1 And the king sent, and they gathered to him all the elders of Judah and of Jerusalem.
2 And the king went up into the house of Jehovah, and all the men of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem with him, and the priests and the prophets, and all the people, both small and great; and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant which had been found in the house of Jehovah.
3 And the king stood on the dais, and made a covenant before Jehovah, to walk after Jehovah, and to keep his commandments and his testimonies and his statutes with all {his} heart, and with all {his} soul, to establish the words of this covenant that are written in this book. And all the people stood to the covenant.
4 And the king commanded Hilkijah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the doorkeepers, to bring forth out of the temple of Jehovah all the vessels that had been made for Baal, and for the Asherah, and for all the host of the heavens; and he burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, and carried the ashes of them to Bethel.
5 And he abolished the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense on the high places in the cities of Judah, and the environs of Jerusalem; and them that burned incense to Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the constellations, and to all the host of heaven.
6 And he brought out the Asherah from the house of Jehovah, outside Jerusalem, to the torrent of Kidron, and burned it at the torrent of Kidron, and stamped it small to powder, and cast the powder upon the graves of the children of the people.
7 And he broke down the houses of the sodomites, which were in the house of Jehovah, where the women wove tents for the Asherah.
8 And he brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah, and defiled the high places where the priests had burned incense, from Geba even to Beer-sheba; and he broke down the high places of the gates, those at the entrance of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city, {and} those on the left hand of any {going in} at the gate of the city.
9 Nevertheless the priests of the high places came not up to the altar of Jehovah in Jerusalem, but they ate of the unleavened bread among their brethren.
10 And he defiled Topheth, which is in the valley of the sons of Hinnom, that no man might cause his son or his daughter to pass through the fire to Molech.
11 And he abolished the horses that the kings of Judah had appointed to the sun at the entrance of the house of Jehovah, by the chamber of Nathan-melech the chamberlain, which was in the suburbs, and burned the chariots of the sun, with fire.
12 And the king broke down the altars that were on the roof of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars that Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of Jehovah, and he shattered them, {removing them} from thence, and cast the powder of them into the torrent of Kidron.
13 And the high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on the right hand of the mount of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Zidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon, did the king defile.
14 And he broke in pieces the columns, and cut down the Asherahs, and filled their place with the bones of men.
15 Moreover the altar that was at Bethel, the high place that Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who caused Israel to sin, had made, both that altar and the high place he broke down; and burned the high place, stamped it small to powder, and burned the Asherah.
16 And Josiah turned himself, and saw the sepulchres that were there on the mount; and he sent and took the bones out of the sepulchres, and burned {them} upon the altar, and defiled it, according to the word of Jehovah, that the man of God had proclaimed, who proclaimed these things.
17 Then he said, What tombstone is that which I see? And the men of the city told him, It is the sepulchre of the man of God who came from Judah and proclaimed these things which thou hast done against the altar of Bethel.
18 And he said, Let him alone; let no man move his bones. And they saved his bones, with the bones of the prophet that came out of Samaria.
19 And all the houses also of the high places that were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke {Jehovah} to anger, Josiah removed, and did to them according to all the acts that he had done in Bethel.
20 And he sacrificed upon the altars all the priests of the high places that were there, and burned men's bones upon them. And he returned to Jerusalem.
21 And the king commanded all the people saying, Hold the passover to Jehovah your God, as it is written in this book of the covenant.
22 For there was not holden such a passover from the days of the judges that judged Israel, nor in all the days of the kings of Israel, nor of the kings of Judah;
23 but in the eighteenth year of king Josiah was this passover holden to Jehovah in Jerusalem.
24 Moreover the necromancers and the soothsayers, and the teraphim and the idols, and all the abominations that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, Josiah took away, that he might perform the words of the law which were written in the book that Hilkijah the priest had found in the house of Jehovah.
25 And before him there had been no king like him that turned to Jehovah with all his heart and with all his soul and with all his might, according to all the law of Moses; neither after him arose there his like.
26 But Jehovah turned not from the fierceness of his great wrath, wherewith his anger was kindled against Judah, because of all the provocations with which Manasseh had provoked him.
27 And Jehovah said, I will remove Judah also out of my sight, as I have removed Israel, and will reject this city Jerusalem which I have chosen, and the house of which I said, My name shall be there.
28 And the rest of the acts of Josiah, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
29 In his days Pharaoh-Nechoh king of Egypt went up against the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates; and king Josiah went against him; but {Nechoh} slew him at Megiddo, when he had seen him.
