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2 Chronicles 34-36New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) Reign of Josiah 34 Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign; he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem. 2 He did what was right in the sight of the Lord, and walked in the ways of his ancestor David; he did not turn aside to the right or to the left. 3 For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was still a boy, he began to seek the God of his ancestor David, and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, the sacred poles, and the carved and the cast images. 4 In his presence they pulled down the altars of the Baals; he demolished the incense altars that stood above them. He broke down the sacred poles and the carved and the cast images; he made dust of them and scattered it over the graves of those who had sacrificed to them. 5 He also burned the bones of the priests on their altars, and purged Judah and Jerusalem. 6 In the towns of Manasseh, Ephraim, and Simeon, and as far as Naphtali, in their ruins all around, 7 he broke down the altars, beat the sacred poles and the images into powder, and demolished all the incense altars throughout all the land of Israel. Then he returned to Jerusalem. Discovery of the Book of the Law 8 In the eighteenth year of his reign, when he had purged the land and the house, he sent Shaphan son of Azaliah, Maaseiah the governor of the city, and Joah son of Joahaz, the recorder, to repair the house of the Lord his God. 9 They came to the high priest Hilkiah and delivered the money that had been brought into the house of God, which the Levites, the keepers of the threshold, had collected from Manasseh and Ephraim and from all the remnant of Israel and from all Judah and Benjamin and from the inhabitants of Jerusalem. 10 They delivered it to the workers who had the oversight of the house of the Lord, and the workers who were working in the house of the Lord gave it for repairing and restoring the house. 11 They gave it to the carpenters and the builders to buy quarried stone, and timber for binders, and beams for the buildings that the kings of Judah had let go to ruin. 12 The people did the work faithfully. Over them were appointed the Levites Jahath and Obadiah, of the sons of Merari, along with Zechariah and Meshullam, of the sons of the Kohathites, to have oversight. Other Levites, all skillful with instruments of music, 13 were over the burden bearers and directed all who did work in every kind of service; and some of the Levites were scribes, and officials, and gatekeepers. 14 While they were bringing out the money that had been brought into the house of the Lord, the priest Hilkiah found the book of the law of the Lord given through Moses. 15 Hilkiah said to the secretary Shaphan, “I have found the book of the law in the house of the Lord”; and Hilkiah gave the book to Shaphan. 16 Shaphan brought the book to the king, and further reported to the king, “All that was committed to your servants they are doing. 17 They have emptied out the money that was found in the house of the Lord and have delivered it into the hand of the overseers and the workers.” 18 The secretary Shaphan informed the king, “The priest Hilkiah has given me a book.” Shaphan then read it aloud to the king. 19 When the king heard the words of the law he tore his clothes. 20 Then the king commanded Hilkiah, Ahikam son of Shaphan, Abdon son of Micah, the secretary Shaphan, and the king’s servant Asaiah: 21 “Go, inquire of the Lord for me and for those who are left in Israel and in Judah, concerning the words of the book that has been found; for the wrath of the Lord that is poured out on us is great, because our ancestors did not keep the word of the Lord, to act in accordance with all that is written in this book.” The Prophet Huldah Consulted 22 So Hilkiah and those whom the king had sent went to the prophet Huldah, the wife of Shallum son of Tokhath son of Hasrah, keeper of the wardrobe (who lived in Jerusalem in the Second Quarter) and spoke to her to that effect. 