2 Kings 23:24

Overview - 2 Kings 23
Josiah causes the book to be read in a solemn assembly.
He renews the covenant of the Lord.
He destroys idolatry.
15 He burns dead men's bones upon the altar of Beth-el, as was fore-prophesied.
21 He keeps a most solemn passover.
24 He puts away witches and all abomination.
26 God's final wrath against Judah.
29 Josiah, provoking Pharaoh-nechoh, is slain at Megiddo.
31 Jehoahaz, succeeding him, is imprisoned by Pharaoh-nechoh, who makes Jehoiakim king.
36 Jehoiakim's wicked reign.
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2 Kings 23:24  (King James Version)
Moreover the workers with familiar spirits, and the wizards, and the images, and the idols, and all the abominations that were spied in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, did Josiah put away, that he might perform the words of the law which were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of the LORD.
 


Moreover
"His eighteenth year ending."* the workers.
21:3,6 1Sa 28:3-7 Isa 8:19 19:3 Ac 16:16-18 Re 22:15

images
or, teraphim.
Genesis 31:19 ; Judges 17:5 ; Judges 18:17 Judges 18:18 Hosea 3:4

that he might
Leviticus 19:31 ; 20:27 Deuteronomy 18:10-12 ; Isaiah 8:20 ; Romans 3:20 ; James 1:25

the book
22:8-13 2 Chronicles 34:14-19