rotherham 2Chronicles:34-35
rotherham@2Chronicles:34:1 @ Eight years old, was Josiah when he begun to reign, and, thirty-one years, reigned he in Jerusalem.
rotherham@2Chronicles:34:2 @ And he did that which was right, in the eyes of Yahweh, and walked in the ways of David his father, and turned not aside, to the right hand or to the left.
rotherham@2Chronicles:34:3 @ And, in the eighth year of his reign, he, being yet a boy, he began to seek unto the God of David his father,-and, in the twelfth year, he began to purify Judah and Jerusalem, from the high places and the Sacred Stems, and the carved images and the molten images.
rotherham@2Chronicles:34:4 @ And they threw down before him, the altars of the Baalim, and, the sun-pillars which were on high above them, he hewed down, and, the Sacred Stems and the carved images and the molten images, brake he in pieces and ground to dust, and tossed over the face of the graves, of them who had been sacrificing unto them.
rotherham@2Chronicles:34:5 @ And, the bones of the priests, burned he upon their altars, and so purified Judah and Jerusalem:
rotherham@2Chronicles:34:6 @ also throughout the cities of Manasseh and Ephraim and Simeon, even as far as Naphtali, searched he their houses, round about.
rotherham@2Chronicles:34:7 @ And, when he had thrown down the altars and the Sacred Stems, and, the images, he had beaten to powder, and, the sun-pillars, he had hewn down throughout all the land of Israel, then returned he to Jerusalem.
rotherham@2Chronicles:34:8 @ And, in the eighteenth year of his reign, when he had purified the land and the house, he sent Shaphan son of Azaliah and Maaseiah the ruler of the city and Joah son of Joahaz the recorder, to repair the house of Yahweh his God.
rotherham@2Chronicles:34:9 @ So they went in unto Hilkiah the high priest, and delivered the silver that had been brought into the house of God, which the Levites who kept the entrance-hall had collected from the hand of Manasseh, and Ephraim, and from all the remnant of Israel, and from all Judah and Benjamin, and returned to Jerusalem.
rotherham@2Chronicles:34:10 @ And the overseers in the house of Yahweh, delivered it into the hand of the doer of the work, yea they delivered it to the doers of the work, because they were working in the house of Yahweh, in searching and repairing the house:
rotherham@2Chronicles:34:11 @ yea they delivered it to the artificers and to the builders, to buy carved stones and timbers for the joinings, and to build up the houses which the kings of Judah had destroyed.
rotherham@2Chronicles:34:12 @ Now, the men, were working faithfully in the work, and over them as overseers, were Jahath and Obadiah, Levites, of the sons of Merari, and Zechariah and Meshullam, of the sons of the Kohathites, to preside, and Levites, all who had understanding in instruments of song;
rotherham@2Chronicles:34:13 @ also over the burden-bearers, and such as took the lead, for everyone who was working in any manner of service, and, of the Levites, were scribes and officers and doorkeepers.
rotherham@2Chronicles:34:14 @ Now, as they were taking out the silver which had been brought into the house of Yahweh, Hilkiah the priest found the Book of the Law of Yahweh, by the hand of Moses.
rotherham@2Chronicles:34:15 @ Then spake up Hilkiah, and said unto Shaphan the scribe, The Book of the Law, have I found, in the house of Yahweh, and Hilkiah gave the book unto Shaphan.
rotherham@2Chronicles:34:16 @ Then Shaphan took in the book unto the king, and returned yet further unto the king a message, saying, All that was delivered into the hand of thy servants, they are doing;
rotherham@2Chronicles:34:17 @ and they have poured out the silver, that was found in the house of Yahweh, and have delivered it into the hand of the overseers, and into the hand of the doers of the work.
rotherham@2Chronicles:34:18 @ Then Shaphan the scribe told the king, saying, A book, hath Hilkiah the priest given to me. And Shaphan, read therein, before the king.
rotherham@2Chronicles:34:19 @ And it came to pass, when the king heard the words of the law, that he rent his clothes.
rotherham@2Chronicles:34:20 @ Then did the king command Hilkiahand Ahikam son of Shaphanand Abdon son of Micahand Shaphan the scribeand Asaiah servant of the king, saying:
rotherham@2Chronicles:34:21 @ Go, enquire of Yahweh for me, and for the remnant in Israel and in Judah, concerning the words of the book which hath been found, for great is the wrath of Yahweh, which hath been poured out upon us, because our fathers, kept not, the word of Yahweh, to do according to all that is written in this book.