30 And his servants carried him in a chariot dead from Megiddo, and brought him to Jerusalem, and buried him in his own sepulchre. And the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and anointed him, and made him king in his father's stead.
31 Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he began to reign; and he reigned three months in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was Hamutal, daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
32 And he did evil in the sight of Jehovah, according to all that his fathers had done.
33 And Pharaoh-Nechoh had him bound at Riblah in the land of Hamath, that he might not reign in Jerusalem; and laid a tribute upon the land of a hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.
34 And Pharaoh-Nechoh made Eliakim the son of Josiah king instead of Josiah his father, and changed his name to Jehoiakim. And he took Jehoahaz; and he came to Egypt, and died there.
35 And Jehoiakim gave the silver and the gold to Pharaoh; but he laid a proportional tax on the land to give the money according to the command of Pharaoh: he exacted the silver and the gold of the people of the land, of every one according to his estimation, to give it to Pharaoh-Nechoh.
36 Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was Zebuddah, daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah.
37 And he did evil in the sight of Jehovah, according to all that his fathers had done.
1 Então o rei mandou, e se ajuntaram a ele todos os anciãos de Judá e de Jerusalém.
2 O rei subiu à casa de Jeová e com ele todos os homens de Judá e todos os habitantes de Jerusalém, e os sacerdotes, e os profetas, e todo o povo, tanto pequenos como grandes; e leu aos ouvidos deles todas as palavras do livro da aliança, que fora achado na casa de Jeová.
3 O rei pôs-se em pé junto à coluna, e fez aliança com Jeová, para andar atrás dele e guardar os seus mandamentos, os seus testemunhos e os seus estatutos, de todo o seu coração, e de toda a sua alma, para confirmar as palavras desta aliança que estavam escritas neste livro: e todo o povo esteve pela aliança.
4 O rei ordenou ao sumo sacerdote Hilquias e aos sacerdotes da segunda ordem e aos guardas da porta que tirassem do templo de Jeová todos os vasos que tinham sido feitos para Baal, e para a Asera, e para todo o exército do céu; queimou-os fora de Jerusalém, nos campos de Cedrom, e levou a cinza deles para Betel.
5 Aboliu também os sacerdotes idólatras, que foram constituídos pelos reis de Judá para queimarem incenso nos altos nas cidades de Judá, e nos lugares em torno de Jerusalém; como também os que queimavam incenso a Baal, ao sol, e à lua e aos planetas, e a todo o exército do céu.
6 Tirou da casa de Jeová a Asera, que levou para fora de Jerusalém, à torrente de Cedrom, junto da qual a queimou, e a reduziu a pó, que lançou sobre as sepulturas do vulgacho.
7 Derrubou as casas dos sodomitas que estavam na casa de Jeová, onde as mulheres teciam cortinas para a Asera.
8 Das cidades de Judá tirou todos os sacerdotes, e profanou os altos em que os sacerdotes haviam queimado incenso, desde Geba até Berseba; e derrubou os altos das portas que estavam junto à entrada da porta de Josué, governador da cidade, e ficavam à esquerda da porta da cidade.
9 Todavia os sacerdotes dos altos não subiam ao altar de Jeová em Jerusalém, mas comiam pães asmos no meio de seus irmãos.
10 Profanou a Tofete, que está no vale dos filhos de Hinom, para que ninguém fizesse passar a seu filho ou a sua filha pelo fogo a Moloque.
11 Tirou os cavalos que os reis de Judá tinham consagrado ao sol, à entrada da casa de Jeová, perto da câmara do camareiro Natã-Meleque, a qual ficara nos recintos; e queimou a fogo os carros do sol.
12 O rei derrubou os altares que estavam sobre o teto da câmara alta de Acaz, os quais os reis de Judá haviam feito, e os altares que Manassés tinha feito nos dois átrios da casa de Jeová e, correndo dali, lançou o pó deles na torrente de Cedrom.
13 O rei também profanou os altos que estavam defronte de Jerusalém, à direita do monte de corrupção, que Salomão, rei de Israel, tinha edificado para Astarote, abominação dos sidônios, e para Camos, abominação de Moabe, e para Milcom, abominação dos filhos de Amom.
14 Fez em pedaços as colunas, e cortou os aserins, e encheu estes lugares de ossos de homens.
15 O altar que estava em Betel, e o alto que tinha edificado Jeroboão, filho de Nebate, que fez pecar a Israel, mesmo aquele altar e o alto ele os derrubou; queimou o alto e reduziu-o a pó, e queimou a Asera.
