter of Peda­iah of Rumah. 37 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, ac­cord­ing to all that his fa­thers had done.