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2 Chronicles 34:29–33, “Then the king sent and gathered together all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem. And 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. And 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. And 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. 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.”
Josiah knew that Judah had disobeyed the Lord and he did what he could to prevent this from happening in the future. He gathered the people together and read the book of the Law to them so that no one would have an excuse for not knowing what was written in that book. Josiah promised that he would keep the Law and told the people that they should make the same promise before God. Josiah went through the Land again and made sure that anything left over from the worship of strange gods was removed from the Land. After that, all Judah followed the Lord as long as Josiah was king.
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