2 Kings 23 :: Hebrew Names Version (HNV)

Josiah's Covenant

(2Ch 34:29—35:19 )

2Ki 23:1The king sent, and they gathered to him all the Zakenim of Yehudah and of Yerushalayim.

2Ki 23:2The king went up to the house of the LORD, and all the men of Yehudah and all the inhabitants of Yerushalayim with him, and the Kohanim, and the prophets, and all the people, both small and great: and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant which was found in the house of the LORD.

2Ki 23:3

2Ki 23:3The king stood by the pillar, 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 all his soul, to confirm the words of this covenant that were written in this book: and all the people stood to the covenant.

Reforms under Josiah

2Ki 23:4

2Ki 23:4The king commanded Hilkiyah the Kohen Gadol, and the Kohanim of the second order, and the keepers of the threshold, to bring forth out of the temple of the LORD all the vessels that were made for Ba`al, and for the Asherah, and for all the host of the sky, and he burned them outside of Yerushalayim in the fields of the Kidron, and carried the ashes of them to Beit-El.

2Ki 23:5

2Ki 23:5He put down the idolatrous Kohanim, whom the kings of Yehudah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Yehudah, and in the places round about Yerushalayim; those also who burned incense to Ba`al, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of the sky.

2Ki 23:6

2Ki 23:6He brought out the Asherah from the house of the LORD, outside of Yerushalayim, to the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and beat it to dust, and cast the dust of it on the graves of the common people.

2Ki 23:7

2Ki 23:7He broke down the houses of the sodomites, that were in the house of the LORD, where the women wove hangings for the Asherah.

2Ki 23:8

2Ki 23:8He brought all the Kohanim out of the cities of Yehudah, and defiled the high places where the Kohanim had burned incense, from Geva to Be'er-Sheva; and he broke down the high places of the gates that were at the entrance of the gate of Yehoshua the governor of the city, which were on a man's left hand at the gate of the city.

2Ki 23:9

2Ki 23:9Nevertheless the Kohanim of the high places didn't come up to the altar of the LORD in Yerushalayim, but they ate matzah among their brothers.

2Ki 23:10

2Ki 23:10He defiled Tofet, which is in the valley of the children of Hinnom, that no man might make his son or his daughter to pass through the fire to Molekh.

2Ki 23:11

2Ki 23:11He took away the horses that the kings of Yehudah had given to the sun, at the entrance of the house of the LORD, by the chamber of Netan-Melekh the chamberlain, which was in the precincts; and he burned the chariots of the sun with fire.

2Ki 23:12

2Ki 23:12The altars that were on the roof of the upper chamber of Achaz, which the kings of Yehudah had made, and the altars which Menashsheh had made in the two courts of the house of the LORD, did the king break down, and beat them down from there, and cast the dust of them into the brook Kidron.

2Ki 23:13

2Ki 23:13The high places that were before Yerushalayim, which were on the right hand of the mountain of corruption, which Shlomo the king of Yisra'el had built for `Ashoret the abomination of the Tzidonim, and for Kemosh the abomination of Mo'av, and for Milkom the abomination of the children of `Ammon, did the king defile.

2Ki 23:14

2Ki 23:14He broke in pieces the pillars, and cut down the Asherim, and filled their places with the bones of men.

2Ki 23:15

2Ki 23:15Moreover the altar that was at Beit-El, and the high place which Yarov`am the son of Nevat, who made Yisra'el to sin, had made, even that altar and the high place he broke down; and he burned the high place and beat it to dust, and burned the Asherah.

2Ki 23:16

2Ki 23:16As Yoshiyahu turned himself, he spied the tombs that were there in the mountain; and he sent, and took the bones out of the tombs, and burned them on the altar, and defiled it, according to the word of the LORD which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these things.

2Ki 23:17

2Ki 23:17Then he said, What monument is that which I see? The men of the city told him, It is the tomb of the man of God, who came from Yehudah, and proclaimed these things that you have done against the altar of Beit-El.

2Ki 23:18

2Ki 23:18He said, Let him be; let no man move his bones. So they let his bones alone, with the bones of the prophet who came out of Shomron.

