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2 Kings

Chapter 23

KJV · Textus Receptus

And the king sent, and they gathered unto him all the elders of Judah and of Jerusalem.
2 And the king went up into the house of the LORD, 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 was found in the house of the LORD.
3 And the king stood by a pillar, and made a covenant before the LORD, to walk after the LORD, and to keep his commandments and his testimonies and his statutes with all their heart and all their soul, to perform the words of this covenant that were written in this book. And all the people stood to the covenant.
4 And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the door, to bring forth out of the temple of the LORD all the vessels that were made for Baal, and for the grove, and for all the host of heaven: and he burned them without Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, and carried the ashes of them unto Bethel.
5 And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places round about Jerusalem; them also that burned incense unto Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven.
6 And he brought out the grove from the house of the LORD, without Jerusalem, unto the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and stamped it small to powder, and cast the powder thereof upon the graves of the children of the people.
7 And he brake down the houses of the sodomites, that were by the house of the LORD, where the women wove hangings for the grove.
8 And he brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah, and defiled the high places where the priests had burned incense, from Geba to Beersheba, and brake down the high places of the gates that were in the entering in of the gate of Joshua 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 high places came not up to the altar of the LORD in Jerusalem, but they did eat of the unleavened bread among their brethren.
10 And he defiled 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 kings of Judah had given to the sun, at the entering in of the house of the LORD, by the chamber of Nathanmelech the chamberlain, which was in the suburbs, and burned the chariots of the sun with fire.
12 And the altars that were on the top of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the LORD, did the king beat down, and brake them down from thence, and cast the dust of them into the brook Kidron.
13 And the high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on the right hand of the mount of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had builded for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Zidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon, did the king defile.
14 And he brake in pieces the images, and cut down the groves, and filled their places with the bones of men.
15 Moreover the altar that was at Bethel, and the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, had made, both that altar and the high place he brake down, and burned the high place, and stamped it small to powder, and burned the grove.
16 And as Josiah turned himself, he spied the sepulchres that were there in the mount, and sent, and took the bones out of the sepulchres, and burned them upon the altar, and polluted it, according to the word of the LORD which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these words.
17 Then he said, What title is that that I see? And the men of the city told him, It is the sepulchre of the man of God, which came from Judah, and proclaimed these things that thou hast done against the altar of Bethel.
18 And he said, Let him alone; let no man move his bones. So they let his bones alone, with the bones of the prophet that came out of Samaria.
19 And all the houses also of the high places that were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke the LORD to anger, Josiah took away, and did to them according to all the acts that he had done in Bethel.
20 And he slew all the priests of the high places that were there upon the altars, and burned men's bones upon them, and returned to Jerusalem.
21 And the king commanded all the people, saying, Keep the passover unto the LORD your God, as it is written in the book of this covenant.
22 Surely there was not holden such a passover from the days of the judges that judged Israel, nor in all the days of the kings of Israel, nor of the kings of Judah;
23 But in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, wherein this passover was holden to the LORD in Jerusalem.
24 Moreover the workers with familiar spirits, and the wizards, and the images, and the idols, and all the abominations that were spied in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, did Josiah put away, that he might perform the words of the law which were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of the LORD.
25And like unto him was there no king before him, that turned to the LORD with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his might, according to all the law of Moses; neither after him arose there any like him.
26Notwithstanding the LORD turned not from the fierceness of his great wrath, wherewith his anger was kindled against Judah, because of all the provocations that Manasseh had provoked him withal.
27And the LORD said, I will remove Judah also out of my sight, as I have removed Israel, and will cast off this city Jerusalem which I have chosen, and the house of which I said, My name shall be there.
28Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
29In his days Pharaohnechoh king of Egypt went up against the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates: and king Josiah went against him; and he slew him at Megiddo, when he had seen him.
30And his servants carried him in a chariot dead from Megiddo, and brought him to Jerusalem, and buried him in his own sepulchre. And the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and anointed him, and made him king in his father's stead.
31Jehoahaz was twenty and three years old when he began to reign; and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
32And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his fathers had done.
33And Pharaohnechoh put him in bands at Riblah in the land of Hamath, that he might not reign in Jerusalem; and put the land to a tribute of an hundred talents of silver, and a talent of gold.
