1Then the king summoned all the elders of…
2And he went up to the house of…
3So the king stood by the pillar and…
4Then the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest,…
5Josiah also did away with the idolatrous priests…
6He brought the Asherah pole from the house…
7He also tore down the quarters of the…
8Then Josiah brought all the priests from the…
9Although the priests of the high places did…
10He also desecrated Topheth in the Valley of…
11And he removed from the entrance to the…
12He pulled down the altars that the kings…
13The king also desecrated the high places east…
14He smashed the sacred pillars to pieces, cut…
15He even pulled down the altar at Bethel,…
16And as Josiah turned, he saw the tombs…
17Then the king asked, “What is this monument…
18“Let him rest,” said Josiah. “Do not let…
19Just as Josiah had done at Bethel, so…
20On the altars he slaughtered all the priests…
21The king commanded all the people, “Keep the…
22No such Passover had been observed from the…
23But in the eighteenth year of Josiah’s reign,…
24Furthermore, Josiah removed the mediums and spiritists, the…
25Neither before nor after Josiah was there any…
26Nevertheless, the LORD did not turn away from…
27For the LORD had said, “I will remove…
28As for the rest of the acts of…
29During Josiah’s reign, Pharaoh Neco king of Egypt…
30From Megiddo his servants carried his body in…
31Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he became…
32And he did evil in the sight of…
33And Pharaoh Neco imprisoned Jehoahaz at Riblah in…
34Then Pharaoh Neco made Eliakim son of Josiah…
35So Jehoiakim paid the silver and gold to…
36Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he became…
37And he did evil in the sight of…
