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2 Kings 21
²⁰ He did evil in the sight of the Lord, as Manasseh his father had done.
²¹ For he walked in all the way that his father had walked, and served the idols that his father had served and worshiped them.
²² So he forsook the Lord, the God of his fathers, and did not walk in the way of the Lord.
²³ The servants of Amon conspired against him and killed the king in his own house.
²⁴ Then the people of the land killed all those who had conspired against King Amon, and the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his place.
²⁵ Now the rest of the acts of Amon which he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?
²⁶ He was buried in his grave in the garden of Uzza, and Josiah his son became king in his place.
2 Kings 22
¹ Josiah was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem; and his mother’s name was Jedidah the daughter of Adaiah of Bozkath.
² He did right in the sight of the Lord and walked in all the way of his father David, nor did he turn aside to the right or to the left.
³ Now in the eighteenth year of King Josiah, the king sent Shaphan, the son of Azaliah the son of Meshullam the scribe, to the house of the Lord saying,
⁴ "Go up to Hilkiah the high priest that he may count the money brought in to the house of the Lord which the doorkeepers have gathered from the people.