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Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign; and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem.

בְמָלְכ֑וֹ (בְ) ve. “when”בִּירוּשָׁלִָֽם׃ (בִּ) bi. “in”

And he did evil in the sight of Jehovah, like the abominations of the nations that Jehovah had dispossessed from before the children of Israel.

בְּעֵינֵ֣י (בְּ) be. “in”

And he built altars in the house of Jehovah, of which Jehovah had said, In Jerusalem shall my name be for ever.

בְּבֵ֣ית (בְּ) be. “in”בִּירוּשָׁלִַ֥ם (בִּ) bi. “in”

And he built altars to all the host of heaven in both courts of the house of Jehovah.

בִּשְׁתֵּ֖י (בִּ) bi “in”

He also caused his children to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom; and he used magic and divination and sorcery, and appointed necromancers and soothsayers: he wrought evil beyond measure in the sight of Jehovah, to provoke him to anger.

בָּאֵשׁ֙ (בָּ) ba. “in the”בְּגֵ֣י (בְּ) be. “in”בְּעֵינֵ֥י (בְּ) be. “in”

And he set the graven image of the idol that he had made, in the house of God, of which God had said to David and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever;

בְּבֵ֣ית (בְּ) be. “in”בַּבַּ֨יִת (בַּ) ba. “in the”וּבִֽירוּשָׁלִַ֗ם (בִֽ) vi. “in”

neither will I any more remove the foot of Israel from out of the land that I have appointed to your fathers; if they will only take heed to do all that I commanded them through Moses, according to all the law and the statutes and the ordinances.

בְּיַד־ (בְּ) be. “by”

And Jehovah brought upon them the captains of the host of the king of Assyria, who took Manasseh with fetters, and bound him with chains of brass, and carried him to Babylon.

בַּחֹחִ֑ים (בַּ) ba. “with <the>”בַּֽנְחֻשְׁתַּ֔יִם (בַּֽ) ba “with <the>”

And after this he built the outer wall of the city of David, on the west, toward Gihon, in the valley, even to the entrance of the fish-gate, and carried it round Ophel, and raised it up a very great height; and he put captains of war in all the fortified cities of Judah.

בַּנַּ֜חַל (בַּ) ba. “in the”בְשַׁ֤עַר (בְ) ve. “in”בְּכָל־ (בְּ) be. “in”בִּיהוּדָֽה׃ (בִּ) bi. “in”

And he removed the strange gods, and the idol out of the house of Jehovah, and all the altars that he had built on the mount of the house of Jehovah and in Jerusalem, and cast [supplied: them] out of the city.

בְּהַ֥ר (בְּ) be. “on”וּבִירוּשָׁלִָ֑ם (בִ) vi. “in”

Nevertheless, the people sacrificed still on the high places, although to Jehovah their God only.

בַּבָּמ֑וֹת (בַּ) ba. “at the”

And the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and his prayer to his God, and the words of the seers that spoke to him in the name of Jehovah the God of Israel, behold, they [supplied: are written] in the acts of the kings of Israel.

בְּשֵׁ֥ם (בְּ) be. “in”

And his prayer, and [supplied: how God] was intreated of him, and all his sin and his unfaithfulness, and the places in which he built high places, and set up Asherahs and graven images, before he was humbled, behold, they are written among the words of Hozai.

בָהֶ֤ם (בָ) va. “at”

Amon was twenty-two years old when he began to reign; and he reigned two years in Jerusalem.

בְּמָלְכ֑וֹ (בְּ) be. “when”בִּֽירוּשָׁלִָֽם׃ (בִּֽ) Bi. “in”

And he did evil in the sight of Jehovah, as Manasseh his father had done; and Amon sacrificed to all the graven images that Manasseh his father had made, and served them.

בְּעֵינֵ֣י (בְּ) be. “in”

And his servants conspired against him, and slew him in his own house.

בְּבֵיתֽוֹ׃ (בְּ) be. “in”

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

בְמָלְכ֑וֹ (בְ) ve. “when”בִּירוּשָׁלִָֽם׃ (בִּ) bi. “in”

And he did what was right in the sight of Jehovah, and walked in the ways of David his father, and turned not aside to the right hand nor to the left.

בְּעֵינֵ֣י (בְּ) be. “in”בְּדַרְכֵי֙ (בְּ) be. “in”

And 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 Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, and the Asherahs, and the graven images, and the molten images.

וּבִשְׁמוֹנֶ֨ה (בִ) vi “in”וּבִשְׁתֵּ֧ים (בִ) vi “in”

And [supplied: so did he] in the cities of Manasseh and Ephraim and Simeon, even to Naphtali, in their ruins round about;

וּבְעָרֵ֨י (בְ) ve. “in”בְּחַרְבֹתֵיהֶ֖ם (בְּ) be. “with”

and he broke down the altars, and beat the Asherahs and the graven images into powder, and cut down all the sun-pillars throughout the land of Israel, and returned to Jerusalem.

בְּכָל־ (בְּ) be. “in”

And in the eighteenth year of his reign, when he purged the land and the house, he sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, and Maaseiah the governor of the city, and Joah the son of Joahaz the chronicler, to repair the house of Jehovah his God.

וּבִשְׁנַ֨ת (בִ) vi “in”

And they gave [supplied: it] into the hand of them that did the work, that had the oversight of the house of Jehovah; and they gave it to the workmen who wrought in the house of Jehovah to reinstate and repair the house:

בְּבֵ֣ית (בְּ) be. “in”בְּבֵ֣ית (בְּ) be. “in”

And the men did the work faithfully. And over them were appointed Jahath and Obadiah, Levites, of the children of Merari, and Zechariah and Meshullam, of the children of the Kohathites, for the oversight; and all these Levites were skilled in instruments of music.

בֶּאֱמוּנָ֜ה (בֶּ) be. “in”בַּמְּלָאכָ֗ה (בַּ) ba. “in the”בִּכְלֵי־ (בִּ) bi “in”

And when they brought out the money that had been brought into the house of Jehovah, Hilkijah the priest found the book of the law of Jehovah by Moses.

וּבְהוֹצִיאָ֣ם (בְ) ve. “when”בְּיַד־ (בְּ) be. “by”