2 Kings 21:24   (Read all of 2 Kings 21)

Then the people of the land killed all who had plotted against King Amon, and they made Josiah his son king in his place.

2 Kings 21:26   (Read all of 2 Kings 21)

He was buried in his tomb in the garden of Uzza. And Josiah his son succeeded him as king.

2 Kings 22:1   (Read all of 2 Kings 22)

Josiah was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem thirty-one years. His mother's name was Jedidah daughter of Adaiah; she was from Bozkath.

2 Kings 22:3   (Read all of 2 Kings 22)

In the eighteenth year of his reign, King Josiah sent the secretary, Shaphan son of Azaliah, the son of Meshullam, to the temple of the Lord. He said:

2 Kings 23:8   (Read all of 2 Kings 23)

Josiah brought all the priests from the towns of Judah and desecrated the high places, from Geba to Beersheba, where the priests had burned incense. He broke down the gateway at the entrance of the Gate of Joshua, the city governor, which was on the left of the city gate.

2 Kings 23:11   (Read all of 2 Kings 23)

He removed from the entrance to the temple of the Lord the horses that the kings of Judah had dedicated to the sun. They were in the court near the room of an official named Nathan-Melek. Josiah then burned the chariots dedicated to the sun.

2 Kings 23:14   (Read all of 2 Kings 23)

Josiah smashed the sacred stones and cut down the Asherah poles and covered the sites with human bones.

2 Kings 23:16   (Read all of 2 Kings 23)

Then Josiah looked around, and when he saw the tombs that were there on the hillside, he had the bones removed from them and burned on the altar to defile it, in accordance with the word of the Lord proclaimed by the man of God who foretold these things.

2 Kings 23:19   (Read all of 2 Kings 23)

Just as he had done at Bethel, Josiah removed all the shrines at the high places that the kings of Israel had built in the towns of Samaria and that had aroused the Lord's anger.

2 Kings 23:20   (Read all of 2 Kings 23)

Josiah slaughtered all the priests of those high places on the altars and burned human bones on them. Then he went back to Jerusalem.

2 Kings 23:23   (Read all of 2 Kings 23)

But in the eighteenth year of King Josiah, this Passover was celebrated to the Lord in Jerusalem.

2 Kings 23:24   (Read all of 2 Kings 23)

Furthermore, Josiah got rid of the mediums and spiritists, the household gods, the idols and all the other detestable things seen in Judah and Jerusalem. This he did to fulfill the requirements of the law written in the book that Hilkiah the priest had discovered in the temple of the Lord.

2 Kings 23:25   (Read all of 2 Kings 23)

Neither before nor after Josiah was there a king like him who turned to the Lord as he did-with all his heart and with all his soul and with all his strength, in accordance with all the Law of Moses.

2 Kings 23:28   (Read all of 2 Kings 23)

As for the other events of Josiah's reign, and all he did, are they not written in the book of the annals of the kings of Judah?

2 Kings 23:29   (Read all of 2 Kings 23)

While Josiah was king, Pharaoh Necho king of Egypt went up to the Euphrates River to help the king of Assyria. King Josiah marched out to meet him in battle, but Necho faced him and killed him at Megiddo.

2 Kings 23:30   (Read all of 2 Kings 23)

Josiah's servants brought his body in a chariot from Megiddo to Jerusalem and buried him in his own tomb. And the people of the land took Jehoahaz son of Josiah and anointed him and made him king in place of his father.

2 Kings 23:34   (Read all of 2 Kings 23)

Pharaoh Necho made Eliakim son of Josiah king in place of his father Josiah and changed Eliakim's name to Jehoiakim. But he took Jehoahaz and carried him off to Egypt, and there he died.

1 Chronicles 3:14   (Read all of 1 Chronicles 3)

Amon his son, Josiah his son.

1 Chronicles 3:15   (Read all of 1 Chronicles 3)

The sons of Josiah: Johanan the firstborn, Jehoiakim the second son, Zedekiah the third, Shallum the fourth.

2 Chronicles 33:25   (Read all of 2 Chronicles 33)

Then the people of the land killed all who had plotted against King Amon, and they made Josiah his son king in his place.

2 Chronicles 34:1   (Read all of 2 Chronicles 34)

Josiah was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem thirty-one years.

2 Chronicles 34:8   (Read all of 2 Chronicles 34)

In the eighteenth year of Josiah's reign, to purify the land and the temple, he sent Shaphan son of Azaliah and Maaseiah the ruler of the city, with Joah son of Joahaz, the recorder, to repair the temple of the Lord his God.

2 Chronicles 34:33   (Read all of 2 Chronicles 34)

Josiah removed all the detestable idols from all the territory belonging to the Israelites, and he had all who were present in Israel serve the Lord their God. As long as he lived, they did not fail to follow the Lord, the God of their ancestors.

2 Chronicles 35:1   (Read all of 2 Chronicles 35)

Josiah celebrated the Passover to the Lord in Jerusalem, and the Passover lamb was slaughtered on the fourteenth day of the first month.