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2 Kings 23:1-25 (Basic)

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¹ Then the king sent and got together all the responsible men of Judah and of Jerusalem. ² And the king went up to the house of the Lord, with all the men of Judah and all the people of Jerusalem, and the priests and the prophets and all the people, small and great; and they were present at his reading of the book of the law which had come to ³ And the king took his place by the pillar, and made an agreement before the Lord, to go in the way of the Lord, and keep his orders and his decisions and his rules with all his heart and all his soul, and to keep the words of the agreement recorded in th ⁴ Then the king gave orders to Hilkiah, the chief priest, and to the priests of the second order, and to the keepers of the door, to take out of the house of the Lord all the vessels made for Baal and for the Asherah and for all the stars of heaven; and he ⁵ And he put an end to the false priests, who had been put in their positions by the kings of Judah to see to the burning of offerings in the high places in the towns of Judah and the outskirts of Jerusalem, and all those who made offerings to Baal and to ⁶ And he took the Asherah from the house of the Lord, outside Jerusalem to the stream Kidron, burning it by the stream and crushing it to dust, and he put the dust on the place where the bodies of the common people were put to rest. ⁷ And he had the houses pulled down of those who were used for sex purposes in the house of the Lord, where women were making robes for the Asherah. ⁸ And he made all the priests from the towns of Judah come into Jerusalem, and he made unclean the high places where the priests had been burning offerings, from Geba to Beer-sheba; and he had the high places of the evil spirits pulled down which were by t ⁹ Still the priests of the high places never came up to the altar of the Lord in Jerusalem; but they took their food of unleavened bread among their brothers. ¹⁰ And Topheth, in the valley of the sons of Hinnom, he made unclean, so that no man might make his son or his daughter go through the fire to Molech. ¹¹ And he took away the horses which the kings of Judah had given to the sun, at the way into the house of the Lord, by the room of Nathan-melech, the unsexed servant, which was in the outer part of the building, and the carriages of the sun he put on fire. ¹² And the altars on the roof of the high room of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two outer squares of the house of the Lord, were pulled down and crushed to bits, and the dust of them was put into the ¹³ And the high places before Jerusalem, on the south side of the mountain of destruction, which Solomon, king of Israel, had made for Ashtoreth, the disgusting god of the Zidonians, and for Chemosh, the disgusting god of Moab, and for Milcom, the disgustin ¹⁴ The stone pillars were broken to bits and the wood pillars cut down, and the places where they had been were made full of the bones of the dead. ¹⁵ And the altar at Beth-el, and the high place put up by Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, who made Israel do evil, that altar and that high place were pulled down; and the high place was burned and crushed to dust and the Asherah was burned. ¹⁶ Then Josiah, turning round, saw on the mountain the places of the dead, and he sent and had the bones taken out of their places and burned on the altar, so making it unclean, as the Lord had said by the man of God when Jeroboam was in his place by the al ¹⁷ What is that headstone I see over there? And the men of the town said to him, It is the resting-place of the man of God who came from Judah and gave word of all these things which you have done to the altar of Beth-el. ¹⁸ So he said, Let him be; let not his bones be moved. So they let his bones be with the bones of the prophet who came from Samaria. ¹⁹ Then Josiah took away all the houses of the high places in the towns of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had put up, moving the Lord to wrath, and he did with them as he had done in Beth-el. ²⁰ And all the priests of the high places there he put to death on the altars, burning the bones of the dead on them; and then he went back to Jerusalem. ²¹ And the king gave orders to all the people, saying, Keep the Passover to the Lord your God, as it says in this book of the law. ²² Truly, such a Passover had not been kept in all the days of the judges of Israel or of the kings of Israel or the kings of Judah; ²³ In the eighteenth year of the rule of King Josiah this Passover was kept to the Lord in Jerusalem. ²⁴ And all those who had control of spirits, and the wonder-workers, and the images, and the false gods, and all the disgusting things which were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, Josiah put away, so that he might give effect to the words of the a ²⁵ Never before had there been a king like him, turning to the Lord with all his heart and with all his soul and with all his power, as the law of Moses says; and after him there was no king like him.


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):
Baal (Ba-al): master; lord
Baal (Beh-al): master; lord
Geba (Geeb-a): a hill; cup
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
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
Manasseh (Man-ass-e): forgetfulness; he that is forgotten
Moses (Moh-ziz): taken out; drawn forth
Asherah (Ash-er-a):
So (Soh):