Thirty-seven verses record King Josiah’s purge of pagan worship from the temple and the return of Passover to Jerusalem.
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Lyrics
The king sent and they gathered to him all the elders of Judah And of Jerusalem
The king went up to the LORD’s house And all the men of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem with him With the priests the prophets and all the people Both small and great
And he read in their hearing all the words of the book of the covenant Which was found in the LORD’s house The king stood by the pillar and made a covenant before the LORD To walk after the LORD
And to keep his commandments his testimonies and his statutes With all his heart and all his soul To confirm the words of this covenant That were written in this book
And all the people agreed to the covenant The king commanded Hilkiah the high priest And the priests of the second order And the keepers of the threshold
To bring out of the LORD’s temple all the vessels That were made for Baal for the Asherah And for all the army of the sky And he burnt them outside of Jerusalem
In the fields of the Kidron and carried their ashes to Bethel He got rid of the idolatrous priests Whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense In the high places in the cities of Judah
He brought out the Asherah from the LORD’s house Outside of Jerusalem to the brook Kidron And burnt it at the brook Kidron And beat it to dust and cast its dust on the graves
He broke down the altars that were on the roof And the altars which Manasseh had made In the two courts of the LORD’s house And beat them down from there
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 There was no king like him before him Who turned to the LORD with all his heart
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