H0853–אֵת–et

For Yahweh brought Judah low because of Ahaz king of Israel; for he had dealt wantonly in Judah, and trespassed severely against Yahweh.

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For Ahaz took away a portion out of the house of Yahweh, and out of the house of the king and of the princes, and gave it to the king of Assyria: but it didn't help him.

אֶת־ 'et- “<obj.>”וְאֶת־ (אֶת) 'Et “<obj.>”

For he sacrificed to the gods of Damascus, which struck him; and he said, Because the gods of the kings of Syria helped them, [supplied: therefore] will I sacrifice to them, that they may help me. But they were the ruin of him, and of all Israel.

אוֹתָ֔ם (אוֹתָ֔) 'o.Ta “<obj.>”

Ahaz gathered together the vessels of the house of God, and cut in pieces the vessels of the house of God, and shut up the doors of the house of Yahweh; and he made him altars in every corner of Jerusalem.

אֶת־ 'et- “<obj.>”אֶת־ 'et- “<obj.>”אֶת־ 'et- “<obj.>”

In every city of Judah he made high places to burn incense to other gods, and provoked to anger Yahweh, the God of his fathers.

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He in the first year of his reign, in the first month, opened the doors of the house of Yahweh, and repaired them.

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He brought in the priests and the Levites, and gathered them together into the broad place on the east,

אֶת־ 'et- “<obj.>”וְאֶת־ (אֶת) 'Et “<obj.>”

and said to them, Hear me, you Levites; now sanctify yourselves, and sanctify the house of Yahweh, the God of your fathers, and carry forth the filthiness out of the holy place.

אֶת־ 'et- “<obj.>”אֶת־ 'et- “<obj.>”

Also they have shut up the doors of the porch, and put out the lamps, and have not burned incense nor offered burnt offerings in the holy place to the God of Israel.

אֶת־ 'et- “<obj.>”

They gathered their brothers, and sanctified themselves, and went in, according to the commandment of the king by the words of Yahweh, to cleanse the house of Yahweh.

אֶת־ 'et- “<obj.>”

The priests went in to the inner part of the house of Yahweh, to cleanse it, and brought out all the uncleanness that they found in the temple of Yahweh into the court of the house of Yahweh. The Levites took it, to carry it out abroad to the brook Kidron.

אֵ֤ת 'et “<obj.>”

Now they began on the first [supplied: day] of the first month to sanctify, and on the eighth day of the month came they to the porch of Yahweh; and they sanctified the house of Yahweh in eight days: and on the sixteenth day of the first month they made an end.

אֶת־ 'et- “<obj.>”

Then they went in to Hezekiah the king within [supplied: the palace], and said, We have cleansed all the house of Yahweh, and the altar of burnt offering, with all the vessels of it, and the table of show bread, with all the vessels of it.

אֶת־ 'et- “<obj.>”אֶת־ 'et- “<obj.>”וְאֶת־ (אֶת) 'Et “<obj.>”וְאֶת־ (אֶת) 'Et “<obj.>”וְאֶת־ (אֶת) 'Et “<obj.>”

Moreover all the vessels, which king Ahaz in his reign did cast away when he trespassed, have we prepared and sanctified; and, behold, they are before the altar of Yahweh.

וְאֵ֣ת (אֵ֣ת) 'Et “<obj.>”

Then Hezekiah the king arose early, and gathered the princes of the city, and went up to the house of Yahweh.

אֵ֖ת 'et “<obj.>”

So they killed the bulls, and the priests received the blood, and sprinkled it on the altar: and they killed the rams, and sprinkled the blood on the altar: they killed also the lambs, and sprinkled the blood on the altar.

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They brought near the male goats for the sin-offering before the king and the assembly; and they laid their hands on them:

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and the priests killed them, and they made a sin-offering with their blood on the altar, to make atonement for all Israel; for the king commanded [supplied: that] the burnt offering and the sin-offering [supplied: should be made] for all Israel.

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He set the Levites in the house of Yahweh with cymbals, with psalteries, and with harps, according to the commandment of David, and of Gad the king's seer, and Nathan the prophet; for the commandment was of Yahweh by his prophets.

אֶת־ 'et- “<obj.>”

But the priests were too few, so that they could not flay all the burnt offerings: therefore their brothers the Levites helped them, until the work was ended, and until the priests had sanctified themselves; for the Levites were more upright in heart to sanctify themselves than the priests.

אֶת־ 'et- “<obj.>”

Now don't you be stiff-necked, as your fathers were; but yield yourselves to Yahweh, and enter into his sanctuary, which he has sanctified forever, and serve Yahweh your God, that his fierce anger may turn away from you.

אֶת־ 'et- “<obj.>”

There assembled at Jerusalem much people to keep the feast of unleavened bread in the second month, a very great assembly.

אֶת־ 'et- “<obj.>”

They arose and took away the altars that were in Jerusalem, and all the altars for incense took they away, and cast them into the brook Kidron.

אֶת־ 'et- “<obj.>”וְאֵ֤ת (אֵ֤ת) 'Et “<obj.>”

They stood in their place after their order, according to the law of Moses the man of God: the priests sprinkled the blood [supplied: which they received] of the hand of the Levites.

אֶת־ 'et- “<obj.>”

For a multitude of the people, even many of Ephraim and Manasseh, Issachar and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet did they eat the Passover otherwise than it is written. For Hezekiah had prayed for them, saying, The good Yahweh pardon everyone

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