2 Chronicles 34 :: Hebrew Names Version (HNV)

Josiah Succeeds Amon in Judah

(2Ki 22:1, 2 )

2Ch 34:1Yoshiyahu was eight years old when he began to reign; and he reigned thirty-one years in Yerushalayim.

2Ch 34:2He did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD, and walked in the ways of David his father, and didn't turn aside to the right hand or to the left.

2Ch 34:3

2Ch 34:3For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father; and in the twelfth year he began to purge Yehudah and Yerushalayim from the high places, and the Asherim, and the engraved images, and the molten images.

2Ch 34:4

2Ch 34:4They broke down the altars of the Ba`alim in his presence; and the sun-images that were on high above them he hewed down; and the Asherim, and the engraved images, and the molten images, he broke in pieces, and made dust of them, and strewed it on the graves of those who had sacrificed to them.

2Ch 34:5

2Ch 34:5He burnt the bones of the Kohanim on their altars, and purged Yehudah and Yerushalayim.

2Ch 34:6

2Ch 34:6So did he in the cities of Menashsheh and Efrayim and Shim`on, even to Naftali, in their ruins round about.

2Ch 34:7

2Ch 34:7He broke down the altars, and beat the Asherim and the engraved images into powder, and hewed down all the sun-images throughout all Eretz-Yisra'el, and returned to Yerushalayim.

Josiah Repairs the Temple

(2Ki 22:3–20 )

2Ch 34:8

2Ch 34:8Now in the eighteenth year of his reign, when he had purged the land and the house, he sent Shafan the son of Atzalyahu, and Ma`aseyah the governor of the city, and Yo'ach the son of Yo'achaz the recorder, to repair the house of the LORD his God.

2Ch 34:9

2Ch 34:9They came to Hilkiyah the Kohen Gadol, and delivered the money that was brought into the house of God, which the Levites, the keepers of the threshold, had gathered of the hand of Menashsheh and Efrayim, and of all the remnant of Yisra'el, and of all Yehudah and Binyamin, and of the inhabitants of Yerushalayim.

2Ch 34:10

2Ch 34:10They delivered it into the hand of the workmen who had the oversight of the house of the LORD; and the workmen who labored in the house of the LORD gave it to mend and repair the house;

2Ch 34:11

2Ch 34:11even to the carpenters and to the builders gave they it, to buy hewn stone, and timber for couplings, and to make beams for the houses which the kings of Yehudah had destroyed.

2Ch 34:12

2Ch 34:12The men did the work faithfully: and the overseers of them were Yachat and `Ovadyah, the Levites, of the sons of Merari; and Zekharyah and Meshullam, of the sons of the Kehati, to set it forward; and others of the Levites, all who were skillful with instruments of music.

2Ch 34:13

2Ch 34:13Also they were over the bearers of burdens, and set forward all who did the work in every manner of service: and of the Levites there were Sofrim, and officers, and porters.

Hilkiah Discovers Lost Book of the Law

2Ch 34:14

2Ch 34:14When they brought out the money that was brought into the house of the LORD, Hilkiyah the Kohen found the book of the law of the LORD given by Moshe.

2Ch 34:15

2Ch 34:15Hilkiyah answered Shafan the Sofer, I have found the book of the law in the house of the LORD. Hilkiyah delivered the book to Shafan.

2Ch 34:16

2Ch 34:16Shafan carried the book to the king, and moreover brought back word to the king, saying, All that was committed to your servants, they are doing.

2Ch 34:17

2Ch 34:17They have emptied out the money that was found in the house of the LORD, and have delivered it into the hand of the overseers, and into the hand of the workmen.

2Ch 34:18

2Ch 34:18Shafan the Sofer told the king, saying, Hilkiyah the Kohen has delivered me a book. Shafan read therein before the king.

2Ch 34:19

2Ch 34:19It happened, when the king had heard the words of the law, that he tore his clothes.

2Ch 34:20

2Ch 34:20The king commanded Hilkiyah, and Achikam the son of Shafan, and `Avdon the son of Mikhah, and Shafan the Sofer, and `Asayah the king's servant, saying,

2Ch 34:21

2Ch 34:21Go you, inquire of the LORD for me, and for those who are left in Yisra'el and in Yehudah, concerning the words of the book that is found; for great is the wrath of the LORD that is poured out on us, because our fathers have not kept the word of the LORD, to do according to all that is written in this book.

Huldah, the Prophetess, Speaks

2Ch 34:22

2Ch 34:22So Hilkiyah, and they whom the king had commanded, went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tokhat, the son of Hasrah, keeper of the wardrobe; (now she lived in Yerushalayim in the second quarter;) and they spoke to her to that effect.

2Ch 34:23

2Ch 34:23She said to them, Thus says the LORD, the God of Yisra'el: Tell you the man who sent you to me,

2Ch 34:24

2Ch 34:24Thus says the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil on this place, and on the inhabitants of it, even all the curses that are written in the book which they have read before the king of Yehudah.

2Ch 34:25

2Ch 34:25Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense to other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the works of their hands; therefore is my wrath poured out on this place, and it shall not be quenched.

2Ch 34:26

2Ch 34:26But to the king of Yehudah, who sent you to inquire of the LORD, thus shall you tell him, Thus says the LORD, the God of Yisra'el: As touching the words which you have heard,

2Ch 34:27

2Ch 34:27because your heart was tender, and you did humble yourself before God, when you heard his words against this place, and against the inhabitants of it, and have humbled yourself before me, and have torn your clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard you, says the LORD.

2Ch 34:28

2Ch 34:28Behold, I will gather you to your fathers, and you shall be gathered to your grave in shalom, neither shall your eyes see all the evil that I will bring on this place, and on the inhabitants of it. They brought back word to the king.

(2Ki 23:1–20 )

2Ch 34:29

2Ch 34:29Then the king sent and gathered together all the Zakenim of Yehudah and Yerushalayim.

2Ch 34:30

2Ch 34:30The king went up to the house of the LORD, and all the men of Yehudah and the inhabitants of Yerushalayim, and the Kohanim, and the Levites, and all the people, both great and small: and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant that was found in the house of the LORD.

Josiah's Good Reign

2Ch 34:31

2Ch 34:31The king stood in his place, and made a covenant before the LORD, to walk after the LORD, and to keep his mitzvot, and his testimonies, and his statutes, with all his heart, and with all his soul, to perform the words of the covenant that were written in this book.

2Ch 34:32

2Ch 34:32He caused all who were found in Yerushalayim and Binyamin to stand to it. The inhabitants of Yerushalayim did according to the covenant of God, the God of their fathers.

2Ch 34:33

2Ch 34:33Yoshiyahu took away all the abominations out of all the countries that pertained to the children of Yisra'el, and made all who were found in Yisra'el to serve, even to serve the LORD their God. All his days they didn't depart from following the LORD, the God of their fathers.