NITHYAM SONGS2 Chronicles 34
World English Bible (WEB) • 33 verses
1Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem.
RelatedZephaniah 1:1 · Jeremiah 1:2 · 1 Chronicles 3:14-15 · Matthew 1:10-11 · 2 Chronicles 33:25 · 1 Samuel 2:18
2He did that which was right in the LORD’s eyes, and walked in the ways of David his father, and didn’t turn away to the right hand or to the left.
Related2 Chronicles 29:2 · Joshua 1:7 · Deuteronomy 5:32 · 2 Chronicles 17:3 · 1 Kings 14:8 · 1 Kings 15:5
3For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father; and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, the Asherah poles, the engraved images, and the molten images.
Related2 Chronicles 33:22 · 2 Chronicles 15:2 · 2 Chronicles 33:17 · Proverbs 8:17 · Ecclesiastes 12:1 · Psalms 119:9
4They broke down the altars of the Baals in his presence; and he cut down the incense altars that were on high above them. He broke the Asherah poles, the engraved images, and the molten images in pieces, made dust of them, and scattered it on the graves of those who had sacrificed to them.
RelatedExodus 32:20 · 2 Kings 23:4-6 · Leviticus 26:30 · 2 Chronicles 34:7 · Deuteronomy 7:25 · Isaiah 27:9
5He burned the bones of the priests on their altars, and purged Judah and Jerusalem.
Related1 Kings 13:2 · Numbers 35:33 · 2 Chronicles 34:7 · Jeremiah 3:10 · Jeremiah 4:14 · Jeremiah 8:1-2
6He did this in the cities of Manasseh, Ephraim, and Simeon, even to Naphtali, around in their ruins.
Related1 Samuel 13:20-21 · 2 Chronicles 31:1 · Isaiah 7:25 · 2 Chronicles 30:10-11 · 2 Chronicles 30:1 · Proverbs 25:18
7He broke down the altars, beat the Asherah poles and the engraved images into powder, and cut down all the incense altars throughout all the land of Israel, then returned to Jerusalem.
8Now in the eighteenth year of his reign, when he had purged the land and the house, he sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, Maaseiah the governor of the city, and Joah the son of Joahaz the recorder to repair the house of the LORD his God.
Related2 Samuel 8:16 · Jeremiah 40:11 · Jeremiah 21:1 · Jeremiah 29:25 · Jeremiah 1:2-3 · Jeremiah 29:3
9They came to Hilkiah the high priest and delivered the money that was brought into God’s house, which the Levites, the keepers of the threshold, had gathered from the hands of Manasseh, Ephraim, of all the remnant of Israel, of all Judah and Benjamin, and of the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
Related2 Chronicles 35:8 · 2 Chronicles 30:18 · 2 Chronicles 30:10 · 2 Kings 22:4-7 · 2 Chronicles 24:11-14 · 2 Kings 23:4
10They delivered it into the hands of the workmen who had the oversight of the LORD’s house; and the workmen who labored in the LORD’s house gave it to mend and repair the house.
11They gave it to the carpenters and to the builders to buy cut stone and timber for couplings, and to make beams for the houses which the kings of Judah had destroyed.
12The men did the work faithfully. Their overseers were Jahath and Obadiah the Levites, of the sons of Merari; and Zechariah and Meshullam, of the sons of the Kohathites, to give direction; and others of the Levites, who were all skillful with musical instruments.
Related2 Kings 12:15 · 1 Chronicles 23:5 · Proverbs 28:20 · Nehemiah 7:2 · 1 Chronicles 25:1-31 · 2 Chronicles 31:12
13Also they were over the bearers of burdens, and directed all who did the work in every kind of service. Of the Levites, there were scribes, officials, and gatekeepers.
RelatedNehemiah 4:10 · 2 Chronicles 2:18 · 1 Chronicles 26:1-19 · 2 Chronicles 2:10 · Matthew 26:3 · Jeremiah 8:8
14When they brought out the money that was brought into the LORD’s house, Hilkiah the priest found the book of the LORD’s law given by Moses.
RelatedLuke 2:39 · 2 Kings 22:8-20 · Ezra 7:10 · Deuteronomy 31:24-26 · Deuteronomy 17:18-19 · 2 Chronicles 31:4
15Hilkiah answered Shaphan the scribe, “I have found the book of the law in the LORD’s house.” So Hilkiah delivered the book to Shaphan.
16Shaphan carried the book to the king, and moreover brought back word to the king, saying, “All that was committed to your servants, they are doing.
