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So Manasseh slept with his fathers, and they buried him in his own house: and Amon his son
reigned in his stead.
21
Amon
was
two and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned two years in
Jerusalem.
22
But he did
that which was
evil in the sight of the L
ORD
, as did Manasseh his father:
for Amon sacrificed unto all the carved images which Manasseh his father had made, and served
them;
23
And humbled not himself before the L
ORD
, as Manasseh his father had humbled himself;
but Amon trespassed more and more.
24
And his servants conspired against him, and slew him in
his own house.
25
But the people of the land slew all them that had conspired against king Amon; and the people
of the land made Josiah his son king in his stead.
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Josiah
was
eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem one and thirty years.
2
And he did
that which was
right in the sight of the L
ORD
, and walked in the ways of David his
father, and declined
neither
to the right hand, nor to the left.
3
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.
4
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.
5
And he burnt the
bones of the priests upon their altars, and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem.
6
And
so did he
in the
cities of Manasseh, and Ephraim, and Simeon, even unto Naphtali, with their mattocks round about.
7
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.
8
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 L
ORD
his God.
9
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.
10
And they put
it
in the hand of the
workmen that had the oversight of the house of the L
ORD
, and they gave it to the workmen that
wrought in the house of the L
ORD
, to repair and amend the house:
11
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.
12
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
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