1Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign; and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem.

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Jeremiah 1:2, Zephaniah 1:1, Jeremiah 1:2, Zephaniah 1:1, 1 Samuel 2:26

2He did that which was right in the eyes of the Lord, and walked in the ways of David his father, and did not turn aside to the right hand or to the left.

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2 Chronicles 29:2, 2 Chronicles 29:2, 2 Kings 22:2, Deuteronomy 17:20, Deuteronomy 17:11

3For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father; and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, and the Asherim, and the engraved images, and the molten images.

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2 Chronicles 33:22, 2 Chronicles 33:22, 2 Chronicles 15:2, 2 Chronicles 15:2, 2 Chronicles 33:17

4They broke down the altars of the Baals in his presence; and the incense altars that were on high above them he cut down; and the Asherim, and the engraved images, and the molten images, he broke in pieces, and made dust of them, and strewed it on the graves of those who had sacrificed to them.

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Exodus 32:20, Exodus 32:20, 2 Kings 23:4, 2 Kings 23:6, Leviticus 26:30

5He burnt the bones of the priests on their altars, and purged Judah and Jerusalem.

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1 Kings 13:2, 1 Kings 13:2, Jeremiah 3:10, 2 Kings 23:16, Ezekiel 22:24

6He did this in the cities of Manasseh and Ephraim and Simeon, even to Naphtali, around in their ruins.

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2 Kings 23:15, 2 Kings 23:20, 2 Chronicles 30:10, 2 Chronicles 30:11, Proverbs 25:18

7He broke down the altars, and beat the Asherim and the engraved images into powder, and cut down all the incense altars throughout all the land of Israel, and returned to Jerusalem.

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2 Chronicles 31:1, 2 Chronicles 31:1, Deuteronomy 9:21, Deuteronomy 9:21, 2 Chronicles 34:1

8Now in the eighteenth year of his reign, when he had purged the land and the house, he sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, and Maaseiah the governor of the city, and Joah the son of Joahaz the recorder, to repair the house of the Lord his God.

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2 Samuel 8:16, 2 Samuel 8:16, Jeremiah 29:21, 1 Chronicles 18:15, Jeremiah 36:10

9They came to Hilkiah the high priest, and delivered the money that was brought into God's house, which the Levites, the keepers of the threshold, had gathered of the hand of Manasseh and Ephraim, and of all the remnant of Israel, and of all Judah and Benjamin, and of the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

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2 Chronicles 35:8, 2 Chronicles 30:10, 2 Chronicles 30:18, 2 Chronicles 35:8, 2 Chronicles 30:10

10They delivered it into the hand of the workmen who had the oversight of the house of the Lord; and the workmen who labored in the house of the Lord gave it to mend and repair the house;

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2 Kings 12:11, 2 Kings 12:12, 2 Kings 22:5, 2 Kings 22:6, Ezra 3:7

11even to the carpenters and to the builders gave they it, to buy cut stone, and timber for couplings, and to make beams for the houses which the kings of Judah had destroyed.

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2 Chronicles 33:4, 2 Chronicles 33:7, 2 Chronicles 33:4, 2 Chronicles 33:7, 2 Chronicles 33:22

12The men did the work faithfully: and their overseers were Jahath and Obadiah, the Levites, of the sons of Merari; and Zechariah and Meshullam, of the sons of the Kohathites, to set it forward; and others of the Levites, all who were skillful with instruments of music.

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2 Kings 12:15, 2 Kings 12:15, 1 Chronicles 23:5, 1 Chronicles 23:5, 1 Chronicles 25:1

13Also they were over the bearers of burdens, and set forward all who did the work in every kind of service: and of the Levites there were scribes, and officers, and porters.

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Nehemiah 4:10, Nehemiah 4:10, 2 Chronicles 2:18, 2 Chronicles 2:18, 2 Chronicles 2:10

14When they brought out the money that was brought into the house of the Lord, Hilkiah the priest found the book of the law of the Lord given by Moses.

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Ezra 7:10, Leviticus 10:11, Psalms 1:2, Isaiah 5:24, 2 Chronicles 35:26

15Hilkiah answered Shaphan the scribe, "I have found the book of the law in the house of the Lord." Hilkiah delivered the book to Shaphan.

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16Shaphan carried the book to the king, and moreover brought back word to the king, saying, "All that was committed to your servants, they are doing.

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Jeremiah 36:20, Jeremiah 36:21, 2 Kings 22:9, 2 Kings 22:10, Jeremiah 36:20

17They have emptied out the money that was found in the house of the Lord, and have delivered it into the hand of the overseers, and into the hand of the workmen."

