H9005–/ל–l

Shaphan the scribe told the king, saying, Hilkiah the priest has delivered me a book. Shaphan read it before the king.

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

The king commanded Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and Achbor the son of Micaiah, and Shaphan the scribe, and Asaiah the king's servant, saying,

לֵאמֹֽר׃ (לֵ) le. “<to>”

Go you, inquire of Yahweh 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 Yahweh that is kindled against us, because our fathers have not listened to the words of this book, to do according to all that which is written concerning us.

לַעֲשׂ֖וֹת (לַ) la. “to”

She said to them, Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel: Tell you the man who sent you to me,

לָאִ֔ישׁ (לָ) la. “to the”

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

לֵאלֹהִ֣ים (לֵ) le. “to”

But to the king of Judah, who sent you to inquire of Yahweh, thus shall you tell him, Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel: As touching the words which you have heard,

לִדְרֹ֣שׁ (לִ) li “to”

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.

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

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.

לָכֵן֩ (לָ) la. “<to>”

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.

לְמִקָּטֹ֣ן (לְ) le. “<to>”

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

לָאֲשֵׁרָֽה׃ (לָ) la. “for <the>”

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>”

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.

לַשֶּׁ֙מֶשׁ֙ (לַ) la. “to the”

The high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on the right hand of the mountain of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, 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, 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.

לְעָפָ֖ר (לְ) le. “to”

He said, Let him be; let no man move his bones. So they let his bones alone, with the bones of the prophet who came out of Samaria.

ל֔וֹ (ל֔) l “<to>”

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.

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

The king commanded all the people, saying, Keep the Passover to Yahweh 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 kept to Yahweh in Jerusalem.

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

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.

לְפָנָ֜יו (לְ) le. “<to>”

Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and all that he did, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

לְמַלְכֵ֥י (לְ) le. “of”

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.

לִקְרָאת֔וֹ (לִ) li “to”