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2 Chronicles1

¹And Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] the son of David [beloved] was strengthened in his kingdom, and the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) his God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] [was] with him, and magnified him exceedingly.

²Then Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] spoke unto all Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], to the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and to the judges, and to every governor in all Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], the chief of the fathers.

³So Shlomo (Solomon) [peace], and all the congregation with him, went to the high place that [was] at Giv’on [Hill City]; for there was the tabernacle of the congregation of God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], which Moshe [He Who Draws Out Of The Waters] the servant of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) had made in the wilderness.

⁴But the ark of God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] had David [beloved] brought up from Kiryat-Ye’arim [City of Forests] to [the place which] David [beloved] had prepared for it: for he had pitched a tent for it at Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace].

⁵Moreover the brasen altar, that B’tzal’el [In The Shadow (Protection) of El / God] the son of Uri [my light, my fire], the son of Hur [Liberty], had made, he put before the tabernacle of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate): and Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] and the congregation sought unto it.

⁶And Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] went up there to the brasen altar before the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), which [was] at the tabernacle of the congregation, and offered a thousand burnt offerings upon it.

⁷In that night did God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] appear unto Shlomo (Solomon) [peace], and said unto him, Ask what I shall give youi.

⁸And Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] said unto God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], youi have showed great mercy unto David [beloved] my father, and have made me to reign in his stead.

⁹Now, O LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], let youi promise unto David [beloved] my father be established: for youi have made me king over a people like the dust of the earth in multitude.

¹⁰Give me now wisdom and knowledge, that I may go out and come in before this people: for who can judge this youri people, [that is so] great?

¹¹And God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] said to Shlomo (Solomon) [peace], Because this was in youi heart, and youi have not asked riches, wealth, or honour, nor the life of youi enemies, neither yet have asked long life; but have asked wisdom and knowledge for yourself, that youi may judge my people, over whom I have made youi king:

¹²Wisdom and knowledge [is] granted unto youi; and I will give youi riches, and wealth, and honour, such as none of the kings have had that [have been] before youi, neither shall there any after youi have the like.

¹³Then Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] came [from his journey] to the high place that [was] at Giv’on [Hill City] to Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace], from before the tabernacle of the congregation, and reigned over Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God].

¹⁴And Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] gathered chariots and horsemen: and he had a thousand and four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, which he placed in the chariot cities, and with the king at Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace].

¹⁵And the king made silver and gold at Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace] [as plenteous] as stones, and cedar trees made he as the sycomore trees that [are] in the vale for abundance.

¹⁶And Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] had horses brought out of Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place], and linen yarn: the king’s merchants received the linen yarn at a price.

¹⁷And they fetched up, and brought forth out of Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place] a chariot for six hundred [shekels] of silver, and an horse for an hundred and fifty: and so brought they out [horses] for all the kings of the Hitti [Terrorists], and for the kings of Aram [exalted] (Syria) [exalted], by their means.

¹And Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] determined to build an house for the name of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), and an house for his kingdom.

²And Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] tallied threescore and ten thousand men to bear burdens, and eighty thousand to hew in the mountain, and three thousand and six hundred to oversee them.

³And Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] sent to Huram [noble born] the king of Tzor [a rock], saying, As youi did deal with David [beloved] my father, and did send him cedars to build him an house to dwell in it, [even so deal with me].

⁴Behold, I build an house to the name of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) my God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], to dedicate [it] to him, [and] to burn before him sweet incense, and for the continual showbread, and for the burnt offerings morning and evening, on the Shabbat, and on the new moons, and on the solemn feasts of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) our God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered]. This [is an ordinance] forever to Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God].

⁵And the house which I build [is] great: for great [is] our God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] above all gods.

⁶But who is able to build him an house, seeing the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain him? who [am] I then, that I should build him an house, save only to burn sacrifice before him?

⁷Send me now therefore a man cunning to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, and in iron, and in purple, and crimson, and blue, and that can skill to grave with the cunning men that [are] with me in Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] and in Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace], whom David [beloved] my father did provide.

⁸Send me also cedar trees, fir trees, and algum trees, out of L’vanon [Whiteness]: for I know that youi servants can skill to cut timber in L’vanon [Whiteness]; and, behold, my servants [shall be] with youi servants,

⁹Even to prepare me timber in abundance: for the house which I am about to build [shall be] wonderful great.

¹⁰And, behold, I will give to youi servants, the hewers that cut timber, twenty thousand measures of beaten wheat, and twenty thousand measures of barley, and twenty thousand baths of wine, and twenty thousand baths of oil.

¹¹Then Huram [noble born] the king of Tzor (Tyre) [a rock] answered in writing, which he sent to Shlomo (Solomon) [peace], Because the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) has loved his people, he has made youi king over them.

¹²Huram [noble born] said moreover, Blessed (Favored by God; happy; prosperous) [be] the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], that made heaven and earth, who has given to David [beloved] the king a wise son, endued with prudence and understanding, that might build an house for the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), and an house for his kingdom.

¹³And now I have sent a cunning man, endued with understanding, of Huram [noble born] my father’s,

¹⁴The son of a woman of the daughters of Dan [Judge], and his father [was] a man of Tzor [a rock], skilful to work in gold, and in silver, in brass, in iron, in stone, and in timber, in purple, in blue, and in fine linen, and in crimson; also to grave any manner of graving, and to find out every device which shall be put to him, with youi cunning men, and with the cunning men of my lord David [beloved] youi father.

