H3063G–יְהוּדָה–ye.hu.dah

Now in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, Sennacherib, king of Assyria, came up against all the walled towns of Judah and took them.

יְהוּדָ֛ה ye.hu.Dah “Judah”

And Hezekiah, king of Judah, sent to Lachish, to the king of Assyria, saying, I have done wrong; give up attacking me, and whatever you put on me I will undergo. And the payment he was to make was fixed by the king of Assyria at three hundred talents of

יְהוּדָ֣ה ye.hu.Dah “Judah”יְהוּדָ֗ה ye.hu.Dah “Judah”

And at that time Hezekiah had the gold from the doors of the Lord's house, and from the door-pillars plated by him, cut off and gave it to the king of Assyria.

יְהוּדָ֑ה ye.hu.Dah “Judah”

And if you say to me, Our hope is in the Lord our God: is it not he, whose high places and altars Hezekiah has taken away, saying to Judah and Jerusalem that worship may only be given before this altar in Jerusalem?

לִֽיהוּדָה֙ (יהוּדָה֙) hu.Dah “Judah”

This is what you are to say to Hezekiah, king of Judah: Let not your God, in whom is your faith, give you a false hope, saying, Jerusalem will not be given into the hands of the king of Assyria.

יְהוּדָה֙ ye.hu.Dah “Judah”

And those of Judah who are still living will again take root in the earth and give fruit.

יְהוּדָ֛ה ye.hu.Dah “Judah”

Now the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and his power, and how he made the pool and the stream, to take water into the town, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Judah?

יְהוּדָֽה׃ ye.hu.Dah “Judah”

Because Manasseh, king of Judah, has done these disgusting things, doing more evil than all the Amorites before him, and making Judah do evil with his false gods,

יְהוּדָה֙ ye.hu.Dah “Judah”יְהוּדָ֖ה ye.hu.Dah “Judah”

For this cause, says the Lord, the God of Israel, I will send such evil on Jerusalem and Judah that the ears of all to whom the news comes will be burning.

וִֽיהוּדָ֑ה (יהוּדָ֑ה) hu.Dah “Judah”

More than this, Manasseh took the lives of upright men, till Jerusalem from one end to the other was full of blood; in addition to his sin in making Judah do evil in the eyes of the Lord.

יְהוּדָ֔ה ye.hu.Dah “Judah”

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

יְהוּדָֽה׃ ye.hu.Dah “Judah”

Now the rest of the acts which Amon did, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Judah?

יְהוּדָֽה׃ ye.hu.Dah “Judah”

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

יְהוּדָ֔ה ye.hu.Dah “Judah”

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

יְהוּדָֽה׃ ye.hu.Dah “Judah”

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,

יְהוּדָ֗ה ye.hu.Dah “Judah”

Then the king sent and got together all the responsible men of Judah and of Jerusalem.

יְהוּדָ֖ה ye.hu.Dah “Judah”

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

יְהוּדָה֩ ye.hu.Dah “Judah”

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

יְהוּדָ֔ה ye.hu.Dah “Judah”יְהוּדָ֔ה ye.hu.Dah “Judah”

And he made all the priests from the towns of Judah come into Jerusalem, and he made unclean the high places where the priests had been burning offerings, from Geba to Beer-sheba; and he had the high places of the evil spirits pulled down which were by t

יְהוּדָ֔ה ye.hu.Dah “Judah”

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.

יְהוּדָ֤ה ye.hu.Dah “Judah”

And the altars on the roof of the high room of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two outer squares of the house of the Lord, were pulled down and crushed to bits, and the dust of them was put into the

יְהוּדָ֗ה ye.hu.Dah “Judah”

What is that headstone I see over there? And the men of the town said to him, It is the resting-place of the man of God who came from Judah and gave word of all these things which you have done to the altar of Beth-el.

מִֽיהוּדָ֔ה (יהוּדָ֔ה) hu.Dah “Judah”

Truly, such a Passover had not been kept in all the days of the judges of Israel or of the kings of Israel or the kings of Judah;

יְהוּדָֽה׃ ye.hu.Dah “Judah”

And all those who had control of spirits, and the wonder-workers, and the images, and the false gods, and all the disgusting things which were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, Josiah put away, so that he might give effect to the words of the a

יְהוּדָה֙ ye.hu.Dah “Judah”

But still the heat of the Lord's wrath was not turned back from Judah, because of all Manasseh had done in moving him to wrath.

בִּֽיהוּדָ֑ה (יהוּדָ֑ה) hu.Dah “Judah”