Holy Bible
(King James Version)
Second
Chronicles: Chapter 34
1. JOSIAH
was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem
one and thirty years.
2. And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, and walked
in the ways of David his father, and declined neither to the right hand,
nor to the left.
3. For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began
to seek after the God of David his father: and in the twelfth year he
began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, and the groves,
and the carved images, and the molten images.
4. And they brake down the altars of Ba-a-lim in his presence; and the
images, that were on high above them, he cut down; and the groves, and
the carved images, and the molten images, he brake in pieces, and made
dust of them, and strowed it upon the graves of them that had sacrificed
unto them.
5. And he burnt the bones of the priests upon their altars, and cleansed
Judah and Jerusalem.
6. And so did he in the cities of Ma-nas-seh, and E-phra-im, and Simeon,
even unto Naph-ta-li, with their mattocks round about.
7. And when he had broken down the altars and the groves, and had beaten
the graven images into powder, and cut down all the idols throughout all
the land of Israel, he returned to Jerusalem.
8. Now in the eighteenth year of his reign, when he had purged the land,
and the house, he sent Sha-phan the son of Az-a-li-ah, and Ma-a-sei-ah
the governor of the city, and Jo-ah the son of Jo-a-haz the recorder, to
repair the house of the LORD his God.
9. And when they came to Hil-ki-ah the high priest, they delivered the
money that was brought into the house of God, which the Levites that
kept the doors had gathered of the hand of Ma-nas-seh and E-phra-im, and
of all the remnant of Israel, and of all Judah and Benjamin; and they
returned to Jerusalem.
10. And they put it in the hand of the workmen that had the oversight of
the house of the LORD, and they gave it to the workmen that wrought in
the house of the LORD, to repair and amend the house:
11. Even to the artificers and builders gave they it, to buy hewn stone,
and timber for couplings, and to floor the houses which the kings of
Judah had destroyed.
12. And the men did the work faithfully: and the overseers of them were
Jahath and Obadiah, the Levites, of the sons of Me-rar-i; and Zech-a-ri-ah
and Me-shul-lam, of the sons of the Kohathites, to set it forward; and
other of the Levites, all that could skill of instruments of music.
13. Also they were over the bearers of burdens, and were overseers of
all that wrought the work in any manner of service: and of the Levites
there were scribes, and officers, and porters.
14. And when they brought out the money that was brought into the house
of the LORD, Hil-ki-ah the priest found a book of the law of the LORD
given by Moses.
15. And Hil-ki-ah answered and said to Sha-phan the scribe, I have found
the book of the law in the house of the LORD. And Hilkiah
delivered the book to Sha-phan.
16. And Sha-phan carried the book to the king, and brought the king word
back again, saying, All that was committed to thy servants, they do it.
17. And they have gathered together the money that was found in the
house of the LORD, and have delivered it into the hand of the overseers,
and to the hand of the workmen.
18. Then Sha-phan the scribe told the king, saying, Hil-ki-ah the priest
hath given me a book. And Shaphan read it before the king.
19. And it came to pass, when the king had heard the words of the law,
that he rent his clothes.
20. And the king commanded Hil-ki-ah, and A-hi-kam the son of Sha-phan,
and Abdon the son of Micha, and Sha-han the scribe, and A-sai-ah a
servant of the king's saying,
21. Go inquire of the LORD for me, and for them that are left in Israel
and in Judah, concerning the words of the book that is found: for great
is the wrath of the LORD that is poured out upon us, because our fathers
have not kept the word of the LORD, to do after all that is written in
this book.
22. And Hil-ki-ah, and they that the king had appointed, went to Huldah
the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvath, the son of
Hasrah, keeper of the wardrobe; (now she dwelt in Jerusalem in the
college:) and they spake to her to that effect.
23. And she answered them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Tell ye
the man that sent you to me,
24. Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, and
upon the inhabitants thereof, even all the curses that are written in
the book which they have read before the king of Judah:
25. Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other
gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the works of their
hands; therefore my wrath shall be poured out upon this place, and shall
not be quenched.
26. And as for the king of Judah, who sent you to inquire of the LORD,
so shall ye say unto him, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel concerning
the words which thou hast heard;
28. Because thine heart was tender, and thou didst humble thyself before
God, when thou heardest his words against this place, and against the
inhabitants thereof, and humbledst thyself before me, and didst rend thy
clothes, and weep before me; I have even heard thee also, saith the
LORD.
28. Behold, I will gather thee to thy fathers, and thou shalt be
gathered to thy grave in peace, neither shall thine eyes see all the
evil that I will bring upon this place, and upon the inhabitants of the
same. So they brought the king word again.
29. Then the king sent and gathered together all the elders of Judah and
Jerusalem.
30. And the king went up into the house of the LORD, and all the men of
Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the priests, and the
Levites, and all the people, great and small: and he read in their ears
all the words of the book of the covenant that was found in the house of
the LORD.
31. And the king stood in his place, and made a covenant before the
LORD, to walk after the LORD, and to keep his commandments, and his
testimonies, and his statutes, with all his heart, and with all his
soul, to perform the words of the covenant which are written in this
book.
32. And he caused all that were present in Jerusalem and Benjamin to
stand to it. And the inhabitants of Jerusalem did according to the
covenant of God, the God of their fathers.
33. And Josiah took away all the abominations out of all the countries
that pertained to the children of Israel, and made all that were present
in Israel to serve, even to serve the LORD their God. And all his
days they departed not from following the LORD, the God of their
fathers.
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