1Josiah [was] eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem one and thirty years.stylusJeremiah 1:2, Zephaniah 1:1, Jeremiah 1:2, Zephaniah 1:1, 1 Samuel 2:262And he did [that which was] right in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the ways of David his father, and declined [neither] to the right hand, nor to the left.stylus2 Chronicles 29:2, 2 Chronicles 29:2, 2 Kings 22:2, Deuteronomy 17:20, Deuteronomy 17:113For 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 groves, and the carved images, and the molten images.stylus2 Chronicles 33:22, 2 Chronicles 33:22, 2 Chronicles 15:2, 2 Chronicles 15:2, 2 Chronicles 33:174And they broke down the altars of Baalim in his presence; and the images, that [were] on high above them, he cut down; and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images, he broke in pieces, and made dust [of them] and strewed [it] upon the graves of them that had sacrificed to them.stylusExodus 32:20, Exodus 32:20, 2 Kings 23:4, 2 Kings 23:6, Leviticus 26:305And he burnt the bones of the priests upon their altars, and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem.stylus1 Kings 13:2, 1 Kings 13:2, Jeremiah 3:10, 2 Kings 23:16, Ezekiel 22:246And [so did he] in the cities of Manasseh, and Ephraim, and Simeon, even to Naphtali, with their mattocks around.stylus2 Kings 23:15, 2 Kings 23:20, 2 Chronicles 30:10, 2 Chronicles 30:11, Proverbs 25:187And when he had broken down the altars and the groves, and had beaten the graven images into powder, and cut down all the idols throughout all the land of Israel, he returned to Jerusalem.stylus2 Chronicles 31:1, 2 Chronicles 31:1, Deuteronomy 9:21, Deuteronomy 9:21, 2 Chronicles 34:18Now 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.stylus2 Samuel 8:16, 2 Samuel 8:16, Jeremiah 29:21, 1 Chronicles 18:15, Jeremiah 36:109And when they came to Hilkiah the high priest, they delivered the money that was brought into the house of God, which the Levites that kept the doors had collected from the hand of Manasseh and Ephraim, and from all the remnant of Israel, and from all Judah and Benjamin; and they returned to Jerusalem.stylus2 Chronicles 35:8, 2 Chronicles 30:10, 2 Chronicles 30:18, 2 Chronicles 35:8, 2 Chronicles 30:1010And they put [it] in the hand of the workmen that had the oversight of the house of the LORD, and they gave it to the workmen that wrought in the house of the LORD, to repair and mend the house:stylus2 Kings 12:11, 2 Kings 12:12, 2 Kings 22:5, 2 Kings 22:6, Ezra 3:711Even to the artificers and builders they gave [it], to buy hewn stone, and timber for couplings, and to floor the houses which the kings of Judah had destroyed.stylus2 Chronicles 33:4, 2 Chronicles 33:7, 2 Chronicles 33:4, 2 Chronicles 33:7, 2 Chronicles 33:2212And the men did the work faithfully: and the overseers of them [were] Jahath and Obadiah, the Levites, of the sons of Merari; and Zechariah and Meshullam, of the sons of the Kohathites, to superintend [it]; and [others of] the Levites, all that had skill in instruments of music.stylus2 Kings 12:15, 2 Kings 12:15, 1 Chronicles 23:5, 1 Chronicles 23:5, 1 Chronicles 25:113Also [they were] over the bearers of burdens, and [were] overseers of all that wrought the work in any manner of service: and of the Levites [there were] scribes, and officers, and porters.stylusNehemiah 4:10, Nehemiah 4:10, 2 Chronicles 2:18, 2 Chronicles 2:18, 2 Chronicles 2:1014And when 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.stylusEzra 7:10, Leviticus 10:11, Psalms 1:2, Isaiah 5:24, 2 Chronicles 35:2615And Hilkiah answered and said to Shaphan the scribe, I have found the book of the law in the house of the LORD. And Hilkiah delivered the book to Shaphan.stylus16And Shaphan carried the book to the king, and brought the king word back again, saying, All that was committed to thy servants, they perform.stylusJeremiah 36:20, Jeremiah 36:21, 2 Kings 22:9, 2 Kings 22:10, Jeremiah 36:2017And they have collected the money that was found in the house of the LORD, and have delivered it into the hand of the overseers, and to the hand of the workmen.stylus18Then