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Josiah
was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Yerushalayim one and thirty years.
And he did
that which was right in the sight of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), and walked in the ways of Dawid his father, and declined
neither to the right hand, nor to the left.
For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the Elohim of Dawid his father: and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Yerushalayim from the high places, and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images.
And they brake down the altars of Baalim in his presence; and the images, that
were on high above them, he cut down; and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images, he brake in pieces, and made dust
of them, and strowed
it upon the graves of them that had sacrificed unto them.
And he burnt the bones of the kohanim upon their altars, and cleansed Judah and Yerushalayim.
And
so did he in the cities of Manasseh, and Ephraim, and Simeon, even unto Naphtali, with their mattocks round about.
And when he had broken down the altars and the groves, and had beaten the graven images into powder, and cut down all the idols throughout all the land of Yisra'el, he returned to Yerushalayim.
Now in the eighteenth year of his reign, when he had purged the land, and the house, he sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, and Maaseiah the governor of the city, and Joah the son of Joahaz the recorder, to repair the house of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) his Elohim.
And when they came to Hilkiah the high kohen, they delivered the money that was brought into the house of Elohim, which the Levites that kept the doors had gathered of the hand of Manasseh and Ephraim, and of all the remnant of Yisra'el, and of all Judah and Benjamin; and they returned to Yerushalayim.
And they put
it in the hand of the workmen that had the oversight of the house of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), and they gave it to the workmen that wrought in the house of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), to repair and amend the house:
Even to the artificers and builders gave they
it, to buy hewn stone, and timber for couplings, and to floor the houses which the kings of Judah had destroyed.
And the men did the work faithfully: and the overseers of them
were Jahath and Obadiah, the Levites, of the sons of Merari; and Zechariah and Meshullam, of the sons of the Kohathites, to set
it
forward; and
other of the Levites, all that could skill of instruments of musick.
Also
they were over the bearers of burdens, and
were
overseers of all that wrought the work in any manner of service: and of the Levites
there were scribes, and officers, and porters.
And when they brought out the money that was brought into the house of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), Hilkiah the kohen found a book of the torah of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH)
given
by Mosheh.
And Hilkiah answered and said to Shaphan the scribe, I have found the book of the torah in the house of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH). And Hilkiah delivered the book to Shaphan.
And Shaphan carried the book to the king, and brought the king word back again, saying, All that was committed to thy servants, they do
it.
And they have gathered together the money that was found in the house of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), and have delivered it into the hand of the overseers, and to the hand of the workmen.
Then Shaphan the scribe told the king, saying, Hilkiah the kohen hath given me a book. And Shaphan read it before the king.
And it came to pass, when the king had heard the words of the torah, that he rent his clothes.
And the king commanded Hilkiah, and Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and Abdon the son of Micah, and Shaphan the scribe, and Asaiah a servant of the king’s, saying,
Go, enquire of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) for me, and for them that are left in Yisra'el and in Judah, concerning the words of the book that is found: for great
is the wrath of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) that is poured out upon us, because our fathers have not kept the word of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), to do after all that is written in this book.
And Hilkiah, and
they that the king
had appointed,
went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvath, the son of Hasrah, keeper of the wardrobe; (now she dwelt in Yerushalayim in the college:) and they spake to her to that
effect.
And she answered them, Thus saith 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) Elohim of Yisra'el, Tell ye the man that sent you to me,
Thus saith 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, and upon the inhabitants thereof,
even all the curses that are written in the book which they have read before the king of Judah:
Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the works of their hands; therefore my wrath shall be poured out upon this place, and shall not be quenched.
And as for the king of Judah, who sent you to enquire of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), so shall ye say unto him, Thus saith 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) Elohim of Yisra'el
concerning
the words which thou hast heard;
Because thine heart was tender, and thou didst humble thyself before Elohim, when thou heardest his words against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, and humbledst thyself before me, and didst rend thy clothes, and weep before me; I have even heard
thee also, saith 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH).
Behold, I will gather thee to thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered to thy grave in peace, neither shall thine eyes see all the evil that I will bring upon this place, and upon the inhabitants of the same. So they brought the king word again.
