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And Shaphan the scribe informed the king saying, Hilkijah the priest has given me a book. And Shaphan read it before the king.

לַמֶּ֣לֶךְ (לַ) la. “to the”לֵאמֹ֔ר (לֵ) le. “<to>”לִ֔י (לִ֔) L “to”לִפְנֵ֥י (לִ) li “<to>”

And the king commanded Hilkijah the priest, and Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and Achbor the son of Micaiah, and Shaphan the scribe, and Asaiah a servant of the king, saying,

לֵאמֹֽר׃ (לֵ) le. “<to>”

Go, inquire of Jehovah for me, and for the people, and for all Judah, concerning the words of this book which is found; for great is the wrath of Jehovah that is kindled against us, because our fathers have not hearkened to the words of this book, to do according to all that is written [ergänzt: there] for us.

לַעֲשׂ֖וֹת (לַ) la. “to”

And she said to them, Thus saith Jehovah the God of Israel: Tell the man that sent you to me,

לָאִ֔ישׁ (לָ) la. “to the”

Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the work of their hands, therefore my fury is kindled against this place, and shall not be quenched.

לֵאלֹהִ֣ים (לֵ) le. “to”

But to the king of Judah, who sent you to inquire of Jehovah, thus shall ye say to him: Thus saith Jehovah the God of Israel touching the words which thou hast heard:

לִדְרֹ֣שׁ (לִ) li “to”

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.

לִהְי֤וֹת (לִ) li “to”לְשַׁמָּה֙ (לְ) le. “<into>”וְלִקְלָלָ֔ה (לִ) li “<into>”לְפָנָ֑י (לְ) le. “<to>”

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.

לָכֵן֩ (לָ) la. “<to>”

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.

לְמִקָּטֹ֣ן (לְ) le. “<to>”

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.

לִפְנֵ֣י (לִ) li “<to>”לָלֶ֜כֶת (לָ) la. “to”וְלִשְׁמֹ֨ר (לִ) li “to”לְהָקִ֗ים (לְ) le. “to”

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.

לְהוֹצִיא֙ (לְ) le. “to”לַבַּ֣עַל (לַ) la. “for <the>”וְלָֽאֲשֵׁרָ֔ה (לָֽ) la. “for <the>”וּלְכֹ֖ל (לְ) le. “for”לִירוּשָׁלִַ֙ם֙ (לִ) li. “of”

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.

לַבַּ֗עַל (לַ) la. “to <the>”לַשֶּׁ֤מֶשׁ (לַ) la. “to the”וְלַיָּרֵ֙חַ֙ (לַ) lai. “to the”וְלַמַּזָּל֔וֹת (לַ) la “to the”וּלְכֹ֖ל (לְ) le. “to”

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.

לִירוּשָׁלִַ֙ם֙ (לִ) li. “of”לְעָפָ֑ר (לְ) le. “to”

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

לָאֲשֵׁרָֽה׃ (לָ) la. “for <the>”

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.

לְבִלְתִּ֗י (לְ) le. “to”לְהַעֲבִ֨יר (לְ) le. “to”לַמֹּֽלֶךְ׃ (לַ) la. “to <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.

לַשֶּׁ֙מֶשׁ֙ (לַ) la. “to the”

And the high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on the right hand of the mount of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Zidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon, did the king defile.

לְהַר־ (לְ) le. “of”לְעַשְׁתֹּ֣רֶת׀ (לְ) le. “to”וְלִכְמוֹשׁ֙ (לִ) li “to”וּלְמִלְכֹּ֖ם (לְ) le. “to”

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.

לְעָפָ֖ר (לְ) le. “to”

And he said, Let him alone; let no man move his bones. And they saved his bones, with the bones of the prophet that came out of Samaria.

ל֔וֹ (ל֔) l “<to>”

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.

לְהַכְעִ֔יס (לְ) le. “to”לָהֶ֔ם (לָ) la. “to”

And the king commanded all the people saying, Hold the passover to Jehovah your God, as it is written in this book of the covenant.

לֵאמֹ֔ר (לֵ) le. “<to>”לַֽיהוָ֖ה (לַֽ) la. “to”

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

לַמֶּ֖לֶךְ (לַ) la. “of the”לַיהוָ֖ה (לַ) la. “to”

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.

לְפָנָ֜יו (לְ) le. “<to>”

And the rest of the acts of Josiah, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

לְמַלְכֵ֥י (לְ) le. “of”

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.

לִקְרָאת֔וֹ (לִ) li “to”