2 Kings 23:21-27

21The king ordered all the people, “Observe the Passover of the Lord your God, as prescribed in this scroll of the covenant.”

22He issued this edict because a Passover like this had not been observed since the days of the judges; it was neglected for the entire period of the kings of Israel and Judah.

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

24Josiah also got rid of the ritual pits used to conjure up spirits, the magicians, personal idols, disgusting images, and all the detestable idols that had appeared in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem. In this way he carried out the terms of the law recorded on the scroll that Hilkiah the priest had discovered in the Lord’s temple.

25No king before or after repented before the Lord as he did, with his whole heart, soul, and being in accordance with the whole law of Moses.

26Yet the Lord’s great anger against Judah did not subside; he was still infuriated by all the things Manasseh had done.

27The Lord announced, “I will also spurn Judah, just as I spurned Israel. I will reject this city that I chose – both Jerusalem and the temple, about which I said, “I will live there.”