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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.

בְּֽשָׁמְעֲךָ֡ (בְּֽ) be. “when”

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.

בְּשָׁלוֹם֒ (בְּ) be. “in”בְּכֹל֙ (בְּ) be. “on”

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.

בְאָזְנֵיהֶ֗ם (בְ) ve. “in”בְּבֵ֥ית (בְּ) be. “in”

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.

בְּכָל־ (בְּ) be. “with”וּבְכָל־ (בְ) ve. “with”בַּבְּרִֽית׃ (בַּ) ba. “in the”

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.

בְּשַׁדְמ֣וֹת (בְּ) be. “in”

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.

בַּבָּמוֹת֙ (בַּ) ba. “at the”בְּעָרֵ֣י (בְּ) be. “in”

And he brought out the Asherah from the house of Jehovah, outside Jerusalem, to the torrent of Kidron, and burned it at the torrent of Kidron, and stamped it small to powder, and cast the powder upon the graves of the children of the people.

בְּנַ֥חַל (בְּ) be. “in”

And he broke down the houses of the sodomites, which were in the house of Jehovah, where the women wove tents for the Asherah.

בְּבֵ֣ית (בְּ) be. “[were] in”

And he brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah, and defiled the high places where the priests had burned incense, from Geba even to Beer-sheba; and he broke down the high places of the gates, those at the entrance of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city, [ergänzt: and] those on the left hand of any [ergänzt: going in] at the gate of the city.

בְּשַׁ֥עַר (בְּ) be. “at”

Nevertheless the priests of the high places came not up to the altar of Jehovah in Jerusalem, but they ate of the unleavened bread among their brethren.

בִּירוּשָׁלִָ֑ם (בִּ) bi. “in”בְּת֥וֹךְ (בְּ) be. “in”

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.

בְּגֵ֣י (בְּ) be. “[was] in”בָּאֵ֖שׁ (בָּ) ba. “in the”

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.

בַּפַּרְוָרִ֑ים (בַּ) ba. “[was] in the”בָּאֵֽשׁ׃ (בָּ) ba. “with <the>”

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.

בִּשְׁתֵּ֛י (בִּ) bi “in”

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.

בְּבֵֽית־ (בְּ) be. “[was] at”

And Josiah turned himself, and saw the sepulchres that were there on the mount; and he sent and took the bones out of the sepulchres, and burned [ergänzt: them] upon the altar, and defiled it, according to the word of Jehovah, that the man of God had proclaimed, who proclaimed these things.

בָּהָ֔ר (בָּ) ba. “on the”

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.

בְּעָרֵ֣י (בְּ) be. “[were] in”בְּבֵֽית־ (בְּ) be. “at”

but in the eighteenth year of king Josiah was this passover holden to Jehovah in Jerusalem.

בִּשְׁמֹנֶ֤ה (בִּ) bi “in”בִּירוּשָׁלִָֽם׃ (בִּ) bi. “in”

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.

בְּאֶ֤רֶץ (בְּ) be. “in”וּבִיר֣וּשָׁלִַ֔ם (בִ) vi. “in”

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.

בְּכָל־ (בְּ) be. “with”וּבְכָל־ (בְ) ve. “with”וּבְכָל־ (בְ) ve. “with”

But Jehovah turned not from the fierceness of his great wrath, wherewith his anger was kindled against Judah, because of all the provocations with which Manasseh had provoked him.

בִּֽיהוּדָ֑ה (בִּֽ) bi. “on”

In his days Pharaoh-Nechoh king of Egypt went up against the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates; and king Josiah went against him; but [ergänzt: Nechoh] slew him at Megiddo, when he had seen him.

בְּיָמָ֡יו (בְּ) be. “in”בִּמְגִדּ֔וֹ (בִּ) bi “at”

And his servants carried him in a chariot dead from Megiddo, and brought him to Jerusalem, and buried him in his own sepulchre. And the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and anointed him, and made him king in his father's stead.

בִּקְבֻֽרָת֑וֹ (בִּ) bi “in”

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.

בְּמָלְכ֔וֹ (בְּ) be. “when”בִּירוּשָׁלִָ֑ם (בִּ) bi. “in”

And he did evil in the sight of Jehovah, according to all that his fathers had done.

בְּעֵינֵ֣י (בְּ) be. “in”

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.

בְרִבְלָה֙ (בְ) ve. “at”בְּאֶ֣רֶץ (בְּ) be. “in”בִּירוּשָׁלִָ֑ם (בִּ) bi. “in”