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Chapter 23
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
Beth-el.
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
Beer-sheba,
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
Nathan-melech
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
Beth-el,
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
Beth-el.
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
Beth-el.
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
Pharaoh-nechoh
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
Pharaoh-nechoh
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
Pharaoh-nechoh
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
Pharaoh-nechoh.
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.
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