1Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem one and thirty years. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Jer 1:2Zeph 1:11 Chr 3:14-151 Kgs 13:21 Kgs 3:7-91 Sam 2:181 Sam 2:262 Chr 24:12 Chr 26:12 Chr 33:1
2And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, and walked in the ways of David his father, and declined neither to the right hand, nor to the left. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Chr 29:2Josh 1:71 Kgs 14:81 Kgs 15:52 Chr 14:22 Chr 17:3Deut 28:14Deut 5:32Josh 23:62 Kgs 22:2
3For 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 groves, and the carved images, and the molten images. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Chr 33:222 Chr 15:22 Chr 33:17Prov 8:171 Chr 22:51 Chr 28:91 Chr 29:11 Kgs 13:22 Chr 30:142 Kgs 18:4
4And they brake down the altars of Baalim in his presence; and the images, that were on high above them, he cut down; and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images, he brake in pieces, and made dust of them, and strowed it upon the graves of them that had sacrificed unto them. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Exod 32:202 Kgs 23:4-6Lev 26:302 Chr 14:52 Chr 33:32 Chr 34:72 Kgs 10:26-272 Kgs 23:11-12Deut 7:25Deut 7:5
5And he burnt the bones of the priests upon their altars, and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Kgs 13:22 Chr 34:72 Kgs 23:162 Kgs 23:20Ezek 22:24Jer 3:10Jer 4:14Jer 8:1-2Num 35:33
6And so did he in the cities of Manasseh, and Ephraim, and Simeon, even unto Naphtali, with their mattocks round about. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Sam 13:20-212 Chr 30:12 Chr 30:10-112 Chr 31:12 Kgs 23:15-20Isa 7:25Prov 25:18
7And when he had broken down the altars and the groves, and had beaten the graven images into powder, and cut down all the idols throughout all the land of Israel, he returned to Jerusalem. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Chr 31:1Deut 9:212 Chr 34:1
8Now 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 the Lord his God. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Sam 8:161 Chr 18:152 Chr 18:252 Kgs 22:3-202 Sam 20:24Ezek 8:11Jer 1:2-3Jer 21:1Jer 26:24Jer 29:21
9And when they came to Hilkiah the high priest, they delivered the money that was brought into the house of God, which the Levites that kept the doors had gathered of the hand of Manasseh and Ephraim, and of all the remnant of Israel, and of all Judah and Benjamin; and they returned to Jerusalem. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Chr 30:102 Chr 30:182 Chr 35:82 Chr 24:11-142 Chr 31:12 Chr 34:14-152 Chr 34:182 Chr 34:202 Chr 34:222 Kgs 22:4-7
10And they put it in the hand of the workmen that had the oversight of the house of the Lord, and they gave it to the workmen that wrought in the house of the Lord, to repair and amend the house: Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Kgs 12:11-122 Kgs 12:142 Kgs 22:5-6Ezra 3:7
11Even to the artificers and builders gave they it, to buy hewn stone, and timber for couplings, and to floor the houses which the kings of Judah had destroyed. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Chr 33:4-72 Chr 33:22
12And 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 other of the Levites, all that could skill of instruments of musick. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Kgs 12:151 Chr 23:51 Chr 15:16-221 Chr 16:4-51 Chr 16:411 Chr 25:1-311 Chr 6:31-481 Cor 4:22 Chr 31:122 Kgs 22:7
13Also they were over the bearers of burdens, and were overseers of all that wrought the work in any manner of service: and of the Levites there were scribes, and officers, and porters. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Neh 4:102 Chr 2:181 Chr 15:181 Chr 16:381 Chr 16:421 Chr 23:4-51 Chr 26:1-191 Chr 26:29-301 Chr 9:172 Chr 19:11
14And when they brought out the money that was brought into the house of the Lord, Hilkiah the priest found a book of the law of the Lord given by Moses. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Chr 12:12 Chr 31:42 Chr 34:92 Chr 35:262 Kgs 22:8-20Deut 17:18-19Deut 31:24-26Ezra 7:10Isa 30:9Isa 5:24
15And Hilkiah answered and said to Shaphan the scribe, I have found the book of the law in the house of the Lord. And Hilkiah delivered the book to Shaphan. Many Bible Versions Ask AI
16And Shaphan carried the book to the king, and brought the king word back again, saying, All that was committed to thy servants, they do it. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Kgs 22:9-10Jer 36:20-21
17And they have gathered together the money that was found in the house of the Lord, and have delivered it into the hand of the overseers, and to the hand of the workmen. Many Bible Versions Ask AI
