2 Kings 23:21-27

21The king commanded all the people, “Observe the Passover of the Lord your God as written in the book of the covenant.”

22No such Passover had ever been observed from the time of the judges who judged Israel through the entire time of the kings of Israel and Judah.

23But in the eighteenth year of King Josiah, the Lord’s Passover was observed in Jerusalem.

24In addition, Josiah eradicated the mediums, the spiritists, household idols, images, and all the abhorrent things that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem. He did this in order to carry out the words of the law that were written in the book that the priest Hilkiah found in the Lord’s temple.

25Before him there was no king like him who turned to the Lord with all his heart and with all his soul and with all his strength according to all the law of Moses, and no one like him arose after him.

26In spite of all that, the Lord did not turn from the fury of his intense burning anger, which burned against Judah because of all the affronts with which Manasseh had angered him.

27For the Lord had said, “I will also remove Judah from my presence just as I have removed Israel. I will reject this city Jerusalem, that I have chosen, and the temple about which I said, ‘My name will be there.’”