rotherham@2Chronicles:34:22 @ So Hilkiah and they whom the king had named went into Huldah the prophetess, wife of Shallum son of Tokhath son of Hasrah keeper of the wardrobe, she, having her dwelling in Jerusalem, in the new city, and they spake unto her accordingly.
rotherham@2Chronicles:34:23 @ And she said unto them, Thus, saith Yahweh God of Israel, Say ye unto the man who hath sent you unto me:
rotherham@2Chronicles:34:24 @ Thus, saith Yahweh, Behold me bringing in calamity upon this place, and upon the inhabitants thereof,-even all the curses that are written in the book which they have read before the king of Judah:
rotherham@2Chronicles:34:25 @ Because they have forsaken me, and burned incense unto other gods, so as to provoke me to anger, with all the works of their hands, therefore hath my wrath been poured out upon this place, and shall not be quenched.
rotherham@2Chronicles:34:26 @ But, unto the king of Judah, who hath sent you to enquire of Yahweh, thus, shall ye say unto him, Thus, saith Yahweh God of Israel, As touching the words which thou hast heard:
rotherham@2Chronicles:34:27 @ Because tender was thy heart, and thou didst humble thyself before God when thou heardest his words against this place and against the inhabitants thereof, and didst humble thyself before me, and didst rend thy clothes and weep before me, therefore, I also, have heard, is the declaration of Yahweh.
rotherham@2Chronicles:34:28 @ Behold me! gathering thee unto thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered unto thy sepulchres in peace, and thine eyes shall not look upon all the calamity which, I, am bringing in upon this place, and upon the inhabitants thereof. And they returned, unto the king, the message.
rotherham@2Chronicles:34:29 @ Then the king sent, and gathered together all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem.
rotherham@2Chronicles:34:30 @ And the king went up to the house of Yahwehand all the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalemand the priests and the Levites, and all the people, from the great even unto the small, and he read in their ears, all the words of the book of the covenant, which had been found in the house of Yahweh.
rotherham@2Chronicles:34:31 @ And the king stood in his place, and solemnised the covenant before Yahweh, to walk after Yahweh, and to keep his commandments and his testimonies and his statutes, with all his heart and with all his soul, to perform the words of the covenant that are written in this book.
rotherham@2Chronicles:34:32 @ And he caused to take a stand, all that were present in Jerusalem, and Benjamin, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem did according to the covenant of God, the God of their fathers.
rotherham@2Chronicles:34:33 @ And Josiah removed all the abominations, out of all the lands which belonged to the sons of Israel, and caused all that were present in Jerusalem to serve, yea to serve, Yahweh their God, all his days, turned they not aside from following Yahweh, God of their fathers.
rotherham@2Chronicles:35:1 @ And Josiah kept, in Jerusalem, a passover unto Yahweh, and they slaughtered the passover, on the fourteenth of the first month.
rotherham@2Chronicles:35:2 @ And he set the priests over their charges, and encouraged them unto the service of the house of Yahweh;
rotherham@2Chronicles:35:3 @ and said to the Levites who gave instruction to all Israel as to the things which were hallowed unto Yahweh, Put the holy ark in the house which Solomon son of David king of Israel did build, it is not yours as a burden on the shoulder, Now, serve ye Yahweh your God, and his people Israel;
rotherham@2Chronicles:35:4 @ and prepare yourselves by your ancestral houses, according to your courses, by the writing of David king of Israel, and by what hath been written by Solomon his son;
rotherham@2Chronicles:35:5 @ and stand ye in the holy place, by the divisions of the ancestral house, for your brethren, the sons of the people, and the partitioning of an ancestral house, for the Levites.
rotherham@2Chronicles:35:6 @ So slaughter ye the passover, and hallow yourselves, and prepare for your brethren, that they may do according to the word of Yahweh, by the hand of Moses.
rotherham@2Chronicles:35:7 @ And Josiah presented to the sons of the peopleof flocks, young sheep and the young of the goats, the whole for the passover offerings, for all present, to the number of thirty thousand, and, of bullocks, three thousand, these, out of the substance of the king.
