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II Chronicles Chapter 34

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Second Chronicles 34 recounts the godly reign of King Josiah, who began ruling at age eight and by his sixteenth year had already started purging Judah of its high places, Asherah poles, and carved idols. In his eighteenth year, while funding repairs on the temple, the high priest Hilkiah discovered the lost Book of the Law, and its public reading moved Josiah to tear his robes in grief over Israel's long disobedience. He sent a delegation to the prophetess Huldah, who confirmed that God's judgment on Judah was inevitable but promised that Josiah himself would die in peace before the disaster came, because his heart was tender and he humbled himself before God.

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(1) Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem one and thirty years.
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II Chronicles 33:25I Kings 13:2II Kings 22:1II Kings 22:2II Kings 22:3II Kings 22:4II Kings 22:5II Kings 22:6II Kings 22:7II Kings 22:8II Kings 22:9II Kings 22:10

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II Kings 22:1II Kings 8:17II Chronicles 20:31II Chronicles 21:5II Chronicles 21:20II Samuel 5:4

(2) And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the ways of David his father, and declined neither to the right hand, nor to the left.
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II Chronicles 14:2II Chronicles 17:3II Chronicles 29:2I Kings 14:8I Kings 15:5II Kings 22:2Deuteronomy 5:32Deuteronomy 17:11Deuteronomy 17:20Deuteronomy 28:14Joshua 1:7Joshua 23:6

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II Chronicles 21:12Ezekiel 16:47

(3) For 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, and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images.
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I Chronicles 22:5I Chronicles 29:1Psalms 119:9Ecclesiastes 12:1II Timothy 3:15II Chronicles 15:2I Chronicles 28:9Proverbs 8:17Matthew 6:33II Chronicles 33:17II Chronicles 33:22Leviticus 26:30

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II Chronicles 34:4II Chronicles 33:19Deuteronomy 7:5Isaiah 30:22Isaiah 42:17I Kings 16:29

(4) And they brake down the altars of Baalim in his presence; and the images, that were on high above them, he cut down; and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images, he brake in pieces, and made dust of them, and strowed it upon the graves of them that had sacrificed unto them.
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II Chronicles 33:3Exodus 23:24Leviticus 26:30Deuteronomy 7:5Deuteronomy 7:25II Chronicles 14:5II Kings 23:4II Kings 23:5II Kings 23:11II Chronicles 34:7Exodus 32:20Deuteronomy 9:21

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II Kings 11:18II Chronicles 23:17II Kings 18:4II Chronicles 34:3II Chronicles 31:1Deuteronomy 7:5

(5) And he burnt the bones of the priests upon their altars, and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem.
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I Kings 13:2II Kings 23:16Jeremiah 8:1Jeremiah 8:2II Chronicles 34:7Numbers 35:33Jeremiah 3:10Jeremiah 4:14Ezekiel 22:24

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Jeremiah 8:1II Samuel 21:13II Kings 23:18

(6) And so did he in the cities of Manasseh, and Ephraim, and Simeon, even unto Naphtali, with their mattocks round about.
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II Chronicles 30:1II Chronicles 30:10II Chronicles 30:11II Chronicles 31:1II Kings 23:15II Kings 23:16II Kings 23:17II Kings 23:18II Kings 23:19II Kings 23:20I Samuel 13:20I Samuel 13:21

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Genesis 48:20Isaiah 9:21I Kings 6:5Ezekiel 46:23Genesis 48:5II Chronicles 15:9

(7) And when he had broken down the altars and the groves, and had beaten the graven images into powder, and cut down all the idols throughout all the land of Israel, he returned to Jerusalem.
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II Chronicles 34:1Deuteronomy 9:21II Chronicles 31:1

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Deuteronomy 7:5II Chronicles 34:4Jeremiah 50:2Ezekiel 6:4Ezekiel 6:6II Chronicles 31:1

