RESTORATION SCRIPTURES TRUE NAME EDITION Study Bible

7 And he broke down the houses of the Sodomites that
were in the Bayit of vuvh, where the women wove
hangings for the Asherah.
8 And he brought all the Kohanim out of the cities of
Yahudah, and destroyed the idol temples where the
Kohanim had burned incense, from Geva to Be-er-Sheva,
and broke down the idol temples of the gates that were in
the entrance of the gate of Yahoshua the governor of the
city, which were on a man's left hand at the gate of the
city.
9 Nevertheless the priests of the idol temples came not up
to the altar of vuvh in Yahrushalayim, but they did eat of
the matzah among their brothers.
10 And he destroyed Topheth, which is in the Valley of
the Children of Hinnom, that no man might make his son,
or his daughter to pass through the fire to Molech.
11 And he took away the horses that the melechim of
Yahudah had given to the sun, at the entering in of the
Bayit of vuvh, by the room of Natan-Melech the officer
that was in the court, and burned the mirkavot of the sun
with fire.
12 And the altars that were on the top of the upper room
of Achaz, which the melechim of Yahudah had made, and
the altars which Menashsheh had made in the two courts
of the Bayit of vuvh, did the melech beat down, and broke
them down from there, and cast the dust of them into the
brook Kidron.
13 And the idol temples that were before Yahrushalayim,
which were on the right hand of the Mount of Corruption,
which Shlomo the melech of Yisrael had built for
Ashtoreth the abomination of the Tzidonians, and for
Chemosh the abomination of the Moavites, and for
Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon, did
the melech destroy.
14 And he broke in pieces the images, and cut down the
Asherim, and filled their places with the bones of men.
15 Moreover the altar that was at Beth-El, and the high
place which Yahravam the son of Nevat, who made
Yisrael to sin, had made, both that altar and the idol
temple he broke down, and burned the idol temple, and
ground it to small powder, and burned the Asherah.
16 And as Yoshiyahu turned, he saw the tombs that were
there in the mount and sent and took the bones out of the
tombs, and burned them upon the altar, and polluted it,
according to the word of vuvh which the man of Elohim
proclaimed, who proclaimed these words.
17 Then he said, What tombstone do I see? And the men
of the city told him, It is the tomb of the man of Elohim,
who came from Yahudah, and proclaimed these things
that you have done against the altar of Beth-El.
18 And he said, Leave him alone; let no man move his
bones. So they left his bones alone, with the bones of the
navi that came out of Shomron.
19 And all the houses also of the idol temples that were in
the cities of Shomron, which the melechim of Yisrael had
made to provoke vuvh to anger, Yoshiyahu took away,
and did to them according to all the things that he had
done in Beth-El.
20 And he killed all the priests of the idol temples that
were there upon the altars, and burned men's bones upon
them, and returned to Yahrushalayim.
21 And the melech commanded all the people, saying,
Keep the Pesach to vuvh your Elohim, as it is written in
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the scroll of this brit.
22 Surely there was no such Pesach prepared from the
days of the shophtim that gave mishpat to Yisrael, nor in
all the days of the melechim of Yisrael, nor of the
melechim of Yahudah;
23 But in the eighteenth year of melech Yoshiyahu, this
Pesach was held to vuvh in Yahrushalayim.
24 Moreover the workers with familiar ruachim, and the
mediums, and the images, and the idols, and all the
abominations that were seen in the land of Yahudah and
in Yahrushalayim, did Yoshiyahu put away, that he might
perform the words of the Torah that were written in the
scroll that Hilkiyahu the kohen found in the Bayit of
vuvh.
25 And before him there was no melech like him, that
made teshuvah to vuvh with all his lev, and with all his
being, and with all his might, according to all the Torah
of Moshe; and neither after him arose there any like
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26 However vuvh turned not from the fierceness of His
great wrath, with which His anger was lit against
Yahudah, because of all the provocations that
Menashsheh had provoked Him with.
27 And vuvh said, I will remove Yahudah also out of My
sight, as I have removed Yisrael, and will cast off this city
Yahrushalayim which I have chosen, and the Bayit of
which I said, My Name shall be there.
28 Now the rest of the acts of Yoshiyahu, and all that he
did, are they not written in the Scroll of the Divre
HaYamim about the melechim of Yahudah?
29 In his days Pharaoh-Nechoh melech of Mitzrayim
went up against the melech of Ashshur to the River
Euphrates: and melech Yoshiyahu went against him to
fight against him and Pharaoh said to him, I have not
come against you, go away from me. But Yoshiyahu did
not listen to him. So Pharaoh killed him at Megiddo when
he saw him there.
30 And his avadim carried him in a mirkavah dead from
Megiddo, and brought him to Yahrushalayim, and buried
him in his own tomb. And the people of the land took
Yahuachaz the son of Yoshiyahu, and anointed him, and
made him melech in his abba's place.
31 Yahuachaz was twenty-three years old when he began
to reign; and he reigned three months in Yahrushalayim.
And his eema's name was Hamutal, the daughter of
Yirmeyahu of Livnah.
32 And he did that which was evil in the sight of vuvh,
according to all that his ahvot had done.
33 And Pharaoh-Nechoh put him in chains at Rivlah in
the land of Hamath, that he might not reign in
Yahrushalayim; and put the land to a tribute of a hundred
talents of silver, and a talent of gold.
34 And Pharaoh-Nechoh made Elyaquim the son of
Yoshiyahu melech in the place of Yoshiyahu his abba,
and changed his name to Yahuyakim, and took
Yahuachaz away: and he came to Mitzrayim, and died
there.
35 And Yahuyakim gave the silver and the gold to
Pharaoh; but he taxed the land to give the silver according
to the commandment of Pharaoh: he exacted the silver
and the gold from the people of the land, of everyone
according to his taxation, to give it to Pharaoh-Nechoh.
36 Yahuyakim was twenty-five years old when he began