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Josias tinha oito anos quando começou a reinar, e reinou trinta e um anos em Jerusalém. 
Fez o que era reto aos olhos de Jeová, e andou nos caminhos de Davi, seu pai, e não se desviou nem para a direita nem para a esquerda. 
Pois no oitavo ano do seu reinado, sendo ainda moço, começou a buscar o Deus de Davi, seu pai; e no duodécimo ano começou a expurgar a Judá e a Jerusalém dos altos e dos aserins e das imagens de escultura e de fundição. 
Na presença dele derribaram os altares dos Baalins; ele cortou as colunas do sol, que estavam por cima deles, fez em pedaços os aserins e as imagens de escultura e de fundição, e reduziu-as a pó, que espalhou sobre as sepulturas daqueles que lhes tinham sacrificado. 
Queimou os ossos dos sacerdotes sobre os altares deles, e purificou a Judá e a Jerusalém. 
Assim fez nas cidades de Manassés, de Efraim e de Simeão, até Naftali, por toda a parte no meio das suas ruínas. 
Derrubou os altares e reduziu a pó os aserins e as imagens esculpidas, e cortou todas as colunas do sol por toda a terra de Israel, e voltou para Jerusalém. 
Ora no décimo oitavo ano do seu reinado, havendo já purificado a terra e a casa, ele enviou Safã, filho de Azalias, Maaséias, governador da cidade, e Joá, filho de Joacaz, cronista, para repararem a casa de Jeová, seu Deus. 
Foram ter com o sumo sacerdote Hilquias, e entregaram o dinheiro que havia sido trazido à casa de Deus, e que os levitas, guardas da porta, tinham recebido da mão de Manassés, de todo o resto de Israel, de todo o Judá e Benjamim e dos habitantes de Jerusalém. 
Eles o entregaram nas mãos dos oficiais que eram superintendentes da casa de Jeová; estes o deram aos que trabalhavam na casa de Jeová, para a consertarem e repararem. 
Deram-no aos carpinteiros e edificadores, para comprarem pedras lavradas, e madeiras para juntas e para servirem de vigas para as casas que os reis de Judá tinham destruído. 
Os homens trabalhavam fielmente; e os superintendentes deles eram Jaate e Obadias, levitas, dos filhos de Merari, e Zacarias e Mesulão, dos filhos dos coatitas, para apressarem a obra, e todos os levitas que sabiam tocar instrumentos de música. 
Também estavam sobre os carregadores, e dirigiam a todos os que trabalhavam em qualquer sorte de serviço. Os escrivães, os oficiais e os porteiros eram dentre os levitas. 
Quando tiraram o dinheiro que tinha sido levado à casa de Jeová, o sacerdote Hilquias achou o livro da lei de Jeová, dada por intervenção de Moisés. 
Hilquias disse ao escrivão Safã: Achei o livro da lei na casa de Jeová. Hilquias entregou o livro a Safã. 
Safã levou o livro ao rei, e deu-lhe conta, dizendo: Tudo o que se encomendou aos teus servos, eles o executaram. 
Tomaram o dinheiro que se achou na casa de Jeová, e entregaram-no nas mãos dos superintendentes, e nas mãos dos que faziam a obra. 
O escrivão Safã disse ao rei: O sacerdote Hilquias entregou-me um livro. Safã leu nele perante o rei. 
Tendo o rei ouvido as palavras da lei, rasgou os seus vestidos. 
O rei ordenou a Hilquias, a Aicão, filho de Safã, a Abdom, filho de Mica, ao escrivão Safã, e a Asaías, servo do rei, dizendo: 
Ide, consultai a Jeová por mim e pelos restantes em Israel e em Judá, acerca das palavras do livro que se achou; pois grande é o furor que se tem derramado sobre nós da parte de Jeová, porque nossos pais não guardaram a palavra de Jeová, para fazerem conforme tudo o que está escrito neste livro. 
