2 Chronicles 34
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Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem one and thirty years.
And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the ways of David his father, and declined neither to the right hand, nor to the left.
For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God 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.
And they brake down the altars of Baalim in his presence; and the images, that were 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 of them, and strowed it upon the graves of them that had sacrificed unto them.
And he burnt the bones of the priests upon their altars, and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem.
And so did he in the cities of Manasseh, and Ephraim, and Simeon, even unto Naphtali, with their mattocks round about.
And 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.
Now 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 LORD his God.
And when they came to Hilkiah the high priest, they delivered the money that was brought into the house of God, 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.
And they put it in the hand of the workmen that had the oversight of the house of the LORD, and they gave it to the workmen that wrought in the house of the LORD, to repair and amend the house:
Even to the artificers and builders gave they it, to buy hewn stone, and timber for couplings, and to floor the houses which the kings of Judah had destroyed.
And the men did the work faithfully: and the overseers of them were Jahath and Obadiah, the Levites, of the sons of Merari; and Zechariah and Meshullam, of the sons of the Kohathites, to set it forward; and other of the Levites, all that could skill of instruments of musick.
Also they were over the bearers of burdens, and were overseers of all that wrought the work in any manner of service: and of the Levites there were scribes, and officers, and porters.
And when they brought out the money that was brought into the house of the LORD, Hilkiah the priest found a book of the law of the LORD given by Moses.

Hilkiah

2 Kings 22:8 And Hilkiah the high priest said to Shaphan the scribe, I have found …

Deuteronomy 31:24-26 And it came to pass, when Moses had made an end of writing the words …

a book Literally, `a book of the law of the Lord, by the hand of Moses,' i.e, as Dr. Kennicott understands it, `in the handwriting of Moses;' for, says he, though there are fifteen places in the Old Testament which mention the `Law of Moses,' and `book of Moses,' yet this one place only mentions `the book of the law in, or by, the hand of Moses.'

the law

2 Chronicles 12:1 And it came to pass, when Rehoboam had established the kingdom, and …

2 Chronicles 31:4 Moreover he commanded the people that dwelled in Jerusalem to give …

2 Chronicles 35:26 Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and his goodness, according to …

Deuteronomy 17:18,19 And it shall be, when he sits on the throne of his kingdom…

Joshua 1:8 This book of the law shall not depart out of your mouth; but you …

Ezra 7:10 For Ezra had prepared his heart to seek the law of the LORD, and …

Psalm 1:2 But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law does he …

Isaiah 5:24 Therefore as the fire devours the stubble, and the flame consumes …

Isaiah 30:9 That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will …

Jeremiah 8:8 How do you say, We are wise, and the law of the LORD is with us? …

Luke 2:39 And when they had performed all things according to the law of the …

Moses [heb] the hand of Moses

Leviticus 8:36 So Aaron and his sons did all things which the LORD commanded by …

Leviticus 10:11 And that you may teach the children of Israel all the statutes which …

Leviticus 26:46 These are the statutes and judgments and laws…

And Hilkiah answered and said to Shaphan the scribe, I have found the book of the law in the house of the LORD. And Hilkiah delivered the book to Shaphan.
And Shaphan carried the book to the king, and brought the king word back again, saying, All that was committed to thy servants, they do it.
And they have gathered together the money that was found in the house of the LORD, and have delivered it into the hand of the overseers, and to the hand of the workmen.
Then Shaphan the scribe told the king, saying, Hilkiah the priest hath given me a book. And Shaphan read it before the king.
And it came to pass, when the king had heard the words of the law, that he rent his clothes.
And 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,
Go, inquire of the LORD for me, and for them that are left in Israel and in Judah, concerning the words of the book that is found: for great is the wrath of the LORD that is poured out upon us, because our fathers have not kept the word of the LORD, to do after all that is written in this book.

enquire

Exodus 18:15 And Moses said to his father in law, Because the people come to me …

1 Samuel 9:9 (Beforetime in Israel, when a man went to inquire of God, thus he …

1 Kings 22:5-7 And Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, Inquire, I pray you, …

Jeremiah 21:2 Inquire, I pray you, of the LORD for us; for Nebuchadrezzar king …

Ezekiel 14:1 Then came certain of the elders of Israel to me, and sat before me.

Ezekiel 20:1-7 And it came to pass in the seventh year, in the fifth month, the …

that are left

2 Chronicles 28:6 For Pekah the son of Remaliah slew in Judah an hundred and twenty …

2 Chronicles 33:11 Why the LORD brought on them the captains of the host of the king …

2 Kings 17:6,7 In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and …

2 Kings 22:13 Go you, inquire of the LORD for me, and for the people, and for all …

Isaiah 37:2-4 And he sent Eliakim, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, …

Jeremiah 42:2 And said to Jeremiah the prophet, Let, we beseech you, our supplication …

great

Leviticus 26:14 But if you will not listen to me, and will not do all these commandments;

Deuteronomy 28:15 But it shall come to pass, if you will not listen to the voice of …

Deuteronomy 29:18-28 Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, …

Deuteronomy 30:17-19 But if your heart turn away, so that you will not hear, but shall …

Deuteronomy 31:16-22 And the LORD said to Moses, Behold, you shall sleep with your fathers; …

Deuteronomy 32:15-25 But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: you are waxen fat, you are grown …

Romans 1:18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness …

Romans 2:8-12 But to them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but …

Romans 4:15 Because the law works wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression.