(8) Now in the eighteenth year of his reign, when he had purged the land, and the house, he sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, and Maaseiah the governor of the city, and Joah the son of Joahaz the recorder, to repair the house of the LORD his God.
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Jeremiah 1:2Jeremiah 1:3II Kings 22:3II Kings 22:12II Kings 22:14Jeremiah 26:24Jeremiah 29:3Jeremiah 36:10Jeremiah 39:14Jeremiah 40:11Ezekiel 8:11Jeremiah 21:1

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Ezekiel 24:13II Kings 22:3

(9) And when they came to Hilkiah the high priest, they delivered the money that was brought into the house of God, which the Levites that kept the doors had gathered of the hand of Manasseh and Ephraim, and of all the remnant of Israel, and of all Judah and Benjamin; and they returned to Jerusalem.
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II Chronicles 34:14II Chronicles 34:15II Chronicles 34:18II Chronicles 34:20II Chronicles 34:22II Kings 22:4II Kings 23:4II Chronicles 24:11II Chronicles 24:12II Chronicles 24:13II Chronicles 24:14II Kings 22:5

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Judges 12:4II Chronicles 15:9II Chronicles 24:5II Chronicles 24:11II Chronicles 31:1II Kings 12:4

(10) And they put it in the hand of the workmen that had the oversight of the house of the LORD, and they gave it to the workmen that wrought in the house of the LORD, to repair and amend the house:
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II Kings 12:11II Kings 12:12II Kings 12:14II Kings 22:5II Kings 22:6Ezra 3:7

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II Chronicles 24:13

(11) Even to the artificers and builders gave they it, to buy hewn stone, and timber for couplings, and to floor the houses which the kings of Judah had destroyed.
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II Chronicles 33:4II Chronicles 33:5II Chronicles 33:6II Chronicles 33:7II Chronicles 33:22

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II Kings 22:6II Kings 12:12Exodus 20:25Psalms 118:22Isaiah 28:16Amos 5:11

(12) And the men did the work faithfully: and the overseers of them were Jahath and Obadiah, the Levites, of the sons of Merari; and Zechariah and Meshullam, of the sons of the Kohathites, to set it forward; and other of the Levites, all that could skill of instruments of musick.
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II Chronicles 31:12II Kings 12:15II Kings 22:7Nehemiah 7:2Proverbs 28:20I Corinthians 4:2I Chronicles 6:31I Chronicles 6:32I Chronicles 6:33I Chronicles 6:34I Chronicles 6:35I Chronicles 6:36

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Numbers 3:45Nehemiah 10:38Numbers 1:51Ezra 3:8Numbers 2:17Numbers 26:57

(13) Also they were over the bearers of burdens, and were overseers of all that wrought the work in any manner of service: and of the Levites there were scribes, and officers, and porters.
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II Chronicles 2:10II Chronicles 2:18II Chronicles 8:10Nehemiah 4:10I Chronicles 23:4I Chronicles 23:5Ezra 7:6Jeremiah 8:8Matthew 26:3II Chronicles 19:11I Chronicles 26:29I Chronicles 26:30

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I Chronicles 28:21Numbers 4:27Exodus 1:14Exodus 36:1I Chronicles 6:48I Chronicles 28:14

(14) And when they brought out the money that was brought into the house of the LORD, Hilkiah the priest found a book of the law of the LORD given by Moses.
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II Kings 22:8II Kings 22:9II Kings 22:10II Kings 22:11II Kings 22:12II Kings 22:13II Kings 22:14II Kings 22:15II Kings 22:16II Kings 22:17II Kings 22:18II Kings 22:19

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II Kings 22:8II Chronicles 34:15II Kings 12:4I Chronicles 29:29Revelation 22:19

(15) And Hilkiah answered and said to Shaphan the scribe, I have found the book of the law in the house of the LORD. And Hilkiah delivered the book to Shaphan.
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II Kings 22:8II Kings 22:10II Chronicles 34:18II Kings 22:12II Chronicles 34:20I Chronicles 29:29

(16) And Shaphan carried the book to the king, and brought the king word back again, saying, All that was committed to thy servants, they do it.
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II Kings 22:9II Kings 22:10Jeremiah 36:20Jeremiah 36:21

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II Kings 22:8II Chronicles 34:15II Kings 22:10I Chronicles 29:29II Chronicles 34:18Revelation 22:19

