1And the king sent, and they gathered unto him all the elders of Judah and of Jerusalem.

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2 Chronicles 34:29, 2 Chronicles 34:33, 2 Chronicles 34:29, 2 Chronicles 34:33, 2 Chronicles 29:20

2And the king went up to the house of Jehovah, and all the men of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem with him, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the people, both small and great: and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant which was found in the house of Jehovah.

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2 Kings 22:8, 2 Kings 22:8, Deuteronomy 31:10, Deuteronomy 31:13, Deuteronomy 31:10

3And the king stood by the pillar, and made a covenant before Jehovah, to walk after Jehovah, and to keep his commandments, and his testimonies, and his statutes, with all his heart, and all his soul, to confirm the words of this covenant that were written in this book: and all the people stood to the covenant.

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2 Kings 11:14, 2 Kings 11:14, 2 Kings 11:17, 2 Kings 11:17, Deuteronomy 13:4

4And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the threshold, to bring forth out of the temple of Jehovah all the vessels that were made for Baal, and for the Asherah, and for all the host of heaven, and he burned them without Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron, and carried the ashes of them unto Beth-el.

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2 Kings 21:7, 2 Kings 21:3, 2 Kings 21:7, 2 Kings 21:3, 2 Chronicles 33:3

5And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places round about Jerusalem; them also that burned incense unto Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven.

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Jeremiah 44:17, Jeremiah 44:19, Jeremiah 44:17, Jeremiah 44:19, 2 Kings 21:3

6And he brought out the Asherah from the house of Jehovah, without Jerusalem, unto the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and beat it to dust, and cast the dust thereof upon the graves of the common people.

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2 Chronicles 34:4, 2 Kings 23:15, 2 Chronicles 34:4, 2 Kings 23:15, 2 Kings 10:27

7And he brake down the houses of the sodomites, that were in the house of Jehovah, where the women wove hangings for the Asherah.

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1 Kings 15:12, Ezekiel 16:16, 1 Kings 15:12, Ezekiel 16:16, 1 Kings 14:24

8And he brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah, and defiled the high places where the priests had burned incense, from Geba to Beer-sheba; and he brake down the high places of the gates that were at the entrance of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city, which were on a man’s left hand at the gate of the city.

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1 Kings 15:22, 1 Kings 15:22, Joshua 21:17, Joshua 21:17, Isaiah 10:29

9Nevertheless the priests of the high places came not up to the altar of Jehovah in Jerusalem, but they did eat unleavened bread among their brethren.

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Ezekiel 44:10, Ezekiel 44:14, Ezekiel 44:10, Ezekiel 44:14, Malachi 2:8

10And he defiled Topheth, which is in the valley of the children of Hinnom, that no man might make his son or his daughter to pass through the fire to Molech.

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Isaiah 30:33, Isaiah 30:33, Leviticus 18:21, Jeremiah 19:6, Jeremiah 7:31

11And he took away the horses that the kings of Judah had given to the sun, at the entrance of the house of Jehovah, by the chamber of Nathan-melech the chamberlain, which was in the precincts; and he burned the chariots of the sun with fire.

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Ezekiel 8:16, Ezekiel 8:16, 2 Chronicles 14:5, 2 Chronicles 34:4, 2 Kings 23:5

12And the altars that were on the roof of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of Jehovah, did the king break down, and beat them down from thence, and cast the dust of them into the brook Kidron.

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Zephaniah 1:5, 2 Kings 21:5, Jeremiah 19:13, Zephaniah 1:5, 2 Kings 21:5

13And the high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on the right hand of the mount of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had builded for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, and for Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon, did the king defile.

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1 Kings 11:7, 1 Kings 11:5, 1 Kings 11:7, 1 Kings 11:5, Numbers 21:29

14And he brake in pieces the pillars, and cut down the Asherim, and filled their places with the bones of men.

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Exodus 23:24, Deuteronomy 7:5, Exodus 23:24, Deuteronomy 7:5, 2 Kings 23:16

15Moreover the altar that was at Beth-el, and the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, had made, even that altar and the high place he brake down; and he burned the high place and beat it to dust, and burned the Asherah.

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2 Kings 23:6, 1 Kings 14:16, 2 Kings 23:6, 1 Kings 14:16, 2 Kings 10:31

16And as Josiah turned himself, he spied the sepulchres that were there in the mount; and he sent, and took the bones out of the sepulchres, and burned them upon the altar, and defiled it, according to the word of Jehovah which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these things.

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1 Kings 13:1, 1 Kings 13:2, 1 Kings 13:1, 1 Kings 13:2, Matthew 24:35

17Then he said, What monument is that which I see? And the men of the city told him, It is the sepulchre of the man of God, who came from Judah, and proclaimed these things that thou hast done against the altar of Beth-el.

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1 Kings 13:1, 1 Kings 13:1, 1 Kings 13:30, 1 Kings 13:31, 1 Kings 13:30

18And he said, Let him be; let no man move his bones. So they let his bones alone, with the bones of the prophet that came out of Samaria.

