At that time, Hezekiah cut off the doors of the temple of Yahweh, and the columns, which Hezekiah king of Judah had overlaid, - and gave them unto the king of Assyria.

So Rab-shakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah, - for he had heard that he had broken up from Lachish.

And, when Hezekiah had received the letter at the hand of the messengers, and had read it, then went he up to the house of Yahweh, and Hezekiah spread it out before Yahweh.

This, is the word that Yahweh hath spoken concerning him, - The virgin daughter of Zion, laugheth thee to scorn, mocketh thee, The daughter of Jerusalem, after thee, doth wag her head.

Through thy messengers, thou hast reproached My Lord, and hast said - With my multitude of chariots, have I ascended the height of the mountains, the recesses of Lebanon, - and have cut down its tallest cedars, its choicest firs, and have entered the shelter of its summit, its thick garden forests.

And it came to pass that Isaiah, had not gone out into the middle court, when the word of Yahweh came unto him, saying:

Now Hezekiah had said unto Isaiah, What sign is there, that Yahweh will heal me, - and that I shall go up on the third day, to the house of Yahweh?

And Isaiah the prophet cried unto Yahweh, and he caused the shadow on the steps by which it had gone down on the steps of Ahaz to go back, ten steps.

At that time, Berodach-baladan son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present, unto Hezekiah, - for he had heard that Hezekiah had been sick.

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.

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.

And he used to build altars in the house of Yahweh, - concerning which Yahweh had said, - In Jerusalem, will I put my Name.

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;

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.

Moreover also, innocent blood, did Manasseh shed in great abundance, till he had filled Jerusalem, from one end to the other, besides his committing the sins which he caused, Judah, to commit, in doing the thing that was wicked in the eyes of Yahweh.

yea he walked in all the way wherein, his father, had walked, - and served the manufactured gods that, his father, had served, and bowed down to them;

Then the people of the land smote all who had conspired against King Amon, - and the people of the land made, Josiah his son, king, in his stead.

Because, tender, was thy heart, and thou didst humble thyself before Yahweh when thou heardest what I had spoken against this place and against the inhabitants thereof - that they should become a desolation and a curse, and didst rend thy clothes, and weep before me, therefore also, I, have hearkened - declareth Yahweh.

and the king went up to the house of Yahweh, and all the men of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem 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 had been found in the house of Yahweh.

Then the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the entrance-hall, to bring forth, out of the temple of Yahweh, all the vessels that had been made for Baal and for the Sacred Stem, and for all the army of the heavens, - and he burned them up outside Jerusalem, in the fields of Kidron, and carried the ashes of them to Bethel;

and he put down the idol-priests, whom the kings of Judah had appointed, so that incense might be burned in the high places, in the cities of Judah, and round about Jerusalem, - them also that burned incense to Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the constellations, and to all the army of the heavens;

and be brought in all the priests out of the cities of Judah, and defiled the high places where, the priests, had burned incense, from Geba unto Beer-sheba, - and brake down the high places of the gates, that were at the entrance of the gate of Joshua, the governor of the city, which were on one's left hand, in the gate of the city;

and he did away with the horses, which the kings of Judah had devoted to the sun, at the entrance of the house of Yahweh, near the chamber of Nathan-melech the courtier, which was in the suburbs, also, the chariots of the sun, burned he with fire;

and, the altars which were on the roof of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, also the altars which Manasseh had made, in the two courts of the house of Yahweh, did the king break down, - and hurried away from thence, and cast out the powder of them into the Kidron ravine;

and, the high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on the right hand of the mount of destruction, which Solomon king of Israel had built unto Ashtoreth - the abomination of the Zidonians, and unto Chemosh - the abomination of the Moabites, and unto Milcom - the disgusting thing of the sons of Ammon, did the king defile;

Moreover also, all the houses of the high places which were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made, so as to provoke Yahweh to anger, did Josiah remove, - and he did to them according to all the doings which he had done in Bethel;

Surely there had not been held such a passover as this, from the days of the Judges who judged Israel, - nor all the days of the kings of Israel, and the kings of Judah;

Moreover also, them who had familiar spirits, and the wizards, and the household gods, and the manufactured gods, and the abominations which were to be seen in the land of Judah, and in Jerusalem, did Josiah consume, - that he might confirm the words of the law which were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest had found in the house of Yahweh.

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.

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.

And he did the thing that was wicked in the eyes of Yahweh, according to all that his, fathers, had done.

And he did the thing that was wicked in the eyes of Yahweh, - according to all that, his fathers, had done.

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:

moreover also, for the innocent blood that he had shed, so that he had filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, - which Yahweh was not willing to pardon.

