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22 (A)For such a Passover had not been celebrated from the days of the judges who judged Israel, nor in all the days of the kings of Israel and of the kings of Judah. 23 But in the eighteenth year of King Josiah, this Passover was celebrated to Yahweh in Jerusalem.

24 Moreover, (B)the mediums and the spiritists and the (C)teraphim and (D)the idols and all the detestable things that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, Josiah purged in order (E)that he might [a]establish the words of the law which were written (F)in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of Yahweh.

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  1. 2 Kings 23:24 Or perform

22 Neither in the days of the judges who led Israel nor in the days of the kings of Israel and the kings of Judah had any such Passover been observed. 23 But in the eighteenth year of King Josiah, this Passover was celebrated to the Lord in Jerusalem.(A)

24 Furthermore, Josiah got rid of the mediums and spiritists,(B) the household gods,(C) the idols and all the other detestable(D) 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.

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