2 Kings 22:1-23:30
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a Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Jedidah the daughter of Adaiah of b Bozkath.
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And he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord and walked in all the way of David his father, c and he did not turn aside to the right or to the left.
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In the eighteenth year of King Josiah, the king sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, son of Meshullam, the secretary, to the house of the Lord, saying,
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"Go up to d Hilkiah the high priest, that he may count the money e that has been brought into the house of the Lord, which f the keepers of the threshold have collected from the people.
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g And let it be given into the hand of the workmen who have the oversight of the house of the Lord, and let them give it to the workmen who are at the house of the Lord, repairing the house
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(that is, to the carpenters, and to the builders, and to the masons), and let them use it for buying timber and quarried stone to repair the house.
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But h no accounting shall be asked from them for the money that is delivered into their hand, for they deal honestly."
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And Hilkiah the high priest said to Shaphan the secretary, "I have found i the Book of the Law in the house of the Lord." And Hilkiah gave the book to Shaphan, and he read it.
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And Shaphan the secretary came to the king, and reported to the king, "Your servants have emptied out the money that was found in the house and have delivered it into the hand of the workmen who have the oversight of the house of the Lord."
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Then Shaphan the secretary told the king, "Hilkiah the priest has given me a book." And Shaphan read it before the king.
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When the king heard the words of the Book of the Law, j he tore his clothes.
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And the king commanded Hilkiah the priest, and k Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and l Achbor the son of l Micaiah, and Shaphan the secretary, and Asaiah the king's servant, saying,
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"Go, inquire of the Lord for me, and for the people, and for all Judah, concerning the words of this book that has been found. For great is m the wrath of the Lord that is kindled against us, because our fathers have not obeyed the words of this book, to do according to all that is written concerning us."
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So Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam, and Achbor, and Shaphan, and Asaiah went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of n Tikvah, son of n Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe (now she lived in Jerusalem in o the Second Quarter), and they talked with her.
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And she said to them, "Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: 'Tell the man who sent you to me,
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Thus says the Lord, Behold, I will bring disaster upon this place and upon its inhabitants, all the words of the book that the king of Judah has read.
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p Because they have forsaken me and have made offerings to other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the work of their hands, therefore m my wrath will be kindled against this place, and it will not be quenched.
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But to the king of Judah, who sent you to inquire of the Lord, thus shall you say to him, Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: Regarding the words that you have heard,
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q because your heart was penitent, and you r humbled yourself before the Lord, when you heard how I spoke against this place and against its inhabitants, that they should become s a desolation and t a curse, and you u have torn your clothes and wept before me, I also have heard you, declares the Lord.
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Therefore, behold, I will gather you to your fathers, and v you shall be gathered to your grave in peace, and your eyes shall not see all the disaster that I will bring upon this place.'" And they brought back word to the king.
2 Kings 23
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w Then the king sent, and all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem were gathered to him.
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And the king went up to the house of the Lord, and with him all the men of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem and the priests and the prophets, all the people, both small and great. And x he read in their hearing all the words of the Book of the Covenant y that had been found in the house of the Lord.
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And the king stood z by the pillar and a made a covenant before the Lord, b to walk after the Lord and to 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 were written in this book. And all the people joined in the covenant.
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And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest and the priests c of the second order and the keepers of the threshold to bring out of the temple of the Lord all the vessels made for d Baal, for e Asherah, and for all the host of heaven. f He burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron and carried their ashes to Bethel.
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And he deposed the priests whom the kings of Judah had ordained to make offerings in the high places at the cities of Judah and around Jerusalem; those also who burned incense to Baal, to the sun and the moon and the constellations g and all the host of the heavens.
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And he brought out h the Asherah from the house of the Lord, outside Jerusalem, to the brook Kidron, i and burned it at the brook Kidron j and beat it to dust and cast the dust of it upon the graves k of the common people.
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And he broke down the houses of l the male cult prostitutes who were in the house of the Lord, m where the women wove hangings for h the Asherah.
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And he brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah, and defiled the high places where the priests had made offerings, from n Geba to Beersheba. And he broke down the high places of the gates that were at the entrance of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city, which were on one's left at the gate of the city.
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o However, the priests of the high places did not come up to the altar of the Lord in Jerusalem, but they ate unleavened bread among their brothers.
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And he defiled p Topheth, which is q in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, r that no one might burn his son or his daughter as an offering to s Molech.
