2 Kings 23:23

but in the eighteenth year of King Josiah, this Passover was kept to the LORD in Jerusalem.

World English Bible British with Deuterocanon

In The King James Version

But in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, wherein this passover was holden to the LORD in Jerusalem.

In Context

22Surely there was not kept such a Passover from the days of the judges who judged Israel, nor in all the days of the kings of Israel, nor of the kings of Judah;

24Moreover, Josiah removed those who had familiar spirits, the wizards, and the teraphim, and the idols, and all the abominations that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, that he might confirm the words of the law which were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the LORD’s house.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 16:7You shall roast and eat it in the place which the LORD your God chooses. In the morning you shall return to your tents.

Matthew Henry on 2 Kings 23:5-25

Josiah Reforms Judah. ( b. c. 623.) 4 And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the door, to bring forth out of the temple of the Lord all the vessels that were made for Baal, and for the grove, and for all the host of heaven: and he burned them without Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, and carried the ashes of them unto Beth-el. 5 And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the… Read the whole commentary →

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