1 Josias tinha oito anos quando começou a reinar, e reinou trinta e um anos em Jerusalém.
2 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.
3 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.
4 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.
5 Queimou os ossos dos sacerdotes sobre os altares deles, e purificou a Judá e a Jerusalém.
6 Assim fez nas cidades de Manassés, de Efraim e de Simeão, até Naftali, por toda a parte no meio das suas ruínas.
7 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.
8 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.
9 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.
10 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.
11 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.
12 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.
13 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.
14 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.
15 Hilquias disse ao escrivão Safã: Achei o livro da lei na casa de Jeová. Hilquias entregou o livro a Safã.
16 Safã levou o livro ao rei, e deu-lhe conta, dizendo: Tudo o que se encomendou aos teus servos, eles o executaram.
17 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.
18 O escrivão Safã disse ao rei: O sacerdote Hilquias entregou-me um livro. Safã leu nele perante o rei.
19 Tendo o rei ouvido as palavras da lei, rasgou os seus vestidos.
20 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:
21 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.
22 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.
23 Respondeu-lhes ela: Assim diz Jeová, Deus de Israel: Dizei ao homem que vos enviou a mim.
24 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.
25 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.
26 Mas ao rei de Judá que vos enviou para consultardes a Jeová, assim lhe direis: Assim diz Jeová: Quanto às palavras que ouvistes,
27 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.
28 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.
29 Então o rei mandou reunir todos os anciãos de Judá e de Jerusalém.
30 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.
31 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.
32 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.
33 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.
1 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 LORD, 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 LORD 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 LORD, and they gave it to the workmen that wrought in the house of the LORD, 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 of musick. 13 Also they were over the bearers of burdens, and were overseers of all that wrought the work in any manner of service: and of the Levites there were scribes, and officers, and porters.
14 And when they brought out the money that was brought into the house of the LORD, Hilkiah the priest found a book of the law of the LORD given by Moses. 15 And Hilkiah answered and said to Shaphan the scribe, I have found the book of the law in the house of the LORD. And Hilkiah delivered the book to Shaphan. 16 And Shaphan carried the book to the king, and brought the king word back again, saying, All that was committed to thy servants, they do it. 17 And they have gathered together the money that was found in the house of the LORD, and have delivered it into the hand of the overseers, and to the hand of the workmen. 18 Then Shaphan the scribe told the king, saying, Hilkiah the priest hath given me a book. And Shaphan read it before the king. 19 And it came to pass, when the king had heard the words of the law, that he rent his clothes. 20 And the king commanded Hilkiah, and Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and Abdon the son of Micah, and Shaphan the scribe, and Asaiah a servant of the king’s, saying, 21 Go, enquire of the LORD for me, and for them that are left in Israel and in Judah, concerning the words of the book that is found: for great is the wrath of the LORD that is poured out upon us, because our fathers have not kept the word of the LORD, to do after all that is written in this book. 22 And Hilkiah, and they that the king had appointed, went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvath, the son of Hasrah, keeper of the wardrobe; (now she dwelt in Jerusalem in the college:) and they spake to her to that effect.
23 And she answered them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Tell ye the man that sent you to me, 24 Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, and upon the inhabitants thereof, even all the curses that are written in the book which they have read before the king of Judah: 25 Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the works of their hands; therefore my wrath shall be poured out upon this place, and shall not be quenched. 26 And as for the king of Judah, who sent you to enquire of the LORD, so shall ye say unto him, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel concerning the words which thou hast heard; 27 Because thine heart was tender, and thou didst humble thyself before God, when thou heardest his words against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, and humbledst thyself before me, and didst rend thy clothes, and weep before me; I have even heard thee also, saith the LORD. 28 Behold, I will gather thee to thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered to thy grave in peace, neither shall thine eyes see all the evil that I will bring upon this place, and upon the inhabitants of the same. So they brought the king word again.
29 Then the king sent and gathered together all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem. 30 And the king went up into the house of the LORD, and all the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the priests, and the Levites, and all the people, great and small: and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant that was found in the house of the LORD. 31 And the king stood in his place, and made a covenant before the LORD, to walk after the LORD, and to keep his commandments, and his testimonies, and his statutes, with all his heart, and with all his soul, to perform the words of the covenant which are written in this book. 32 And he caused all that were present in Jerusalem and Benjamin to stand to it. And the inhabitants of Jerusalem did according to the covenant of God, the God of their fathers. 33 And Josiah took away all the abominations out of all the countries that pertained to the children of Israel, and made all that were present in Israel to serve, even to serve the LORD their God. And all his days they departed not from following the LORD, the God of their fathers.