2 Kings 23:24–28

²⁴Moreover the ^uworkers with familiar spirits, and the wizards, and the images, and ^xthe idols, and all the abominations that were spied in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, did Josiah put away, that he might perform ^ythe words of the law which were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of the Lord. ^25zAnd like unto him was there no king before him, that turned to the Lord with all his heart, and with all his soul, and ^awith all his might, according to all the law of Moses; neither after him arose there any like him. ²⁶Notwithstanding the Lord turned not from the fierceness of his great wrath, wherewith his anger was kindled against Judah, ^bbecause of all the provocations that Manasseh had provoked him withal. ²⁷And the Lord said, I will remove Judah also out of my sight, as ^cI have removed Israel, and ^dwill cast off this city Jerusalem which I have chosen, and ^ethe house of which I said, My name shall be there. ²⁸Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?