¹⁵Now therefore the wheat, and the barley, the oil, and the wine, which my lord has spoken of, let him send unto his servants:

¹⁶And we will cut wood out of L’vanon [Whiteness], as much as youi shall need: and we will bring it to youi in floats by sea to Joppa; and youi shall carry it up to Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace].

¹⁷And Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] numbered all the strangers that [were] in the land of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], after the numbering which David [beloved] his father had numbered them; and they were found an hundred and fifty thousand and three thousand and six hundred.

¹⁸And he set threescore and ten thousand of them [to be] bearers of burdens, and eighty thousand [to be] hewers in the mountain, and three thousand and six hundred overseers to set the people a work.

¹Then Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] began to build the house of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) at Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace] in Mount Moriyah [chosen by Yehovah], where [the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate)] appeared unto David [beloved] his father, in the place that David [beloved] had prepared in the threshingfloor of Ornan [light was perpetuated] the Y’vusi [Threshers].

²And he began to build in the second [day] of the second month, in the fourth year of his reign.

³Now these [are the things wherein] Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] was instructed for the building of the house of God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered]. The length by cubits after the first measure [was] threescore cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits.

⁴And the porch that [was] in the front [of the house], the length [of it was] according to the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the height [was] an hundred and twenty: and he overlaid it within with pure gold.

⁵And the greater house he ceilinged with fir tree, which he overlaid with fine gold, and set thereon palm trees and chains.

⁶And he garnished the house with precious stones for beauty: and the gold [was] gold of Parayim [oriental regions].

⁷He overlaid also the house, the beams, the posts, and the walls thereof, and the doors thereof, with gold; and graved k’vurim (cherubim) on the walls.

⁸And he made the most holy house, the length whereof [was] according to the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the breadth thereof twenty cubits: and he overlaid it with fine gold, [amounting] to six hundred talents.

⁹And the weight of the nails [was] fifty shekels of gold. And he overlaid the upper chambers with gold.

¹⁰And in the most holy house he made two k’vurim (cherubim) of image work, and overlaid them with gold.

¹¹And the wings of the k’vurim (cherubim) [were] twenty cubits long: one wing [of the one cherub [keruv] was] five cubits, reaching to the wall of the house: and the other wing [was likewise] five cubits, reaching to the wing of the other cherub [keruv].

¹²And [one] wing of the other cherub [keruv] [was] five cubits, reaching to the wall of the house: and the other wing [was] five cubits [also], joining to the wing of the other cherub [keruv].

¹³The wings of these k’vurim (cherubim) spread themselves forth twenty cubits: and they stood on their feet, and their faces [were] inward.

¹⁴And he made the vail [of] blue, and purple, and crimson, and fine linen, and wrought k’vurim (cherubim) thereon.

¹⁵Also he made before the house two pillars of thirty and five cubits high, and the column that [was] on the top of each of them [was] five cubits.

¹⁶And he made chains, [as] in the oracle, and put [them] on the heads of the pillars; and made an hundred pomegranates, and put [them] on the chains.

¹⁷And he reared up the pillars before the temple, one on the right hand, and the other on the left; and called the name of that on the right hand Yakhin [He will establish], and the name of that on the left Bo’az [a high rate of movement].

¹Moreover he made an altar of brass, twenty cubits the length thereof, and twenty cubits the breadth thereof, and ten cubits the height thereof.

²Also he made a molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim, round in compass (go around, encircle; encompass), and five cubits the height thereof; and a line of thirty cubits did compass (go around, encircle; encompass) it round about.

³And under it [was] the similitude of oxen, which did compass (go around, encircle; encompass) it round about: ten in a cubit, compassing the sea round about. Two rows of oxen [were] cast, when it was cast.

⁴It stood upon twelve oxen, three looking toward the north, and three looking toward the west, and three looking toward the south, and three looking toward the east: and the sea [was set] above upon them, and all their hinder parts [were] inward.

⁵And the thickness of it [was] an handbreadth, and the brim of it like the work of the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies; [and] it received and held three thousand baths.

⁶He made also ten lavers, and put five on the right hand, and five on the left, to wash in them: such things as they offered for the burnt offering they washed in them; but the sea [was] for the priests to wash in.

⁷And he made ten candlesticks of gold according to their form, and set [them] in the temple, five on the right hand, and five on the left.

⁸He made also ten tables, and placed [them] in the temple, five on the right side, and five on the left. And he made an hundred basons of gold.

⁹Furthermore he made the court of the priests, and the great court, and doors for the court, and overlaid the doors of them with brass.

¹⁰And he set the sea on the right side of the east end, over against the south.

¹¹And Huram [noble born] made the pots, and the shovels, and the basons. And Huram [noble born] finished the work that he was to make for king Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] for the house of God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered];

¹²[To wit], the two pillars, and the pommels (bowl-shaped top of a pillar), and the columns [which were] on the top of the two pillars, and the two wreaths to cover the two pommels (bowl-shaped top of a pillar) of the columns which [were] on the top of the pillars;

¹³And four hundred pomegranates on the two wreaths; two rows of pomegranates on each wreath, to cover the two pommels (bowl-shaped top of a pillar) of the columns which [were] upon the pillars.

¹⁴He made also bases, and lavers made he upon the bases;

¹⁵One sea, and twelve oxen under it.

¹⁶The pots also, and the shovels, and the fleshhooks, and all their instruments, did Huram [noble born] his father make to king Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] for the house of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) of bright brass.

¹⁷In the plain of Yarden [Descender] did the king cast them, in the clay ground between Sukkot [Booths] and Tz’redah [fortress].