34And Pharaohnechoh made Eliakim the son of Josiah king in the room of Josiah his father, and turned his name to Jehoiakim, and took Jehoahaz away: and he came to Egypt, and died there.
35And Jehoiakim gave the silver and the gold to Pharaoh; but he taxed the land to give the money according to the commandment of Pharaoh: he exacted the silver and the gold of the people of the land, of every one according to his taxation, to give it unto Pharaohnechoh.
36Jehoiakim was twenty and five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Zebudah, the daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah.
37And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his fathers had done.

Asante Twi

1Na ɔhene somaa nnipa, na wɔboaboaa Yuda ne Yerusalem mpanimfoɔ nyinaa ano baa ne nkyɛn.Under pastoral review
2Na ɔhene foro kɔɔ AWURADE fie, ɔne Yuda mmarima nyinaa ne wɔn a wɔte Yerusalem nyinaa ka ne ho, ne asɔfoɔ, ne adiyifoɔ, ne nkurɔfoɔ no nyinaa, nketewa ne akɛseɛ: na ɔkenkanee apam nwoma a wɔhunuu wɔ AWURADE fie no mu nsɛm nyinaa guu wɔn asom.Under pastoral review
3Na ɔhene gyinaa dum bi ho, na ɔyɛɛ apam wɔ AWURADE anim, sɛ ɔbɛdi AWURADE akyi, na wadi n'ahyɛdeɛ ne n'adanseɛ ne n'ahyɛnsɛm so, wɔ wɔn akoma nyinaa ne wɔn kra nyinaa mu, sɛ wɔbɛma saa apam yi mu nsɛm a wɔatwerɛ wɔ saa nwoma yi mu no aba mu. Na nkurɔfoɔ no nyinaa gyinaa apam no mu.Under pastoral review
4Na ɔhene hyɛɛ Hilkia, ɔsɔfoɔ panin, ne asɔfoɔ a wɔtɔ so mmienu no, ne apono ano hwɛfoɔ sɛ, wɔnyi nneɛma a wɔyɛ maa Baal, ne abosom dua, ne ɔsoro asafo nyinaa no nyinaa mfiri AWURADE asɔredan mu: na ɔhyee wɔn wɔ Yerusalem akyi wɔ Kidron mfuo mu, na ɔsoaa wɔn nsõ kɔɔ Bet-el.Under pastoral review
5Na ɔyii abosom asɔfoɔ a Yuda ahene sii wɔn sɛ wɔnhye aduhwam wɔ sorɔnsorɔmmea wɔ Yuda nkuro mu, ne mmeaeɛ a atwa Yerusalem ho ahyia no; wɔn a wɔhyee aduhwam maa Baal, owia, ne ɔsrane, ne nsoromma, ne ɔsoro asafo nyinaa no nso.Under pastoral review
6Na ɔyii abosom dua no firii AWURADE fie, Yerusalem akyi, kɔɔ asuwa Kidron ho, na ɔhyee no wɔ asuwa Kidron ho, na ɔyamm no muhumuhu, na ɔtoo ne mfuturo no guu nkurɔfoɔ mma adamena so.Under pastoral review
7Na ɔbubuu barima adwamanfoɔ afie a ɛbɛn AWURADE fie no, baabi a mmaa nwene nkataano maa abosom dua no.Under pastoral review
8Na ɔyii asɔfoɔ no nyinaa firii Yuda nkuro mu, na ɔguu sorɔnsorɔmmea a asɔfoɔ hyee aduhwam wɔ so no ho fi, firi Geba kɔsi Beer-seba, na ɔbubuu apono no sorɔnsorɔmmea a ɛwɔ Yosua, kuro no so panin ɛpono ano no, a ɛwɔ onipa benkum so wɔ kuro no ɛpono ano.Under pastoral review
9Nanso sorɔnsorɔmmea asɔfoɔ no amforo amma AWURADE afɔrebukyia no ho wɔ Yerusalem, na mmom wɔdii burodo a mmɔre nni mu wɔ wɔn nuanom mu.Under pastoral review