23 She declared to them, “Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: Tell the man who sent you to me, 24 Thus says the Lord: I will indeed bring disaster upon this place and upon its inhabitants, all the curses that are written in the book that was read before the king of Judah. 25 Because they have forsaken me and have made offerings to other gods, so that they have provoked me to anger with all the works of their hands, my wrath will be poured out on this place and will not be quenched. 26 But as to the king of Judah, who sent you to inquire of the Lord, thus shall you say to him: Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: Regarding the words that you have heard, 27 because your heart was penitent and you humbled yourself before God when you heard his words against this place and its inhabitants, and you have humbled yourself before me, and have torn your clothes and wept before me, I also have heard you, says the Lord. 28 I will gather you to your ancestors and you shall be gathered to your grave in peace; your eyes shall not see all the disaster that I will bring on this place and its inhabitants.” They took the message back to the king. The Covenant Renewed 29 Then the king sent word and gathered together all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem. 30 The king went up to the house of the Lord, with all the people of Judah, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the priests and the Levites, all the people both great and small; he read in their hearing all the words of the book of the covenant that had been found in the house of the Lord. 31 The king stood in his place and made a covenant before the Lord, to follow the Lord, keeping his commandments, his decrees, and his statutes, with all his heart and all his soul, to perform the words of the covenant that were written in this book. 32 Then he made all who were present in Jerusalem and in Benjamin pledge themselves to it. And the inhabitants of Jerusalem acted according to the covenant of God, the God of their ancestors. 33 Josiah took away all the abominations from all the territory that belonged to the people of Israel, and made all who were in Israel worship the Lord their God. All his days they did not turn away from following the Lord the God of their ancestors. Celebration of the Passover 35 Josiah kept a passover to the Lord in Jerusalem; they slaughtered the passover lamb on the fourteenth day of the first month. 2 He appointed the priests to their offices and encouraged them in the service of the house of the Lord. 3 He said to the Levites who taught all Israel and who were holy to the Lord, “Put the holy ark in the house that Solomon son of David, king of Israel, built; you need no longer carry it on your shoulders. Now serve the Lord your God and his people Israel. 4 Make preparations by your ancestral houses by your divisions, following the written directions of King David of Israel and the written directions of his son Solomon. 5 Take position in the holy place according to the groupings of the ancestral houses of your kindred the people, and let there be Levites for each division of an ancestral house. 6 Slaughter the passover lamb, sanctify yourselves, and on behalf of your kindred make preparations, acting according to the word of the Lord by Moses.” 7 Then Josiah contributed to the people, as passover offerings for all that were present, lambs and kids from the flock to the number of thirty thousand, and three thousand bulls; these were from the king’s possessions. 