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H4428Gמֶ֫לֶךְme.lekh
kingPart of speech: Hebrew Noun (Masculine)
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The king sent, and they gathered to him all the elders of Judah and of Jerusalem.
הַמֶּ֑לֶךְ (מֶּ֑לֶךְ) Me.lekh “king”
The king went up to the house of Yahweh, 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 Yahweh.
הַמֶּ֣לֶךְ (מֶּ֣לֶךְ) Me.lekh “king”
The king stood by the pillar, and made a covenant before Yahweh, to walk after Yahweh, and to keep his commandments, and his testimonies, and his statutes, with all [supplied: his] heart, and all [supplied: his] soul, to confirm the words of this covenant that were written in this book: and all the people stood to the covenant.
הַ֠מֶּלֶךְ (מֶּלֶךְ) Me.lekh “king”
The king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the threshold, to bring forth out of the temple of Yahweh all the vessels that were made for Baal, and for the Asherah, and for all the host of the sky, and he burned them outside of Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron, and carried the ashes of them to Bethel.
הַמֶּ֡לֶךְ (מֶּ֡לֶךְ) Me.lekh “king”
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; those also who burned incense to Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of the sky.
מַלְכֵ֣י mal.Khei “[the] kings of”
He took away the horses that the kings of Judah had given to the sun, at the entrance of the house of Yahweh, by the chamber of Nathan-melech the chamberlain, which was in the precincts; and he burned the chariots of the sun with fire.
מַלְכֵ֨י mal.Khei “[the] kings of”
The altars that were on the roof 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 Yahweh, did the king break down, and beat [supplied: them] down from there, and cast the dust of them into the brook Kidron.
מַלְכֵ֣י mal.Khei “[the] kings of”הַמֶּ֑לֶךְ (מֶּ֑לֶךְ) Me.lekh “king”
The high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on the right hand of the mountain of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, and for Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon, did the king defile.
מֶֽלֶךְ־ Me.lekh- “[the] king of”הַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃ (מֶּֽלֶךְ) Me.lekh “king”
All the houses also of the high places that were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke [supplied: Yahweh] to anger, Josiah took away, and did to them according to all the acts that he had done in Bethel.
מַלְכֵ֤י mal.Khei “[the] kings of”
The king commanded all the people, saying, Keep the Passover to Yahweh your God, as it is written in this book of the covenant.
הַמֶּ֙לֶךְ֙ (מֶּ֙לֶךְ֙) Me.lekh “king”
Surely there was not kept such a Passover from the days of the judges who judged Israel, nor in all the days of the kings of Israel, nor of the kings of Judah;
מַלְכֵ֥י mal.Khei “[the] kings of”וּמַלְכֵ֥י (מַלְכֵ֥י) mal.Khei “[the] kings of”
but in the eighteenth year of king Josiah was this Passover kept to Yahweh in Jerusalem.
לַמֶּ֖לֶךְ (מֶּ֖לֶךְ) Me.lekh “king”
Like him was there no king before him, who turned to Yahweh with all his heart, 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.
מֶ֗לֶךְ Me.lekh “a king”
Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and all that he did, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
לְמַלְכֵ֥י (מַלְכֵ֥י) mal.Khei “[the] kings of”
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 [supplied: Pharaoh Necoh] killed him at Megiddo, when he had seen him.
מֶֽלֶךְ־ Me.lekh- “[the] king of”מֶ֥לֶךְ Me.lekh “[the] king of”הַמֶּ֤לֶךְ (מֶּ֤לֶךְ) Me.lekh “king”
In his days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim became his servant three years: then he turned and rebelled against him.
מֶ֣לֶךְ Me.lekh “[the] king of”
Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and all that he did, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
לְמַלְכֵ֥י (מַלְכֵ֥י) mal.Khei “[the] kings of”
The king of Egypt didn't come again out of his land any more; for the king of Babylon had taken, from the brook of Egypt to the river Euphrates, all that pertained to the king of Egypt.
מֶ֣לֶךְ Me.lekh “[the] king of”מֶ֣לֶךְ Me.lekh “[the] king of”לְמֶ֥לֶךְ (מֶ֥לֶךְ) Me.lekh “[the] king of”
At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up to Jerusalem, and the city was besieged.
מֶֽלֶךְ־ Me.lekh- “[the] king of”
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to the city, while his servants were besieging it;
מֶֽלֶךְ־ Me.lekh- “[the] king of”
and Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out to the king of Babylon, he, and his mother, and his servants, and his princes, and his officers: and the king of Babylon took him in the eighth year of his reign.
מֶֽלֶךְ־ Me.lekh- “[the] king of”מֶ֣לֶךְ Me.lekh “[the] king of”מֶ֣לֶךְ Me.lekh “[the] king of”
He carried out there all the treasures of the house of Yahweh, and the treasures of the king's house, and cut in pieces all the vessels of gold, which Solomon king of Israel had made in the temple of Yahweh, as Yahweh had said.
הַמֶּ֑לֶךְ (מֶּ֑לֶךְ) Me.lekh “king”מֶֽלֶךְ־ Me.lekh- “[the] king of”
He carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon; 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 Jerusalem to Babylon.
הַ֠מֶּלֶךְ (מֶּלֶךְ) Me.lekh “king”הַמֶּ֜לֶךְ (מֶּ֜לֶךְ) Me.lekh “king”
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 Babylon brought captive to Babylon.
מֶֽלֶךְ־ Me.lekh- “[the] king of”
The king of Babylon made Mattaniah, [supplied: Jehoiachin's] father's brother, king is his place, and changed his name to Zedekiah.
מֶֽלֶךְ־ Me.lekh- “[the] king of”