1 King Josiah sent a call. He asked all leaders from Judah and Jerusalem to come. ️ 2 Josiah went to God’s house. He read God’s book to all the people, big and small, priests and prophets. ⛪ 3 Josiah stood by a big post. He made a promise to follow God and obey. All the people said yes. ❤️ 4 Josiah told the head priest and helpers to take out all bad idol things for Baal, Asherah, sun, moon, and stars. They burned them far away. 5 Josiah stopped the bad priests who burned spice for fake gods and for the sun, moon, and stars. ✋⭐ 6 He took the Asherah pole from God’s house, burned it, crushed it, and put the dust on graves. ⚰️ 7 He broke the bad rooms by God’s house where people did wrong, and where women made cloth for Asherah. ️ 8 He brought in all the priests from the towns. He made the high places stop, from Geba to Beersheba. He broke the gate high places too. 9 The high place priests did not serve at God’s altar in Jerusalem. They only ate bread with the others. 10 He made Topheth in Hinnom Valley stop so no one would make a son or girl go in fire for Molech. 11 He took away the horses given to the sun and burned the sun chariots. 12 He broke the roof altars of Ahaz and the altars of Manasseh at God’s house and threw the dust into the Kidron. ️ 13 He broke the high places on the hill that Solomon made for fake gods like Ashtoreth, Chemosh, and Milcom. ❌ 14 He broke the stone poles, cut the Asherah poles, and filled the places with bones. 15 He broke the altar at Bethel that Jeroboam made. He burned the high place and crushed the Asherah pole. 16 He saw graves on the hill. He took bones and burned them on the altar, just like God said long ago. 17 Josiah asked, “What is this stone?” The men said, “It is the tomb of the man of God from Judah. He said this would happen.” ️ 18 Josiah said, “Do not move his bones.” So they left the bones of the man of God and the prophet from Samaria. ✋ 19 Josiah took away all the high place shrines in the towns of Samaria, like he did at Bethel. ️❌ 20 He put the bad high place priests to death on their altars and burned bones there. Then he went back to Jerusalem. ⚔️ 21 The king told all the people, “Keep Passover to the LORD your God, like the book says.” 22 No Passover like this had been kept since the time of the judges or the kings. ⏳ 23 In year 18 of King Josiah, Passover was kept in Jerusalem. ️ 24 Josiah took away magic people, bad spirit talkers, little gods, and idols, to obey the words in the book. 25 No king was like Josiah. He turned to God with all his heart and all his strength. He obeyed God’s law. ❤️ 26 But God was still very angry with Judah because of Manasseh. 27 God said, “I will take Judah away like Israel. I will leave this city Jerusalem and the house I chose.” ️ 28 The other things Josiah did are in the big book of the kings of Judah. 29 Pharaoh Neco of Egypt went to the big river. Josiah met him. Neco killed Josiah at Megiddo. ⚔️ 30 Helpers took Josiah’s body to Jerusalem and buried him. The people made his son Jehoahaz the king. ⚰️ 31 Jehoahaz was 23 years old. He was king for 3 months. His mom was Hamutal. He did bad like the kings before. 2️⃣3️⃣ 32 He did what was bad in God’s eyes. 33 Pharaoh Neco put Jehoahaz in chains at Riblah and made the land pay a lot of silver and gold. ⛓️ 34 Neco made Eliakim king and changed his name to Jehoiakim. He took Jehoahaz to Egypt, and Jehoahaz died there. 35 Jehoiakim gave silver and gold to Pharaoh. He made the people pay taxes for it. ➡️ 36 Jehoiakim was 25 years old and was king for 11 years. His mom was Zebidah. 2️⃣5️⃣1️⃣1️⃣ 37 He did what was bad in God’s eyes, like the kings before.