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Chapter 34
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,
inquire
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
inquire
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.
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