(17) And they have gathered together the money that was found in the house of the LORD, and have delivered it into the hand of the overseers, and to the hand of the workmen.
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II Kings 12:4Genesis 47:14Exodus 16:18Numbers 11:32II Kings 22:9II Chronicles 24:11

(18) Then Shaphan the scribe told the king, saying, Hilkiah the priest hath given me a book. And Shaphan read it before the king.
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Deuteronomy 17:19Joshua 1:8Psalms 119:46Psalms 119:97Psalms 119:98Psalms 119:99Jeremiah 36:20Jeremiah 36:21

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II Kings 22:8II Chronicles 34:15II Kings 22:10II Kings 22:12II Chronicles 34:20Jeremiah 36:10

(19) And it came to pass, when the king had heard the words of the law, that he rent his clothes.
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Romans 3:20Romans 7:7Romans 7:8Romans 7:9Romans 7:10Romans 7:11Galatians 2:19Galatians 3:10Galatians 3:11Galatians 3:12Galatians 3:13II Kings 19:1

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II Kings 5:8

(20) And the king commanded Hilkiah, and Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and Abdon the son of Micah, and Shaphan the scribe, and Asaiah a servant of the king's, saying,
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II Kings 25:22Jeremiah 26:24Jeremiah 40:6Jeremiah 40:9Jeremiah 40:14II Kings 22:12Jeremiah 26:22

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II Kings 22:12II Kings 22:8II Chronicles 34:15II Kings 22:10II Chronicles 34:18Esther 8:8

(21) Go, enquire of the LORD for me, and for them that are left in Israel and in Judah, concerning the words of the book that is found: for great is the wrath of the LORD that is poured out upon us, because our fathers have not kept the word of the LORD, to do after all that is written in this book.
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Exodus 18:15I Samuel 9:9I Kings 22:5I Kings 22:6I Kings 22:7Jeremiah 21:2Ezekiel 14:1Ezekiel 14:2Ezekiel 14:3Ezekiel 14:4Ezekiel 14:5Ezekiel 14:6

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II Kings 22:13I Chronicles 29:29Revelation 22:19II Chronicles 20:34Luke 4:17Revelation 20:12

(22) And Hilkiah, and they that the king had appointed, went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvath, the son of Hasrah, keeper of the wardrobe; (now she dwelt in Jerusalem in the college:) and they spake to her to that effect.
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Exodus 15:20Judges 4:4Luke 1:41Luke 1:42Luke 1:43Luke 1:44Luke 1:45Luke 2:36Acts 21:9II Kings 22:14

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II Kings 22:14I Chronicles 6:13

(23) And she answered them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Tell ye the man that sent you to me,
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II Kings 22:15II Kings 22:16II Kings 22:17II Kings 22:18II Kings 22:19II Kings 22:20Jeremiah 21:3Jeremiah 21:4Jeremiah 21:5Jeremiah 21:6Jeremiah 21:7Jeremiah 37:7

(24) Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, and upon the inhabitants thereof, even all the curses that are written in the book which they have read before the king of Judah:
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II Chronicles 36:14II Chronicles 36:15II Chronicles 36:16II Chronicles 36:17II Chronicles 36:18II Chronicles 36:19II Chronicles 36:20Joshua 23:16II Kings 21:12II Kings 23:26II Kings 23:27Isaiah 5:4

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I Chronicles 29:29Revelation 22:19Joshua 17:11Judges 1:27Judges 1:33Deuteronomy 29:20

(25) Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the works of their hands; therefore my wrath shall be poured out upon this place, and shall not be quenched.
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II Chronicles 12:2II Chronicles 15:2II Chronicles 33:3II Chronicles 33:4II Chronicles 33:5II Chronicles 33:6II Chronicles 33:7II Chronicles 33:8II Chronicles 33:9II Kings 24:3II Kings 24:4Isaiah 2:8

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II Kings 22:17Judges 10:6Jeremiah 1:16Jeremiah 32:29Jeremiah 44:8II Chronicles 25:14