And Hilkiah, and they that the king had appointed, 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 effect.
And she answered them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Tell ye the man that sent you to me,
Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, and upon the inhabitants thereof, even all the curses that are written in the book which they have read before the king of Judah:
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 poured out upon this place, and shall not be quenched.
And as for the king of Judah, who sent you to inquire of the LORD, so shall ye say unto him, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel concerning the words which thou hast heard;
Because thine heart was tender, and thou didst humble thyself before God, when thou heardest his words against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, and humbledst thyself before me, and didst rend thy clothes, and weep before me; I have even heard thee also, saith the LORD.

Because `Because,' says the Targumist, `thy heart was melted, and thou hast humbled thyself in the sight of the word of the Lord, meymra dyya, when thou didst hear His words, yath pithgamoi, against this place.' Here meymra, the personal word, is plainly distinguished from pithgam, a word spoken.

thine heart

2 Chronicles 32:12,13 Has not the same Hezekiah taken away his high places and his altars, …

2 Kings 22:18,19 But to the king of Judah which sent you to inquire of the LORD, thus …

Psalm 34:18 The LORD is near to them that are of a broken heart; and saves such …

Psalm 51:17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite …

Isaiah 57:15 For thus said the high and lofty One that inhabits eternity, whose …

Isaiah 66:2 For all those things has my hand made, and all those things have …

Ezekiel 9:4 And the LORD said to him, Go through the middle of the city, through …

Ezekiel 36:26 A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within …

humble

2 Chronicles 32:26 Notwithstanding Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart, …

2 Chronicles 33:12,19 And when he was in affliction, he sought the LORD his God, and humbled …

James 4:6-10 But he gives more grace. Why he said, God resists the proud, but …

didst rend

2 Chronicles 34:19 And it came to pass, when the king had heard the words of the law, …

Jeremiah 36:23,24 And it came to pass, that when Jehudi had read three or four leaves, …

I have even

Psalm 10:17 LORD, you have heard the desire of the humble: you will prepare their …

Isaiah 65:24 And it shall come to pass, that before they call, I will answer; …

Behold, I will gather thee to thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered to thy grave in peace, neither shall thine 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.
Then the king sent and gathered together all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem.
And the king went up into the house of the LORD, 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 LORD.
And the king stood in his place, 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 his heart, and with all his soul, to perform the words of the covenant which are written in this book.

In his place Instead of al omdo, `in his place,' the parallel passage

2 Kings 23:3 And the king stood by a pillar, and made a covenant before the LORD, …

2 Chronicles 6:13 For Solomon had made a brazen scaffold of five cubits long, and five …

2 Kings 11:4 And the seventh year Jehoiada sent and fetched the rulers over hundreds, …

2 Kings 23:3 And the king stood by a pillar, and made a covenant before the LORD, …

Ezekiel 46:2 And the prince shall enter by the way of the porch of that gate without, …

made a covenant This was expressed,

2 Chronicles 23:16 And Jehoiada made a covenant between him, and between all the people, …

2 Chronicles 29:10 Now it is in my heart to make a covenant with the LORD God of Israel, …

Exodus 24:6-8 And Moses took half of the blood, and put it in basins; and half …

Deuteronomy 29:1,10-15 These are the words of the covenant, which the LORD commanded Moses …

Joshua 24:25 So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and set them …

Nehemiah 9:38 And because of all this we make a sure covenant, and write it; and …

Nehemiah 10:29 They joined to their brothers, their nobles, and entered into a curse, …

Jeremiah 50:5 They shall ask the way to Zion with their faces thitherward, saying, Come…

Hebrews 8:6-13 But now has he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also …

and his testimonies

Psalm 119:11,112 Your word have I hid in my heart, that I might not sin against you…

with all

2 Chronicles 15:12,15 And they entered into a covenant to seek the LORD God of their fathers …

2 Chronicles 31:21 And in every work that he began in the service of the house of God, …

Deuteronomy 6:5 And you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, and with …

Luke 10:27-29 And he answering said, You shall love the Lord your God with all …

to perform

Psalm 119:106 I have sworn, and I will perform it, that I will keep your righteous judgments.

And he caused all that were present in Jerusalem and Benjamin to stand to it. And the inhabitants of Jerusalem did according to the covenant of God, the God of their fathers.
And Josiah took away all the abominations out of all the countries that pertained to the children of Israel, and made all that were present in Israel to serve, even to serve the LORD their God. And all his days they departed not from following the LORD, the God of their fathers.
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge by R. A. Torrey [ca. 1880]
Expanded version courtesy INT Bible ©2013, Used by permission

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