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YOSHI YAH CUTS A COVENANT
And the sovereign sends and gathers to him all the elders of Yah Hudah and of Yeru Shalem: 2 and the sovereign ascends into the house of Yah Veh with all the men of Yah Hudah and all the settlers of Yeru Shalem and the priests and the prophets and all the people both small and great: and he calls out in their ears all the words of the scroll of the covenant found in the house of Yah Veh: 5 And he ceases the ascetics whom the sovereigns of Yah Hudah gave to incense in the bamahs in the cities of Yah Hudah and in the places all around Yeru Shalem; also them who incensed to Baal to the sun and to the moon and to the constellations and to all the host of the heavens: 6 and he brings the asherah from the house of Yah Veh to outside Yeru Shalem to the wadi Qidron; and burns it at the wadi Qidron and pulverized it to dust; and casts the dust thereof on the tombs of the sons of the people: 7 and he pulls down the houses of the hallowed whoremongers by the house of Yah Veh, where the women weave housings for the asherah: 8 and he brings all the priests from the cities of Yah Hudah and fouls the bamahs where the priests incensed - from Geba to Beer Sheba; and pulls down the bamahs of the portals in the opening of the portal of Yah Shua the governor of the city - on the left of man at the portal of the city: 9 only, the priests of the bamahs ascend not to the sacrifice altar of Yah Veh in Yeru Shalem, but they eat of the matsah among their brothers. 10 And he fouls Topheth in the valley of the sons of Hinnom/burning - so that no man pass his son or his daughter through the fire to Molech: 11 and he ceases the horses the sovereigns of Yah Hudah give to the sun, at the entering of the house of Yah Veh by the chamber of Nathan Melech the eunuch in the suburbs; and burns the chariots of the sun with fire. 12 And the sovereign pulls down the sacrifice altars on the roof of the upper room of Achaz which the sovereigns of Yah Hudah worked, and the sacrifice altars Menash Sheh worked in the two courts of the house of Yah Veh; and runs from there and casts their dust in the wadi Qidron. 13 And the sovereign fouls the bamahs at the face of Yeru Shalem at the right of the mount of ruin, which Shelomoh the sovereign of Yisra El built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidoniy, and for Kemosh the abomination of the Moabiy, and for Milchom the abhorrence of the sons of Ammon: 14 and he breaks the monoliths and cuts down the asherim and fills their places with bones of humans: 15 and also the sacrifice altar at Beth El and the bamah Yarob Am the son of Nebat, who had Yisra El sin, worked, both that sacrifice altar and the bamah he pulls down and burns the bamah and pulverizes to dust and burns the asherah. 16 And Yoshi Yah turns his face, and he sees the tombs in the mount; and sends and takes the bones from the tombs and burns them on the sacrifice altar and fouls it, according to the word of Yah Veh which the man of Elohim called out - who called out these words. 17 Then he says, What monument is this that I see? And the men of the city say to him, It is the tomb of the man of Elohim, who comes from Yah Hudah and calls out these words you worked against the sacrifice altar of Beth El. 18 And he says, Leave him alone; No man shakes his bones. - and his bones escape with the bones of the prophet who came from Shomeron. 19 And Yoshi Yah also turns aside all the houses of the bamahs in the cities of Shomeron which the sovereigns of Yisra El worked to vex, and works to them according to all the works he worked in Beth El: 20 and he sacrifices all the priests of the bamahs on the sacrifice altars; and burns human bones on them; and returns to Yeru Shalem. 21 And the sovereign misvahs all the people, saying, Work the pasach to Yah Veh your Elohim, as inscribed in the scroll of this covenant. 22 Surely such a pasach was never worked from the days of the judges who judged Yisra El, neither in all the days of the sovereigns of Yisra El, nor of the sovereigns of Yah Hudah: 23 but in the eighteenth year of sovereign Yoshi Yah this pasach was worked to Yah Veh in Yeru Shalem. 