18Then Shaphan the scribe told the king, saying, Hilkiah the priest hath given me a book. And Shaphan read it before the king. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Deut 17:19Jer 36:20-21Josh 1:8Ps 119:46Ps 119:97-99
19And it came to pass, when the king had heard the words of the law, that he rent his clothes. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Josh 7:62 Kgs 19:12 Kgs 22:112 Kgs 22:19Deut 28:3-68Gal 2:19Gal 3:10-13Jer 36:22-24Joel 2:13Rom 3:20
20And the king commanded Hilkiah, and Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and Abdon the son of Micah, and Shaphan the scribe, and Asaiah a servant of the king’s, saying, Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Kgs 22:122 Kgs 25:22Jer 26:22Jer 26:24Jer 40:6Jer 40:9Jer 40:14
21Go, enquire of the Lord 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 the Lord that is poured out upon us, because our fathers have not kept the word of the Lord, to do after all that is written in this book. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Chr 28:6Ezek 14:1-11Jer 21:21 Kgs 22:5-71 Sam 9:92 Chr 29:82 Chr 33:112 Kgs 17:6-72 Kgs 22:13Deut 28:15
22And Hilkiah, and they that the king had appointed, went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvath, the son of Hasrah, keeper of the wardrobe; (now she dwelt in Jerusalem in the college:) and they spake to her to that effect. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Exod 15:20Luke 2:362 Kgs 22:14Acts 21:9Judg 4:4Luke 1:41-45
23And she answered them, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Tell ye the man that sent you to me, Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Kgs 22:15-20Jer 21:3-7Jer 37:7-10
24Thus saith the Lord, 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: Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Chr 36:14-20Deut 28:15-68Josh 23:162 Kgs 21:122 Kgs 23:26-27Isa 5:4-6Jer 19:15Jer 19:3Jer 35:17Jer 36:31
25Because 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 my wrath shall be poured out upon this place, and shall not be quenched. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Jer 7:20Mark 9:43-48Nah 1:62 Chr 12:22 Chr 15:22 Chr 33:3-92 Kgs 22:172 Kgs 24:3-4Ezek 20:48Isa 2:8-9
26And as for the king of Judah, who sent you to enquire of the Lord, so shall ye say unto him, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel concerning the words which thou hast heard; Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Chr 34:212 Chr 34:23
27Because thine heart was tender, and thou didst humble thyself before God, when thou heardest his words against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, and humbledst thyself before me, and didst rend thy clothes, and weep before me; I have even heard thee also, saith the Lord. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Chr 32:26Ezek 9:4Ps 34:182 Chr 33:122 Chr 34:19Isa 65:242 Chr 12:72 Chr 32:12-132 Kgs 22:18-19Isa 57:15
28Behold, 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 of the same. So they brought the king word again. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Isa 39:8Ps 37:371 Kgs 21:292 Chr 35:24Isa 57:1-2Jer 15:12 Kgs 20:192 Kgs 22:20Ezek 14:14-21
29Then the king sent and gathered together all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Kgs 23:1-31 Chr 29:2-91 Sam 12:232 Chr 30:2Mark 14:8
30And the king went up into the house of the Lord, and all the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the priests, and the Levites, and all the people, 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 the Lord. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Kgs 23:2Exod 24:72 Chr 15:12-132 Chr 17:7-92 Chr 18:302 Chr 34:152 Chr 34:18-192 Chr 34:242 Chr 6:1-112 Kgs 23:21
31And the king stood in his place, 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 his heart, and with all his soul, to perform the words of the covenant which are written in this book. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Chr 23:162 Chr 15:122 Chr 29:102 Chr 6:132 Kgs 11:142 Kgs 23:32 Chr 15:152 Chr 30:162 Chr 31:212 Kgs 11:4
32And he caused all that were present 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. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Chr 14:42 Chr 29:292 Chr 30:122 Chr 33:16Eccl 8:2Gen 18:19Jer 3:10
33And Josiah took away all the abominations out of all the countries that pertained to the children of Israel, and made all that were present in Israel to serve, even to serve the Lord their God. And all his days they departed not from following the Lord, the God of their fathers. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Chr 34:3-7Josh 24:311 Kgs 11:5-72 Kgs 23:4-20Hos 6:4Jer 3:10