¹⁸Thus Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] made all these vessels in great abundance: for the weight of the brass could not be found out.

¹⁹And Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] made all the vessels that [were for] the house of God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], the golden altar also, and the tables whereon the showbread [was set];

²⁰Moreover the candlesticks with their lamps, that they should burn after the manner before the oracle, of pure gold;

²¹And the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs, [made he of] gold, [and] that perfect gold;

²²And the snuffers, and the basons, and the spoons, and the censers, [of] pure gold: and the entry of the house, the inner doors thereof for the most holy [place], and the doors of the house of the temple, [were of] gold.

¹Thus all the work that Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] made for the house of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) was finished: and Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] brought in [all] the things that David [beloved] his father had dedicated; and the silver, and the gold, and all the instruments, put he among the treasures of the house of God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered].

²Then Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] assembled the elders of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], and all the heads of the tribes, the chief of the fathers of the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], unto Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace], to bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) out of the city of David [beloved], which [is] Tziyon [parched place].

³For what reason all the men of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] assembled themselves unto the king in the feast which [was] in the seventh month.

⁴And all the elders of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] came; and the Levi’im (Levites) [Joined to] took up the ark.

⁵And they brought up the ark, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and all the holy vessels that [were] in the tabernacle, these did the priests [and] the Levi’im (Levites) [Joined to] bring up.

⁶Also king Shlomo (Solomon) [peace], and all the congregation of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] that were assembled unto him before the ark, sacrificed sheep and oxen, which could not be told nor numbered for multitude.

⁷And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) unto his place, to the oracle of the house, into the most holy [place, even] under the wings of the k’vurim (cherubim):

⁸For the k’vurim (cherubim) spread forth [their] wings over the place of the ark, and the k’vurim (cherubim) covered the ark and the rods (clubs) thereof above.

⁹And they drew out the rods (clubs) [of the ark], that the ends of the rods (clubs) were seen from the ark before the oracle; but they were not seen without. And there it is unto this day.

¹⁰[There was] nothing in the ark save the two tables which Moshe [He Who Draws Out Of The Waters] put [in it] at Horev [Desert], when the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) made [a covenant] with the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], when they came out of Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place].

¹¹And it came to pass, when the priests were come out of the holy [place] (for all the priests [that were] present were sanctified, [and] did not [then] wait by course):

¹²Also the Levi’im (Levites) [Joined to] [which were] the singers, all of them of Asaf [gatherer], of Heiman [faithful], of Y’dutun [praising], with their sons and their brethren, [being] arrayed in white linen, having cymbals and psalteries and harps, stood at the east end of the altar, and with them an hundred and twenty priests sounding with trumpets

¹³It came even to pass, as the trumpeters and singers [were] as one, to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate); and when they lifted up [their] voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of music, and praised the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), [saying], For [he is] good; for his mercy [endures] forever: that [then] the house was filled with a cloud, [even] the house of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate);

¹⁴So that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud: for the glory of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) had filled the house of God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered].

¹Then said Shlomo (Solomon) [peace], The LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) has said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.

²But I have built an house of habitation for youi, and a place for youi dwelling forever.

³And the king turned his face, and Blessed (Favored by God; happy; prosperous) the whole congregation of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God]: and all the congregation of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] stood.

⁴And he said, Blessed (Favored by God; happy; prosperous) [be] the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], who has with his hands fulfilled [that] which he spoke with his mouth to my father David [beloved], saying,

⁵Since the day that I brought forth my people out of the land of Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place] I chose no city among all the tribes of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] to build an house in, that my name might be there; neither chose I any man to be a ruler over my people Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God]:

⁶But I have chosen Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace], that my name might be there; and have chosen David [beloved] to be over my people Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God].

⁷Now it was in the heart of David [beloved] my father to build an house for the name of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God].

⁸But the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) said to David [beloved] my father, Forasmuch as it was in youi heart to build an house for my name, youi did well in that it was in youi heart:

⁹Yet youi shall not build the house; but youi son which shall come forth out of youi waist, he shall build the house for my name.

¹⁰The LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) therefore has performed his word that he has spoken: for I am risen up in the room of David [beloved] my father, and am set on the throne of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], as the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) promised, and have built the house for the name of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God].

¹¹And in it have I put the ark, wherein [is] the covenant of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), that he made with the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God].

¹²And he stood before the altar of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) in the presence of all the congregation of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], and spread forth his hands:

¹³For Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] had made a brasen scaffold, of five cubits long, and five cubits broad, and three cubits high, and had set it in the midst of the court: and upon it he stood, and kneeled down upon his knees before all the congregation of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], and spread forth his hands toward heaven,

¹⁴And said, O LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], [there is] no God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] like youi in the heaven, nor in the earth; which keeps covenant, and [shows] mercy unto youi servants, that walk before youi with all their hearts:

¹⁵youi which have kept with youri servant David [beloved] my father that which youi have promised him; and spoke with youri mouth, and have fulfilled [it] with youri hand, as [it is] this day.

¹⁶Now therefore, O LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], keep with youi servant David [beloved] my father that which youi have promised him, saying, There shall not fail youi a man in my sight to sit upon the throne of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God]; yet so that youri children take heed to their way to walk in my law, as youi have walked before me.

¹⁷Now then, O LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], let youri word be verified, which youi have spoken unto youri servant David [beloved].

¹⁸But will God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] in very deed dwell with men on the earth? behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain youi; how much less this house which I have built!

