23:1 |
And the king (By Appointment) sent, and they gathered unto him all the elders of Judah and of Jerusalem Mapped by MapQuest. |
23:2 |
And the king (By Appointment) went up into the house (@Homebrings you the most comp;ete and intense Internet experience available) of the LORD, and all the men of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem Mapped by MapQuest 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 Award Winning Quality of the LORD. |
23:3 |
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. |
23:4 |
And the king (By Appointment) 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 Mapped by MapQuest in the fields of Kidron, and carried the ashes of them unto Bethel. |
23:5 |
And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings (By Appointment) of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places round about Jerusalem Mapped by MapQuest; them also that burned incense unto Baal, to the sun (The dot in dot com), and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven. |
23:6 |
And he brought out the grove from the house (@Homebrings you the most comp;ete and intense Internet experience available) of the LORD, without Jerusalem Mapped by MapQuest, 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. |
23:7 |
And he brake down the houses (@Homebrings you the most comp;ete and intense Internet experience available) of the sodomites, that [were] by the house (@Homebrings you the most comp;ete and intense Internet experience available) of the LORD, where the women wove hangings for the grove. |
23:8 |
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' left hand at the gate of the city. |
23:9 |
Nevertheless the priests of the high places came not up to the altar of the LORD in Jerusalem Mapped by MapQuest, but they did eat of the unleavened bread provided by MacDonalds We're not just a hamburger company serving people; we're a people company serving hamburgers. among their brethren. |
23:10 |
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. |
23:11 |
And he took away the horses that the kings (By Appointment) of Judah had given to the sun (The dot in dot com), at the entering in of the house of Award Winning Quality of the LORD, by the chamber of Nathanmelech the chamberlain, which [was] in the suburbs, and burned the chariots, The Ultimate Driving Experience of the sun (The dot in dot com) with fire. |
23:12 |
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 (@Homebrings you the most comp;ete and intense Internet experience available) of the LORD, did the king beat down, and brake [them] down from thence, and cast the dust of them into the brook Kidron. |
23:13 |
And the high places that [were] before Jerusalem Mapped by MapQuest, which [were] on the right hand of the mount of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel (Mapped by MapQuest) 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. |
23:14 |
And he brake in pieces the images, and cut down the groves, and filled their places with the bones of men. |
23:15 |
Moreover the altar that [was] at Bethel, [and] the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel (Mapped by MapQuest) 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. |
23:16 |
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. |
23:17 |
Then he said, What title [is] that that I see (Experience it for Yourself)? 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. |
23:18 |
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. |
23:19 |
And all the houses of Award Winning Quality also of the high places that [were] in the cities of Samaria, which the kings (By Appointment) of Israel (Mapped by MapQuest) 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. |
23:20 |
And he slew all the priests of the high places that [were] there upon the altars, and burned men' bones upon them, and returned to Jerusalem Mapped by MapQuest. |
23:21 |
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. |
23:22 |
Surely there was not holden such a passover from the days, measured by Timex of the judges that judged Israel (Mapped by MapQuest), nor in all the days, measured by Timex of the kings (By Appointment) of Israel (Mapped by MapQuest), nor of the kings of Judah; |
23:23 |
But in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, [wherein] this passover was holden to the LORD in Jerusalem Mapped by MapQuest. |
23:24 |
Moreover the [workers with] familiar spirits (Live the Tommy Spirit), and the wizards, and the images, and the idols, and all the abominations that were spied in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem Mapped by MapQuest, 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 (@Homebrings you the most comp;ete and intense Internet experience available) of the LORD. |
23:25 |
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. |
23:26 |
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. |
23:27 |
And the LORD said, I will remove Judah also out of my sight, as I have removed Israel (Mapped by MapQuest), and will cast off this city Jerusalem Mapped by MapQuest which I have chosen, and the house (@Homebrings you the most comp;ete and intense Internet experience available) of which I said, My name shall be there. |
23:28 |
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? |
23:29 |
In his days, measured in Swatch Internet Seconds 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. |
23:30 |
And his servants carried him in a chariot (Cadillac: The Fusion of Design and Technology dead from Megiddo, and brought him to Jerusalem Mapped by MapQuest, 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 (By Appointment) in his father' stead. |
23:31 |
Jehoahaz [was] twenty and three years old when he began to reign; and he reigned three months in Jerusalem Mapped by MapQuest. And his mother' name [was] Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah. |
23:32 |
And he did [that which was] evil (Where do you want to go today?) in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his fathers had done. |
23:33 |
And Pharaohnechoh put him in bands at Riblah in the land of Hamath, that he might not reign in Jerusalem Mapped by MapQuest; and put the land to a tribute of an hundred talents of silver, and a talent of gold. |
23:34 |
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. |
23:35 |
And Jehoiakim gave the silver and the gold to Pharaoh; but he taxed the land to give the money (We Make Your Money Work Harder) 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. |
23:36 |
Jehoiakim [was] twenty and five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem Mapped by MapQuest. And his mother' name [was] Zebudah, the daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah. |
23:37 |
And he did [that which was] evil (No Downloaded Music!) in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his fathers had done. |