37;
37 And he did evil in the Eyes of
the Lord, just as his predecessors had done. (1)
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Jehoiakim King of
Judah
36 Jehoiakim
was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eleven
years. His mother’s name was Zebidah daughter of Pedaiah; she was from Rumah. (9)
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27 So
the Lord said, “I will
remove Judah also from My Presence as I removed Israel, and I will reject
Jerusalem, the city I Chose, and this temple, about which I said, ‘My Name(Jesus) shall be there.’”
28 As for the other
events of Josiah’s reign, and all he did, are they not written in the book of
the annals of the kings of Judah?
29 While Josiah was
king, Pharaoh Necho king of Egypt went up to the Euphrates River to help the
king of Assyria. King Josiah marched out to meet him in battle, but Necho faced
him and killed him at Megiddo.
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18 “Leave
it alone,” he said. “Don’t let anyone disturb his bones.” So they spared his
bones and those of the prophet who had come from Samaria. (9)
19 Just as he had done
at Bethel, Josiah removed all the shrines at the high places that the kings of
Israel had built in the towns of Samaria and that had aroused the Lord’s anger.
20 Josiah slaughtered all the
priests of those high places on the altars and burned human bones on them. Then he went back to Jerusalem.
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9 Although
the priests of the high places did not serve at the altar of the Lord in Jerusalem, they ate unleavened bread with their fellow
priests. (9)
10 He desecrated Topheth, which
was in the Valley of Ben Hinnom, so no one could use it to sacrifice their son
or daughter in the fire to Molek.
11 He removed from the
entrance to the temple of the Lord the horses that
the kings of Judah had dedicated to the sun. They were in the court near
the room of an official named Nathan-Melek. Josiah then burned the chariots
dedicated to the sun.
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33 Pharaoh
Necho put him in chains at Riblah in the land of Hamath so that he might not
reign in Jerusalem, and he imposed on Judah a levy of a hundred talents of
silver and a talent of gold. (6)
34 Pharaoh Necho made
Eliakim son of Josiah king in place of his father Josiah and changed Eliakim’s
name to Jehoiakim. But he took Jehoahaz and carried him off to Egypt, and there
he died.
35 Jehoiakim paid Pharaoh Necho
the silver and gold he demanded. In order to do so, he taxed the land and
exacted the silver and gold from the people of the land according to their
assessments.
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24 Furthermore,
Josiah got rid of the mediums and spiritists, the household gods, the idols and
all the other detestable things seen in Judah and Jerusalem. This he did to
fulfill the requirements of the law written in the book that Hilkiah the priest
had discovered in the temple of the Lord. (6)
25 Neither before nor after Josiah
was there a king like him who turned to the Lord
as he did—with all his heart and with all his soul and with all his strength,
in accordance with all the Law of Moses.
26 Nevertheless, the Lord
did not turn away from the heat of His Fierce Anger, which burned against Judah
because of all that Manasseh had done to arouse His Anger.
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15 Even
the altar at Bethel, the high place made by Jeroboam son of Nebat, who had
caused Israel to sin—even that altar and high place he demolished. He burned
the high place and ground it to powder, and burned the Asherah pole also. (6)
16 Then Josiah looked around, and
when he saw the tombs that were there on the hillside, he had the bones removed
from them and burned on the altar to defile it, in accordance with the Word of
the Lord proclaimed by the man of God who foretold these
things.
17 The king asked,
“What is that tombstone I see?” The people of the city said, “It marks the tomb
of the man of God who came from Judah and pronounced against the altar of
Bethel the very things you have done to it.”
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6 He
took the Asherah pole from the temple of the Lord to the Kidron Valley outside Jerusalem and burned it there. He
ground it to powder and scattered the dust over the graves of the common people. (6)
7 He also tore down the quarters
of the male shrine prostitutes that were in the temple of the Lord,
the quarters where women did weaving for Asherah.
8 Josiah brought all
the priests from the towns of Judah and desecrated the high places, from Geba to
Beersheba, where the priests had burned incense. He broke down the gateway at
the entrance of the Gate of Joshua, the city governor, which was on the left of
the city gate.
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30 Josiah’s
servants brought his body in a chariot from Megiddo to Jerusalem and buried him
in his own tomb. And the people of the land took Jehoahaz son of Josiah and
anointed him and made him king in place of his father.(3)
Jehoahaz King of
Judah
31 Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he became king,
and he reigned in Jerusalem three months. His mother’s name was Hamutal
daughter of Jeremiah; she was from Libnah.
32 He did evil in the eyes of the Lord,
just as his predecessors had done.
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21 The
king gave this order to all the people: “Celebrate the Passover to the Lord(Jesus) your God, as it is written in this Book of the
Covenant.” (3)
22 Neither in the days
of the judges who led Israel nor in the days of the kings of Israel and the
kings of Judah had any such Passover been observed.
23 But in the eighteenth year of King Josiah, this
Passover was celebrated to the Lord(Jesus) in Jerusalem.
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12 He
pulled down the altars the kings of Judah had erected on the roof near the
upper room of Ahaz, and the altars Manasseh had built in the two courts of the
temple of the Lord. He removed them
from there, smashed them to pieces and threw the rubble into the Kidron Valley. (3)
13 The king also
desecrated the high places that were east of Jerusalem on the south of the Hill
of Corruption—the ones Solomon king of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the vile
goddess of the Sidonians, for Chemosh the vile god of Moab, and for Molek the
detestable god of the people of Ammon.
14 Josiah smashed the sacred
stones and cut down the Asherah poles and covered the sites with human bones.
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Josiah Renews the
Covenant
23 Then the king
called together all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem.
2 He went up to the
temple of the Lord with the people of Judah, the
inhabitants of Jerusalem, the priests and the prophets—all the people from the
least to the greatest. He read in their hearing all the words of the Book of
the Covenant, which had been found in the temple of the Lord.
3 The king stood by the pillar
and renewed the covenant in the presence of the Lord—to
follow the Lord and keep his commands, statutes and decrees with
all his heart and all his soul, thus confirming the Words of the Covenant
written in this book. Then all the people pledged themselves to the Covenant. (3)
4 The king ordered
Hilkiah the high priest, the priests next in rank and the doorkeepers to remove
from the temple of the Lord all the articles
made for Baal and Asherah and all the starry hosts. He burned them outside
Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron Valley and took the ashes to Bethel.
5 He did away with
the idolatrous priests appointed by the kings of Judah to burn incense on the
high places of the towns of Judah and on those around Jerusalem—those who
burned incense to Baal, to the sun and moon, to the constellations and to all
the starry hosts.
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