17They have emptied out the money that was found in the LORD’s house, and have delivered it into the hand of the overseers and into the hand of the workmen.”
18Shaphan the scribe told the king, saying, “Hilkiah the priest has delivered me a book.” Shaphan read from it to the king.
19When the king had heard the words of the law, he tore his clothes.
20The king commanded Hilkiah, Ahikam the son of Shaphan, Abdon the son of Micah, Shaphan the scribe, and Asaiah the king’s servant, saying,
Related2 Kings 22:12 · 2 Kings 25:22 · Jeremiah 26:22 · Jeremiah 40:9 · Jeremiah 26:24 · Jeremiah 40:6
21“Go inquire of the LORD for me, and for those who are left in Israel and in Judah, concerning the words of the book that is found; for great is the LORD’s wrath that is poured out on us, because our fathers have not kept the LORD’s word, to do according to all that is written in this book.”
RelatedEzekiel 14:1-11 · Jeremiah 21:2 · 2 Chronicles 28:6 · Deuteronomy 28:15 · 1 Samuel 9:9 · 2 Kings 22:13
22So Hilkiah and those whom the king had commanded went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tokhath, the son of Hasrah, keeper of the wardrobe (now she lived in Jerusalem in the second quarter), and they spoke to her to that effect.
23She said to them, “The LORD, the God of Israel says: ‘Tell the man who sent you to me,
24“The LORD says, ‘Behold, I will bring evil on this place and on its inhabitants, even all the curses that are written in the book which they have read before the king of Judah.
Related2 Chronicles 36:14-20 · Deuteronomy 28:15-68 · Joshua 23:16 · Jeremiah 19:15 · Jeremiah 36:31 · Jeremiah 19:3
25Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense to other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the works of their hands, therefore my wrath is poured out on this place, and it will not be quenched.’”’
RelatedJeremiah 7:20 · Mark 9:43-48 · Nahum 1:6 · 2 Chronicles 15:2 · Jeremiah 4:4 · Revelation 14:10-11
26But to the king of Judah, who sent you to inquire of the LORD, you shall tell him this, ‘The LORD, the God of Israel says: “About the words which you have heard,
27because your heart was tender, and you humbled yourself before God when you heard his words against this place and against its inhabitants, and have humbled yourself before me, and have torn your clothes and wept before me, I also have heard you,” says the LORD.
Related2 Chronicles 32:26 · Psalms 34:18 · Ezekiel 9:4 · 2 Chronicles 33:12 · 2 Chronicles 34:19 · Isaiah 65:24
28“Behold, I will gather you to your fathers, and you will be gathered to your grave in peace. Your eyes won’t see all the evil that I will bring on this place and on its inhabitants.”’” They brought back this message to the king.
RelatedPsalms 37:37 · Isaiah 39:8 · Jeremiah 15:1 · 2 Chronicles 35:24 · Isaiah 57:1-2 · 1 Kings 21:29
29Then the king sent and gathered together all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem.
30The king went up to the LORD’s house with all the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem—the priests, the Levites, and all the people, both great and small—and he read in their hearing all the words of the book of the covenant that was found in the LORD’s house.
Related2 Kings 23:2 · Exodus 24:7 · Jeremiah 31:31-32 · 2 Chronicles 34:15 · 2 Chronicles 34:24 · Nehemiah 8:1-5
31The king stood in his place and made a covenant before the LORD, to walk after the LORD, and to keep his commandments, his testimonies, and his statutes with all his heart and with all his soul, to perform the words of the covenant that were written in this book.
Related2 Chronicles 23:16 · 2 Kings 23:3 · 2 Chronicles 6:13 · 2 Chronicles 15:12 · 2 Chronicles 29:10 · 2 Kings 11:14
32He caused all who were found in Jerusalem and Benjamin to stand. The inhabitants of Jerusalem did according to the covenant of God, the God of their fathers.
Related2 Chronicles 33:16 · Ecclesiastes 8:2 · Genesis 18:19 · 2 Chronicles 14:4 · Jeremiah 3:10 · 2 Chronicles 29:29
33Josiah took away all the abominations out of all the countries that belonged to the children of Israel, and made all who were found in Israel to serve, even to serve the LORD their God. All his days they didn’t depart from following the LORD, the God of their fathers.
Related2 Chronicles 34:3-7 · Joshua 24:31 · 1 Kings 11:5-7 · Hosea 6:4 · 2 Kings 23:4-20 · Jeremiah 3:10
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