1 Então, o rei ordenou, e todos os anciãos de Judá e de Jerusalém se ajuntaram a ele. 2 E o rei subiu à Casa do Senhor, e com ele todos os homens de Judá, e todos os moradores de Jerusalém, e os sacerdotes, e os profetas, e todo o povo, desde o menor até ao maior; e leu aos ouvidos deles todas as palavras do livro do concerto, que se achou na Casa do Senhor. 3 E o rei se pôs em pé junto à coluna e fez o concerto perante o Senhor, para andarem com o Senhor, e guardarem os seus mandamentos, e os seus testemunhos, e os seus estatutos, com todo o coração e com toda a alma, confirmando as palavras deste concerto, que estavam escritas naquele livro; e todo o povo esteve por este concerto.

4 E o rei mandou ao sumo sacerdote Hilquias, e aos sacerdotes da segunda ordem, e aos guardas do umbral da porta que se tirassem do templo do Senhor todos os utensílios que se tinham feito para Baal, e para o bosque, e para todo o exército dos céus; e os queimou fora de Jerusalém, nos campos de Cedrom, e levou as cinzas deles a Betel. 5 Também destituiu os sacerdotes que os reis de Judá estabeleceram para incensarem sobre os altos nas cidades de Judá e ao redor de Jerusalém, como também os que incensavam a Baal, ao sol, e à lua, e aos mais planetas, e a todo o exército dos céus. 6 Também tirou da Casa do Senhor o ídolo do bosque para fora de Jerusalém até o ribeiro de Cedrom, e o queimou junto ao ribeiro de Cedrom, e o desfez em pó, e lançou o seu pó sobre as sepulturas dos filhos do povo. 7 Também derribou as casas dos prostitutos cultuais que estavam na Casa do Senhor, em que as mulheres teciam casinhas para o ídolo do bosque. 8 E a todos os sacerdotes trouxe das cidades de Judá, e profanou os altos em que os sacerdotes incensavam, desde Geba até Berseba, e derribou os altos das portas, que estavam à entrada da porta de Josué, o chefe da cidade, e que estavam à mão esquerda daquele que entrava pela porta da cidade. 9 Mas os sacerdotes dos altos não sacrificavam sobre o altar do Senhor em Jerusalém; porém comiam pães asmos no meio de seus irmãos. 10 Também profanou a Tofete, que está no vale dos filhos de Hinom, para que ninguém fizesse passar a seu filho ou sua filha pelo fogo a Moloque. 11 Também tirou os cavalos que os reis de Judá tinham destinado ao sol, à entrada da Casa do Senhor, perto da câmara de Natã-Meleque, o eunuco, que estava no recinto; e os carros do sol queimou a fogo. 12 Também o rei derribou os altares que estavam sobre o terraço do cenáculo de Acaz, os quais fizeram os reis de Judá; como também o rei derribou os altares que fizera Manassés nos dois átrios da Casa do Senhor; e, esmigalhados, os tirou dali e lançou o pó deles no ribeiro de Cedrom. 13 O rei profanou também os altos que estavam defronte de Jerusalém, à mão direita do monte de Masite, os quais edificara Salomão, rei de Israel, a Astarote, a abominação dos sidônios, e a Quemos, a abominação dos moabitas, e a Milcom, a abominação dos filhos de Amom. 14 Semelhantemente quebrou as estátuas, e cortou os bosques, e encheu o seu lugar com ossos de homens.

15 E também o altar que estava em Betel e o alto que fez Jeroboão, filho de Nebate, que tinha feito pecar a Israel, juntamente com aquele altar, também o alto derribou; queimando o alto, em pó o desfez e queimou o ídolo do bosque. 16 E, virando-se Josias, viu as sepulturas que estavam ali no monte, e enviou, e tomou os ossos das sepulturas, e os queimou sobre aquele altar, e assim o profanou, conforme a palavra do Senhor, que apregoara o homem de Deus, quando apregoou estas palavras. 17 Então, disse: Que é este monumento que vejo? E os homens da cidade lhe disseram: É a sepultura do homem de Deus que veio de Judá, e apregoou estas coisas que fizeste contra este altar de Betel. 18 E disse: Deixai-o estar; ninguém mexa nos seus ossos. Assim, deixaram estar os seus ossos com os ossos do profeta que viera de Samaria. 19 De mais disso, também Josias tirou todas as casas dos altos que havia nas cidades de Samaria, e que os reis de Israel tinham feito para provocarem o Senhor à ira; e lhes fez conforme todos os atos que tinha praticado em Betel. 20 E sacrificou todos os sacerdotes dos altos, que havia ali, sobre os altares, e queimou ossos de homens sobre eles; depois, voltou a Jerusalém.

