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Then Shaphan the scribe said to the king, Hilkiah the priest has given me a book; and he was reading it before the king.

לַמֶּ֣לֶךְ (לַ) la. “to the”לֵאמֹ֔ר (לֵ) le. “<to>”לִ֔י (לִ֔) L “to”לִפְנֵ֥י (לִ) li “<to>”

And he gave orders to Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, and Achbor, the son of Micaiah, and Shaphan the scribe, and Asaiah the king's servant, saying,

לֵאמֹֽר׃ (לֵ) le. “<to>”

Go and get directions from the Lord for me and for the people and for all Judah, about the words of this book which has come to light; for great is the wrath of the Lord which is burning against us, because our fathers have not given ear to the words of

לַעֲשׂ֖וֹת (לַ) la. “to”

And she said to them, The Lord, the God of Israel, says, Say to the man who sent you to me,

לָאִ֔ישׁ (לָ) la. “to the”

Because they have given me up, burning offerings to other gods and moving me to wrath by all the work of their hands; so my wrath will be on fire against this place, and will not be put out.

לֵאלֹהִ֣ים (לֵ) le. “to”

But to the king of Judah who sent you to get directions from the Lord, say, This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, has said: As to the words which have come to your ears,

לִדְרֹ֣שׁ (לִ) li “to”

Because your heart was soft, and you made yourself low before me, when you had word of what I said against this place and its people, that they would become a waste and a curse, and you gave signs of grief, weeping before me: truly, I have given ear to y

לִהְי֤וֹת (לִ) li “to”לְשַׁמָּה֙ (לְ) le. “<into>”וְלִקְלָלָ֔ה (לִ) li “<into>”לְפָנָ֑י (לְ) le. “<to>”

For this cause I will let you go to your fathers and be put in your last resting-place in peace, and your eyes will not see all the evil which I will send on this place. So they took this news back to the king.

לָכֵן֩ (לָ) la. “<to>”

And the king went up to the house of the Lord, with all the men of Judah and all the people of Jerusalem, and the priests and the prophets and all the people, small and great; and they were present at his reading of the book of the law which had come to

לְמִקָּטֹ֣ן (לְ) le. “<to>”

And the king took his place by the pillar, and made an agreement before the Lord, to go in the way of the Lord, and keep his orders and his decisions and his rules with all his heart and all his soul, and to keep the words of the agreement recorded in th

לִפְנֵ֣י (לִ) li “<to>”לָלֶ֜כֶת (לָ) la. “to”וְלִשְׁמֹ֨ר (לִ) li “to”לְהָקִ֗ים (לְ) le. “to”

Then the king gave orders to Hilkiah, the chief priest, and to the priests of the second order, and to the keepers of the door, to take out of the house of the Lord all the vessels made for Baal and for the Asherah and for all the stars of heaven; and he

לְהוֹצִיא֙ (לְ) le. “to”לַבַּ֣עַל (לַ) la. “for <the>”וְלָֽאֲשֵׁרָ֔ה (לָֽ) la. “for <the>”וּלְכֹ֖ל (לְ) le. “for”לִירוּשָׁלִַ֙ם֙ (לִ) li. “of”

And he put an end to the false priests, who had been put in their positions by the kings of Judah to see to the burning of offerings in the high places in the towns of Judah and the outskirts of Jerusalem, and all those who made offerings to Baal and to

לַבַּ֗עַל (לַ) la. “to <the>”לַשֶּׁ֤מֶשׁ (לַ) la. “to the”וְלַיָּרֵ֙חַ֙ (לַ) lai. “to the”וְלַמַּזָּל֔וֹת (לַ) la “to the”וּלְכֹ֖ל (לְ) le. “to”

And he took the Asherah from the house of the Lord, outside Jerusalem to the stream Kidron, burning it by the stream and crushing it to dust, and he put the dust on the place where the bodies of the common people were put to rest.

לִירוּשָׁלִַ֙ם֙ (לִ) li. “of”לְעָפָ֑ר (לְ) le. “to”

And he had the houses pulled down of those who were used for sex purposes in the house of the Lord, where women were making robes for the Asherah.

לָאֲשֵׁרָֽה׃ (לָ) la. “for <the>”

And Topheth, in the valley of the sons of Hinnom, he made unclean, so that no man might make his son or his daughter go through the fire to Molech.

לְבִלְתִּ֗י (לְ) le. “to”לְהַעֲבִ֨יר (לְ) le. “to”לַמֹּֽלֶךְ׃ (לַ) la. “to <the>”

And he took away the horses which the kings of Judah had given to the sun, at the way into the house of the Lord, by the room of Nathan-melech, the unsexed servant, which was in the outer part of the building, and the carriages of the sun he put on fire.

לַשֶּׁ֙מֶשׁ֙ (לַ) la. “to the”

And the high places before Jerusalem, on the south side of the mountain of destruction, which Solomon, king of Israel, had made for Ashtoreth, the disgusting god of the Zidonians, and for Chemosh, the disgusting god of Moab, and for Milcom, the disgustin

לְהַר־ (לְ) le. “of”לְעַשְׁתֹּ֣רֶת׀ (לְ) le. “to”וְלִכְמוֹשׁ֙ (לִ) li “to”וּלְמִלְכֹּ֖ם (לְ) le. “to”

And the altar at Beth-el, and the high place put up by Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, who made Israel do evil, that altar and that high place were pulled down; and the high place was burned and crushed to dust and the Asherah was burned.

לְעָפָ֖ר (לְ) le. “to”

So he said, Let him be; let not his bones be moved. So they let his bones be with the bones of the prophet who came from Samaria.

ל֔וֹ (ל֔) l “<to>”

Then Josiah took away all the houses of the high places in the towns of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had put up, moving the Lord to wrath, and he did with them as he had done in Beth-el.

לְהַכְעִ֔יס (לְ) le. “to”לָהֶ֔ם (לָ) la. “to”

And the king gave orders to all the people, saying, Keep the Passover to the Lord your God, as it says in this book of the law.

לֵאמֹ֔ר (לֵ) le. “<to>”לַֽיהוָ֖ה (לַֽ) la. “to”

In the eighteenth year of the rule of King Josiah this Passover was kept to the Lord in Jerusalem.

לַמֶּ֖לֶךְ (לַ) la. “of the”לַיהוָ֖ה (לַ) la. “to”

Never before had there been a king like him, turning to the Lord with all his heart and with all his soul and with all his power, as the law of Moses says; and after him there was no king like him.

לְפָנָ֜יו (לְ) le. “<to>”

Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and all he did, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Judah?

לְמַלְכֵ֥י (לְ) le. “of”

In his days, Pharaoh-necoh, king of Egypt, sent his armies against the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates; and King Josiah went out against him; and he put him to death at Megiddo, when he had seen him.

לִקְרָאת֔וֹ (לִ) li “to”