16 Ao voltar-se Josias, viu os sepulcros que estavam ali no monte; e mandou tirar dos sepulcros os ossos, e queimou-os sobre o altar, profanando-o conforme a palavra de Jeová, proclamada pelo homem de Deus, que proclamou estas coisas.
17 Então perguntou: Que monumento é este que eu vejo? Responderam-lhe os homens da cidade: É o sepulcro do homem de Deus, que veio de Judá e proclamou estas coisas que acabas de fazer ao altar de Betel.
18 Josias disse: Deixai-o estar, ninguém mova os ossos dele. Deixaram, pois, os ossos dele juntamente com os ossos do profeta que tinha vindo de Samaria.
19 Também tirou Josias todas as casas dos altos que havia na cidade de Samaria, edificadas pelos reis de Israel para provocarem Jeová à ira, e fez-lhes conforme tudo o que havia feito em Betel.
20 A todos os sacerdotes dos altos que estavam ali, matou-os sobre os altares, onde queimou ossos de homens; e voltou para Jerusalém.
21 O rei deu ordem a todo o povo, dizendo: Celebrai a páscoa a Jeová vosso Deus, como está escrito neste livro da aliança.
22 Por certo não se celebrou páscoa tal desde os juízes que julgaram a Israel, nem em todos os dias dos reis de Israel, nem nos dias dos reis de Judá;
23 porém no décimo oitavo ano do rei Josias foi esta páscoa celebrada a Jeová em Jerusalém.
24 Aboliu também Josias os que tinham espíritos familiares, os feiticeiros, os terafins, os ídolos e todas as abominações que foram notadas na terra de Judá e em Jerusalém, para confirmar as palavras da lei escrita no livro que o sacerdote Hilquias achou na casa de Jeová.
25 Não houve antes dele rei que lhe fosse semelhante, que se convertesse a Jeová de todo o seu coração, de toda a sua alma e de toda a sua força conforme toda a lei de Moisés; nem depois dele lhe houve outro semelhante.
26 Todavia Jeová não arrefeceu o ardor da grande ira, que se tinha acendido contra Judá, por causa de todas as provocações com que Manassés o tinha irritado.
27 Jeová disse: Removerei também a Judá de diante de mim, como removi a Israel, e rejeitarei a cidade de Jerusalém que escolhi, e a casa, da qual eu disse: O meu nome estará ali.
28 Ora, o restante dos atos de Josias, e tudo o que ele fez, não estão, porventura, escritos no livro das crônicas dos reis de Judá?
29 Faraó-Neco, rei do Egito, subiu nos seus dias ao rio Eufrates contra o rei da Assíria; e o rei Josias, saindo contra ele, foi morto em Megido, após o encontro.
30 De Megido os seus servos em um carro levaram-no morto e, transportando-o a Jerusalém, sepultaram-no no seu sepulcro. O povo da terra tomou a Joacaz, filho de Josias, e ungiram-no, e constituíram-no rei em lugar de seu pai.
31 Joacaz tinha vinte e três anos quando começou a reinar e reinou três meses em Jerusalém. Sua mãe chamava-se Hamutal, filha de Jeremias, de Libna.
32 Ele fez o mal à vista de Jeová conforme tudo o que haviam feito seus pais.
33 Faraó-Neco prendeu-o em Ribla na terra de Hamate, para que não reinasse em Jerusalém; e obrigou a terra a pagar um tributo de cem talentos de prata e de um talento de ouro.
34 Faraó-Neco constituiu rei a Eliaquim, filho de Josias, em lugar de Josias, seu pai, e mudou-lhe o nome em Jeoaquim; porém levou consigo a Joacaz, que foi ao Egito onde morreu.
35 Jeoaquim deu a Faraó prata e ouro; porém estabeleceu um imposto sobre a terra para pagar o dinheiro segundo a ordem de Faraó. Do povo da terra exigiu prata e ouro, de cada um segundo o que lhe foi imposto, para o dar a Faraó-Neco.
36 Jeoaquim tinha vinte e cinco anos quando começou a reinar, e reinou onze anos em Jerusalém. Sua mãe chamava-se Zebida, filha de Pedaías de Ruma.
37 Ele fez o mal à vista de Jeová, conforme tudo o que haviam feito seus pais.