H9002–/וְ–v

His prayer also, and how [ergänzt: God] was entreated of him, and all his sin and his trespass, and the places in which he built high places, and set up the Asherim and the engraved images, before he humbled himself: behold, they are written in the history of Hozai.

וּתְפִלָּת֣וֹ (וּ) u. “and”וְהֵֽעָתֶר־ (וְ) ve. “and”וְכָל־ (וְ) ve. “and”וּמַעְלוֹ֒ (וּ) u. “and”וְהַמְּקֹמ֗וֹת (וְ) ve. “and”וְהַפְּסִלִ֔ים (וְ) ve. “and”

Amon was twenty-two years old when he began to reign; and he reigned two years in Jerusalem.

וּשְׁתַּ֛יִם (וּ) u. “and”וּשְׁתַּ֣יִם (וּ) u. “and”

He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, as did Manasseh his father; and Amon sacrificed to all the engraved images which Manasseh his father had made, and served them.

וּֽלְכָל־ (וּֽ) u. “and”

He didn't humble himself before Yahweh, as Manasseh his father had humbled himself; but this same Amon trespassed more and more.

וְלֹ֤א (וְ) ve. “and”

Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign; and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem.

וּשְׁלֹשִׁ֤ים (וּ) u. “and”וְאַחַת֙ (וְ) ve. “and”

He did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, and walked in the ways of David his father, and didn't turn aside to the right hand or to the left.

וְלֹא־ (וְ) ve. “and”וּשְׂמֹֽאול׃ (וּ) u. “and”

For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father; and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, and the Asherim, and the engraved images, and the molten images.

וּבִשְׁמוֹנֶ֨ה (וּ) u. “and”וְהוּא֙ (וְ) ve. “and”וּבִשְׁתֵּ֧ים (וּ) u. “and”וִיר֣וּשָׁלִַ֔ם (וִ) vi. “and”וְהָ֣אֲשֵׁרִ֔ים (וְ) ve. “and”וְהַפְּסִלִ֖ים (וְ) ve. “and”וְהַמַּסֵּכֽוֹת׃ (וְ) ve. “and”

They broke down the altars of the Baals in his presence; and the sun-images that were on high above them he hewed down; and the Asherim, and the engraved images, and the molten images, he broke in pieces, and made dust of them, and strewed it on the graves [ergänzt: of those] who had sacrificed to them.

וְהַֽחַמָּנִ֛ים (וְ) ve. “and”וְ֠הָאֲשֵׁרִים (וְ֠) Ve. “and”וְהַפְּסִלִ֤ים (וְ) ve. “and”וְהַמַּסֵּכוֹת֙ (וְ) ve. “and”וְהֵדַ֔ק (וְ) ve. “and”

He burnt the bones of the priests on their altars, and purged Judah and Jerusalem.

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

[ergänzt: So did he] in the cities of Manasseh and Ephraim and Simeon, even to Naphtali, in their ruins round about.

וּבְעָרֵ֨י (וּ) u. “and”וְאֶפְרַ֛יִם (וְ) ve. “and”וְשִׁמְע֖וֹן (וְ) ve. “and”וְעַד־ (וְ) ve. “and”

He broke down the altars, and beat the Asherim and the engraved images into powder, and hewed down all the sun-images throughout all the land of Israel, and returned to Jerusalem.

וְאֶת־ (וְ) ve. “and”וְהַפְּסִלִים֙ (וְ) ve. “and”וְכָל־ (וְ) ve. “and”

Now in the eighteenth year of his reign, when he had purged the land and the house, he sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, and Maaseiah the governor of the city, and Joah the son of Joahaz the recorder, to repair the house of Yahweh his God.