24 And Yoshi Yah also burnt the necromancers and the knowers and the teraphim and the idols and all the abominations seen in the land of Yah Hudah and in Yeru Shalem, to raise the words of the torah inscribed in the scroll that Hilqi Yah the priest found in the house of Yah Veh. 25 And like unto him became no sovereign at his face - who turned to Yah Veh with all his heart and with all his soul and with all his might - according to all the torah of Mosheh; nor arose any like unto him after him. 26 Only, Yah Veh turns not from his fuming great wrath, whereby he kindles his wrath against Yah Hudah, because of all the vexations Menash Sheh vexed him. 27 And Yah Veh says, I also turn aside Yah Hudah from my face, as I turned aside Yisra El, and spurn this city Yeru Shalem which I chose, and the house of which I said, My name is there. 28 And the rest of the words of Yoshi Yah and all he worked, are they not inscribed in the scroll of the words of the days of the sovereigns of Yah Hudah? 29 In his days Paroh Nechoh sovereign of Misrayim ascends against the sovereign of Ashshur to the river Euphrates: and sovereign Yoshi Yah comes to meet him; and when he sees him, deathifies him at Megiddo. 30 And from Megiddo, his servants ride him in a chariot - dead; and bring him to Yeru Shalem and entomb him in his own tomb. And the people of the land take Yah Achaz the son of Yoshi Yah and anoint him and have him reign in the stead of his father. 31
YAH ACHAZ REIGNS IN YERU SHALEM
Yah Achaz is a son of twenty-three years when he begins to reign; and he reigns three months in Yeru Shalem: and the name of his mother, Hamutal the daughter of Yirme Yah of Libnah. 32 And he works evil in the eyes of Yah Veh according to all his fathers worked. 33 And Paroh Nechoh binds him at Riblah in the land of Hamath, that he not reign in Yeru Shalem; and gives a penalty on the land - a hundred rounds of silver and a round of gold. 34 And Paroh Nechoh has El Yaqim the son of Yoshi Yah reign in the stead of Yoshi Yah his father; and turns his name to Yah Yaqim: and he takes Yah Achaz away: and he comes to Misrayim and dies there. 35 And Yah Yaqim gives the silver and the gold to Paroh; only, he appraises the land to give the silver according to the mouth of Paroh: he exacts the silver and the gold from the people of the land - from each man according to his appraisal to give to Paroh Nechoh. 36 Yah Yaqim is a son of twenty-five years when he begins to reign; and he reigns eleven years in Yeru Shalem: and the name of his mother, Zebidah the daughter of Pedah Yah of Rumah: 37 and he works evil in the eyes of Yah Veh, according to all his fathers worked.
YOSHI YAH CUTS A COVENANT
And the sovereign sends and gathers to him all the elders of Yah Hudah and of Yeru Shalem: 2 and the sovereign ascends into the house of Yah Veh with all the men of Yah Hudah and all the settlers of Yeru Shalem and the priests and the prophets and all the people both small and great: and he calls out in their ears all the words of the scroll of the covenant found in the house of Yah Veh: 5 And he ceases the ascetics whom the sovereigns of Yah Hudah gave to incense in the bamahs in the cities of Yah Hudah and in the places all around Yeru Shalem; also them who incensed to Baal to the sun and to the moon and to the constellations and to all the host of the heavens: 6 and he brings the asherah from the house of Yah Veh to outside Yeru Shalem to the wadi Qidron; and burns it at the wadi Qidron and pulverized it to dust; and casts the dust thereof on the tombs of the sons of the people: 7 and he pulls down the houses of the hallowed whoremongers by the house of Yah Veh, where the women weave housings for the asherah: 8 and he brings all the priests from the cities of Yah Hudah and fouls the bamahs where the priests incensed - from Geba to Beer Sheba; and pulls down the bamahs of the portals in the opening of the portal of Yah Shua the governor of the city - on the left of man at the portal of the city: 9 only, the priests of the bamahs ascend not to the sacrifice altar of Yah Veh in Yeru Shalem, but they eat of the matsah among their brothers. 10 And he fouls Topheth in the valley of the sons of Hinnom/burning - so that no man pass his son or his daughter through the fire to Molech: 11 and he ceases the horses the sovereigns of Yah Hudah give to the sun, at the entering of the house of Yah Veh by the chamber of Nathan Melech the eunuch in the suburbs; and burns the chariots of the sun with fire. 12 And the sovereign pulls down the sacrifice altars on the roof of the upper room of Achaz which the sovereigns of Yah Hudah worked, and the sacrifice altars Menash Sheh worked in the two courts of the house of Yah Veh; and runs from there and casts their dust in the wadi Qidron. 