¹⁹Have respect therefore to the prayer of youri servant, and to his supplication, O LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) my God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], to hearken unto the cry and the prayer which youri servant prays before youi:

²⁰That youri eyes may be open upon this house day and night, upon the place whereof youi have said that youi would put youri name there; to hearken unto the prayer which youri servant prays toward this place.

²¹Listen therefore unto the supplications of youri servant, and of youri people Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], which they shall make toward this place: hear youi from youri dwelling place, [even] from heaven; and when youi hear, forgive.

²²If a man sin against his neighbour, and an oath be laid upon him to make him swear, and the oath come before youri altar in this house;

²³Then hear youi from heaven, and do, and judge youri servants, by requiting the wicked, by recompensing his way upon his own head; and by justifying the righteous, by giving him according to his righteousness.

²⁴And if youri people Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] be put to the worse before the enemy, because they have sinned against youi; and shall return and confess youri name, and pray and make supplication before youi in this house;

²⁵Then hear youi from the heavens, and forgive the sin of youri people Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], and bring them again unto the land which youi gave to them and to their fathers.

²⁶When the heaven is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against youi; [yet] if they pray toward this place, and confess youri name, and turn from their sin, when youi do afflict them;

²⁷Then hear youi from heaven, and forgive the sin of youri servants, and of youri people Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], when youi have taught them the good way, wherein they should walk; and send rain upon youi land, which youi have given unto youri people for an inheritance.

²⁸If there be famine in the land, if there be pestilence, if there be blasting, or mildew, locusts, or caterpillers; if their enemies besiege them in the cities of their land; whatsoever sore or whatsoever sickness [there be]:

²⁹[Then] what prayer [or] what supplication whatsoever shall be made of any man, or of all youi people Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], when every one shall know his own sore and his own grief, and shall spread forth his hands in this house:

³⁰Then hear youi from heaven youri dwelling place, and forgive, and render unto every man according unto all his ways, whose heart youi know; (for youi only know the hearts of the children of men)

³¹That they may fear youi, to walk in youri ways, so long as they live in the land which youi gave unto our fathers.

³²Moreover concerning the stranger, which is not of youri people Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], but is come from a far country for youri great name’s sake, and youri mighty hand, and youri stretched out arm; if they come and pray in this house;

³³Then hear youi from the heavens, [even] from youri dwelling place, and do according to all that the stranger calls to youi for; that all people of the earth may know youri name, and fear youi, as [does] youri people Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], and may know that this house which I have built is called by youri name.

³⁴If youi people go out to war against their enemies by the way that youi shall send them, and they pray unto youi toward this city which youi have chosen, and the house which I have built for youri name;

³⁵Then hear youi from the heavens their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.

³⁶If they sin against youi, (for [there is] no man which sins not,) and youi be angry with them, and deliver them over before [their] enemies, and they carry them away captives unto a land far off or near;

³⁷Yet [if] they reconsider themselves in the land to which they are carried captive, and turn and pray unto youi in the land of their captivity, saying, We have sinned, we have done amiss (wrong; incorrect), and have dealt wickedly;

³⁸If they return to youi with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their captivity, to which they have carried them captives, and pray toward their land, which youi gave unto their fathers, and [toward] the city which youi have chosen, and toward the house which I have built for youri name:

³⁹Then hear youi from the heavens, [even] from youri dwelling place, their prayer and their supplications, and maintain their cause, and forgive youri people which have sinned against youi.

⁴⁰Now, my God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], let, I beseech (to call upon; appeal; beg) youi, youri eyes be open, and [let] youri ears [be] attentive unto the prayer [that is made] in this place.

⁴¹Now therefore arise, O LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], into youri resting place, youi, and the ark of youri strength: let youri priests, O LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], be clothed with salvation, and let youi saints rejoice in goodness.

⁴²O LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], turn not away the face of youi anointed: remember the mercies of David [beloved] youi servant.

¹Now when Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] had made an end of praying, the fire came down from heaven, and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices; and the glory of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) filled the house.

²And the priests could not enter into the house of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), because the glory of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) had filled the LORD-Yehōvah’s [Messiah Pre-Incarnate] house.

³And when all the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] saw how the fire came down, and the glory of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) upon the house, they bowed themselves with their faces to the ground upon the pavement, and worshipped, and praised the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), [saying], For [he is] good; for his mercy [endures] forever.

⁴Then the king and all the people offered sacrifices before the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

⁵And king Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] offered a sacrifice of twenty and two thousand oxen, and an hundred and twenty thousand sheep: so the king and all the people dedicated the house of God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered].

⁶And the priests waited on their offices: the Levi’im (Levites) [Joined to] also with instruments of music of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), which David [beloved] the king had made to praise the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), because his mercy [endures] forever, when David [beloved] praised by their ministry; and the priests sounded trumpets before them, and all Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] stood.

⁷Moreover Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] consecrated the middle of the court that [was] before the house of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate): for there he offered burnt offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings, because the brasen altar which Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] had made was not able to receive the burnt offerings, and the meat offerings, and the fat.

⁸Also at the same time Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] kept the feast seven days, and all Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] with him, a very great congregation, from the entering in of Hamat [Fortress] unto the river of Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place].

⁹And in the eighth day they made a solemn assembly: for they kept the dedication of the altar seven days, and the feast seven days.

¹⁰And on the three and twentieth day of the seventh month he sent the people away into their tents, glad and merry in heart for the goodness that the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) had showed unto David [beloved], and to Shlomo (Solomon) [peace], and to Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] his people.

