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| 2 Chronicles 34:1 |
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Josiah was eight years old when he began to
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| 2 Chronicles 34:2 |
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And he did that which was right in the eyes
of Jehovah, and walked in the ways of David his father, and turned not aside to
the right hand or to the left. |
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| 2 Chronicles 34:3 |
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For 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 graven images, and the molten images. |
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| 2 Chronicles 34:4 |
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And they brake down the altars of the Baalim
in his presence; and the sun-images that were on high above them he hewed down;
and the Asherim, and the graven images, and the molten images, he brake in pieces,
and made dust of them, and strewed it upon the graves of them that had sacrificed
unto them. |
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| 2 Chronicles 34:5 |
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And he burnt the bones of the priests upon their
altars, and purged Judah and Jerusalem. |
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| 2 Chronicles 34:6 |
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And so did he in the cities of Manasseh and
Ephraim and Simeon, even unto Naphtali, in their ruins round about. |
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| 2 Chronicles 34:7 |
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And he brake down the altars, and beat the Asherim
and the graven images into powder, and hewed down all the sun-images throughout
all the land of Israel, and returned to Jerusalem. |
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| 2 Chronicles 34:8 |
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Now 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 Jehovah his God. |
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| 2 Chronicles 34:9 |
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And they came to Hilkiah the high priest, and
delivered the money that was brought into the house of God, 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 34:10 |
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And they delivered it into the hand of the workmen
that had the oversight of the house of Jehovah; and the workmen that wrought in
the house of Jehovah gave it to mend and repair the house; |
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| 2 Chronicles 34:11 |
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even to the carpenters and to the builders gave
they it, to buy hewn 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 34:12 |
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And 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 set it forward;
and others of the Levites, all that were skilful with instruments of music. |
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| 2 Chronicles 34:13 |
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Also they were over the bearers of burdens,
and set forward all that did the work in every manner of service: and of the Levites
there were scribes, and officers, and porters. |
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| 2 Chronicles 34:14 |
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And when they brought out the money that was
brought into the house of Jehovah, Hilkiah the priest found the book of the law
of Jehovah given by Moses. |
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| 2 Chronicles 34:15 |
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And Hilkiah answered and said to Shaphan the
scribe, I have found the book of the law in the house of Jehovah. And Hilkiah
delivered the book to Shaphan. |
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| 2 Chronicles 34:16 |
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And Shaphan carried the book to the king, and
moreover brought back word to the king, saying, All that was committed to thy
servants, they are doing. |
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| 2 Chronicles 34:17 |
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And they have emptied out the money that was
found in the house of Jehovah, and have delivered it into the hand of the overseers,
and into the hand of the workmen. |
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| 2 Chronicles 34:18 |
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And Shaphan the scribe told the king, saying,
Hilkiah the priest hath delivered me a book. And Shaphan read therein before the
king. |
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| 2 Chronicles 34:19 |
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And it came to pass, when the king had heard
the words of the law, that he rent his clothes. |
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| 2 Chronicles 34:20 |
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And the 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 Chronicles 34:21 |
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Go ye, inquire of Jehovah 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 Jehovah that is poured out upon us, because our
fathers have not kept the word of Jehovah, to do according unto all that is written
in this book. |
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| 2 Chronicles 34:22 |
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So 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 dwelt in Jerusalem in the second quarter;)
and they spake to her to that effect. |
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| 2 Chronicles 34:23 |
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And she said unto them, Thus saith Jehovah,
the God of Israel: Tell ye the man that sent you unto me, |
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| 2 Chronicles 34:24 |
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Thus saith Jehovah, Behold, I will bring evil
upon this place, and upon the inhabitants thereof, 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 34:25 |
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Because they have forsaken me, and have burned
incense unto other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the works
of their hands; therefore is my wrath poured out upon this place, and it shall
not be quenched. |
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| 2 Chronicles 34:26 |
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But unto the king of Judah, who sent you to
inquire of Jehovah, thus shall ye say to him, Thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel:
As touching the words which thou hast heard, |
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| 2 Chronicles 34:27 |
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because thy heart was tender, and thou didst
humble thyself before God, when thou heardest his words against this place, and
against the inhabitants thereof, and hast humbled thyself before me, and hast
rent thy clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard thee, saith Jehovah. |
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| 2 Chronicles 34:28 |
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Behold, I will gather thee to thy fathers, and
thou shalt be gathered to thy grave in peace, neither shall thine eyes see all
the evil that I will bring upon this place, and upon the inhabitants thereof.
And they brought back word to the king. |
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| 2 Chronicles 34:29 |
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Then the king sent and gathered together all
the elders of Judah and Jerusalem. |
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| 2 Chronicles 34:30 |
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And the king went up to the house of Jehovah,
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 Jehovah.
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| 2 Chronicles 34:31 |
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And the king stood in his place, 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 with all his soul,
to perform the words of the covenant that were written in this book. |
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| 2 Chronicles 34:32 |
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And he caused all that were found 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. |
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| 2 Chronicles 34:33 |
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And Josiah took away all the abominations out
of all the countries that pertained to the children of Israel, and made all that
were found in Israel to serve, even to serve Jehovah their God. All his days they
departed not from following Jehovah, the God of their fathers. |
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