The Second Book Melakhim, starting at chapter 22
{22:1} Yoshiyahu was eight years old when he began to reign; and he
reigned thirty-one years in Yerushalayim: and his mother's name was
Yedidah the daughter of `Adayah of Botzkat. {22:2} He did that which
was right in the eyes of the LORD, and walked in all the way of David
his father, and didn't turn aside to the right hand or to the left.
{22:3} It happened in the eighteenth year of king Yoshiyahu, that the
king sent Shafan, the son of Atzalyahu the son of Meshullam, the
[1>]Sofer[<1], to the house of the LORD, saying, {22:4} Go up to
Hilkiyah the [2>]Kohen Gadol[<2], that he may sum the money which is
brought into the house of the LORD, which the keepers of the threshold
have gathered of the people: {22:5} and let them deliver it into the
hand of the workmen who have the oversight of the house of the LORD;
and let them give it to the workmen who are in the house of the LORD,
to repair the breaches of the house, {22:6} to the carpenters, and to
the builders, and to the masons, and for buying timber and hewn stone
to repair the house. {22:7} However there was no reckoning made with
them of the money that was delivered into their hand; for they dealt
faithfully. {22:8} Hilkiyah the [3>]Kohen Gadol[<3] said to Shafan the
[4>]Sofer[<4], I have found the book of the law in the house of the
LORD. Hilkiyah delivered the book to Shafan, and he read it. {22:9}
Shafan the [5>]Sofer[<5] came to the king, and brought the king word
again, and said, Your servants have emptied out the money that was
found in the house, and have delivered it into the hand of the workmen
who have the oversight of the house of the LORD. {22:10} Shafan the
[6>]Sofer[<6] told the king, saying, Hilkiyah the [7>]Kohen[<7] has
delivered me a book. Shafan read it before the king. {22:11} It
happened, when the king had heard the words of the book of the law,
that he tore his clothes. {22:12} The king commanded Hilkiyah the
[8>]Kohen[<8], and Achikam the son of Shafan, and `Akhbor the son of
Mikhayahu, and Shafan the [9>]Sofer[<9], and `Asayah the king's
servant, saying, {22:13} Go you, inquire of the LORD for me, and for
the people, and for all Yehudah, concerning the words of this book
that is found; for great is the wrath of the LORD that is kindled
against us, because our fathers have not listened to the words of this
book, to do according to all that which is written concerning us.
{22:14} So Hilkiyah the [10>]Kohen[<10], and Achikam, and `Akhbor, and
Shafan, and `Asayah, went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of
Shallum the son of Tikvah, the son of Harchas, keeper of the wardrobe
(now she lived in Yerushalayim in the second quarter); and they talked
with her. {22:15} She said to them, Thus says the LORD, the God of
Yisra'el: Tell you the man who sent you to me, {22:16} Thus says the
LORD, Behold, I will bring evil on this place, and on the inhabitants
of it, even all the words of the book which the king of Yehudah has
read. {22:17} Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense
to other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the work
of their hands, therefore my wrath shall be kindled against this
place, and it shall not be quenched. {22:18} But to the king of
Yehudah, who sent you to inquire of the LORD, thus shall you tell him,
Thus says the LORD, the God of Yisra'el: As touching the words which
you have heard, {22:19} because your heart was tender, and you did
humble yourself before the LORD, when you heard what I spoke against
this place, and against the inhabitants of it, that they should become
a desolation and a curse, and have torn your clothes, and wept before
me; I also have heard you, says the LORD. {22:20} Therefore, behold, I
will gather you to your fathers, and you shall be gathered to your
grave in shalom, neither shall your eyes see all the evil which I will
bring on this place. They brought the king word again.
{23:1} The king sent, and they gathered to him all the Zakenim of
Yehudah and of Yerushalayim. {23:2} The king went up to the house of
the LORD, and all the men of Yehudah and all the inhabitants of
Yerushalayim with him, and the [1>]Kohanim[<1], 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
the LORD. {23:3} The king stood by the pillar, and made a covenant
before the LORD, to walk after the LORD, and to keep his
[2>]mitzvot[<2], and his testimonies, and his statutes, with all [his]
heart, and all [his] soul, to confirm the words of this covenant that
were written in this book: and all the people stood to the covenant.
{23:4} The king commanded Hilkiyah the [3>]Kohen Gadol[<3], and the
[4>]Kohanim[<4] of the second order, and the keepers of the threshold,
to bring forth out of the temple of the LORD all the vessels that were
made for Ba`al, and for the Asherah, and for all the host of the sky,
and he burned them outside of Yerushalayim in the fields of the
Kidron, and carried the ashes of them to Beit-El. {23:5} He put down
the idolatrous [5>]Kohanim[<5], whom the kings of Yehudah had ordained
to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Yehudah, and in
the places round about Yerushalayim; those also who burned incense to
Ba`al, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the
host of the sky. {23:6} He brought out the Asherah from the house of
the LORD, outside of Yerushalayim, to the brook Kidron, and burned it
at the brook Kidron, and beat it to dust, and cast the dust of it on
the graves of the common people. {23:7} He broke down the houses of
the sodomites, that were in the house of the LORD, where the women
wove hangings for the Asherah. {23:8} He brought all the
[6>]Kohanim[<6] out of the cities of Yehudah, and defiled the high
places where the [7>]Kohanim[<7] had burned incense, from Geva to
Be'er-Sheva; and he broke down the high places of the gates that were
at the entrance of the gate of Yehoshua the governor of the city,
which were on a man's left hand at the gate of the city. {23:9}
Nevertheless the [8>]Kohanim[<8] of the high places didn't come up to
the altar of the LORD in Yerushalayim, but they ate [9>]matzah[<9]
among their brothers. {23:10} He defiled Tofet, 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 Molekh. {23:11} He took away the
horses that the kings of Yehudah had given to the sun, at the entrance
of the house of the LORD, by the chamber of Netan-Melekh the
chamberlain, which was in the precincts; and he burned the chariots of
the sun with fire. {23:12} The altars that were on the roof of the
upper chamber of Achaz, which the kings of Yehudah had made, and the
altars which Menashsheh had made in the two courts of the house of the
LORD, did the king break down, and beat [them] down from there, and
cast the dust of them into the brook Kidron. {23:13} The high places
that were before Yerushalayim, which were on the right hand of the
mountain of corruption, which Shlomo the king of Yisra'el had built
for `Ashoret the abomination of the Tzidonim, and for Kemosh the
abomination of Mo'av, and for Milkom the abomination of the children
of `Ammon, did the king defile. {23:14} He broke in pieces the
pillars, and cut down the Asherim, and filled their places with the
bones of men. {23:15} Moreover the altar that was at Beit-El, and the
high place which Yarov`am the son of Nevat, who made Yisra'el to sin,
had made, even that altar and the high place he broke down; and he
burned the high place and beat it to dust, and burned the Asherah.
{23:16} As Yoshiyahu turned himself, he spied the tombs that were
there in the mountain; and he sent, and took the bones out of the
tombs, and burned them on the altar, and defiled it, according to the
word of the LORD which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these
things. {23:17} Then he said, What monument is that which I see? The
men of the city told him, It is the tomb of the man of God, who came
from Yehudah, and proclaimed these things that you have done against
the altar of Beit-El. {23:18} He said, Let him be; let no man move his
bones. So they let his bones alone, with the bones of the prophet who
came out of Shomron. {23:19} All the houses also of the high places
that were in the cities of Shomron, which the kings of Yisra'el had
made to provoke [the LORD] to anger, Yoshiyahu took away, and did to
them according to all the acts that he had done in Beit-El. {23:20} He
killed all the [10>]Kohanim[<10] of the high places that were there,
on the altars, and burned men's bones on them; and he returned to
Yerushalayim. {23:21} The king commanded all the people, saying, Keep
the Pesach to the LORD your God, as it is written in this book of the
covenant. {23:22} Surely there was not kept such a Pesach from the
days of the judges who judged Yisra'el, nor in all the days of the
kings of Yisra'el, nor of the kings of Yehudah; {23:23} but in the
eighteenth year of king Yoshiyahu was this Pesach kept to the LORD in
Yerushalayim. {23:24} Moreover those who had familiar spirits, and the
wizards, and the terafim, and the idols, and all the abominations that
were seen in the land of Yehudah and in Yerushalayim, did Yoshiyahu
put away, that he might confirm the words of the law which were
written in the book that Hilkiyah the [11>]Kohen[<11] found in the
house of the LORD. {23:25} Like him was there no king before him, who
turned to the LORD with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with
all his might, according to all the law of Moshe; neither after him
arose there any like him. {23:26} Notwithstanding, the LORD didn't
turn from the fierceness of his great wrath, with which his anger was
kindled against Yehudah, because of all the provocation with which
Menashsheh had provoked him. {23:27} The LORD said, I will remove
Yehudah also out of my sight, as I have removed Yisra'el, and I will
cast off this city which I have chosen, even Yerushalayim, and the
house of which I said, My name shall be there. {23:28} Now the rest of
the acts of Yoshiyahu, and all that he did, aren't they written in the
book of the chronicles of the kings of Yehudah? {23:29} In his days
Par`oh-Nekho king of Mitzrayim went up against the king of Ashshur to
the river Perat: and king Yoshiyahu went against him; and
[Par`oh-Nekho] killed him at Megiddo, when he had seen him. {23:30}
His servants carried him in a chariot dead from Megiddo, and brought
him to Yerushalayim, and buried him in his own tomb. The people of the
land took Yeho'achaz the son of Yoshiyahu, and anointed him, and made
him king in his father's place. {23:31} Yeho'achaz was twenty-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 Livna. {23:32} He did that which was evil in the sight of
the LORD, according to all that his fathers had done. {23:33}
Par`oh-Nekho put him in bonds at Rivlah in the land of Hamat, that he
might not reign in Yerushalayim; and put the land to a tribute of one
hundred talents of silver, and a talent of gold. {23:34} Par`oh-Nekho
made Elyakim the son of Yoshiyahu king in the room of Yoshiyahu his
father, and changed his name to Yehoiakim: but he took Yeho'achaz
away; and he came to Mitzrayim, and died there. {23:35} Yehoiakim gave
the silver and the gold to Par`oh; but he taxed the land to give the
money according to the [12>]mitzvah[<12] of Par`oh: he exacted the
silver and the gold of the people of the land, of everyone according
to his taxation, to give it to Par`oh-Nekho. {23:36} Yehoiakim was
twenty-five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned eleven
years in Yerushalayim: and his mother's name was Zevudah the daughter
of Pedayahu of Rumah. {23:37} He did that which was evil in the sight
of the LORD, according to all that his fathers had done.
{24:1} In his days Nevukhadnetztzar king of Bavel came up, and
Yehoiakim became his servant three years: then he turned and rebelled
against him. {24:2} The LORD sent against him bands of the Kasdim, and
bands of the Aram, and bands of the Mo`avim, and bands of the children
of `Ammon, and sent them against Yehudah to destroy it, according to
the word of the LORD, which he spoke by his servants the prophets.
{24:3} Surely at the [1>]mitzvah[<1] of the LORD came this on Yehudah,
to remove them out of his sight, for the sins of Menashsheh, according
to all that he did, {24:4} and also for the innocent blood that he
shed; for he filled Yerushalayim with innocent blood: and the LORD
would not pardon. {24:5} Now the rest of the acts of Yehoiakim, and
all that he did, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of
the kings of Yehudah? {24:6} So Yehoiakim slept with his fathers; and
Yehoiakim his son reigned in his place. {24:7} The king of Mitzrayim
didn't come again out of his land any more; for the king of Bavel had
taken, from the brook of Mitzrayim to the river Perat, all that
pertained to the king of Mitzrayim. {24:8} Yehoiakim was eighteen
years old when he began to reign; and he reigned in Yerushalayim three
months: and his mother's name was Nechushta the daughter of Elnatan of
Yerushalayim. {24:9} He did that which was evil in the sight of the
LORD, according to all that his father had done. {24:10} At that time
the servants of Nevukhadnetztzar king of Bavel came up to
Yerushalayim, and the city was besieged. {24:11} Nevukhadnetztzar king
of Bavel came to the city, while his servants were besieging it;
{24:12} and Yehoiakim the king of Yehudah 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. {24:13} He carried out there all the treasures of the house of
the LORD, and the treasures of the king's house, and cut in pieces all
the vessels of gold, which Shlomo king of Yisra'el had made in the
temple of the LORD, as the LORD had said. {24:14} He carried away all
Yerushalayim, and all the princes, and all the mighty men of valor,
even ten thousand captives, and all the craftsmen and the smiths; none
remained, save the poorest sort of the people of the land. {24:15} He
carried away Yehoiakim to Bavel; and the king's mother, and the king's
wives, and his officers, and the chief men of the land, carried he
into captivity from Yerushalayim to Bavel. {24:16} All the men of
might, even seven thousand, and the craftsmen and the smiths one
thousand, all of them strong and apt for war, even them the king of
Bavel brought captive to Bavel. {24:17} The king of Bavel made
Mattanyah, [Yehoiakim's] father's brother, king is his place, and
changed his name to Tzidkiyahu. {24:18} Tzidkiyahu was twenty-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 Livna. {24:19} He did that which was evil in the sight of
the LORD, according to all that Yehoiakim had done. {24:20} For
through the anger of the LORD did it happen in Yerushalayim and
Yehudah, until he had cast them out from his presence. Tzidkiyahu
rebelled against the king of Bavel.
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Footnotes:
[1] {22:3} scribe
[2] {22:4} high priest
[3] {22:8} high priest
[4] {22:8} scribe
[5] {22:9} scribe
[6] {22:10} scribe
[7] {22:10} priest
[8] {22:12} priest
[9] {22:12} scribe
[10] {22:14} priest
[1] {23:2} priests
[2] {23:3} commandments
[3] {23:4} high priest
[4] {23:4} priests
[5] {23:5} priests
[6] {23:8} priests
[7] {23:8} priests
[8] {23:9} priests
[9] {23:9} unleavened bread
[10] {23:20} priests
[11] {23:24} priest
[12] {23:35} commandment
[1] {24:3} commandment
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