Bundan başka Yoşiya, Kâhin Hilkiya’nın RAB’bin Tapınağı’nda bulduğu kitapta yazılı yasanın ilkelerini yerine getirmek amacıyla, cincileri, ruhçuları, aile putlarını, öteki putları, ayrıca Yahuda ve Yeruşalim’de görülen bütün iğrençlikleri silip süpürdü.
Moreover the workers with familiar spirits, and the wizards, and the images, and the idols, and all the abominations that were spied in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, did Josiah put away, that he might perform the words of the law which were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of the LORD.