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And all the houses also of the high places that
were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke
the LORD to anger, Josiah took away and did to them according to all the acts that he had done in Bethel.
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And he slew all the priests of the high places that
were there upon the altars and burned men’s bones upon them and returned to Jerusalem.
21
Then the king commanded all the people, saying, Make the passover unto the LORD your God, as
it is written in the book of this covenant.
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Such a passover had not been made since the days of the judges that judged Israel, nor in all the days of the kings of Israel, nor of the kings of Judah.
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In the year eighteen of King Josiah, this passover was made unto the LORD in Jerusalem.
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In the same manner Josiah burned the spiritists, the diviners, the teraphim, the idols, and all the abominations that were spied in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, that he might confirm the words of the law which were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest had found in the house of the LORD.
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There was no king before him that converted
like this to the LORD with all his heart and all his soul and all his might, according to all the law of Moses; neither did any like him arise after him.
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Even with all this the LORD did not turn from the fierceness of his great wrath, with which his anger was kindled against Judah, because of all the provocations with which Manasseh had provoked him to wrath.
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And the LORD said, I must also remove Judah out of my sight as I have removed Israel, and I must reject this city Jerusalem which I had chosen and the house of which I said, My name shall be there.
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Now the rest of the acts of Josiah and all that he did,
are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
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In his days Pharaohnechoh, king of Egypt, went up against the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates; and King Josiah went against him; but as soon as he saw him, he slew him at Megiddo.