H2977G–יֹאשִׁיָּ֫הוּ–yo.shiy.yah

He cried against the altar by the word of Yahweh, and said, altar, altar, thus says Yahweh: Behold, a son shall be born to the house of David, Josiah by name; and on you shall he sacrifice the priests of the high places who burn incense on you, and men's bones shall they burn on you.

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

But the people of the land killed all those who had conspired against king Amon; and the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his place.

יֹאשִׁיָּ֥הוּ yo.shi.Ya.hu “Josiah”

He was buried in his tomb in the garden of Uzza: and Josiah his son reigned in his place.

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 the daughter of Adaiah of Bozkath.

יֹאשִׁיָּ֣הוּ yo.shi.Ya.hu “Josiah”

It happened in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, that the king sent Shaphan, the son of Azaliah the son of Meshullam, the scribe, to the house of Yahweh, saying,

יֹאשִׁיָּ֑הוּ yo.shi.Ya.hu “Josiah”

As Josiah turned himself, he spied the tombs that were there in the mountain; and he sent, and took the bones out of the tombs, and burned them on the altar, and defiled it, according to the word of Yahweh which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these things.

יֹאשִׁיָּ֗הוּ yo.shi.Ya.hu “Josiah”

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: Yahweh] to anger, Josiah took away, 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 kept to Yahweh in Jerusalem.

יֹֽאשִׁיָּ֑הוּ yo.shi.Ya.hu “Josiah”

Moreover those who had familiar spirits, and the wizards, and the teraphim, and the idols, and all the abominations that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, did Josiah put away, that he might confirm the words of the law which were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of Yahweh.

יֹֽאשִׁיָּ֑הוּ yo.shi.Ya.hu “Josiah”

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?

יֹאשִׁיָּ֖הוּ yo.shi.Ya.hu “Josiah”

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 [ergänzt: Pharaoh Necoh] killed him at Megiddo, when he had seen him.

יֹאשִׁיָּ֙הוּ֙ yo.shi.Ya.hu “Josiah”

His servants carried him in a chariot dead from Megiddo, and brought him to Jerusalem, and buried him in his own tomb. The people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and anointed him, and made him king in his father's place.

יֹ֣אשִׁיָּ֔הוּ yo.shi.Ya.hu “Josiah”

Pharaoh Necoh made Eliakim the son of Josiah king in the room of Josiah his father, and changed his name to Jehoiakim: but he took Jehoahaz away; 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”

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 killed all those who had conspired against king Amon; and the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his place.

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”

Josiah took away all the abominations out of all the countries that pertained to the children of Israel, and made all who were found in Israel to serve, even to serve Yahweh their God. All his days they didn't depart from following Yahweh, the God of their fathers.

יֹֽאשִׁיָּ֜הוּ yo.shi.Ya.hu “Josiah”

Josiah kept a Passover to Yahweh in Jerusalem: and they killed the Passover on the fourteenth [ergänzt: day] of the first month.

יֹאשִׁיָּ֧הוּ yo.shi.Ya.hu “Josiah”

Josiah gave to the children of the people, of the flock, lambs and kids, all of them for the Passover offerings, to all who were present, to the number of thirty thousand, and three thousand bulls: these were of the king's substance.

יֹאשִׁיָּ֣הוּ yo.shi.Ya.hu “Josiah”

So all the service of Yahweh was prepared the same day, to keep the Passover, and to offer burnt-offerings on the altar of Yahweh, according to the commandment of king Josiah.

יֹאשִׁיָּֽהוּ׃ yo.shi.Ya.hu “Josiah”

There was no Passover like that kept in Israel from the days of Samuel the prophet; neither did any of the kings of Israel keep such a Passover as Josiah kept, and the priests, and the Levites, and all Judah and Israel who 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 kept.

יֹאשִׁיָּ֑הוּ yo.shi.Ya.hu “Josiah”

After all this, when Josiah had prepared the temple, Neco king of Egypt went up to fight against Carchemish by the Euphrates: and Josiah went out against him.

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

Nevertheless Josiah would not turn his face from him, but disguised himself, that he might fight with him, and didn't listen to the words of Neco from the mouth of God, and came to fight in the valley of Megiddo.

יֹאשִׁיָּ֨הוּ yo.shi.Ya.hu “Josiah”