H9002–/וְ–v

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,

וְאֶל־ (וְ) ve. “and”

Because your heart was soft, and you made yourself low before me, when you had word of what I said against this place and its people, that they would become a waste and a curse, and you gave signs of grief, weeping before me: truly, I have given ear to y

וְעַל־ (וְ) ve. “and”וְלִקְלָלָ֔ה (וְ) ve. “and”וְגַ֧ם (וְ) ve. “and”

For this cause 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. So they took this news back to the king.

וְלֹא־ (וְ) ve. “and”

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

וִירוּשָׁלִָֽם׃ (וִ) vi. “and”

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

וְכָל־ (וְ) ve. “and”וְכָל־ (וְ) ve. “and”וְהַכֹּֽהֲנִים֙ (וְ) ve. “and”וְהַנְּבִיאִ֔ים (וְ) ve. “and”וְכָל־ (וְ) ve. “and”וְעַד־ (וְ) ve. “and”

And the king took his place by the pillar, and made an agreement before the Lord, to go in the way of the Lord, and keep his orders and his decisions and his rules with all his heart and all his soul, and to keep the words of the agreement recorded in th

וְלִשְׁמֹ֨ר (וְ) ve. “and”וְאֶת־ (וְ) ve. “and”וְאֶת־ (וְ) ve. “and”וּבְכָל־ (וּ) u. “and”

Then the king gave orders to Hilkiah, the chief priest, and to the priests of the second order, and to the keepers of the door, to take out of the house of the Lord all the vessels made for Baal and for the Asherah and for all the stars of heaven; and he

וְאֶת־ (וְ) ve. “and”וְאֶת־ (וְ) ve. “and”וְלָֽאֲשֵׁרָ֔ה (וְ) ve. “and”וּלְכֹ֖ל (וּ) u. “and”

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

וּמְסִבֵּ֖י (וּ) u. “and”וְאֶת־ (וְ) ve. “and”וְלַיָּרֵ֙חַ֙ (וְ) ve. “and”וְלַמַּזָּל֔וֹת (וְ) ve. “and”וּלְכֹ֖ל (וּ) u. “and”

And Topheth, in the valley of the sons of Hinnom, he made unclean, so that no man might make his son or his daughter go through the fire to Molech.

וְאֶת־ (וְ) ve. “and”

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.

וְאֶת־ (וְ) ve. “and”

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

וְאֶֽת־ (וְ) ve. “and”וְאֶת־ (וְ) ve. “and”

And the high places before Jerusalem, on the south side of the mountain of destruction, which Solomon, king of Israel, had made for Ashtoreth, the disgusting god of the Zidonians, and for Chemosh, the disgusting god of Moab, and for Milcom, the disgustin

וְֽאֶת־ (וְֽ) ve. “and”וְלִכְמוֹשׁ֙ (וְ) ve. “and”וּלְמִלְכֹּ֖ם (וּ) u. “and”

And the altar at Beth-el, and the high place put up by Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, who made Israel do evil, that altar and that high place were pulled down; and the high place was burned and crushed to dust and the Asherah was burned.

וְגַ֨ם (וְ) ve. “and”וְאֶת־ (וְ) ve. “and”

Then Josiah took away all the houses of the high places in the towns of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had put up, moving the Lord to wrath, and he did with them as he had done in Beth-el.

וְגַם֩ (וְ) ve. “and”

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;

וְכֹ֗ל (וְ) ve. “and”וּמַלְכֵ֥י (וּ) u. “and”

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

וְגַ֣ם (וְ) ve. “and”וְאֶת־ (וְ) ve. “and”וְאֶת־ (וְ) ve. “and”וְאֶת־ (וְ) ve. “and”וְאֵ֣ת (וְ) ve. “and”וּבִיר֣וּשָׁלִַ֔ם (וּ) u. “and”

Never before had there been a king like him, turning to the Lord with all his heart and with all his soul and with all his power, as the law of Moses says; and after him there was no king like him.

וְכָמֹהוּ֩ (וְ) ve. “and”וּבְכָל־ (וּ) u. “and”וּבְכָל־ (וּ) u. “and”וְאַחֲרָ֖יו (וְ) ve. “and”

And the Lord said, I will send Judah away from before my face, as I have sent Israel; I will have nothing more to do with this town, which I had made mine, even Jerusalem, and the holy house of which I said, My name will be there.

וְאֶת־ (וְ) ve. “and”

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

וְיֶ֛תֶר (וְ) ve. “and”וְכָל־ (וְ) ve. “and”

Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he became king, ruling in Jerusalem for three months; his mother's name was Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.

וְשָׁלֹ֤שׁ (וְ) ve. “and”וּשְׁלֹשָׁ֣ה (וּ) u. “and”וְשֵׁ֣ם (וְ) ve. “and”

And Pharaoh-necoh put him in chains at Riblah in the land of Hamath, so that he might not be king in Jerusalem; and took from the land a tax of a hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.

וְכִכַּ֥ר (וְ) ve. “and”

Then Pharaoh-necoh made Eliakim, the son of Josiah, king in place of Josiah his father, changing his name to Jehoiakim; but Jehoahaz he took away to Egypt, where he was till his death.

וְאֶת־ (וְ) ve. “and”

And Jehoiakim gave the silver and gold to Pharaoh, taxing the land by his orders to get the money; the people of the land had to give silver and gold, everyone as he was taxed, to make the payment to Pharaoh-necoh.

וְהַכֶּ֣סֶף (וְ) ve. “and”וְהַזָּהָ֗ב (וְ) ve. “and”וְאֶת־ (וְ) ve. “and”

Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he became king; he was ruling in Jerusalem for eleven years; his mother's name was Zebidah, the daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah.

וְחָמֵ֤שׁ (וְ) ve. “and”וְאַחַ֤ת (וְ) ve. “and”וְשֵׁ֣ם (וְ) ve. “and”

And the Lord sent against him bands of the Chaldaeans and of the Edomites and of the Moabites and of the children of Ammon; sending them against Judah for its destruction, as he had said by his servants the prophets.

וְאֶת־ (וְ) ve. “and”וְאֵ֣ת׀ (וְ) ve. “and”וְאֵת֙ (וְ) ve. “and”