II Kings Chapter 23

Exposé | Moral | Truth

No One Can Be Right With G-d By Having Jesus

Cleansing…

The Greek book – New Testament teaching that says, after Jesus came, the Law is rendered invalid since Jesus paid the price, is complete falsehood!

Why? For there is simply no commandment as such! Nothing spoken by G-d or written by His servants the prophets.

Read if in doubt:

“Josiah, Made A Covenant Before Hashem To Follow Him And Observe His Commandments…”

The king sent out and gathered to himself all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem.
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… and to all the people, from small to great, and he read in their ears all the words of the Book of the Covenant that had been found in the Temple of Hashem.
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The king then stood at his place and sealed a covenant before Hashem, to follow Hashem and to observe His commandments and His testimonies and His decrees with all [his] heart and all [his] soul, to uphold the words of this covenant written in this book; and the entire people accepted the covenant.
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The king then instructed Hilkiah the Kohen Gadol, the Kohanim of the second rank, and the gatekeepers to remove from the Temple of Hashem all the articles that had been made for the Baal, for the Asherah, and for all the hosts of the heavens. He had them burned outside Jerusalem, in the plains of Kidron, and their ashes carried away to Beth-el.
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He also dismissed the priests whom the kings of Judah had appointed to burn offerings at the high places in the cities of Judah and in the surrounding areas of Jerusalem, as well as those who burned offerings to Baal, to the sun and to the moon and to the constellations and to all the heavenly hosts.
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And the high places facing Jerusalem, south of the Mount of Olives, which Solomon king of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians, for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, and for Milcom the abomination of the Children of Ammon, the king defiled.
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Furthermore, all the temples of the high places in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had built to anger [Hashem], Josiah removed and he did to them like all the deeds that he had done at Beth-el.
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The king then commanded the people, saying, “Perform the pesach-offering unto Hashem your God, as written in this book of the Covenant.”
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Furthermore, the necromancers and conjurers of spirits, the teraphim, the execrable-idols and all the abominations that had been seen in the land of Judah and Jerusalem, Josiah removed in order to uphold the words of the Torah that were written in the Scroll that Hilkiah the Kohen found in the Temple of Hashem.
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Before him there had never been a king like him who returned to Hashem with all his heart, with all his soul, and with all his resources, in accordance with the entire Torah of Moses, and after him no one arose like him.
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Nevertheless, Hashem did not relent from His great flaring anger, for His anger had flared up against Judah because of all the provocations with which Manasseh had angered Him.
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In his days Pharaoh Neco, the king of Egypt, went up to wage war against the king of Assyria by the Euphrates River; King Josiah went to confront him, and [Pharaoh] killed him in Megiddo when he saw him.
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… The common people took Jehoahaz son of Josiah, anointed him, and crowned him king in place of his father.
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He did what was evil in the eyes of Hashem, like everything that his forefathers had done.
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Pharaoh Neco imprisoned him …, [to prevent him] from reigning in Jerusalem, …
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Pharaoh Neco then crowned Eliakim son of Josiah in place of his father Josiah, and changed his name to Jehoiakim. [Pharaoh] took Jehoahaz and returned to Egypt; and [Jehoahaz] died there.
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Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he became king, …
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He did what was evil in the eyes of Hashem, like everything that his forefathers had done.
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1 And the king summoned, and they assembled before him all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem.
2 And the king went up to the house of the Lord, and all the people of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem were with him, and the priests and the prophets, and all the people from small to great, and he read within their hearing all the words of the scroll of the covenant that was found in the house of the Lord.
3 And the king stood on his place, and enacted the covenant before the Lord, to follow the Lord and to observe His commandments and His testimonies and His statutes with all their heart and soul, to fulfill the words of this covenant, which are written in this scroll. And all the people were steadfast in their acceptance of the covenant.
4 And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest and the priests of the second rank and the guards of the threshold, to take out of the Temple of the Lord all the utensils that were made for the Baal and for the asherah, and for the entire host of the heaven, and he burnt them outside Jerusalem in the plains of Kidron, and he carried their ashes to Bethel.
5 And he abolished the pagan priests whom the kings of Judah had appointed and who had burnt incense on the high places in the cities of Judah and the environs of Jerusalem, and those who burnt incense to the Baal, to the sun, to the moon, and to the constellations, and to all the host of heaven.
