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2 Kings 23

Josiah gathers Judah and Jerusalem, reads the book of the covenant publicly, and commits to follow the LORD. He removes idolatrous vessels, false priests, high places, Topheth, sun worship, and other corrupt practices. At Bethel he destroys Jeroboam’s altar and burns bones on it, explicitly fulfilling the centuries-old prophecy that named Josiah. He then keeps an extraordinary Passover. Yet the LORD’s fierce wrath connected with Manasseh’s sins is not turned away. Josiah is killed at Megiddo. Jehoahaz briefly reigns, then Egypt installs Jehoiakim and exacts tribute.

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Josiah gathers Judah and Jerusalem, reads the book of the covenant publicly, and commits to follow the LORD. He removes idolatrous vessels, false priests, high places, Topheth, sun worship, and other corrupt practices. At Bethel he destroys Jeroboam’s altar and burns bones on it, explicitly fulfilling the centuries-old prophecy that named Josiah. He then keeps an extraordinary Passover. Yet the LORD’s fierce wrath connected with Manasseh’s sins is not turned away. Josiah is killed at Megiddo. Jehoahaz briefly reigns, then Egypt installs Jehoiakim and exacts tribute.

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Verses 1–3Josiah reads the covenant before the people and renews it before the LORDVerses 4–14Josiah removes idolatry from Jerusalem and JudahVerses 15–20Josiah destroys the altar at Bethel and other high placesVerses 21–23Josiah keeps a great passover according to the book of the covenantVerses 24–27Josiah removes further abominations, though the LORD’s anger remains against JudahVerses 28–30Josiah is killed at Megiddo and buried in JerusalemVerses 31–35Jehoahaz reigns briefly and is removed by Pharaoh-nechoVerses 36–37Jehoiakim reigns and does evil
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1And the king sent, and they gathered unto him all…2And the king went up into the house of the…3And the king stood by a pillar, and made a…4And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the…5And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings…6And he brought out the grove from the house of…7And he brake down the houses of the sodomites, that…8And he brought all the priests out of the cities…9Nevertheless the priests of the high places came not up…10And he defiled Topheth, which is in the valley of…11And he took away the horses that the kings of…12And the altars that were on the top of the…13And the high places that were before Jerusalem, which were…14And he brake in pieces the images, and cut down…15Moreover the altar that was at Bethel, and the high…16And as Josiah turned himself, he spied the sepulchres that…17Then he said, What title is that that I see?…18And he said, Let him alone; let no man move…19And all the houses also of the high places that…20And he slew all the priests of the high places…21And the king commanded all the people, saying, Keep the…22Surely there was not holden such a passover from the…23But in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, wherein this…24Moreover the workers with familiar spirits, and the wizards, and…25And like unto him was there no king before him,…26Notwithstanding the LORD turned not from the fierceness of his…27And the LORD said, I will remove Judah also out…28Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and all…29In his days Pharaohnechoh king of Egypt went up against…30And his servants carried him in a chariot dead from…31Jehoahaz was twenty and three years old when he began…32And he did that which was evil in the sight…33And Pharaohnechoh put him in bands at Riblah in the…34And Pharaohnechoh made Eliakim the son of Josiah king in…35And Jehoiakim gave the silver and the gold to Pharaoh;…36Jehoiakim was twenty and five years old when he began…37And he did that which was evil in the sight…