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his father, and bowed neither to the right hand brought into the house of the Lord, Hilkiah the
nor to the left. 3 And in the eight yeere of his Priest found the booke of the Lawe of the Lord
reigne (when he was yet a childe) he began to giuen by the hand of Moses. 15 Therefore Hilkiah
seeke after the God of Dauid his father: and in answered and sayde to Shaphan the chaceler, I
the twelft yeere he began to purge Iudah, and haue found the booke of the Law in the house of
Ierusalem from the hie places, and the groues, the Lord: and Hilkiah gaue the booke to Shaphan.
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and the carued images, and molten images: And 16 And Shaphan caried the booke to the King, and
they brake downe in his sight the altars of Baalim, brought the King worde againe, saying, All that
and hee caused to cut downe the images that is committed to the hand of thy seruants, that
were on hie vpon them: he brake also the groues, do they. 17 For they haue gathered the money
and the carued images, and the molten images, that was found in the house of the Lord, and haue
and stampt them to pouder, and strowed it vpon deliuered it into the handes of the ouerseers, and
to the handes of the workemen.
Also Shaphan
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the graues of them that had sacrificed vnto them.
5 Also he burnt the bones of the Priests vpon ye chanceler declared to the King, saying, Hilkiah
their altars, and purged Iudah and Ierusalem. the Priest hath giuen mee a booke, and Shaphan
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6 And in the cities of Manasseh, and Ephraim, and read it before the King. And when the King
Simeon, euen vnto Naphtali, with their maules had heard the wordes of the Lawe, he tare his
And the King commanded Hilkiah,
clothes.
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they brake all round about. 7 And when he had and Ahikam the sonne of Shaphan, and Abdon
destroyed the altars and the groues, and had the sonne of Micah, and Shaphan the chanceler,
broken and stamped to pouder the images, and and Asaiah the Kings seruant, saying, 21 Goe and
had cut downe all the idoles throughout all the enquire of the Lord for me, and for the rest in
land of Israel, hee returned to Ierusalem. Then Israel and Iudah, concerning the wordes of this
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in the eightenth yere of his reigne, when hee booke that is founde: for great is the wrath of the
had purged the lande and the Temple, he sent Lord that is fallen vpon vs, because our fathers
Shaphan the sonne of Azaliah, and Maaseiah the haue not kept the worde of the Lord, to doe after
gouernour of the citie, and Ioah the sonne of 22
Ioahaz the recorder, to repaire the house of the all that is written in this booke. Then Hilkiah
and they that the King had appoynted, went to
Lord his God. 9 And when they came to Hilkiah Huldah the Prophetesse ye wife of Shallum, the
the hie Priest, they deliuered ye money that was sonne of Tokhath, the sonne of Hasrah keeper of
brought into the house of God, which the Leuites the wardrobe (and she dwelt in Ierusalem within
that kept the doore, had gathered at the hand of the colledge) and they communed hereof with
Manasseh, and Ephraim, and of all the residue of her. 23 And shee answered them, Thus sayth
Israel, and of all Iudah and Beniamin, and of the the Lord God of Israel, Tell yee the man that
inhabitantes of Ierusalem. 10 And they put it in sent you to me, 24 Thus saith the Lord, Beholde,
the hands of them that should doe the worke and I will bring euill vpon this place, and vpon the
had the ouersight in the house of the Lord: and
they gaue it to the workemen that wrought in the inhabitantes thereof, euen all the curses, that
are written in the booke which they haue read
house of ye Lord, to repaire and amend the house. before the King of Iudah: 25 Because they haue
11 Euen to the workemen and to the builders
gaue they it, to bye hewed stone and timber for forsaken me, and burnt incense vnto other gods,
couples and for beames of the houses, which the to anger mee with al the workes of their hands,
Kings of Iudah had destroyed. 12 And the men therefore shall my wrath fall vpon this place,
did the worke faithfully, and the ouerseers of and shall not be quenched. 26 But to the King of
them were Iahath and Obadiah the Leuites, of the Iudah, who sent you to enquire of the Lord, so
children of Merari, and Zechariah, and Meshul- shall ye say vnto him, Thus saith the Lord God
lam, of the children of the Kohathites to set it of Israel, The words which thou hast heard, shall
forward: and of the Leuites all that could skill of come to passe. 27 But because thine heart did
instruments of musike. 13 And they were ouer the melt, and thou didest humble thy selfe before
bearers of burdens, and them that set forwarde God, when thou heardest his wordes against this
all the workemen in euery worke: and of the place and against the inhabitantes thereof, and
Leuites were scribes, and officers and porters. humbledst thy selfe before mee and tarest thy
14 Andwhentheybroughtoutthemoneythatwas clothes, and weptest before mee, I haue also