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II Kings Chapter 23

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In chapter 23 the southern kingdom of Judah is warned by the prophet Jeremiah that God will bring disaster upon them if they continue in their sins. The chapter records the king’s defiance, the impending exile, and the theme that God’s judgment is certain when His people reject His covenant.

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(1) And the king sent, and they gathered unto him all the elders of Judah and of Jerusalem.
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Deuteronomy 31:28II Samuel 6:1II Chronicles 29:20II Chronicles 30:2II Chronicles 34:29II Chronicles 34:30II Chronicles 34:31II Chronicles 34:32II Chronicles 34:33

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Exodus 16:18Numbers 11:32

(2) And the king went up into the house of the LORD, and all the men of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem 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 covenant which was found in the house of the LORD.
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Genesis 19:11I Samuel 5:9I Samuel 30:2II Chronicles 15:13Esther 1:5Job 3:19Psalms 115:13Acts 26:22Revelation 20:12Deuteronomy 31:10Deuteronomy 31:11Deuteronomy 31:12

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II Chronicles 34:30II Kings 23:3Joshua 17:11Judges 1:27Judges 1:33Jeremiah 36:6

(3) And the king stood by a pillar, 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 their heart and all their soul, to perform the words of this covenant that were written in this book. And all the people stood to the covenant.
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II Kings 11:14II Kings 11:17II Chronicles 23:13II Chronicles 34:31II Chronicles 34:32Exodus 24:7Exodus 24:8Deuteronomy 5:1Deuteronomy 5:2Deuteronomy 5:3Deuteronomy 29:1Deuteronomy 29:10

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II Chronicles 34:31Leviticus 26:42Genesis 17:7Genesis 17:13Genesis 17:19Deuteronomy 29:1

(4) And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the door, to bring forth out of the temple of the LORD all the vessels that were made for Baal, and for the grove, and for all the host of heaven: and he burned them without Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, and carried the ashes of them unto Bethel.
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I Chronicles 24:4I Chronicles 24:5I Chronicles 24:6I Chronicles 24:7I Chronicles 24:8I Chronicles 24:9I Chronicles 24:10I Chronicles 24:11I Chronicles 24:12I Chronicles 24:13I Chronicles 24:14I Chronicles 24:15

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II Kings 23:15II Kings 23:6Ezra 5:14Judges 6:25Judges 6:28II Kings 25:18

(5) And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places round about Jerusalem; them also that burned incense unto Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven.
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Hosea 10:5Zephaniah 1:4Zephaniah 1:5II Kings 21:3II Kings 21:4Jeremiah 8:1Jeremiah 8:2Jeremiah 44:17Jeremiah 44:18Jeremiah 44:19

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II Kings 15:35II Kings 23:8Exodus 30:7II Chronicles 26:18I Kings 22:43II Kings 12:3

(6) And he brought out the grove from the house of the LORD, without Jerusalem, 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 children of the people.
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II Kings 21:7Judges 3:7I Kings 14:23I Kings 16:33Jeremiah 17:2Exodus 32:20Deuteronomy 7:25Deuteronomy 9:21II Kings 10:27II Chronicles 34:4

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II Kings 23:15II Chronicles 15:16Deuteronomy 9:21I Kings 15:13II Kings 23:4Deuteronomy 2:13

(7) And he brake down the houses of the sodomites, that were by the house of the LORD, where the women wove hangings for the grove.
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Genesis 19:4Genesis 19:5I Kings 14:24I Kings 15:12I Kings 22:46II Chronicles 34:33Romans 1:26Romans 1:27Exodus 35:25Exodus 35:26Ezekiel 8:14Ezekiel 16:16

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Exodus 10:6Jeremiah 19:13

(8) And he brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah, and defiled the high places where the priests had burned incense, from Geba to Beersheba, and brake down the high places of the gates that were in the entering in of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city, which were on a man's left hand at the gate of the city.
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Joshua 21:17I Kings 15:22I Chronicles 6:60Isaiah 10:29Zechariah 14:10Genesis 21:31Genesis 26:23Judges 20:1I Kings 19:3

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Nehemiah 12:39Ezekiel 46:9II Kings 15:35Ezekiel 40:23Ezekiel 46:2Ezekiel 48:31

