H9023–הוּ–hu

For he put up again the high places which had been pulled down by his father Hezekiah; and he made altars for the Baals, and pillars of wood, and was a worshipper and servant of all the stars of heaven;

אָבִ֑יו (ו) v “his”

More than this, he made his children go through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom; and he made use of secret arts, and signs for reading the future, and unnatural powers, and gave positions to those who had control of spirits and to wonder-work

בָּנָ֤יו (ו) v “his”

And he put the image he had made in the house of God, the house of which God had said to David and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, the town which I have made mine out of all the tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever:

בְנ֔וֹ (וֹ) o “his”

And the word of the Lord came to Manasseh and his people, but they gave no attention.

עַמּ֖וֹ (וֹ) o “his”

And crying out to the Lord his God in his trouble, he made himself low before the God of his fathers,

אֱלֹהָ֑יו (ו) v “his”אֲבֹתָֽיו׃ (ו) v “his”

And made prayer to him; and in answer to his prayer God let him come back to Jerusalem and to his kingdom. Then Manasseh was certain that the Lord was God.

תְּחִנָּת֔וֹ (וֹ) o “his”לְמַלְכוּת֑וֹ (וֹ) o “his”

Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and his prayer to his God, and the words which the seers said to him in the name of the Lord, the God of Israel, are recorded among the acts of the kings of Israel.

וּתְפִלָּת֣וֹ (וֹ) o “his”אֱלֹהָיו֒ (ו֒) v “his”

And the prayer which he made to God, and how God gave him an answer, and all his sin and his wrongdoing, and the places where he made high places and put up pillars of wood and images, before he put away his pride, are recorded in the history of the seer

וּתְפִלָּת֣וֹ (וֹ) o “his”חַטָּאת֣וֹ (וֹ) o “his”וּמַעְלוֹ֒ (וֹ֒) o “his”

So Manasseh went to rest with his fathers, and they put his body to rest in his house, and Amon his son became king in his place.

אֲבֹתָ֔יו (ו) v “his”בֵּית֑וֹ (וֹ) o “his”בְּנ֖וֹ (וֹ) o “his”

He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, as Manasseh his father had done; and Amon made offerings to all the images which his father Manasseh had made, and was their servant.

אָבִ֑יו (ו) v “his”אָבִ֔יו (ו) v “his”

He did not make himself low before the Lord, as his father Manasseh had done, but went on sinning more and more.

אָבִ֑יו (ו) v “his”

And his servants made a secret design against him, and put him to death in his house.

עֲבָדָ֔יו (ו) v “his”בְּבֵיתֽוֹ׃ (וֹ) o “his”

But the people of the land put to death all those who had taken part in the design against King Amon, and made his son Josiah king in his place.

בְנ֖וֹ (וֹ) o “his”

And he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, walking in the ways of his father David, without turning to the right hand or to the left.

אָבִ֔יו (ו) v “his”

In the eighth year of his rule, while he was still young, his heart was first turned to the God of his father David; and in the twelfth year he undertook the clearing away of all the high places and the pillars and the images of wood and metal from Judah

אָבִ֑יו (ו) v “his”

He had the altars of the Baals broken down, while he himself was present; and the sun-images which were placed on high over them he had cut down; and the pillars of wood and the metal images he had broken up and crushed to dust, dropping the dust over th

לְפָנָ֗יו (ו) v “him”

Now in the eighteenth year of his rule, when the land and the house had been made clean, he sent Shaphan, the son of Azaliah, and Maaseiah, the ruler of the town, and Joah, the son of Joahaz, the recorder, to make good what was damaged in the house of th

אֱלֹהָֽיו׃ (ו) v “his”

And the king, hearing the words of the law, took his robe in his hands, violently parting it as a sign of his grief.

בְּגָדָֽיו׃ (ו) v “his”

These are the words of the Lord: See, I will send evil on this place and on its people, even all the curses in the book which they have been reading before the king of Judah;

יוֹשְׁבָ֑יו (ו) v “its”

And your heart was soft, and you made yourself low before God, on hearing his words about this place and its people, and with weeping and signs of grief have made yourself low before me, I have given ear to you, says the Lord God.

דְּבָרָיו֙ (ו֙) v “his”יֹ֣שְׁבָ֔יו (ו) v “its”

See, 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 and on its people. So they took this news back to the king.

יֹשְׁבָ֑יו (ו) v “its”

Then the king, taking his place by the pillar, made an agreement before the Lord, to go in the way of the Lord, and to keep his orders and his decisions and his rules with all his heart and with all his soul, and to keep the words of the agreement record

עָמְד֗וֹ (וֹ) o “his”מִצְוֹתָיו֙ (ו֙) v “his”וְעֵֽדְוֹתָ֣יו (ו) v “his”וְחֻקָּ֔יו (ו) v “his”לְבָב֖וֹ (וֹ) o “his”נַפְשׁ֑וֹ (וֹ) o “his”

Josiah took away all the disgusting things out of all the lands of the children of Israel, and made all who were in Israel servants of the Lord their God. And as long as he was living they were true to the Lord, the God of their fathers.

יָמָ֕יו (ו) v “his”

And he said to the Levites, the teachers of all Israel, who were holy to the Lord, See, the holy ark is in the house which Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel, made; it will no longer have to be transported on your backs: now be the servants of the

עַמּ֥וֹ (וֹ) o “his”

And make yourselves ready in your divisions, by your families, as it is ordered in the writings of David, king of Israel, and of Solomon his son;

בְנֽוֹ׃ (וֹ) o “his”