1The king hit up all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem, like, "Gather 'round, fam."

2Then the king rolled up to the Lord's house with all the dudes from Judah and Jerusalem, plus the priests and prophets, and read them the whole book of the covenant he found. Major vibes.

3The king stood by a pillar and made a promise to the Lord, saying he’d follow the commandments and keep it 100 with all his heart and soul. Everyone was like, "We’re in on this covenant."

4The king told Hilkiah the high priest and the other priests to bring out all the stuff for Baal and the grove from the Lord's temple. He burned it outside Jerusalem in Kidron and tossed the ashes to Beth-el. Savage move.

5He took down the idol priests that the kings of Judah set up to burn incense in all those high places around Judah and Jerusalem, you know, the ones who vibed with Baal and the stars.

6He brought the grove out from the Lord's house to the Kidron brook, burned it there, crushed it to dust, and sprinkled it on the graves of the people. No cap.

7He straight-up demolished the houses of the sodomites next to the Lord's house, where the women were making hangings for the grove.

8He gathered all the priests from Judah’s cities and messed up the high places where they burned incense, from Geba to Beer-sheba, and wrecked the high places at the city gates.

9But the priests from those high places didn’t come to the Lord’s altar in Jerusalem; they just ate unleavened bread with their crew.

10He defiled Topheth in the valley of Hinnom, so no one could make their kids pass through the fire to Molech. Periodt.

11He straight up took the horses the kings of Judah gave to the sun, by the Lord's house, and burned those chariots like, "This is sus."

12The altars on Ahaz's upper chamber and the ones Manasseh made? The king wrecked them and tossed the dust into the Kidron brook, no cap.

13The high places in front of Jerusalem, built by Solomon for those sus gods? The king totally defiled them, fr.

14He smashed the images, chopped down the groves, and filled the spots with bones, like savage vibes.

15The altar at Beth-el and the high place Jeroboam made? He broke it down, burned it, and turned it to dust, periodt.

16As Josiah turned, he saw the sepulchres and took the bones out to burn on the altar, keeping it real with the Lord's word.

17He was like, "What’s that title I see?" and the city peeps told him it’s the sepulchre of the man of God from Judah, who called out the altar vibes.

18He said, "Let him chill; don’t move his bones." So they left his bones alone, with the prophet's bones from Samaria, no cap.

19Josiah took out all the high places in Samaria that the kings made to make the Lord mad and did his thing like he did in Beth-el.

20He took out all the priests of those high places, burned their bones on the altars, and bounced back to Jerusalem, lit.

21The king was like, "Yo fam, keep the Passover for the Lord your God, just like it says in this covenant book. Vibes."

22No cap, there hasn’t been a Passover like this since the judges ruled Israel, or even during all the kings of Israel and Judah.

23But in the eighteenth year of King Josiah, they threw down this lit Passover for the Lord in Jerusalem.

24Josiah straight-up got rid of all the sus stuff—familiar spirits, wizards, idols, and all the cringe abominations he found in Judah and Jerusalem, just to keep it real with the law he found in the Lord's house.

25No king was as goated as him, turning to the Lord with all his heart, soul, and strength, following Moses' law; after him, nobody matched that energy.

26But still, the Lord wasn't chillin’ with Judah; His wrath was lit against them because of all the drama Manasseh stirred up.

27The Lord was like, "I’m gonna bounce Judah from my sight, just like I did with Israel, and I’ll ditch this city, Jerusalem, where I said my name would be."

28So, like, are all the other things Josiah did not written in the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

29During his reign, Pharaoh-nechoh from Egypt rolled up against the king of Assyria at the Euphrates, and King Josiah was like, "Bet," and went to face him; he took him out at Megiddo.

30His crew carried him back in a chariot, dead from Megiddo, brought him to Jerusalem, and buried him in his own tomb. The people then anointed Jehoahaz, Josiah's son, to be king in his dad’s place.

31Jehoahaz was 23 when he started flexing as king, but only lasted three months in Jerusalem. His mom's name was Hamutal, daughter of Jeremiah from Libnah.

32He was out here doing sus stuff in the eyes of the Lord, just like his fam before him.

33Pharaoh-nechoh put him in chains at Riblah in Hamath so he couldn't pop off in Jerusalem, and made the land pay up a hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.

34Pharaoh-nechoh crowned Eliakim, Josiah's son, as king instead of Josiah, changed his name to Jehoiakim, and took Jehoahaz to Egypt where he straight-up died.

35Jehoiakim gave the silver and gold to Pharaoh, but taxed the land to get that cash flow, collecting from everyone to send it all to Pharaoh-nechoh.