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And he removed the horses that the kings of Judah had dedicated to the sun, at the entrance to the house of the Lord, by the chamber of Nathan-melech the chamberlain, which was in the precincts. And he burned the chariots of the sun with fire.
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And the altars t on the roof of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars u that Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the Lord, he pulled down and broke in pieces and cast the dust of them v into the brook Kidron.
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And the king defiled the high places that were east of Jerusalem, to the south of w the mount of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had built for x Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians, and for y Chemosh the abomination of Moab, and for z Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.
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And he broke in pieces the a pillars and cut down the Asherim and filled their places with the bones of men.
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Moreover, the altar at Bethel, the high place erected b by Jeroboam the son of Nebat, c who made Israel to sin, d that altar with the high place he pulled down and burned, reducing it to dust. He also burned the Asherah.
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And as Josiah turned, he saw the tombs there on the mount. And he sent and took the bones out of the tombs and burned them on the altar and defiled it, e according to the word of the Lord that the man of God proclaimed, who had predicted these things.
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Then he said, "What is that monument that I see?" And the men of the city told him, f "It is the tomb of the man of God who came from Judah and predicted these things that you have done against the altar at Bethel."
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And he said, "Let him be; let no man move his bones." So they let his bones alone, with the bones g of the prophet who came out of Samaria.
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And Josiah removed all the shrines also of the high places that were h in the cities of Samaria, which kings of Israel had made, provoking the Lord to anger. He did to them according to all that he had done at Bethel.
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And i he sacrificed all the priests of the high places who were there, on the altars, j and burned human bones on them. Then he returned to Jerusalem.
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And the king commanded all the people, k "Keep the Passover to the Lord your God, l as it is written in this Book of the Covenant."
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m For no such Passover had been kept since the days of the judges who judged Israel, or during all the days of the kings of Israel or of the kings of Judah.
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But in the eighteenth year of King Josiah this Passover was kept to the Lord in Jerusalem.
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Moreover, Josiah put away n the mediums and the necromancers and o the household gods and p the idols and all the abominations that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, that he might establish q the words of the law that were written in the book r that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of the Lord.
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s Before him there was no king like him, who 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, nor did any like him arise after him.
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Still the Lord did not turn from the burning of his great wrath, by which his anger was kindled against Judah, t because of all the provocations with which Manasseh had provoked him.
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And the Lord said, "I will remove Judah also out of my sight, u as I have removed Israel, and I will cast off this city that I have chosen, Jerusalem, v and the house of which I said, My name shall be there."
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Now 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?
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w In his days x Pharaoh Neco king of Egypt went up to the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates. King Josiah went to meet him, and Pharaoh Neco killed him at y Megiddo, as soon as he saw him.
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z And his servants carried him dead in a chariot from y Megiddo and brought him to Jerusalem and buried him in his own tomb. a And the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and anointed him, and made him king in his father's place.
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2 Chronicles 34:1 - 2
Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem.
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Joshua 15:39
Lachish, Bozkath, Eglon.
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Deuteronomy 5:32
You shall be careful therefore to do as the Lord your God has commanded you. You shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left.
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2 Kings 12:10
And whenever they saw that there was much money in the chest, the king's secretary and the high priest came up and they bagged and counted the money that was found in the house of the Lord.
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2 Kings 12:4
Jehoash said to the priests, "All the money of the holy things that is brought into the house of the Lord, the money for which each man is assessed - the money from the assessment of persons - and the money that a man's heart prompts him to bring into the house of the Lord.
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2 Kings 12:9
Then Jehoiada the priest took a chest and bored a hole in the lid of it and set it beside the altar on the right side as one entered the house of the Lord. And the priests who guarded the threshold put in it all the money that was brought into the house of the Lord.
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2 Kings 12:11 - 12
Then they would give the money that was weighed out into the hands of the workmen who had the oversight of the house of the Lord. And they paid it out to the carpenters and the builders who worked on the house of the Lord.
2 Kings 12:14
For that was given to the workmen who were repairing the house of the Lord with it.
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2 Kings 12:15
And they did not ask an accounting from the men into whose hand they delivered the money to pay out to the workmen, for they dealt honestly.
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Deuteronomy 31:24 - 26
When Moses had finished writing the words of this law in a book to the very end.
2 Chronicles 34:14
While they were bringing out the money that had been brought into the house of the Lord, Hilkiah the priest found the Book of the Law of the Lord given through Moses.
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Joshua 7:6
Then Joshua tore his clothes and fell to the earth on his face before the ark of the Lord until the evening, he and the elders of Israel. And they put dust on their heads.