Foram Hilquias, e os que tinham sido mandados pelo rei, ter com a profetiza Hulda, mulher de Salum, filho de Tocate, filho de Harás, guarda dos vestidos (ora ela habitava em Jerusalém, no segundo quarteirão); e falaram-lhe a esse respeito. 
Respondeu-lhes ela: Assim diz Jeová, Deus de Israel: Dizei ao homem que vos enviou a mim. 
Assim diz Jeová: Eis que estou para trazer o mal sobre este lugar e sobre os seus habitantes, a saber, todas as maldições que estão escritas no livro que leram perante o rei de Judá. 
Porque me abandonaram e queimaram incenso a outros deuses, para me provocarem à ira contra todas as obras das suas mãos; por isso está o meu furor derramado sobre este lugar, e não se apagará. 
Mas ao rei de Judá que vos enviou para consultardes a Jeová, assim lhe direis: Assim diz Jeová: Quanto às palavras que ouvistes, 
porque o teu coração se enterneceu, e te humilhaste perante Deus quando ouviste as suas palavras contra este lugar e contra os seus habitantes, e te humilhaste perante mim e rasgaste os teus vestidos, e choraste perante mim; também eu te ouvi, diz Jeová. 
Eis que te ajuntarei a teus pais, e serás posto em paz no teu sepulcro, e os teus olhos não verão todos os males que eu estou para trazer sobre este lugar e sobre os seus habitantes. Tornaram com esta resposta ao rei. 
Então o rei mandou reunir todos os anciãos de Judá e de Jerusalém. 
O rei subiu à casa de Jeová, e bem assim todos os homens de Judá, e os habitantes de Jerusalém, e os sacerdotes, e os levitas e todo o povo, tanto pequenos como grandes; ele leu aos ouvidos deles todas as palavras do livro da aliança que foi achada na casa de Jeová. 
O rei, posto em pé no seu lugar, fez perante Jeová esta aliança, de andar após Jeová, e guardar os seus mandamentos, os seus testemunhos e os seus estatutos de todo o seu coração e de toda a sua alma, a fim de cumprir as palavras da aliança que estavam escritas naquele livro. 
Fez entrar na aliança a todos os que se tinham achado em Jerusalém e em Benjamim. Os habitantes de Jerusalém fizeram conforme a aliança de Deus, o Deus de seus pais. 
Josias tirou todas as abominações de todas as terras que pertenciam aos filhos de Israel, e fez que todos os que se tinham achado em Israel servissem, sim que servissem a Jeová, seu Deus. Enquanto ele viveu, não deixaram de seguir a Jeová, Deus de seus pais. 

Josiah was eight years old when he became king; he was ruling in Jerusalem for thirty-one years. 
And he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, walking in the ways of his father David, without turning to the right hand or to the left. 
In the eighth year of his rule, while he was still young, his heart was first turned to the God of his father David; and in the twelfth year he undertook the clearing away of all the high places and the pillars and the images of wood and metal from Judah and Jerusalem. 
He had the altars of the Baals broken down, while he himself was present; and the sun-images which were placed on high over them he had cut down; and the pillars of wood and the metal images he had broken up and crushed to dust, dropping the dust over the resting-places of the dead who had made offerings to them. 
And he had the bones of the priests burned on their altars, and so he made Judah and Jerusalem clean. 
And in all the towns of Manasseh and Ephraim and Simeon as far as Naphtali, he made waste their houses round about. 
He had the altars and the pillars of wood pulled down and the images crushed to dust, and all the sun-images cut down, through all the land of Israel, and then he went back to Jerusalem. 
Now in the eighteenth year of his rule, when the land and the house had been made clean, he sent Shaphan, the son of Azaliah, and Maaseiah, the ruler of the town, and Joah, the son of Joahaz, the recorder, to make good what was damaged in the house of the Lord his God. 
