2 Kings 23:20-30

20 Josiah slaughtered all the priests of those high places on the altars and burned human bones on them. Then he went back to Jerusalem.
21 The king gave this order to all the people: “Celebrate the Passover to the LORD your God, as it is written in this Book of the Covenant.”
22 Neither in the days of the judges who led Israel nor in the days of the kings of Israel and the kings of Judah had any such Passover been observed.
23 But in the eighteenth year of King Josiah, this Passover was celebrated to the LORD in Jerusalem.
24 Furthermore, Josiah got rid of the mediums and spiritists, the household gods, the idols and all the other detestable things seen in Judah and Jerusalem. This he did to fulfill the requirements of the law written in the book that Hilkiah the priest had discovered in the temple of the LORD.
25 Neither before nor after Josiah was there a king like him who turned to the LORD as he did—with all his heart and with all his soul and with all his strength, in accordance with all the Law of Moses.
26 Nevertheless, the LORD did not turn away from the heat of his fierce anger, which burned against Judah because of all that Manasseh had done to arouse his anger.
27 So the LORD said, “I will remove Judah also from my presence as I removed Israel, and I will reject Jerusalem, the city I chose, and this temple, about which I said, ‘My Name shall be there.’[a]
28 As for the other events of Josiah’s reign, and all he did, are they not written in the book of the annals of the kings of Judah?
29 While Josiah was king, Pharaoh Necho king of Egypt went up to the Euphrates River to help the king of Assyria. King Josiah marched out to meet him in battle, but Necho faced him and killed him at Megiddo.
30 Josiah’s servants brought his body in a chariot from Megiddo to Jerusalem and buried him in his own tomb. And the people of the land took Jehoahaz son of Josiah and anointed him and made him king in place of his father.

Cross References 18

  • 1. S Exodus 22:20; S 2 Kings 10:25; 2 Kings 11:18
  • 2. S 1 Kings 13:2
  • 3. S Exodus 12:11; Numbers 9:2; Deuteronomy 16:1-8
  • 4. S Exodus 24:7
  • 5. S Exodus 12:11; S Numbers 28:16
  • 6. S Leviticus 19:31; S Deuteronomy 18:11; 2 Kings 21:6
  • 7. S Genesis 31:19
  • 8. Deuteronomy 7:26; 2 Kings 16:3
  • 9. S 1 Samuel 7:3; 2 Kings 18:5
  • 10. Jeremiah 22:15
  • 11. 2 Kings 21:6; Jeremiah 23:20; Jeremiah 30:24
  • 12. S 2 Kings 21:12; Jeremiah 15:4
  • 13. 2 Kings 21:13
  • 14. S Exodus 33:15; 2 Kings 24:3; 2 Kings 18:11
  • 15. Jeremiah 27:10; Jeremiah 32:31
  • 16. ver 33-35; Jeremiah 46:2
  • 17. 2 Kings 9:27; Zechariah 12:11
  • 18. S 2 Kings 9:28

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