H9002–/וְ–v

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

וְאֶל־ (וְ) ve. “and”

Because thy heart was tender, and thou hast humbled thyself before the LORD, when thou heardest what I spoke against this place, and against its inhabitants, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and hast rent thy clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard thee, saith the LORD.

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

Behold therefore, I will gather thee to thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered into thy grave in peace; and thy eyes shall not see all the evil which 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 the LORD, 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 was found in the house of the LORD.

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 by a pillar, and made a covenant before the LORD, to walk after the LORD, and to keep his commandments, and his testimonies, and his statutes, with all their heart and all their soul, to perform the words of this covenant that were 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 Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the door, to bring forth out of the temple of the LORD all the vessels that were made for Baal, and for the grove, and for all the host of heaven: and he burned them without Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, and carried the ashes of them to Beth-el.

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

And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places around Jerusalem; them also that burned incense to Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, 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 children of Hinnom, that no man might make his son or his daughter to pass through the fire to Molech.

וְאֶת־ (וְ) ve. “and”

And he took away the horses that the kings of Judah had given to the sun, at the entrance of the house of the LORD, 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 altars that were on the top of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the LORD, did the king beat down, and broke them down from thence, and cast the dust of them into the brook 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 Beth-el, and the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, had made, both that altar and the high place he broke down, and burned the high place, and stamped it small to powder, and burned the grove.

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 the LORD to anger, Josiah took away, and did to them according to all the acts that he had done in Beth-el.

וְגַם֩ (וְ) ve. “and”

Surely there was not held 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 workers with familiar spirits, and the wizards, and the images, 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 perform the words of the law which were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of the LORD.

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 like him was there no king before him, that turned to the LORD 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 any like him.

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

And the LORD 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”

Now 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 and three years old when he began to reign; and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. And 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-nechoh put him in bands at Riblah in the land of Hamath, that he might not reign in Jerusalem; and subjected the land to a tribute 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 in the room of Josiah his father, and turned his name to Jehoiakim, and took Jehoahaz away: and he came to Egypt and died there.

וְאֶת־ (וְ) ve. “and”

And Jehoiakim gave the silver and the gold to Pharaoh; but he taxed the land to give the money according to the commandment of Pharaoh: he exacted the silver and the gold from the people of the land, from every one according to his taxation, to give it to Pharaoh-nechoh.

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

Jehoiakim was twenty and five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Zebudah, 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 Chaldees, and bands of the Syrians, and bands of the Moabites, and bands of the children of Ammon, and sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of the LORD, which he spoke by his servants the prophets.

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