23but in the eighteenth year of king Josiah was this passover holden to Jehovah in Jerusalem.


In Context

20 And he sacrificed upon the altars all the priests of the high places that were there, and burned men's bones upon them. And he returned to Jerusalem.

21 And the king commanded all the people saying, Hold the passover to Jehovah your God, as it is written in this book of the covenant.

22 For there was not holden such a passover from the days of the judges that judged Israel, nor in all the days of the kings of Israel, nor of the kings of Judah;

23 but in the eighteenth year of king Josiah was this passover holden to Jehovah in Jerusalem.

24 Moreover the necromancers and the soothsayers, and the teraphim and the idols, and all the abominations that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, Josiah took away, that he might perform the words of the law which were written in the book that Hilkijah the priest had found in the house of Jehovah.

25 And before him there had been no king like him that turned to Jehovah with all his heart and with all his soul and with all his might, according to all the law of Moses; neither after him arose there his like.

2 Kings 23:23 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

23:23But in the eighteenth year of King Josiah, this Passover was celebrated to the Lord in Jerusalem.

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

23:23But in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, [wherein] this passover was holden to the LORD in Jerusalem.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

23:23As was this phase that was kept to the Lord in Jerusalem, in the eighteenth year of king Josias.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

23:23but in the eighteenth year of king Josiah was this passover kept to Jehovah in Jerusalem.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

23:23but in the eighteenth year of king Josiah was this passover kept to the LORD in Jerusalem.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

23:23But in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, in which this passover was held to the LORD in Jerusalem.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

23:23but in the eighteenth year of king Josiah was this Passover kept to Yahweh in Jerusalem.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

23:23but in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, hath this passover been made to Jehovah in Jerusalem.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

23:23But in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, wherein this passover was held to the LORD in Jerusalem.