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Jotham
was twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Yerushalayim. His mother’s name also
was
Jerushah, the daughter of Zadok.
And he did
that which was right in the sight of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), according to all that his father Uzziah did: howbeit he entered not into the heikhal of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH). And the people did yet corruptly.
He built the high gate of the house of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), and on the wall of Ophel he built much.
Moreover he built cities in the mountains of Judah, and in the forests he built castles and towers.
He fought also with the king of the Ammonites, and prevailed against them. And the children of Ammon gave him the same year an hundred talents of silver, and ten thousand measures of wheat, and ten thousand of barley. So much did the children of Ammon pay unto him, both the second year, and the third.
So Jotham became mighty, because he prepared his ways before 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) his Elohim.
Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all his wars, and his ways, lo, they
are written in the book of the kings of Yisra'el and Judah.
He was five and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned sixteen years in Yerushalayim.
And Jotham slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of Dawid: and Ahaz his son reigned in his stead.
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Ahaz
was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Yerushalayim: but he did not
that which was
right in the sight of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), like Dawid his father:
For he walked in the ways of the kings of Yisra'el, and made also molten images for Baalim.
Moreover he burnt incense in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and burnt his children in the fire, after the abominations of the heathen whom 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) had cast out before the children of Yisra'el.
He sacrificed also and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.
Wherefore 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) his Elohim delivered him into the hand of the king of Syria; and they smote him, and carried away a great multitude of them captives, and brought
them to Damascus. And he was also delivered into the hand of the king of Yisra'el, who smote him with a great slaughter.
For Pekah the son of Remaliah slew in Judah an hundred and twenty thousand in one day,
which were all valiant men; because they had forsaken 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) Elohim of their fathers.
And Zichri, a mighty man of Ephraim, slew Maaseiah the king’s son, and Azrikam the governor of the house, and Elkanah
that was next to the king.
And the children of Yisra'el carried away captive of their brethren two hundred thousand, women, sons, and daughters, and took also away much spoil from them, and brought the spoil to Samaria.
But a navi of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) was there, whose name
was Oded: and he went out before the host that came to Samaria, and said unto them, Behold, because 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) Elohim of your fathers was wroth with Judah, he hath delivered them into your hand, and ye have slain them in a rage
that reacheth up unto shamayim.
And now ye purpose to keep under the children of Judah and Yerushalayim for bondmen and bondwomen unto you:
but are there not with you, even with you, sins against 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) your Elohim?
Now hear me therefore, and deliver the captives again, which ye have taken captive of your brethren: for the fierce wrath of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH)
is
upon you.
Then certain of the heads of the children of Ephraim, Azariah the son of Johanan, Berechiah the son of Meshillemoth, and Jehizkiah the son of Shallum, and Amasa the son of Hadlai, stood up against them that came from the war,
And said unto them, Ye shall not bring in the captives hither: for whereas we have offended against 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH)
already, ye intend to add
more to our sins and to our trespass: for our trespass is great, and
there is fierce wrath against Yisra'el.
So the armed men left the captives and the spoil before the princes and all the congregation.
And the men which were expressed by name rose up, and took the captives, and with the spoil clothed all that were naked among them, and arrayed them, and shod them, and gave them to eat and to drink, and anointed them, and carried all the feeble of them upon asses, and brought them to Yericho, the city of palm trees, to their brethren: then they returned to Samaria.
At that time did king Ahaz send unto the kings of Assyria to help him.
For again the Edomites had come and smitten Judah, and carried away captives.
The Philistines also had invaded the cities of the low country, and of the south of Judah, and had taken Beth-shemesh, and Ajalon, and Gederoth, and Shocho with the villages thereof, and Timnah with the villages thereof, Gimzo also and the villages thereof: and they dwelt there.
For 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) brought Judah low because of Ahaz king of Yisra'el; for he made Judah naked, and transgressed sore against 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH).
And Tilgath-pilneser king of Assyria came unto him, and distressed him, but strengthened him not.
For Ahaz took away a portion
out of the house of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), and
out of the house of the king, and of the princes, and gave
it unto the king of Assyria: but he helped him not.
And in the time of his distress did he trespass yet more against 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH): this
is that king Ahaz.
For he sacrificed unto the gods of Damascus, which smote him: and he said, Because the gods of the kings of Syria help them,
therefore
will I sacrifice to them, that they may help me. But they were the ruin of him, and of all Yisra'el.
And Ahaz gathered together the vessels of the house of Elohim, and cut in pieces the vessels of the house of Elohim, and shut up the doors of the house of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), and he made him altars in every corner of Yerushalayim.
And in every several city of Judah he made high places to burn incense unto other gods, and provoked to anger 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) Elohim of his fathers.
Now the rest of his acts and of all his ways, first and last, behold, they
are written in the book of the kings of Judah and Yisra'el.
And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city,
even in Yerushalayim: but they brought him not into the sepulchres of the kings of Yisra'el: and Hezekiah his son reigned in his stead.
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Hezekiah began to reign
when he was five and twenty years old, and he reigned nine and twenty years in Yerushalayim. And his mother’s name
was Abijah, the daughter of Zechariah.
And he did
that which was right in the sight of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), according to all that Dawid his father had done.