8 His officials contributed willingly to the people, to the priests, and to the Levites. Hilkiah, Zechariah, and Jehiel, the chief officers of the house of God, gave to the priests for the passover offerings two thousand six hundred lambs and kids and three hundred bulls. 9 Conaniah also, and his brothers Shemaiah and Nethanel, and Hashabiah and Jeiel and Jozabad, the chiefs of the Levites, gave to the Levites for the passover offerings five thousand lambs and kids and five hundred bulls. 10 When the service had been prepared for, the priests stood in their place, and the Levites in their divisions according to the king’s command. 11 They slaughtered the passover lamb, and the priests dashed the blood that they received from them, while the Levites did the skinning. 12 They set aside the burnt offerings so that they might distribute them according to the groupings of the ancestral houses of the people, to offer to the Lord, as it is written in the book of Moses. And they did the same with the bulls. 13 They roasted the passover lamb with fire according to the ordinance; and they boiled the holy offerings in pots, in caldrons, and in pans, and carried them quickly to all the people. 14 Afterward they made preparations for themselves and for the priests, because the priests the descendants of Aaron were occupied in offering the burnt offerings and the fat parts until night; so the Levites made preparations for themselves and for the priests, the descendants of Aaron. 15 The singers, the descendants of Asaph, were in their place according to the command of David, and Asaph, and Heman, and the king’s seer Jeduthun. The gatekeepers were at each gate; they did not need to interrupt their service, for their kindred the Levites made preparations for them. 16 So all the service of the Lord was prepared that day, to keep the passover and to offer burnt offerings on the altar of the Lord, according to the command of King Josiah. 17 The people of Israel who were present kept the passover at that time, and the festival of unleavened bread seven days. 18 No passover like it had been kept in Israel since the days of the prophet Samuel; none of the kings of Israel had kept such a passover as was kept by Josiah, by the priests and the Levites, by all Judah and Israel who were present, and by the inhabitants of Jerusalem. 19 In the eighteenth year of the reign of Josiah this passover was kept. Defeat by Pharaoh Neco and Death of Josiah 20 After all this, when Josiah had set the temple in order, King Neco of Egypt went up to fight at Carchemish on the Euphrates, and Josiah went out against him. 21 But Neco sent envoys to him, saying, “What have I to do with you, king of Judah? I am not coming against you today, but against the house with which I am at war; and God has commanded me to hurry. Cease opposing God, who is with me, so that he will not destroy you.” 22 But Josiah would not turn away from him, but disguised himself in order to fight with him. He did not listen to the words of Neco from the mouth of God, but joined battle in the plain of Megiddo. 23 The archers shot King Josiah; and the king said to his servants, “Take me away, for I am badly wounded.” 24 So his servants took him out of the chariot and carried him in his second chariot and brought him to Jerusalem. There he died, and was buried in the tombs of his ancestors. All Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah. 25 Jeremiah also uttered a lament for Josiah, and all the singing men and singing women have spoken of Josiah in their laments to this day. They made these a custom in Israel; they are recorded in the Laments. 