2 Kings 23:14-34

2 Kings 23:14-34

[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,  these words.  [17] Then he said,  What title  is that  that I see?  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.  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  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  [26] Notwithstanding the LORD  turned  not from the fierceness  of his great  wrath,  was kindled  against Judah,  because of all the provocations  that Manasseh  had provoked  [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  [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  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;  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,  Jehoahaz  away:  and he came  to Egypt,  and died  there.

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