23:1 Then
the
king
sent,
and
all
the
elders
of
Judah
and
Jerusalem
were
gathered
to
him.
23:2 And
the
king
went
up
to
the
house
of
the
LORD,
and
with
him
all
the
men
of
Judah
and
all
the
inhabitants
of
Jerusalem
and
the
priests
and
the
prophets,
all
the
people,
both
small
and
great.
And
he
read
in
their
hearing
all
the
words
of
the
Book
of
the
Covenant
that
had
been
found
in
the
house
of
the
LORD.
23:3 And
the
king
stood
by
the
pillar
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
all
his
soul,
to
perform
the
words
of
this
covenant
that
were
written
in
this
book.
And
all
the
people
joined
in
the
covenant.
23:4 And
the
king
commanded
Hilkiah
the
high
priest
and
the
priests
of
the
second
order
and
the
keepers
of
the
threshold
to
bring
out
of
the
temple
of
the
LORD
all
the
vessels
made
for
Baal,
for
Asherah,
and
for
all
the
host
of
heaven.
He
burned
them
outside
Jerusalem
in
the
fields
of
the
Kidron
and
carried
their
ashes
to
Bethel.
23:5 And
he
deposed
the
priests
whom
the
kings
of
Judah
had
ordained
to
make
offerings
in
the
high
places
at
the
cities
of
Judah
and
around
Jerusalem;
those
also
who
burned
incense
to
Baal,
to
the
sun
and
the
moon
and
the
constellations
and
all
the
host
of
the
heavens.
23:6 And
he
brought
out
the
Asherah
from
the
house
of
the
LORD,
outside
Jerusalem,
to
the
brook
Kidron,
and
burned
it
at
the
brook
Kidron
and
beat
it
to
dust
and
cast
the
dust
of
it
upon
the
graves
of
the
common
people.
23:7 And
he
broke
down
the
houses
of
the
male
cult
prostitutes
who
were
in
the
house
of
the
LORD,
where
the
women
wove
hangings
for
the
Asherah.
23:8 And
he
brought
all
the
priests
out
of
the
cities
of
Judah,
and
defiled
the
high
places
where
the
priests
had
made
offerings,
from
Geba
to
Beersheba.
And
he
broke
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
one's
left
at
the
gate
of
the
city.
23:9 However,
the
priests
of
the
high
places
did
not
come
up
to
the
altar
of
the
LORD
in
Jerusalem,
but
they
ate
unleavened
bread
among
their
brothers.
23:10 And
he
defiled
Topheth,
which
is
in
the
Valley
of
the
Son
of
Hinnom,
that
no
one
might
burn
his
son
or
his
daughter
as
an
offering
to
Molech.
23:11 And
he
removed
the
horses
that
the
kings
of
Judah
had
dedicated
to
the
sun,
at
the
entrance
to
the
house
of
the
LORD,
by
the
chamber
of
Nathan-melech
the
chamberlain,
which
was
in
the
precincts.
And
he
burned
the
chariots
of
the
sun
with
fire.
23:12 And
the
altars
on
the
roof
of
the
upper
chamber
of
Ahaz,
which
the
kings
of
Judah
had
made,
and
the
altars
that
Manasseh
had
made
in
the
two
courts
of
the
house
of
the
LORD,
he
pulled
down
and
broke
in
pieces
and
cast
the
dust
of
them
into
the
brook
Kidron.
23:13 And
the
king
defiled
the
high
places
that
were
east
of
Jerusalem,
to
the
south
of
the
mount
of
corruption,
which
Solomon
the
king
of
Israel
had
built
for
Ashtoreth
the
abomination
of
the
Sidonians,
and
for
Chemosh
the
abomination
of
Moab,
and
for
Milcom
the
abomination
of
the
Ammonites.
23:14 And
he
broke
in
pieces
the
pillars
and
cut
down
the
Asherim
and
filled
their
places
with
the
bones
of
men.
23:15 Moreover,
the
altar
at
Bethel,
the
high
place
erected
by
Jeroboam
the
son
of
Nebat,
who
made
Israel
to
sin,
that
altar
with
the
high
place
he
pulled
down
and
burned,
reducing
it
to
dust.
He
also
burned
the
Asherah.
23:16 And
as
Josiah
turned,
he
saw
the
tombs
there
on
the
mount.
And
he
sent
and
took
the
bones
out
of
the
tombs
and
burned
them
on
the
altar
and
defiled
it,
according
to
the
word
of
the
LORD
that
the
man
of
God
proclaimed,
who
had
predicted
these
things.
23:17 Then
he
said,
"What
is
that
monument
that
I
see"
And
the
men
of
the
city
told
him,
"It
is
the
tomb
of
the
man
of
God
who
came
from
Judah
and
predicted
these
things
that
you
have
done
against
the
altar
at
Bethel."
