The Bible Verse By Verse Continued...

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2 Kings 22:15 (KJV)


And she said unto them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Tell the man that sent you to me,

 

[Deade]

2 Kings 22:16 (KJV)


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:

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

2 Kings 22:17 (KJV)

[FONT=&quot]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.[/FONT]

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

2 Kings 22:18 (KJV)

[FONT=&quot]But to the king of Judah which sent you to enquire of the [/FONT][FONT=&quot]Lord[/FONT][FONT=&quot], thus shall ye say to him, Thus saith the [/FONT][FONT=&quot]Lord[/FONT][FONT=&quot] God of Israel, As touching the words which thou hast heard;[/FONT]

 

[Deade]

2 Kings 22:19 (KJV)


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.

 

[Deade]

2 Kings 22:20 (KJV)


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.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

2 Kings 23:1 (KJV)
And the king sent, and they gathered unto him all the elders of Judah and of Jerusalem.

 

[willfollowsGod]

2 Kings 23:2
New International Version (NIV)

He went up to the temple of the LORD with the people of Judah, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the priests and the prophets—all the people from the least to the greatest. He read in their hearing all the words of the Book of the Covenant, which had been found in the temple of the LORD.

 

[Deade]

2 Kings 23:3 (NIV)


The king stood by the pillar and renewed the covenant in the presence of the Lord—to follow the Lord and keep his commands, statutes and decrees with all his heart and all his soul, thus confirming the words of the covenant written in this book. Then all the people pledged themselves to the covenant.

 

[Deade]

2 Kings 23:4 (NIV)


The king ordered Hilkiah the high priest, the priests next in rank and the doorkeepers to remove from the temple of the Lord all the articles made for Baal and Asherah and all the starry hosts. He burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron Valley and took the ashes to Bethel.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

2 Kings 23:5 (NIV)

[FONT=&quot]He did away with the idolatrous priests appointed by the kings of Judah to burn incense on the high places of the towns of Judah and on those around Jerusalem—those who burned incense[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT][FONT=&quot] to Baal, to the sun and moon, to the constellations and to all the starry hosts.[/FONT]

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

2 Kings 23:6 (NIV)

[FONT=&quot]He took the Asherah pole from the temple of the [/FONT][FONT=&quot]Lord[/FONT][FONT=&quot] to the Kidron Valley[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT][FONT=&quot] outside Jerusalem and burned it there. He ground it to powder[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT][FONT=&quot] and scattered the dust over the graves[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT][FONT=&quot] of the common people.[/FONT]

 

[soberxp]

2 Kings 23:7 (kjv) 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.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

2 Kings 23:8 (NIV)
Josiah brought all the priests from the towns of Judah and desecrated the high places, from Geba to Beersheba, where the priests had burned incense. He broke down the gateway at the entrance of the Gate of Joshua, the city governor, which was on the left of the city gate.

 

[Deade]

2 Kings 23:9 (NIV)


Although the priests of the high places did not serve at the altar of the Lord in Jerusalem, they ate unleavened bread with their fellow priests.

 

[Deade]

2 Kings 23:10 (NIV)


He desecrated Topheth, which was in the Valley of Ben Hinnom, so no one could use it to sacrifice their son or daughter in the fire to Molek.

 

[willfollowsGod]

2 Kings 23:11
New International Version (NIV)

He removed from the entrance to the temple of the LORD the horses that the kings of Judah had dedicated to the sun. They were in the court[a] near the room of an official named Nathan-Melek. Josiah then burned the chariots dedicated to the sun.

a. The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

2 Kings 23:12 (NIV)

[FONT=&quot]He pulled down[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT][FONT=&quot] the altars the kings of Judah had erected on the roof[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT][FONT=&quot]near the upper room of Ahaz, and the altars Manasseh had built in the two courts[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT][FONT=&quot] of the temple of the [/FONT][FONT=&quot]Lord[/FONT][FONT=&quot]. He removed them from there, smashed them to pieces and threw the rubble into the Kidron Valley.[/FONT]

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

2 Kings 23:13 (NIV)

[FONT=&quot]The king also desecrated the high places that were east of Jerusalem on the south of the Hill of Corruption—the ones Solomon[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT][FONT=&quot] king of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the vile goddess of the Sidonians, for Chemosh the vile god of Moab, and for Molek the detestable[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT][FONT=&quot] god of the people of Ammon.[/FONT]

 

[slave]

[h=1](2 Kings 23:14): ...New International Version (NIV)[/h]14 Josiah smashed the sacred stones and cut down the Asherah poles and covered the sites with human bones.