rotherham@2Chronicles:35:8 @ And, his rulers, willingly, to the people and to the priests and to the Levites, presented, Hilkiah and Zechariah and Jehiel, chief rulers of the house of God, unto the priests, did give, for passover offerings, two thousand and six hundred, and, of bullocks, three hundred;
rotherham@2Chronicles:35:9 @ and, Conaniah, and Shemaiah and Nethanel his brethren, and Hashabiah and Jeiel and Jozabad, rulers of the Levites, presented to the Levites, for passover offerings, five thousand, and, of bullocks, five hundred.
rotherham@2Chronicles:35:10 @ Thus was the service prepared, and the priests stood in their place, and the Levites in their courses, according to the commandment of the king.
rotherham@2Chronicles:35:11 @ So they slaughtered the passover, and the priests dashed.
rotherham@2Chronicles:35:12 @ Then they removed the ascending-sacrifice, that they might give themby the divisions of each ancestral houseunto the sons of the people, to offer unto Yahweh, as it is written in the Book of Moses, and, in like manner, with the bullocks.
rotherham@2Chronicles:35:13 @ And they cooked the passover with fire, according to the regulation, but, the hallowed things, cooked they in cauldrons and in pots and in bowls, and then took quickly, unto all the sons of the people.
rotherham@2Chronicles:35:14 @ And, afterwards, prepared they for themselves and for the priests, because, the priests, the sons of Aaron, had been engaged in offering up the ascending-sacrifice and the fat pieces, until night, the Levites, therefore prepared for themselves, and for the priests, the sons of Aaron.
rotherham@2Chronicles:35:15 @ the singers also, the sons of Asaph, were in their place, according to the commandment of David, and Asaph, and Heman, and Jeduthun the seer of the king, and, the doorkeepers, were at the several doors, there was no need for them to remove from their service, for, their brethren the Levites, prepared for them.
rotherham@2Chronicles:35:16 @ Thus was all the service of Yahweh prepared on that day; to keep the passover, and to offer up the ascending-sacrifice, upon the altar of Yahweh, according to the commandment of King Josiah.
rotherham@2Chronicles:35:17 @ So the sons of Israel who were present kept the passover at that time, and the festival of unleavened cakes, seven days.
rotherham@2Chronicles:35:18 @ And there had not been kept, a passover like it, in Israel, since the days of Samuel the prophet, yea, none of the kings of Israel, had kept such a passover as was kept by Josiah and the priests and the Levites and all Judah and Israel that were present, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
rotherham@2Chronicles:35:19 @ In the eighteenth year of the reign of Josiah, was kept this passover.
rotherham@2Chronicles:35:20 @ After all thiswhen Josiah had prepared the house, Neco king of Egypt came up,-to fight against Carchemish, by Euphrates, and Josiah went forth against him.
rotherham@2Chronicles:35:21 @ But he sent unto him messengers, saying What have I to do with thee, O king of Judah? not against thee, God who is with me, lest he destroy thee.
rotherham@2Chronicles:35:22 @ Howbeit Josiah turned not his face from him, for, to fight against him, he had disguised himself, and he hearkened not unto the words of Neco, from the mouth of God, so he came to fight in the valley of Megiddo.
rotherham@2Chronicles:35:23 @ And the archers shot at King Josiah, and the king said unto his servants, Take me away, for I am sore wounded.
rotherham@2Chronicles:35:24 @ So his servants took him away out of the war-chariot, and conveyed him in a second chariot which he had, and carried him to Jerusalem, and he died, and was buried in the sepulchres of his fathers, and, all Judah and Jerusalem, were mourning over Josiah.
rotherham@2Chronicles:35:25 @ And Jeremiah chanted a dirge over Josiah, and all the singing men and singing women in their dirges have spoken concerning Josiah, until this day, and they appointed them by statute for Israel, and, there they are, written among the dirges.
rotherham@2Chronicles:35:26 @ But, the rest of the story of Josiah, and his lovingkindness, according to that which is written in the law of Yahweh:
rotherham@2Chronicles:35:27 @ even his story, first and last, there it is, written in the book of the Kings of Israel and Judah.
rotherham@2Chronicles:36:1 @ And the people of the land took Jehoahaz, son of Josiah, and made him king instead of his father, in Jerusalem.
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