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2 Kings 23:1-25 (AMP)
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1 KING JOSIAH sent and gathered to him all the elders of Judah and of Jerusalem. 2 The king went up to the house of the Lord, and with him all the men of Judah, all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the priests, 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 Lord's house. 3 The king stood by the pillar and made a covenant before the Lord--to walk after the Lord and to keep His commandments, His testimonies, and His statutes with all his heart and soul, to confirm the words of this covenant that were written in this book. And all the people stood to join in the covenant. 4 And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest and the priests of the second rank and the keepers of the threshold to bring out of the temple of the Lord all the vessels made for Baal, for Asherah, and for all the hosts of the heavens; and he burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron, and carried their ashes to Bethel . 5 He put away the idolatrous priests whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in Judah's cities and round about Jerusalem--also those who burned incense to Baal, to the sun, to the moon, to the constellations , and to all the hosts of the heavens. 6 And Josiah brought the Asherah from the house of the Lord to outside Jerusalem to the brook Kidron and burned it there, and beat it to dust and cast its dust upon the graves of the common people . 7 And he broke down the houses of the male cult prostitutes, which were by the house of the Lord, where the women wove hangings for the Asherah . 8 And brought all the priests out of the city of Judah and defiled the high places, where the priests had burned incense, from Geba to Beersheba , and broke down the high places both at the entrance of the Gate of Joshua the governor of the city and that which was on one's left at the city's gate. 9 However, the priests of the high places were not allowed to sacrifice upon the Lord's altar in Jerusalem, but they ate unleavened bread among their brethren. 10 And Josiah defiled Topheth, which is in the Valley of Ben-hinnom , that no man might ever burn there his son or his daughter as an offering to Molech. 11 And he removed the horses that the kings of Judah had devoted to the sun from the entrance of the house of the Lord, by the chamber of Nathan-melech the chamberlain, which was in the area, and he burned the chariots of the sun with fire. 12 And the altars on the roof 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, pulled down and beat them in pieces, and he cast their dust into the brook Kidron. 13 And the king defiled the high places east of Jerusalem, south of the Mount of Corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abominable of the Sidonians, for Chemosh the abominable god of the Moabites, and for Milcom the abominable of the Ammonites. 14 He broke in pieces the pillars (images) and cut down the Asherim and replaced them with the bones of men . 15 Moreover, the altar at Bethel, the high place made by Jeroboam son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, that altar with the high place Josiah tore down and broke in pieces its stones, beating them to dust, and burned the Asherah. 16 And as Josiah turned, he saw the tombs across on the mount, and he sent and brought the bones out of the tombs and burned them upon the altar and defiled it, in fulfillment of the word of the Lord which the man of God prophesied, who predicted these things . 17 Josiah said, What is that monument I see? The men of the city told him, It is the tomb of the man of God who came from Judah and foretold these things that you have just done against the altar of Bethel. 18 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. 19 Also Josiah took away all the houses of the high places in the cities of Samaria which the kings of Israel had made, provoking the Lord to anger, and he did to them all that he had done in Bethel. 20 He slew all the priests of the high places that were there upon the altars and burned men's bones upon them . Then he returned to Jerusalem. 21 The king commanded all the people, Keep the Passover to the Lord your God, as it is written in this Book of the Covenant. 22 Surely such a Passover was not held from the days of Israel's judges, even in all the days of the kings of Israel or Judah. 23 But in the eighteenth year of King Josiah, this Passover was kept to the Lord in Jerusalem. 24 Moreover, Josiah put away the mediums, the wizards, the teraphim (household gods), the idols, and all the abominations that were seen in Judah and in Jerusalem, that he might establish the words of the law written in the book found by Hilkiah the priest in the house of the Lord. 25 There was no king like him before or after who turned to the Lord with all his heart and all his soul and all his might, according to all the Law of Moses.
This passage relates to the following topic(s):
(v. 7) Purity / Sexual Immorality / Adultery - King ordered Hilkiah - to tear down the quarters of the male shrine prostitutes
(v. 19) Zeal / Boldness / Radicalness - Josiah - zeal to rid the place of shrines and idols
(v. 20) Zeal / Boldness / Radicalness - Josiah - zeal to rid the place of shrines and idols
(v. 21) Zeal / Boldness / Radicalness - Josiah - zeal to rid the place of shrines and idols
(v. 22) Zeal / Boldness / Radicalness - Josiah - zeal to rid the place of shrines and idols
(v. 23) Zeal / Boldness / Radicalness - Josiah - zeal to rid the place of shrines and idols
(v. 24) Zeal / Boldness / Radicalness - Josiah - zeal to rid the place of shrines and idols
(v. 25) Zeal / Boldness / Radicalness - Josiah - zeal to rid the place of shrines and idols
This passage is referenced in the following quiet time(s):
(v. 25) Influence from Within (2015-05-23)
Definition(s):
Chemosh (Kee-mosh): handling; stroking; taking away
Geba (Geeb-a): a hill; cup
Hilkiah (Hill-kye-a): God is my portion
Israel (Iz-rehl): who prevails with God
Israel (Is-ra-el): who prevails with God
Jeroboam (Jer-o-boh-am): he that opposes the people
Jerusalem (Je-roo-sa-lem): vision of peace
Joshua (Josh-oo-a): a savior; a deliverer
Joshua (Yesh-oo-a): a savior; a deliverer
Josiah (Joh-sigh-a): the Lord burns; the fire of the Lord
Josiah (Je-sigh-ya): the Lord burns; the fire of the Lord
Judah (Joo-da): the praise of the Lord; confession
Kidron (Kid-ron): obscure; making black or sad
Manasseh (Man-ass-e): forgetfulness; he that is forgotten
Milcom (Mil-khohm): their king
Nathan-melech (Neh-thann-mel-ekh): the gift of the king, or of counsel
Samaria (Sa-meh-ree-a): watch-mountain
Solomon (Sol-om-on): peaceable; perfect; one who recompenses
Asherah (Ash-er-a):
Asherim (Ash-er-eem):
Ashtoreth (Ash-toh-reth):
Ben-hinnom (Ben-hin-ohm):
Bethel (Beth-el):
Bethel (Beth-ehl):
So (Soh):
