H9002–/וְ–v

But to the king of Judah, who sent you to inquire of Yahweh, thus shall you tell him, Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel: As touching the words which you have heard,

וְאֶל־ (וְ) ve. “and”

because your heart was tender, and you did humble yourself before Yahweh, when you heard what I spoke against this place, and against the inhabitants of it, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and have torn your clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard you, says Yahweh.

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

Therefore, behold, I will gather you to your fathers, and you shall be gathered to your grave in peace, neither shall your eyes see all the evil which I will bring on this place. They brought the king word again.

וְלֹא־ (וְ) ve. “and”

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

וִירוּשָׁלִָֽם׃ (וִ) vi. “and”

The king went up to the house of Yahweh, 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 Yahweh.

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

The king stood by the pillar, and made a covenant before Yahweh, to walk after Yahweh, and to keep his commandments, and his testimonies, and his statutes, with all [ergänzt: his] heart, and all [ergänzt: his] soul, to confirm 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”

The king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the threshold, to bring forth out of the temple of Yahweh all the vessels that were made for Baal, and for the Asherah, and for all the host of the sky, and he burned them outside of Jerusalem in the fields of the 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”

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 round about Jerusalem; those also who burned incense to Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of the sky.

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

He took away the horses that the kings of Judah had given to the sun, at the entrance of the house of Yahweh, by the chamber of Nathan-melech the chamberlain, which was in the precincts; and he burned the chariots of the sun with fire.

וְאֶת־ (וְ) ve. “and”

The altars that were on the roof 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 Yahweh, did the king break down, and beat [ergänzt: them] down from there, and cast the dust of them into the brook Kidron.

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

The high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on the right hand of the mountain of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, 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, and the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, had made, even that altar and the high place he broke down; and he burned the high place and beat it to dust, and burned the Asherah.

וְגַ֨ם (וְ) ve. “and”וְאֶת־ (וְ) ve. “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: Yahweh] to anger, Josiah took away, and did to them according to all the acts that he had done in Bethel.

וְגַם֩ (וְ) ve. “and”

Surely there was not kept such a Passover from the days of the judges who 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 those who had familiar spirits, and the wizards, and the teraphim, 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 confirm the words of the law which were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of Yahweh.

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

Like him was there no king before him, who turned to Yahweh 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”

Yahweh said, I will remove Judah also out of my sight, as I have removed Israel, and I will cast off this city which I have chosen, even Jerusalem, 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, aren't they 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 the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.

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

Pharaoh Necoh put him in bonds at Riblah in the land of Hamath, that he might not reign in Jerusalem; and put the land to a tribute of one hundred talents of silver, and a talent of gold.

וְכִכַּ֥ר (וְ) ve. “and”

Pharaoh Necoh made Eliakim the son of Josiah king in the room of Josiah his father, and changed his name to Jehoiakim: but he took Jehoahaz away; and he came to Egypt, and died there.

וְאֶת־ (וְ) ve. “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 of the people of the land, of everyone according to his taxation, to give it to Pharaoh Necoh.

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 Zebidah the daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah.

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

Yahweh sent against him bands of the Chaldeans, 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 Yahweh, which he spoke by his servants the prophets.

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