Nevi'im
Melakhim Bet21
2 Kings · Chapter 21
Manasseh
was twelve years old when he began to reign, and reigned fifty and five years in Yerushalayim. And his mother’s name
was
Hephzi-bah.
And he did
that which was evil in the sight of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), after the abominations of the heathen, whom 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) cast out before the children of Yisra'el.
For he built up again the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he reared up altars for Baal, and made a grove, as did Ahab king of Yisra'el; and worshipped all the host of shamayim, and served them.
And he built altars in the house of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), of which 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) said, In Yerushalayim will I put my name.
And he built altars for all the host of shamayim in the two courts of the house of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH).
And he made his son pass through the fire, and observed times, and used enchantments, and dealt with familiar spirits and wizards: he wrought much wickedness in the sight of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), to provoke
him to anger.
And he set a graven image of the grove that he had made in the house, of which 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) said to Dawid, and to Shelomoh his son, In this house, and in Yerushalayim, which I have chosen out of all tribes of Yisra'el, will I put my name for ever:
Neither will I make the feet of Yisra'el move any more out of the land which I gave their fathers; only if they will observe to do according to all that I have commanded them, and according to all the torah that my servant Mosheh commanded them.
But they hearkened not: and Manasseh seduced them to do more evil than did the nations whom 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) destroyed before the children of Yisra'el.
And 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) spake by his servants the nevi'im, saying,
Because Manasseh king of Judah hath done these abominations,
and
hath done wickedly above all that the Amorites did, which
were
before him, and hath made Judah also to sin with his idols:
Therefore thus saith 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) Elohim of Yisra'el, Behold, I
am
bringing
such evil upon Yerushalayim and Judah, that whosoever heareth of it, both his ears shall tingle.
And I will stretch over Yerushalayim the line of Samaria, and the plummet of the house of Ahab: and I will wipe Yerushalayim as
a man wipeth a dish, wiping
it, and turning
it upside down.
And I will forsake the remnant of mine inheritance, and deliver them into the hand of their enemies; and they shall become a prey and a spoil to all their enemies;
Because they have done
that which was evil in my sight, and have provoked me to anger, since the day their fathers came forth out of Mitsrayim, even unto this day.
Moreover Manasseh shed innocent blood very much, till he had filled Yerushalayim from one end to another; beside his sin wherewith he made Judah to sin, in doing
that which was evil in the sight of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH).
Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and all that he did, and his sin that he sinned,
are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
And Manasseh slept with his fathers, and was buried in the garden of his own house, in the garden of Uzza: and Amon his son reigned in his stead.
Amon
was twenty and two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned two years in Yerushalayim. And his mother’s name
was Meshullemeth, the daughter of Haruz of Jotbah.
And he did
that which was evil in the sight of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), as his father Manasseh did.
And he walked in all the way that his father walked in, and served the idols that his father served, and worshipped them:
And he forsook 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) Elohim of his fathers, and walked not in the way of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH).
And the servants of Amon conspired against him, and slew the king in his own house.
And the people of the land slew all them that had conspired against king Amon; and the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his stead.
Now the rest of the acts of Amon which he did,
are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
And he was buried in his sepulchre in the garden of Uzza: and Josiah his son reigned in his stead.
Nevi'im
Melakhim Bet22
2 Kings · Chapter 22
Josiah
was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned thirty and one years in Yerushalayim. And his mother’s name
was
Jedidah, the daughter of Adaiah of Boscath.
And he did
that which was right in the sight of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), and walked in all the way of Dawid his father, and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left.
And it came to pass in the eighteenth year of king Josiah,
that
the king sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, the son of Meshullam, the scribe, to the house of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), saying,
Go up to Hilkiah the high kohen, that he may sum the silver which is brought into the house of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), which the keepers of the door have gathered of the people:
And let them deliver it into the hand of the doers of the work, that have the oversight of the house of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH): and let them give it to the doers of the work which
is in the house of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), to repair the breaches of the house,
Unto carpenters, and builders, and masons, and to buy timber and hewn stone to repair the house.
Howbeit there was no reckoning made with them of the money that was delivered into their hand, because they dealt faithfully.
And Hilkiah the high kohen said unto Shaphan the scribe, I have found the book of the torah in the house of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH). And Hilkiah gave the book to Shaphan, and he read it.
And Shaphan the scribe came to the king, and brought the king word again, and said, Thy servants have gathered the money that was found in the house, and have delivered it into the hand of them that do the work, that have the oversight of the house of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH).
And Shaphan the scribe shewed the king, saying, Hilkiah the kohen hath delivered me a book. And Shaphan read it before the king.
And it came to pass, when the king had heard the words of the book of the torah, that he rent his clothes.
And the king commanded Hilkiah the kohen, and Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and Achbor the son of Michaiah, and Shaphan the scribe, and Asahiah a servant of the king’s, saying,
Go ye, enquire of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) for me, and for the people, and for all Judah, concerning the words of this book that is found: for great is the wrath of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) that is kindled against us, because our fathers have not hearkened unto the words of this book, to do according unto all that which is written concerning us.
So Hilkiah the kohen, and Ahikam, and Achbor, and Shaphan, and Asahiah, went unto Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe; (now she dwelt in Yerushalayim in the college;) and they communed with her.
And she said unto them, Thus saith 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) Elohim of Yisra'el, Tell 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 words of the book which the king of Judah hath read:
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 kindled against this place, and shall not be quenched.
But to the king of Judah which sent you to enquire of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), thus shall ye say to him, Thus saith 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) Elohim of Yisra'el,
As touching
the words which thou hast heard;
Because thine heart was tender, and thou hast humbled thyself before 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), when thou heardest what I spake against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and hast rent thy clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard
thee,
saith 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH).