23:18 And
he
said,
"Let
him
be;
let
no
man
move
his
bones."
So
they
let
his
bones
alone,
with
the
bones
of
the
prophet
who
came
out
of
Samaria.
23:19 And
Josiah
removed
all
the
shrines
also
of
the
high
places
that
were
in
the
cities
of
Samaria,
which
kings
of
Israel
had
made,
provoking
the
LORD
to
anger.
He
did
to
them
according
to
all
that
he
had
done
at
Bethel.
23:20 And
he
sacrificed
all
the
priests
of
the
high
places
who
were
there,
on
the
altars,
and
burned
human
bones
on
them.
Then
he
returned
to
Jerusalem.
23:21 And
the
king
commanded
all
the
people,
"Keep
the
Passover
to
the
LORD
your
God,
as
it
is
written
in
this
Book
of
the
Covenant."
23:22 For
no
such
Passover
had
been
kept
since
the
days
of
the
judges
who
judged
Israel,
or
during
all
the
days
of
the
kings
of
Israel
or
of
the
kings
of
Judah.
23:23 But
in
the
eighteenth
year
of
King
Josiah
this
Passover
was
kept
to
the
LORD
in
Jerusalem.
23:24 Moreover,
Josiah
put
away
the
mediums
and
the
necromancers
and
the
household
gods
and
the
idols
and
all
the
abominations
that
were
seen
in
the
land
of
Judah
and
in
Jerusalem,
that
he
might
establish
the
words
of
the
law
that
were
written
in
the
book
that
Hilkiah
the
priest
found
in
the
house
of
the
LORD.
23:25 Before
him
there
was
no
king
like
him,
who
turned
to
the
LORD
with
all
his
heart
and
with
all
his
soul
and
with
all
his
might,
according
to
all
the
Law
of
Moses,
nor
did
any
like
him
arise
after
him.
23:26 Still
the
LORD
did
not
turn
from
the
burning
of
his
great
wrath,
by
which
his
anger
was
kindled
against
Judah,
because
of
all
the
provocations
with
which
Manasseh
had
provoked
him.
23:27 And
the
LORD
said,
"I
will
remove
Judah
also
out
of
my
sight,
as
I
have
removed
Israel,
and
I
will
cast
off
this
city
that
I
have
chosen,
Jerusalem,
and
the
house
of
which
I
said,
My
name
shall
be
there."
23:28 Now
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
23:29 In
his
days
Pharaoh
Neco
king
of
Egypt
went
up
to
the
king
of
Assyria
to
the
river
Euphrates.
King
Josiah
went
to
meet
him,
and
Pharaoh
Neco
killed
him
at
Megiddo,
as
soon
as
he
saw
him.
23:30 And
his
servants
carried
him
dead
in
a
chariot
from
Megiddo
and
brought
him
to
Jerusalem
and
buried
him
in
his
own
tomb.
And
the
people
of
the
land
took
Jehoahaz
the
son
of
Josiah,
and
anointed
him,
and
made
him
king
in
his
father's
place.
23:31 Jehoahaz
was
twenty-three
years
old
when
he
began
to
reign,
and
he
reigned
three
months
in
Jerusalem.
His
mother's
name
was
Hamutal
the
daughter
of
Jeremiah
of
Libnah.
23:32 And
he
did
what
was
evil
in
the
sight
of
the
LORD,
according
to
all
that
his
fathers
had
done.
23:33 And
Pharaoh
Neco
put
him
in
bonds
at
Riblah
in
the
land
of
Hamath,
that
he
might
not
reign
in
Jerusalem,
and
laid
on
the
land
a
tribute
of
a
hundred
talents
of
silver
and
a
talent
of
gold.
23:34 And
Pharaoh
Neco
made
Eliakim
the
son
of
Josiah
king
in
the
place
of
Josiah
his
father,
and
changed
his
name
to
Jehoiakim.
But
he
took
Jehoahaz
away,
and
he
came
to
Egypt
and
died
there.
23:35 And
Jehoiakim
gave
the
silver
and
the
gold
to
Pharaoh,
but
he
taxed
the
land
to
give
the
money
according
to
the
command
of
Pharaoh.
He
exacted
the
silver
and
the
gold
of
the
people
of
the
land,
from
everyone
according
to
his
assessment,
to
give
it
to
Pharaoh
Neco.
23:36 Jehoiakim
was
twenty-five
years
old
when
he
began
to
reign,
and
he
reigned
eleven
years
in
Jerusalem.
His
mother's
name
was
Zebidah
the
daughter
of
Pedaiah
of
Rumah.
23:37 And
he
did
what
was
evil
in
the
sight
of
the
LORD,
according
to
all
that
his
fathers
had
done.