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Chapter 23 And the king sent, and they
gathered unto him all the elders of Judah

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and of Jerusalem.

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And the king went up into the house of the
Lord, and all the men of Judah,

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and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem with
him, and the priests, and the prophets,

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and all the people, both small and great.

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And he read in their ears all the words of
the book of the covenant, which was found

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in the house of the Lord.

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And the king stood by a pillar and made a
And to keep his commandments, and his

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testimonies, and his statutes,
with all their heart and all their soul,

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to perform the words of this covenant that
were written in this book.

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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

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order, and the keepers of the door,
to bring forth out of the temple of the

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Lord all the vessels that were made for
Baal, and for the grove, and for all the

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host of heaven.

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And he burned them without Jerusalem in
the fields of Kidron, and carried the

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ashes of them unto Bethel.

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And he put down the idolatrous priests,
whom the kings of Judah had ordained to

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burn incense in the high places in the
cities of Judah, and in the places round

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about Jerusalem, them also that burned
incense unto Baal, to the sun,

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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,

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unto the brook Kidron, and burned it at
the brook Kidron.

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And stamped it small to powder,
and cast the powder thereof upon the

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graves of the children of the people.

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And he broke down the houses of the
Sodomites, that were by the house of the

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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

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places where the priests had burned
incense, from Geba to Beersheba,

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and broke down the high places of the
gates that were in the entering in of the

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gate of Joshua, the governor of the city,
which were on a man's left hand at the

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gate of the city.

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Nevertheless, the priests of the high
places came not up to the altar of the

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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,

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that no man might make his son or his
daughter to pass through the fire to

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Molech.

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And he took away the horses that the kings
of Judah had given to the son,

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at the entering in of the house of the
Lord, by the chamber of Nathan Melik the

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chamberlain, which was in the suburbs,
and burned the chariots of the son with

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fire.

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And the altars that were on the top of the
upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of

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Judah had made, and the altars which
Manasseh had made in the two courts of the

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house of the Lord, did the king beat down,
and break them down from thence,

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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

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the mount of corruption, which Solomon,
the king of Israel, had builded for

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Ashtoreth, the abomination of the
Sidonians, and for Chemosh, the

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abomination of the Moabites, and for
Milcom, the abomination of the children of

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Ammon, did the king defile.

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And he break in pieces the images,
and cut down the groves, and filled their

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places with the bones of men.

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Moreover the altar that was at Bethel,
and the high place which Jeroboam,

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the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin,
had made, both that altar and the high

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place he break down, and burned the high
place, and stamped it small to powder,

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and burned the grove.

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And as Josiah turned himself, he spied the
sepulchres that were there in the mount,

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and sent, and took the bones out of the
sepulchres, and burned them upon the

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altar, and polluted it, according to the
word of the Lord, which the man of God

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proclaimed, who proclaimed these words.

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Then he said, What title is that that I
see?

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And the men of the city told him,
It is the sepulchre of the man of God,

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which came from Judah, and proclaimed
these things that thou hast done against

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the altar of Bethel.

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And he said, Let him alone, let no man
move his bones.

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So they let his bones alone, with the
bones of the prophet that came out of

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Samaria, and all the houses also of the
high places that were in the cities of

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Samaria, which the kings of Israel had
made to provoke the Lord to anger.

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Josiah took away, and did to them
according to all the acts that he had done

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in Bethel.

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And he slew all the priests of the high
places that were there upon the altars,

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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

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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

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judged Israel, nor in all the days of the
kings of Israel, nor of the kings of

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Judah, but in the eighteenth year of King
Josiah, wherein this Passover was holden

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to the Lord in Jerusalem.

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Moreover, the workers with familiar
spirits, and the wizards, and the images,

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and the idols, and all the abominations
that were spied in the land of Judah and

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in Jerusalem, did Josiah put away,
that he might perform the words of the law

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which were written in the book,
that Hilkiah the priest found in the house

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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

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heart, and with all his soul, and with all
his might, according to all the law of

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Moses.

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Neither after him arose there any like
him.

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Notwithstanding, the Lord turned not from
the fierceness of his great wrath,

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wherewith his anger was kindled against
Judah, because of all the provocations

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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

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Israel, and will cast off this city
Jerusalem which I have chosen,

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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

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in the book of the chronicles of the kings
of Judah?

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In his days Pharaoh Necho, king of Egypt,
went up against the king of Assyria to the

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river Euphrates.

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And king Josiah went against him,
and he slew him at Megiddo, when he had

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seen him.

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And his servants carried him in a chariot,
dead from Megiddo, and brought him to

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Jerusalem, and buried him in his own
sepulchre.

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And the people of the land took Jehoahaz,
the son of Josiah, and anointed him,

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and made him king in his father's stead.

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Jehoahaz was twenty and three years old
when he began to reign, and he reigned

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three months in Jerusalem.

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And his mother's name was Hermutel,
the daughter of Jeremiah of Libna.

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And he did that which was evil in the
sight of the Lord, according to all that

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his fathers had done.

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And Pharaoh Necho put him in bands at
Riblah, in the land of Hamath,

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that he might not reign in Jerusalem,
and put the land to a tribute of an

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hundred talents of silver, and a talent of
gold.

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And Pharaoh Necho made Eliakim the son of
Josiah, king in the realm of Josiah his

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father, and turned his name to Jehoiakim,
and took Jehoahaz away.

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And he came to Egypt, and died there.

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And Jehoiakim gave the silver and the gold
to Pharaoh, but he taxed the land to give

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the money according to the commandment of
Pharaoh.

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He exacted the silver and the gold of the
people of the land, of everyone according

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to his taxation, to give it unto Pharaoh
Necho.

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Jehoiakim was twenty and five years old
when he began to reign, and he reigned

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eleven years in Jerusalem.

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And his mother's name was Zebuda,
the daughter of Padua of Ruma.

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And he did that which was evil in the
sight of the Lord, according to all that

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his fathers had done.