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2 Kings 25:22
And over the people who remained in the land of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had left, he appointed Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, son of Shaphan, governor.
Jeremiah 26:24
But the hand of Ahikam the son of Shaphan was with Jeremiah so that he was not given over to the people to be put to death.
Jeremiah 39:14
Sent and took Jeremiah from the court of the guard. They entrusted him to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, son of Shaphan, that he should take him home. So he lived among the people.
Jeremiah 40:5
If you remain, then return to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, son of Shaphan, whom the king of Babylon appointed governor of the cities of Judah, and dwell with him among the people. Or go wherever you think it right to go." So the captain of the guard gave him an allowance of food and a present, and let him go.
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2 Chronicles 34:20
And the king commanded Hilkiah, Ahikam the son of Shaphan, Abdon the son of Micah, Shaphan the secretary, and Asaiah the king's servant, saying.
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2 Chronicles 34:20
And the king commanded Hilkiah, Ahikam the son of Shaphan, Abdon the son of Micah, Shaphan the secretary, and Asaiah the king's servant, saying.
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Deuteronomy 29:27
Therefore the anger of the Lord was kindled against this land, bringing upon it all the curses written in this book.
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2 Chronicles 34:22
So Hilkiah and those whom the king had sent went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tokhath, son of Hasrah, keeper of the wardrobe (now she lived in Jerusalem in the Second Quarter) and spoke to her to that effect.
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2 Chronicles 34:22
So Hilkiah and those whom the king had sent went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tokhath, son of Hasrah, keeper of the wardrobe (now she lived in Jerusalem in the Second Quarter) and spoke to her to that effect.
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Zephaniah 1:10
On that day," declares the Lord, "a cry will be heard from the Fish Gate, a wail from the Second Quarter, a loud crash from the hills.
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2 Kings 21:22
He abandoned the Lord, the God of his fathers, and did not walk in the way of the Lord.
Deuteronomy 29:25 - 26
Then people will say, 'It is because they abandoned the covenant of the Lord, the God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.
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2 Kings 22:13
"Go, inquire of the Lord for me, and for the people, and for all Judah, concerning the words of this book that has been found. For great is the wrath of the Lord that is kindled against us, because our fathers have not obeyed the words of this book, to do according to all that is written concerning us."
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Psalms 51:17
The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.
Isaiah 57:15
For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: "I dwell in the high and holy place, and also with him who is of a contrite and lowly spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly, and to revive the heart of the contrite.
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1 Kings 21:29
"Have you seen how Ahab has humbled himself before me? Because he has humbled himself before me, I will not bring the disaster in his days; but in his son's days I will bring the disaster upon his house."
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Leviticus 26:31 - 32
And I will lay your cities waste and will make your sanctuaries desolate, and I will not smell your pleasing aromas.
2 Chronicles 30:7
Do not be like your fathers and your brothers, who were faithless to the Lord God of their fathers, so that he made them a desolation, as you see.
Jeremiah 25:18
Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, its kings and officials, to make them a desolation and a waste, a hissing and a curse, as at this day.
Jeremiah 44:22
The Lord could no longer bear your evil deeds and the abominations that you committed. Therefore your land has become a desolation and a waste and a curse, without inhabitant, as it is this day.
Micah 6:16
For you have kept the statutes of Omri, and all the works of the house of Ahab; and you have walked in their counsels, that I may make you a desolation, and your inhabitants a hissing; so you shall bear the scorn of my people.
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Jeremiah 24:9
I will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a reproach, a byword, a taunt, and a curse in all the places where I shall drive them.
Jeremiah 26:6
Then I will make this house like Shiloh, and I will make this city a curse for all the nations of the earth.'
Jeremiah 44:22
The Lord could no longer bear your evil deeds and the abominations that you committed. Therefore your land has become a desolation and a waste and a curse, without inhabitant, as it is this day.
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2 Kings 22:11
When the king heard the words of the Book of the Law, he tore his clothes.
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Psalms 37:37
Mark the blameless and behold the upright, for there is a future for the man of peace.
Isaiah 57:1 - 2
The righteous man perishes, and no one lays it to heart; devout men are taken away, while no one understands. For the righteous man is taken away from calamity.
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2 Kings 23:1 - 3
Then the king sent, and all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem were gathered to him.
2 Chronicles 34:29 - 32
Then the king sent and gathered together all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem.
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Deuteronomy 31:11
When all Israel comes to appear before the Lord your God at the place that he will choose, you shall read this law before all Israel in their hearing.
