Bible Verses About Zeal: Josiah

Yoshiyahu also removed all the shrines of the high places in the cities of Shomron, which the kings of Isra'el had made in order to provoke [ADONAI] to anger, and treated them the same as in Beit-El

He put to death all the priests of those high places on the altars there, then burned human bones on them. Finally he returned to Yerushalayim.

The king issued this order to all the people: "Observe Pesach to ADONAI your God, as written in this scroll of the covenant.

For Pesach had not been so observed since the days when the judges ruled Isra'el - not during the times of any of the kings of Isra'el or of the kings of Y'hudah.

But in the eighteenth year of King Yoshiyahu this Pesach was observed to ADONAI in Yerushalayim.

Yoshiyahu got rid of the mediums and the people using spirit guides, as well as the household gods, the idols and all the disgusting things spotted anywhere in Y'hudah and Yerushalayim. He did this in order to establish the words of the Torah written in the scroll Hilkiyahu the cohen had found in the house of ADONAI.

No previous king was like him; because he turned to ADONAI with all his heart, with all his being and with all his power, in accordance with all the Torah of Moshe; nor did any king like him arise afterwards.