The Second Book of the Chronicles 34

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² And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD and walked in the ways of David his father and declined neither to the right hand nor to the left ⚑

³ For in the eighth year of his reign while he was yet young he began to seek after the God of David his father and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places and the groves and the carved images and the molten images ⚑

⁴ And they brake down the altars of Baalim in his presence and the images that were on high above them he cut down and the groves and the carved images and the molten images he brake in pieces and made dust of them and strowed it upon the graves of them that had sacrificed unto them ⚑

⁶ And so did he in the cities of Manasseh and Ephraim and Simeon even unto Naphtali with their mattocks round about ⚑

⁷ And when he had broken down the altars and the groves and had beaten the graven images into powder and cut down all the idols throughout all the land of Israel he returned to Jerusalem ⚑

⁸ Now in the eighteenth year of his reign when he had purged the land and the house he sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah and Maaseiah the governor of the city and Joah the son of Joahaz the recorder to repair the house of the LORD his God ⚑

⁹ And when they came to Hilkiah the high priest they delivered the money that was brought into the house of God which the Levites that kept the doors had gathered of the hand of Manasseh and Ephraim and of all the remnant of Israel and of all Judah and Benjamin and they returned to Jerusalem ⚑

¹⁰ And they put it in the hand of the workmen that had the oversight of the house of the LORD and they gave it to the workmen that wrought in the house of the LORD to repair and amend the house ⚑

¹² And the men did the work faithfully and the overseers of them were Jahath and Obadiah the Levites of the sons of Merari and Zechariah and Meshullam of the sons of the Kohathites to set it forward and other of the Levites all that could skill of instruments of musick ⚑

¹³ Also they were over the bearers of burdens and were overseers of all that wrought the work in any manner of service and of the Levites there were scribes and officers and porters ⚑

¹⁴ And when they brought out the money that was brought into the house of the LORD Hilkiah the priest found a book of the law of the LORD given by Moses ⚑

¹⁷ And they have gathered together the money that was found in the house of the LORD and have delivered it into the hand of the overseers and to the hand of the workmen ⚑

¹⁹ And it came to pass when the king had heard the words of the law that he rent his clothes ⚑

²¹ Go enquire of the LORD for me and for them that are left in Israel and in Judah concerning the words of the book that is found for great is the wrath of the LORD that is poured out upon us because our fathers have not kept the word of the LORD to do after all that is written in this book ⚑

²² And Hilkiah and they that the king had appointed went to Huldah the prophetess the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvath the son of Hasrah keeper of the wardrobe now she dwelt in Jerusalem in the college and they spake to her to that effect ⚑

²³ And she answered them Thus saith the LORD God of Israel Tell ye the man that sent you to me ⚑

²⁴ Thus saith the LORD Behold I will bring evil upon this place and upon the inhabitants thereof even all the curses that are written in the book which they have read before the king of Judah ⚑

²⁵ Because they have forsaken me and have burned incense unto other gods that they might provoke me to anger with all the works of their hands therefore my wrath shall be poured out upon this place and shall not be quenched ⚑

²⁶ And as for the king of Judah who sent you to enquire of the LORD so shall ye say unto him Thus saith the LORD God of Israel concerning the words which thou hast heard ⚑

²⁷ Because thine heart was tender and thou didst humble thyself before God when thou heardest his words against this place and against the inhabitants thereof and humbledst thyself before me and didst rend thy clothes and weep before me I have even heard thee also saith the LORD ⚑

²⁸ Behold I will gather thee to thy fathers and thou shalt be gathered to thy grave in peace neither shall thine eyes see all the evil that I will bring upon this place and upon the inhabitants of the same So they brought the king word again ⚑

²⁹ Then the king sent and gathered together all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem ⚑

³⁰ And the king went up into the house of the LORD and all the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem and the priests and the Levites and all the people great and small and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant that was found in the house of the LORD ⚑

³¹ And the king stood in his place 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 his heart and with all his soul to perform the words of the covenant which are written in this book ⚑

³² And he caused all that were present in Jerusalem and Benjamin to stand to it And the inhabitants of Jerusalem did according to the covenant of God the God of their fathers ⚑

³³ And Josiah took away all the abominations out of all the countries that pertained to the children of Israel and made all that were present in Israel to serve even to serve the LORD their God And all his days they departed not from following the LORD the God of their fathers ⚑

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Cross-references: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge · public domain