(9) Nevertheless the priests of the high places came not up to the altar of the LORD in Jerusalem, but they did eat of the unleavened bread among their brethren.
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Ezekiel 44:10Ezekiel 44:11Ezekiel 44:12Ezekiel 44:13Ezekiel 44:14Malachi 2:8Malachi 2:9I Samuel 2:36Ezekiel 44:29Ezekiel 44:30Ezekiel 44:31

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Exodus 29:2I Kings 22:43

(10) And he defiled Topheth, which is in the valley of the children of Hinnom, that no man might make his son or his daughter to pass through the fire to Molech.
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Isaiah 30:33Jeremiah 7:31Jeremiah 7:32Jeremiah 19:6Jeremiah 19:11Jeremiah 19:12Jeremiah 19:13Joshua 15:8II Chronicles 28:3II Chronicles 33:6Jeremiah 19:2Jeremiah 32:35

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Joshua 15:8Joshua 18:16Luke 12:53Genesis 36:2Leviticus 18:17Ezekiel 22:11

(11) And he took away the horses that the kings of Judah had given to the sun, at the entering in of the house of the LORD, by the chamber of Nathanmelech the chamberlain, which was in the suburbs, and burned the chariots of the sun with fire.
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II Kings 23:5II Chronicles 14:5II Chronicles 34:4Ezekiel 8:16

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Joshua 10:13Ecclesiastes 1:5Ecclesiastes 8:15Ecclesiastes 9:9Isaiah 30:26Isaiah 38:8

(12) And the altars that were on the top of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the LORD, did the king beat down, and brake them down from thence, and cast the dust of them into the brook Kidron.
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Deuteronomy 22:8Jeremiah 19:13Zephaniah 1:5II Kings 21:5II Kings 21:21II Kings 21:22II Chronicles 33:5II Chronicles 33:15

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II Chronicles 30:14II Kings 11:18II Chronicles 23:17II Chronicles 34:4II Kings 23:6II Chronicles 31:1

(13) And the high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on the right hand of the mount of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had builded for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Zidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon, did the king defile.
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I Kings 11:7Nehemiah 13:26Judges 2:13Judges 10:6I Samuel 7:4I Samuel 12:10I Kings 11:5I Kings 11:33Numbers 21:29Judges 11:24Jeremiah 48:7Jeremiah 48:13

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I Kings 11:7I Kings 11:5I Kings 11:33Exodus 8:26Leviticus 11:11Leviticus 11:13

(14) And he brake in pieces the images, and cut down the groves, and filled their places with the bones of men.
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Exodus 23:24Numbers 33:52Deuteronomy 7:5Deuteronomy 7:25Deuteronomy 7:26II Chronicles 34:3II Chronicles 34:4Micah 1:7II Kings 23:16Numbers 19:16Numbers 19:18Jeremiah 8:1

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II Chronicles 34:4II Kings 18:4Jeremiah 8:1II Chronicles 31:1II Kings 11:18II Chronicles 23:17

(15) Moreover the altar that was at Bethel, and the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, had made, both that altar and the high place he brake down, and burned the high place, and stamped it small to powder, and burned the grove.
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II Kings 10:31I Kings 12:28I Kings 12:29I Kings 12:30I Kings 12:31I Kings 12:32I Kings 12:33I Kings 14:16I Kings 15:30I Kings 21:22

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II Kings 23:6II Kings 23:4Jeremiah 52:13I Kings 12:32II Kings 10:29Deuteronomy 9:21

(16) And as Josiah turned himself, he spied the sepulchres that were there in the mount, and sent, and took the bones out of the sepulchres, and burned them upon the altar, and polluted it, according to the word of the LORD which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these words.
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I Kings 13:1I Kings 13:2I Kings 13:32Matthew 24:35John 10:35

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Jeremiah 8:1Deuteronomy 9:15II Samuel 21:13II Kings 23:18Matthew 23:27II Kings 23:34

(17) Then he said, What title is that that I see? And the men of the city told him, It is the sepulchre of the man of God, which came from Judah, and proclaimed these things that thou hast done against the altar of Bethel.
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I Kings 13:1I Kings 13:30I Kings 13:31