¹¹Thus Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] finished the house of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), and the king’s house: and all that came into Shlomo’s (Solomon) [peace] heart to make in the house of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), and in his own house, he prosperously effected.

¹²And the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) appeared to Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] by night, and said unto him, I have heard youi prayer, and have chosen this place to myself for an house of sacrifice.

¹³If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people;

¹⁴If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

¹⁵Now my eyes shall be open, and my ears attentive unto the prayer [that is made] in this place.

¹⁶For now have I chosen and sanctified this house, that my name may be there forever: and my eyes and my heart shall be there perpetually.

¹⁷And as for youi, if youi will walk before me, as David [beloved] youi father walked, and do according to all that I have commanded youi, and shall observe my statutes and my judgments;

¹⁸Then will I establish the throne of youri kingdom, according as I have covenanted with David [beloved] youi father, saying, There shall not fail youi a man [to be] ruler in Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God].

¹⁹But if you2f turn away, and forsake my statutes and my commandments, which I have set before you, and shall go and serve other gods, and worship them;

²⁰Then will I pluck them up by the roots out of my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have sanctified for my name, will I cast out of my sight, and will make it [to be] a proverb and a byword among all nations.

²¹And this house, which is high, shall be an astonishment to every one that passes by it; so that he shall say, Why has the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) done thus unto this land, and unto this house?

²²And it shall be answered, Because they forsook the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of their fathers, which brought them forth out of the land of Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place], and laid hold on other gods, and worshipped them, and served them: therefore has he brought all this evil upon them.

¹And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, wherein Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] had built the house of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), and his own house,

²That the cities which Huram [noble born] had restored to Shlomo (Solomon) [peace], Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] built them, and caused the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] to dwell there.

³And Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] went to Hamat-Tzovah [fortress of station], and prevailed against it.

⁴And he built Tadmor [palm tree] in the wilderness, and all the store cities, which he built in Hamat [Fortress].

⁵Also he built Beit-Horon [House of Hollowness] the upper, and Beit-Horon [House of Hollowness] the lower, fenced cities, with walls, gates, and bars;

⁶And Ba’alat [mistress], and all the store cities that Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] had, and all the chariot cities, and the cities of the horsemen, and all that Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] desired to build in Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace], and in L’vanon [Whiteness], and throughout all the land of his dominion.

⁷[As for] all the people [that were] left of the Hitti [Terrorists], and the Emori [Highlanders], and the P’rizi [Dwellers in Unwalled Towns], and the Hivi [Villagers], and the Y’vusi [Threshers, Trampled Under Foot], which [were] not of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God],

⁸[But] of their children, who were left after them in the land, whom the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] consumed not, them did Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] make to pay tribute until this day.

⁹But of the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] did Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] make no servants for his work; but they [were] men of war, and chief of his captains, and captains of his chariots and horsemen.

¹⁰And these [were] the chief of king Shlomo’s (Solomon) [peace] officers, [even] two hundred and fifty, that bore rule over the people.

¹¹And Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] brought up the daughter of Par’oh [Pharaoh - Great House] out of the city of David [beloved] unto the house that he had built for her: for he said, My wife shall not dwell in the house of David [beloved] king of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], because [the places are] holy, whereunto the ark of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) has come.

¹²Then Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] offered burnt offerings unto the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) on the altar of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), which he had built before the porch,

¹³Even after a certain rate every day, offering according to the commandment of Moshe [He Who Draws Out Of The Waters], on the Shabbat, and on the new moons, and on the solemn feasts, three times in the year, [even] in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles.

¹⁴And he appointed, according to the order of David [beloved] his father, the courses of the priests to their service, and the Levi’im (Levites) [Joined to] to their charges, to praise and minister before the priests, as the duty of every day required: the porters also by their courses at every gate: for so had David [beloved] the man of God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] commanded.

¹⁵And they departed not from the commandment of the king unto the priests and Levi’im (Levites) [Joined to] concerning any matter, or concerning the treasures.

¹⁶Now all the work of Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] was prepared unto the day of the foundation of the house of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), and until it was finished. [So] the house of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) was perfected.

¹⁷Then went Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] to ‘Etzyon-Gever [backbone of a man], and to Elot [grove of lofty trees], at the sea side in the land of Edom [Red].

¹⁸And Huram [noble born] sent him by the hands of his servants ships, and servants that had knowledge of the sea; and they went with the servants of Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] to Ofir [reducing to ashes], and took there four hundred and fifty talents of gold, and brought [them] to king Shlomo (Solomon) [peace].

¹And when the Queen of Sh’va [seven, an oath] heard of the fame of Shlomo (Solomon) [peace], she came to prove Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] with hard questions at Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace], with a very great company, and camels that bore spices, and gold in abundance, and precious stones: and when she was come to Shlomo (Solomon) [peace], she communed with him of all that was in her heart.

²And Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] told her all her questions: and there was nothing hid from Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] which he told her not.

³And when the Queen of Sh’va [seven, an oath] had seen the wisdom of Shlomo (Solomon) [peace], and the house that he had built,

⁴And the meat of his table, and the sitting of his servants, and the attendance of his ministers, and their apparel; his cupbearers also, and their apparel; and his ascent by which he went up into the house of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate); there was no more spirit in her.

⁵And she said to the king, [It was] a true report which I heard in my own land of youi acts, and of youi wisdom:

⁶However I believed not their words, until I came, and my eyes had seen [it]: and, behold, the one half of the greatness of youi wisdom was not told me: [for] youi exceed the fame that I heard.

⁷Happy [are] youi men, and happy [are] these youi servants, which stand continually before youi, and hear youi wisdom.

