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And Shaphan the scribe showed the king, saying, Hilkiah the priest hath delivered 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 Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and Achbor the son of Michaiah, and Shaphan the scribe, and Asahiah a servant of the king's, saying,

לֵאמֹֽר׃ (לֵ) le. “<to>”

Go ye, enquire of the LORD for me, and for the people, and for all Judah, concerning the words of this book that is found: for great is the wrath of the LORD that is kindled against us, because our fathers have not hearkened unto the words of this book, to do according unto all that which is written concerning us.

לַעֲשׂ֖וֹת (לַ) la. “to”

And she said unto them, Thus saith the LORD 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 works of their hands; therefore my wrath shall be kindled against this place, and shall not be quenched.

לֵאלֹהִ֣ים (לֵ) le. “to”

But to the king of Judah which sent you to enquire of the LORD, thus shall ye say to him, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, As touching the words which thou hast heard;

לִדְרֹ֣שׁ (לִ) li “to”

Because thine heart was tender, and thou hast humbled thyself before the LORD, when thou heardest what I spake against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and hast rent thy clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard thee, saith the LORD.

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

Behold therefore, I will gather thee unto thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered into thy grave in peace; and thine eyes shall not see all the evil which 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 the LORD, 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 the LORD.

לְמִקָּטֹ֣ן (לְ) le. “<to>”

And the king stood by a pillar, and made a covenant before the LORD, to walk after the LORD, and to keep his commandments and his testimonies and his statutes with all their heart and all their soul, to perform the words of this covenant that were 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 Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the door, to bring forth out of the temple of the LORD all the vessels that were made for Baal, and for the grove, and for all the host of heaven: and he burned them without Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, and carried the ashes of them unto 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 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; them also that burned incense unto Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, 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 grove from the house of the LORD, without Jerusalem, unto the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and stamped it small to powder, and cast the powder thereof upon the graves of the children of the people.

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

And he brake down the houses of the sodomites, that were by the house of the LORD, where the women wove hangings for the grove.

לָאֲשֵׁרָֽה׃ (לָ) la. “for <the>”

And 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.

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

And he took away the horses that the kings of Judah had given to the sun, at the entering in of the house of the LORD, by the chamber of Nathanmelech 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 builded 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, and the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, had made, both that altar and the high place he brake down, and burned the high place, and stamped it small to powder, and burned the grove.

לְעָפָ֖ר (לְ) le. “to”

And he said, Let him alone; let no man move his bones. So they let his bones alone, 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 the Lord to anger, Josiah took away, 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, Keep the passover unto the LORD your God, as it is written in the book of this covenant.

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

But in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, wherein this passover was holden to the LORD in Jerusalem.

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

And like unto him was there no king before him, that turned to the LORD 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.

לְפָנָ֜יו (לְ) le. “<to>”

Now 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 Pharaohnechoh king of Egypt went up against the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates: and king Josiah went against him; and he slew him at Megiddo, when he had seen him.

לִקְרָאת֔וֹ (לִ) li “to”