²³ But in King Josiah’s eighteenth year, this Passover to the Lord was observed in Jerusalem. ²⁴ Josiah destroyed^[a] the mediums and spiritists, the household gods, the filthy idols, and all the detestable idols which were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, in order to comply with the words of the law, which were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest had found in the House of the Lord.

Summary

²⁵ Before 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 after him no one like him arose.