(26) And as for the king of Judah, who sent you to enquire of the LORD, so shall ye say unto him, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel concerning the words which thou hast heard;
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II Chronicles 34:21II Chronicles 34:23

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Jeremiah 16:3Jeremiah 27:19II Kings 22:13

(27) Because thine heart was tender, and thou didst humble thyself before God, when thou heardest his words against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, and humbledst thyself before me, and didst rend thy clothes, and weep before me; I have even heard thee also, saith the LORD.
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II Chronicles 32:12II Chronicles 32:13II Kings 22:18II Kings 22:19Psalms 34:18Psalms 51:17Isaiah 57:15Isaiah 66:2Ezekiel 9:4Ezekiel 36:26II Chronicles 32:26II Chronicles 33:12

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I Samuel 15:19Isaiah 57:9II Samuel 12:21Genesis 31:27Deuteronomy 33:8II Chronicles 2:3

(28) Behold, I will gather thee to thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered to thy grave in peace, neither shall thine eyes see all the evil that I will bring upon this place, and upon the inhabitants of the same. So they brought the king word again.
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II Chronicles 35:24II Kings 22:20Isaiah 57:1Isaiah 57:2Jeremiah 15:1Ezekiel 14:14Ezekiel 14:15Ezekiel 14:16Ezekiel 14:17Ezekiel 14:18Ezekiel 14:19Ezekiel 14:20

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Joshua 17:11Judges 1:27Judges 1:33Exodus 16:18Numbers 11:32II Kings 22:20

(29) Then the king sent and gathered together all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem.
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I Samuel 12:23I Chronicles 29:2I Chronicles 29:3I Chronicles 29:4I Chronicles 29:5I Chronicles 29:6I Chronicles 29:7I Chronicles 29:8I Chronicles 29:9Mark 14:8II Chronicles 30:2II Kings 23:1

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Exodus 16:18Numbers 11:32

(30) And the king went up into the house of the LORD, and all the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the priests, and the Levites, and all the people, great and small: and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant that was found in the house of the LORD.
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II Chronicles 15:12II Chronicles 15:13II Chronicles 18:30Deuteronomy 1:17Job 3:19II Chronicles 6:1II Chronicles 6:2II Chronicles 6:3II Chronicles 6:4II Chronicles 6:5II Chronicles 6:6II Chronicles 6:7

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II Kings 23:2II Kings 23:3Joshua 17:11Judges 1:27Judges 1:33Jeremiah 36:6

(31) And the king stood in his place, and made a covenant before the LORD, to walk after the LORD, and to keep his commandments, and his testimonies, and his statutes, with all his heart, and with all his soul, to perform the words of the covenant which are written in this book.
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II Chronicles 6:13II Kings 11:4II Kings 23:3Ezekiel 46:2II Chronicles 23:16II Chronicles 29:10Exodus 24:6Exodus 24:7Exodus 24:8Deuteronomy 29:1Deuteronomy 29:10Deuteronomy 29:11

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II Kings 23:3Leviticus 26:42I Kings 2:3I Kings 6:12Deuteronomy 29:21Deuteronomy 30:10

(32) And he caused all that were present in Jerusalem and Benjamin to stand to it. And the inhabitants of Jerusalem did according to the covenant of God, the God of their fathers.
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II Chronicles 14:4II Chronicles 30:12II Chronicles 33:16Genesis 18:19Ecclesiastes 8:2II Chronicles 29:29Jeremiah 3:10

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Joshua 17:11Judges 1:27Judges 1:33Leviticus 26:42II Kings 23:3

(33) And Josiah took away all the abominations out of all the countries that pertained to the children of Israel, and made all that were present in Israel to serve, even to serve the LORD their God. And all his days they departed not from following the LORD, the God of their fathers.
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II Chronicles 34:3II Chronicles 34:4II Chronicles 34:5II Chronicles 34:6II Chronicles 34:7II Kings 23:4II Kings 23:5II Kings 23:6II Kings 23:7II Kings 23:8II Kings 23:9II Kings 23:10

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Joshua 24:15Judges 9:28Exodus 10:26Exodus 14:12Joshua 24:14II Samuel 16:19

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