Then the king sent and gathered together all the elders of Judah and Yerushalayim.
And the king went up into the house of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), and all the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Yerushalayim, and the kohanim, and the Levites, and all the people, great and small: and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the b'rit that was found in the house of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH).
And the king stood in his place, and made a b'rit before 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), to walk after 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), and to keep his mitsvot, and his testimonies, and his statutes, with all his heart, and with all his nephesh, to perform the words of the b'rit which are written in this book.
And he caused all that were present in Yerushalayim and Benjamin to stand
to it. And the inhabitants of Yerushalayim did according to the b'rit of Elohim, the Elohim of their fathers.
And Josiah took away all the abominations out of all the countries that
pertained to the children of Yisra'el, and made all that were present in Yisra'el to serve,
even to serve 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) their Elohim.
And
all his days they departed not from following 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), the Elohim of their fathers.
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Moreover Josiah kept a pesach unto 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) in Yerushalayim: and they killed the pesach on the fourteenth
day of the first month.
And he set the kohanim in their charges, and encouraged them to the service of the house of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH),
And said unto the Levites that taught all Yisra'el, which were holy unto 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), Put the holy ark in the house which Shelomoh the son of Dawid king of Yisra'el did build;
it shall not
be a burden upon
your shoulders: serve now 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) your Elohim, and his people Yisra'el,
And prepare
yourselves by the houses of your fathers, after your courses, according to the writing of Dawid king of Yisra'el, and according to the writing of Shelomoh his son.
And stand in the holy
place according to the divisions of the families of the fathers of your brethren the people, and
after
the division of the families of the Levites.
So kill the pesach, and sanctify yourselves, and prepare your brethren, that
they may do according to the word of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) by the hand of Mosheh.
And Josiah gave to the people, of the flock, lambs and kids, all for the pesach offerings, for all that were present, to the number of thirty thousand, and three thousand bullocks: these
were of the king’s substance.
And his princes gave willingly unto the people, to the kohanim, and to the Levites: Hilkiah and Zechariah and Jehiel, rulers of the house of Elohim, gave unto the kohanim for the pesach offerings two thousand and six hundred
small cattle, and three hundred oxen.
Conaniah also, and Shemaiah and Nethaneel, his brethren, and Hashabiah and Jeiel and Jozabad, chief of the Levites, gave unto the Levites for pesach offerings five thousand
small cattle, and five hundred oxen.
So the service was prepared, and the kohanim stood in their place, and the Levites in their courses, according to the king’s mitsvah.
And they killed the pesach, and the kohanim sprinkled
the blood
from their hands, and the Levites flayed
them.
And they removed the burnt offerings, that they might give according to the divisions of the families of the people, to offer unto 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), as
it is written in the book of Mosheh. And so
did they with the oxen.
And they roasted the pesach with fire according to the ordinance: but the
other holy
offerings sod they in pots, and in caldrons, and in pans, and divided
them speedily among all the people.
And afterward they made ready for themselves, and for the kohanim: because the kohanim the sons of Aharon
were busied in offering of burnt offerings and the fat until night; therefore the Levites prepared for themselves, and for the kohanim the sons of Aharon.
And the singers the sons of Asaph
were in their place, according to the mitsvah of Dawid, and Asaph, and Heman, and Jeduthun the king’s seer; and the porters
waited at every gate; they might not depart from their service; for their brethren the Levites prepared for them.
So all the service of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) was prepared the same day, to keep the pesach, and to offer burnt offerings upon the altar of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), according to the mitsvah of king Josiah.
And the children of Yisra'el that were present kept the pesach at that time, and the feast of unleavened bread seven days.
And there was no pesach like to that kept in Yisra'el from the days of Shemu'el the navi; neither did all the kings of Yisra'el keep such a pesach as Josiah kept, and the kohanim, and the Levites, and all Judah and Yisra'el that were present, and the inhabitants of Yerushalayim.
In the eighteenth year of the reign of Josiah was this pesach kept.
After all this, when Josiah had prepared the heikhal, Necho king of Mitsrayim came up to fight against Charchemish by Euphrates: and Josiah went out against him.