36Jehoiakim was 25 when he started ruling, and he held it down for eleven years in Jerusalem. His mom's name was Zebudah, daughter of Pedaiah from Rumah.

37He was also doing sus stuff in the eyes of the Lord, just like his fam before him.

1And the king sent, and they gathered unto him all the elders of Judah and of Jerusalem.

2And the king went up into the house of the Lord, 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 was found in the house of the Lord.

3And the king stood by a pillar, 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 their heart and all their soul, to perform the words of this covenant that were written in this book. And all the people stood to the covenant.

4And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the door, to bring forth out of the temple of the Lord all the vessels that were made for Baal, and for the grove, and for all the host of heaven: and he burned them without Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, and carried the ashes of them unto Beth–el.

5And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places round about Jerusalem; them also that burned incense unto Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven.

6And he brought out the grove from the house of the Lord, without Jerusalem, unto the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and stamped it small to powder, and cast the powder thereof upon the graves of the children of the people.

7And he brake down the houses of the sodomites, that were by the house of the Lord, where the women wove hangings for the grove.

8And he brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah, and defiled the high places where the priests had burned incense, from Geba to Beer–sheba, and brake down the high places of the gates that were in the entering in of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city, which were on a man’s left hand at the gate of the city.

9Nevertheless the priests of the high places came not up to the altar of the Lord in Jerusalem, but they did eat of the unleavened bread among their brethren.

10And he defiled Topheth, which is in the valley of the children of Hinnom, that no man might make his son or his daughter to pass through the fire to Molech.

11And he took away the horses that the kings of Judah had given to the sun, at the entering in of the house of the Lord, by the chamber of Nathan–melech the chamberlain, which was in the suburbs, and burned the chariots of the sun with fire.

12And the altars that were on the top of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the Lord, did the king beat down, and brake them down from thence, and cast the dust of them into the brook Kidron.

13And 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 builded 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.

14And he brake in pieces the images, and cut down the groves, and filled their places with the bones of men.

15Moreover the altar that was at Beth–el, and the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, had made, both that altar and the high place he brake down, and burned the high place, and stamped it small to powder, and burned the grove.

16And as Josiah turned himself, he spied the sepulchres that were there in the mount, and sent, and took the bones out of the sepulchres, and burned them upon the altar, and polluted it, according to the word of the Lord which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these words.

17Then he said, What title is that that I see? And the men of the city told him, It is the sepulchre of the man of God, which came from Judah, and proclaimed these things that thou hast done against the altar of Beth–el.

18And he said, Let him alone; let no man move his bones. So they let his bones alone, with the bones of the prophet that came out of Samaria.

19And all the houses also of the high places that were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke the Lord to anger, Josiah took away, and did to them according to all the acts that he had done in Beth–el.

20And he slew all the priests of the high places that were there upon the altars, and burned men’s bones upon them, and returned to Jerusalem.

21And the king commanded all the people, saying, Keep the passover unto the Lord your God, as it is written in the book of this covenant.

22Surely 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;

23But in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, wherein this passover was holden to the Lord in Jerusalem.

24Moreover the workers with familiar spirits, and the wizards, and the images, and the idols, and all the abominations that were spied in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, did Josiah put away, that he might perform the words of the law which were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of the Lord.

25And like unto him was there no king before him, that turned to the Lord 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 any like him.

26Notwithstanding the Lord turned not from the fierceness of his great wrath, wherewith his anger was kindled against Judah, because of all the provocations that Manasseh had provoked him withal.

27And the Lord said, I will remove Judah also out of my sight, as I have removed Israel, and will cast off this city Jerusalem which I have chosen, and the house of which I said, My name shall be there.

28Now 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?

29In his days Pharaoh–nechoh king of Egypt went up against the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates: and king Josiah went against him; and he slew him at Megiddo, when he had seen him.

30And 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.

31Jehoahaz was twenty and three years old when he began to reign; and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.

32And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, according to all that his fathers had done.

33And Pharaoh–nechoh put him in bands at Riblah in the land of Hamath, that he might not reign in Jerusalem; and put the land to a tribute of an hundred talents of silver, and a talent of gold.

34And Pharaoh–nechoh made Eliakim the son of Josiah king in the room of Josiah his father, and turned his name to Jehoiakim, and took Jehoahaz away: and he came to Egypt, and died there.

35And Jehoiakim gave the silver and the gold to Pharaoh; but he taxed the land to give the money according to the commandment of Pharaoh: he exacted the silver and the gold of the people of the land, of every one according to his taxation, to give it unto Pharaoh–nechoh.

36Jehoiakim was twenty and five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Zebudah, the daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah.

37And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, according to all that his fathers had done.