6 And he took the asherah out of the house of the Lord to the outside of Jerusalem, to the Kidron Valley, and he burnt it in the Kidron Valley and he pulverized it into dust; and he threw its dust on the graves of the members of the people.
7 And he demolished the houses devoted to pagan worship that were in the house of the Lord, where the women weave enclosures for the asherah.
8 And he brought all the priests from the cities of Judah, and he defiled the high places where the priests had burnt incense, from Geba as far as Beersheba, and he demolished the high places near the gates, the one that was at the entrance of the gate of Joshua the mayor of the city, which is on a person’s left in the gate of the city.
9 However, the priests of the high places would not go up to the Lord’s altar in Jerusalem, but they would eat unleavened cakes among their brethren.
10 And he defiled the Topheth that was in the Valley of Ben Hinnom, so that no man would pass his son or his daughter in the fire to the Molech.
11 And he abolished the horses that the kings of Judah had dedicated to the sun, from the entrance of the house of the Lord until the chamber of Nethan-melech the eunuch who was in the outskirts, and he burnt the sun chariots with fire.
12 And the altars that were on the roof, [the roof of] Ahaz’s upper chamber, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars that Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the Lord, the king demolished, and he hurriedly removed [them] from there and threw their dust into the Kidron Valley.
13 And the high places that were before Jerusalem, that were on the right of the Mount of the Destroyer, which Solomon king of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians and for Chemosh the abomination of Moab and for Milcom the abomination of the children of Amon, did the king defile.
14 And he broke down the monuments, and cut down the asherim, and filled their place with human bones.
15 And also the altar that was in Bethel, the high place that Jeroboam the son of Nebat-who caused Israel to sin-had made, also that altar and the high place he demolished, and he burnt the high place; he pulverized it and burnt the asherah.
16 And Josiah turned and saw the graves that were there on the mount, and he sent and took the bones out of the graves and burned them on the altar and defiled it, according to the word of the Lord that the man of God had called, who had called out these words.
17 And he said, “What is this marker that I see?” And the people of the city said to him, “The grave of the man of God who came from Judah and called out these things that you did on the altar of Bethel.”
18 And he said, “Let him be. Let no one move his bones. ” And they spared his bones with the bones of the prophet who came from Samaria.
19 And also all the temples of the high places that were in the cities of Samaria that the kings of Israel had made [in order] to anger, Josiah removed, and he did to them like all the deeds he had done in Bethel.
20 And he slaughtered all the priests of the high places who were there, on the altars, and he burnt human bones upon them, and he returned to Jerusalem.
21 And the king commanded all the people, saying, “Perform a Passover sacrifice to the Lord your God, as it is written in this scroll of the covenant.”
22 For such a Passover sacrifice had not been performed since the time of the judges who judged Israel, and all the days of the kings of Israel and the kings of Judah.
23 Except in the eighteenth year of King Josiah, this Passover sacrifice was performed to the Lord, in Jerusalem.
24 And also the necromancers and those who divine by the Jidoa bone and the teraphim and the idols and all the abominations that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, Josiah abolished, in order to fulfill the words of the Torah which were written in the scroll that Hilkiah the priest had found in the house of the Lord.
25 Now, before him there was no king like him, who returned to the Lord with all his heart and with all his soul and with all his possessions, according to the entire Torah of Moses, and after him no one arose.
26 Nevertheless, the Lord did not turn back from His great wrath, for His wrath was kindled against Judah, because of all the provocations that Manasseh had provoked Him.
27 And the Lord said, “I will remove Judah too from before Me as I have removed Israel and I will reject this city, which I have chosen- Jerusalem-and the Temple concerning which I said, ‘My Name shall be there.’ “
28 And the rest of the events of Josiah and all that he did, are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah.
29 In his days, Pharaoh-Neco went up against the king of Assyria by the Euphrates River, and King Josiah went toward him, and he killed him in Megiddo when he saw him.
30 And his servants transported him dead from Megiddo, and they brought him to Jerusalem and buried him in his grave. And the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah and anointed him and made him king instead of his father.
31 Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he became king, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
32 And he did what was evil in the eyes of the Lord, like all that his forefathers had done.
33 And Pharaoh-Neco imprisoned him in Riblah in the land of Hamath, to prevent him from reigning in Jerusalem, and he imposed a fine on the land consisting of one hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.
34 And Pharaoh-Neco crowned Eliakim the son of Josiah instead of his father Josiah, and he changed his name to Jehoiakim, and he took Jehoahaz, and he came to Egypt and died there.
35 And Jehoiakim gave the silver and gold to Pharaoh but he assessed the land to give the silver according to Pharaoh’s orders; each one according to his assessment, he exacted the silver and gold from the people of the land to give to Pharaoh-Neco.
36 Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Zebudah the daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah.
37 And he did what was evil in the eyes of the Lord, like all that his forefathers had done.