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in Jerusalem, <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/34-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>and he does that which is right in the eyes of YHWH, and walks in the ways of his father David, and has not turned aside [to] the right or left.<p> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/34-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>And in the eighth year of his reign (and he [is] yet a youth), he has begun to seek for the God of his father David, and in the twelfth year he has begun to cleanse Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, and the Asherim, and the carved images, and the molten images. <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/34-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>And they break down the altars of the Ba‘alim before him, and he has cut down the images that [are] on high above them, and the Asherim, and the carved images, and the molten images, he has broken and beaten small, and strews [them] on the surface of the graves of those sacrificing to them, <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/34-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>and he has burned the bones of the priests on their altars, and cleanses Judah and Jerusalem, <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/34-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>and in the cities of Manasseh, and Ephraim, and Simeon, even to Naphtali, with their tools, all around. <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/34-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>And he breaks down the altars and the Asherim, and he has beaten down the carved images very small, and he has cut down all the images in all the land of Israel, and turns back to Jerusalem.<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/34-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And in the eighteenth year of his reign, to purify the land and the house, he has sent Shaphan son of Azaliah, and Maaseiah head of the city, and Joah son of Johaz the remembrancer, to strengthen the house of his God YHWH. <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/34-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And they come to Hilkiah the high priest, and they give the money that is brought into the house of God, that the Levites, keeping the threshold, have gathered from the hand of Manasseh, and Ephraim, and from all the remnant of Israel, and from all Judah, and Benjamin, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/34-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>and they give [it] into the hand of the workmen, those appointed over the house of YHWH, and they give it [to] the workmen who are working in the house of YHWH, to repair and to strengthen the house; <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/34-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>and they give [it] to craftsmen and to builders to buy hewn stones, and wood for couplings and for beams [for] the houses that the kings of Judah had destroyed. <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/34-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And the men are working faithfully in the business, and over them are appointed Jahath and Obadiah, the Levites, of the sons of Merari, and Zechariah and Meshullam, of the sons of the Kohathite, to overlook; and of the Levites, everyone understanding about instruments of song, <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/34-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>and over the burden-bearers, and overseers of everyone doing work for every service; and of the Levites [are] scribes, and officers, and gatekeepers.<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/34-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And in their bringing out the money that is brought into the house of YHWH, Hilkiah the priest has found the Scroll of the Law of YHWH by the hand of Moses, <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/34-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>and Hilkiah answers and says to Shaphan the scribe, “I have found [the] Scroll of the Law in the house of YHWH”; and Hilkiah gives the scroll to Shaphan, <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/34-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>and Shaphan brings in the scroll to the king, and brings the king back word again, saying, “All that has been given into the hand of your servants they are doing, <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/34-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>and they pour out the money that is found in the house of YHWH, and give it into the hand of those appointed and into the hands of those doing the work.” <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/34-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And Shaphan the scribe declares [it] to the king, saying, “Hilkiah the priest has given a scroll to me”; and Shaphan reads in it before the king.<p> <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/34-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>And it comes to pass, at the king’s hearing the words of the Law, that he tears his garments, <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/34-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>and the king commands Hilkiah, and Ahikam son of Shaphan, and Abdon son of Micah, and Shaphan the scribe, and Asaiah, servant of the king, saying, <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/34-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>“Go, seek YHWH for me, and for him who is left in Israel and in Judah, concerning the words of the scroll that is found, for great [is] the fury of YHWH that is poured on us, because that our fathers did not keep the word of YHWH to do according to all that is written on this scroll.”<p> <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/34-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>And Hilkiah goes, and they of the king, to Huldah the prophetess, wife of Shallum son of Tikvath, son of Hasrah, keeper of the garments, and she is dwelling in Jerusalem in the Second [Quarter], and they speak to her thus. <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/34-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>And she says to them, “Thus said YHWH, God of Israel: Say to the man who has sent you to me, <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/34-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Thus said YHWH: Behold, I am bringing in calamity on this place and on its inhabitants, all the execrations that are written on the scroll that they read before the king of Judah, <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/34-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>because that they have forsaken Me, and make incense to other gods, so as to provoke Me with all the works of their hands, and My fury is poured out on this place, and it is not quenched. <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/34-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>And to the king of Judah who is sending you to inquire of YHWH, thus you say to him, Thus said YHWH God of Israel, whose words you have heard: <A name="28"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/34-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Because your heart [is] tender, and you are humbled before God in your hearing His words concerning this place and concerning its inhabitants, and are humbled before Me, and tear your garments, and weep before Me, indeed, I have also heard [you]—a declaration of YHWH. <A name="29"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/34-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>Behold, I am gathering you to your fathers, and you have been gathered to your graves in peace, and your eyes do not look on all the calamity that I am bringing on this place and on its inhabitants”; and they bring the king back word.<p> <A name="30"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/34-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>And the king sends and gathers all the elderly of Judah and Jerusalem, <A name="31"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/34-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>and the king goes up to the house of YHWH, and [to] every man of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the priests, and the Levites, even all the people, from great even to small, and he reads in their ears all the words of the scroll of the covenant that is found in the house of YHWH.<p> <A name="32"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/34-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>And the king stands on his station, and makes the covenant before YHWH to walk after YHWH, and to keep His commands, and His testimonies, and His statutes, with all his heart and with all his soul, to do the words of the covenant that are written on this scroll. <A name="33"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/34-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>And he presents everyone who is found in Jerusalem and Benjamin, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem do according to the covenant of God, the God of their fathers. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/34-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>And Josiah turns aside all the abominations out of all the lands that the sons of Israel have, and causes 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