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¶ He remooued the high places, and brake the images, and cut downe the groues, and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made: for vnto those dayes the children of Israel did burne incense to it: and he called it Nehushtan.

1611 marginal noteHeb. statues.

1611 marginal noteNumb. 21.8.

And he brake in pieces the images, and cut downe the groues, and filled their places with the bones of men.

1611 marginal noteHeb. statues.

¶ Moreouer the workers with familiar spirits, and the wizards, and the images, and the idoles, and all the abominations that were spied in the land of Iudah, and in Ierusalem, did Iosiah put away, that he might performe the wordes of the lawe, which were written in the booke that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of the LORD.

1611 marginal noteOr, Teraphim.

1611 marginal noteLeuit. 20.27. deut. 18.11.

For hee tooke away the altars of the strange gods, and the high places, and brake downe the images, and cut downe the groues:

1611 marginal noteHebr. statues.

Also he tooke away out of all the cities of Iudah, the high places and the images: and the kingdome was quiet before him.

1611 marginal noteHeb. Sun-images.

Then all the people went to the house of Baal, and brake it downe, and brake his altars and his images in pieces, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars.

1611 marginal noteDeut. 13.13,9.

For he walked in the wayes of the Kings of Israel, and made also molten images for Baalim.

¶ Now when all this was finished, all Israel that were present, went out to the cities of Iudah, and brake the images in pieces, and cut downe the groues, and threw downe the high places and the altars out of all Iudah and Beniamin, in Ephraim also and Manasseh, vntill they had vtterly destroyed them all. Then all the children of Israel returned euery man to his possession into their owne cities.

1611 marginal noteHeb. found.

1611 marginal noteHebr. statues.

1611 marginal noteHeb. vntill to make an end.

1611 marginal note2.King. 18.4.

His prayer also, and how God was intreated of him, and all his sinne, and his trespasse, and the places wherein he built high places, and set vp groues and grauen images before hee was humbled: behold, they are written among the sayings of the Seers.

1611 marginal noteOr, Hosai.

But he did that which was euill in the sight of the LORD, as did Manasseh his father: for Amon sacrificed vnto all the carued images, which Manasseh his father had made, and serued them;