Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem one and thirty years. Jer 1:2Zep 1:11Ch 3:14-151Ki 13:21Ki 3:7-91Sa 2:181Sa 2:262Ch 24:1 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. 2Ch 29:2Jos 1:71Ki 14:81Ki 15:52Ch 14:22Ch 17:3Deu 28:14Deu 5:32
¶ 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. 2Ch 33:222Ch 15:22Ch 33:17Pro 8:171Ch 22:51Ch 28:91Ch 29:11Ki 13:2 And they brake down the altars of Baalim 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. 1 2 Exo 32:202Ki 23:4-6Lev 26:302Ch 14:52Ch 33:32Ch 34:72Ki 10:26-272Ki 23:11-12 And he burnt the bones of the priests upon their altars, and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem. 1Ki 13:22Ch 34:72Ki 23:162Ki 23:20Ezk 22:24Jer 3:10Jer 4:14Jer 8:1-2 And so did he in the cities of Manasseh, and Ephraim, and Simeon, even unto Naphtali, with their mattocks round about. 3 1Sa 13:20-212Ch 30:12Ch 30:10-112Ch 31:12Ki 23:15-20Isa 7:25Pro 25:18 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. 4 2Ch 31:1Deu 9:212Ch 34:1
¶ Now in the eighteenth year of his reign, when he had purged the land, and the house, he sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, and Maaseiah the governor of the city, and Joah the son of Joahaz the recorder, to repair the house of the LORD his God. 2Sa 8:161Ch 18:152Ch 18:252Ki 22:3-202Sa 20:24Ezk 8:11Jer 1:2-3Jer 21:1 And when they came to Hilkiah 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 Manasseh and Ephraim, and of all the remnant of Israel, and of all Judah and Benjamin; and they returned to Jerusalem. 2Ch 30:102Ch 30:182Ch 35:82Ch 24:11-142Ch 31:12Ch 34:14-152Ch 34:182Ch 34:20 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: 2Ki 12:11-122Ki 12:142Ki 22:5-6Ezr 3:7 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. 5 2Ch 33:4-72Ch 33:22 And the men did the work faithfully: and the overseers of them were Jahath and Obadiah, the Levites, of the sons of Merari; and Zechariah and Meshullam, of the sons of the Kohathites, to set it forward; and other of the Levites, all that could skill of instruments of musick. 2Ki 12:151Ch 23:51Ch 15:16-221Ch 16:4-51Ch 16:411Ch 25:1-311Ch 6:31-481Co 4:2 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. Neh 4:102Ch 2:181Ch 15:181Ch 16:381Ch 16:421Ch 23:4-51Ch 26:1-191Ch 26:29-30
¶ And when they brought out the money that was brought into the house of the LORD, Hilkiah the priest found a book of the law of the LORD given by Moses. 6 2Ch 12:12Ch 31:42Ch 34:92Ch 35:262Ki 22:8-20Deu 17:18-19Deu 31:24-26Ezr 7:10 And Hilkiah answered and said to Shaphan the scribe, I have found the book of the law in the house of the LORD. And Hilkiah delivered the book to Shaphan. And Shaphan carried the book to the king, and brought the king word back again, saying, All that was committed to thy servants, they do it. 7 2Ki 22:9-10Jer 36:20-21 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. 8 Then Shaphan the scribe told the king, saying, Hilkiah the priest hath given me a book. And Shaphan read it before the king. 9 Deu 17:19Jer 36:20-21Jos 1:8Psa 119:46Psa 119:97-99 And it came to pass, when the king had heard the words of the law, that he rent his clothes. Jos 7:62Ki 19:12Ki 22:112Ki 22:19Deu 28:3-68Gal 2:19Gal 3:10-13Jer 36:22-24 And the king commanded Hilkiah, and Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and Abdon the son of Micah, and Shaphan the scribe, and Asaiah a servant of the king’s, saying, 10 2Ki 22:122Ki 25:22Jer 26:22Jer 26:24Jer 40:6Jer 40:9Jer 40:14 Go, enquire 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. 2Ch 28:6Ezk 14:1-11Jer 21:21Ki 22:5-71Sa 9:92Ch 29:82Ch 33:112Ki 17:6-7 And Hilkiah, 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. 11 13 12 Exo 15:20Luk 2:362Ki 22:14Act 21:9Jdg 4:4Luk 1:41-45
¶ And she answered them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Tell ye the man that sent you to me, 2Ki 22:15-20Jer 21:3-7Jer 37:7-10 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: 2Ch 36:14-20Deu 28:15-68Jos 23:162Ki 21:122Ki 23:26-27Isa 5:4-6Jer 19:15Jer 19:3 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. Jer 7:20Mrk 9:43-48Nam 1:62Ch 12:22Ch 15:22Ch 33:3-92Ki 22:172Ki 24:3-4 And as for the king of Judah, who sent you to enquire of the LORD, so shall ye say unto him, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel concerning the words which thou hast heard; 2Ch 34:212Ch 34:23 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. 2Ch 32:26Ezk 9:4Psa 34:182Ch 33:122Ch 34:19Isa 65:242Ch 12:72Ch 32:12-13 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. Isa 39:8Psa 37:371Ki 21:292Ch 35:24Isa 57:1-2Jer 15:12Ki 20:192Ki 22:20
¶ Then the king sent and gathered together all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem. 2Ki 23:1-31Ch 29:2-91Sa 12:232Ch 30:2Mrk 14:8 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. 14 2Ki 23:2Exo 24:72Ch 15:12-132Ch 17:7-92Ch 18:302Ch 34:152Ch 34:18-192Ch 34:24 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. 2Ch 23:162Ch 15:122Ch 29:102Ch 6:132Ki 11:142Ki 23:32Ch 15:152Ch 30:16 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. 15 2Ch 14:42Ch 29:292Ch 30:122Ch 33:16Ecc 8:2Gen 18:19Jer 3:10 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. 16 17 2Ch 34:3-7Jos 24:311Ki 11:5-72Ki 23:4-20Hos 6:4Jer 3:10