1The king sent, and they gathered to him…
2The king went up to the LORD’s house,…
3The king stood by the pillar and made…
4The king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and…
5He got rid of the idolatrous priests whom…
6He brought out the Asherah from the LORD’s…
7He broke down the houses of the male…
8He brought all the priests out of the…
9Nevertheless the priests of the high places didn’t…
10He defiled Topheth, which is in the valley…
11He took away the horses that the kings…
12The king broke down the altars that were…
13The king defiled the high places that were…
14He broke in pieces the pillars, cut down…
15Moreover the altar that was at Bethel and…
16As Josiah turned himself, he spied the tombs…
17Then he said, “What monument is that which…
18He said, “Let him be! Let no one…
19All the houses also of the high places…
20He killed all the priests of the high…
21The king commanded all the people, saying, “Keep…
22Surely there was not kept such a Passover…
23but in the eighteenth year of King Josiah,…
24Moreover, Josiah removed those who had familiar spirits,…
25There was no king like him before him,…
26Notwithstanding, the LORD didn’t turn from the fierceness…
27The LORD said, “I will also remove Judah…
28Now the rest of the acts of Josiah,…
29In his days Pharaoh Necoh king of Egypt…
30His servants carried him dead in a chariot…
31Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he began…
32He did that which was evil in the…
33Pharaoh Necoh put him in bonds at Riblah…
34Pharaoh Necoh made Eliakim the son of Josiah…
35Jehoiakim gave the silver and the gold to…
36Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he began…
37He did that which was evil in the…
