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Josiah Reigns in Judah

1 Josiah awas eight years old when he became king, and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem.  
2 And he did what was right in the sight of the Lord, and walked in the ways of his father David; he did not turn aside to the right hand or to the left.
3 For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was still ayoung, he began to bseek the God of his father David; and in the twelfth year he began cto purge Judah and Jerusalem dof the high places, the wooden images, the carved images, and the molded images.  
4 aThey broke down the altars of the Baals in his presence, and the incense altars which were above them he cut down; and the wooden images, the carved images, and the molded images he broke in pieces, and made dust of them band scattered it on the graves of those who had sacrificed to them.  
5 He also aburned the bones of the priests on their baltars, and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem.  
6 And so he did in the cities of Manasseh, Ephraim, and Simeon, as far as Naphtali and all around, with axes.  
7 When he had broken down the altars and the wooden images, had abeaten the carved images into powder, and cut down all the incense altars throughout all the land of Israel, he returned to Jerusalem.  

Hilkiah Finds the Book of the Law

8 aIn the eighteenth year of his reign, when he had purged the land and the1 temple, he sent bShaphan the son of Azaliah, Maaseiah the cgovernor of the city, and Joah the son of Joahaz the recorder, to repair the house of the Lord his God.  
9 When they came to Hilkiah the high priest, they delivered athe money that was brought into the house of God, which the Levites who kept the doors had gathered from the hand of Manasseh and Ephraim, from all the bremnant of Israel, from all Judah and Benjamin, and which they had brought back to Jerusalem.  


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Definitions of words in 2 Chronicles 34:3:


David {Easton's Bible Dictionary}
David {Hitchcock's Bible Names}
David {International Standard Bible Encyclopedia}

Father {Easton's Bible Dictionary}
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He {International Standard Bible Encyclopedia}

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Purge {International Standard Bible Encyclopedia}

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Year {Easton's Bible Dictionary}
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God {Easton's Bible Dictionary}

Jerusalem {Easton's Bible Dictionary}
Jerusalem {Hitchcock's Bible Names}

Judah {Easton's Bible Dictionary}
Judah {Hitchcock's Bible Names}



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