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II Kings Chapter 22

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II Kings

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Jehu, a descendant of Jehu, gathers his army and kills his brothers who had plotted against him, then takes the throne and makes himself king of Israel. He then sends his forces to attack the neighboring king Ahab of Judah, who is also a wicked ruler. The chapter shows God's judgment on Israel's corrupt kings and the beginning of Jehu's reign of restoration.

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(1) Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned thirty and one years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Jedidah, the daughter of Adaiah of Boscath.
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I Kings 13:2II Chronicles 34:1II Chronicles 34:2II Chronicles 34:3II Chronicles 34:4II Chronicles 34:5II Chronicles 34:6II Chronicles 34:7II Chronicles 34:8II Chronicles 34:9II Chronicles 34:10II Chronicles 34:11

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II Chronicles 20:31I Kings 22:42II Chronicles 34:1I Kings 14:21II Kings 8:17II Kings 8:26

(2) And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, and walked in all the way of David his father, and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left.
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II Kings 16:2II Kings 18:3II Chronicles 17:3II Chronicles 29:2Proverbs 20:11I Kings 3:6I Kings 11:38I Kings 15:5Deuteronomy 5:32Joshua 1:7Proverbs 4:27Ezekiel 18:14

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Ruth 4:1I Samuel 8:3II Samuel 18:30I Kings 22:43Psalms 78:57

(3) And it came to pass in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, that the king sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, the son of Meshullam, the scribe, to the house of the LORD, saying,
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II Chronicles 34:3II Chronicles 34:4II Chronicles 34:5II Chronicles 34:6II Chronicles 34:7II Chronicles 34:8II Chronicles 34:9II Chronicles 34:10II Chronicles 34:11II Chronicles 34:12II Chronicles 34:13II Chronicles 34:14

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II Kings 22:8II Kings 22:10II Kings 22:12II Chronicles 34:15II Chronicles 34:18II Chronicles 34:20

(4) Go up to Hilkiah the high priest, that he may sum the silver which is brought into the house of the LORD, which the keepers of the door have gathered of the people:
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I Chronicles 6:13I Chronicles 9:11II Chronicles 34:9II Chronicles 34:10II Chronicles 34:11II Chronicles 34:12II Chronicles 34:13II Chronicles 34:14II Chronicles 34:15II Chronicles 34:16II Chronicles 34:17II Chronicles 34:18

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Exodus 16:18Numbers 11:32II Kings 23:4Ezekiel 41:3Exodus 38:17

(5) And let them deliver it into the hand of the doers of the work, that have the oversight of the house of the LORD: and let them give it to the doers of the work which is in the house of the LORD, to repair the breaches of the house,
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II Kings 12:11II Kings 12:12II Kings 12:13II Kings 12:14II Kings 12:5II Chronicles 24:7II Chronicles 24:12II Chronicles 24:13II Chronicles 24:27Ezra 3:7

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II Kings 12:7II Kings 12:12

(6) Unto carpenters, and builders, and masons, and to buy timber and hewn stone to repair the house.
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II Kings 12:12II Chronicles 34:11Exodus 20:25Psalms 118:22Isaiah 28:16I Kings 5:18

(7) Howbeit there was no reckoning made with them of the money that was delivered into their hand, because they dealt faithfully.
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II Kings 12:15II Chronicles 24:14Exodus 36:5Exodus 36:6Nehemiah 7:2Proverbs 28:20Luke 16:10Luke 16:11Luke 16:12I Corinthians 4:2II Corinthians 8:20II Corinthians 8:21

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II Kings 12:15II Kings 12:4

(8) And Hilkiah the high priest said unto Shaphan the scribe, I have found the book of the law in the house of the LORD. And Hilkiah gave the book to Shaphan, and he read it.
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Deuteronomy 31:24Deuteronomy 31:25Deuteronomy 31:26II Chronicles 34:14II Chronicles 34:15II Chronicles 34:16II Chronicles 34:17II Chronicles 34:18II Chronicles 34:19II Chronicles 34:20II Chronicles 34:21II Chronicles 34:22

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II Chronicles 34:15II Kings 22:10II Chronicles 34:18II Kings 22:12II Chronicles 34:20I Chronicles 29:29

(9) And Shaphan the scribe came to the king, and brought the king word again, and said, Thy servants have gathered the money that was found in the house, and have delivered it into the hand of them that do the work, that have the oversight of the house of the LORD.
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II Kings 22:3II Kings 22:12II Kings 25:22Jeremiah 26:24Jeremiah 29:3Jeremiah 36:10Jeremiah 36:11Jeremiah 36:12Jeremiah 39:14Jeremiah 40:11Jeremiah 41:2Ezekiel 8:11

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II Chronicles 24:11II Kings 22:10II Chronicles 34:15II Kings 12:4Genesis 47:14Exodus 16:18