Shaphan the scribe told the king, saying, Hilkiah the priest hath given me a book. And Shaphan read it before the king.stylusPsalms 119:97, Psalms 119:99, Jeremiah 36:20, Jeremiah 36:21, Psalms 119:4619And it came to pass, when the king had heard the words of the law, that he rent his clothes.stylusJoshua 7:6, Joshua 7:6, Galatians 2:19, Romans 3:20, 2 Kings 22:1920And the king commanded Hilkiah, and Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and Abdon the son of Micah, and Shaphan the scribe, and Asaiah a servant of the king's, saying,stylus2 Kings 22:12, 2 Kings 22:12, Jeremiah 40:6, 2 Kings 25:22, Jeremiah 40:921Go, inquire of the LORD for me, and for them that 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 upon us, because our fathers have not kept the word of the LORD, to do after all that is written in this book.stylusJeremiah 21:2, Ezekiel 14:1, Ezekiel 14:11, 2 Chronicles 28:6, Jeremiah 21:222And Hilkiah, and [they] that the king [had appointed], went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvath, the son of Hasrah, keeper of the wardrobe; (now she dwelt in Jerusalem in the college:) and they spoke to her to that [effect].stylusExodus 15:20, Exodus 15:20, Acts 21:9, Luke 1:41, Luke 1:4523And she answered them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Tell ye the man that sent you to me.stylusJeremiah 37:7, Jeremiah 37:10, Jeremiah 21:3, Jeremiah 21:7, 2 Kings 22:1524Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, and upon its inhabitants, [even] all the curses that are written in the book which they have read before the king of Judah:stylus2 Chronicles 36:14, 2 Chronicles 36:20, 2 Chronicles 36:14, 2 Chronicles 36:20, Deuteronomy 28:1525Because 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 my wrath shall be poured out upon this place, and shall not be quenched.stylusJeremiah 7:20, Jeremiah 7:20, Nahum 1:6, Nahum 1:6, Jeremiah 15:126And as for the king of Judah, who sent you to inquire of the LORD, so shall ye say to him, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel [concerning] the words which thou hast heard;stylus2 Chronicles 34:21, 2 Chronicles 34:23, 2 Chronicles 34:21, 2 Chronicles 34:2327Because thy heart was tender, and thou didst humble thyself before God, when thou didst hear his words against this place, and against its inhabitants, and didst humble thyself before me, and didst rend thy clothes, and weep before me; I have even heard [thee] also, saith the LORD.stylus2 Chronicles 32:26, 2 Chronicles 32:26, Ezekiel 9:4, Psalms 34:18, Ezekiel 9:428Behold, I will gather thee to thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered to thy grave in peace, neither shall thy eyes see all the evil that I will bring upon this place, and upon the inhabitants of the same. So they brought the king word again.stylusPsalms 37:37, Isaiah 39:8, Psalms 37:37, Isaiah 39:8, 2 Chronicles 35:2429Then the king sent and convened all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem.stylus2 Kings 23:1, 2 Kings 23:3, 2 Kings 23:1, 2 Kings 23:3, 1 Chronicles 29:230And the king went into 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, 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.stylus2 Kings 23:2, 2 Kings 23:2, 2 Chronicles 34:18, 2 Chronicles 34:19, 2 Chronicles 6:131And the 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 which are written in this book.stylus2 Chronicles 23:16, 2 Chronicles 23:16, 2 Chronicles 15:12, 2 Chronicles 6:13, 2 Kings 23:332And he caused all that were present in Jerusalem and Benjamin, to stand [to it]. And the inhabitants of Jerusalem did according to the covenant of God, the God of their fathers.stylus2 Chronicles 33:16, 2 Chronicles 29:29, 2 Chronicles 30:12, Genesis 18:19, 2 Chronicles 14:433And Josiah took away all the abominations out of all the countries that [pertained] to the children of Israel, and made all that were present in Israel, to serve, [even] to serve the LORD their God. [And] all his days they departed not from following the LORD, the God of their fathers.stylus2 Chronicles 34:3, 2 Chronicles 34:7, 2 Chronicles 34:3, 2 Chronicles 34:7, Joshua 24:31