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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.

בְּֽשָׁמְעֲךָ֡ (בְּֽ) be. “when”

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

בְּשַׁדְמ֣וֹת (בְּ) be. “in”

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.

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

He brought out the Asherah from the house of Yahweh, outside of Jerusalem, to the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and beat it to dust, and cast the dust of it on the graves of the common people.

בְּנַ֥חַל (בְּ) be. “in”

He broke down the houses of the sodomites, that were in the house of Yahweh, where the women wove hangings for the Asherah.

בְּבֵ֣ית (בְּ) be. “[were] in”

He brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah, and defiled the high places where the priests had burned incense, from Geba to Beersheba; and he broke down the high places of the gates that were at the entrance of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city, which were on a man's left hand at the gate of the city.

בְּשַׁ֥עַר (בְּ) be. “at”

Nevertheless the priests of the high places didn't come up to the altar of Yahweh in Jerusalem, but they ate unleavened bread among their brothers.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

בִּשְׁתֵּ֛י (בִּ) bi “in”

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.

בְּבֵֽית־ (בְּ) be. “[was] at”

As Josiah turned himself, he spied the tombs that were there in the mountain; and he sent, and took the bones out of the tombs, and burned them on the altar, and defiled it, according to the word of Yahweh which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these things.

בָּהָ֔ר (בָּ) ba. “on the”

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.

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

but in the eighteenth year of king Josiah was this Passover kept to Yahweh in Jerusalem.

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

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.

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

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.

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

Notwithstanding, Yahweh didn't turn from the fierceness of his great wrath, with which his anger was kindled against Judah, because of all the provocation with which Manasseh had provoked him.

בִּֽיהוּדָ֑ה (בִּֽ) bi. “on”

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

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

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

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 the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.

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

He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, according to all that his fathers had done.

בְּעֵינֵ֣י (בְּ) be. “in”

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.

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