2 Kings 24:3 Cross References - Rotherham

³ Surely, it was, because of the anger of Yahweh, that this came upon Judah, to remove them from his presence,––for the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he had done:

²⁰ Ye, indeed, planned against me, evil,––God, planned it, for good, for the sake of doing, as at this day, to save alive much people.

⁵ thou shalt not bow thyself down to them, nor be led to serve them––For, I, Yahweh, thy God, am a jealous GOD, visiting the iniquity of fathers, upon sons, unto three [generations] and unto four, of them that hate me;

³³ When, even you, I scatter among the nations, And make bare, after you, a sword. Then shall your land become an astonishment, And your cities become a desolation. ³⁴ Then, shall the land be paid her sabbaths, All the days she lieth desolate, While, ye, are in the land of your foes,––Then, shall the land keep sabbath, And pay off her sabbaths: ³⁵ All the days she lieth desolate, shall she keep sabbath,––the which she kept not as your sabbaths, while ye dwelt thereupon.

²⁶ I take both the heavens and the earth to witness against you, today, that ye shall, perish, speedily from off the land which ye, are passing over the Jordan to possess,––ye shall not prolong your days thereupon; for, ye shall surely be laid waste; ²⁷ and Yahweh will scatter you among the peoples,––and ye shall have left remaining of you, men easily counted, among the nations whither Yahweh will drive you;

⁶³ And it shall come to pass that, as Yahweh rejoiced over you, to do you good, and to multiply you, so, will Yahweh rejoice over you, to cause you to perish, and, to destroy you,––and ye shall be torn away, from off the soil, whither thou art going in to possess it;

²⁸ and therefore hath Yahweh, rooted them out, from off their own soil, in anger and in wrath, and in great indignation,––and cast them into another land, as at this day.

¹⁵ But it shall be that, as all the good things have come unto you, which Yahweh your God spake unto you, so, will Yahweh bring upon you all the evil things, until he hath destroyed you from off this goodly soil, which Yahweh your God hath given unto you.

²⁵ Now, is it, without Yahweh, that I have come up against this place, to destroy it? Yahweh himself, said unto me, Go thou up against this land, and destroy it.

² And he did the thing that was wicked in the eyes of Yahweh,––after the abominable practices of the nations, whom Yahweh had dispossessed from before the sons of Israel. ³ He again built the high places, which Hezekiah his father had destroyed,––and reared altars to Baal, and made a Sacred Stem, as did Ahab, king of Israel, and bowed down to all the army of the heavens, and served them. ⁴ And he used to build altars in the house of Yahweh,––concerning which Yahweh had said,––In Jerusalem, will I put my Name. ⁵ And he built altars to all the army of the heavens,––in the two courts of the house of Yahweh; ⁶ and caused his son to pass through the fire, and practiced hidden arts and used divination, and dealt with a familiar spirit and wizards,––he exceeded in doing the thing that was wicked in the eyes of Yahweh, provoking [him] to anger; ⁷ and he set the image of the Sacred Stem which he had made,––in the house, of which Yahweh had said unto David, and unto Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, will I put my Name, unto times age–abiding; ⁸ and I will not again let the foot of Israel wander away from the soil which I gave unto their fathers. Only if they take heed to do according to all that I have commanded them, even to the extent of all the law which, my servant Moses, commanded them. ⁹ But they hearkened not,––and Manasseh led them astray to do the thing that was wicked, more than the nations which Yahweh destroyed from before the sons of Israel.
¹⁰ Yahweh therefore spake through his servants the prophets saying–– ¹¹ Because Manasseh king of Judah hath made these abominations––hath done that which is wicked, more than all which the Amorites did who were before him, and hath caused, even Judah, to sin with his manufactured gods,

²⁶ Howbeit, Yahweh turned not away from the glow of his great anger, wherewith his anger glowed against Judah––because of all the provocations wherewith, Manasseh, had provoked him. ²⁷ So Yahweh said: Even Judah, will I remove from my presence, as I have removed Israel,––and will reject this city, which I had chosen, even Jerusalem, and the house as to which I had said, My Name, shall be, there.

²⁴ Although, with a comparatively few men, came the force of Syria, yet, Yahweh, delivered into their hand an exceeding large force,––because they had forsaken Yahweh, the God of their fathers,––and, upon Joash, executed they judgments.

¹⁶ And it came to pass, as he spake unto him, that he said to him, To be, counselor to the king, have we appointed thee? forbear thou, wherefore should they smite thee? So the prophet forbare, and said––I know that God hath determined to destroy thee, because thou hast done this, and hast not hearkened unto my counsel.

⁵ Alas! for Assyria, the rod of mine anger,––Yea, the very staff in their hand, is, my displeasure: ⁶ Against an irreligious nation, will I send him, Yea, against the people with whom I am wroth, will I command him,––To capture spoil, And lay hold on prey, And cause them to be trodden down as the mire of the lanes.

⁷ Forming light, and creating darkness, Making prosperity, and creating misfortune,––I––Yahweh, who doeth all these.

¹⁰ Declaring, from the beginning, the latter end, And, from olden time, that which had never been done,––Saying, My purpose shall stand, and, All my pleasure, will I perform; ¹¹ Calling, From the East, a Bird of Prey, From a far country, the Man I intended,––Yea I have spoken, I will also bring it to pass, I have planned, I will also do it.

¹ Then said Yahweh unto me, Though Moses and Samuel should stand, before me, My soul could not, be toward this people,––Send them away from before me, And let them go forth. ² And it shall come to pass, when they say unto thee, Whither, shall we go? Then shalt thou say unto them, Thus, saith Yahweh––Such as are for death, to death, and, Such as are for the sword, to the sword, and, Such as are for famine, to the famine, and, Such as are for captivity, to captivity. ³ And I will set in charge over them––four species, Declareth Yahweh, The sword, to slay, and, The dogs, to trail along,––and, The bird of the heavens, and, The beast of the earth, to devour and to destroy. ⁴ And I will make them a terror, to all the kingdoms of the earth,––On account of Manasseh, son of Hezekiah, king of Judah, For what he did in Jerusalem.

⁶ Or a horn be blown in a city, and, a people, not tremble? Or calamity happen in a city, and, Yahweh, not have wrought with effect?

¹⁰ Arise ye and depart, for, this, is not the place of rest,––Because it is defiled, it shall make desolate with a desolation that is ruthless.