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.
Nevi'im
Melakhim Bet24
2 Kings · Chapter 24
In his days Nebuchadnezzar king of Bavel came up, and Jehoiakim became his servant three years: then he turned and rebelled against him.
And 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) sent against him bands of the Chaldees, and bands of the Syrians, and bands of the Moabites, and bands of the children of Ammon, and sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), which he spake by his servants the nevi'im.
Surely at the mitsvah of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) came
this upon Judah, to remove
them out of his sight, for the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he did;
And also for the innocent blood that he shed: for he filled Yerushalayim with innocent blood; which 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) would not pardon.
Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and all that he did,
are
they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
So Jehoiakim slept with his fathers: and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his stead.
And the king of Mitsrayim came not again any more out of his land: for the king of Bavel had taken from the river of Mitsrayim unto the river Euphrates all that pertained to the king of Mitsrayim.
Jehoiachin
was eighteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Yerushalayim three months. And his mother’s name
was
Nehushta, the daughter of Elnathan of Yerushalayim.
And he did
that which was evil in the sight of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), according to all that his father had done.
At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Bavel came up against Yerushalayim, and the city was besieged.
And Nebuchadnezzar king of Bavel came against the city, and his servants did besiege it.
And Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out to the king of Bavel, he, and his mother, and his servants, and his princes, and his officers: and the king of Bavel took him in the eighth year of his reign.
And he carried out thence all the treasures of the house of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), and the treasures of the king’s house, and cut in pieces all the vessels of gold which Shelomoh king of Yisra'el had made in the heikhal of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), as 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) had said.
And he carried away all Yerushalayim, and all the princes, and all the mighty men of valour,
even ten thousand captives, and all the craftsmen and smiths: none remained, save the poorest sort of the people of the land.
And he carried away Jehoiachin to Bavel, and the king’s mother, and the king’s wives, and his officers, and the mighty of the land,
those
carried he into captivity from Yerushalayim to Bavel.
And all the men of might,
even seven thousand, and craftsmen and smiths a thousand, all
that were strong
and apt for war, even them the king of Bavel brought captive to Bavel.
And the king of Bavel made Mattaniah his father’s brother king in his stead, and changed his name to Zedekiah.
Zedekiah
was twenty and one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years 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 Jehoiakim had done.
For through the anger of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) it came to pass in Yerushalayim and Judah, until he had cast them out from his presence, that Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Bavel.
Nevi'im
Melakhim Bet25
2 Kings · Chapter 25
And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth
day of the month,
that Nebuchadnezzar king of Bavel came, he, and all his host, against Yerushalayim, and pitched against it; and they built forts against it round about.
And the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.
And on the ninth
day of the
fourth month the famine prevailed in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land.
And the city was broken up, and all the men of war
fled by night by the way of the gate between two walls, which
is by the king’s garden: (now the Chaldees
were against the city round about:) and
the king went the way toward the plain.
And the army of the Chaldees pursued after the king, and overtook him in the plains of Yericho: and all his army were scattered from him.
So they took the king, and brought him up to the king of Bavel to Riblah; and they gave judgment upon him.
And they slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him with fetters of brass, and carried him to Bavel.
And in the fifth month, on the seventh
day of the month, which
is the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar king of Bavel, came Nebuzar-adan, captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Bavel, unto Yerushalayim:
And he burnt the house of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), and the king’s house, and all the houses of Yerushalayim, and every great
man’s house burnt he with fire.
And all the army of the Chaldees, that
were with the captain of the guard, brake down the walls of Yerushalayim round about.
Now the rest of the people
that were left in the city, and the fugitives that fell away to the king of Bavel, with the remnant of the multitude, did Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard carry away.
But the captain of the guard left of the poor of the land
to be
vinedressers and husbandmen.
And the pillars of brass that
were in the house of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), and the bases, and the brasen sea that
was in the house of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), did the Chaldees break in pieces, and carried the brass of them to Bavel.
And the pots, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the spoons, and all the vessels of brass wherewith they ministered, took they away.
And the firepans, and the bowls,
and such things as
were of gold,
in gold, and of silver,
in silver, the captain of the guard took away.
The two pillars, one sea, and the bases which Shelomoh had made for the house of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH); the brass of all these vessels was without weight.
The height of the one pillar
was eighteen cubits, and the chapiter upon it
was brass: and the height of the chapiter three cubits; and the wreathen work, and pomegranates upon the chapiter round about, all of brass: and like unto these had the second pillar with wreathen work.
And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief kohen, and Zephaniah the second kohen, and the three keepers of the door:
And out of the city he took an officer that was set over the men of war, and five men of them that were in the king’s presence, which were found in the city, and the principal scribe of the host, which mustered the people of the land, and threescore men of the people of the land
that were found in the city:
And Nebuzar-adan captain of the guard took these, and brought them to the king of Bavel to Riblah:
And the king of Bavel smote them, and slew them at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was carried away out of their land.
And
as for the people that remained in the land of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Bavel had left, even over them he made Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, ruler.
And when all the captains of the armies, they and their men, heard that the king of Bavel had made Gedaliah governor, there came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, even Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan the son of Careah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, and Jaazaniah the son of a Maachathite, they and their men.
And Gedaliah sware to them, and to their men, and said unto them, Fear not to be the servants of the Chaldees: dwell in the land, and serve the king of Bavel; and it shall be well with you.
But it came to pass in the seventh month, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the seed royal, came, and ten men with him, and smote Gedaliah, that he died, and the Jews and the Chaldees that were with him at Mizpah.
And all the people, both small and great, and the captains of the armies, arose, and came to Mitsrayim: for they were afraid of the Chaldees.
And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the seven and twentieth
day of the month,
that Evil-merodach king of Bavel in the year that he began to reign did lift up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah out of prison;
And he spake kindly to him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings that
were with him in Bavel;
And changed his prison garments: and he did eat bread continually before him all the days of his life.
And his allowance
was a continual allowance given him of the king, a daily rate for every day, all the days of his life.