He in the first year of his reign, in the first month, opened the doors of the house of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), and repaired them.
And he brought in the kohanim and the Levites, and gathered them together into the east street,
And said unto them, Hear me, ye Levites, sanctify now yourselves, and sanctify the house of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) Elohim of your fathers, and carry forth the filthiness out of the holy
place.
For our fathers have trespassed, and done
that which was evil in the eyes of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) our Elohim, and have forsaken him, and have turned away their faces from the habitation of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), and turned
their backs.
Also they have shut up the doors of the porch, and put out the lamps, and have not burned incense nor offered burnt offerings in the holy
place
unto the Elohim of Yisra'el.
Wherefore the wrath of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) was upon Judah and Yerushalayim, and he hath delivered them to trouble, to astonishment, and to hissing, as ye see with your eyes.
For, lo, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this.
Now
it is in mine heart to make a b'rit with 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) Elohim of Yisra'el, that his fierce wrath may turn away from us.
My sons, be not now negligent: for 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) hath chosen you to stand before him, to serve him, and that ye should minister unto him, and burn incense.
Then the Levites arose, Mahath the son of Amasai, and Joel the son of Azariah, of the sons of the Kohathites: and of the sons of Merari, Kish the son of Abdi, and Azariah the son of Jehalelel: and of the Gershonites; Joah the son of Zimmah, and Eden the son of Joah:
And of the sons of Elizaphan; Shimri, and Jeiel: and of the sons of Asaph; Zechariah, and Mattaniah:
And of the sons of Heman; Jehiel, and Shimei: and of the sons of Jeduthun; Shemaiah, and Uzziel.
And they gathered their brethren, and sanctified themselves, and came, according to the mitsvah of the king, by the words of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), to cleanse the house of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH).
And the kohanim went into the inner part of the house of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), to cleanse
it, and brought out all the uncleanness that they found in the heikhal of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) into the court of the house of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH). And the Levites took
it, to carry
it out abroad into the brook Kidron.
Now they began on the first
day of the first month to sanctify, and on the eighth day of the month came they to the porch of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH): so they sanctified the house of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) in eight days; and in the sixteenth day of the first month they made an end.
Then they went in to Hezekiah the king, and said, We have cleansed all the house of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), and the altar of burnt offering, with all the vessels thereof, and the shewbread table, with all the vessels thereof.
Moreover all the vessels, which king Ahaz in his reign did cast away in his transgression, have we prepared and sanctified, and, behold, they
are before the altar of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH).
Then Hezekiah the king rose early, and gathered the rulers of the city, and went up to the house of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH).
And they brought seven bullocks, and seven rams, and seven lambs, and seven he goats, for a sin offering for the kingdom, and for the sanctuary, and for Judah. And he commanded the kohanim the sons of Aharon to offer
them
on the altar of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH).
So they killed the bullocks, and the kohanim received the blood, and sprinkled
it on the altar: likewise, when they had killed the rams, they sprinkled the blood upon the altar: they killed also the lambs, and they sprinkled the blood upon the altar.
And they brought forth the he goats
for the sin offering before the king and the congregation; and they laid their hands upon them:
And the kohanim killed them, and they made reconciliation with their blood upon the altar, to make an kapparah for all Yisra'el: for the king commanded
that the burnt offering and the sin offering
should be made for all Yisra'el.
And he set the Levites in the house of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) with cymbals, with psalteries, and with harps, according to the mitsvah of Dawid, and of Gad the king’s seer, and Nathan the navi: for
so was the mitsvah of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) by his nevi'im.
And the Levites stood with the instruments of Dawid, and the kohanim with the trumpets.
And Hezekiah commanded to offer the burnt offering upon the altar. And when the burnt offering began, the song of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) began
also
with the trumpets, and with the instruments
ordained by Dawid king of Yisra'el.
And all the congregation worshipped, and the singers sang, and the trumpeters sounded:
and all
this continued until the burnt offering was finished.
And when they had made an end of offering, the king and all that were present with him bowed themselves, and worshipped.
Moreover Hezekiah the king and the princes commanded the Levites to sing praise unto 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) with the words of Dawid, and of Asaph the seer. And they sang praises with gladness, and they bowed their heads and worshipped.
Then Hezekiah answered and said, Now ye have consecrated yourselves unto 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), come near and bring sacrifices and thank offerings into the house of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH). And the congregation brought in sacrifices and thank offerings; and as many as were of a free heart burnt offerings.
And the number of the burnt offerings, which the congregation brought, was threescore and ten bullocks, an hundred rams,
and two hundred lambs: all these
were for a burnt offering to 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH).
And the consecrated things
were six hundred oxen and three thousand sheep.
But the kohanim were too few, so that they could not flay all the burnt offerings: wherefore their brethren the Levites did help them, till the work was ended, and until the
other kohanim had sanctified themselves: for the Levites
were more upright in heart to sanctify themselves than the kohanim.
And also the burnt offerings
were in abundance, with the fat of the peace offerings, and the drink offerings for
every burnt offering. So the service of the house of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) was set in order.
And Hezekiah rejoiced, and all the people, that Elohim had prepared the people: for the thing was
done suddenly.