26 Now the rest of the acts of Josiah and his faithful deeds in accordance with what is written in the law of the Lord, 27 and his acts, first and last, are written in the Book of the Kings of Israel and Judah. Reign of Jehoahaz 36 The people of the land took Jehoahaz son of Josiah and made him king to succeed his father in Jerusalem. 2 Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he began to reign; he reigned three months in Jerusalem. 3 Then the king of Egypt deposed him in Jerusalem and laid on the land a tribute of one hundred talents of silver and one talent of gold. 4 The king of Egypt made his brother Eliakim king over Judah and Jerusalem, and changed his name to Jehoiakim; but Neco took his brother Jehoahaz and carried him to Egypt. Reign and Captivity of Jehoiakim 5 Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he began to reign; he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. He did what was evil in the sight of the Lord his God. 6 Against him King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon came up, and bound him with fetters to take him to Babylon. 7 Nebuchadnezzar also carried some of the vessels of the house of the Lord to Babylon and put them in his palace in Babylon. 8 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and the abominations that he did, and what was found against him, are written in the Book of the Kings of Israel and Judah; and his son Jehoiachin succeeded him. Reign and Captivity of Jehoiachin 9 Jehoiachin was eight years old when he began to reign; he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem. He did what was evil in the sight of the Lord. 10 In the spring of the year King Nebuchadnezzar sent and brought him to Babylon, along with the precious vessels of the house of the Lord, and made his brother Zedekiah king over Judah and Jerusalem. Reign of Zedekiah 11 Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he began to reign; he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. 12 He did what was evil in the sight of the Lord his God. He did not humble himself before the prophet Jeremiah who spoke from the mouth of the Lord. 13 He also rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God; he stiffened his neck and hardened his heart against turning to the Lord, the God of Israel. 14 All the leading priests and the people also were exceedingly unfaithful, following all the abominations of the nations; and they polluted the house of the Lord that he had consecrated in Jerusalem. The Fall of Jerusalem 15 The Lord, the God of their ancestors, sent persistently to them by his messengers, because he had compassion on his people and on his dwelling place; 16 but they kept mocking the messengers of God, despising his words, and scoffing at his prophets, until the wrath of the Lord against his people became so great that there was no remedy. 17 Therefore he brought up against them the king of the Chaldeans, who killed their youths with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion on young man or young woman, the aged or the feeble; he gave them all into his hand. 18 All the vessels of the house of God, large and small, and the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the treasures of the king and of his officials, all these he brought to Babylon. 19 They burned the house of God, broke down the wall of Jerusalem, burned all its palaces with fire, and destroyed all its precious vessels. 20 He took into exile in Babylon those who had escaped from the sword, and they became servants to him and to his sons until the establishment of the kingdom of Persia, 21 to fulfill the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had made up for its sabbaths. All the days that it lay desolate it kept sabbath, to fulfill seventy years. Cyrus Proclaims Liberty for the Exiles 22 In the first year of King Cyrus of Persia, in fulfillment of the word of the Lord spoken by Jeremiah, the Lord stirred up the spirit of King Cyrus of Persia so that he sent a herald throughout all his kingdom and also declared in a written edict: 23 “Thus says King Cyrus of Persia: The Lord, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth, and he has charged me to build him a house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Whoever is among you of all his people, may the Lord his God be with him! Let him go up.”
