2 Chronicles 34

1Josiah eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem one and thirty years. 2And he did right in the sight of the Yahuah, and walked in the ways of David his father, and declined to the right hand, nor to the left. 3For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the Elohim 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. 4And they brake down the altars of Baalim in his presence; and the images, that 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 , and strowed upon the graves of them that had sacrificed unto them. 5And he burnt the bones of the priests upon their altars, and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem. 6And in the cities of Manasseh, and Ephraim, and Simeon, even unto Naphtali, with their mattocks round about. 7And 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. 8Now 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 Yahuah his Elohim. 9And when they came to Hilkiah the high priest, they delivered the money that was brought into the house of Elohim, 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. 10And they put in the hand of the workmen that had the oversight of the house of the Yahuah, and they gave it to the workmen that wrought in the house of the Yahuah, to repair and amend the house: 11Even to the artificers and builders gave they , to buy hewn stone, and timber for couplings, and to floor the houses which the kings of Judah had destroyed. 12And the men did the work faithfully: and the overseers of them Jahath and Obadiah, the Levites, of the sons of Merari; and Zechariah and Meshullam, of the sons of the Kohathites, to set forward; and the Levites, all that could skill of instruments of musick. 13Also over the bearers of burdens, and overseers of all that wrought the work in any manner of service: and of the Levites scribes, and officers, and porters. 14And when they brought out the money that was brought into the house of the Yahuah, Hilkiah the priest found a book of the law of the Yahuah by Moses. 15And Hilkiah answered and said to Shaphan the scribe, I have found the book of the law in the house of the Yahuah. And Hilkiah delivered the book to Shaphan. 16And Shaphan carried the book to the king, and brought the king word back again, saying, All that was committed to your servants, they do . 17And they have gathered together the money that was found in the house of the Yahuah, and have delivered it into the hand of the overseers, and to the hand of the workmen. 18Then Shaphan the scribe told the king, saying, Hilkiah the priest has given me a book. And Shaphan read it before the king. 19And it came to pass, when the king had heard the words of the law, that he rent his clothes. 20And 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, 21Go, enquire of the Yahuah for me, and for them that are left in Israel and in Judah, concerning the words of the book that is found: for great the wrath of the Yahuah that is poured out upon us, because our fathers have not kept the word of the Yahuah, to do after all that is written in this book. 22And Hilkiah, and that the king , 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 . 23And she answered them, Thus says the Yahuah Elohim of Israel, Tell ye the man that sent you to me, 24Thus says the Yahuah, Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, and upon the inhabitants thereof, all the curses that are written in the book which they have read before the king of Judah: 25Because 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. 26And as for the king of Judah, who sent you to enquire of the Yahuah, so shall ye say unto him, Thus says the Yahuah Elohim of Israel the words which you hast heard; 27Because your heart was tender, and you didst humble thyself before Elohim, when you heardest his words against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, and humbledst thyself before me, and didst rend your clothes, and weep before me; I have even heard also, says the Yahuah. 28Behold, I will gather you to your fathers, and you shall be gathered to your grave in peace, neither shall your 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. 29Then the king sent and gathered together all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem. 30And the king went up into the house of the Yahuah, 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 Yahuah. 31And the king stood in his place, and made a covenant before the Yahuah, to walk after the Yahuah, 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. 32And he caused all that were present in Jerusalem and Benjamin to stand . And the inhabitants of Jerusalem did according to the covenant of Elohim, the Elohim of their fathers. 33And Josiah took away all the abominations out of all the countries that to the children of Israel, and made all that were present in Israel to serve, to serve the Yahuah their Elohim. all his days they departed not from following the Yahuah, the Elohim of their fathers.