2 Kings 23
23
1And the king sent, and they gathered unto him all the elders of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] and of Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace].
2And the king went up into the house of the Lord-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), and all the men of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] and all the inhabitants of Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace] 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-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).
3And the king stood by a pillar, and made a covenant before the Lord-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), to walk after the Lord-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), 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 pledged [themselves] to the covenant.
4And the king commanded Hilkiyahu [my portion is Yehovah] 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-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) all the vessels that were made for Ba’al [lord (a false god)], and for the Asherah [consort of Ba’al], and for all the army of heaven: and he burned them outside Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace] in the fields of Kidron [dark], and carried the ashes of them unto Beit-El [House of God].
5And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], and in the places round about Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace]; them also that burned incense unto Ba’al [lord (a false god)], to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the army of heaven.
6And he brought out the Asherah from the house of the Lord-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), without Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace], unto the river Kidron [dark], and burned it at the river Kidron [dark], and stamped [it] small to (to do entirely, do wholly) powder, and cast the powder thereof upon the graves of the children of the people.
7And he broke down the houses of the sodomites (cult prostitutes), that [were] by the house of the Lord-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), where the women wove hangings for the Asherah.
8And he brought all the priests out of the cities of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], and defiled the high places where the priests had burned incense, from Geva [hill] to Be’er-sheva [Well of the sevenfold Oath], and broke down the high places of the gates that [were] in the entering in of the gate of Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation] the governor of the city, which [were] on a man’s left hand at the gate of the city.
9Nevertheless the priests of the high places came not up to the altar of the Lord-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) in Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace], but they did eat of the unleavened bread among their brethren.
10And he defiled Tofet [place of fire], which [is] in the valley of the children of Hinnom [Lamentation], that no man might make his son or his daughter to pass through the fire (as a sacrifice) to Molekh [king].
11And he took away the horses that the kings of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] had given to the sun, at the entering in of the house of the Lord-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), by the chamber of N’tan-Melekh [the gift of the king] the Chamberlain (eunuch or chief servant; one in charge of the king’s quarters), which [was] in the side-courtyard, and burned the chariots of the sun with fire.
12And the altars that [were] on the top of the upper chamber of Achaz [he has grasped], which the kings of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] had made, and the altars which M’nasheh [Causing to Forget] had made in the two courts of the house of the Lord-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), did the king beat down, and broke [them] down from there, and cast the dust of them into the brook Kidron [dark].
13And the high places that [were] before Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace], which [were] on the right hand of the Mount of Destruction, which Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] the king of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] had built for ‘Ashtoret [star] the abomination of the people of Tzidon [Hunting], and for K’mosh [Subduer] the abomination of the Mo’avi [of his father], and for Milkom [great king] the abomination of the children of ‘Amon [Inbred], did the king defile.
14And he broke in pieces the images, and cut down the Asherah [consort of Ba’al], and filled their places with the bones of men.
15Moreover the altar that [was] at Beit-El [House of God], [and] the high place which Yarov’am [the people will contend] the son of N’vat [aspect], who made Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] to sin, had made, both that altar and the high place he broke down, and burned the high place, [and] stamped [it] small to (to do entirely, do wholly) powder, and burned the Asherah.
16And as Yoshiyahu [whom Yehovah heals] turned himself, he spied the sepulchers that [were] there in the mount, and sent, and took the bones out of the sepulchers, and burned [them] upon the altar, and polluted it, according to the word of the Lord-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) which the man of God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] proclaimed, who proclaimed these words.
17Then he said, What monument [is] that that I see? And the men of the city told him, [It is] the sepulcher of the man of God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], which came from Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], and proclaimed these things that youi have done against the altar of Beit-El [House of God].
18And 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 Shomron [watch mountain].
19And all the houses also of the high places that [were] in the cities of Shomron [watch mountain], which the kings of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] had made to provoke [the Lord-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate)] to anger, Yoshiyahu [whom Yehovah heals] took away, and did to them according to all the acts that he had done in Beit-El [House of God].
20And he killed all the priests of the high places that [were] there upon the altars, and burned men’s bones upon them, and returned to Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace].
21And the king commanded all the people, saying, Keep the Passover the Lord-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) your God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], as [it is] written in the Book of this Covenant.
22Surely there was not held such a Passover from the days of the that judged Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], nor in all the days of the kings of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], nor of the kings of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised];
23But in the eighteenth year of king Yoshiyahu [whom Yehovah heals], [in it] this Passover was held to the Lord-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) in Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace].
24Moreover the [workers with] familiar spirits (spirit guides), and the wizards, and the images (household gods), and the idols, and all the abominations that were spied in the land of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] and in Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace], did Yoshiyahu [whom Yehovah heals] put away, that he might perform the words of the law which were written in the Book that Hilkiyahu [my portion is Yehovah] the priest found in the house of the Lord-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).
25And like unto him was there no king before him, that turned to the Lord-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his might, according to all the law of Moshe [He Who Draws Out Of The Waters]; neither after him arose there [any] like him.
26Yet the Lord-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) turned not from the fierceness of his great wrath, which his anger was kindled against Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], because of all the provocations that M’nasheh [Causing to Forget] had provoked him with it all.
27And the Lord-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) said, I will remove Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] also out of my sight, as I have removed Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], and will cast off this city Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace] which I have chosen, and the house of which I said, My name shall be there.
28Now the rest of the acts of Yoshiyahu [whom Yehovah heals], and all that he did, [are] they not written in the book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised]?
29In his days Pharaoh N’khoh [great house-he is smitten] king of Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place] went up against the king of Ashur [the level plain] (the land of the sons of Shem (name, renown (great reputation; being well-known))) to the river Euphrates (to break forth, to gush): and king Yoshiyahu [whom Yehovah heals] went against him; and he killed him at Megiddo [Place of Crowds], when he had seen him.
30And his servants carried him in a chariot dead from Megiddo [Place of Crowds], and brought him to Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace], and buried him in his own sepulcher. And the people of the land took Y’ho’achaz [Yehovah has seized] the son of Yoshiyahu [whom Yehovah heals], and anointed him, and made him king in his father’s stead.
31Y’ho’achaz [Yehovah has seized] [was] twenty and three years old when he began to reign; and he reigned three months in Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace]. And his mother’s name [was] Hamuta [father-in-law is protection], the daughter of Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed] of Livnah [Pavement].
32And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the Lord-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), according to all that his fathers had done.
33And Pharaoh N’khoh [great house-he is smitten] put him in bands at Rivlah [Fertility] in the land of Hamat [Fortress], that he might not reign in Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace]; and put the land to a tribute of an hundred talents of silver, and a sixty-six tons of gold.
34And Pharaoh N’khoh [great house-he is smitten] made Elyakim [God sets up] the son of Yoshiyahu [whom Yehovah heals] king in the room of Yoshiyahu [whom Yehovah heals] his father, and turned his name to Y’hoyakim [Yehovah raises up], and took Y’ho’achaz [Yehovah has seized] away: and he came to Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place], and died there.
35And Y’hoyakim [Yehovah raises up] gave the silver and the gold to Par’oh [Pharaoh - Great House]; but he taxed the land to give the money according to the commandment of Par’oh [Pharaoh - Great House]: he exacted the silver and the gold of the people of the land, of everyone according to his taxation, to give [it] unto Pharaoh N’khoh [great house-he is smitten].
36Y’hoyakim [Yehovah raises up] [was] twenty and five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned eleven years in Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace]. And his mother’s name [was] Z’vudah [given], the daughter of P’dayah [Yehovah has ransomed] of Rumah [height].
37And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the Lord-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), according to all that his fathers had done.
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