2 Kings 23

1 and to send: depart [the] king and to gather to(wards) him all old: elder Judah and Jerusalem

So they reported the word to the king: and the king sent and gathered all the elders of Juda and Jerusalem to himself.

2 and to ascend: rise [the] king house: temple LORD and all man Judah and all to dwell Jerusalem with him and [the] priest and [the] prophet and all [the] people to/for from small and till great: large and to call: read out in/on/with ear: hearing their [obj] all word scroll: book [the] covenant [the] to find in/on/with house: temple LORD

And the king went up to the house of the Lord, and every man of Juda and all who dwelt in Jerusalem with him, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the people small and great; and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant that was found in the house of the Lord.

3 and to stand: stand [the] king upon [the] pillar and to cut: make(covenant) [obj] [the] covenant to/for face: before LORD to/for to go: walk after LORD and to/for to keep: obey commandment his and [obj] testimony his and [obj] statute his in/on/with all heart and in/on/with all soul to/for to arise: establish [obj] word [the] covenant [the] this [the] to write upon [the] scroll: book [the] this and to stand: stand all [the] people in/on/with covenant

And the king stood by a pillar, and made a covenant before the Lord, to walk after the Lord, to keep his commandments and his testimonies and his ordinances with all the heart and with all the soul, to confirm the words of this covenant; [even] the things written in this book. And all the people stood to the covenant.

4 and to command [the] king [obj] Hilkiah [the] priest [the] great: large and [obj] priest [the] second and [obj] to keep: guard [the] threshold to/for to come out: send from temple LORD [obj] all [the] article/utensil [the] to make to/for Baal and to/for Asherah and to/for all army [the] heaven and to burn them from outside to/for Jerusalem in/on/with field Kidron and to lift: bear [obj] dust their Bethel Bethel

And the king commanded Chelcias the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and them that kept the door, to bring out of the temple of the Lord all the vessels that were made for Baal, and for the grove, and all the host of heaven, and he burned them without Jerusalem in the fields of Kedron, and took the ashes of them to Baethel.

5 and to cease [obj] [the] pagan priest which to give: put king Judah and to offer: offer in/on/with high place in/on/with city Judah and surrounds Jerusalem and [obj] [the] to offer: burn to/for Baal to/for sun and to/for moon and to/for constellation and to/for all army [the] heaven

And he burned the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Juda [had] appointed, (and they burned incense in the high places and in the cities of Juda, and the places around about Jerusalem); and them that burned incense to Baal, and to the sun, and to the moon, and to Mazuroth, and to all the host of heaven.

6 and to come out: send [obj] [the] Asherah from house: temple LORD from outside to/for Jerusalem to(wards) torrent: river Kidron and to burn [obj] her in/on/with torrent: river Kidron and to crush to/for dust and to throw [obj] dust her upon grave son: child [the] people

And he carried out the grove from the house of the Lord to the brook Kedron, and burned it at the brook Kedron, and reduced it to powder, and cast its powder on the sepulchres of the sons of the people.

7 and to tear [obj] house: home [the] male cult prostitute which in/on/with house: temple LORD which [the] woman to weave there house: container to/for Asherah

And he pulled down the house of the sodomites that were by the house of the Lord, where the women wove tents for the grove.

8 and to come (in): bring [obj] all [the] priest from city Judah and to defile [obj] [the] high place which to offer: offer there [to] [the] priest from Geba till Beersheba Beersheba and to tear [obj] high place [the] gate which entrance gate Joshua ruler [the] city which upon left man: anyone in/on/with gate [the] city

And he brought up all the priest from the cities of Juda, and defiled the high places where the priests burned incense, from Gaebal even to Bersabee; and he pulled down the house of the gates that was by the door of the gate of Joshua the ruler of the city, on a man's left hand at the gate of the city.

9 surely not to ascend: rise priest [the] high place to(wards) altar LORD in/on/with Jerusalem that if: except if: except to eat unleavened bread in/on/with midst brother: male-sibling their

Only the priests of the high places went not up to the altar of the Lord in Jerusalem, for they only ate leavened bread in the midst of their brethren.

10 and to defile [obj] [the] Topheth which in/on/with Valley (son: child *Q(K)*) (Topheth of son of) Hinnom to/for lest to/for to pass man: anyone [obj] son: child his and [obj] daughter his in/on/with fire to/for Molech

And he defiled Tapheth which is in the valley of the son of Ennom, [constructed] for a man to cause his son or his daughter to pass through fire to Moloch.

11 and to cease [obj] [the] horse which to give: give king Judah to/for sun from to come (in): towards house: temple LORD to(wards) chamber Nathan-melech Nathan-melech [the] eunuch which in/on/with colonnade and [obj] chariot [the] sun to burn in/on/with fire

And he burned the horses which the king of Juda had given to the sun in the entrance of the house of the Lord, by the treasury of Nathan the king's eunuch, in the suburbs; and he burned the chariot of the sun with fire.

