1	And the king sent# , and they gathered# unto him all the elders of Judah and of Jerusalem.
			2	And the king went up# into the house of the LORD, and all the men of Judah and all the inhabitants# of Jerusalem with him, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the people, both small and great: and he read# in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant which was found# in the house of the LORD. [both...: Heb. from small even unto great]
			3	And the king stood# by a pillar, and made# a covenant before the LORD, to walk# after the LORD, and to keep# his commandments and his testimonies and his statutes with all their heart and all their soul, to perform# the words of this covenant that were written# in this book. And all the people stood# to the covenant.
			4	And the king commanded# Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers# of the door, to bring forth# out of the temple of the LORD all the vessels that were made# for Baal, and for the grove, and for all the host of heaven: and he burned# them without Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, and carried# the ashes of them unto Bethel.
			5	And he put down# the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained# to burn incense# in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places round about Jerusalem; them also that burned incense# unto Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven. [put...: Heb. caused to cease] [idolatrous...: Heb. Chemarim] [planets: or, twelve signs or, constellations]
			6	And he brought out# the grove from the house of the LORD, without Jerusalem, unto the brook Kidron, and burned# it at the brook Kidron, and stamped it small# to powder, and cast# the powder thereof upon the graves of the children of the people.
			7	And he brake down# the houses of the sodomites, that were by the house of the LORD, where the women wove# hangings for the grove. [hangings: Heb. houses]
			8	And he brought# all the priests out of the cities of Judah, and defiled# the high places where the priests had burned incense# , from Geba to Beersheba, and brake down# the high places of the gates that were in the entering in of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city, which were on a man's left hand at the gate of the city.
			9	Nevertheless the priests of the high places came not up# to the altar of the LORD in Jerusalem, but they did eat# of the unleavened bread among their brethren.
			10	And he defiled# Topheth, which is in the valley of the children# # of Hinnom, that no man might make his son or his daughter to pass through# the fire to Molech.
			11	And he took away# the horses that the kings of Judah had given# to the sun, at the entering in# of the house of the LORD, by the chamber of Nathanmelech the chamberlain, which was in the suburbs, and burned# the chariots of the sun with fire. [chamberlain: or, eunuch, or, officer]
			12	And the altars that were on the top of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made# , and the altars which Manasseh had made# in the two courts of the house of the LORD, did the king beat down# , and brake them down# from thence, and cast# the dust of them into the brook Kidron. [brake...: or, ran from thence]
			13	And the high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on the right hand of the mount of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had builded# for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Zidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon, did the king defile# . [the mount...: that is, the mount of Olives]
			14	And he brake in pieces# the images, and cut down# the groves, and filled# their places with the bones of men. [images: Heb. statues]
			15	Moreover the altar that was at Bethel, and the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin# , had made# , both that altar and the high place he brake down# , and burned# the high place, and stamped# it small to powder, and burned# the grove.
			16	And as Josiah turned# himself, he spied# the sepulchres that were there in the mount, and sent# , and took# the bones out of the sepulchres, and burned# them upon the altar, and polluted# it, according to the word of the LORD which the man of God proclaimed# , who proclaimed# these words.
			17	Then he said# , What title is that that I see# ? And the men of the city told# him, It is the sepulchre of the man of God, which came# from Judah, and proclaimed# these things that thou hast done# against the altar of Bethel.
			18	And he said# , Let him alone# ; let no man move# his bones. So they let his bones alone# , with the bones of the prophet that came out# of Samaria. [bones alone: Heb. bones to escape]
			19	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.
			20	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. [slew: or, sacrificed]
			21	And the king commanded# all the people, saying# , Keep# the passover unto the LORD your God, as it is written# in the book of this covenant.
			22	Surely there was not holden# such a passover from the days of the judges# that judged# Israel, nor in all the days of the kings of Israel, nor of the kings of Judah;
			23	But in the eighteenth# year of king Josiah, wherein this passover was holden# to the LORD in Jerusalem.
			24	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. [images: or, teraphim]
			25	And like unto him was there no king before him, that turned# to the LORD with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his might, according to all the law of Moses; neither after him arose# there any like him.
			26	Notwithstanding the LORD turned# not from the fierceness of his great wrath, wherewith his anger was kindled# against Judah, because of all the provocations that Manasseh had provoked# him withal. [provocations: Heb. angers]
			27	And the LORD said# , I will remove# Judah also out of my sight, as I have removed# Israel, and will cast off# this city Jerusalem which I have chosen# , and the house of which I said# , My name shall be there.
			28	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?
			29	In his days Pharaohnechoh king of Egypt went up# against the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates: and king Josiah went# against# him; and he slew# him at Megiddo, when he had seen# him.
			30	And his servants carried him in a chariot# dead# from Megiddo, and brought# him to Jerusalem, and buried# him in his own sepulchre. And the people of the land took# Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and anointed# him, and made him king# in his father's stead.
			31	Jehoahaz was twenty and three years old when he began to reign# ; and he reigned# three months in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah. [Jehoahaz: also called, Shallum]
			32	And he did# that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his fathers had done# .
			33	And Pharaohnechoh put him in bands# at Riblah in the land of Hamath, that he might not reign# in Jerusalem; and put# the land to a tribute of an hundred talents of silver, and a talent of gold. [that...: or, because he reigned] [put the...: Heb. set a fine upon the land]
			34	And Pharaohnechoh made Eliakim the son of Josiah king# in the room of Josiah his father, and turned# his name to Jehoiakim, and took# Jehoahaz away# : and he came# to Egypt, and died# there.
			35	And Jehoiakim gave# the silver and the gold to Pharaoh; but he taxed# the land to give# the money according to the commandment of Pharaoh: he exacted# the silver and the gold of the people of the land, of every one according to his taxation, to give# it unto Pharaohnechoh.
			36	Jehoiakim was twenty and five years old when he began to reign# ; and he reigned# eleven# years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Zebudah, the daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah.
			37	And he did# that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his fathers had done# .