| 1 | And the king sent, and they gathered unto him all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem. |
| 2 | And the king went to the house of the LORD, and all Judea, 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 found in the house of the LORD. |
| 3 | And the king stood by a pillar and made a covenant before the LORD - to follow the Lord and keep His commandments and His testimonies and His statutes with all his heart and all his soul, to perform the words of this covenant that are written in this book. And all the people stood to the covenant.
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| 4 | And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest and the priests of the second and stood guard at the threshold to make 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 Kidron Valley, and [ordered] carried their ashes to Bethel. |
| 5 | And down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah, to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah and around Jerusalem, --and who burned incense to Baal, the sun and the moon and the constellations and all the host of heaven; |
| 6 | Astarte, and ordered out of the house of the Lord without Jerusalem to the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and stamped it small to powder, and cast the dust of its entire people in the cemetery; |
| 7 | and broke down the houses bludilischnye that [were] in the house of the LORD, where the women wove hangings for the grove; |
| 8 | And 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 Beersheba, and brake down the heights [before] the gate, --tu which is at the entrance of the gate of Jesus governor of the city, which is on the left side at the city gate. |
| 9 | Nevertheless the priests of the heights is not the altar of the LORD in Jerusalem, but they ate unleavened bread among their brethren. |
| 10 | And he defiled Topheth, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, that no one is his son or his daughter to pass through the fire to Molech; |
| eleven | and the horses that the kings of Judah sun, at the entrance to the house of the LORD, by the chamber of the nave-melech the eunuch, in the suburbs, and the chariots of the sun with fire. |
| 12 | And the altars on the roof of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the Lord, the king broke, and down from thence, and cast their dust into the brook Kidron. |
| 13 | And the high places that were before Jerusalem, the right of the mount of corruption, which Solomon king of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians, Chemosh the abomination of Moab, and Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites, the king defile |
| 14 | and broke in pieces the statues, and cut down the groves, and filled their places with the bones of men. |
| 15 | Moreover the altar that was at Bethel, height, arranged by Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, and --takzhe that altar and the high place he brake down, and burned this very altitude, ground it to powder, and burned the grove. |
| 16 | And Josiah turned and saw the graves that [are] there in the mount, and sent, and took the bones from the graves and burned on the altar, and polluted it, according to the word of the LORD which the man of God proclaimed, predrekshy these events. |
| 17 | and he said [Josiah], What is this monument that I see? And they said unto him, men of the city [is] the tomb of the man of God who came from Judah and proclaimed these things that thou hast done against the altar of Bethel. |
| 18 | And he said, Let him alone; let no man move his bones. And save it to the bone, and the bones of the prophet that came out of Samaria. |
| 19 | Also, all the altars heights in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke [Jehovah], Josiah took away, and did to them as he had done in Bethel; |
| 20 | And he slew all the priests of the high places that were there upon the altars, and burned men's bones on them, --and returned to Jerusalem. |
| 21 | And the king commanded all the people, saying: 'Keep the passover unto the LORD your God, as written in the book of this covenant - |
| 22 | because there was not holden such a passover from the days of the judges who judged Israel, and all the days of the kings of Israel and the kings of Judah; |
| 23 | But in the eighteenth year of King Josiah this passover was holden to the Lord in Jerusalem. |
| 24 | And summoners of the dead, and the wizards, and the teraphim, 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 written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of the LORD.
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| 25 | And like unto him was no king before him, who would have turned to the LORD with all your heart, and with all their soul and all his might, according to all the law of Moses; neither after him arose there any like him. |
| 26 | Notwithstanding the LORD turned not put off the great fury of his wrath, wherewith his anger was kindled against Judah, because of all the provocations that Manasseh had provoked him. |
| 27 | And the LORD said, 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 | Other acts of Josiah and all that he did, are written in the annals of the kings of Judah. |
| 29 | In his days went to Pharaoh Neco, king of Egypt against the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates. And King Josiah went to meet him, and he slew him at Megiddo, when he saw it. |
| thirty | And his servants carried him dead from Megiddo, and brought him to Jerusalem, and buried him in his own sepulcher. And the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and anointed him, and made him king instead of his father.
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| 31 | Twenty-three years was Jehoahaz when he began to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem; mother's name was Hamutal, daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah. |
| 32 | And he did evil in the sight of the LORD according to all that his fathers had done. |
| 33 | And Pharaoh Neco detained him in Riblah in the land of Hamath, that he might not reign in Jerusalem, --and imposed fines on the ground a hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold. |
| 34 | And Pharaohnechoh made Eliakim the son of Josiah, Josiah his father, and changed his name to Jehoiakim; Jehoahaz he took and brought to Egypt, where he died. |
| 35 | And the silver and the gold Jehoiakim gave to Pharaoh; He made the land to give the money according to the commandment of Pharaoh; from each of the people of the land, according to her, he exacted the silver and gold to give to Pharaoh Neco. |
| 36 | Twenty-five years old was Joakim when he began to reign, and reigned eleven years in Jerusalem; His mother's name Zebudda, daughter of Pedaiah of Ruma. |
| 37 | And he did evil in the sight of the LORD according to all that his fathers had done. |
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