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2 Kings 23

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1And the king sent, and they gathered unto him all the elders of Judah and of Jerusalem. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Chr 34:29-332 Chr 29:202 Chr 30:2Deut 31:282 Sam 6:1

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. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Kgs 22:8Deut 31:10-13Rev 20:121 Kgs 8:91 Sam 30:21 Sam 5:92 Chr 15:132 Chr 17:9Acts 26:22Deut 31:26

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. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Kgs 11:142 Kgs 11:17Deut 13:42 Chr 15:12-142 Chr 23:132 Chr 23:162 Chr 29:102 Chr 34:31-33Deut 10:12Deut 11:13

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. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Kgs 21:32 Kgs 21:72 Chr 33:32 Kgs 25:181 Chr 24:4-191 Chr 26:1-191 Kgs 12:291 Kgs 16:311 Kgs 18:191 Kgs 18:26

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. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Jer 44:17-192 Kgs 21:3-4Hos 10:5Jer 8:1-2

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. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Chr 34:42 Kgs 23:151 Kgs 14:231 Kgs 16:332 Kgs 10:272 Kgs 21:7Deut 7:25Deut 9:21Exod 32:20Jer 17:2

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. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Kgs 15:12Ezek 16:161 Kgs 14:24Exod 35:25-261 Kgs 22:462 Chr 34:33Ezek 8:14Gen 19:4-5Hos 2:13Rom 1:26-27

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. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Kgs 15:22Josh 21:171 Chr 6:601 Kgs 19:3Gen 21:31Gen 26:23Isa 10:29Judg 20:1Zech 14:10

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. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Ezek 44:10-141 Sam 2:36Ezek 44:29-31Mal 2:8-9

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. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Isa 30:33Jer 19:6Jer 7:31-32Lev 18:21Jer 32:35Josh 15:8Deut 18:10Jer 19:11-131 Kgs 11:72 Chr 28:3

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. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Ezek 8:162 Chr 14:52 Chr 34:42 Kgs 23:5Deut 4:19

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. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Kgs 21:5Jer 19:13Zeph 1:52 Chr 33:52 Chr 33:152 Kgs 21:21-222 Kgs 23:42 Kgs 23:6Deut 22:8

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. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Kgs 11:51 Kgs 11:7Num 21:291 Kgs 11:331 Sam 12:101 Sam 7:4Jer 48:13Jer 48:16Jer 48:7Judg 10:6

14And he brake in pieces the images, and cut down the groves, and filled their places with the bones of men. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Deut 7:5Exod 23:242 Kgs 23:162 Chr 34:3-4Deut 7:25-26Ezek 39:12-16Jer 8:1-2Matt 23:27-28Mic 1:7Num 19:16

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. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Kgs 14:162 Kgs 23:61 Kgs 12:28-13:11 Kgs 15:301 Kgs 21:222 Kgs 10:31

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. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Kgs 13:1-21 Kgs 13:32John 10:35Matt 24:35

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. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Kgs 13:11 Kgs 13:30-31

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. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Kgs 13:311 Kgs 13:1-22

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. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Chr 34:6-71 Kgs 12:311 Kgs 13:321 Kgs 16:332 Chr 30:6-112 Chr 31:12 Kgs 17:16-182 Kgs 17:92 Kgs 21:62 Kgs 8:18

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. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Kgs 11:182 Chr 34:52 Kgs 10:25Exod 22:201 Kgs 13:21 Kgs 18:40Deut 13:5Isa 34:6Zech 13:2-3

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. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Deut 16:1-8Num 9:2-52 Chr 35:1-19Exod 12:3-20Lev 23:5-8Num 28:16-25

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; Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Chr 30:1-32 Chr 30:13-202 Chr 35:3-19

23But in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, wherein this passover was holden to the Lord in Jerusalem. Many Bible Versions Ask AI

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. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Lev 19:312 Kgs 21:6Gen 31:19Deut 18:10-12Lev 20:271 Sam 28:3-72 Chr 34:14-192 Kgs 21:112 Kgs 21:212 Kgs 21:3

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. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Kgs 18:5Jer 29:131 Kgs 8:482 Kgs 23:3Deut 6:5John 1:171 Kgs 15:51 Kgs 2:4Deut 4:29John 7:19

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. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Kgs 21:11-132 Kgs 24:42 Chr 36:162 Kgs 22:16-172 Kgs 24:2Jer 15:1-4Jer 3:7-10

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. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Kgs 18:112 Kgs 21:132 Kgs 17:182 Kgs 17:202 Kgs 21:4Jer 33:241 Kgs 8:291 Kgs 9:32 Kgs 21:72 Kgs 24:3

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? Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Kgs 20:20

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. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Jer 46:22 Chr 35:20-24Judg 5:19Zech 12:111 Kgs 4:122 Kgs 14:112 Kgs 14:82 Kgs 22:202 Kgs 23:33-352 Kgs 24:7

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. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Kgs 9:282 Chr 36:1-41 Kgs 22:33-382 Chr 35:242 Kgs 14:212 Kgs 21:24

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. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Chr 3:152 Kgs 24:18Jer 22:11

32And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, according to all that his fathers had done. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Kgs 21:2-72 Kgs 21:21-22

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. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Kgs 8:652 Kgs 25:6Jer 39:5-6Jer 52:26-27Jer 52:9-102 Chr 36:3-42 Kgs 18:142 Kgs 23:29Exod 21:22Ezek 19:3-4

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. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Ezek 19:3-41 Chr 3:152 Kgs 24:17Jer 22:11-12Dan 1:72 Chr 36:3-4Gen 41:45Josh 18:18

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. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Kgs 23:332 Kgs 15:19-20

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. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Chr 36:51 Chr 3:15Jer 1:3Jer 26:1

37And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, according to all that his fathers had done. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Chr 28:22-252 Chr 33:22-232 Chr 33:4-102 Kgs 23:32Ezek 19:5-9Jer 22:13-17Jer 26:20-23Jer 36:23-26Jer 36:31

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