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So he said, Let him be; let not his bones be moved. So they let his bones be with the bones of the prophet who came from Samaria.
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Then Josiah took away all the houses of the high places in the towns of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had put up, moving the Lord to wrath, and he did with them as he had done in Beth-el
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And all the priests of the high places there he put to death on the altars, burning the bones of the dead on them; and then he went back to Jerusalem.
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And the king gave orders to all the people, saying, Keep the Passover to the Lord your God, as it says in this book of the law
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Truly, such a Passover had not been kept in all the days of the judges of Israel or of the kings of Israel or the kings of Judah;
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In the eighteenth year of the rule of King Josiah this Passover was kept to the Lord in Jerusalem.
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And all those who had control of spirits, and the wonder-workers, and the images, and the false gods, and all the disgusting things which were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, Josiah put away, so that he might give effect to the words of the agreement recorded in the book which Hilkiah the priest made discovery of in the house of the Lord.
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Never before had there been a king like him, turning to the Lord with all his heart and with all his soul and with all his power, as the law of Moses says; and after him there was no king like him.
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But still the heat of the Lord's wrath was not turned back from Judah, because of all Manasseh had done in moving him to wrath.
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And the Lord said, I will send Judah away from before my face, as I have sent Israel; I will have nothing more to do with this town, which I had made mine, even Jerusalem, and the holy house of which I said, My name will be there.
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Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and all he did, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Judah?