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YOSHI YAH REIGNS IN YERU SHALEM
Yoshi Yah is a son of eight years when he begins to reign: and he reigns in Yeru Shalem thirty-one years:
2 and he works straight in the eyes of Yah Veh and walks in the ways of David his father: and turns aside neither to the right nor to the left.
3 And in the eighth year of his reign - he is still a lad he begins to seek after the Elohim of David his father: and in the twelfth year he begins to purify Yah Hudah and Yeru Shalem from the bamahs and the asherim and the sculptiles and the molten:
4 and they pull down the sacrifice altars of Baalim from his face; and he cuts down the sun icons over above them; and he pulls down and pulverizes the asherim and the sculptiles and the moltens, and sprinkles on the face of the tombs of them who sacrificed to them:
5 and he burns the bones of the priests on their sacrifice altars; and purifies Yah Hudah and Yeru Shalem
6 - and in the cities of Menash Sheh and Ephrayim and Shimon - even to Naphtali, with their swords all around:
7 and he pulls down the sacrifice altars and the asherim; and crushes and pulverizes the sculptiles; and cuts down all the sun icons throughout all the land of Yisra El: and he returns to Yeru Shalem.
8 And in the eighteenth year of his reign he purifies the land and the house: and he sends Shaphan the son of Asal Yah and Maase Yah the governor of the city and Yah Ach the son of Yah Achaz the remembrancer to strengthen the house of Yah Veh his Elohim.
9 and they come to Hilqi Yah the great priest; and they give the silver brought into the house of Elohim, which the Leviym who guard the thresholds gather of the hand of Menash Sheh and Ephrayim and of all the survivors of Yisra El and of all Yah Hudah and Ben Yamin; and they settle in Yeru Shalem.
10 And they give it into the hand of the workers who oversee the house of Yah Veh; and they give it to the workers who work in the house of Yah Veh to repair and strengthen the house:
11 and they give it to the artificers and builders to chattel hewn stone and timber for joints and to beam the houses the sovereigns of Yah Hudah ruined.
12 And the men work the work trustworthily: and their overseers are Yachath and Obad Yah the Leviym of the sons of Merari; and Zechar Yah and Meshullam, of the sons of the Qehathiy to oversee: and of the Leviym all who discern instruments of song:
13 and over the burdenbearers are overseers of all who work the work - service by service: and of the Leviym scribes and officers and porters.
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\b \ul THE SCROLL OF THE TORAH IS FOUND nd they bring out the silver brought into the house of Yah Veh: and Hilqi Yah the priest finds a scroll of the torah of Yah Veh by the hand of Mosheh:
15 and Hilqi Yah answers and says to Shaphan the scribe, I found the scroll of the torah in the house of Yah Veh. And Hilqi Yah gives the scroll to Shaphan:
16 and Shaphan carries the scroll to the sovereign and returns word to the sovereign, saying, All that is given to the hand of your servants, they work:
17 - and they pour the silver found in the house of Yah Veh; and give it into the hand of the overseers and to the hand of the workers.
18 And Shaphan the scribe tells the sovereign, saying, Hilqi Yah the priest gave me a scroll. - and Shaphan calls it out at the face of the sovereign.
19 And so be it, the sovereign hears the words of the torah, and he rips his clothes:
20 and the sovereign misvahs Hilqi Yah and Achiy Qam the son of Shaphan and Abdon the son of Michah Yah and Shaphan the scribe and Asah Yah a servant of the sovereign, saying,
21 Go, enquire of Yah Veh for me and for them who survive in Yisra El and in Yah Hudah, concerning the words of the scroll that is found: for great is the fury of Yah Veh poured out on us because our fathers guarded not the word of Yah Veh - to work according to all inscribed in this scroll.
22 And Hilqi Yah and they of the sovereign go to Huldah the prophetess the woman of Shallum the son of Tiqvah the son of Hasrah, guard of the clothes; - she settles in Yeru Shalem in the second part and thus they word to her.
23 And she says to them, Thus says Yah Veh Elohim of Yisra El: Say to the man who sends you to me,
24 Thus says Yah Veh: Behold, I bring evil on this place and on its settlers, all the oaths inscribed in the scroll which they call out at the face of the sovereign of Yah Hudah:
25 because they forsook me and incensed to other elohim, to vex me with all the works of their hands: and I pour out my fury on this place and quench it not.
26 And as for the sovereign of Yah Hudah who sends you to enquire of Yah Veh say to him thus: Thus says Yah Veh Elohim of Yisra El whose words you heard:
27 because you tenderize your heart and humble yourself at the face of Elohim - when you hear his words against this place and against the settlers thereof; and humble yourself at my face and rip your clothes and weep at my face; I also hear you - an oracle of Yah Veh.
28 Behold, I gather you to your fathers, - gather to your tomb in shalom, that your eyes not see all the evil I bring on this place and on the settlers of the same. And they return word to the sovereign:
29 and the sovereign sends and gathers all the elders of Yah Hudah and Yeru Shalem:
30 and the sovereign ascends to the house of Yah Veh with all the Yah Hudiy and the settlers of Yeru Shalem and the priests and the Leviym and all the people from great to small: and he calls out in their ears all the words of the scroll of the covenant they found in the house of Yah Veh.
31 And the sovereign stands in his station and cuts a covenant at the face of Yah Veh - to walk after Yah Veh and to guard his misvoth and his witnesses and his statutes with all his heart and with all his soul - to work the words of the covenant inscribed in this scroll.
32 And he has all who are found in Yeru Shalem and Ben Yamin to stand to it: and the settlers of Yeru Shalem work according to the covenant of Elohim the Elohim of their fathers.
33 And Yoshi Yah turns aside all the abhorrences from all the lands of the sons of Yisra El; and has all who are found in Yisra El to serve - to serve Yah Veh their Elohim: and all his days, they turn not aside from after Yah Veh the Elohim of their fathers.