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2 Kings 22:8
And Hilkiah the high priest said to Shaphan the secretary, "I have found the Book of the Law in the house of the Lord." And Hilkiah gave the book to Shaphan, and he read it.
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2 Kings 11:14
And when she looked, there was the king standing by the pillar, according to the custom, and the captains and the trumpeters beside the king, and all the people of the land rejoicing and blowing trumpets. And Athaliah tore her clothes and cried, "Treason! Treason!
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2 Kings 11:17
And Jehoiada made a covenant between the Lord and the king and people, that they should be the Lord 's people, and also between the king and the people.
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Deuteronomy 13:4
You shall walk after the Lord your God and fear him and keep his commandments and obey his voice, and you shall serve him and hold fast to him.
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2 Kings 25:18
And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest and Zephaniah the second priest and the three keepers of the threshold.
Jeremiah 52:24
And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the threshold.
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2 Kings 21:3
For he rebuilt the high places that Hezekiah his father had destroyed, and he erected altars for Baal and made an Asherah, as Ahab king of Israel had done, and worshiped all the host of heaven and served them.
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Deuteronomy 16:21
You shall not plant any tree as an Asherah beside the altar of the Lord your God that you shall make.
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2 Kings 23:15
Moreover, the altar at Bethel, the high place erected by Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, that altar with the high place he pulled down and burned, reducing it to dust. He also burned the Asherah.
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2 Kings 21:3
For he rebuilt the high places that Hezekiah his father had destroyed, and he erected altars for Baal and made an Asherah, as Ahab king of Israel had done, and worshiped all the host of heaven and served them.
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Deuteronomy 16:21
You shall not plant any tree as an Asherah beside the altar of the Lord your God that you shall make.
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2 Kings 23:15
Moreover, the altar at Bethel, the high place erected by Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, that altar with the high place he pulled down and burned, reducing it to dust. He also burned the Asherah.
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2 Kings 23:15
Moreover, the altar at Bethel, the high place erected by Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, that altar with the high place he pulled down and burned, reducing it to dust. He also burned the Asherah.
2 Chronicles 15:16
Even Maacah, his mother, King Asa removed from being queen mother because she had made a detestable image for Asherah. Asa cut down her image, crushed it, and burned it at the brook Kidron.
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2 Chronicles 34:4
And they chopped down the altars of the Baals in his presence, and he cut down the incense altars that stood above them. And he broke in pieces the Asherim and the carved and the metal images, and he made dust of them and scattered it over the graves of those who had sacrificed to them.
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1 Kings 14:24
And there were also male cult prostitutes in the land. They did according to all the abominations of the nations that the Lord drove out before the people of Israel.
1 Kings 15:12
He put away the male cult prostitutes out of the land and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.
Deuteronomy 23:17
None of the daughters of Israel shall be a cult prostitute, and none of the sons of Israel shall be a cult prostitute.
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Ezekiel 16:16
You took some of your garments and made for yourself colorful shrines, and on them played the whore. The like has never been, nor ever shall be.
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2 Kings 23:6
And he brought out the Asherah from the house of the Lord, outside Jerusalem, to the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron and beat it to dust and cast the dust of it upon the graves of the common people.
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1 Kings 15:22
Then King Asa made a proclamation to all Judah, none was exempt, and they carried away the stones of Ramah and its timber, with which Baasha had been building, and with them King Asa built Geba of Benjamin and Mizpah.
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Ezekiel 44:10 - 14
But the Levites who went far from me, going astray from me after their idols when Israel went astray, shall bear their punishment.
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Isaiah 30:33
For a burning place has long been prepared; indeed, for the king it is made ready, its pyre made deep and wide, with fire and wood in abundance; the breath of the Lord, like a stream of sulfur, kindles it.
Jeremiah 7:31 - 32
And they have built the high places of Topheth, which is in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire, which I did not command, nor did it come into my mind.
Jeremiah 19:6
Therefore, behold, days are coming, declares the Lord, when this place shall no more be called Topheth, or the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter.
Jeremiah 19:11 - 14
And shall say to them, 'Thus says the Lord of hosts: So will I break this people and this city, as one breaks a potter's vessel, so that it can never be mended. Men shall bury in Topheth because there will be no place else to bury.
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Joshua 15:8
Then the boundary goes up by the Valley of the Son of Hinnom at the southern shoulder of the Jebusite ( that is, Jerusalem). And the boundary goes up to the top of the mountain that lies over against the Valley of Hinnom, on the west, at the northern end of the Valley of Rephaim.