10Na ɔguu Tofet a ɛwɔ Hinom mma bɔnhwa mu no ho fi, sɛdeɛ obiara remfa ne babarima anaa ne babaa mmfa ogya mu mma Molek.Under pastoral review
11Na ɔyii apɔnkɔ a Yuda ahene de maa owia no firii AWURADE fie ano, Natan-melek, ɔpiani a ɔwɔ adidibea no dan ho, na ɔde ogya hyee owia nteaseɛnam no.Under pastoral review
12Na afɔrebukyia a ɛwɔ Ahas abansoro dan atifi, deɛ Yuda ahene yɛeɛ no, ne afɔrebukyia a Manase yɛɛ wɔ AWURADE fie adiwo mmienu no mu no, ɔhene bubuu no, na ɔbubuu no firii hɔ, na ɔtoo wɔn mfuturo guu asuwa Kidron mu.Under pastoral review
13Na sorɔnsorɔmmea a ɛda Yerusalem anim, a ɛwɔ ɔsɛeɛ bepɔ no nifa so, deɛ Solomon, Israel hene sii maa Astoret, Sidonfoɔ akyiwadeɛ, ne Kemos, Moabfoɔ akyiwadeɛ, ne Milkom, Amon mma akyiwadeɛ no, ɔhene guu ho fi.Under pastoral review
14Na ɔbubuu ahoni no mu asinasin, na ɔtwitwaa abosom nnua no, na ɔde nnipa nnompe hyɛɛ wɔn mmeaeɛ ma.Under pastoral review
15Bio afɔrebukyia a ɛwɔ Bet-el, ne sorɔnsorɔmmea a Yeroboam, Nebat babarima a ɔmaa Israel yɛɛ bɔne no yɛeɛ no, saa afɔrebukyia no ne sorɔnsorɔmmea no nyinaa ɔbubuiɛ, na ɔhyee sorɔnsorɔmmea no, na ɔyamm no muhumuhu, na ɔhyee abosom dua no.Under pastoral review
16Na ɛberɛ a Yosia danee ne ho no, ɔhunuu adamena a ɛwɔ bepɔ no so hɔ, na ɔsomaa nnipa, na wɔfaa nnompe firii adamena no mu, na ɔhyee wɔn wɔ afɔrebukyia no so, na ɔguu ho fi, sɛdeɛ AWURADE asɛm a Onyankopɔn onipa a ɔpaee mu kaa saa nsɛm yi no teɛ.Under pastoral review
17Afei ɔkaa sɛ, Adansedeɛ bɛn ni a mehunu yi? Na kuro no mu mmarima ka kyerɛɛ no sɛ, Ɛyɛ Onyankopɔn onipa a ɔfirii Yuda baeɛ, na ɔpaee mu kaa nneɛma a woayɛ atia Bet-el afɔrebukyia yi no damena.Under pastoral review
18Na ɔkaa sɛ, Gyaa no; mma obiara nnkanyane ne nnompe. Enti wɔgyaa ne nnompe, ne odiyifoɔ a ɔfirii Samaria baeɛ no nnompe.Under pastoral review
19Na sorɔnsorɔmmea afie a ɛwɔ Samaria nkuro mu, deɛ Israel ahene yɛeɛ de hyɛɛ no abufuo no nyinaa nso, Yosia yii, na ɔyɛɛ wɔn sɛdeɛ nneyɛɛ a ɔyɛeɛ wɔ Bet-el no nyinaa teɛ.Under pastoral review
20Na ɔkumm sorɔnsorɔmmea asɔfoɔ a wɔwɔ hɔ nyinaa wɔ afɔrebukyia no so, na ɔhyee nnipa nnompe wɔ wɔn so, na ɔsane kɔɔ Yerusalem.Under pastoral review
21Na ɔhene hyɛɛ nkurɔfoɔ no nyinaa sɛ, Monni Twam mma AWURADE mo Onyankopɔn, sɛdeɛ wɔatwerɛ wɔ saa apam nwoma yi mu no.Under pastoral review
22Ampa ara, wɔanni Twam a ɛte saa firi atemmufoɔ a wɔbuu Israel atɛn no nna mu, anaa Israel ahene nna nyinaa mu, anaa Yuda ahene deɛ mu;Under pastoral review
23Na mmom ɔhene Yosia mfeɛ dunwɔtwe so na wɔdii saa Twam yi maa AWURADE wɔ Yerusalem.Under pastoral review