But he sent ambassadors to him, saying, What have I to do with thee, thou king of Judah?
I come not against thee this day, but against the house wherewith I have war: for Elohim commanded me to make haste: forbear thee from
meddling with Elohim, who
is with me, that he destroy thee not.
Nevertheless Josiah would not turn his face from him, but disguised himself, that he might fight with him, and hearkened not unto the words of Necho from the mouth of Elohim, and came to fight in the valley of Megiddo.
And the archers shot at king Josiah; and the king said to his servants, Have me away; for I am sore wounded.
His servants therefore took him out of that chariot, and put him in the second chariot that he had; and they brought him to Yerushalayim, and he died, and was buried in
one of the sepulchres of his fathers. And all Judah and Yerushalayim mourned for Josiah.
And Yirmeyahu lamented for Josiah: and all the singing men and the singing women spake of Josiah in their lamentations to this day, and made them an ordinance in Yisra'el: and, behold, they
are written in the lamentations.
Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and his goodness, according to
that which was written in the torah of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH),
And his deeds, first and last, behold, they
are written in the book of the kings of Yisra'el and Judah.
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Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and made him king in his father’s stead in Yerushalayim.
Jehoahaz
was twenty and three years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months in Yerushalayim.
And the king of Mitsrayim put him down at Yerushalayim, and condemned the land in an hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.
And the king of Mitsrayim made Eliakim his brother king over Judah and Yerushalayim, and turned his name to Jehoiakim. And Necho took Jehoahaz his brother, and carried him to Mitsrayim.
Jehoiakim
was twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Yerushalayim: and he did
that which was
evil in the sight of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) his Elohim.
Against him came up Nebuchadnezzar king of Bavel, and bound him in fetters, to carry him to Bavel.
Nebuchadnezzar also carried of the vessels of the house of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) to Bavel, and put them in his heikhal at Bavel.
Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and his abominations which he did, and that which was found in him, behold, they
are written in the book of the kings of Yisra'el and Judah: and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his stead.
Jehoiachin
was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months and ten days in Yerushalayim: and he did
that which was evil in the sight of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH).
And when the year was expired, king Nebuchadnezzar sent, and brought him to Bavel, with the goodly vessels of the house of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), and made Zedekiah his brother king over Judah and Yerushalayim.
Zedekiah
was one and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned eleven years in Yerushalayim.
And he did
that which was evil in the sight of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) his Elohim,
and humbled not himself before Yirmeyahu the navi
speaking
from the mouth of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH).
And he also rebelled against king Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by Elohim: but he stiffened his neck, and hardened his heart from turning unto 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) Elohim of Yisra'el.
Moreover all the chief of the kohanim, and the people, transgressed very much after all the abominations of the heathen; and polluted the house of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) which he had hallowed in Yerushalayim.
And 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) Elohim of their fathers sent to them by his messengers, rising up betimes, and sending; because he had compassion on his people, and on his dwelling place:
But they mocked the messengers of Elohim, and despised his words, and misused his nevi'im, until the wrath of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) arose against his people, till
there was no remedy.
Therefore he brought upon them the king of the Chaldees, who slew their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion upon young man or maiden, old man, or him that stooped for age: he gave
them all into his hand.
And all the vessels of the house of Elohim, great and small, and the treasures of the house of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), and the treasures of the king, and of his princes; all
these he brought to Bavel.
And they burnt the house of Elohim, and brake down the wall of Yerushalayim, and burnt all the palaces thereof with fire, and destroyed all the goodly vessels thereof.
And them that had escaped from the sword carried he away to Bavel; where they were servants to him and his sons until the reign of the kingdom of Persia:
To fulfil the word of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) by the mouth of Yirmeyahu, until the land had enjoyed her sabbaths:
for as long as she lay desolate she kept shabbat, to fulfil threescore and ten years.
Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH)
spoken by the mouth of Yirmeyahu might be accomplished, 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and
put it also in writing, saying,
Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, All the kingdoms of the earth hath 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) Elohim of shamayim given me; and he hath charged me to build him an house in Yerushalayim, which
is in Judah. Who
is there among you of all his people? 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) his Elohim
be with him, and let him go up.