H2977G–יֹאשִׁיָּ֫הוּ–yo.shiy.yah

And he cried against the altar by the word of the LORD, and said: 'O altar, altar, thus saith the LORD: Behold, a son shall be born unto the house of David, Josiah by name; and upon thee shall he sacrifice the priests of the high places that offer upon t

יֹאשִׁיָּ֣הוּ yo.shi.Ya.hu “[will be] Josiah”

But the people of the land slew all them that had conspired against king Amon; and the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his stead.

יֹאשִׁיָּ֥הוּ yo.shi.Ya.hu “Josiah”

And he was buried in his sepulchre in the garden of Uzza; and Josiah his son reigned in his stead.

יֹאשִׁיָּ֥הוּ yo.shi.Ya.hu “Josiah”

Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign; and he reigned thirty and one years in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was Jedidah the daughter of Adaiah of Bozkath.

יֹאשִׁיָּ֣הוּ yo.shi.Ya.hu “Josiah”

And it came to pass in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, that the king sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, the son of Meshullam, the scribe, to the house of the LORD, saying.

יֹאשִׁיָּ֑הוּ yo.shi.Ya.hu “Josiah”

And as Josiah turned himself, he spied the sepulchres that were there in the mount; and he sent, and took the bones out of the sepulchres, and burned them upon the altar, and defiled it, according to the word of the LORD which the man of God proclaimed,

יֹאשִׁיָּ֗הוּ yo.shi.Ya.hu “Josiah”

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 the LORD, Josiah took away, and did to them according to all the acts that he had done in Beth-el.

יֹֽאשִׁיָּ֑הוּ yo.shi.Ya.hu “Josiah”

but in the eighteenth year of king Josiah was this passover kept to the LORD in Jerusalem.

יֹֽאשִׁיָּ֑הוּ yo.shi.Ya.hu “Josiah”

Moreover them that divined by a ghost or a familiar spirit, and the teraphim, and the idols, and all the detestable things that were spied in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, did Josiah put away, that he might confirm the words of the law which were w

יֹֽאשִׁיָּ֑הוּ yo.shi.Ya.hu “Josiah”

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?

יֹאשִׁיָּ֖הוּ yo.shi.Ya.hu “Josiah”

In his days Pharaoh-necoh king of Egypt 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.

יֹאשִׁיָּ֙הוּ֙ yo.shi.Ya.hu “Josiah”

And his servants carried him in a chariot dead from Megiddo, and brought him to Jerusalem, 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.

יֹ֣אשִׁיָּ֔הוּ yo.shi.Ya.hu “Josiah”

And Pharaoh-necoh made Eliakim the son of Josiah king in the room of Josiah his father, and changed his name to Jehoiakim; but he took Jehoahaz away; and he came to Egypt, and died there.

יֹאשִׁיָּ֗הוּ yo.shi.Ya.hu “Josiah”יֹאשִׁיָּ֣הוּ yo.shi.Ya.hu “Josiah”

Amon his son, Josiah his son.

יֹאשִׁיָּ֥הוּ yo.shi.Ya.hu “Josiah”

And the sons of Josiah: the firstborn Johanan, the second Jehoiakim, the third Zedekiah, the fourth Shallum.

יֹאשִׁיָּ֔הוּ yo.shi.Ya.hu “Josiah”

But the people of the land slew all them that had conspired against king Amon; and the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his stead.

יֹאשִׁיָּ֥הוּ yo.shi.Ya.hu “Josiah”

Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign; and he reigned thirty and one years in Jerusalem.

יֹאשִׁיָּ֣הוּ yo.shi.Ya.hu “Josiah”

And Josiah took away all the abominations out of all the countries that pertained to the children of Israel, and made all that were found in Israel to serve, even to serve the LORD their God. All his days they departed not from following the LORD, the Go

יֹֽאשִׁיָּ֜הוּ yo.shi.Ya.hu “Josiah”

And Josiah kept a passover unto the LORD in Jerusalem; and they killed the passover lamb on the fourteenth day of the first month.

יֹאשִׁיָּ֧הוּ yo.shi.Ya.hu “Josiah”

And Josiah gave to the children of the people, of the flock, lambs and kids, all of them for the passover-offerings, unto all that were present, to the number of thirty thousand, and three thousand bullocks; these were of the king's substance.

יֹאשִׁיָּ֣הוּ yo.shi.Ya.hu “Josiah”

So all the service of the LORD was prepared the same day, to keep the passover, and to offer burnt-offerings upon the altar of the LORD, according to the commandment of king Josiah.

יֹאשִׁיָּֽהוּ׃ yo.shi.Ya.hu “Josiah”

And there was no passover like to that kept in Israel from the days of Samuel the prophet; neither did any of the kings of Israel keep such a passover as Josiah kept, and the priests, and the Levites, and all Judah and Israel that were present, and the i

יֹֽ֠אשִׁיָּהוּ Yo.shi.ya.hu “Josiah”

In the eighteenth year of the reign of Josiah was this passover kept.

יֹאשִׁיָּ֑הוּ yo.shi.Ya.hu “Josiah”

After all this, when Josiah had prepared the temple, Neco king of Egypt went up to fight against Carchemish by the Euphrates; and Josiah went out against him.

יֹֽאשִׁיָּ֙הוּ֙ yo.shi.Ya.hu “Josiah”יֹאשִׁיָּֽהוּ׃ yo.shi.Ya.hu “Josiah”

Nevertheless Josiah would not turn his face from him, but disguised himself, that he might fight with him, and hearkened not unto the words of Neco, from the mouth of God, and came to fight in the valley of Megiddo.

יֹאשִׁיָּ֨הוּ yo.shi.Ya.hu “Josiah”