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22 From the days of the judges who ruled in Israel, no Passover had been celebrated like this, not even in all the reigns of the kings of Israel and the kings of Judah. 23 In the eighteenth year of the reign of[a] King Josiah, this Passover was observed in Jerusalem to honor the Lord. 24 Furthermore, Josiah removed the mediums, the necromancers, the household gods,[b] the idols, and every despicable thing that could be seen in the territory of Judah and in Jerusalem, so that he might confirm the words of the Law that had been written in the book that Hilkiah the priest had discovered in the Lord’s Temple.

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  1. 2 Kings 23:23 The Heb. lacks the reign of
  2. 2 Kings 23:24 Lit. the teraphim