When he had broken down the altars and the wooden images, had (A)beaten the carved images into powder, and cut down all the incense altars throughout all the land of Israel, he returned to Jerusalem.

Hilkiah Finds the Book of the Law(B)

(C)In the eighteenth year of his reign, when he had purged the land and the [a]temple, he sent (D)Shaphan the son of Azaliah, Maaseiah the (E)governor of the city, and Joah the son of Joahaz the recorder, to repair the house of the Lord his God. When they came to Hilkiah the high priest, they delivered (F)the money that was brought into the house of God, which the Levites who kept the doors had gathered from the hand of Manasseh and Ephraim, from all the (G)remnant of Israel, from all Judah and Benjamin, and which they had brought back to Jerusalem.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 34:8 Lit. house

And 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.

Now 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.

And 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.

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Destruiu os santuários idólatras e os postes de Aserá, reduziu os ídolos a pó e despedaçou todos os altares de incenso em toda a terra de Israel. Por fim, voltou a Jerusalém.

No décimo oitavo ano do reinado de Josias, depois de ele purificar a terra e o templo, nomeou Safã, filho de Azalias, Maaseias, governador de Jerusalém, e Joá, filho de Joacaz, o historiador do reino, para restaurarem o templo do Senhor, seu Deus. Eles entregaram ao sumo sacerdote Hilquias a prata recolhida pelos levitas que guardavam as portas do templo de Deus. As ofertas foram trazidas pelo povo de Manassés, de Efraim e de todo o remanescente de Israel, bem como de Judá e de Benjamim, e pelos habitantes de Jerusalém.

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