⁸Blessed (Favored by God; happy; prosperous) be the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) youi God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], which delighted in youi to set youi on his throne, [to be] king for the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) youi God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered]: because youi God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] loved Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], to establish them forever, therefore made he youi king over them, to do judgment and justice.

⁹And she gave the king an hundred and twenty talents of gold, and of spices great abundance, and precious stones: neither was there any such spice as the Queen of Sh’va [seven, an oath] gave king Shlomo (Solomon) [peace].

¹⁰And the servants also of Huram [noble born], and the servants of Shlomo (Solomon) [peace], which brought gold from Ofir [reducing to ashes], brought algum trees and precious stones.

¹¹And the king made [of] the algum trees terraces to the house of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), and to the king’s palace, and harps and psalteries for singers: and there were none such seen before in the land of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised].

¹²And king Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] gave to the Queen of Sh’va [seven, an oath] all her desire, whatsoever she asked, beside [that] which she had brought unto the king. So she turned, and went away to her own land, she and her servants.

¹³Now the weight of gold that came to Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] in one year was six hundred and threescore and six talents of gold;

¹⁴Beside [that which] merchants and merchants brought. And all the kings of Arabia [steppe-dwellers] and governors of the country brought gold and silver to Shlomo (Solomon) [peace].

¹⁵And king Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] made two hundred targets [of] beaten gold: six hundred [shekels] of beaten gold went to one target (small shield; buckler).

¹⁶And three hundred shields [made he of] beaten gold: three hundred [shekels] of gold went to one shield. And the king put them in the house of the forest of L’vanon [Whiteness].

¹⁷Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with pure gold.

¹⁸And [there were] six steps to the throne, with a footstool of gold, [which were] fastened to the throne, and stays on each side of the sitting place, and two lions standing by the stays:

¹⁹And twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the other upon the six steps. There was not the like made in any kingdom.

²⁰And all the drinking vessels of king Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] [were of] gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of L’vanon [Whiteness] [were of] pure gold: none [were of] silver; it was [not] any thing accounted of in the days of Shlomo (Solomon) [peace].

²¹For the king’s ships went to Tarshish [yellow jasper] with the servants of Huram [noble born]: every three years once came the ships of Tarshish [yellow jasper] bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.

²²And king Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] passed all the kings of the earth in riches and wisdom.

²³And all the kings of the earth sought the presence of Shlomo (Solomon) [peace], to hear his wisdom, that God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] had put in his heart.

²⁴And they brought every man his present, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and clothing, harness, and spices, horses, and mules, a rate year by year.

²⁵And Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] had four thousand stalls for horses and chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen; whom he bestowed in the chariot cities, and with the king at Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace].

²⁶And he reigned over all the kings from the river even unto the land of the P’lishtim [Immigrants], and to the border of Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place].

²⁷And the king made silver in Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace] as stones, and cedar trees made he as the sycomore trees that [are] in the low plains in abundance.

²⁸And they brought unto Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] horses out of Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place], and out of all lands.

²⁹Now the rest of the acts of Shlomo (Solomon) [peace], first and last, [are] they not written in the book of Natan [giver] the prophet, and in the prophecy of Achiyah [brother of Yehovah] the Shiloni [peace bringer] [place of rest], and in the visions of ‘Iddo [His witness] the seer against Yarov’am [the people will contend] the son of N’vat [aspect]?

³⁰And Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] reigned in Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace] over all Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] forty years.

³¹And Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] slept with his fathers, and he was buried in the city of David [beloved] his father: and Rechav’am [a people has enlarged] his son reigned in his stead.

¹And Rechav’am [a people has enlarged] went to Sh’khem [Shoulder]: for to Sh’khem [Shoulder] were all Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] come to make him king.

²And it came to pass, when Yarov’am [the people will contend] the son of N’vat [aspect], who [was] in Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place], to which he had fled from the presence of Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] the king, heard [it], that Yarov’am [the people will contend] returned out of Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place].

³And they sent and called him. So Yarov’am [the people will contend] and all Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] came and spoke to Rechav’am [a people has enlarged], saying,

⁴You1s father made our yoke grievous: now therefore ease youi somewhat the grievous servitude of youri father, and his heavy yoke that he put upon us, and we will serve youi.

⁵And he said unto them, Come again unto me after three days. And the people departed.

⁶And king Rechav’am [a people has enlarged] took counsel with the old men that had stood before Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] his father while he yet lived, saying, What counsel give you2f [me] to return answer to this people?

⁷And they spoke unto him, saying, If youi be kind to this people, and please them, and speak good words to them, they will be youri servants forever.

⁸But he forsook the counsel which the old men gave him, and took counsel with the young men that were brought up with him, that stood before him.

⁹And he said unto them, What advice give you2f that we may return answer to this people, which have spoken to me, saying, Ease somewhat the yoke that youi father did put upon us?

¹⁰And the young men that were brought up with him spoke unto him, saying, Thus shall youi answer the people that spoke unto youi, saying, You1s father made our yoke heavy, but make youi [it] somewhat lighter for us; thus shall youi say unto them, My little [finger] shall be thicker than my father’s waist.

¹¹For whereas my father put a heavy yoke upon you, I will put more to your yoke: my father chastised you with whips, but I [will chastise you] with scorpions.

¹²So Yarov’am [the people will contend] and all the people came to Rechav’am [a people has enlarged] on the third day, as the king bade, saying, Come again to me on the third day.

