2 Kings 23:1–4

Josiah Reads the Book of the Covenant

^1aThen the king sent, and they gathered to him all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem.

²And the king went up to the house of Yahweh and all the men of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem with him, and the priests and the prophets and all the people, both small and great; and ^ahe read in their hearing all the words of the book of the covenant ^bwhich was found in the house of Yahweh.

^3aThen the king stood by the pillar and cut a covenant before Yahweh, ^bto walk after Yahweh, and to keep His commandments and His testimonies and His statutes with all his heart and all his soul, to establish the words of this covenant that were written in this book. And all the people ¹entered into the covenant.

⁴Then the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest and ^athe priests of the second order and the ¹doorkeepers, ^bto bring out of the temple of Yahweh all the vessels that were made for Baal, for ²Asherah, and for all the host of heaven; and ^che burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron, and carried their ashes to Bethel.