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18Shaphan the scribe told the king, saying, "Hilkiah the priest has delivered me a book." Shaphan read therein before the king.

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Psalms 119:97, Psalms 119:99, Jeremiah 36:20, Jeremiah 36:21, Psalms 119:46

19It happened, when the king had heard the words of the law, that he tore his clothes.

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Joshua 7:6, Joshua 7:6, Galatians 2:19, Romans 3:20, 2 Kings 22:19

20The king commanded Hilkiah, and Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and Abdon the son of Micah, and Shaphan the scribe, and Asaiah the king's servant, saying,

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2 Kings 22:12, 2 Kings 22:12, Jeremiah 40:6, 2 Kings 25:22, Jeremiah 40:9

21"Go inquire of the Lord for me, and for those who are left in Israel and in Judah, concerning the words of the book that is found; for great is the wrath of the Lord that is poured out on us, because our fathers have not kept the word of the Lord, to do according to all that is written in this book."

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Jeremiah 21:2, Ezekiel 14:1, Ezekiel 14:11, 2 Chronicles 28:6, Jeremiah 21:2

22So Hilkiah, and they whom the king had commanded, went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tokhath, the son of Hasrah, keeper of the wardrobe; (now she lived in Jerusalem in the second quarter;) and they spoke to her to that effect.

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Exodus 15:20, Exodus 15:20, Acts 21:9, Luke 1:41, Luke 1:45

23She said to them, "Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: 'Tell the man who sent you to me,

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Jeremiah 37:7, Jeremiah 37:10, Jeremiah 21:3, Jeremiah 21:7, 2 Kings 22:15

24"Thus says the Lord, 'Behold, I will bring disaster on this place, and on its inhabitants, even all the curses that are written in the book which they have read before the king of Judah.

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2 Chronicles 36:14, 2 Chronicles 36:20, 2 Chronicles 36:14, 2 Chronicles 36:20, Deuteronomy 28:15

25Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense to other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the works of their hands; therefore is my wrath poured out on this place, and it shall not be quenched.'"'

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Jeremiah 7:20, Jeremiah 7:20, Nahum 1:6, Nahum 1:6, Jeremiah 15:1

26But to the king of Judah, who sent you to inquire of the Lord, thus you shall tell him, 'Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: "As touching the words which you have heard,

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2 Chronicles 34:21, 2 Chronicles 34:23, 2 Chronicles 34:21, 2 Chronicles 34:23

27because your heart was tender, and you humbled yourself before God, when you heard his words against this place, and against its inhabitants, and have humbled yourself before me, and have torn your clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard you," says the Lord.

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2 Chronicles 32:26, 2 Chronicles 32:26, Ezekiel 9:4, Psalms 34:18, Ezekiel 9:4

28"Behold, I will gather you to your fathers, and you shall be gathered to your grave in peace, neither shall your eyes see all the disaster that I will bring on this place, and on its inhabitants."'" They brought back word to the king.

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Psalms 37:37, Isaiah 39:8, Psalms 37:37, Isaiah 39:8, 2 Chronicles 35:24

29Then the king sent and gathered together all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem.

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2 Kings 23:1, 2 Kings 23:3, 2 Kings 23:1, 2 Kings 23:3, 1 Chronicles 29:2

30The king went up to the house of the Lord, and all the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the priests, and the Levites, and all the people, both great and small: and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant that was found in the house of the Lord.

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2 Kings 23:2, 2 Kings 23:2, 2 Chronicles 34:18, 2 Chronicles 34:19, 2 Chronicles 6:1

31The king stood in his place, and made a covenant before the Lord, to walk after the Lord, and to keep his commandments, and his testimonies, and his statutes, with all his heart, and with all his soul, to perform the words of the covenant that were written in this book.

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2 Chronicles 23:16, 2 Chronicles 23:16, 2 Chronicles 15:12, 2 Chronicles 6:13, 2 Kings 23:3

32He caused all who were found in Jerusalem and Benjamin to stand. The inhabitants of Jerusalem did according to the covenant of God, the God of their fathers.

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2 Chronicles 33:16, 2 Chronicles 29:29, 2 Chronicles 30:12, Genesis 18:19, 2 Chronicles 14:4

33Josiah took away all the abominations out of all the countries that pertained to the children of Israel, and made all who were found in Israel to serve, even to serve the Lord their God. All his days they did not depart from following the Lord, the God of their fathers.

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2 Chronicles 34:3, 2 Chronicles 34:7, 2 Chronicles 34:3, 2 Chronicles 34:7, Joshua 24:31