Verse 1
2 Kings 23:1
American Standard Version Byzantine Text
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And the king sent, and they gathered unto him all the elders of Judah and of Jerusalem.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/יִּשְׁלַ֖ח הַ/מֶּ֑לֶךְ וַ/יַּאַסְפ֣וּ אֵלָ֔י/ו כָּל זִקְנֵ֥י יְהוּדָ֖ה וִ/ירוּשָׁלִָֽם
English Translation
And the king sent and gathered to him all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem.
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Chapter 23 Context
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And the king sent, and they gathered unto him all the elders of Judah and of Jerusalem.
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And the king went up to the house of Jehovah, and all the men of Judah and all the inhabitants of Je...
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And the king stood by the pillar, and made a covenant before Jehovah, to walk after Jehovah, and to...
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And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers...
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And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the...
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And he brought out the Asherah from the house of Jehovah, without Jerusalem, unto the brook Kidron,...
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And he brake down the houses of the sodomites, that were in the house of Jehovah, where the women wo...
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And he brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah, and defiled the high places where the pri...
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Nevertheless the priests of the high places came not up to the altar of Jehovah in Jerusalem, but th...
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And he defiled Topheth, which is in the valley of the children of Hinnom, that no man might make his...
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And he took away the horses that the kings of Judah had given to the sun, at the entrance of the hou...
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And the altars that were on the roof of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made...
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And the high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on the right hand of the mount of corrupt...
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And he brake in pieces the pillars, and cut down the Asherim, and filled their places with the bones...
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Moreover the altar that was at Beth-el, and the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made...
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And as Josiah turned himself, he spied the sepulchers that were there in the mount; and he sent, and...
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Then he said, What monument is that which I see? And the men of the city told him, It is the sepulch...
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And he said, Let him be; let no man move his bones. So they let his bones alone, with the bones of t...
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And all the houses also of the high places that were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Is...
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And he slew all the priests of the high places that were there, upon the altars, and burned men’s bo...
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And the king commanded all the people, saying, Keep the passover unto Jehovah your God (Elohim), as...
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Surely there was not kept such a passover from the days of the judges that judged Israel, nor in all...
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but in the eighteenth year of king Josiah was this passover kept to Jehovah in Jerusalem.
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Moreover them that had familiar spirits, and the wizards, and the teraphim, and the idols, and all t...
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And like unto him was there no king before him, that turned to Jehovah with all his heart, and with...
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Notwithstanding, Jehovah turned not from the fierceness of his great wrath, wherewith his anger was...
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And Jehovah said, I will remove Judah also out of my sight, as I have removed Israel, and I will cas...
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Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chr...
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In his days Pharaoh Neco king of Egypt went up against the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates: a...
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And his servants carried him in a chariot dead from Megiddo, and brought him to Jerusalem, and burie...
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Jehoahaz was twenty and three years old when he began to reign; and he reigned three months in Jerus...
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And he did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, according to all that his fathers had done.
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And Pharaoh Neco put him in bonds at Riblah in the land of Hamath, that he might not reign in Jerusa...
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And Pharaoh Neco made Eliakim the son of Josiah king in the room of Josiah his father, and changed h...
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And Jehoiakim gave the silver and the gold to Pharaoh; but he taxed the land to give the money accor...
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Jehoiakim was twenty and five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned eleven years in Jerus...
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And he did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, according to all that his fathers had done.
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