These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
2 Kings 23
Tanakh 37 verses
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And the sent, and they gathered unto him all the elders of and of .
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- 2 And the went up to the house of , and all the men of and all the inhabitants of 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 which was found in the house of .
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And the stood on the platform, and made a before , to walk after , and to keep His commandments, and His testimonies, and His statutes, with all his , and all his , to confirm the words of this that were written in this book; and all the people stood to the .
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2 Kings 11:17 2 Kings 11:14 Deuteronomy 13:4 Deuteronomy 10:12 Deuteronomy 11:13 2 Chronicles 29:10 Ezra 10:3 Deuteronomy 6:1 2 Chronicles 34:31-33 Deuteronomy 5:1-3 Nehemiah 9:38 Hebrews 12:24 Ecclesiastes 8:2 2 Chronicles 23:13 Deuteronomy 29:1 Deuteronomy 6:5 Deuteronomy 4:45 Exodus 24:7-8 Psalm 19:7-9 Matthew 22:36-37 Exodus 24:3 Jeremiah 4:2 2 Chronicles 15:12-14 2 Chronicles 23:16 Joshua 24:24-25 Jeremiah 50:5 Deuteronomy 8:19 Deuteronomy 29:10-15 Hebrews 8:8-13 Nehemiah 10:28-39 Hebrews 13:20 -
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And the commanded Hilkiah the high , and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the door, to bring forth out of the of all the vessels that were made for Baal, and for the Asherah, and for all the host of ; and he burned them without in the fields of Kidron, and carried the ashes of them unto Beth-el.
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2 Kings 21:3 2 Kings 21:7 2 Chronicles 33:3 2 Kings 25:18 1 Kings 18:40 Matthew 27:1 Amos 4:4 2 Chronicles 33:7 Hosea 4:15 2 Samuel 15:23 1 Kings 18:19 1 Chronicles 24:4-19 1 Kings 19:18 John 18:1 1 Kings 18:26 Jeremiah 7:9 2 Chronicles 34:3-4 1 Kings 16:31 Isaiah 27:9 Matthew 26:3 2 Kings 17:16 2 Kings 22:4 1 Chronicles 26:1-19 Jeremiah 52:24 1 Kings 12:29 Judges 2:13 2 Kings 23:15 -
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And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of had ordained to offer in the high places in the cities of , and in the places round about ; them also that offered unto Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the constellations, and to all the host of .
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- 6 And he brought out the Asherah from the house of , without , 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 common people.
- 7 And he broke down the houses of the sodomites, that were in the house of , where the women wove coverings for the Asherah.
- 8 And he brought all the priests out of the cities of , and defiled the high places where the priests had made offerings, from Geba to Beer-sheba; and he broke down the high places of the gates that were at the entrance of the gate of the governor of the city, which were on a man’s left hand as he entered the gate of the city.
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Nevertheless the priests of the high places came not up to the of in , but they did eat unleavened bread among their brethren.
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And he defiled Topheth, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, that no man might make his son or his daughter to pass through the fire to Molech.
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And he took away the horses that the kings of had given to the sun, at the entrance of the house of , by the chamber of Nethan-melech the officer, which was in the precincts; and he burned the chariots of the sun with fire.
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- 12 And the altars that were on the roof of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of had made, and the altars which had made in the two courts of the house of , did the break down, and beat them down from thence, and cast the dust of them into the brook Kidron.
- 13 And the high places that were before , which were on the right hand of the mount of corruption, which the of had builded for Ashtoreth the detestation of the Zidonians, and for Chemosh the detestation of , and for Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon, did the defile.
- 14 And he broke in pieces the pillars, and cut down the Asherim, and filled their places with the bones of men.
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Moreover the that was at Beth-el, and the high place which the son of Nebat, who made to sin, had made, even that and the high place he broke down; and he burned the high place and stamped it small to powder, and burned the Asherah.
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And as turned himself, he spied the sepulchres that were there in the mount; and he sent, and took the bones out of the sepulchres, and burned them upon the , and defiled it, according to the of which the man of proclaimed, who proclaimed these things.
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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 sepulchre of the man of , who came from , and proclaimed these things that thou hast done against the of Beth-el.’
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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 the that came out of .
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- 19 And all the houses also of the high places that were in the cities of , which the kings of had made to provoke [], took away, and did to them according to all the acts that he had done in Beth-el.
- 20 And he slew all the priests of the high places that were there, upon the altars, and burned men’s bones upon them; and he returned to .
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And the commanded all the people, saying: ‘Keep the unto your , as it is written in this book of the .’
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For there was not kept such a from the days of the judges that judged , nor in all the days of the kings of , nor of the kings of ;
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- 23 but in the eighteenth year of was this kept to in .
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Moreover them that divined by a ghost or a familiar , and the teraphim, and the idols, and all the detestable things that were spied in the land of and in , did put away, that he might confirm the words of the which were written in the book that Hilkiah the found in the house of .
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- 25 And like unto him was there no before him, that turned to with all his , and with all his , and with all his might, according to all the of ; neither after him arose there any like him.
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Notwithstanding turned not from the fierceness of His great wrath, wherewith His anger was kindled against , because of all the provocations wherewith had provoked Him.
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- 27 And said: ‘I will remove also out of My sight, as I have removed , and I will cast off this city which I have chosen, even , and the house of which I said: My shall be there.’
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Now the rest of the acts of , and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of ?
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- 29 In his days Pharaoh-necoh of went up against the of to the river ; and went against him; and he slew him at Megiddo, when he had seen him.
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And his servants carried him in a chariot dead from Megiddo, and brought him to , and buried him in his own sepulchre. And the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of , and anointed him, and made him in his father’s stead.
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Jehoahaz was twenty and three years old when he began to reign; and he reigned three months in ; and his mother’s was Hamutal the daughter of of Libnah.
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And he did that which was evil in the sight of , according to all that his fathers had done.
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- 33 And Pharaoh-necoh put him in bands at Riblah in the land of Hamath, that he might not reign in ; and put the land to a fine of a hundred talents of silver, and a of gold.
- 34 And Pharaoh-necoh made Eliakim the son of in the room of his father, and changed his to Jehoiakim; but he took Jehoahaz away; and he came to , and died there.
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And Jehoiakim gave the silver and the gold to Pharaoh; but he taxed the land to give the money according to the 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 Pharaoh-necoh.
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Jehoiakim was twenty and five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned eleven years in ; and his mother’s was Zebudah the daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah.
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- 37 And he did that which was evil in the sight of , according to all that his fathers had done.