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Leviticus 18:21
You shall not give any of your children to offer them to Molech, and so profane the name of your God: I am the Lord.
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1 Kings 11:7
Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, and for Molech the abomination of the Ammonites, on the mountain east of Jerusalem.
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Jeremiah 19:13
The houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah - all the houses on whose roofs offerings have been offered to all the host of heaven, and drink offerings have been poured out to other gods - shall be defiled like the place of Topheth.'
Jeremiah 32:29
The Chaldeans who are fighting against this city shall come and set this city on fire and burn it, with the houses on whose roofs offerings have been made to Baal and drink offerings have been poured out to other gods, to provoke me to anger.
Zephaniah 1:5
Those who bow down on the roofs to the host of the heavens, those who bow down and swear to the Lord and yet swear by Milcom.
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2 Kings 21:5
And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the Lord.
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2 Kings 23:4
And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest and the priests of the second order and the keepers of the threshold to bring out of the temple of the Lord all the vessels made for Baal, for Asherah, and for all the host of heaven. He burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron and carried their ashes to Bethel.
2 Kings 23:6
And he brought out the Asherah from the house of the Lord, outside Jerusalem, to the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron and beat it to dust and cast the dust of it upon the graves of the common people.
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1 Kings 11:7
Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, and for Molech the abomination of the Ammonites, on the mountain east of Jerusalem.
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1 Kings 11:5
For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.
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Numbers 21:29
Woe to you, O Moab! You are undone, O people of Chemosh! He has made his sons fugitives, and his daughters captives, to an Amorite king, Sihon.
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1 Kings 11:5
For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.
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Exodus 23:24
You shall not bow down to their gods nor serve them, nor do as they do, but you shall utterly overthrow them and break their pillars in pieces.
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1 Kings 12:28 - 29
So the king took counsel and made two calves of gold. And he said to the people, "You have gone up to Jerusalem long enough. Behold your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.
1 Kings 12:33
He went up to the altar that he had made in Bethel on the fifteenth day in the eighth month, in the month that he had devised from his own heart. And he instituted a feast for the people of Israel and went up to the altar to make offerings.
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1 Kings 14:16
And he will give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, which he sinned and made Israel to sin.
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2 Kings 23:6
And he brought out the Asherah from the house of the Lord, outside Jerusalem, to the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron and beat it to dust and cast the dust of it upon the graves of the common people.
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1 Kings 13:2
And the man cried against the altar by the word of the Lord and said, "O altar, altar, thus says the Lord : 'Behold, a son shall be born to the house of David, Josiah by name, and he shall sacrifice on you the priests of the high places who make offerings on you, and human bones shall be burned on you.'
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1 Kings 13:1
And behold, a man of God came out of Judah by the word of the Lord to Bethel. Jeroboam was standing by the altar to make offerings.
1 Kings 13:30
And he laid the body in his own grave. And they mourned over him, saying, "Alas, my brother!
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1 Kings 13:11
Now an old prophet lived in Bethel. And his sons came and told him all that the man of God had done that day in Bethel. They also told to their father the words that he had spoken to the king.
1 Kings 13:31
And after he had buried him, he said to his sons, "When I die, bury me in the grave in which the man of God is buried; lay my bones beside his bones.
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2 Chronicles 34:6 - 7
And in the cities of Manasseh, Ephraim, and Simeon, and as far as Naphtali, in their ruins all around.
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2 Kings 11:18
Then all the people of the land went to the house of Baal and tore it down; his altars and his images they broke in pieces, and they killed Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars. And the priest posted watchmen over the house of the Lord.
Exodus 22:20
Whoever sacrifices to any god, other than the Lord alone, shall be devoted to destruction.
1 Kings 18:40
And Elijah said to them, "Seize the prophets of Baal; let not one of them escape." And they seized them. And Elijah brought them down to the brook Kishon and slaughtered them there.
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2 Chronicles 34:5
He also burned the bones of the priests on their altars and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem.
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2 Chronicles 35:1 - 17
Josiah kept a Passover to the Lord in Jerusalem. And they slaughtered the Passover lamb on the fourteenth day of the first month.
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Exodus 12:3 - 11
Tell all the congregation of Israel that on the tenth day of this month every man shall take a lamb according to their fathers' houses, a lamb for a household.
Leviticus 23:5
In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at twilight, is the Lord 's Passover.
Leviticus 23:8
But you shall present a food offering to the Lord for seven days. On the seventh day is a holy convocation; you shall not do any ordinary work.
