2 Kings 23:1-5
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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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Cross References
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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Cross References
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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Cross References
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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Cross References
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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Cross References
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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Cross References
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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Cross References
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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Cross References
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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Cross References
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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Cross References
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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Cross References
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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