2 Chronicles 34 (NET)

2 Chronicles 34:1¹Josiah was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned for thirty-one years in Jerusalem.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross 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

2 Chronicles 34:2²He did what the Lord approved and followed in his ancestor David’s footsteps; he did not deviate to the right or the left.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross 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

2 Chronicles 34:3³In the eighth year of his reign, while he was still young, he began to seek the God of his ancestor David. In his twelfth year he began ridding Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, Asherah poles, idols, and images.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross 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

2 Chronicles 34:4⁴He ordered the altars of the Baals to be torn down, and broke the incense altars that were above them. He smashed the Asherah poles, idols, and images, crushed them, and sprinkled the dust over the tombs of those who had sacrificed to them.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross 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

2 Chronicles 34:5⁵He burned the bones of the pagan priests on their altars; he purified Judah and Jerusalem.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross 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

2 Chronicles 34:6⁶In the cities of Manasseh, Ephraim, and Simeon, as far as Naphtali, and in the ruins around them,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Sam 13:20-212 Chr 30:12 Chr 30:10-112 Chr 31:12 Kgs 23:15-20Isa 7:25Prov 25:18

2 Chronicles 34:7⁷he tore down the altars and Asherah poles, demolished the idols, and smashed all the incense altars throughout the land of Israel. Then he returned to Jerusalem.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Chr 31:1Deut 9:212 Chr 34:1

2 Chronicles 34:8⁸In the eighteenth year of his reign, he continued his policy of purifying the land and the temple. He sent Shaphan son of Azaliah, Maaseiah the city official, and Joah son of Joahaz the secretary to repair the temple of the Lord his God.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross 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

2 Chronicles 34:9⁹They went to Hilkiah the high priest and gave him the silver that had been brought to God’s temple. The Levites who guarded the door had collected it from the people of Manasseh and Ephraim and from all who were left in Israel, as well as from all the people of Judah and Benjamin and the residents of Jerusalem.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross 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

2 Chronicles 34:10¹⁰They handed it over to the construction foremen assigned to the Lord ’s temple. They in turn paid the temple workers to restore and repair it.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Kgs 12:11-122 Kgs 12:142 Kgs 22:5-6Ezra 3:7

2 Chronicles 34:11¹¹They gave money to the craftsmen and builders to buy chiseled stone and wood for the braces and rafters of the buildings that the kings of Judah had allowed to fall into disrepair.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Chr 33:4-72 Chr 33:22

2 Chronicles 34:12¹²The men worked faithfully. Their supervisors were Jahath and Obadiah (Levites descended from Merari), as well as Zechariah and Meshullam (descendants of Kohath). The Levites, all of whom were skilled musicians,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross 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

2 Chronicles 34:13¹³supervised the laborers and all the foremen on their various jobs. Some of the Levites were scribes, officials, and guards.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross 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

2 Chronicles 34:14¹⁴When they took out the silver that had been brought to the Lord ’s temple, Hilkiah the priest found the law scroll the Lord had given to Moses.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross 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

2 Chronicles 34:15¹⁵Hilkiah informed Shaphan the scribe, “I found the law scroll in the Lord ’s temple.” Hilkiah gave the scroll to Shaphan.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI

2 Chronicles 34:16¹⁶Shaphan brought the scroll to the king and reported, “Your servants are doing everything assigned to them.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Kgs 22:9-10Jer 36:20-21

2 Chronicles 34:17¹⁷They melted down the silver in the Lord ’s temple and handed it over to the supervisors and the construction foremen.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI

2 Chronicles 34:18¹⁸Then Shaphan the scribe told the king, “Hilkiah the priest has given me a scroll.” Shaphan read it out loud before the king.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 17:19Jer 36:20-21Josh 1:8Ps 119:46Ps 119:97-99

2 Chronicles 34:19¹⁹When the king heard the words of the law, he tore his clothes.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross 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

2 Chronicles 34:20²⁰The king ordered Hilkiah, Ahikam son of Shaphan, Abdon son of Micah, Shaphan the scribe, and Asaiah the king’s servant,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Kgs 22:122 Kgs 25:22Jer 26:22Jer 26:24Jer 40:6Jer 40:9Jer 40:14

2 Chronicles 34:21²¹“Go, ask the Lord for me and for those who remain in Israel and Judah about the words of this scroll that has been discovered. For the Lord ’s great fury has been ignited against us, because our ancestors did not obey the word of the Lord by living according to all that is written in this scroll.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross 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

2 Chronicles 34:22²²So Hilkiah and the others sent by the king went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum son of Tokhath, the son of Hasrah, the supervisor of the wardrobe. (She lived in Jerusalem in the Mishneh district.) They stated their business,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 15:20Luke 2:362 Kgs 22:14Acts 21:9Judg 4:4Luke 1:41-45

2 Chronicles 34:23²³and she said to them: “This is what the Lord God of Israel says: ‘Say this to the man who sent you to me:Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Kgs 22:15-20Jer 21:3-7Jer 37:7-10

2 Chronicles 34:24²⁴“This is what the Lord says: ‘I am about to bring disaster on this place and its residents, all the curses that are recorded in the scroll which they read before the king of Judah.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross 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

2 Chronicles 34:25²⁵This will happen because they have abandoned me and offered sacrifices to other gods, angering me with all the idols they have made. My anger will ignite against this place and will not be extinguished!’”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross 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

2 Chronicles 34:26²⁶Say this to the king of Judah, who sent you to seek an oracle from the Lord: “This is what the Lord God of Israel says concerning the words you have heard:Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Chr 34:212 Chr 34:23

2 Chronicles 34:27²⁷‘You displayed a sensitive spirit and humbled yourself before God when you heard his words concerning this place and its residents. You humbled yourself before me, tore your clothes and wept before me, and I have heard you,’ says the Lord.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross 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

2 Chronicles 34:28²⁸‘Therefore I will allow you to die and be buried in peace. You will not have to witness all the disaster I will bring on this place and its residents.’”’” Then they reported back to the king.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross 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

2 Chronicles 34:29²⁹The king summoned all the leaders of Judah and Jerusalem.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Kgs 23:1-31 Chr 29:2-91 Sam 12:232 Chr 30:2Mark 14:8

2 Chronicles 34:30³⁰The king went up to the Lord ’s temple, accompanied by all the people of Judah, the residents of Jerusalem, the priests, and the Levites. All the people were there, from the oldest to the youngest. He read aloud all the words of the scroll of the covenant that had been discovered in the Lord ’s temple.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross 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

2 Chronicles 34:31³¹The king stood by his pillar and renewed the covenant before the Lord, agreeing to follow the Lord and to obey his commandments, laws, and rules with all his heart and being, by carrying out the terms of this covenant recorded on this scroll.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross 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

2 Chronicles 34:32³²He made all who were in Jerusalem and Benjamin agree to it. The residents of Jerusalem acted in accordance with the covenant of God, the God of their ancestors.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Chr 14:42 Chr 29:292 Chr 30:122 Chr 33:16Eccl 8:2Gen 18:19Jer 3:10

2 Chronicles 34:33³³Josiah removed all the detestable idols from all the areas belonging to the Israelites and encouraged all who were in Israel to worship the Lord their God. Throughout the rest of his reign they did not turn aside from following the Lord God of their ancestors.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Chr 34:3-7Josh 24:311 Kgs 11:5-72 Kgs 23:4-20Hos 6:4Jer 3:10