Numbers 9:2 - 4
Let the people of Israel keep the Passover at its appointed time.
Deuteronomy 16:2 - 8
And you shall offer the Passover sacrifice to the Lord your God, from the flock or the herd, at the place that the Lord will choose, to make his name dwell there.
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2 Chronicles 35:18 - 19
No Passover like it had been kept in Israel since the days of Samuel the prophet. None of the kings of Israel had kept such a Passover as was kept by Josiah, and the priests and the Levites, and all Judah and Israel who were present, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
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2 Kings 21:6
And he burned his son as an offering and used fortune-telling and omens and dealt with mediums and with necromancers. He did much evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger.
Leviticus 19:31
Do not turn to mediums or necromancers; do not seek them out, and so make yourselves unclean by them: I am the Lord your God.
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Genesis 31:19
Laban had gone to shear his sheep, and Rachel stole her father's household gods.
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2 Kings 21:11
Because Manasseh king of Judah has committed these abominations and has done things more evil than all that the Amorites did, who were before him, and has made Judah also to sin with his idols.
2 Kings 21:21
He walked in all the way in which his father walked and served the idols that his father served and worshiped them.
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Leviticus 19:31
Do not turn to mediums or necromancers; do not seek them out, and so make yourselves unclean by them: I am the Lord your God.
Leviticus 20:27
"A man or a woman who is a medium or a necromancer shall surely be put to death. They shall be stoned with stones; their blood shall be upon them."
Deuteronomy 18:11
Or a charmer or a medium or a necromancer or one who inquires of the dead.
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2 Kings 22:8
And Hilkiah the high priest said to Shaphan the secretary, "I have found the Book of the Law in the house of the Lord." And Hilkiah gave the book to Shaphan, and he read it.
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2 Kings 18:5
He trusted in the Lord, the God of Israel, so that there was none like him among all the kings of Judah after him, nor among those who were before him.
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2 Kings 21:11
Because Manasseh king of Judah has committed these abominations and has done things more evil than all that the Amorites did, who were before him, and has made Judah also to sin with his idols.
2 Kings 24:3 - 4
Surely this came upon Judah at the command of the Lord, to remove them out of his sight, for the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he had done.
Jeremiah 15:4
And I will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth because of what Manasseh the son of Hezekiah, king of Judah, did in Jerusalem.
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2 Kings 17:18
Therefore the Lord was very angry with Israel and removed them out of his sight. None was left but the tribe of Judah only.
2 Kings 17:20
And the Lord rejected all the descendants of Israel and afflicted them and gave them into the hand of plunderers, until he had cast them out of his sight.
2 Kings 18:11
The king of Assyria carried the Israelites away to Assyria and put them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
2 Kings 21:13
And I will stretch over Jerusalem the measuring line of Samaria, and the plumb line of the house of Ahab, and I will wipe Jerusalem as one wipes a dish, wiping it and turning it upside down.
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2 Kings 21:4
And he built altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord had said, "In Jerusalem will I put my name.
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2 Kings 23:29 - 30
In his days Pharaoh Neco king of Egypt went up to the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates. King Josiah went to meet him, and Pharaoh Neco killed him at Megiddo, as soon as he saw him.
2 Chronicles 35:20 - 24
After all this, when Josiah had prepared the temple, Neco king of Egypt went up to fight at Carchemish on the Euphrates, and Josiah went out to meet him.
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Jeremiah 46:2
About Egypt. Concerning the army of Pharaoh Neco, king of Egypt, which was by the river Euphrates at Carchemish and which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon defeated in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah:
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Judges 5:19
The kings came, they fought; then fought the kings of Canaan, at Taanach, by the waters of Megiddo; they got no spoils of silver.
Zechariah 12:11
On that day the mourning in Jerusalem will be as great as the mourning for Hadad-rimmon in the plain of Megiddo.
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2 Kings 9:28
His servants carried him in a chariot to Jerusalem, and buried him in his tomb with his fathers in the city of David.
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2 Kings 23:29
In his days Pharaoh Neco king of Egypt went up to the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates. King Josiah went to meet him, and Pharaoh Neco killed him at Megiddo, as soon as he saw him.
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2 Kings 23:30 - 34
And his servants carried him dead in a chariot from Megiddo and brought him to Jerusalem and buried him in his own tomb. And the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and anointed him, and made him king in his father's place.
2 Chronicles 36:1 - 4
The people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah and made him king in his father's place in Jerusalem.
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