And the king of Egypt came no more again out of his land, - for the king of Babylon had taken - from the ravine of Egypt, unto the river Euphrates, all that had belonged to the king of Egypt.

And he did the thing that was wicked in the eyes of Yahweh, - according to all that, his father, had done.

And he carried forth from thence, all the treasures of the house of Yahweh, and the treasures of the house of the king, - and he cut off all the fittings of gold, which Solomon king of Israel had made in the temple of Yahweh, according to all that, Yahweh, had spoken.

And he did the thing that was wicked in the eyes of Yahweh, - according to all that, Jehoiakim, had done.

For, it was because the anger of Yahweh had come against Jerusalem, and against Judah, until he had cast them out from his presence, that Zedekiah rebelled, against the king of Babylon.

On the ninth of the month, when the famine had become severe in the city, - and there had come to be no bread for the people of the land,

Eighteen cubits, was the height of each pillar, and, the capital thereupon was of bronze, and, the height of the capital, was three cubits, and, the lattice-work and pomegranates upon the capital round about, the whole, was of bronze; and, like these, had the second pillar, upon the lattice-work.

And the chief of the royal executioners took Seraiah the head priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, - and the three keepers of the entrance hall;

And, when all the generals of the forces, they and the men, heard that the king of Babylon had given oversight unto Gedaliah, then came they in unto Gedaliah, at Mizpah, - even Ishmael son of Nethaniah, and Johanan son of Kareah, and Seraiah son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, and Jaazaniah son of a Maacathite, they and their men.

And it came to pass, in the thirty-seventh year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, - that Evil-merodach king of Babylon, in the year that he began to reign, did lift up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah, out of prison;

And Jerahmeel had another wife, whose name, was Atarah, - the same, was the mother of Onam.

Now Sheshan had, no sons, but, daughters, - and, Sheshan, had a servant, an Egyptian, whose name was Jarha;

And Shobal, the father of Kiriath-jearim had sons, - Haroeh, half of the Menuhoth.

And, Ashhur the father of Tekoa, had two wives, - Helah, and Naarah.

Now it came to pass that Jabez was more honourable than his brethren, - but, his mother, had called his name Jabez, saying, Because I bare him with pain.

And, the sons of the wife of Hodiah, the sister of Naham, were the father of Keilah, the Garmite, - and Eshtemoa, the Maacathite.

And, Shimei, had sixteen sons, and six daughters, but, his brethren, had not many children, - nor did, any of their family, multiply so much as the sons of Judah.

and all their villages that were round about these cities, as far as Baal. These, were their habitations, and they had their own genealogical register.

And, some of them, of the sons of Simeon, went to Mount Seir, five hundred men, - with Pelatiah, and Neariah, and Rephaiah, and Uzziel, sons of Ishi, at their head;

and they smote the remainder that had escaped, of the Amalekites, - and dwelt there - as they have unto this day.

And, these, are they whom David caused to stand, as the servants of song, in the house of Yahweh, when he had given rest unto the ark;

But, as for some of the families of the sons of Kohath, they had the cities of their lot, out of the tribe of Ephraim;

and, with them by their generations, pertaining to their ancestral house, were bands of a host for war, thirty-six thousand, - for they had many wives and sons;

and, their brethren, of all the families of Issachar, heroes of great valour, were eighty-seven thousand, when they had, all, registered themselves.

And, the sons of Bela, Ezbon and Uzzi and Uzziel and Jerimoth and Iri, five, chiefs of the ancestral house, heroes of great valour, - who, when they had registered themselves, were twenty-two thousand and thirty-four,

And, when they had registered themselves by their generations, the chiefs of their ancestral house, the heroes of valour, were twenty thousand and two hundred.

and, Machir, took a wife pertaining to Huppim and Shuppim, and, the name of his sister, was Maacah, and, the name of the second, Zelophehad, - and, Zelophehad, had, daughters.

and Zabad his son and Shuthelah his son, and Ezer and Elead, - but the men of Gath who had been born in the land slew them, because they had come down to take away their cattle.

Bezer and Hod, and Shamma and Shilshah, and Ithran and Beera.

And Bela had sons - Addar, and Gera, and Abihud, -

And, Shaharaim, begat children in the field of Moab, after he had sent away Hushim and Baara his wives.

And, Azel, had six sons, and, these, were their names - Azrikam, Bocheru, and Ishmael, and Sheariah, and Obediah, and Hanan and Asah, - all these, were sons of Azel.

And, Shallum, son of Kore, son of Ebiasaph, son of Korah and his brethren of his ancestral house - the Korahites, were over the business of the service, watchers at the vestibule of the tent, - and, their fathers, had been over the camp of Yahweh, watchers at the entrance.

