2 Chronicles 34:33

Translations

Modern

And Josiah removed all the abominations from all the lands belonging to the Israelites, and he required everyone in Israel to serve the LORD their God. Throughout his reign they did not turn aside from following the LORD, the God of their fathers.

Traditional

And Josiah took away all the abominations out of all the countries that pertained to the children of Israel, and made all that were present in Israel to serve, even to serve the Lord their God. And all his days they departed not from following the Lord, the God of their fathers.

Literal

And Josiah turned aside all the abominations that made serve the sons of Israel from all the lands, and caused all found in Israel to serve YHWH their God. All his days they did not depart from following YHWH, God of their fathers.

Latin

Abstulit ergo Josias cunctas abominationes de universis regionibus filiorum Israël: et fecit omnes qui residui erant in Israël, servire Domino Deo suo. Cunctis diebus ejus non recesserunt a Domino Deo patrum suorum.

Original

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English

And Josiah removed all the abominations from all the lands belonging to the Israelites, and he required everyone in Israel to serve the LORD their God. Throughout his reign they did not turn aside from following the LORD, the God of their fathers.

Notes

Theme notes and profiles

Josiah God’s Plan to Restore

Related verses

2 Chronicles 34:3–7
In the eighth year of his reign, while he was still young, Josiah began to seek the God of his father David, and in the twelfth year he began to cleanse Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, the Asherah poles, the carved idols, and the cast images.
Joshua 24:31
Israel had served the LORD throughout the days of Joshua and of the elders who outlived him and who had experienced all the works that the LORD had done for Israel.
Hosea 6:4
What shall I do with you, O Ephraim? What shall I do with you, O Judah? For your loyalty is like a morning mist, like the early dew that vanishes.
1 Kings 11:5–7
Solomon followed Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians and Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.
Jeremiah 3:10
Yet in spite of all this, her unfaithful sister Judah did not return to Me with all her heart, but only in pretense,” declares the LORD.
2 Kings 23:4–20
Then the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, the priests second in rank, and the doorkeepers to remove from the temple of the LORD all the articles made for Baal, Asherah, and all the host of heaven. And he burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron and carried their ashes to Bethel.

Parallels

2 Kings 23:1–3

People

Israel: Patriarch, son of Isaac, father of twelve tribes Josiah: King of Judah known for his religious reforms

Glossary

Book of the Covenant Chronicles, Books of First and Second Genealogy Kohath, Kohathites Merari, Merarite

Topics

Church and State: State Superior to Religion: Josiah, in Exercising the Function of the Priests in the Temple Josiah: King of Judah: Solicitude when the Copy of the Law Was Discovered and Read to Him Religious Zeal: Josiah

2 Chronicles 34:33

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