And they came to Hilkiah, the chief priest, and gave him all the money which had been taken into the house of God, which the Levites, the keepers of the door, had got from Manasseh and Ephraim and those of Israel who had not been taken away as prisoners, and from all Judah and Benjamin and the people of Jerusalem. 
And they gave it to the overseers of the work of the Lord's house, and the overseers gave it to the workmen working in the house, for building it up and making good what was damaged; 
Even to the woodworkers and builders to get cut stone and wood for joining the structure together and for making boards for the houses which the kings of Judah had given up to destruction. 
And the men did the work well; and those who had authority over them were Jahath and Obadiah, Levites of the sons of Merari, and Zechariah and Meshullam, of the sons of the Kohathites, who were to be responsible for seeing that the work was done; and others of the Levites, who were expert with instruments of music, 
Had authority over the transport workers, giving directions to all who were doing any sort of work; and among the Levites there were scribes and overseers and door-keepers. 
Now when they were taking out the money which had come into the Lord's house, Hilkiah the priest came across the book of the law of the Lord, which he had given by the mouth of Moses. 
Then Hilkiah said to Shaphan the scribe, I have made discovery of the book of the law in the house of the Lord. And Hilkiah gave the book to Shaphan. 
And Shaphan took the book to the king; and he gave him an account of what had been done, saying, Your servants are doing all they have been given to do; 
They have taken out all the money which was in the Lord's house and have given it to the overseers and to the workmen. 
Then Shaphan the scribe said to the king, Hilkiah the priest has given me a book; and he made a start at reading some of it to the king. 
And the king, hearing the words of the law, took his robe in his hands, violently parting it as a sign of his grief. 
And he gave orders to Hilkiah and to Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, and Abdon, the son of Micah, and Shaphan the scribe and Asaiah, the king's servant, saying, 
Go and get directions from the Lord for me and for those who are still in Israel and for Judah, about the words of this book which has come to light; for great is the wrath of the Lord which has been let loose on us, because our fathers have not kept the word of the Lord or done what is recorded in this book. 
So Hilkiah, and those whom the king sent, went to Huldah the woman prophet, the wife of Shallum, the son of Tokhath, the son of Hasrah, the keeper of the robes (now she was living in Jerusalem, in the second part of the town); and they had talk with her about this thing. 
And she said to them, The Lord, the God of Israel, has said, Say to the man who sent you to me, 
These are the words of the Lord: See, I will send evil on this place and on its people, even all the curses in the book which they have been reading before the king of Judah; 
Because they have given me up, burning offerings to other gods and moving me to wrath by all the works of their hands; so my wrath is let loose on this place and will not be put out. 
But to the king of Judah who sent you to get directions from the Lord, say, This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, has said: Because you have given ear to my words, 
And your heart was soft, and you made yourself low before God, on hearing his words about this place and its people, and with weeping and signs of grief have made yourself low before me, I have given ear to you, says the Lord God. 
See, I will let you go to your fathers, and be put in your last resting-place in peace, and your eyes will not see all the evil which I will send on this place and on its people. So they took this news back to the king. 
Then the king sent and got together all the responsible men of Judah and of Jerusalem. 
And the king went up to the house of the Lord, with all the men of Judah and the people of Jerusalem, and the priests and the Levites and all the people, small and great; and they were present at his reading of the book of the law which had come to light in the house of the Lord. 
Then the king, taking his place by the pillar, made an agreement before the Lord, to go in the way of the Lord, and to keep his orders and his decisions and his rules with all his heart and with all his soul, and to keep the words of the agreement recorded in this book. 
And he made all the people in Jerusalem and Benjamin give their word to keep it. And the people of Jerusalem kept the agreement of God, the God of their fathers. 
Josiah took away all the disgusting things out of all the lands of the children of Israel, and made all who were in Israel servants of the Lord their God. And as long as he was living they were true to the Lord, the God of their fathers. 

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