¹³And the king answered them roughly; and king Rechav’am [a people has enlarged] forsook the counsel of the old men,

¹⁴And answered them after the advice of the young men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add thereto: my father chastised you with whips, but I [will chastise you] with scorpions.

¹⁵So the king listened not unto the people: for the cause was of God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], that the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) might perform his word, which he spoke by the hand of Achiyah [brother of Yehovah] the Shiloni [peace bringer] [place of rest] to Yarov’am [the people will contend] the son of N’vat [aspect].

¹⁶And when all Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] [saw] that the king would not hearken unto them, the people answered the king, saying, What portion have we in David [beloved]? and [we have] none inheritance in the son of Yishai [I possess]: every man to your tents, O Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God]: [and] now, David [beloved], see to youi own house. So all Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] went to their tents.

¹⁷But [as for] the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] that dwelt in the cities of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], Rechav’am [a people has enlarged] reigned over them.

¹⁸Then king Rechav’am [a people has enlarged] sent Hadoram [noble honour] that [was] over the tribute; and the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] stoned him with stones, that he died. But king Rechav’am [a people has enlarged] made speed to get him up to [his] chariot, to flee to Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace].

¹⁹And Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] rebelled against the house of David [beloved] unto this day.

¹And when Rechav’am [a people has enlarged] was come to Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace], he gathered of the house of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] and Binyamin [Son of the Right Hand/Strength] an hundred and eighty thousand chosen [men], which were warriors, to fight against Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], that he might bring the kingdom again to Rechav’am [a people has enlarged].

²But the word of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) came to Sh’may’yah [Yehovah hears] the man of God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], saying,

³Speak unto Rechav’am [a people has enlarged] the son of Shlomo (Solomon) [peace], king of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], and to all Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] in Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] and Binyamin [Son of the Right Hand/Strength], saying,

⁴Thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), You2f shall not go up, nor fight against your brethren: return every man to his house: for this thing is done of me. And they obeyed the words of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), and returned from going against Yarov’am [the people will contend].

⁵And Rechav’am [a people has enlarged] dwelt in Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace], and built cities for defence in Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised].

⁶He built even Beit-Lechem [House of Bread], and ‘Eitam [Lair of Wild Beasts], and T’koa [a stockade],

⁷And Beit’Tzur [House of the Rock], and Sokho [bushy], and ‘Adulam [Justice of the People],

⁸And Gat [Winepress], and Mareshah [Crest of a Hill], and Ziv [brightness] [Battlement (low wall around a roof; wall for defense)],

⁹And Adorayim [double glory], and Lakhish [Invincible], and ‘Azekah [Dug Over],

¹⁰And Tzor’ah [Hornet], and Ayalon [Field of Deer], and Hevron [Seat of Association], which [are] in Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] and in Binyamin [Son of the Right Hand/Strength] fenced cities.

¹¹And he fortified the strong holds, and put captains in them, and store of victual, and of oil and wine.

¹²And in every single (each one separately) city [he put] shields and spears, and made them exceeding strong, having Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] and Binyamin [Son of the Right Hand/Strength] on his side.

¹³And the priests and the Levi’im (Levites) [Joined to] that [were] in all Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] resorted to him out of all their coasts.

¹⁴For the Levi’im (Levites) [Joined to] left their suburbs and their possession, and came to Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] and Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace]: for Yarov’am [the people will contend] and his sons had cast them off from executing the priest’s office unto the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate):

¹⁵And he ordained him priests for the high places, and for the devils, and for the calves which he had made.

¹⁶And after them out of all the tribes of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] such as set their hearts to seek the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] came to Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace], to sacrifice unto the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of their fathers.

¹⁷So they strengthened the kingdom of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], and made Rechav’am [a people has enlarged] the son of Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] strong, three years: for three years they walked in the way of David [beloved] and Shlomo (Solomon) [peace].

¹⁸And Rechav’am [a people has enlarged] took him Mahalath the daughter of Yerimot [He is Most High] the son of David [beloved] to wife, [and] Avichayil [Father of Strength] the daughter of ‘Eli’av [My Father is God] the son of Yishai [I possess];

¹⁹Which bore him children; Ye’ush [He hurries to aid], and Sh’maryah [kept by Yehovah], and Zaham [loathing].

²⁰And after her he took Ma’akhah [oppression] the daughter of Avshalom [my father is peace]; which bore him Aviyah [Yehovah is (my) father], and ‘Atai [opportune], and Ziza [shining], and Shlomit [Peaceful].

²¹And Rechav’am [a people has enlarged] loved Ma’akhah [oppression] the daughter of Avshalom [my father is peace] above all his wives and his concubines (for he took eighteen wives, and threescore concubines; and begat (to be father of; be ancestor of) twenty and eight sons, and threescore daughters.)

²²And Rechav’am [a people has enlarged] made Aviyah [Yehovah is (my) father] the son of Ma’akhah [oppression] the chief, [to be] ruler among his brethren: for [he thought] to make him king.

²³And he dealt wisely, and dispersed of all his children throughout all the countries of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] and Binyamin [Son of the Right Hand/Strength], unto every fenced city: and he gave them victual in abundance. And he desired many wives.

¹And it came to pass, when Rechav’am [a people has enlarged] had established the kingdom, and had strengthened himself, he forsook the law of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), and all Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] with him.

²And it came to pass, [that] in the fifth year of king Rechav’am [a people has enlarged] Shishak [greedy of fine linen] king of Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place] came up against Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace], because they had transgressed against the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate),

³With twelve hundred chariots, and threescore thousand horsemen: and the people [were] without number that came with him out of Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place]; the Luvim [empty-hearted], the Suki’im [booth dwellers], and the Cushi [Ethiopians].