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2 इतिहास 34Nepali Bible: Easy-to-Read Version (ERV-NE) योशियाह यहूदाका राजा 34 योशियाह आठ बर्ष पुगेका थिए जब तिनी राजा भए। तिनी एकतीस बर्षसम्म यरूशलेममा राजा थिए। 2 योशियाहले त्यही गरे जो सही थियो। परमप्रभुले चाहनु भएका कुराहरू नै तिनले गरे। तिनले तिनका पुर्खा दाऊदले जस्तै राम्रा कुराहरू गरे। योशियाहले उचित कुराहरू गर्नबाट मुख मोडेनन्। 3 जब योशियाह उसको राज्यको आठौं बर्षमा पुगेका थिए तिनले परमेश्वरको अनुशरण गर्न शुरू गरे जसलाई तिनका पुर्खा दाऊदले अनुशरण गरेका थिए। योशियाह अझ सानै थिए जब तिनले परमेश्वरलाई पछ्याउन शुरू गरे। जब योशियाह उनी राजा राज्यको बाह्रौं बर्षमा थिए तिनले उच्च स्थानहरू, अशेरा स्तम्भहरू अनि मूर्तिहरू जो कुँदिएका थिए, अनि मूर्तिहरू जो यहूदा अनि यरूशलेमका साँचाहरूबाट निर्माण गरिएका थिए सबै नष्ट गर्न शुरू गरे। 4 मानिसहरूले बाल देवताहरूका वेदीहरू भत्काइदिए। तिनीहरूले योशियाहका सामुन्ने यसो गरे। तब योशियाहले धूप वेदीहरू काटिदिए जो वेदीमाथि बाललाई अर्पण गरेका थिए। उसले मूर्तिहरू जो कुँदिएका थिए अनि मूर्तिहरू जो साँचोमा ढालेर निर्माण गरिएका थिए, भत्काइदिए। तिनले ती मूर्तिहरूलाई धूलो-पीठो पारिदिए। तब योशियाहले त्यो पीठो ती मानिसहरूका चिहानहरूमा छर्किदिए जसले बाल देवताहरूलाई बलिहरू चढाएका थिए। 5 योशियाहले ती पूजाहारीहरूका हाडहरू पनि जलाइदिए जसले आफ्नै वेदीमा बाल देवताहरूको सेवा गरेका थिए। यस्तै प्रकार योशियाले यहूदा अनि यरूशलेमलाई शुद्ध पारे। 6 योशियाहले मनश्शे, एप्रैम, शिमोन देखि नप्ताली सम्मका इलाकाका शहरहरूमा पनि यसै गरे। 7 योशियाहले वेदीहरू अनि अशेरा स्तम्भहरू भत्काइदिए। तिनले मूर्तिहरूलाई धूलो पीठो पारिदिए। तिनले इस्राएल देश भरि बाल पूजाका निम्ति प्रयोग गरिएका धूप वेदीहरू भत्काई दिए। त्यसपछि योशियाह यरूशलेम फर्केर गए। 8 जब योशियाह यहूदाका राजाका रूपमा अठाह्रौ बर्षमा थिए तिनले शापान, मासेयाह अनि योआहलाई तिनका परमप्रभु परमेश्वरको मन्दिरलाई फेरि निर्माण अनि स्थापना गर्नु भनी पठाए। शापानका पिताको नाउँ अजलियाह थियो। मासेयाह शहरका प्रमुख थिए, अनि योआहका पिताको नाउँ योआहाश थियो। योआहाश त्यही मानिस थिए जसले जे कुराहरू घटे ती लेखे। यसरी योशियाहले मन्दिरलाई स्थापना गर्ने आदेश दिए जसद्वारा तिनले यहूदा अनि मन्दिरलाइ शुद्ध तुल्याउन सकून्। 9 ती मानिसहरू हिल्कियाह, प्रधान पूजाहारी कहाँ आए। तिनीहरूले तिनलाई धन दिए जो मानिसहरूले परमेश्वरका मन्दिरका निम्ति दिएका थिए। लेवी द्वारपालहरूले मनश्शे, एप्रैमका मानिसहरूबाट अनि रहेका सबै इस्राएलीबाट धनसँग्रह गरेका थिए। तिनीहरूले यो धन यहूदा, बिन्यामीन अनि यरूशलेममा बस्ने समस्त मानिसहरूबाट पनि सँग्रह गरेका थिए। 10 तब लेवीहरूले ती मानिसहरूलाई पैसा भुक्तानी गरे जसले परमप्रभुको मन्दिरको काम रेख-देख गरे। अनि रेख-देख गर्नेहरूले कर्मीहरूलाई भुक्तानी गरे जसले परमप्रभुको मन्दिर स्थापित गरे। 11 तिनीहरूले धन सिकर्मी अनि निर्माण कर्त्ताहरूलाई ठूला ढुङ्गाहरू किन्न जो अघिनै काटि राखेका थिए अनि काठहरू किन्न भनी दिए। काठहरू मन्दिरहरूलाई फेरि निर्माण गर्न अनि मन्दिरहरूका निम्ति आड दिने काठ बनाउनमा प्रयोग गरिए। विगत समयमा यहूदाका राजाहरूले मन्दिरहरूको वास्ता गरेका थिएनन्। ती मन्दिरहरू पुराना अनि ध्वस्त भएका थिए। 12-13 मानिसहरूले विश्वास पूर्वक काम गरे। तिनीहरूका निरीक्षकहरू पहत अनि ओबदियाह थिए। यहत अनि ओबदियाह लेवीहरू थिए, अनि तिनीहरू मरारीका सन्तान थिए। अन्य निरीक्षकहरू जकर्याह अनि मशुल्लाम थिए। तिनीहरू कहातका सन्तानहरू थिए। लेवीहरू जो संङ्गीतका वाध्य यन्त्रहरू बजाउनमा सिपालु थिए तिनीहरूले श्रमिकहरूको र अन्य सबै कर्मीहरूको निरिक्षण पनि गर्दथे। केही लेवीहरूले सचिव, अधिकारी अनि द्वारापालहरूको रूपमा काम गर्दथे। व्यवस्थाको पुस्तक पाए 14 लेवीहरूले त्यो धन बाहिर निकाले जो परमप्रभुको मन्दिरमा थियो। त्यस समयमा पूजाहारी हिल्कियाहले परमप्रभुको व्यवस्थाको पुस्तक पाए जो मोशाद्वारा दिइएको थियो। 