2 Kings 23
23:1And the king sent, and brought together to him all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem.
23:2And the king ascended to the house of the lord, and all the men of Judah, and all the ones dwelling Jerusalem with him, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the people from small and unto great. And he read in their ears all the words of the scroll of the covenant of the one being found in the house of the lord.
23:3And the king stood near the column, and he ordained the covenant before the lord to go after the lord, and to guard his commandments, and his testimonies, and his orders, with a whole heart, and in the whole in life, to raise up the words of this covenant being written in this scroll. And he established all the people in the covenant.
23:4And the king gave charge to Hilkiah the great priest, and to the priests being second, and to the ones guarding the doorpost, to bring out from the temple of the lord all the items which they made to Baal, and to the sacred grove, and all the military of the heaven. And he incinerated them outside Jerusalem in the plain of Kidron, and he took their dust into Beth-el.
23:5And he incinerated the idolatrous priests, of whom the kings of Judah appointed to burn incense in the high places, and in the cities of Judah, and in the surroundings of Jerusalem, and the ones burning incense to Baal, and to the sun, and to the moon, and to the Mazuroth, and to all the military of the heaven.
23:6And he brought forth the sacred grove carving from out of the house of the lord outside of Jerusalem unto the rushing stream Kidron. And he incinerated it at the rushing stream Kidron, and ground it fine as dust. And he tossed its dust into the tombs of the sons of the people.
23:7And he demolished the house of the male prostitutes of the ones in the house of the lord in which the women wove apparel there for the sacred grove.
23:8And he brought in all the priests from the cities of Judah, and he defiled the high places where the priests were burning incense there, from Geba and unto Beer-sheba. And he demolished the high places by the door of the gate of Joshua ruler of the city, of the ones at the left sides of a man at the gate of the city.
23:9Only the priests of the high places did not ascend to the altar of the lord in Jerusalem; in no way they ate unleavened breads in the midst of their brethren.
23:10And he defiled Topheth, the one in the ravine of the son of Hinnom, for a man to not lead his son and his daughter in fire to Molech.
23:11And he incinerated the horses which the kings of Judah presented to the sun, in the entrance of the house of the lord, towards the treasury room of Nathan the eunuch of the king, of the one in the compound. And the chariot of the sun he incinerated by fire.
23:12And the altars, the ones upon the roof of the upper room of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah made, and the altars which Manasseh made in the two courtyards of the house of the lord, the king demolished, and tore down from there, and tossed their dust into the rushing stream Kidron.
23:13And the house upon the face of Jerusalem, the one at the right of the mount of Mosoath, which Solomon king of Israel built to Ashtoreth the loathsome thing of the Sidonians, and to Chemosh the loathsome thing of Moab, and to Molech the abomination of the sons of Ammon, the king defiled.
23:14And he broke the monuments, and cut down the sacred groves, and filled their places of bones of men.
23:15And indeed the high altar in Beth-el, which Jeroboam son of Nebat made, who led Israel into sin, also indeed he tore down that high altar, and he broke its stones, and made them fine into dust, and he incinerated the sacred grove.
23:16And Josiah turned and saw the tombs of the ones being there in the mount, and he sent and took the bones from out of the tombs, and he incinerated them upon the altar, and defiled it, according to the saying of the lord which the man of God spoke when Jeroboam stood near the altar in the holiday. And turning Josiah lifted his eyes upon the burying-place of the man of God, the one speaking these words;
23:17and he said, What is that high rock which I see? And the men of the city said to him, The grave of the man of God, of the one coming from out of Judah, and calling these words which you did against the altar in Beth-el.
23:18And he said, Allow him! no one move his bones! And he preserved his bones with the bones of the prophet having come from out of Samaria.
23:19And indeed all the houses of the high places, of the ones in the cities of Samaria which the kings of Israel made to provoke the lord to anger, Josiah removed, and he did to them according to all the works which he did in Beth-el.
23:20And he sacrificed all the priests of the high places being there upon the altars. And he incinerated the bones of the men upon them. And returned to Jerusalem.
23:21And the king gave charge to all the people, saying, Observe the passover to the lord your God! as it is written in the scroll of this covenant.
23:22For did not take place according to this passover from the days of the judges that judged Israel, and in all the days of the kings of Israel, and of the kings of Judah,
23:23for only in the eighteenth year of king Josiah this passover to the lord took place in Jerusalem.
23:24And indeed the soothsayers, and the diviners, and the teraphim, and the idols, and all the loathsome things taking place in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, king Josiah removed, that the words of the law should be established, the ones being written upon the scroll which Hilkiah the priest found in the house of the lord.
23:25There was no king before him likened to him, who turned towards the lord with his entire heart, and with his entire life, and with his entire strength, according to all the law of Moses. And after him rose up not one like him.
23:26Only the lord did not turn from the great rage of his anger of which his anger was enraged against Judah, against all the provocations to anger which Manasseh provoked him to anger.
23:27And the lord said, And indeed Judah I shall remove from my face, as I removed Israel, and I will thrust away this city which I chose -- Jerusalem, and the house of which I said, My name will be there.
23:28And the rest of the words of Josiah, and all as much as he did, are these not written upon the scroll of the words of the days of the kings of Judah?
23:29In his days ascended Pharaoh Necho king of Egypt against the king of the Assyrians at the river Euphrates. And Josiah the king went for a meeting against him. And Necho killed him in Megiddo, in his seeing him.
23:30And his servants conducted him dead in Megiddo. And they led him into Jerusalem, and they entombed him in his tomb in the city of David. And the people of the land took Jehoahaz son of Josiah, and anointed him and gave him reign instead of his father.
23:31Jehoahaz was a son being twenty and three years old in his taking reign; and three months he reigned in Jerusalem. And the name of his mother was Hamutal, daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
23:32And he did the wicked thing in the eyes of the lord according to all as much as his fathers did.
23:33And Pharaoh Necho moved him to Riblah in the land of Hamath, so as to not reign in Jerusalem. And he put a penalty against the land -- a hundred talents of silver, and ten talents of gold.
23:34And Pharaoh Necho put to reign over them Eliakim son of Josiah instead of Josiah his father, and he turned his name into Jehoiakim. And he took Jehoahaz, and he led him away into Egypt, and he died there.
23:35And the silver and the gold Jehoiakim gave to Pharaoh, but he assessed the land to give the money by the mouth of Pharaoh; from each man according to his assessed value; they gave the silver and the gold with the people of the land to give to Pharaoh Necho.
23:36Jehoiakim was a son being twenty and five years old in his taking reign, and eleven years he reigned in Jerusalem. And the name of his mother was Zebudah, daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah.
23:37And he did the wicked thing in the eyes of the lord according to all as much as his fathers did.