21 E o rei deu ordem a todo o povo, dizendo: Celebrai a Páscoa ao Senhor, vosso Deus, como está escrito no livro do concerto. 22 Porque nunca se celebrou tal Páscoa como esta desde os dias dos juízes que julgaram a Israel, nem em todos os dias dos reis de Israel, nem tampouco dos reis de Judá. 23 Porém, no ano décimo oitavo do rei Josias, esta Páscoa se celebrou ao Senhor, em Jerusalém.

24 E também os adivinhos, e os feiticeiros, e os terafins, e os ídolos, e todas as abominações que se viam na terra de Judá e em Jerusalém, os extirpou Josias, para confirmar as palavras da lei, que estavam escritas no livro que o sacerdote Hilquias achara na Casa do Senhor. 25 E antes dele não houve rei semelhante, que se convertesse ao Senhor com todo o seu coração, e com toda a sua alma, e com todas as suas forças, conforme toda a Lei de Moisés; e, depois dele, nunca se levantou outro tal. 26 Todavia, o Senhor se não demoveu do ardor da sua grande ira, ira com que ardia contra Judá, por todas as provocações com que Manassés o tinha provocado. 27 E disse o Senhor: Também a Judá hei de tirar de diante da minha face, como tirei a Israel, e rejeitarei esta cidade de Jerusalém que elegi, como também a casa de que disse: Estará ali o meu nome.

28 Ora, o mais dos atos de Josias e tudo quanto fez, porventura, não estão escritos no livro das Crônicas dos Reis de Judá? 29 Nos seus dias, subiu Faraó-Neco, rei do Egito, contra o rei da Assíria, ao rio Eufrates; e o rei Josias lhe foi ao encontro; e, vendo-o ele, o matou em Megido. 30 E seus servos o levaram morto de Megido, e o trouxeram a Jerusalém, e o sepultaram na sua sepultura; e o povo da terra tomou a Joacaz, filho de Josias, e o ungiram, e o fizeram rei em lugar de seu pai.

31 Tinha Joacaz vinte e três anos de idade quando começou a reinar e três meses reinou em Jerusalém; e era o nome de sua mãe Hamutal, filha de Jeremias, de Libna. 32 E fez o que era mal aos olhos do Senhor, conforme tudo o que fizeram seus pais. 33 Porém Faraó-Neco o mandou prender em Ribla, em terra de Hamate, para que não reinasse em Jerusalém; e à terra impôs a pena de cem talentos de prata e um talento de ouro. 34 Também Faraó-Neco estabeleceu rei a Eliaquim, filho de Josias, em lugar de Josias, seu pai, e lhe mudou o nome em Jeoaquim; porém a Joacaz tomou consigo, e veio ao Egito e morreu ali. 35 E Jeoaquim deu aquela prata e aquele ouro a Faraó; porém fintou a terra, para dar esse dinheiro conforme o mandado de Faraó; a cada um, segundo a sua avaliação, demandou a prata e o ouro do povo da terra, para o dar a Faraó-Neco.

36 Tinha Jeoaquim vinte e cinco anos de idade quando começou a reinar e reinou onze anos em Jerusalém; e era o nome de sua mãe Zebida, filha de Pedaías, de Ruma. 37 E fez o que era mal aos olhos do Senhor, conforme tudo quanto fizeram seus pais.

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

2 And 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, from the small to the great: and he read before their ears all the words of the book of the covenant which had been found in the house of the Lord.

3 And the king stood upon the stand, and he 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 maintain the words of this covenant that are written in this book. And all the people entered into the covenant.

