2 Kings 23:4

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2 Kings 23:2–6 · Berean Standard Bible

2 And he went up to the house of the LORD with all the people of Judah and Jerusalem, as well as the priests and the prophets—all the people small and great—and in their hearing he read all the words of the Book of the Covenant that had been found in the house of the LORD.

3 So the king stood by the pillar and made a covenant before the LORD to follow the LORD and to keep His commandments, decrees, and statutes with all his heart and all his soul, and to carry out the words of this covenant that were written in this book. And all the people entered into the covenant.

4 Then the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, the priests second in rank, and the doorkeepers to remove from the temple of the LORD all the articles made for Baal, Asherah, and all the host of heaven. And he burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron and carried their ashes to Bethel.

5 Josiah also did away with the idolatrous priests ordained by the kings of Judah to burn incense on the high places of the cities of Judah and in the places all around Jerusalem—those who had burned incense to Baal, to the sun and moon, to the constellations, and to all the host of heaven.

6 He brought the Asherah pole from the house of the LORD to the Kidron Valley outside Jerusalem, and there he burned it, ground it to powder, and threw its dust on the graves of the common people.

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1 Chronicles 24:6

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the third to Harim, the fourth to Seorim,

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the seventh to Hakkoz, the eighth to Abijah,

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the seventeenth to Hezir, the eighteenth to Happizzez,

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the nineteenth to Pethahiah, the twentieth to Jehezkel,

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the twenty-first to Jachin, the twenty-second to Gamul,

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Elam the fifth, Jehohanan the sixth, and Eliehoenai the seventh.

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