1 And the king sent, and they gathered unto him all the elders of
2 And the king went up into the house of the LORD, and all the men
3 And the king stood by a pillar, and made a covenant before the
4 And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests
5 And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah
6 And he brought out the grove from the house of the LORD, without
7 And he brake down the houses of the sodomites, that were by the
8 And he brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah, and
9 Nevertheless the priests of the high places came not up to the
10 And he defiled Topheth, which is in the valley of the children
11 And he took away the horses that the kings of Judah had given to
12 And the altars that were on the top of the upper chamber of
13 And the high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on
14 And he brake in pieces the images, and cut down the groves, and
15 Moreover the altar that was at Bethel, and the high place which
16 And as Josiah turned himself, he spied the sepulchres that were
17 Then he said, What title is that that I see? And the men of the
18 And he said, Let him alone; let no man move his bones. So they
19 And all the houses also of the high places that were in the
20 And he slew all the priests of the high places that were there
21 And the king commanded all the people, saying, Keep the passover
22 Surely there was not holden such a passover from the days of the
24 Moreover the workers with familiar spirits, and the wizards, and
25 And like unto him was there no king before him, that turned to
26 Notwithstanding the LORD turned not from the fierceness of his
27 And the LORD said, I will remove Judah also out of my sight, as
28 Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and all that he did, are
29 In his days Pharaohnechoh king of Egypt went up against the king
30 And his servants carried him in a chariot dead from Megiddo, and
31 Jehoahaz was twenty and three years old when he began to reign;
32 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD,
33 And Pharaohnechoh put him in bands at Riblah in the land of
34 And Pharaohnechoh made Eliakim the son of Josiah king in the
35 And Jehoiakim gave the silver and the gold to Pharaoh; but he
36 Jehoiakim was twenty and five years old when he began to reign;
37 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD,