The Second Book of Divre Hayamim, starting at chapter 34
{34:1} Yoshiyahu was eight years old when he began to reign; and he
reigned thirty-one years in Yerushalayim. {34:2} He did that which was
right in the eyes of the LORD, and walked in the ways of David his
father, and didn't turn aside to the right hand or to the left. {34:3}
For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began
to seek after the God of David his father; and in the twelfth year he
began to purge Yehudah and Yerushalayim from the high places, and the
Asherim, and the engraved images, and the molten images. {34:4} They
broke down the altars of the Ba`alim in his presence; and the
sun-images that were on high above them he hewed down; and the
Asherim, and the engraved images, and the molten images, he broke in
pieces, and made dust of them, and strewed it on the graves [of those]
who had sacrificed to them. {34:5} He burnt the bones of the
[1>]Kohanim[<1] on their altars, and purged Yehudah and Yerushalayim.
{34:6} [So did he] in the cities of Menashsheh and Efrayim and
Shim`on, even to Naftali, in their ruins round about. {34:7} He broke
down the altars, and beat the Asherim and the engraved images into
powder, and hewed down all the sun-images throughout all
Eretz-Yisra'el, and returned to Yerushalayim. {34:8} Now in the
eighteenth year of his reign, when he had purged the land and the
house, he sent Shafan the son of Atzalyahu, and Ma`aseyah the governor
of the city, and Yo'ach the son of Yo'achaz the recorder, to repair
the house of the LORD his God. {34:9} They came to Hilkiyah the
[2>]Kohen Gadol[<2], and delivered the money that was brought into the
house of God, which the Levites, the keepers of the threshold, had
gathered of the hand of Menashsheh and Efrayim, and of all the remnant
of Yisra'el, and of all Yehudah and Binyamin, and of the inhabitants
of Yerushalayim. {34:10} They delivered it into the hand of the
workmen who had the oversight of the house of the LORD; and the
workmen who labored in the house of the LORD gave it to mend and
repair the house; {34:11} even to the carpenters and to the builders
gave they it, to buy hewn stone, and timber for couplings, and to make
beams for the houses which the kings of Yehudah had destroyed. {34:12}
The men did the work faithfully: and the overseers of them were Yachat
and `Ovadyah, the Levites, of the sons of Merari; and Zekharyah and
Meshullam, of the sons of the Kehati, to set it forward; and [others
of] the Levites, all who were skillful with instruments of music.
{34:13} Also they were over the bearers of burdens, and set forward
all who did the work in every manner of service: and of the Levites
there were [3>]Sofrim[<3], and officers, and porters. {34:14} When
they brought out the money that was brought into the house of the
LORD, Hilkiyah the [4>]Kohen[<4] found the book of the law of the LORD
[given] by Moshe. {34:15} Hilkiyah answered Shafan the [5>]Sofer[<5],
I have found the book of the law in the house of the LORD. Hilkiyah
delivered the book to Shafan. {34:16} Shafan carried the book to the
king, and moreover brought back word to the king, saying, All that was
committed to your servants, they are doing. {34:17} They have emptied
out the money that was found in the house of the LORD, and have
delivered it into the hand of the overseers, and into the hand of the
workmen. {34:18} Shafan the [6>]Sofer[<6] told the king, saying,
Hilkiyah the [7>]Kohen[<7] has delivered me a book. Shafan read
therein before the king. {34:19} It happened, when the king had heard
the words of the law, that he tore his clothes. {34:20} The king
commanded Hilkiyah, and Achikam the son of Shafan, and `Avdon the son
of Mikhah, and Shafan the [8>]Sofer[<8], and `Asayah the king's
servant, saying, {34:21} Go you, inquire of the LORD for me, and for
those who are left in Yisra'el and in Yehudah, concerning the words of
the book that is found; for great is the wrath of the LORD that is
poured out on us, because our fathers have not kept the word of the
LORD, to do according to all that is written in this book. {34:22} So
Hilkiyah, and they whom the king [had commanded], went to Huldah the
prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tokhat, the son of Hasrah,
keeper of the wardrobe; (now she lived in Yerushalayim in the second
quarter;) and they spoke to her to that effect. {34:23} She said to
them, Thus says the LORD, the God of Yisra'el: Tell you the man who
sent you to me, {34:24} Thus says the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil
on this place, and on the inhabitants of it, even all the curses that
are written in the book which they have read before the king of
Yehudah. {34:25} Because they have forsaken me, and have burned
incense to other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all
the works of their hands; therefore is my wrath poured out on this
place, and it shall not be quenched. {34:26} 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, {34:27} because your heart was tender, and you did
humble yourself before God, when you heard his words against this
place, and against the inhabitants of it, and have humbled yourself
before me, and have torn your clothes, and wept before me; I also have
heard you, says the LORD. {34:28} 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 that I will bring on this place, and
on the inhabitants of it. They brought back word to the king. {34:29}
Then the king sent and gathered together all the Zakenim of Yehudah
and Yerushalayim. {34:30} The king went up to the house of the LORD,
and all the men of Yehudah and the inhabitants of Yerushalayim, and
the [9>]Kohanim[<9], and the Levites, and all the people, both great
and small: and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the
covenant that was found in the house of the LORD. {34:31} The king
stood in his place, and made a covenant before the LORD, to walk after
the LORD, and to keep his [10>]mitzvot[<10], and his testimonies, and
his statutes, with all his heart, and with all his soul, to perform
the words of the covenant that were written in this book. {34:32} He
caused all who were found in Yerushalayim and Binyamin to stand [to
it]. The inhabitants of Yerushalayim did according to the covenant of
God, the God of their fathers. {34:33} Yoshiyahu took away all the
abominations out of all the countries that pertained to the children
of Yisra'el, and made all who were found in Yisra'el to serve, even to
serve the LORD their God. All his days they didn't depart from
following the LORD, the God of their fathers.
{35:1} Yoshiyahu kept a Pesach to the LORD in Yerushalayim: and they
killed the Pesach on the fourteenth [day] of the first month. {35:2}
He set the [1>]Kohanim[<1] in their offices, and encouraged them to
the service of the house of the LORD. {35:3} He said to the Levites
who taught all Yisra'el, who were holy to the LORD, Put the holy ark
in the house which Shlomo the son of David king of Yisra'el did build;
there shall no more be a burden on your shoulders: now serve the LORD
your God, and his people Yisra'el. {35:4} Prepare yourselves after
your fathers' houses by your courses, according to the writing of
David king of Yisra'el, and according to the writing of Shlomo his
son. {35:5} Stand in the holy place according to the divisions of the
fathers' houses of your brothers the children of the people, and [let
there be for each] a portion of a fathers' house of the Levites.
{35:6} Kill the Pesach, and sanctify yourselves, and prepare for your
brothers, to do according to the word of the LORD by Moshe. {35:7}
Yoshiyahu gave to the children of the people, of the flock, lambs and
kids, all of them for the Pesach offerings, to all who were present,
to the number of thirty thousand, and three thousand bulls: these were
of the king's substance. {35:8} His princes gave for a freewill-
offering to the people, to the [2>]Kohanim[<2], and to the Levites.
Hilkiyah and Zekharyah and Yechi'el, the rulers of the house of God,
gave to the [3>]Kohanim[<3] for the Pesach offerings two thousand and
six hundred [small cattle], and three hundred oxen. {35:9} Kananyahu
also, and Shemayah and Netan'el, his brothers, and Hashavyah and
Ye`i'el and Yozavad, the chiefs of the Levites, gave to the Levites
for the Pesach offerings five thousand [small cattle], and five
hundred oxen. {35:10} So the service was prepared, and the
[4>]Kohanim[<4] stood in their place, and the Levites by their
courses, according to the king's [5>]mitzvah[<5]. {35:11} They killed
the Pesach, and the [6>]Kohanim[<6] sprinkled [the blood which they
received] of their hand, and the Levites flayed them. {35:12} They
removed the burnt offerings, that they might give them according to
the divisions of the fathers' houses of the children of the people, to
offer to the LORD, as it is written in the book of Moshe. So did they
with the oxen. {35:13} They roasted the Pesach with fire according to
the ordinance: and the holy offerings boiled they in pots, and in
caldrons, and in pans, and carried them quickly to all the children of
the people. {35:14} Afterward they prepared for themselves, and for
the [7>]Kohanim[<7], because the [8>]Kohanim[<8] the sons of Aharon
[were busied] in offering the burnt offerings and the fat until night:
therefore the Levites prepared for themselves, and for the
[9>]Kohanim[<9] the sons of Aharon. {35:15} The singers the sons of
Asaf were in their place, according to the [10>]mitzvah[<10] of David,
and Asaf, and Heman, and Yedutun the king's seer; and the porters were
at every gate: they didn't need to depart from their service; for
their brothers the Levites prepared for them. {35:16} So all the
service of the LORD was prepared the same day, to keep the Pesach, and
to offer burnt-offerings on the altar of the LORD, according to the
[11>]mitzvah[<11] of king Yoshiyahu. {35:17} The children of Yisra'el
who were present kept the Pesach at that time, and the feast of
[12>]matzah[<12] seven days. {35:18} There was no Pesach like that
kept in Yisra'el from the days of Shemu'el the prophet; neither did
any of the kings of Yisra'el keep such a Pesach as Yoshiyahu kept, and
the [13>]Kohanim[<13], and the Levites, and all Yehudah and Yisra'el
who were present, and the inhabitants of Yerushalayim. {35:19} In the
eighteenth year of the reign of Yoshiyahu was this Pesach kept.
{35:20} After all this, when Yoshiyahu had prepared the temple, Nekho
king of Mitzrayim went up to fight against Karkemish by the Perat: and
Yoshiyahu went out against him. {35:21} But he sent ambassadors to
him, saying, What have I to do with you, you king of Yehudah? [I come]
not against you this day, but against the house with which I have war;
and God has commanded me to make haste: forbear you from [meddling
with] God, who is with me, that he not destroy you. {35:22}
Nevertheless Yoshiyahu would not turn his face from him, but disguised
himself, that he might fight with him, and didn't listen to the words
of Nekho from the mouth of God, and came to fight in the valley of
Megiddo. {35:23} The archers shot at king Yoshiyahu; and the king said
to his servants, Have me away; for I am sore wounded. {35:24} So his
servants took him out of the chariot, and put him in the second
chariot that he had, and brought him to Yerushalayim; and he died, and
was buried in the tombs of his fathers. All Yehudah and Yerushalayim
mourned for Yoshiyahu. {35:25} Yirmeyahu lamented for Yoshiyahu: and
all the singing men and singing women spoke of Yoshiyahu in their
lamentations to this day; and they made them an ordinance in Yisra'el:
and, behold, they are written in the lamentations. {35:26} Now the
rest of the acts of Yoshiyahu, and his good deeds, according to that
which is written in the law of the LORD, {35:27} and his acts, first
and last, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of
Yisra'el and Yehudah.
{36:1} Then the people of the land took Yeho'achaz the son of
Yoshiyahu, and made him king in his father's place in Yerushalayim.
{36:2} Yo'achaz was twenty-three years old when he began to reign; and
he reigned three months in Yerushalayim. {36:3} The king of Mitzrayim
deposed him at Yerushalayim, and fined the land one hundred talents of
silver and a talent of gold. {36:4} The king of Mitzrayim made Elyakim
his brother king over Yehudah and Yerushalayim, and changed his name
to Yehoiakim. Nekho took Yo'achaz his brother, and carried him to
Mitzrayim. {36:5} Yehoiakim was Twenty-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 the LORD his God. {36:6} Against him
came up Nevukhadnetztzar king of Bavel, and bound him in fetters, to
carry him to Bavel. {36:7} Nevukhadnetztzar also carried of the
vessels of the house of the LORD to Bavel, and put them in his temple
at Bavel. {36:8} Now the rest of the acts of Yehoiakim, 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 Yehudah: and
Yehoiakim his son reigned in his place. {36:9} Yehoiakim 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
the LORD. {36:10} At the return of the year king Nevukhadnetztzar
sent, and brought him to Bavel, with the goodly vessels of the house
of the LORD, and made Tzidkiyahu his brother king over Yehudah and
Yerushalayim. {36:11} Tzidkiyahu was twenty-one years old when he
began to reign; and he reigned eleven years in Yerushalayim: {36:12}
and he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD his God; he
didn't humble himself before Yirmeyahu the prophet [speaking] from the
mouth of the LORD. {36:13} He also rebelled against king
Nevukhadnetztzar, who had made him swear by God: but he stiffened his
neck, and hardened his heart against turning to the LORD, the God of
Yisra'el. {36:14} Moreover all the chiefs of the [1>]Kohanim[<1], and
the people, trespassed very greatly after all the abominations of the
nations; and they polluted the house of the LORD which he had made
holy in Yerushalayim. {36:15} The LORD, the God of their fathers, sent
to them by his messengers, rising up early and sending, because he had
compassion on his people, and on his dwelling-place: {36:16} but they
mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and scoffed at
his prophets, until the wrath of the LORD arose against his people,
until there was no remedy. {36:17} Therefore he brought on them the
king of the Kasdim, who killed their young men with the sword in the
house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion on young man or
virgin, old man or gray-headed: he gave them all into his hand.
{36:18} All the vessels of the house of God, great and small, and the
treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king, and
of his princes, all these he brought to Bavel. {36:19} They burnt the
house of God, and broke down the wall of Yerushalayim, and burnt all
the palaces of it with fire, and destroyed all the goodly vessels of
it. {36:20} Those who had escaped from the sword carried he away to
Bavel; and they were servants to him and his sons until the reign of
the kingdom of Paras: {36:21} to fulfill the word of the LORD by the
mouth of Yirmeyahu, until the land had enjoyed its Shabbatot: [for] as
long as it lay desolate it kept Shabbat, to fulfill seventy years.
{36:22} Now in the first year of Koresh king of Paras, that the word
of the LORD by the mouth of Yirmeyahu might be accomplished, the LORD
stirred up the spirit of Koresh king of Paras, so that he made a
proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and [put it] also in writing,
saying, {36:23} Thus says Koresh king of Paras, All the kingdoms of
the [2>]eretz[<2] has the LORD, the God of heaven, given me; and he
has charged me to build him a house in Yerushalayim, which is in
Yehudah. Whoever there is among you of all his people, the LORD his
God be with him, and let him go up.
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Footnotes:
[1] {34:5} priests
[2] {34:9} high priest
[3] {34:13} scribes
[4] {34:14} priest
[5] {34:15} scribe
[6] {34:18} scribe
[7] {34:18} priest
[8] {34:20} scribe
[9] {34:30} priests
[10] {34:31} commandments
[1] {35:2} priests
[2] {35:8} priests
[3] {35:8} priests
[4] {35:10} priests
[5] {35:10} commandment
[6] {35:11} priests
[7] {35:14} priests
[8] {35:14} priests
[9] {35:14} priests
[10] {35:15} commandment
[11] {35:16} commandment
[12] {35:17} unleavened bread
[13] {35:18} priests
[1] {36:14} priests
[2] {36:23} earth
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