And the king went up to the house of the Lord, and with him all the men of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem and the priests and the prophets, all the people, both small and great. And (A)he read in their hearing all the words of the Book of the Covenant (B)that had been found in the house of the Lord. And the king stood (C)by the pillar and (D)made a covenant before the Lord, (E)to walk after the Lord and to keep his commandments and his testimonies and his statutes with all his heart and all his soul, to perform the words of this covenant that were written in this book. And all the people joined in the covenant.

And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest and the priests (F)of the second order and the keepers of the threshold to bring out of the temple of the Lord all the vessels made for (G)Baal, for (H)Asherah, and for all the host of heaven. (I)He burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron and carried their ashes to Bethel.

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