2Ki 23:19

2Ki 23:19All the houses also of the high places that were in the cities of Shomron, which the kings of Yisra'el had made to provoke the LORD to anger, Yoshiyahu took away, and did to them according to all the acts that he had done in Beit-El.

2Ki 23:20

2Ki 23:20He killed all the Kohanim of the high places that were there, on the altars, and burned men's bones on them; and he returned to Yerushalayim.

Passover Reinstituted

2Ki 23:21

2Ki 23:21The king commanded all the people, saying, Keep the Pesach to the LORD your God, as it is written in this book of the covenant.

2Ki 23:22

2Ki 23:22Surely there was not kept such a Pesach from the days of the judges who judged Yisra'el, nor in all the days of the kings of Yisra'el, nor of the kings of Yehudah;

2Ki 23:23

2Ki 23:23but in the eighteenth year of king Yoshiyahu was this Pesach kept to the LORD in Yerushalayim.

2Ki 23:24

2Ki 23:24Moreover those who had familiar spirits, and the wizards, and the terafim, and the idols, and all the abominations that were seen in the land of Yehudah and in Yerushalayim, did Yoshiyahu put away, that he might confirm the words of the law which were written in the book that Hilkiyah the Kohen found in the house of the LORD.

2Ki 23:25

2Ki 23:25Like him was there no king before him, who turned to the LORD with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his might, according to all the law of Moshe; neither after him arose there any like him.

2Ki 23:26

2Ki 23:26Notwithstanding, the LORD didn't turn from the fierceness of his great wrath, with which his anger was kindled against Yehudah, because of all the provocation with which Menashsheh had provoked him.

2Ki 23:27

2Ki 23:27The LORD said, I will remove Yehudah also out of my sight, as I have removed Yisra'el, and I will cast off this city which I have chosen, even Yerushalayim, and the house of which I said, My name shall be there.

Jehoahaz Succeeds Josiah

(2Ch 35:20—36:1 )

2Ki 23:28

2Ki 23:28Now the rest of the acts of Yoshiyahu, and all that he did, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Yehudah?

2Ki 23:29

2Ki 23:29In his days Par`oh-Nekho king of Mitzrayim went up against the king of Ashshur to the river Perat: and king Yoshiyahu went against him; and Par`oh-Nekho killed him at Megiddo, when he had seen him.

2Ki 23:30

2Ki 23:30His servants carried him in a chariot dead from Megiddo, and brought him to Yerushalayim, and buried him in his own tomb. The people of the land took Yeho'achaz the son of Yoshiyahu, and anointed him, and made him king in his father's place.

(2Ch 36:1–4 )

2Ki 23:31

2Ki 23:31Yeho'achaz was twenty-three years old when he began to reign; and he reigned three months in Yerushalayim: and his mother's name was Hamutal the daughter of Yirmeyahu of Livna.

2Ki 23:32

2Ki 23:32He did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his fathers had done.

2Ki 23:33

2Ki 23:33Par`oh-Nekho put him in bonds at Rivlah in the land of Hamat, that he might not reign in Yerushalayim; and put the land to a tribute of one hundred talents of silver, and a talent of gold.

Jehoiakim Made King by Pharaoh

2Ki 23:34

2Ki 23:34Par`oh-Nekho made Elyakim the son of Yoshiyahu king in the room of Yoshiyahu his father, and changed his name to Yehoiakim: but he took Yeho'achaz away; and he came to Mitzrayim, and died there.

(2Ch 36:5–8 )

2Ki 23:35

2Ki 23:35Yehoiakim gave the silver and the gold to Par`oh; but he taxed the land to give the money according to the mitzvah of Par`oh: he exacted the silver and the gold of the people of the land, of everyone according to his taxation, to give it to Par`oh-Nekho.

2Ki 23:36

2Ki 23:36Yehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned eleven years in Yerushalayim: and his mother's name was Zevudah the daughter of Pedayahu of Rumah.

2Ki 23:37

2Ki 23:37He did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his fathers had done.

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