eighteenth year] This Reformation and Covenant made, and Passeover kept, chap. XXXV. 19. And yet from this, or rather from the twelfth year above mentioned begins that reckoning of the sinne of Iudah, Ezek. IV. 6. For under so good a King yet the people continued obstinately wicked; as appears in Ieremie, who began to prophesie in the thirteenth year of Iosiah's reigne, Ier. I. 2. and XXV. 3. and ch. III. 6. And Iosiah only caused, and made them outwardly to obey, 2 Chron. XXXIV. 32, 33. the Houses] The Houses of the Priests, which adjoyned to the Temple; and of the Levites, which adjoyned to the Courts.