H3068G–יְהֹוָה–ye.ho.vah

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: Because you have given ear to my words,

בַּֽיהוָ֔ה (יהוָ֔ה) Yah.weh “Yahweh”יְהוָה֙ Yah.weh “Yahweh”

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.

יְהוָֽה׃ Yah.weh “Yahweh”

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

יְ֠הוָה Yah.weh “Yahweh”יְהוָֽה׃ Yah.weh “Yahweh”

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

יְהוָה֒ Yah.weh “Yahweh”יְהוָ֗ה Yah.weh “Yahweh”

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.

יְהוָ֣ה Yah.weh “Yahweh”יְהוָ֖ה Yah.weh “Yahweh”

And Josiah kept a Passover to the Lord in Jerusalem; on the fourteenth day of the first month they put the Passover lamb to death.

לַיהוָ֑ה (יהוָ֑ה) Yah.weh “Yahweh”

And he gave the priests their places, making them strong for the work of the house of God.

יְהוָֽה׃ Yah.weh “Yahweh”

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

לַיהוָ֗ה (יהוָ֗ה) Yah.weh “Yahweh”יְהוָ֣ה Yah.weh “Yahweh”

And put the Passover lamb to death, and make yourselves holy, and make it ready for your brothers, so that the orders given by the Lord through Moses may be done.

יְהוָ֖ה Yah.weh “Yahweh”

And they took away the burned offerings, so that they might give them to be offered to the Lord for the divisions of the families of the people, as it is recorded in the book of Moses. And they did the same with the oxen.

לַיהוָ֔ה (יהוָ֔ה) Yah.weh “Yahweh”

So everything needed for the worship of the Lord was made ready that same day, for the keeping of the Passover and the offering of burned offerings on the altar of the Lord, as King Josiah had given orders.

יְהוָ֜ה Yah.weh “Yahweh”יְהוָ֑ה Yah.weh “Yahweh”

Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and the good he did, in keeping with what is recorded in the law of the Lord,

יְהוָֽה׃ Yah.weh “Yahweh”

Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he became king; he was ruling in Jerusalem for eleven years, and he did evil in the eyes of the Lord his God.

יְהוָ֥ה Yah.weh “Yahweh”

And Nebuchadnezzar took away some of the vessels of the Lord's house, and put them in the house of his god in Babylon.

יְהוָ֔ה Yah.weh “Yahweh”

Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he became king; he was ruling in Jerusalem for three months and ten days, and he did evil in the eyes of the Lord.

יְהוָֽה׃ Yah.weh “Yahweh”

In the spring of the year King Nebuchadnezzar sent and took him away to Babylon, with the beautiful vessels of the house of the Lord, and made Zedekiah, his father's brother, king over Judah and Jerusalem.

יְהוָ֑ה Yah.weh “Yahweh”

He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, and did not make himself low before Jeremiah the prophet who gave him the word of the Lord.

יְהוָ֣ה Yah.weh “Yahweh”יְהוָֽה׃ Yah.weh “Yahweh”

And he took up arms against King Nebuchadnezzar, though he had made him take an oath by God; but he made his neck stiff and his heart hard, turning away from the Lord, the God of Israel.

יְהוָ֖ה Yah.weh “Yahweh”

And more than this, all the great men of Judah and the priests and the people made their sin great, turning to all the disgusting ways of the nations; and they made unclean the house of the Lord which he had made holy in Jerusalem.

יְהוָ֔ה Yah.weh “Yahweh”

And the Lord, the God of their fathers, sent word to them by his servants, sending early and frequently, because he had pity on his people and on his living-place;

יְהוָה֩ Yah.weh “Yahweh”

But they put shame on the servants of God, making sport of his words and laughing at his prophets, till the wrath of God was moved against his people, till there was no help.

יְהוָ֛ה Yah.weh “Yahweh”

And all the vessels of the house of God, great and small, and the stored wealth of the Lord's house and the wealth of the king and his chiefs, he took away to Babylon.

יְהוָ֔ה Yah.weh “Yahweh”

So that the words of the Lord, which he said by the mouth of Jeremiah, might come true, till the land had had pleasure in her Sabbaths; for as long as she was waste the land kept the Sabbath, till seventy years were complete.

יְהוָה֙ Yah.weh “Yahweh”

Now in the first year of Cyrus, king of Persia, in order that the words which the Lord had said by the mouth of Jeremiah might come true, the spirit of Cyrus, king of Persia, was moved by the Lord, and he made a public statement and had it given out thro

יְהוָ֖ה Yah.weh “Yahweh”יְהוָ֗ה Yah.weh “Yahweh”

Cyrus, king of Persia, has said, All the kingdoms of the earth have been given to me by the Lord, the God of heaven; and he has made me responsible for building a house for him in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Whoever there is among you of all his people

יְהוָה֙ Yah.weh “Yahweh”יְהוָ֧ה Yah.weh “Yahweh”