Behold therefore, I will gather thee unto thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered into thy grave in peace; and thine eyes shall not see all the evil which I will bring upon this place. And they brought the king word again.
Nevi'im
Melakhim Bet23
2 Kings · Chapter 23
And the king sent, and they gathered unto him all the elders of Judah and of Yerushalayim.
And the king went up into the house of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), and all the men of Judah and all the inhabitants of Yerushalayim with him, and the kohanim, and the nevi'im, and all the people, both small and great: and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the b'rit which was found in the house of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH).
And the king stood by a pillar, 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
their heart and all
their nephesh, to perform the words of this b'rit that were written in this book. And all the people stood to the b'rit.
And the king commanded Hilkiah the high kohen, and the kohanim of the second order, and the keepers of the door, to bring forth out of the heikhal of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) all the vessels that were made for Baal, and for the grove, and for all the host of shamayim: and he burned them without Yerushalayim in the fields of Kidron, and carried the ashes of them unto Bethel.
And he put down the idolatrous kohanim, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places round about Yerushalayim; them also that burned incense unto Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of shamayim.
And he brought out the grove from the house of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), without Yerushalayim, unto the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and stamped
it small to powder, and cast the powder thereof upon the graves of the children of the people.
And he brake down the houses of the sodomites, that
were by the house of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), where the women wove hangings for the grove.
And he brought all the kohanim out of the cities of Judah, and defiled the high places where the kohanim had burned incense, from Geba to Beer-sheba, and brake down the high places of the gates that
were in the entering in of the gate of Yehoshua the governor of the city, which
were
on a man’s left hand at the gate of the city.
Nevertheless the kohanim of the high places came not up to the altar of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) in Yerushalayim, but they did eat of the unleavened bread among their brethren.
And he defiled Topheth, 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 Molech.
And he took away the horses that the kings of Judah had given to the sun, at the entering in of the house of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), by the chamber of Nathan-melech the chamberlain, which
was in the suburbs, and burned the chariots of the sun with fire.
And the altars that
were on the top of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), did the king beat down, and brake
them down from thence, and cast the dust of them into the brook Kidron.
And the high places that
were before Yerushalayim, which
were on the right hand of the mount of corruption, which Shelomoh the king of Yisra'el had builded for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Zidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon, did the king defile.
And he brake in pieces the images, and cut down the groves, and filled their places with the bones of men.
Moreover the altar that
was at Bethel,
and the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Yisra'el to sin, had made, both that altar and the high place he brake down, and burned the high place,
and stamped
it small to powder, and burned the grove.
And as Josiah turned himself, he spied the sepulchres that
were
there in the mount, and sent, and took the bones out of the sepulchres, and burned
them upon the altar, and polluted it, according to the word of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) which the man of Elohim proclaimed, who proclaimed these words.
Then he said, What title
is that that I see? And the men of the city told him,
It is the sepulchre of the man of Elohim, which came from Judah, and proclaimed these things that thou hast done against the altar of Bethel.
And he said, Let him alone; let no man move his bones. So they let his bones alone, with the bones of the navi that came out of Samaria.
And all the houses also of the high places that
were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Yisra'el had made to provoke
𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) to anger, Josiah took away, and did to them according to all the acts that he had done in Bethel.
And he slew all the kohanim of the high places that
were
there upon the altars, and burned men’s bones upon them, and returned to Yerushalayim.
And the king commanded all the people, saying, Keep the pesach unto 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) your Elohim, as
it is written in the book of this b'rit.
Surely there was not holden such a pesach from the days of the judges that judged Yisra'el, nor in all the days of the kings of Yisra'el, nor of the kings of Judah;
But in the eighteenth year of king Josiah,
wherein this pesach was holden to 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) in Yerushalayim.
Moreover the
workers with familiar spirits, and the wizards, and the images, and the idols, and all the abominations that were spied in the land of Judah and in Yerushalayim, did Josiah put away, that he might perform the words of the torah which were written in the book that Hilkiah the kohen found in the house of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH).
And like unto him was there no king before him, that turned to 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) with all his heart, and with all his nephesh, and with all his might, according to all the torah of Mosheh; neither after him arose there
any like him.
Notwithstanding 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) turned not from the fierceness of his great wrath, wherewith his anger was kindled against Judah, because of all the provocations that Manasseh had provoked him withal.
And 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) said, I will remove Judah also out of my sight, as I have removed Yisra'el, and will cast off this city Yerushalayim which I have chosen, and the house of which I said, My name shall be there.
Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and all that he did,
are
they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
In his days Pharaoh-nechoh king of Mitsrayim went up against the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates: and king Josiah went against him; and he slew him at Megiddo, when he had seen him.
And his servants carried him in a chariot dead from Megiddo, and brought him to Yerushalayim, and buried him in his own sepulchre. And the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and anointed him, and made him king in his father’s stead.
Jehoahaz
was twenty and 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 Libnah.
And he did
that which was evil in the sight of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), according to all that his fathers had done.
And Pharaoh-nechoh put him in bands at Riblah in the land of Hamath, that he might not reign in Yerushalayim; and put the land to a tribute of an hundred talents of silver, and a talent of gold.
And Pharaoh-nechoh made Eliakim the son of Josiah king in the room of Josiah his father, and turned his name to Jehoiakim, and took Jehoahaz away: and he came to Mitsrayim, and died there.
And Jehoiakim gave the silver and the gold to Pharaoh; but he taxed the land to give the money according to the mitsvah of Pharaoh: he exacted the silver and the gold of the people of the land, of every one according to his taxation, to give
it unto Pharaoh-nechoh.
Jehoiakim
was twenty and five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned eleven years in Yerushalayim. And his mother’s name
was Zebudah, the daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah.
And he did
that which was evil in the sight of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), according to all that his fathers had done.