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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.
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And his slaves carried him in a chariot dead from Megiddo and brought him to Jerusalem and buried him in his own sepulchre. Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz, the son of Josiah, and anointed him and made him king in his father’s stead.
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Jehoahaz
was twenty-three years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. His mother’s name
was Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
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And he did
that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his fathers had done.