13 And the sovereign fouls the bamahs at the face of Yeru Shalem at the right of the mount of ruin, which Shelomoh the sovereign of Yisra El built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidoniy, and for Kemosh the abomination of the Moabiy, and for Milchom the abhorrence of the sons of Ammon: 14 and he breaks the monoliths and cuts down the asherim and fills their places with bones of humans: 15 and also the sacrifice altar at Beth El and the bamah Yarob Am the son of Nebat, who had Yisra El sin, worked, both that sacrifice altar and the bamah he pulls down and burns the bamah and pulverizes to dust and burns the asherah. 16 And Yoshi Yah turns his face, and he sees the tombs in the mount; and sends and takes the bones from the tombs and burns them on the sacrifice altar and fouls it, according to the word of Yah Veh which the man of Elohim called out - who called out these words. 17 Then he says, What monument is this that I see? And the men of the city say to him, It is the tomb of the man of Elohim, who comes from Yah Hudah and calls out these words you worked against the sacrifice altar of Beth El. 18 And he says, Leave him alone; No man shakes his bones. - and his bones escape with the bones of the prophet who came from Shomeron. 19 And Yoshi Yah also turns aside all the houses of the bamahs in the cities of Shomeron which the sovereigns of Yisra El worked to vex, and works to them according to all the works he worked in Beth El: 20 and he sacrifices all the priests of the bamahs on the sacrifice altars; and burns human bones on them; and returns to Yeru Shalem. 21 And the sovereign misvahs all the people, saying, Work the pasach to Yah Veh your Elohim, as inscribed in the scroll of this covenant. 22 Surely such a pasach was never worked from the days of the judges who judged Yisra El, neither in all the days of the sovereigns of Yisra El, nor of the sovereigns of Yah Hudah: 23 but in the eighteenth year of sovereign Yoshi Yah this pasach was worked to Yah Veh in Yeru Shalem. 24 And Yoshi Yah also burnt the necromancers and the knowers and the teraphim and the idols and all the abominations seen in the land of Yah Hudah and in Yeru Shalem, to raise the words of the torah inscribed in the scroll that Hilqi Yah the priest found in the house of Yah Veh. 25 And like unto him became no sovereign at his face - who turned to Yah Veh with all his heart and with all his soul and with all his might - according to all the torah of Mosheh; nor arose any like unto him after him. 26 Only, Yah Veh turns not from his fuming great wrath, whereby he kindles his wrath against Yah Hudah, because of all the vexations Menash Sheh vexed him. 27 And Yah Veh says, I also turn aside Yah Hudah from my face, as I turned aside Yisra El, and spurn this city Yeru Shalem which I chose, and the house of which I said, My name is there. 28 And the rest of the words of Yoshi Yah and all he worked, are they not inscribed in the scroll of the words of the days of the sovereigns of Yah Hudah? 29 In his days Paroh Nechoh sovereign of Misrayim ascends against the sovereign of Ashshur to the river Euphrates: and sovereign Yoshi Yah comes to meet him; and when he sees him, deathifies him at Megiddo. 30 And from Megiddo, his servants ride him in a chariot - dead; and bring him to Yeru Shalem and entomb him in his own tomb. And the people of the land take Yah Achaz the son of Yoshi Yah and anoint him and have him reign in the stead of his father. 31
YAH ACHAZ REIGNS IN YERU SHALEM
Yah Achaz is a son of twenty-three years when he begins to reign; and he reigns three months in Yeru Shalem: and the name of his mother, Hamutal the daughter of Yirme Yah of Libnah. 32 And he works evil in the eyes of Yah Veh according to all his fathers worked. 33 And Paroh Nechoh binds him at Riblah in the land of Hamath, that he not reign in Yeru Shalem; and gives a penalty on the land - a hundred rounds of silver and a round of gold. 34 And Paroh Nechoh has El Yaqim the son of Yoshi Yah reign in the stead of Yoshi Yah his father; and turns his name to Yah Yaqim: and he takes Yah Achaz away: and he comes to Misrayim and dies there. 35 And Yah Yaqim gives the silver and the gold to Paroh; only, he appraises the land to give the silver according to the mouth of Paroh: he exacts the silver and the gold from the people of the land - from each man according to his appraisal to give to Paroh Nechoh. 36 Yah Yaqim is a son of twenty-five years when he begins to reign; and he reigns eleven years in Yeru Shalem: and the name of his mother, Zebidah the daughter of Pedah Yah of Rumah: 37 and he works evil in the eyes of Yah Veh, according to all his fathers worked.