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II Kings
Chapter 23
1
And the king sent,
and
they gathered unto him
all
the elders of Judah and of Jerusalem.
2
And the king went up into the house of Jehovah/God,
and
all the men of Judah
and
all the inhabitants of Jerusalem with him,
and
the priests, 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 Jehovah/God.
3
And the king stood by a pillar,
and
made a covenant before Jehovah/God,
to
walk after Jehovah/God,
and
to keep his commandments
and
his testimonies and his statutes
with
all their heart/'right lobe'
and
all their soul . . .
to
perform the words of this covenant
that
were written in this book.
And
all the people stood to the covenant.
4
And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest,
and
the priests of the second order,
and
the keepers of the door,
to
bring forth out of the temple of Jehovah/God
all
the vessels that were made for Baal, and for the grove,
and
for all the army/host of heaven
and
he burned them without Jerusalem
in
the fields of Kidron,
and
carried the ashes of them unto Bethel.
5
And he put down the idolatrous priests,
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 Jerusalem;
them
also that burned incense unto Baal,
to
the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets,
and
to all the army/host of heaven.
6
And he brought out the grove
from
the house of Jehovah/God,
without
Jerusalem, 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.
7
And he broke down the houses of the sodomites,
which
were by the house of Jehovah/God,
where
the women wove hangings for the grove.
8
And he brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah,
and
defiled the high places where the priests had burned incense,
from
Geba to Beersheba,
and
broke down the high places of the gates
that
were in the entering in of the gate of Joshua
the
governor of the city,
which
were on a man's left hand at the gate of the city.
9
Nevertheless the priests of the high places
came
not up to the altar of Jehovah/God in Jerusalem,
but
they did eat of the unleavened bread among their brethren.
10
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.
11
And he took away the horses that the kings of Judah
had
given to the sun,
at
the entering in of the house of Jehovah/God,
by
the chamber of Nathanmelech the chamberlain,
which
was in the suburbs,
and
burned the chariots of the sun with fire.
12
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 Jehovah/God,
did
the king beat down,
and
brake them down from there,
and
cast the dust of them into the brook Kidron.
13
And the high places that were before Jerusalem,
which
were on the right hand of the mount of corruption,
which
Solomon the king of Israel had built
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.
14
And he brake in pieces the images,
and
cut down the groves,
and
filled their places with the bones of men.
15
Moreover the altar that was at Bethel,
and
the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat,
who
made Israel to sin, had made,
both
that altar and the high place he broke down,
and
burned the high place,
and
stamped it small to powder,
and
burned the grove.
16
And as Josiah turned himself,
he
spied the sepulchers that were there in the mount,
and
sent, and took the bones out of the sepulchers,
and
burned them upon the altar, and polluted it,
according
to the word of Jehovah/God
which
the man of 'Elohiym/Godhead proclaimed,
who
proclaimed these words.
17
Then he said, What title is that that I see?
And
the men of the city told him,
It
is the sepulcher of the man of 'Elohiym/Godhead,
who
came from Judah,
and
proclaimed these things that you have done
against
the altar of Bethel.
18
And he said, Let him alone;
let
no man move his bones.
So
they let his bones alone,
with
the bones of the prophet that came out of Samaria.
19
And all the houses also of the high places
that
were in the cities of Samaria,
which
the kings of Israel had made
to
provoke Jehovah/God to anger,
Josiah
took away,
and
did to them
according
to all the acts that he had done in Bethel.
20
And he slew all the priests of the high places
that
were there upon the altars,
and
burned men's bones upon them,
and
returned to Jerusalem.
21
And the king commanded all the people, saying,
Keep
the Passover unto Jehovah/God your 'Elohiym/Godhead,
as
it is written in the book of this covenant.
22
Surely there was not held such a Passover
from
the days of the judges that judged Israel,
nor
in all the days of the kings of Israel,
nor
of the kings of Judah; 23
but
in the eighteenth year of king Josiah,
wherein
this Passover was held
to
Jehovah/God in Jerusalem.
24
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 Jerusalem,
did
Josiah put away,
that
he might perform the words of the law
which
were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest
found
in the house of Jehovah/God.
25
And like unto him was there no king before him,
that
turned to Jehovah/God with all his heart/'right lobe',
and
with all his soul,
and
with all his might,
according
to all the law of Moses;
neither
after him arose there any like him.
26
Notwithstanding Jehovah/God
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.
27
And Jehovah/God said,
I
will remove Judah also out of my sight,
as
I have removed Israel,
and
will cast off this city Jerusalem which I have chosen,
and
the house of which I said, My name shall be there.
28
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?
29
In his days Pharaoh-Nechoh king of Egypt
went
up against the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates
and
king Josiah went against him;
and
he {Pharaoh-Nechoh}
slew
him {Josiah} at Megiddo,
when
he had seen him.
30
And his {Josiah's} servants
carried
him in a chariot dead from Megiddo,
and
brought him to Jerusalem,
and
buried him in his own sepulcher.
And
the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah,
and
anointed him, and made him king in his father's place/stead.
31
Jehoahaz was twenty and three years old
when
he began to reign;
and
he reigned three months in Jerusalem.
And
his mother's name was Hamutal,
the
daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
32
And he did that which was evil
in
the sight of Jehovah/God,
according
to all that his fathers had done.
33
And Pharaoh-Nechoh
put
him in bands at Riblah in the land of Hamath,
that
he might not reign in Jerusalem;
and
put the land to a tribute of an hundred talents of silver,
and
a talent of gold.
34
And Pharaoh-Nechoh
made
Eliakim the son of Josiah king
in
the place/room of Josiah his father,
and
turned his name to Jehoiakim,
and
took Jehoahaz away
and
he came to Egypt, and died there.
35
And Jehoiakim gave the silver and the gold to Pharaoh;
but
he taxed the land to give the money
according
to the commandment 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.
36
Jehoiakim was twenty and five years old
when
he began to reign;
and
he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem.
And
his mother's name was Zebudah,
the
daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah.
37
And he did that which was evil
in
the sight of Jehovah/God,
according
to all that his fathers had done.
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