Were the nations whom my ancestors destroyed – the nations of Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the people of Eden in Telassar – rescued by their gods?

The king ruined Topheth in the Valley of Ben Hinnom so that no one could pass his son or his daughter through the fire to Molech.

The captain of the royal guard took Seraiah the chief priest and Zephaniah, the priest who was second in rank, and the three doorkeepers.

Josiah 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.

She said, “Did I ask my master for a son? Didn’t I say, ‘Don’t mislead me?’”

His servants took his body back to Jerusalem and buried him in his tomb with his ancestors in the city of David.

They demolished the sacred pillar of Baal and the temple of Baal; it is used as a latrine to this very day.

When he had secured control of the kingdom, he executed the servants who had assassinated his father.

Instead you must worship the Lord your God; then he will rescue you from the power of all your enemies.”

It is true, Lord, that the kings of Assyria have destroyed the nations and their lands.

When the king heard the words of the law scroll, he tore his clothes.

The king of Babylon made Mattaniah, Jehoiachin’s uncle, king in Jehoiachin’s place. He renamed him Zedekiah.

They captured the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah, where he passed sentence on him.

Nebuzaradan, captain of the royal guard, took them and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah.

Elijah replied to the captain, “If I am indeed a prophet, may fire come down from the sky and consume you and your fifty soldiers!” Fire then came down from the sky and consumed him and his fifty soldiers.

Elijah replied to them, “If I am indeed a prophet, may fire come down from the sky and consume you and your fifty soldiers!” Fire from God came down from the sky and consumed him and his fifty soldiers.

They hauled out the sacred pillar of the temple of Baal and burned it.

So Jehu eradicated Baal worship from Israel.

In the seventh year Jehoiada summoned the officers of the units of hundreds of the Carians and the royal bodyguard. He met with them in the Lord’s temple. He made an agreement with them and made them swear an oath of allegiance in the Lord’s temple. Then he showed them the king’s son.

At that time Menahem came from Tirzah and attacked Tiphsah. He struck down all who lived in the city and the surrounding territory, because they would not surrender. He even ripped open the pregnant women.