1Josiah was just eight when he started ruling, and he held it down in Jerusalem for thirty-one years.

2He was on that right vibe in God's eyes, walking the walk like his dad David, no cap, never strayed left or right.

3In his eighth year, while still young, he started chasing after God like David did; by year twelve, he was cleaning up Judah and Jerusalem, getting rid of those high places and idols.

4They smashed the altars of Baal right in front of him; he took down the high-key images, broke the groves and idols into dust, and scattered it on the graves of the people who sacrificed to them.

5He roasted the bones of the priests on their altars and cleaned up Judah and Jerusalem, savage move.

6He did the same in the cities of Manasseh, Ephraim, and Simeon, all the way to Naphtali, with their tools in hand.

7After tearing down all the altars and groves, grinding the images to powder, and trashing every idol in Israel, he bounced back to Jerusalem.

8In his eighteenth year, after cleaning the land and the temple, he sent Shaphan, Azaliah's son, and Maaseiah, the city governor, along with Joah, the recorder, to fix up the Lord's house.

9When they reached Hilkiah, the high priest, they dropped off the cash collected for God's house, gathered by the Levites at the doors from Manasseh, Ephraim, and all the remnant of Israel, plus Judah and Benjamin; then they headed back to Jerusalem.

10They handed it over to the workers in charge of the Lord's house, so they could repair and upgrade the temple, for real.

11They gave the builders the cash to grab some sick stones and wood for the houses that the kings of Judah wrecked.

12The crew worked hard, no cap: Jahath and Obadiah were the bosses, and they had Zechariah and Meshullam on deck to keep it lit, plus other Levites who were vibing with music skills.

13They also managed the heavy lifting and kept everything in check: Levites had scribes, officers, and porters in the mix.

14When they pulled out the cash for the Lord's crib, Hilkiah the priest found a book of the law from Moses.

15Hilkiah was like, "Yo, Shaphan, I found the law book in the Lord's house," and handed it over to him.

16Shaphan took the book to the king and told him, "All that you told your crew, they're totally on it."

17They gathered the cash found in the Lord's house and handed it over to the overseers and the workers.

18Then Shaphan told the king, "Hilkiah the priest gave me a book," and he read it to the king.

19When the king heard the law's words, he was shook and ripped his clothes.

20The king told Hilkiah, Ahikam, Abdon, Shaphan, and Asaiah, "Listen up,"

21Yo, go hit up the Lord for me and the peeps still chillin' in Israel and Judah, about the words in that book we found. The Lord's wrath is major, 'cause our fam didn’t follow His word, fr.

22Hilkiah and the crew the king sent went to Huldah, the prophetess, wifey of Shallum, who was the wardrobe keeper. She was vibin' in Jerusalem, and they told her what’s up.

23She replied, "The Lord God of Israel says, tell the dude who sent you to me,

24The Lord says, listen up, I'm about to bring some serious bad vibes on this spot and everyone here, all the curses from that book you read to the king of Judah."

25They ditched me and burned incense to other gods, trying to make me mad with their hands' work; so my wrath is gonna be lit on this place, and it won’t chill.

26And for the king of Judah who sent you to ask the Lord, tell him this: The Lord God of Israel has some words for you.

27Since your heart is soft and you lowkey humbled yourself before God when you heard His words about this place and its people, and you wept and ripped your clothes, I heard you, periodt.

28I'm gonna gather you to your fam, and you’ll be laid to rest in peace. You won’t see the bad stuff I’m about to do to this place and its people. So they went back to the king with the news.

29Then the king sent for all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem to come through.

30The king rolled up to the house of the Lord with all the men of Judah, the folks of Jerusalem, the priests, the Levites, and everyone, big and small. He read them all the words from that covenant book found in the Lord's house.

31The king stood up and made a promise to God, saying he’d vibe with Him, keep His rules, and follow His word with all his heart and soul. Major commitment, fr.

32He got everyone in Jerusalem and Benjamin to stand up for it. The peeps in Jerusalem were all about that covenant with God, no cap.

33Josiah cleared out all the bad stuff from everywhere that was linked to the Israelites and made everyone in Israel serve the Lord their God. For real, they didn’t stop following Him all his days.

1Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem one and thirty years.

2And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, and walked in the ways of David his father, and declined neither to the right hand, nor to the left.