(18) And he said, Let him alone; let no man move his bones. So they let his bones alone, with the bones of the prophet that came out of Samaria.
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I Kings 13:1I Kings 13:2I Kings 13:3I Kings 13:4I Kings 13:5I Kings 13:6I Kings 13:7I Kings 13:8I Kings 13:9I Kings 13:10I Kings 13:11I Kings 13:12

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Jeremiah 8:1II Samuel 21:13Exodus 13:19II Samuel 21:12I Kings 13:31Job 40:18

(19) And all the houses also of the high places that were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke the LORD to anger, Josiah took away, and did to them according to all the acts that he had done in Bethel.
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II Kings 17:9I Kings 12:31I Kings 13:32II Chronicles 30:6II Chronicles 30:7II Chronicles 30:8II Chronicles 30:9II Chronicles 30:10II Chronicles 30:11II Chronicles 31:1II Chronicles 34:6II Chronicles 34:7

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I Kings 13:32I Kings 12:32Deuteronomy 32:21II Kings 17:11Jeremiah 7:19Jeremiah 32:29

(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 returned to Jerusalem.
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II Kings 10:25II Kings 11:18Exodus 22:20Deuteronomy 13:5I Kings 13:2I Kings 18:40Isaiah 34:6Zechariah 13:2Zechariah 13:3II Chronicles 34:5

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Jeremiah 8:1II Samuel 21:13I Kings 13:2II Kings 23:18II Kings 11:18II Chronicles 23:17

(21) And the king commanded all the people, saying, Keep the passover unto the LORD your God, as it is written in the book of this covenant.
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II Chronicles 35:1II Chronicles 35:2II Chronicles 35:3II Chronicles 35:4II Chronicles 35:5II Chronicles 35:6II Chronicles 35:7II Chronicles 35:8II Chronicles 35:9II Chronicles 35:10II Chronicles 35:11II Chronicles 35:12

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II Kings 23:3I Chronicles 29:29II Chronicles 34:31Revelation 22:19Deuteronomy 29:21II Kings 22:13

(22) Surely there was not holden such a passover from the days of the judges that judged Israel, nor in all the days of the kings of Israel, nor of the kings of Judah;
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II Chronicles 35:18II Chronicles 35:19II Chronicles 30:1II Chronicles 30:2II Chronicles 30:3II Chronicles 30:13II Chronicles 30:14II Chronicles 30:15II Chronicles 30:16II Chronicles 30:17II Chronicles 30:18II Chronicles 30:19

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Jeremiah 44:25

(23) But in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, wherein this passover was holden to the LORD in Jerusalem.
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II Chronicles 35:1II Chronicles 35:18II Chronicles 35:19

(24) Moreover the workers with familiar spirits, and the wizards, and the images, and the idols, and all the abominations that were spied in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, did Josiah put away, that he might perform the words of the law which were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of the LORD.
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II Kings 21:3II Kings 21:6I Samuel 28:3I Samuel 28:4I Samuel 28:5I Samuel 28:6I Samuel 28:7Isaiah 8:19Isaiah 19:3Acts 16:16Acts 16:17Acts 16:18

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II Kings 22:8I Chronicles 29:29II Chronicles 34:15Revelation 22:19Isaiah 19:3II Kings 22:13

(25) And like unto him was there no king before him, that turned to the LORD with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his might, according to all the law of Moses; neither after him arose there any like him.
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II Kings 18:5II Kings 23:3Deuteronomy 4:29Deuteronomy 6:5I Kings 2:4I Kings 8:48I Kings 15:5Jeremiah 29:13Nehemiah 10:29Malachi 4:4John 1:17John 7:19

(26) Notwithstanding the LORD turned not from the fierceness of his great wrath, wherewith his anger was kindled against Judah, because of all the provocations that Manasseh had provoked him withal.
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II Kings 21:11II Kings 21:12II Kings 21:13II Kings 22:16II Kings 22:17II Kings 24:2II Kings 24:4II Chronicles 36:16Jeremiah 3:7Jeremiah 3:8Jeremiah 3:9Jeremiah 3:10

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Psalms 85:3Isaiah 5:25Isaiah 9:21Job 32:2Joshua 7:26Psalms 78:38