12 and [obj] [the] altar which upon [the] roof upper room Ahaz which to make king Judah and [obj] [the] altar which to make Manasseh in/on/with two court house: temple LORD to tear [the] king and to run: pieces from there and to throw [obj] dust their to(wards) torrent: river Kidron

And the altars that were on the roof of the upper chamber of Achaz, which the kings of Juda had made, and the altars which Manasses had made in the two courts of the house of the Lord, did the king pull down and forcibly remove from thence, and cast their dust into the brook of Kedron.

13 and [obj] [the] high place which upon face: before Jerusalem which from right: south to/for mountain: mount [the] destruction which to build Solomon king Israel to/for Ashtoreth abomination Sidonian and to/for Chemosh abomination Moab and to/for Milcom abomination son: descendant/people Ammon to defile [the] king

And the king defiled the house that was before Jerusalem, on the right hand of the mount of Mosthath, which Solomon king of Israel built to Astarte the abomination of the Sidonians, and to Chamos the abomination of Moab, and to Moloch the abomination of the children of Ammon.

14 and to break [obj] [the] pillar and to cut: cut [obj] [the] Asherah and to fill [obj] place their bone man

And he broke in pieces the pillars, and utterly destroyed the groves, and filled their places with the bones of men.

15 and also [obj] [the] altar which in/on/with Bethel Bethel [the] high place which to make Jeroboam son: child Nebat which to sin [obj] Israel also [obj] [the] altar [the] he/she/it and [obj] [the] high place to tear and to burn [obj] [the] high place to crush to/for dust and to burn Asherah

Also the high altar in Baethel, which Jeroboam the son of Nabat, who made Israel to sin, had made, even that high altar he tore down, and broke in pieces the stones of it, and reduced it to powder, and burnt the grove.

16 and to turn Josiah and to see: see [obj] [the] grave which there in/on/with mountain: mount and to send: depart and to take: take [obj] [the] bone from [the] grave and to burn upon [the] altar and to defile him like/as word LORD which to call: call out man [the] God which to call: call out [obj] [the] word: thing [the] these

And Josias turned aside, and saw the tombs that were there in the city, and sent, and took the bones out of the tombs, and burnt them on the altar, and defiled it, according to the word of the Lord which the man of God spoke, when Jeroboam stood by the altar at the feast: and he turned and raised his eyes to the tomb of the man of God that spoke these words.

17 and to say what? [the] signpost this which I to see: see and to say to(wards) him human [the] city [the] grave man [the] God which to come (in): come from Judah and to call: call out [obj] [the] word: thing [the] these which to make: do upon [the] altar Bethel Bethel

And he said, What [is] that mound which I see? And the men of the city said to him, [It is the grave of] the man of God that came out of Juda, and uttered these imprecations which he imprecated upon the altar of Baethel.

18 and to say to rest to/for him man: anyone not to shake bone his and to escape bone his [obj] bone [the] prophet which to come (in): come from Samaria

And he said, Let him alone; let no one disturb his bones. So his bones were spared, together with the bones of the prophet that came out of Samaria.

19 and also [obj] all house: home [the] high place which in/on/with city Samaria which to make king Israel to/for to provoke to turn aside: remove Josiah and to make: do to/for them like/as all [the] deed which to make: do in/on/with Bethel Bethel

Moreover Josias removed all the houses of the high places that were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel made to provoke the Lord, and did to them all that he did in Baethel.

20 and to sacrifice [obj] all priest [the] high place which there upon [the] altar and to burn [obj] bone man upon them and to return: return Jerusalem

And he sacrificed all the priests of the high places that were there on the altars, and burnt the bones of men upon them, and returned to Jerusalem.

21 and to command [the] king [obj] all [the] people to/for to say to make: do Passover to/for LORD God your like/as to write upon scroll: book [the] covenant [the] this

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

22 for not to make: do like/as Passover [the] this from day [the] to judge which to judge [obj] Israel and all day king Israel and king Judah

For a passover [such as] this had not been kept from the days of the judges who judged Israel, even all the days of the kings of Israel, and of the kings of Juda.

23 that if: except if: except in/on/with eight ten year to/for king Josiah to make: do [the] Passover [the] this to/for LORD in/on/with Jerusalem

But in the eighteenth year of king Josias, was the passover kept to the Lord in Jerusalem.

24 and also [obj] [the] medium and [obj] [the] spiritist and [obj] [the] teraphim and [obj] [the] idol and [obj] all [the] abomination which to see: see in/on/with land: country/planet Judah and in/on/with Jerusalem to burn: purge Josiah because to arise: establish [obj] word [the] instruction [the] to write upon [the] scroll: book which to find Hilkiah [the] priest house: temple LORD

Moreover Josias removed the sorcerers, and the wizards, and the theraphin, and the idols, and all the abominations that had been set up in the land of Juda and in Jerusalem, that he might keep the words of the law that were written in the book, which Chelcias the priest found in the house of the Lord.

