OLD TESTAMENT · VERSE 23

2 Kings 23:23

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but in the eighteenth year of King Josiah, this Passover was kept to the LORD in Jerusalem.

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2 Kings 23:20–26

20

He killed all the priests of the high places that were there, on the altars, and burned men’s bones on them; and he returned to Jerusalem.

21

The king commanded all the people, saying, “Keep the Passover to the LORD your God, as it is written in this book of the covenant.”

22

Surely there was not kept such a Passover from the days of the judges who judged Israel, nor in all the days of the kings of Israel, nor of the kings of Judah;

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but in the eighteenth year of King Josiah, this Passover was kept to the LORD in Jerusalem.

24

Moreover, Josiah removed those who had familiar spirits, the wizards, and the teraphim, and the idols, and all the abominations that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, that he might confirm the words of the law which were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the LORD’s house.

25

There was no king like him before him, who 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; and there was none like him who arose after him.

26

Notwithstanding, the LORD didn’t turn from the fierceness of his great wrath, with which his anger burned against Judah, because of all the provocation with which Manasseh had provoked him.

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