All those who were chosen for door-keepers in the vestibule, were two hundred and twelve, - the same, in their villages, had registered themselves, the same, did David and Samuel the seer establish in their trust.

And, their brethren in their villages, had to come in, every seven days, from time to time, along with these.

and, Azel, had six sons, and these are their names - Azrikam, his firstborn , and Ishmael, and Sheariah and Obadiah, and Hanan, and Asah . These, were the sons of Azel.

And, when all the men of Israel that were in the vale saw, that they had fled, and that Saul and his sons were dead, then forsook they their cities, and fled, and the Philistines came and dwelt in them.

So they stript him, and took his head, and his armour, - and sent throughout the land of the Philistines round about, to publish it to their idols, and to the people.

And, when all Jabesh-Gilead heard all that the Philistines had done to Saul,

And, Abishai brother of Joab - he, was the chief of three, he, having brandished his spear against three hundred - who were slain, - and so, he, had a name among three.

These things, did Benaiah son of Jehoiada, so, he, had a name among three heroes.

And, of the sons of Benjamin, brethren of Saul, three thousand, - and, hitherto, the greater part of them, had been keeping the charge of the house of Saul.

So they were there, with David, three days, eating and drinking, - for their brethren had made preparation for them.

And it was a sadness unto David, that Yahweh had broken in with a breach against Uzza, - and he called that place Perez-uzza, as it is called unto this day.

And the ark of God remained with the household of Obed-edom, in his house, three months, - and Yahweh blessed the household of Obed-edom, and all that he had.

So David perceived, that Yahweh, had confirmed him, as king over Israel, - that his kingship was exalted, for the sake of his people Israel.

Now, these, are the names of them who were born, whom he had in Jerusalem, - Shammua and Shobab, Nathan, and Solomon;

And, when the Philistines heard that David had been anointed king over all Israel, all the Philistines came up to seek to secure David, - and David, hearing, went out against them.

Now, the Philistines, had come and spread themselves out, in the vale of Rephaim.

So David convoked all Israel, unto Jerusalem, - to bring up the ark of Yahweh, unto the place thereof, which he had prepared for it.

So they brought in the ark of God, and placed it in the midst of the tent, which David had pitched for it, - and they brought near ascending-sacrifices and peace-offerings, before God.

And, when David had made an end of offering the ascending-sacrifices, and the peace-offerings, he blessed the people, in the name of Yahweh.

And it came to pass, when David had taken up his abode in his house, that David said unto Nathan the prophet, Lo! I, am dwelling in a house of cedars, but, the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, is under curtains.

And, when Tou, king of Hamath, heard that David had smitten all the force of Hadarezer king of Zobah,

he sent Hadoram his son unto King David, to ask after his welfare, and to bless him, because he had made war against Hadarezer and had smitten him, for, a man making wars against Tou, had been Hadarezer, - and he had with him all manner of vessels of gold and silver and bronze;

And, when the sons of Ammon saw, that they had made themselves odious with David, Hanun and the sons of Ammon sent a thousand talents of silver, to hire for themselves - out of Mesopotamia, and out of Aram-maacah, and out of Zobah, - chariots, and horsemen.

And the sons of Ammon came out, and set in array for the battle, at the opening of the city, - whereas, the kings who had come, were by themselves, in the field.

And, when, the sons of Ammon, saw that the Syrians had fled, then fled, they also, from before Abishai his brother, and entered the city, - and Joab came to Jerusalem.

And when the Syrians saw that they had been defeated before Israel, then sent they messengers, and brought out the Syrians who were Beyond the River, - with Shophach captain of the army of Hadarezer, before them.

And it was told David, and he gathered together all Israel, and crossed the Jordan, and came unto them, and set in array against them, - and, when David had set in array against the Syrians for battle, they fought with him.

And David took the crown of their king from off his head, and found it weighed a talent of gold, and, therein, were precious stones, and it was set on the head of David, - and, the spoil of the city, brought he forth, in great abundance;

And there again came to be war with Gath, - where was a man of great stature, whose fingers and toes, six on each hand and foot, were four and twenty, and, he also, had been born unto the giant.

And David said unto God, Was it not, I, who gave word to number the people? Yea, I, it was who sinned and did the great wrong, what then had, these sheep, done? O Yahweh, my God, let thy hand, I beseech thee, be against me, and against the house of my father, but not against, thy people, that they should be plagued!

And Ornan turned, and saw the messenger, but, his four sons with him, were hiding themselves, - now, Ornan, had been threshing wheat.

At that time, when David saw that Yahweh had answered him in the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite, then he sacrificed there.

and David could not go before it, to seek God, - for he had been terrified, because of the sword of the messenger of Yahweh.