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Then there was a conspiracy among the courtiers, and the king was slain in his own palace; (2 Kings 21, 23)
He was obedient to the Lord’s will, and followed in all things the example of his ancestor, king David, never swerving to right or left. (2 Kings 22, 2)
And Saphan, going back to the king with news of his errand, to report that the temple offerings had been reckoned up and paid over to the temple overseers, for distribution to the workmen, (2 Kings 22, 9)
and the king, upon hearing the terms of the Lord’s law, rent his garments about him. (2 Kings 22, 11)
Thus says the Lord, For this city and its citizens I have punishments in store, all the punishments threatened in yonder book the king of Juda has read. (2 Kings 22, 16)
But to the king of Juda, who sent you here to consult the Lord, give this message from the Lord God of Israel: Well for thee thou didst listen to the warnings this book gave thee! (2 Kings 22, 18)
When they brought the king his answer, he summoned all the elders of Juda and of Jerusalem; (2 Kings 23, 1)
And the king, standing on the dais, made a promise, there in the Lord’s presence. They would make the Lord their leader, holding fast by command and decree and observance of his, heart and soul, with fresh loyalty to all the terms of the covenant which this book set on record. To that promise, the whole people gave its assent. (2 Kings 23, 3)
Then the king bade the high priest Helcias, and the priests of lesser rank, and the door-keepers, cast out from the Lord’s temple all the appurtenances of worship that belonged to Baal and to the sacred tree and to all the host of heaven; these he burned in the valley of Cedron, and carried the ashes of them away to Bethel. (2 Kings 23, 4)
He also desecrated the hill-shrines Solomon had made at Jerusalem itself, on the right hand side of the Hill of Shame, for Astaroth, the foul divinity of Sidon, and Chamos, that was Moab’s, and Melchom, that was Ammon’s; (2 Kings 23, 13)
Many a judge had ruled, many a king had reigned in Israel and Juda, but never was pasch kept (2 Kings 23, 22)
Never was there such a king as this; none before or after him came back to the Lord’s allegiance, heart and soul and strength, as he did, with the law of Moses to guide him. (2 Kings 23, 25)