3For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father: and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images.

4And they brake down the altars of Baalim in his presence; and the images, that were on high above them, he cut down; and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images, he brake in pieces, and made dust of them, and strowed it upon the graves of them that had sacrificed unto them.

5And he burnt the bones of the priests upon their altars, and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem.

6And so did he in the cities of Manasseh, and Ephraim, and Simeon, even unto Naphtali, with their mattocks round about.

7And when he had broken down the altars and the groves, and had beaten the graven images into powder, and cut down all the idols throughout all the land of Israel, he returned to Jerusalem.

8Now in the eighteenth year of his reign, when he had purged the land, and the house, he sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, and Maaseiah the governor of the city, and Joah the son of Joahaz the recorder, to repair the house of the Lord his God.

9And when they came to Hilkiah the high priest, they delivered the money that was brought into the house of God, which the Levites that kept the doors had gathered of the hand of Manasseh and Ephraim, and of all the remnant of Israel, and of all Judah and Benjamin; and they returned to Jerusalem.

10And they put it in the hand of the workmen that had the oversight of the house of the Lord, and they gave it to the workmen that wrought in the house of the Lord, to repair and amend the house:

11Even to the artificers and builders gave they it, to buy hewn stone, and timber for couplings, and to floor the houses which the kings of Judah had destroyed.

12And the men did the work faithfully: and the overseers of them were Jahath and Obadiah, the Levites, of the sons of Merari; and Zechariah and Meshullam, of the sons of the Kohathites, to set it forward; and other of the Levites, all that could skill of instruments of musick.

13Also they were over the bearers of burdens, and were overseers of all that wrought the work in any manner of service: and of the Levites there were scribes, and officers, and porters.

14And when they brought out the money that was brought into the house of the Lord, Hilkiah the priest found a book of the law of the Lord given by Moses.

15And Hilkiah answered and said to Shaphan the scribe, I have found the book of the law in the house of the Lord. And Hilkiah delivered the book to Shaphan.

16And Shaphan carried the book to the king, and brought the king word back again, saying, All that was committed to thy servants, they do it.

17And they have gathered together the money that was found in the house of the Lord, and have delivered it into the hand of the overseers, and to the hand of the workmen.

18Then Shaphan the scribe told the king, saying, Hilkiah the priest hath given me a book. And Shaphan read it before the king.

19And it came to pass, when the king had heard the words of the law, that he rent his clothes.

20And the king commanded Hilkiah, and Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and Abdon the son of Micah, and Shaphan the scribe, and Asaiah a servant of the king’s, saying,

21Go, enquire of the Lord for me, and for them that are left in Israel and in Judah, concerning the words of the book that is found: for great is the wrath of the Lord that is poured out upon us, because our fathers have not kept the word of the Lord, to do after all that is written in this book.

22And Hilkiah, and they that the king had appointed, went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvath, the son of Hasrah, keeper of the wardrobe; (now she dwelt in Jerusalem in the college:) and they spake to her to that effect.

23And she answered them, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Tell ye the man that sent you to me,

24Thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, and upon the inhabitants thereof, even all the curses that are written in the book which they have read before the king of Judah:

25Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the works of their hands; therefore my wrath shall be poured out upon this place, and shall not be quenched.

26And as for the king of Judah, who sent you to enquire of the Lord, so shall ye say unto him, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel concerning the words which thou hast heard;

27Because thine heart was tender, and thou didst humble thyself before God, when thou heardest his words against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, and humbledst thyself before me, and didst rend thy clothes, and weep before me; I have even heard thee also, saith the Lord.

28Behold, I will gather thee to thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered to thy grave in peace, neither shall thine eyes see all the evil that I will bring upon this place, and upon the inhabitants of the same. So they brought the king word again.

29Then the king sent and gathered together all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem.

30And the king went up into the house of the Lord, and all the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the priests, and the Levites, and all the people, great and small: and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant that was found in the house of the Lord.

31And the king stood in his place, and made a covenant before the Lord, to walk after the Lord, and to keep his commandments, and his testimonies, and his statutes, with all his heart, and with all his soul, to perform the words of the covenant which are written in this book.

32And he caused all that were present in Jerusalem and Benjamin to stand to it. And the inhabitants of Jerusalem did according to the covenant of God, the God of their fathers.

33And 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.