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And the king went up to the house of Yahweh 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 (A)he read in their hearing all the words of the book of the covenant (B)which was found in the house of Yahweh. (C)Then the king stood by the pillar and cut a covenant before Yahweh, (D)to walk after Yahweh, and to keep His commandments and His testimonies and His statutes with all his heart and all his soul, to establish the words of this covenant that were written in this book. And all the people [a]entered into the covenant.

Then the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest and (E)the priests of the second order and the [b]doorkeepers, (F)to bring out of the temple of Yahweh all the vessels that were made for Baal, for [c]Asherah, and for all the host of heaven; and (G)he burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron, and carried their ashes to Bethel.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 23:3 Lit took a stand in
  2. 2 Kings 23:4 Lit keepers of the threshold
  3. 2 Kings 23:4 A wooden symbol of a female deity, so in ch