H2977G–יֹאשִׁיָּ֫הוּ–yo.shiy.yah

And he cried against the altar by the word of Jehovah, and said, O altar, altar! thus saith Jehovah: Behold, a child shall be born unto the house of David, Josiah by name; and upon thee shall he sacrifice the priests of the high places that burn incense upon thee, and men's bones shall be burned upon thee.

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

But the people of the land smote 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-one years in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was Jedidah, daughter of Adaiah of Bozcath.

יֹאשִׁיָּ֣הוּ yo.shi.Ya.hu “Josiah”

And it came to pass in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, [ergänzt: that] the king sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, son of Meshullam, the scribe, to the house of Jehovah, saying,

יֹאשִׁיָּ֑הוּ yo.shi.Ya.hu “Josiah”

And Josiah turned himself, and saw the sepulchres that were there on the mount; and he sent and took the bones out of the sepulchres, and burned [ergänzt: them] upon the altar, and defiled it, according to the word of Jehovah, that the man of God had proclaimed, who proclaimed these things.

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 [ergänzt: Jehovah] to anger, Josiah removed, and did to them according to all the acts that he had done in Bethel.

יֹֽאשִׁיָּ֑הוּ yo.shi.Ya.hu “Josiah”

but in the eighteenth year of king Josiah was this passover holden to Jehovah in Jerusalem.

יֹֽאשִׁיָּ֑הוּ yo.shi.Ya.hu “Josiah”

Moreover the necromancers and the soothsayers, and the teraphim and the idols, and all the abominations that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, Josiah took away, that he might perform the words of the law which were written in the book that Hilkijah the priest had found in the house of Jehovah.

יֹֽאשִׁיָּ֑הוּ yo.shi.Ya.hu “Josiah”

And 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-Nechoh king of Egypt went up against the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates; and king Josiah went against him; but [ergänzt: Nechoh] 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-Nechoh made Eliakim the son of Josiah king instead of Josiah his father, and changed his name to Jehoiakim. And he took Jehoahaz; 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 smote 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-one years in Jerusalem.

יֹאשִׁיָּ֣הוּ yo.shi.Ya.hu “Josiah”

And Josiah removed all the abominations out of all the countries that belonged to the children of Israel, and made to serve all that were found in Israel, -- to serve Jehovah their God: all his days they did not depart from following Jehovah, the God of their fathers.

יֹֽאשִׁיָּ֜הוּ yo.shi.Ya.hu “Josiah”

And Josiah held a passover to Jehovah in Jerusalem; and they slaughtered the passover on the fourteenth of the first month.

יֹאשִׁיָּ֧הוּ yo.shi.Ya.hu “Josiah”

And Josiah gave for the children of the people a heave-offering of the flocks, lambs and goats, all for the passover-offerings, for 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”

And all the service of Jehovah was prepared the same day, to hold the passover, and to offer burnt-offerings on the altar of Jehovah according to the commandment of king Josiah.

יֹאשִׁיָּֽהוּ׃ yo.shi.Ya.hu “Josiah”

And there was no passover like to that holden in Israel from the days of Samuel the prophet; neither did all the kings of Israel hold such a passover as Josiah held, and the priests, and the Levites, and all Judah and Israel that were present, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

יֹֽ֠אשִׁיָּהוּ Yo.shi.ya.hu “Josiah”

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

יֹאשִׁיָּ֑הוּ yo.shi.Ya.hu “Josiah”

After all this, when Josiah had arranged the house, Necho king of Egypt came up to fight against Karkemish at the Euphrates; and Josiah went out against him.

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

But Josiah would not turn his face from him, but disguised himself, that he might fight against him; and he hearkened not to the words of Necho from the mouth of God; and he came to fight in the valley of Megiddo.

יֹאשִׁיָּ֨הוּ yo.shi.Ya.hu “Josiah”