- 1
- Then the king called together all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem.
- 2
- He went up to the temple of the LORD with the men of Judah,
- the people of Jerusalem, the priests and the prophets--all the people from
- the least to the greatest. He read in their hearing all the words of
- the Book of the Covenant, which had been found in the temple of the LORD.
- 3
- The king stood by the pillar and renewed the covenant in the presence of the LORD--
- to follow the LORD and keep his commands, regulations and decrees with
- all his heart and all his soul, thus confirming the words of the covenant
- written in this book. Then all the people pledged themselves to the covenant.
- 4
- The king ordered Hilkiah the high priest, the priests next in rank and
- the doorkeepers to remove from the temple of the LORD all the articles made for
- Baal and Asherah and all the starry hosts. He burned them outside Jerusalem
- in the fields of the Kidron Valley and took the ashes to Bethel.
- 5
- He did away with the pagan priests appointed by the kings of Judah to burn
- incense on the high places of the towns of Judah and on those around Jerusalem--
- those who burned incense to Baal, to the sun and moon,
- to the constellations and to all the starry hosts.
- 6
- He took the Asherah pole from the temple of the LORD to the Kidron Valley
- outside Jerusalem and burned it there. He ground it to powder
- and scattered the dust over the graves of the common people.
- 7
- He also tore down the quarters of the male shrine prostitutes,
- which were in the temple of the LORD and where women did weaving for Asherah.
- 8
- Josiah brought all the priests from the towns of Judah and desecrated the high places,
- from Geba to Beersheba, where the priests had burned incense.
- He broke down the shrines at the gates--at the entrance to the Gate of Joshua,
- the city governor, which is on the left of the city gate.
- 9
- Although the priests of the high places did not serve at the altar of the LORD
- in Jerusalem, they ate unleavened bread with their fellow priests.
- 10
- He desecrated Topheth, which was in the Valley of Ben Hinnom,
- so no one could use it to sacrifice his son or daughter in the fire to Molech.
- 11
- He removed from the entrance to the temple of the LORD the horses that
- the kings of Judah had dedicated to the sun. They were in the court near
- the room of an official named Nathan-Melech. Josiah then burned
- the chariots dedicated to the sun.
- 12
- He pulled down the altars the kings of Judah had erected on the roof near
- the upper room of Ahaz, and the altars Manasseh had built in the two courts of
- the temple of the LORD. He removed them from there,
- smashed them to pieces and threw the rubble into the Kidron Valley.
- 13
- The king also desecrated the high places that were east of Jerusalem on
- the south of the Hill of Corruption--the ones Solomon king of Israel had built for
- Ashtoreth the vile goddess of the Sidonians, for Chemosh the vile god of Moab,
- and for Molech the detestable god of the people of Ammon.
- 14
- Josiah smashed the sacred stones and cut down the Asherah poles
- and covered the sites with human bones.
- 15
- Even the altar at Bethel, the high place made by Jeroboam son of Nebat,
- who had caused Israel to sin--even that altar and high place he demolished.
- He burned the high place and ground it to powder,
- and burned the Asherah pole also.
- 16
- Then Josiah looked around, and when he saw the tombs that were there on
- the hillside, he had the bones removed from them and burned on the altar to
- defile it, in accordance with the word of the LORD proclaimed by
- the man of God who foretold these things.
- 17
- The king asked, "What is that tombstone I see?" The men of the city said,
- "It marks the tomb of the man of God who came from Judah and
- pronounced against the altar of Bethel the very things you have done to it."
- 18
- "Leave it alone," he said. "Don't let anyone disturb his bones."
- So they spared his bones and those of the prophet who had come from Samaria.
- 19
- Just as he had done at Bethel, Josiah removed and defiled all the shrines at
- the high places that the kings of Israel had built in the towns of Samaria
- that had provoked the LORD to anger.
- 20
- Josiah slaughtered all the priests of those high places on the altars and
- burned human bones on them. Then he went back to Jerusalem.
- 21
- The king gave this order to all the people: "Celebrate the Passover
- to the LORD your God, as it is written in this Book of the Covenant."
- 22
- Not since the days of the judges who led Israel, nor throughout the days of
- the kings of Israel and the kings of Judah, had any such Passover been observed.
- 23
- But in the eighteenth year of King Josiah,
- this Passover was celebrated to the LORD in Jerusalem.
- 24
- Furthermore, Josiah got rid of the mediums and spiritists, the household gods,
- the idols and all the other detestable things seen in Judah and Jerusalem.
- This he did to fulfill the requirements of the law written in the book that
- Hilkiah the priest had discovered in the temple of the LORD.
- 25
- Neither before nor after Josiah was there a king like him who turned to the LORD
- as he did--with all his heart and with all his soul and with all his strength,
- in accordance with all the Law of Moses.
- 26
- Nevertheless, the LORD did not turn away from the heat of his fierce anger,
- which burned against Judah because of all that Manasseh had done to
- provoke him to anger.
- 27
- So the LORD said, "I will remove Judah also from my presence as I removed Israel,
- and I will reject Jerusalem, the city I chose, and this temple, about which I said,
- 'There shall my Name be.'"
- 28
- As for the other events of Josiah's reign, and all he did,
- are they not written in the book of the annals of the kings of Judah?
- 29
- While Josiah was king, Pharaoh Neco king of Egypt went up to the Euphrates River
- to help the king of Assyria. King Josiah marched out to meet him in battle,
- but Neco faced him and killed him at Megiddo.
- 30
- Josiah's servants brought his body in a chariot from Megiddo to Jerusalem
- and buried him in his own tomb. And the people of the land took Jehoahaz
- son of Josiah and anointed him and made him king in place of his father.
- 31
- Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he became king,
- and he reigned in Jerusalem three months. His mother's name was
- Hamutal daughter of Jeremiah; she was from Libnah.
- 32
- He did evil in the eyes of the LORD, just as his fathers had done.
- 33
- Pharaoh Neco put him in chains at Riblah in the land of Hamath
- so that he might not reign in Jerusalem, and he imposed on Judah
- a levy of a hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.
- 34
- Pharaoh Neco made Eliakim son of Josiah king in place of his father Josiah
- and changed Eliakim's name to Jehoiakim. But he took Jehoahaz
- and carried him off to Egypt, and there he died.
- 35
- Jehoiakim paid Pharaoh Neco the silver and gold he demanded.
- In order to do so, he taxed the land and exacted the silver and
- gold from the people of the land according to their assessments.
- 36
- Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he became king,
- and he reigned in Jerusalem eleven years. His mother's name was
- Zebidah daughter of Pedaiah; she was from Rumah.
- 37
- And he did evil in the eyes of the LORD, just as his fathers had done.
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