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1 Kings 13:31, 1 Kings 13:31, 1 Kings 13:1, 1 Kings 13:22, 1 Kings 13:1

19And all the houses also of the high places that were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke Jehovah to anger, Josiah took away, and did to them according to all the acts that he had done in Beth-el.

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2 Chronicles 34:6, 2 Chronicles 34:7, 2 Chronicles 34:6, 2 Chronicles 34:7, Ezekiel 8:17

20And he slew all the priests of the high places that were there, upon the altars, and burned men’s bones upon them; and he returned to Jerusalem.

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2 Kings 11:18, 2 Kings 11:18, Exodus 22:20, 2 Chronicles 34:5, 2 Kings 10:25

21And the king commanded all the people, saying, Keep the passover unto Jehovah your God, as it is written in this book of the covenant.

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Deuteronomy 16:1, Deuteronomy 16:8, Deuteronomy 16:1, Deuteronomy 16:8, Numbers 9:2

22Surely there was not kept such a passover from the days of the judges that judged Israel, nor in all the days of the kings of Israel, nor of the kings of Judah;

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2 Chronicles 35:3, 2 Chronicles 35:19, 2 Chronicles 30:1, 2 Chronicles 30:3, 2 Chronicles 30:13

23but in the eighteenth year of king Josiah was this passover kept to Jehovah in Jerusalem.

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24Moreover them that had familiar spirits, and the wizards, and the teraphim, and the idols, and all the abominations that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, did Josiah put away, that he might confirm the words of the law which were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of Jehovah.

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Leviticus 19:31, Leviticus 19:31, 2 Kings 21:6, Genesis 31:19, 2 Kings 21:6

25And like unto him was there no king before him, that turned to Jehovah 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 there any like him.

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2 Kings 18:5, 2 Kings 18:5, Jeremiah 29:13, Jeremiah 29:13, John 1:17

26Notwithstanding, Jehovah turned not from the fierceness of his great wrath, wherewith his anger was kindled against Judah, because of all the provocations wherewith Manasseh had provoked him.

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2 Kings 24:4, 2 Kings 21:11, 2 Kings 21:13, 2 Kings 24:4, 2 Kings 21:11

27And Jehovah said, I will remove Judah also out of my sight, as I have removed Israel, and I will cast off this city which I have chosen, even Jerusalem, and the house of which I said, My name shall be there.

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2 Kings 21:13, 2 Kings 18:11, 2 Kings 21:13, 2 Kings 18:11, 2 Kings 17:20

28Now 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?

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2 Kings 20:20, 2 Kings 20:20

29In his days Pharaoh-necoh king of Egypt went up against the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates: and king Josiah went against him; and Pharaoh-necoh slew him at Megiddo, when he had seen him.

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Jeremiah 46:2, Jeremiah 46:2, 2 Chronicles 35:20, 2 Chronicles 35:24, 2 Chronicles 35:20

30And 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.

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2 Kings 9:28, 2 Kings 9:28, 2 Chronicles 36:1, 2 Chronicles 36:4, 2 Chronicles 36:1

31Jehoahaz was twenty and three years old when he began to reign; and he reigned three months in Jerusalem: and his mother’s name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.

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Jeremiah 22:11, 2 Kings 24:18, 1 Chronicles 3:15, Jeremiah 22:11, 2 Kings 24:18

32And he did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, according to all that his fathers had done.

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2 Kings 21:2, 2 Kings 21:7, 2 Kings 21:2, 2 Kings 21:7, 2 Kings 21:21

33And Pharaoh-necoh put him in bonds at Riblah in the land of Hamath, that he might not reign in Jerusalem; and put the land to a tribute of a hundred talents of silver, and a talent of gold.

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1 Kings 8:65, 2 Kings 25:6, 1 Kings 8:65, 2 Kings 25:6, Jeremiah 52:26

34And Pharaoh-necoh made Eliakim the son of Josiah king in the room of Josiah his father, and changed his name to Jehoiakim: but he took Jehoahaz away; and he came to Egypt, and died there.

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Ezekiel 19:3, Ezekiel 19:4, Ezekiel 19:3, Ezekiel 19:4, Jeremiah 22:11

35And Jehoiakim gave the silver and the gold to Pharaoh; but he taxed the land to give the money according to the commandment of Pharaoh: he exacted the silver and the gold of the people of the land, of every one according to his taxation, to give it unto Pharaoh-necoh.

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2 Kings 23:33, 2 Kings 23:33, 2 Kings 15:19, 2 Kings 15:20, 2 Kings 15:19

36Jehoiakim was twenty and five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and his mother’s name was Zebidah the daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah.

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2 Chronicles 36:5, 2 Chronicles 36:5, Jeremiah 1:3, 1 Chronicles 3:15, Jeremiah 26:1

37And he did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, according to all that his fathers had done.

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Ezekiel 19:5, Ezekiel 19:9, 2 Kings 23:32, 2 Chronicles 28:22, 2 Chronicles 28:25