II Kings 23 The Celebration of the Passover

 II Kings 23

The Celebration of the Passover

21 And the king commanded all the people, saying, Keep the Passover to the Lord your God, as it is written in the Book of the Covenant.

22 For there had not been such a Passover as this since the days of the judges who 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 this Passover was kept to the Lord in Jerusalem.

24 And the mediums, and the sorcerers, and the teraphim, and the idols, and all the abominations that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, Josiah did away with, that he might perform the words of the law that were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest had found in the house of the Lord.

25 And before him there was no king like him who 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; and after him there arose none like him. 

26 Yet the Lord did not turn away from the fierceness of his great anger, which burned against Judah because of all the provocations with which Manasseh had provoked him. 

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

28 Now 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 Necho king of Egypt went up against the king of Assyria to the Euphrates River. King Josiah went to meet him, and when he saw him, he killed him at Megiddo.

30 His servants carried him dead from Megiddo and brought him to Jerusalem, and buried him in his own tomb. Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah and anointed him and made him king in his father's place.