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Chapter 34 Josiah was eight years old when
he began to reign, and he reigned in

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Jerusalem one and thirty years.

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And he did that which was right in the
sight of the Lord, and walked in the ways

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of David his father, and declined neither
to the right hand nor to the left.

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For in the eighth year of his reign,
while he was yet young, he began to seek

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after the God of David his father.

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And in the twelfth year he began to purge
Judah and Jerusalem from the high places

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and the groves and the carved images and
the molten images.

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And they break down the altars of Baalim
in his presence.

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And the images that are on high above them
he cut down.

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And the groves and the carved images and
the molten images he break in pieces and

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made dust of them, and strode it upon the
graves of them that had sacrificed unto

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them.

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And he burnt the bones of the priests upon
their altars, and cleansed Judah and

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Jerusalem.

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And so did he in the cities of Manasseh
and Ephraim and Simeon, even unto

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Naphtali, with their mattocks round about.

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And when he had broken down the altars and
the groves, and had beaten the graven

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images into powder, and cut down all the
idols throughout all the land of Israel,

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he returned to Jerusalem.

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Now in the eighteenth year of his reign,
when he had purged the land and the house,

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he sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah,
Amasiah the governor of the city,

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and Joah the son of Joahaz the recorder,
to repair the house of the Lord his God.

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And when they came to Hilkiah the high
priest, they delivered the money that was

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brought into the house of God,
which the Levites that kept the doors had

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gathered of the hand of Manasseh and
Ephraim, and of all the remnant of Israel,

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and of all Judah and Benjamin.

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And they returned to Jerusalem.

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And they put it in the hand of the workman
that had the oversight of the house of the

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Lord.

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And they gave it to the workman that
wrought in the house of the Lord,

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to repair and amend the house.

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Even to the artificers and builders gave
they it, to buy hewn stone and timber for

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couplings, and to floor the houses which
the kings of Judah had destroyed.

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And the men did the work faithfully.

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And the overseers of them were Jehath and
Obadiah the Levites, of the sons of

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Merari, and Zechariah and Meshulam of the
sons of the Kohathites, to set it forward.

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And other of the Levites, all that could
skill of instruments of music.

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Also they were over the bearers of
burdens, and were overseers of all that

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wrought the work in any manner of service.

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And of the Levites there were scribes,
and officers, and porters.

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And when they brought out the money that
was brought into the house of the Lord,

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Hilkiah the priest found a book of the law
of the Lord given by Moses.

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And Hilkiah answered, and said to Shaphan
the scribe, I have found the book of the

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law in the house of the Lord.

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And Hilkiah delivered the book to Shaphan.

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And Shaphan carried the book to the king,
and brought the king word back again,

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saying, All that was committed to thy
servant, they do it.

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And they have gathered together the money
that was found in the house of the Lord,

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and have delivered it into the hand of the
overseers, and to the hand of the workmen.

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Then Shaphan the scribe told the king,
saying, Hilkiah the priest hath given me a

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book.

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And Shaphan read it before the king.

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And it came to pass, when the king had
heard the words of the law, that he rent

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his clothes.

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And the king commanded Hilkiah,
and Ahikam the son of Shaphan,

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and Abdam the son of Micah, and Shaphan
the scribe, and Isaiah a servant of the

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kings, saying, Go, inquire of the Lord for
me, and for them that are left in Israel

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and in Judah, concerning the words of the
book that is found.

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For great is the wrath of the Lord that is
poured out upon us, because our fathers

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have not kept the word of the Lord,
to do after all that is written in this

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book.

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And Hilkiah, and they that the king had
appointed, went to Huldah the prophetess,

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the wife of Shalom, the son of Tikvath,
the son of Hazrah, keeper of the wardrobe.

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Now she dwelt in Jerusalem, in the
college.

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And they spake to her to that effect.

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And she answered them, Thus saith the Lord
God of Israel, Tell ye the man that sent

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you to me.

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Thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will bring
evil upon this place, and upon the

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inhabitants thereof, even all the curses
that are written in the book which they

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have read before the king of Judah.

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Because they have forsaken me,
and have burned incense unto other gods,

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that they might provoke me to anger with
all the works of their hands.

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Therefore my wrath shall be poured out
upon this place, and shall not be

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quenched.

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And as for the king of Judah, who sent you
to inquire of the Lord, so shall ye say

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unto him, Thus saith the Lord God of
Israel concerning the words which thou

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hast heard, because thine heart was
tender, and thou didst humble thyself

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before God.

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When thou heardest his words against this
place, and against the inhabitants

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thereof, and humblest thyself before me,
and didst rend thy clothes, and weep

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before me, I have even heard thee also,
saith the Lord.

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Behold, I will gather thee to thy fathers,
and thou shalt be gathered to thy grave in

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peace.

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Neither shall thine eyes see all the evil
that I will bring upon this place,

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and upon the inhabitants of the same.

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So they brought the king word again.

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Then the king sent and gathered together
all the elders of Judah and 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 the inhabitants of Jerusalem,
and the priests and the Levites,

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and all the people, great and small.

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

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the house of the Lord.

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And the king stood in his place,
and made a covenant before the Lord,

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to walk after the Lord, and to keep his
commandments, and his testimonies,

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and his statutes, with all his heart,
and with all his soul, to perform the

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words of the covenant which are written in
this book.

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And he caused all that were present in
Benjamin to stand to it.

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And the inhabitants of Jerusalem did
according to the covenant of God,

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the God of their fathers.

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And Josiah took away all the abominations
out of all the countries that pertained to

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the children of Israel, and made all that
were present in Israel to serve,

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even to serve the Lord their God.

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And all his days they departed not from
following the Lord, the God of their fathers.