24Bio asamanfrɛfoɔ, ne adunsifoɔ, ne terafim, ne ahoni, ne akyiwadeɛ a wɔhunuu wɔ Yuda asase so ne Yerusalem nyinaa, Yosia yii, sɛdeɛ ɔbɛma mmara mu nsɛm a wɔatwerɛ wɔ nwoma a ɔsɔfoɔ Hilkia hunuu no wɔ AWURADE fie no mu no aba mu.Under pastoral review
25Na ɔhene biara anni hɔ a ɔte sɛ ɔno wɔ n'anim, a ɔde n'akoma nyinaa, ne ne kra nyinaa, ne ne tumi nyinaa danee ne ho kɔɔ AWURADE nkyɛn, sɛdeɛ Mose mmara nyinaa teɛ; na n'akyi nso obiara ansɔre a ɔte sɛ ɔno.Under pastoral review
26Nanso AWURADE annane amfiri n'abufuhyeɛ kɛseɛ ano, deɛ n'abufuo sɔ tiaa Yuda no, ahyɛdeɛ a Manase de hyɛɛ no abufuo no nyinaa enti.Under pastoral review
27Na AWURADE kaa sɛ, Mɛyi Yuda nso afiri m'anim, sɛdeɛ mayi Israel afiri m'anim, na mɛpo saa kuro Yerusalem a mayi no yi, ne efie a mekaa ho asɛm sɛ, Me din bɛtena hɔ no.Under pastoral review
28Na Yosia nneyɛɛ a aka no, ne deɛ ɔyɛeɛ nyinaa, wɔntwerɛɛ wɔ Yuda ahene abakɔsɛm nwoma mu anaa?Under pastoral review
29Ne nna mu no, Farao-neko, Misraim hene foro kɔɔ Asiria hene so wɔ asubɔnten Eufrate ho: na ɔhene Yosia kɔɔ ne so; na ɔkumm no wɔ Megido, ɛberɛ a ɔhunuu no no.Under pastoral review
30Na n'asomfoɔ de no owufoɔ tenaa teaseɛnam mu firii Megido, na wɔde no baa Yerusalem, na wɔsiee no n'ankasa ne damena mu. Na asase no so nkurɔfoɔ faa Yehoahas, Yosia babarima, na wɔsraa no, na wɔsii no ɔhene n'agya ananmu.Under pastoral review
31Na Yehoahas adi mfeɛ aduonu mmiɛnsa ɛberɛ a ɔhyɛɛ aseɛ dii adeɛ; na ɔdii adeɛ abosome mmiɛnsa wɔ Yerusalem. Na ne maame din de Hamutal, Yeremia a ɔfiri Libna babaa.Under pastoral review
32Na ɔyɛɛ bɔne wɔ AWURADE ani so, sɛdeɛ n'agyanom yɛeɛ no nyinaa.Under pastoral review
33Na Farao-neko de no too nkɔnsɔnkɔnsɔn mu wɔ Ribla wɔ Hamat asase so, sɛdeɛ ɔrenni adeɛ wɔ Yerusalem; na ɔtoo asase no so toɔ, dwetɛ talenta ɔha, ne sika kɔkɔɔ talenta baako.Under pastoral review
34Na Farao-neko sii Eliakim, Yosia babarima ɔhene n'agya Yosia ananmu, na ɔsesaa ne din yɛɛ no Yehoiakim, na ɔfaa Yehoahas kɔeɛ: na ɔbaa Misraim, na ɔwuu wɔ hɔ.Under pastoral review
35Na Yehoiakim de dwetɛ ne sika kɔkɔɔ no maa Farao; nanso ɔtoo asase no so toɔ sɛdeɛ ɔbɛtumi ama sika no sɛdeɛ Farao ahyɛdeɛ teɛ: ɔgyee dwetɛ ne sika kɔkɔɔ firii asase no so nkurɔfoɔ nkyɛn, obiara sɛdeɛ ne toɔ teɛ, sɛ ɔde bɛma Farao-neko.Under pastoral review
36Na Yehoiakim adi mfeɛ aduonu enum ɛberɛ a ɔhyɛɛ aseɛ dii adeɛ; na ɔdii adeɛ mfeɛ dubaako wɔ Yerusalem. Na ne maame din de Sebuda, Pedaia a ɔfiri Ruma babaa.Under pastoral review
37Na ɔyɛɛ bɔne wɔ AWURADE ani so, sɛdeɛ n'agyanom yɛeɛ no nyinaa.Under pastoral review

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