2 Kings 23

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

And the king sent, and they gathered to him all the elders of Judah and of Jerusalem.

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 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.

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 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 [his] heart, and with all [his] soul, to establish the words of this covenant that are 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 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.

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 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.

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 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.

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

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 all the priests out of the cities of Judah, and defiled the high places where the priests had burned incense, from Geba even to Beer-sheba; and he broke down the high places of the gates, those at the entrance of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city, [and] those on the left hand of any [going in] 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

Nevertheless the priests of the high places came not up to the altar of Jehovah in Jerusalem, but they ate of the unleavened bread among 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 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.

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 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.

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 king broke down the altars that were on the roof of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars that Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of Jehovah, and he shattered them, [removing them] from thence, and cast the powder of them into the torrent of Kidron.

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 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.

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 columns, and cut down the Asherahs, and filled their place 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

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.

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 Josiah turned himself, and saw the sepulchres that were there on the mount; and he sent and took the bones out of the sepulchres, and burned [them] upon the altar, and defiled it, according to the word of Jehovah, that the man of God had proclaimed, who proclaimed these things.

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

Then he said, What tombstone is that which I see? And the men of the city told him, It is the sepulchre of the man of God who came from Judah and proclaimed these things which thou hast done against the altar of Bethel.

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 man move his bones. And they saved his bones, 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

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 [Jehovah] to anger, Josiah removed, and did to them according to all the acts that he had done in Bethel.

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 upon the altars all the priests of the high places that were there, and burned men's bones upon them. And he 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, Hold the passover to Jehovah your God, as it is written in this book of the 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 there was not holden such a passover from the days of the judges that judged Israel, nor in all the days of the kings of Israel, nor of the kings of Judah;

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 Josiah was this passover holden to Jehovah 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 the necromancers and the soothsayers, and the teraphim and the idols, and all the abominations that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, Josiah took away, that he might perform the words of the law which were written in the book that Hilkijah the priest had found in the house of Jehovah.

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

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.

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

But Jehovah turned not from the fierceness of his great wrath, wherewith his anger was kindled against Judah, because of all the provocations with which Manasseh had 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 Jehovah said, I will remove Judah also out of my sight, as I have removed Israel, and will reject this city Jerusalem which I have chosen, 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 Josiah, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

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

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 [Nechoh] slew him at Megiddo, when he had seen 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 in a chariot dead from Megiddo, and brought him to Jerusalem, and buried him in his own sepulchre. And the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and anointed him, and made him king in his father's stead.

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

Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he began to reign; and he reigned three months in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was Hamutal, daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.

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 evil in the sight of Jehovah, according to all that his fathers had done.

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 Pharaoh-Nechoh had him bound at Riblah in the land of Hamath, that he might not reign in Jerusalem; and laid a tribute upon the land of a hundred talents of silver and a talent 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 Pharaoh-Nechoh made Eliakim the son of Josiah king instead of Josiah his father, and changed his name to Jehoiakim. And he took Jehoahaz; and he came to Egypt, and 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 Jehoiakim gave the silver and the gold to Pharaoh; but he laid a proportional tax on the land to give the money according to the command of Pharaoh: he exacted the silver and the gold of the people of the land, of every one according to his estimation, to give it to Pharaoh-Nechoh.

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

Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was Zebuddah, daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah.

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 evil in the sight of Jehovah, according to all that his fathers had done.