25 and like him not to be to/for face: before his king which to return: return to(wards) LORD in/on/with all heart his and in/on/with all soul his and in/on/with all much his like/as all instruction Moses and after him not to arise: rise like him

There was no king like him before him, who turned to the Lord with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his strength, according to all the law of Moses; and after him there rose not one like him.

26 surely not to return: return LORD from burning anger face: anger his [the] great: large which to be incensed face: anger his in/on/with Judah upon all [the] vexation which to provoke him Manasseh

Nevertheless the Lord turned not from the fierceness of his great anger, wherewith he was wroth in his anger against Juda, because of the provocations, wherewith Manasses provoked him.

27 and to say LORD also [obj] Judah to turn aside: remove from upon face my like/as as which to turn aside: remove [obj] Israel and to reject [obj] [the] city [the] this which to choose [obj] Jerusalem and [obj] [the] house: home which to say to be name my there

And the Lord said, I will also remove Juda from my presence, as I removed Israel, and will reject this city which I have chosen [even] Jerusalem, and the house [of] which I said, My name shall be there.

28 and remainder word: deed Josiah and all which to make: do not they(masc.) to write upon scroll: book Chronicles [the] day to/for king Judah

And the rest of the acts of Josias, and all that he did, [are] not these things written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Juda?

29 in/on/with day his to ascend: rise Pharaoh (Neco) (Pharaoh) Neco king Egypt upon king Assyria upon river Euphrates and to go: went [the] king Josiah to/for to encounter: meet him and to die him in/on/with Megiddo like/as to see: see he [obj] him

And in his days went up Pharao Nechao king of Egypt against the king of the Assyrians to the river Euphrates: and Josias went out to meet him: and Nechao slew him in Mageddo when he saw him.

30 and to ride him servant/slave his to die from Megiddo and to come (in): bring him Jerusalem and to bury him in/on/with tomb his and to take: take people [the] land: country/planet [obj] Jehoahaz son: child Josiah and to anoint [obj] him and to reign [obj] him underneath: instead father his

And his servants carried him dead from Mageddo, and brought him to Jerusalem, and buried him in his sepulchre: and the people of the land took Joachaz the son of Josias, and anointed him, and made him king in the room of his father.

31 son: aged twenty and three year Jehoahaz in/on/with to reign he and three month to reign in/on/with Jerusalem and name mother his Hamutal daughter Jeremiah from Libnah

Twenty and three years old was Joachaz when he began to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem: and his mother's name [was] Amital, daughter of Jeremias of Lobna.

32 and to make: do [the] bad: evil in/on/with eye: seeing LORD like/as all which to make: do father his

And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, according to all that his fathers did.

33 and to bind him Pharaoh (Neco) (Pharaoh) Neco in/on/with Riblah in/on/with land: country/planet Hamath (from to reign *Q(K)*) in/on/with Jerusalem and to give: put fine upon [the] land: country/planet hundred talent silver: money and talent gold

And Pharao Nechao removed him to Rablaam in the land of Emath, so that he should not reign in Jerusalem; and imposed a tribute on the land, a hundred talents of silver, and a hundred talents of gold.

34 and to reign Pharaoh (Neco) (Pharaoh) Neco [obj] Eliakim son: child Josiah underneath: instead Josiah father his and to turn: changed [obj] name his Jehoiakim and [obj] Jehoahaz to take: take and to come (in): come Egypt and to die there

And Pharao Nechao made Eliakim son of Josias king of Juda king over them in the place of his father Josias, and he changed his name [to] Joakim, and he took Joachaz and brought him to Egypt, and he died there.

35 and [the] silver: money and [the] gold to give: give Jehoiakim to/for Pharaoh surely to value [obj] [the] land: country/planet to/for to give: give [obj] [the] silver: money upon lip: word Pharaoh man: anyone like/as valuation his to oppress [obj] [the] silver: money and [obj] [the] gold [obj] people [the] land: country/planet to/for to give: give to/for Pharaoh (Pharaoh) Neco

And Joakim gave the silver and the gold to Pharao; but he assessed the land to give the money at the command of Pharao: they gave the silver and the gold [each] man according to his assessment together with the people of the land to give to Pharao Nechao.

36 son: aged twenty and five year Jehoiakim in/on/with to reign he and one ten year to reign in/on/with Jerusalem and name mother his (Zebidah *Q(K)*) daughter Pedaiah from Rumah

Twenty-five years old [was] Joakim when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name [was] Jeldaph, daughter of Phadail of Ruma.

37 and to make: do [the] bad: evil in/on/with eye: seeing LORD like/as all which to make: do father his

And he did that which was evil in the eyes of the lord, according to all that his fathers had done.