H9002–/וְ–v

But to the king of Judah, who sent you to inquire of Jehovah, thus shall ye say to him: Thus saith Jehovah the God of Israel touching the words which thou hast heard:

וְאֶל־ (וְ) ve. “and”

Because thy heart was tender, and thou didst humble thyself before Jehovah, when thou heardest what I spoke against this place and against the inhabitants thereof, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and didst rend thy garments and weep before me, I also have heard [ergänzt: thee], saith Jehovah.

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

Therefore, behold, I will gather thee unto thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered to thy grave in peace; and thine eyes shall not see all the evil that I will bring upon this place. And they brought the king word again.

וְלֹא־ (וְ) ve. “and”

And the king sent, and they gathered to him all the elders of Judah and of Jerusalem.

וִירוּשָׁלִָֽם׃ (וִ) vi. “and”

And the king went up into the house of Jehovah, and all the men of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem with him, and the priests and the prophets, and all the people, both small and great; and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant which had been found in the house of Jehovah.

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 stood on the dais, and made a covenant before Jehovah, to walk after Jehovah, and to keep his commandments and his testimonies and his statutes with all [ergänzt: his] heart, and with all [ergänzt: his] soul, to establish the words of this covenant that are written in this book. And all the people stood to the covenant.

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

And the king commanded Hilkijah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the doorkeepers, to bring forth out of the temple of Jehovah all the vessels that had been made for Baal, and for the Asherah, and for all the host of the heavens; and he burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, and carried the ashes of them to Bethel.

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

And he abolished the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense on the high places in the cities of Judah, and the environs of Jerusalem; and them that burned incense to Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the constellations, and to all the host of heaven.

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

And he defiled Topheth, which is in the valley of the sons of Hinnom, that no man might cause his son or his daughter to pass through the fire to Molech.

וְאֶת־ (וְ) ve. “and”

And he abolished the horses that the kings of Judah had appointed to the sun at the entrance of the house of Jehovah, by the chamber of Nathan-melech the chamberlain, which was in the suburbs, and burned the chariots of the sun, with fire.

וְאֶת־ (וְ) ve. “and”

And the king broke down the altars that were on the roof of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars that Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of Jehovah, and he shattered them, [ergänzt: removing them] from thence, and cast the powder of them into the torrent of Kidron.

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

And the high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on the right hand of the mount of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Zidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon, did the king defile.

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

Moreover the altar that was at Bethel, the high place that Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who caused Israel to sin, had made, both that altar and the high place he broke down; and burned the high place, stamped it small to powder, and burned the Asherah.

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

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.

וְגַם֩ (וְ) ve. “and”

For there was not holden such a passover from the days of the judges that judged Israel, nor in all the days of the kings of Israel, nor of the kings of Judah;

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

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.

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

And before him there had been no king like him that turned to Jehovah with all his heart and with all his soul and with all his might, according to all the law of Moses; neither after him arose there his like.

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

And Jehovah said, I will remove Judah also out of my sight, as I have removed Israel, and will reject this city Jerusalem which I have chosen, and the house of which I said, My name shall be there.

וְאֶת־ (וְ) ve. “and”

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?

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

Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he began to reign; and he reigned three months in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was Hamutal, daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.

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

And Pharaoh-Nechoh had him bound at Riblah in the land of Hamath, that he might not reign in Jerusalem; and laid a tribute upon the land of a hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.

וְכִכַּ֥ר (וְ) ve. “and”

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.

וְאֶת־ (וְ) ve. “and”

And Jehoiakim gave the silver and the gold to Pharaoh; but he laid a proportional tax on the land to give the money according to the command of Pharaoh: he exacted the silver and the gold of the people of the land, of every one according to his estimation, to give it to Pharaoh-Nechoh.

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

Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was Zebuddah, daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah.

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

And Jehovah sent against him the bands of the Chaldeans, and the bands of the Syrians, and the bands of the Moabites, and the bands of the children of Ammon, and sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of Jehovah, which he spoke through his servants the prophets.

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