וּבִשְׁנַ֨ת (וּ) u. “and”וְהַבָּ֑יִת (וְ) ve. “and”וְאֶת־ (וְ) ve. “and”וְ֠אֵת (וְ֠) Ve. “and”

They came to Hilkiah the high priest, and delivered the money that was brought into the house of God, which the Levites, the keepers of the threshold, had gathered of the hand of Manasseh and Ephraim, and of all the remnant of Israel, and of all Judah and Benjamin, and of the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

וְאֶפְרַ֗יִם (וְ) ve. “and”וּמִכֹּל֙ (וּ) u. “and”וּמִכָּל־ (וּ) u. “and”וּבִנְיָמִ֑ן (וּ) u. “and”

They delivered it into the hand of the workmen who had the oversight of the house of Yahweh; and the workmen who labored in the house of Yahweh gave it to mend and repair the house;

וּלְחַזֵּ֖ק (וּ) u. “and”

even to the carpenters and to the builders gave they it, to buy hewn stone, and timber for couplings, and to make beams for the houses which the kings of Judah had destroyed.

וְלַבֹּנִ֔ים (וְ) ve. “and”וְעֵצִ֖ים (וְ) ve. “and”וּלְקָרוֹת֙ (וּ) u. “and”

The men did the work faithfully: and the overseers of them were Jahath and Obadiah, the Levites, of the sons of Merari; and Zechariah and Meshullam, of the sons of the Kohathites, to set it forward; and [ergänzt: others of] the Levites, all who were skillful with instruments of music.

וְהָאֲנָשִׁים֩ (וְ) ve. “and”וַעֲלֵיהֶ֣ם׀ (וַ) va. “and”וְעֹבַדְיָ֤הוּ (וְ) ve. “and”וּזְכַרְיָ֧ה (וּ) u. “and”וּמְשֻׁלָּ֛ם (וּ) u. “and”וְהַ֨לְוִיִּ֔ם (וְ) ve. “and”

Also they were over the bearers of burdens, and set forward all who did the work in every manner of service: and of the Levites there were scribes, and officers, and porters.

וְעַ֣ל (וְ) ve. “<and>”וּֽמְנַצְּחִים֙ (וּֽ) u. “and”וַעֲבוֹדָ֑ה (וַ) va. “and”וּמֵֽהַלְוִיִּ֔ם (וּ) u. “and”וְשֹׁטְרִ֖ים (וְ) ve. “and”וְשׁוֹעֲרִֽים׃ (וְ) ve. “and”

When they brought out the money that was brought into the house of Yahweh, Hilkiah the priest found the book of the law of Yahweh [ergänzt: given] by Moses.

וּבְהוֹצִיאָ֣ם (וּ) u. “and”

They have emptied out the money that was found in the house of Yahweh, and have delivered it into the hand of the overseers, and into the hand of the workmen.

וְעַל־ (וְ) ve. “and”

The king commanded Hilkiah, and Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and Abdon the son of Micah, and Shaphan the scribe, and Asaiah the king's servant, saying,

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

Go you, inquire of Yahweh for me, and for those who are left in Israel and in Judah, concerning the words of the book that is found; for great is the wrath of Yahweh that is poured out on us, because our fathers have not kept the word of Yahweh, to do according to all that is written in this book.

וּבְעַד֙ (וּ) u. “and”וּבִֽיהוּדָ֔ה (וּ) u. “and”

So Hilkiah, and they whom the king [ergänzt: had commanded], went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tokhath, the son of Hasrah, keeper of the wardrobe; (now she lived in Jerusalem in the second quarter;) and they spoke to her to that effect.

וַאֲשֶׁ֣ר (וַ) va. “and”וְהִ֛יא (וְ) ve. “and”

Thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will bring evil on this place, and on the inhabitants of it, even all the curses that are written in the book which they have read before the king of Judah.

וְעַל־ (וְ) ve. “and”

Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense to other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the works of their hands; therefore is my wrath poured out on this place, and it shall not be quenched.

וְתִתַּ֧ךְ (וְ) ve. “so”וְלֹ֥א (וְ) ve. “and”

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”