Verse 23
2 Kings 23:23
World English Bible, British Edition
23
but in the eighteenth year of King Josiah, this Passover was kept to
the LORD in Jerusalem.
Original Language Text
hebrew
כִּ֗י אִם בִּ/שְׁמֹנֶ֤ה עֶשְׂרֵה֙ שָׁנָ֔ה לַ/מֶּ֖לֶךְ יֹֽאשִׁיָּ֑הוּ נַעֲשָׂ֞ה הַ/פֶּ֧סַח הַ/זֶּ֛ה לַ/יהוָ֖ה בִּ/ירוּשָׁלִָֽם
English Translation
For in the eighteenth year of King Josiah, this Passover was held to the Lord in Jerusalem.
AI translation from hebrew via gpt-4o-mini
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Chapter 23 Context
1
The king sent, and they gathered to him all the elders of Judah and of Jerusalem.
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2
The king went up to the LORD’s house, and all the men of Judah and all
the inhabitants of Jerusalem...
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3
The king stood by the pillar and made a covenant before the LORD to walk
after the LORD and to keep...
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4
The king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of
the second order, and the keepers of...
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5
He got rid of the idolatrous priests whom the kings of Judah had ordained
to burn incense in the hig...
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6
He brought out the Asherah from the LORD’s house, outside of Jerusalem,
to the brook Kidron, and bur...
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7
He broke down the houses of the male shrine prostitutes that were in
the LORD’s house, where the wom...
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8
He brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah, and defiled the
high places where the priests...
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9
Nevertheless the priests of the high places didn’t come up to the LORD’s
altar in Jerusalem, but the...
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10
He defiled Topheth, which is in the valley of the children of Hinnom,
that no man might make his son...
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11
He took away the horses that the kings of Judah had dedicated to the
sun, at the entrance of the LOR...
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12
The king broke down the altars that were on the roof of the upper room
of Ahaz, which the kings of J...
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13
The king defiled the high places that were before Jerusalem, which
were on the right hand of the mou...
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14
He broke in pieces the pillars, cut down the Asherah poles, and filled
their places with men’s bones...
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15
Moreover the altar that was at Bethel and the high place which
Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made I...
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16
As Josiah turned himself, he spied the tombs that were there in the
mountain; and he sent, and took...
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17
Then he said, “What monument is that which I see?”
The men of the city told him, “It is the tomb of...
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18
He said, “Let him be! Let no one move his bones.” So they let
his bones alone, with the bones of the...
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19
All the houses also of the high places that were in the cities of Samaria,
which the kings of Israel...
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20
He killed all the priests of the high places that were there, on the
altars, and burnt men’s bones o...
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21
The king commanded all the people, saying, “Keep the Passover
to the LORD your God (Elohim), as it i...
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22
Surely there was not kept such a Passover from the days of the judges
who judged Israel, nor in all...
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23
but in the eighteenth year of King Josiah, this Passover was kept to
the LORD in Jerusalem.
24
Moreover, Josiah removed those who had familiar spirits, the
wizards, and the teraphim, and the idol...
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25
There was no king like him before him, who turned to the LORD with
all his heart, and with all his s...
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26
Notwithstanding, the LORD didn’t turn from the fierceness of his great
wrath, with which his anger b...
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27
The LORD said, “I will also remove Judah out of my sight, as I have
removed Israel; and I will cast...
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28
Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and all that he did, aren’t
they written in the book of the chro...
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29
In his days Pharaoh Necoh king of Egypt went up against the king of
Assyria to the river Euphrates;...
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30
His servants carried him dead in a chariot from Megiddo, brought him
to Jerusalem, and buried him in...
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31
Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he began to reign;
and he reigned three months in Jerusalem...
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32
He did that which was evil in the LORD’s sight, according to all that
his fathers had done.
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33
Pharaoh Necoh put him in bonds at Riblah in the land of Hamath, that
he might not reign in Jerusalem...
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34
Pharaoh Necoh made Eliakim the son of Josiah king in the place of Josiah
his father, and changed his...
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35
Jehoiakim gave the silver and the gold to Pharaoh; but he taxed the
land to give the money according...
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36
Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he
reigned eleven years in Jerusalem...
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37
He did that which was evil in the LORD’s sight, according to all that
his fathers had done.
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