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2 Kings 23

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  1. 1And the king sent, and they gathered unto him all the elders of Judah and of Jerusalem.7 cross-references: 2 Chronicles 34:29–33, 2 Chronicles 29:20, 2 Chronicles 30:2, Deuteronomy 31:28, 2 Samuel 6:1
  2. 2And the king went up into the house of the Lord, and all the men of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem with him, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the people, both small and great: and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant which was found in the house of the Lord.24 cross-references: 2 Kings 22:8, Deuteronomy 31:10–13, Revelation 20:12, Acts 26:22, Nehemiah 8:1–8
  3. 3And the king stood by a 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 their heart and all their soul, to perform the words of this covenant that were written in this book. And all the people stood to the covenant.50 cross-references: 2 Kings 11:14, 2 Kings 11:17, Deuteronomy 13:4, Deuteronomy 11:13, Exodus 24:7–8
  4. 4And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the door, to bring forth out of the temple of the Lord all the vessels that were made for Baal, and for the grove, and for all the host of heaven: and he burned them without Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, and carried the ashes of them unto Beth–el.47 cross-references: 2 Kings 21:7, 2 Kings 21:3, 2 Chronicles 33:3, 2 Kings 25:18, 2 Kings 23:15
  5. 5And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places round about Jerusalem; them also that burned incense unto Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven.13 cross-references: Jeremiah 44:17–19, 2 Kings 21:3–4, Jeremiah 8:1–2, Hosea 10:5
  6. 6And he brought out the grove from the house of the Lord, without Jerusalem, unto the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and stamped it small to powder, and cast the powder thereof upon the graves of the children of the people.26 cross-references: 2 Chronicles 34:4, 2 Kings 23:15, 2 Kings 10:27, 2 Kings 21:7, 1 Kings 16:33
  7. 7And he brake down the houses of the sodomites, that were by the house of the Lord, where the women wove hangings for the grove.17 cross-references: 1 Kings 15:12, Ezekiel 16:16, 1 Kings 14:24, Exodus 35:25–26, Ezekiel 8:14
  8. 8And he brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah, and defiled the high places where the priests had burned incense, from Geba to Beer–sheba, and brake down the high places of the gates that were in the entering in of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city, which were on a man’s left hand at the gate of the city.11 cross-references: 1 Kings 15:22, Joshua 21:17, Isaiah 10:29, Genesis 26:23, 1 Kings 19:3
  9. 9Nevertheless the priests of the high places came not up to the altar of the Lord in Jerusalem, but they did eat of the unleavened bread among their brethren.5 cross-references: Ezekiel 44:10–14, Malachi 2:8–9, Ezekiel 44:29–31, 1 Samuel 2:36
  10. 10And he defiled Topheth, which is in the valley of the children of Hinnom, that no man might make his son or his daughter to pass through the fire to Molech.39 cross-references: Isaiah 30:33, Leviticus 18:21, Jeremiah 19:6, Jeremiah 7:31–32, Joshua 15:8
  11. 11And he took away the horses that the kings of Judah had given to the sun, at the entering in of the house of the Lord, by the chamber of Nathan–melech the chamberlain, which was in the suburbs, and burned the chariots of the sun with fire.17 cross-references: Ezekiel 8:16, 2 Chronicles 14:5, 2 Chronicles 34:4, 2 Kings 23:5, Deuteronomy 4:19
  12. 12And the altars that were on the top of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the Lord, did the king beat down, and brake them down from thence, and cast the dust of them into the brook Kidron.20 cross-references: Zephaniah 1:5, 2 Kings 21:5, Jeremiah 19:13, 2 Chronicles 33:5, 2 Kings 23:4
  13. 13And the high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on the right hand of the mount of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had builded for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Zidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon, did the king defile.31 cross-references: 1 Kings 11:7, 1 Kings 11:5, Numbers 21:29, Judges 11:24, Zephaniah 1:5
  14. 14And he brake in pieces the images, and cut down the groves, and filled their places with the bones of men.22 cross-references: Exodus 23:24, Deuteronomy 7:5, 2 Kings 23:16, Numbers 19:16, Jeremiah 8:1–2
  15. 15Moreover the altar that was at Beth–el, and the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, had made, both that altar and the high place he brake down, and burned the high place, and stamped it small to powder, and burned the grove.18 cross-references: 2 Kings 23:6, 1 Kings 14:16, 2 Kings 10:31, 1 Kings 21:22, 1 Kings 12:28 – 1 Kings 13:1
  16. 16And as Josiah turned himself, he spied the sepulchres that were there in the mount, and sent, and took the bones out of the sepulchres, and burned them upon the altar, and polluted it, according to the word of the Lord which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these words.13 cross-references: 1 Kings 13:1–2, Matthew 24:35, 1 Kings 13:32, John 10:35
  17. 17Then he said, What title is that that I see? And the men of the city told him, It is the sepulchre of the man of God, which came from Judah, and proclaimed these things that thou hast done against the altar of Beth–el.5 cross-references: 1 Kings 13:1, 1 Kings 13:30–31
  18. 18And he said, Let him alone; let no man move his bones. So they let his bones alone, with the bones of the prophet that came out of Samaria.3 cross-references: 1 Kings 13:31, 1 Kings 13:1–22