(10) And Shaphan the scribe shewed the king, saying, Hilkiah the priest hath delivered me a book. And Shaphan read it before the king.
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Deuteronomy 31:9Deuteronomy 31:10Deuteronomy 31:11Deuteronomy 31:12Deuteronomy 31:13II Chronicles 34:18Nehemiah 8:1Nehemiah 8:2Nehemiah 8:3Nehemiah 8:4Nehemiah 8:5Nehemiah 8:6

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II Kings 22:8II Chronicles 34:15II Chronicles 34:18II Kings 22:12II Chronicles 34:20Jeremiah 36:10

(11) And it came to pass, when the king had heard the words of the book of the law, that he rent his clothes.
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II Kings 22:19II Chronicles 34:19Jeremiah 36:24Joel 2:13Jonah 3:6Jonah 3:7

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II Kings 5:8I Chronicles 29:29Revelation 22:19

(12) And the king commanded Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and Achbor the son of Michaiah, and Shaphan the scribe, and Asahiah a servant of the king's, saying,
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II Kings 19:2II Kings 19:3II Chronicles 34:19II Chronicles 34:20II Chronicles 34:21Isaiah 37:1Isaiah 37:2Isaiah 37:3Isaiah 37:4II Kings 22:9Jeremiah 26:22Jeremiah 26:24

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II Chronicles 34:20II Kings 22:8II Chronicles 34:15II Kings 22:14II Kings 22:10II Chronicles 34:18

(13) Go ye, enquire of the LORD for me, and for the people, and for all Judah, concerning the words of this book that is found: for great is the wrath of the LORD that is kindled against us, because our fathers have not hearkened unto the words of this book, to do according unto all that which is written concerning us.
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II Kings 3:11I Kings 22:7I Kings 22:8I Chronicles 10:13I Chronicles 10:14Psalms 25:14Proverbs 3:6Jeremiah 21:1Jeremiah 21:2Jeremiah 37:17Ezekiel 14:3Ezekiel 14:4

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II Chronicles 34:21Jeremiah 16:3Jeremiah 27:19I Chronicles 29:29Revelation 22:19II Chronicles 12:15

(14) So Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam, and Achbor, and Shaphan, and Asahiah, went unto Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe; (now she dwelt in Jerusalem in the college;) and they communed with her.
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Exodus 15:20Judges 4:4Micah 6:4Luke 1:41Luke 1:42Luke 1:43Luke 1:44Luke 1:45Luke 1:46Luke 1:47Luke 1:48Luke 1:49

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II Chronicles 34:22II Kings 22:12II Kings 22:8II Chronicles 34:15II Chronicles 34:20Jeremiah 39:14

(15) And she said unto them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Tell the man that sent you to me,
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II Kings 1:6II Kings 1:16Jeremiah 23:28

(16) Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, and upon the inhabitants thereof, even all the words of the book which the king of Judah hath read:
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II Kings 20:17II Kings 21:12II Kings 21:13II Chronicles 34:24II Chronicles 34:25II Kings 25:1II Kings 25:2II Kings 25:3II Kings 25:4Leviticus 26:15Leviticus 26:16Leviticus 26:17

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Joshua 17:11Judges 1:27Judges 1:33II Kings 22:8II Kings 23:2I Chronicles 29:29

(17) 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 kindled against this place, and shall not be quenched.
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Exodus 32:34Deuteronomy 29:24Deuteronomy 29:25Deuteronomy 29:26Deuteronomy 29:27Deuteronomy 29:28Deuteronomy 32:15Deuteronomy 32:16Deuteronomy 32:17Deuteronomy 32:18Deuteronomy 32:19Judges 2:12

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II Chronicles 34:25Judges 10:6Jeremiah 1:16Jeremiah 44:8II Chronicles 25:14Jeremiah 19:4

(18) But to the king of Judah which sent you to enquire of the LORD, thus shall ye say to him, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, As touching the words which thou hast heard;
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II Chronicles 34:26II Chronicles 34:27II Chronicles 34:28Isaiah 3:10Malachi 3:16Malachi 3:17

(19) Because thine heart was tender, and thou hast humbled thyself before the LORD, when thou heardest what I spake against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and hast rent thy clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard thee, saith the LORD.
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I Samuel 24:5Psalms 51:17Psalms 119:120Isaiah 46:12Isaiah 57:15Isaiah 66:2Isaiah 66:5Jeremiah 36:24Jeremiah 36:29Jeremiah 36:30Jeremiah 36:31Jeremiah 36:32

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II Chronicles 34:27Joshua 17:11Judges 1:27Judges 1:33II Kings 5:8Numbers 5:24

(20) Behold therefore, I will gather thee unto thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered into thy grave in peace; and thine eyes shall not see all the evil which I will bring upon this place. And they brought the king word again.
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Genesis 25:8Deuteronomy 31:16I Chronicles 17:11II Chronicles 34:28II Kings 23:29II Kings 23:30Psalms 37:37Isaiah 57:1Isaiah 57:2Jeremiah 22:10Jeremiah 22:15Jeremiah 22:16

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Exodus 16:18Numbers 11:32II Chronicles 34:28

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