4 And the king commanded Chilkiyahu the high–priest, and the priests of the second order, and the door–keepers, to carry forth out of the temple of the Lord all the vessels that had been made for Ba’al, and for the Asherah, and for all the host of heaven: and they burnt them without Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, and carried their ashes unto Beth–el.

5 And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had appointed that they might burn incense on the high–places in the cities of Judah, and in the places round about Jerusalem; those also that burnt incense unto Ba’al, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven.

6 And he brought out the Asherah from the house of the Lord, without Jerusalem, unto the brook Kidron, and burnt it at the brook Kidron, and ground it small to powder, and cast its powder upon the graves of the children of the people.

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

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

9 Nevertheless the priests of the high–places came not up to the altar of the Lord in Jerusalem; but they ate unleavened bread in the midst of their brethren.

10 And he defiled the Thopheth, which was in the valley Ben–hinnom, so that no man should cause his son or his daughter to pass through the fire to Molech.

11 And he put down the horses that the kings of Judah had dedicated to the sun, from the entrance of the house of the Lord, by the chamber of Nethan–melech the chamberlain, who was over the suburbs; and the chariots of the sun he burnt with fire.

12 And the altars that were on the roof of the upper–chamber of Achaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Menasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the Lord, did the king pull down, and tore them away from there, and cast their dust into the brook Kidron.

13 And the high–places that were before Jerusalem, which were to the right of the mount of destruction, which Solomon the king of Israel had built for ‘Ashtoreth the abomination of the Zidonians, and for Kemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination of the children of ‘Ammon, did the king defile.

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

15 So also the altar that was at Beth–el, the high–place which Jerobo’am the son of Nebat, who induced Israel to sin, had made,––also that altar and the high–place did he pull down; and he burnt the high–place, ground it small to powder, and burnt then the Asherah.

16 And Josiah turned about, and beheld the graves that were there in the mount, and he sent, and took the bones out of the sepulchres, and burnt them upon the altar, and polluted it, according to the word of the Lord which the man of God proclaimed, who had proclaimed these events.

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

18 And he said, Let him rest: no man shall disturb his bones. So they saved his bones, with the bones of the prophet that came out of Samaria.

19 And also all the houses of the high–places that were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made as provocations to anger, did Josiah remove, and did to them in accordance with all the acts that he had done in Beth–el.

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

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

22 For there had not been holden such a passover from the days of the judges that judged Israel; nor in all the days of the kings of Israel, and of the kings of Judah;

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

24 And also the men of familiar spirits, and the wizards, and the teraphim, and the idols, and all the abominations that were to be seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, did Josiah clear away; in order that he might accomplish the words of the law which were written in the book that Chilkiyahu the priest had found in the house of the Lord.

25 And like unto him there was no king before him, that returned 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 Notwithstanding this the Lord turned not from the fierceness of his great anger, since his anger was kindled against Judah, because of all the provokings wherewith Menasseh had provoked him to anger.

27 And the Lord said, Also Judah will I remove out of my sight, as I have removed Israel, and will cast off this city which I have chosen, even Jerusalem, 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, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah.

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

30 And his servants carried him dying in a chariot from Megiddo, and brought him to Jerusalem, and buried him in his own sepulchre. And the people of the land took Jehoachaz the son of Josiah, and anointed him, and made him king in his father’s stead.

31 Twenty and three years old was Jehoachaz when he became king; and three months did he reign in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Chamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.

32 And he did what is evil in the eyes of the Lord, all just as his fathers had done.

33 And Pharaoh–nechoh put him in fetters at Riblah in the land of Chamath, that he should not reign in Jerusalem, and imposed a fine on the land of a hundred talents of silver, and a talent of gold.

34 And Pharaoh–nechoh made Elyakim the son of Josiah king in the room of Josiah his father, and changed his name to Jehoyakim, and took Jehoachaz away: and he came to Egypt, and died there.

35 And Jehoyakim gave the silver and the gold to Pharaoh; but he taxed the land to give the money by the order of Pharaoh: from every one according to his estimation did he exact the silver and gold from the people of the land, to give it unto Pharaoh–nechoh.

36 Twenty and five years old was Jehoyakim when he became king; and eleven years did be reign in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Zebudah, the daughter of Pedayah of Rumah.

37 And he did what is evil in the eyes of the Lord, all just as his fathers had done.