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So they said to the king of Assyria, The nations whom you have taken as prisoners and put in the towns of Samaria, have no knowledge of the way of the god of the land: so he has sent lions among them, causing their death, because they have no knowledge o

כַּאֲשֶׁר֙ (כַּ) ka. “<as>”

They gave worship to the Lord, but they gave honour to their gods like the nations did from whom they had been taken as prisoners.

כְּמִשְׁפַּט֙ (כְּ) ke. “according to”

So to this day they go on in their old ways, not worshipping the Lord or keeping his orders or his ways or the law and the rule which the Lord gave to the children of Jacob, to whom he gave the name Israel;

כַּמִּשְׁפָּטִ֖ים (כַּ) ka. “according to the”כְּחֻקֹּתָם֙ (כְּ) ke. “according to”וּכְמִשְׁפָּטָ֔ם (כְ) khe. “according to”וְכַתּוֹרָ֣ה (כַ) kha. “according to the”וְכַמִּצְוָ֗ה (כַ) kha. “according to the”

But they gave no attention, but went on in their old way.

כְּמִשְׁפָּטָ֥ם (כְּ) ke. “according to”

So these nations, worshipping the Lord, still were servants to the images they had made; their children and their children's children did the same; as their fathers did, so do they, to this day.

כַּאֲשֶׁ֨ר (כַּ) ka. “just”

He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord as David his father had done.

כְּכֹ֥ל (כְּ) ke. “according to”

Till I come and take you away to a land like yours, a land of grain and wine, a land of bread and vine-gardens, a land of oil-giving olives and of honey, so that life and not death may be your fate. Give no attention to Hezekiah when he says to you, The

כְּאַרְצְכֶ֗ם (כְּ) ke. “like”

And on hearing it, King Hezekiah took off his robe, and put on haircloth, and went into the house of the Lord.

כִּשְׁמֹ֙עַ֙ (כִּ) ki “when”

He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, copying the disgusting ways of those nations whom the Lord had sent out before the children of Israel.

כְּתֽוֹעֲבֹת֙ (כְּ) ke. “according to”

He put up again the high places which had been pulled down by Hezekiah his father; he made altars for Baal, and an Asherah, as Ahab, king of Israel, had done; he was a worshipper and servant of all the stars of heaven.

כַּאֲשֶׁ֣ר (כַּ) ka. “just”

And never again will I send the feet of Israel wandering from the land which I gave to their fathers; if only they will take care to do all my orders, and keep all the law which my servant Moses gave them.

כְּכֹל֙ (כְּ) ke. “according to”

And over Jerusalem will be stretched the line of Samaria and the weight of Ahab; Jerusalem will be washed clean as a plate is washed, and turned over on its face.

כַּֽאֲשֶׁר־ (כַּֽ) ka. “just”

He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, as Manasseh his father had done.

כַּאֲשֶׁ֥ר (כַּ) ka. “just”

And the king, hearing the words of the book of the law, took his robe in his hands, violently parting it as a sign of his grief;

כִּשְׁמֹ֣עַ (כִּ) ki “when”

Go and get directions from the Lord for me and for the people and for all Judah, about the words of this book which has come to light; for great is the wrath of the Lord which is burning against us, because our fathers have not given ear to the words of

כְּכָל־ (כְּ) ke. “according to”

Then Josiah, turning round, saw on the mountain the places of the dead, and he sent and had the bones taken out of their places and burned on the altar, so making it unclean, as the Lord had said by the man of God when Jeroboam was in his place by the al

כִּדְבַ֣ר (כִּ) ki “according to”

Then Josiah took away all the houses of the high places in the towns of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had put up, moving the Lord to wrath, and he did with them as he had done in Beth-el.

כְּכָל־ (כְּ) ke. “according to”

And the king gave orders to all the people, saying, Keep the Passover to the Lord your God, as it says in this book of the law.

כַּכָּת֕וּב (כַּ) ka. “according to <the>”

Truly, such a Passover had not been kept in all the days of the judges of Israel or of the kings of Israel or the kings of Judah;

כַּפֶּ֣סַח (כַּ) ka. “like the”

Never before had there been a king like him, turning to the Lord with all his heart and with all his soul and with all his power, as the law of Moses says; and after him there was no king like him.

כְּכֹ֖ל (כְּ) ke. “according to”

And the Lord said, I will send Judah away from before my face, as I have sent Israel; I will have nothing more to do with this town, which I had made mine, even Jerusalem, and the holy house of which I said, My name will be there.

כַּאֲשֶׁ֥ר (כַּ) ka. “just”

In his days, Pharaoh-necoh, king of Egypt, sent his armies against the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates; and King Josiah went out against him; and he put him to death at Megiddo, when he had seen him.

כִּרְאֹת֖וֹ (כִּ) ki “when”

He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, as his fathers had done.

כְּכֹ֥ל (כְּ) ke. “according to”

And Jehoiakim gave the silver and gold to Pharaoh, taxing the land by his orders to get the money; the people of the land had to give silver and gold, everyone as he was taxed, to make the payment to Pharaoh-necoh.

כְּעֶרְכּ֗וֹ (כְּ) ke. “according to”

He did evil in the eyes of the Lord as his fathers had done.

כְּכֹ֥ל (כְּ) ke. “according to”