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the altar, and the high place, he broke down and in the land of Juda and Jerusalem, Josias took
burnt, and reduced to powder, and burnt the away: that he might perform the words of the
grove. law, that were written in the book, which Hel-
16 And as Josias turned himself, he saw there cias the priest had found in the temple of the
the sepulchres that were in the mount: and he Lord.
sent and took the bones out of the sepulchres, 25 There was no king before him like unto
and burnt them upon the altar, and defiled it ac- him, that returned to the Lord with all his heart,
cording to the word of the Lord, which the man and with all his soul, and with all his strength,
of God spoke, who had foretold these things. according to all the law of Moses: neither after
17 And he said: What is that monument him did there arise any like unto him.
which I see? And the men of that city answered: 26 But yet the Lord turned not away from
It is the sepulchre of the man of God, who came the wrath of his great indignation, wherewith his
from Juda, and foretold these things which thou anger was kindled against Juda: because of the
hast done upon the altar of Bethel. provocations, wherewith Manasses had provoked
18 And he said: Let him alone, let no man him.
move his bones. So his bones were left untouched 27 And the Lord said: I will remove Juda also
with the bones of the prophet, that came out of from before my face, as I have removed Israel:
Samaria. and I will cast off this city Jerusalem, which I
19 Moreover all the temples of the high places chose, and the house, of which I said: My name
which were in the cities of Samaria, which the shall be there.
kings of Israel had made to provoke the Lord, 28 Now the rest of the acts of Josias, and all
Josias took away: and he did to them according that he did, are they not written in the book of
to all the acts that he had done in Bethel. the words of the days of the kings of Juda?
20 And he slew all the priests of the high 29 In his days Pharao Nechao, king of Egypt,
places, that were there, upon the altars; and he went up against the king of Assyria to the river
burnt men’s bones upon them: and returned to Euphrates: and king Josias went to meet him:
Jerusalem. and was slain at Mageddo, when he had seen
21 And he commanded all the people, saying: him.
Keep the Phase to the Lord your God, according 30 And his servants carried him dead from
as it is written in the book of this covenant. Mageddo: and they brought him to Jerusalem,
22 Now there was no such a Phase kept from and buried him in his own sepulchre. And the
the days of the judges, who judged Israel, nor people of the land took Joachaz, the son of
in all the days of the kings of Israel, and of the Josias: and they anointed him, and made him
kings of Juda, king in his father’s stead.
23 As was this Phase, that was kept to the 31 Joachaz was three and twenty years old
Lord in Jerusalem, in the eighteenth year of king when he began to reign, and he reigned three
Josias. months in Jerusalem: the name of his mother
24 Moreover the diviners by spirits, and sooth- was Amital, the daughter of Jeremias, of Lobna.
sayers, and the figures of idols, and the unclean- 32 And he did evil before the Lord, according
nesses, and the abominations, that had been to all that his fathers had done.