  19. 19And all the houses also of the high places that were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke the Lord to anger, Josiah took away, and did to them according to all the acts that he had done in Beth–el.16 cross-references: 2 Chronicles 34:6–7, Ezekiel 8:17–18, 1 Kings 12:31, Psalms 78:58, 2 Chronicles 30:6–11
  20. 20And he slew all the priests of the high places that were there upon the altars, and burned men’s bones upon them, and returned to Jerusalem.15 cross-references: 2 Kings 11:18, Exodus 22:20, 2 Chronicles 34:5, 2 Kings 10:25, 1 Kings 13:2
  21. 21And the king commanded all the people, saying, Keep the passover unto the Lord your God, as it is written in the book of this covenant.12 cross-references: Deuteronomy 16:1–8, Numbers 9:2–5, Exodus 12:3–20, Leviticus 23:5–8, 2 Chronicles 35:1–19
  22. 22Surely there was not holden such a passover from the days of the judges that judged Israel, nor in all the days of the kings of Israel, nor of the kings of Judah;4 cross-references: 2 Chronicles 35:3–19, 2 Chronicles 30:1–3, 2 Chronicles 30:13–20
  23. 23But in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, wherein this passover was holden to the Lord in Jerusalem.
  24. 24Moreover the workers with familiar spirits, and the wizards, and the images, and the idols, and all the abominations that were spied in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, did Josiah put away, that he might perform the words of the law which were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of the Lord.25 cross-references: Leviticus 19:31, 2 Kings 21:6, Genesis 31:19, Deuteronomy 18:10–12, Leviticus 20:27
  25. 25And like unto him was there no king before him, that 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; neither after him arose there any like him.19 cross-references: 2 Kings 18:5, Jeremiah 29:13, John 1:17, 2 Kings 23:3, 1 Kings 8:48
  26. 26Notwithstanding the Lord turned not from the fierceness of his great wrath, wherewith his anger was kindled against Judah, because of all the provocations that Manasseh had provoked him withal.22 cross-references: 2 Kings 24:4, 2 Kings 21:11–13, 2 Kings 24:2, 2 Chronicles 36:16, Jeremiah 3:7–10
  27. 27And the Lord said, I will remove Judah also out of my sight, as I have removed Israel, and will cast off this city Jerusalem which I have chosen, and the house of which I said, My name shall be there.28 cross-references: 2 Kings 21:13, 2 Kings 18:11, 2 Kings 17:20, Jeremiah 33:24, 2 Kings 21:4
  28. 28Now 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?1 cross-reference: 2 Kings 20:20
  29. 29In his days Pharaoh–nechoh king of Egypt went up against the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates: and king Josiah went against him; and he slew him at Megiddo, when he had seen him.37 cross-references: Jeremiah 46:2, 2 Chronicles 35:20–24, Zechariah 12:11, Judges 5:19, 2 Kings 24:7
  30. 30And his servants carried him in a chariot dead from Megiddo, and brought him to Jerusalem, and buried him in his own sepulchre. And the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and anointed him, and made him king in his father’s stead.15 cross-references: 2 Kings 9:28, 2 Chronicles 36:1–4, 2 Chronicles 35:24, 2 Kings 21:24, 2 Kings 14:21
  31. 31Jehoahaz was twenty and three years old when he began to reign; and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.9 cross-references: Jeremiah 22:11, 2 Kings 24:18, 1 Chronicles 3:15
  32. 32And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, according to all that his fathers had done.3 cross-references: 2 Kings 21:2–7, 2 Kings 21:21–22
  33. 33And Pharaoh–nechoh put him in bands at Riblah in the land of Hamath, that he might not reign in Jerusalem; and put the land to a tribute of an hundred talents of silver, and a talent of gold.28 cross-references: 1 Kings 8:65, 2 Kings 25:6, Jeremiah 52:26–27, Jeremiah 39:5–6, Jeremiah 52:9–10
  34. 34And Pharaoh–nechoh made Eliakim the son of Josiah king in the room of Josiah his father, and turned his name to Jehoiakim, and took Jehoahaz away: and he came to Egypt, and died there.20 cross-references: Ezekiel 19:3–4, Jeremiah 22:11–12, 1 Chronicles 3:15, 2 Kings 24:17, Daniel 1:7
  35. 35And Jehoiakim gave the silver and the gold to Pharaoh; but he taxed the land to give the money according to the commandment of Pharaoh: he exacted the silver and the gold of the people of the land, of every one according to his taxation, to give it unto Pharaoh–nechoh.7 cross-references: 2 Kings 23:33, 2 Kings 15:19–20
  36. 36Jehoiakim was twenty and five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Zebudah, the daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah.5 cross-references: 2 Chronicles 36:5, Jeremiah 1:3, 1 Chronicles 3:15, Jeremiah 26:1
  37. 37And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, according to all that his fathers had done.10 cross-references: Ezekiel 19:5–9, 2 Kings 23:32, 2 Chronicles 28:22–25, Jeremiah 36:23–26, 2 Chronicles 33:4–10

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God, Judah, Josiah, Pharaoh-nechoh, Jehoahaz, Jehoiakim, Hilkiah, Baal, Manasseh, Joshua, Molech, Nathan-melech, Ahaz, Solomon, Ashtoreth, Chemosh, Milcom, Jeroboam, Nebat, Moses, Hamutal, Jeremiah, Zebudah, Pedaiah

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Jerusalem, Bethel, Kidron, Kingdom of Judah, Samaria, Megiddo, Egypt, Geba, Beersheba, Judah, Topheth, Valley of the Son of Hinnom, Moab, Euphrates, Assyria, Libnah, Hamath, Riblah, Rumah

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