(27) And the LORD said, I will remove Judah also out of my sight, as I have removed Israel, and will cast off this city Jerusalem which I have chosen, and the house of which I said, My name shall be there.
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II Kings 17:18II Kings 17:20II Kings 18:11II Kings 21:13II Kings 24:3II Kings 25:11Deuteronomy 29:27Deuteronomy 29:28Ezekiel 23:32Ezekiel 23:33Ezekiel 23:34Ezekiel 23:35

(28) Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
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II Kings 20:20

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I Kings 11:41I Kings 14:19I Kings 14:29I Kings 15:7I Kings 15:23I Kings 15:31

(29) In his days Pharaohnechoh king of Egypt went up against the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates: and king Josiah went against him; and he slew him at Megiddo, when he had seen him.
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II Kings 23:33II Kings 23:34II Kings 23:35II Chronicles 35:20II Chronicles 35:21II Chronicles 35:22II Chronicles 35:23II Chronicles 35:24Jeremiah 46:2II Kings 24:7II Kings 22:20Ecclesiastes 8:14

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Genesis 2:14Genesis 15:18Exodus 7:18Exodus 7:21Deuteronomy 1:7Deuteronomy 11:24

(30) And his servants carried him in a chariot dead from Megiddo, and brought him to Jerusalem, and buried him in his own sepulchre. And the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and anointed him, and made him king in his father's stead.
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II Kings 9:28I Kings 22:33I Kings 22:34I Kings 22:35I Kings 22:36I Kings 22:37I Kings 22:38II Chronicles 35:24II Kings 14:21II Kings 21:24II Chronicles 36:1II Chronicles 36:2

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II Chronicles 36:1II Kings 9:28II Kings 21:26II Chronicles 35:24Genesis 49:31I Kings 13:31

(31) Jehoahaz was twenty and three years old when he began to reign; and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
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I Chronicles 3:15Jeremiah 22:11II Kings 24:18

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II Kings 24:18Jeremiah 52:1II Kings 18:2II Chronicles 20:31II Chronicles 29:1I Kings 22:42

(32) And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his fathers had done.
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II Kings 21:2II Kings 21:3II Kings 21:4II Kings 21:5II Kings 21:6II Kings 21:7II Kings 21:21II Kings 21:22

(33) And Pharaohnechoh put him in bands at Riblah in the land of Hamath, that he might not reign in Jerusalem; and put the land to a tribute of an hundred talents of silver, and a talent of gold.
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II Chronicles 36:3II Chronicles 36:4Ezekiel 19:3Ezekiel 19:4II Kings 25:6Numbers 34:11Jeremiah 39:5Jeremiah 39:6Jeremiah 52:9Jeremiah 52:10Jeremiah 52:26Jeremiah 52:27

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I Chronicles 29:7Ezra 8:26Exodus 38:27II Kings 24:2Matthew 25:20Exodus 38:17

(34) And Pharaohnechoh made Eliakim the son of Josiah king in the room of Josiah his father, and turned his name to Jehoiakim, and took Jehoahaz away: and he came to Egypt, and died there.
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Joshua 18:18II Chronicles 36:3II Chronicles 36:4I Chronicles 3:15II Kings 24:17Genesis 41:45Daniel 1:7Jeremiah 22:11Jeremiah 22:12Ezekiel 19:3Ezekiel 19:4

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Jeremiah 1:3II Chronicles 36:4II Chronicles 35:20II Chronicles 35:25Jeremiah 22:11II Kings 23:16

(35) And Jehoiakim gave the silver and the gold to Pharaoh; but he taxed the land to give the money according to the commandment 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 Pharaohnechoh.
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II Kings 15:19II Kings 15:20

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Genesis 41:25Exodus 38:17Genesis 23:16II Kings 12:13Genesis 12:15Genesis 41:8

(36) Jehoiakim was twenty and five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Zebudah, the daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah.
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I Chronicles 3:15II Chronicles 36:5Jeremiah 1:3

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II Chronicles 20:31I Kings 22:42II Kings 18:2II Chronicles 29:1II Kings 14:2II Kings 15:33

(37) And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his fathers had done.
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Jeremiah 22:13Jeremiah 22:14Jeremiah 22:15Jeremiah 22:16Jeremiah 22:17Jeremiah 26:20Jeremiah 26:21Jeremiah 26:22Jeremiah 26:23Jeremiah 36:23Jeremiah 36:24Jeremiah 36:25

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