2 Kings 23:24
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.
Cross-reference
2 Kings 22:8-13 describes the discovery of the law that sparked Josiah's reforms, providing the immediate cause.
2 Kings 21:6 shows Manasseh consulting mediums — directly opposite to Josiah's purge of them.
2 Kings 21:3 lists Manasseh's idolatries — the exact practices Josiah later removed, highlighting the reversal.
Leviticus 19:31 commands Israel to avoid mediums and spiritists, the very law Josiah was upholding.
Acts 16:16-18 shows a spirit of divination being expelled, a NT parallel to Josiah’s purge of divination.
Hosea 3:4 foretells Israel without teraphim, a condition Josiah’s reform enforced.
Isaiah 8:19 condemns consulting mediums and wizards, reinforcing the same sin Josiah eradicated.
2 Chronicles 34:14-19 gives the parallel account of finding the law and Josiah's repentant response.
1 Samuel 28:3 records Saul also expelling mediums — a parallel action to Josiah's reform.
Judges 18:18 repeats the theft of household idols (teraphim), reinforcing their presence in Israel’s history.
Judges 18:17 shows the Danites taking Micah’s household idols (teraphim), the same items Josiah removed.
Judges 17:5 describes Micah making household idols (teraphim), which Josiah later purged from Judah.
Deuteronomy 18:10-12 lists these practices as abominations the law forbids, which Josiah purged from Judah.
In Leviticus 20:27, this law commands death for mediums and necromancers—the very practices Josiah removed to uphold the law.
Genesis 31:19 features Rachel stealing household idols (teraphim), the same objects Josiah abolished.
2 Chronicles 33:6 records Manasseh's practice of mediums and necromancers, the very sins Josiah later purged.
Isaiah 19:3 lists mediums and spiritists among Egypt’s doomed practices, echoing the occult items Josiah removed.
Revelation 22:15 excludes sorcerers from God’s city, mirroring Josiah’s removal of occult practices.