15 हिल्कियाहले सचिव शापानलाई भने, “मैले व्यवस्थाको पुस्तक परमप्रभुको मन्दिरमा पाएँ।” हिल्कियाहले त्यो पुस्तक शापानलाई दिए। 16 शापानले त्यो पुस्तक राजा योशियाह कहाँ ल्याए। शापानले राजालाई सूचना दिए, “तपाईंका सेवकहरूले तपाईंले तिनीहरूलाई गर्नु भन्नु भएका हरेक कुराहरू गरिरहेका छन्। 17 तिनीहरूले त्यो धन निकाले जो परमप्रभुको मन्दिरमा थियो अनि तिनीहरूले धन निरीक्षकहरू अनि कर्मीहरूलाई भुक्तानी गर्दै छन्।” 18 तब शापानले राजा योशियाहलाई भने, “पूजाहारी हिल्कियाहले मलाई एउटा पुस्तक दिएका छन्।” तब शापानले पुस्तकबाट पढे। तिनी पढ्दै गर्दा राजाका सामुन्ने थिए। 19 जब राजा योशियाहले पढिएको व्यवस्थाका शब्दहरू सुने, तिनले तिनका बस्त्रहरू च्याते। 20 तब राजाले हिल्कियाह, शापानका छोरा अहीकम, मीकाका छोरा अब्दोन, सचिव शापान अनि सेवक असायालाई एक आदेश दिए। 21 राजाले भने, “जाऊ, मेरा निम्ति अनि मानिसहरूका निम्ति जो इस्राएल अनि यहूदामा रहेका छन्, परमप्रभु सित याचना गर। ती पुस्तकका शब्दहरूको बारेमा जो पाइएको थियो, सोध। परमप्रभु हामी सित अत्यन्त क्रोधित हुनुहुन्छ किनभने हाम्रा पुर्खाहरूले परमप्रभुको बचनको पालन गरेनन्। तिनीहरूले यो पुस्तकले गर्नु भनेका सबै कुराहरू गरेनन्।” 22 हिल्कियाह अनि राजाका सेवकहरू अगमवादिनी हुल्दा कहाँ गए। हुल्दा शल्लूमकी पत्नी थिइन्। शल्लूम तोखतका छोरा थिए। तोखत हसराका छोरा थिए। शल्लूम राज-बस्त्रहरूको हेरचाह गर्दथे। हुल्दा यरूशलेमको नयाँ अंशमा बस्थीन्। हिल्किया अनि सेवकहरूले हुल्दालाई सबै कुरा भने जो भइसकेको थियो। 23 हुल्दाले तिनीहरूलाई भनीन्, “इस्राएलका परमप्रभु परमेश्वर जे भन्नुहुन्छ त्यो यो होः राजा योशियाहलाई भनः 24 ‘म यो स्थानमा अनि यहाँ बस्ने मानिसहरू माथि दुःख कष्ट ल्याइदिनेछु। म ती सबै भयानक कुराहरू ल्याउनेछु जो त्यो पुस्तकमा लेखिएका छन् जसलाई यहूदाका राजाको सामुन्ने पढिएको थियो। 25 म यसो गर्नेछु किनभने मानिसहरूले मलाई त्याग गरे अनि अन्य देवताहरूलाई धूप बाले। ती मानिसहरूले मलाई क्रोधित तुल्याए किनभने तिनीहरूले सबै नराम्रा कुराहरू गरेका छन्। यसर्थ म यो स्थान माथि मेरो क्रोध पोखाउने छु। तातो बल्दो आगो जस्तै मेरो क्रोधलाई निभाउन सकिने छैन।’ 26 “‘तर यो कुरा यहूदाका राजा योशियाहलाई भन जसले तिमीहरूलाई परमप्रभु सित सोध्नु पठाउनुभयो यही परमप्रभु इस्राएलका परमेश्वर तिमीहरूले सुनेक वचनहरू बारेमा भन्नुहुन्छ। 27 योशियाह जब तैंले यो भूमि अनि बासिन्दाहरूको विषयमा कुराहरू सुनिस् तैंले आफैंलाई नम्र बनाइस् अनि तेरो लुगाहरू च्यातिस्। तँ मेरो सामुन्ने रोइस् अनि मैले यो सुने यसकारण तेरो हृदय कोमल छ। 28 म तँलाई तेरो पिता-पुर्खाहरू कहाँ लाने छु। तँ तेरो चिहानमा शान्तिसित जाने छस्। तैंले कुनै पनि दुःख कष्टहरू देख्नु पर्ने छैन जो म यो स्थान माथि अनि यहाँ बस्ने मानिसहरू माथि ल्याउने छु।’” हिल्कियाह अनि राजाका सेवकहरू यो संन्देश लिएर राजा योशियाह कहाँ फर्के। 29 तब राजा योशियाहले यहूदा अनि यरूशलेमका सबै अग्रज मानिसहरूलाई आउनु अनि तिनीसित भेट्नु भनी बोलाए। 30 राजा परमप्रभुको मन्दिर सम्म गए। यहूदाका सबै मानिसहरू, अनि यरूशलेममा बस्ने मानिसहरू, पूजाहारीहरू लेवीहरू अनि सबै मुख्य अनि साधरण मानिसहरू योशियाहसाथ थिए। योशियाहले तिनीहरूलाई करारको पुस्तकमा भएका सबै कुराहरू पढेर सुनाए। त्यो पुस्तक परमप्रभुको मन्दिरमा पाइएको थियो। 31 तब राजा आफ्ना स्थानमा उभिए। तिनले परमप्रभुसित करार गरे। तिनी परमप्रभुको अनुशरण गर्न अनि परमप्रभुको आदेश, नियम, विधिहरू पालन गर्न सहमत भए। योशियाहले आफ्नो सम्पूर्ण हृदय अनि आत्माद्वारा आज्ञा पालन गर्न सहमत भए। तिनी यो पुस्तकमा लेखिएका करारका कुराहरू पालन गर्न सहमत भए। 32 तब योशियाहले यरूशलेम अनि बिन्यामीनका सबै मानिसहरूलाई करार स्वीकार गर्न प्रतिज्ञा गराए। यरूशलेमका मानिसहरूले परमेश्वरको आज्ञापालन गरे, जसरी तिनीहरूका पिता-पुर्खाहरूले परमेश्वरलाई पछ्याएका थिए। 33 इस्राएलका मानिसहरू सित बिभिन्न देशका मूर्तिहरू थिए। तर योशियाहले ती भयानक मूर्तिहरू सबै ध्वस्त गरिदिए। योशियाहले इस्राएलका सबै मानिसहरूलाई परमप्रभु तिनीहरूका परमेश्वरको सेवा गर्न लगाए। अनि जब सम्म योशियाह जीवित थिए तब सम्म मानिसहरूले तिनीहरूका पुर्खाहरूका परमप्रभु परमेश्वरको सेवा गरिरहे।