⁴And he took the fenced cities which [pertained] to Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], and came to Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace].

⁵Then came Sh’may’yah [Yehovah hears] the prophet to Rechav’am [a people has enlarged], and [to] the princes of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], that were gathered together to Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace] because of Shishak [greedy of fine linen], and said unto them, Thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), You2f have forsaken me, and therefore have I also left you in the hand of Shishak [greedy of fine linen].

⁶Whereupon the princes of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] and the king humbled themselves; and they said, The LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) [is] righteous.

⁷And when the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) saw that they humbled themselves, the word of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) came to Sh’may’yah [Yehovah hears], saying, They have humbled themselves; [therefore] I will not destroy them, but I will grant them some deliverance; and my wrath shall not be poured out upon Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace] by the hand of Shishak [greedy of fine linen].

⁸Nevertheless they shall be his servants; that they may know my service, and the service of the kingdoms of the countries.

⁹So Shishak [greedy of fine linen] king of Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place] came up against Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace], and took away the treasures of the house of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), and the treasures of the king’s house; he took all: he carried away also the shields of gold which Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] had made.

¹⁰Instead of which king Rechav’am [a people has enlarged] made shields of brass, and committed [them] to the hands of the chief of the guard, that kept the entrance of the king’s house.

¹¹And when the king entered into the house of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), the guard came and fetched them, and brought them again into the guard chamber.

¹²And when he humbled himself, the wrath of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) turned from him, that he would not destroy [him] altogether: and also in Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] things went well.

¹³So king Rechav’am [a people has enlarged] strengthened himself in Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace], and reigned: for Rechav’am [a people has enlarged] [was] one and forty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace], the city which the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) had chosen out of all the tribes of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], to put his name there. And his mother’s name [was] Na’amah [Loveliness] an ‘Amonit [tribal].

¹⁴And he did evil, because he prepared not his heart to seek the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

¹⁵Now the acts of Rechav’am [a people has enlarged], first and last, [are] they not written in the book of Sh’may’yah [Yehovah hears] the prophet, and of ‘Iddo [His witness] the seer concerning genealogies? And [there were] wars between Rechav’am [a people has enlarged] and Yarov’am [the people will contend] continually.

¹⁶And Rechav’am [a people has enlarged] slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David [beloved]: and Aviyah [Yehovah is (my) father] his son reigned in his stead.

¹Now in the eighteenth year of king Yarov’am [the people will contend] began Aviyah [Yehovah is (my) father] to reign over Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised].

²He reigned three years in Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace]. His mother’s name also [was] Mikhayah [who is like God?] the daughter of Uri’el [God is my light] of Giv’ah [Hill]. And there was war between Aviyah [Yehovah is (my) father] and Yarov’am [the people will contend].

³And Aviyah [Yehovah is (my) father] set the battle in array (to put on; to clothe) with an army of valiant men of war, [even] four hundred thousand chosen men: Yarov’am [the people will contend] also set the battle in array (to put on; to clothe) against him with eight hundred thousand chosen men, [being] mighty men of valour.

⁴And Aviyah [Yehovah is (my) father] stood up upon mount Tz’marayim [Double Fleece of Wool], which [is] in mount Efrayim [Doubly Fruitful], and said, Hear me, youi Yarov’am [the people will contend], and all Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God];

⁵Ought you2f not to know that the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] gave the kingdom over Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] to David [beloved] forever, [even] to him and to his sons by a covenant of salt?

⁶Yet Yarov’am [the people will contend] the son of N’vat [aspect], the servant of Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] the son of David [beloved], is risen up, and has rebelled against his lord.

⁷And there are gathered unto him vain men, the children of Belial [Worthless, Good for Nothing], and have strengthened themselves against Rechav’am [a people has enlarged] the son of Shlomo (Solomon) [peace], when Rechav’am [a people has enlarged] was young and tenderhearted, and could not withstand them.

⁸And now you2f think that is to withstand the kingdom of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) in the hand of the sons of David [beloved]; and you2f [be] a great multitude, and [there are] with you golden calves, which Yarov’am [the people will contend] made you for gods.

⁹Have you2f not cast out the priests of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), the sons of Aharon [Bright, Very High], and the Levi’im (Levites) [Joined to], and have made you priests after the manner of the nations of [other] lands? so that whosoever comes to consecrate (treat as set apart or separate unto God) himself with a young bullock and seven rams, [the same] may be a priest of [them that are] no gods.

¹⁰But as for us, the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) [is] our God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], and we have not forsaken him; and the priests, which minister unto the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), [are] the sons of Aharon [Bright, Very High], and the Levi’im (Levites) [Joined to] [wait] upon [their] business:

¹¹And they burn unto the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) every morning and every evening burnt sacrifices and sweet incense: the showbread also [set they in order] upon the pure table; and the candlestick of gold with the lamps thereof, to burn every evening: for we keep the charge of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) our God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered]; but you2f have forsaken him.

¹²And, behold, God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] himself [is] with us for [our] captain, and his priests with sounding trumpets to cry alarm against you. O people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], fight you2f not against the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of your fathers; for you2f shall not prosper.

¹³But Yarov’am [the people will contend] caused an ambush to come about behind them: so they were before Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], and the ambush [was] behind them.

¹⁴And when Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] looked back, behold, the battle [was] before and behind: and they cried unto the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), and the priests sounded with the trumpets.

¹⁵Then the men of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] gave a shout: and as the men of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] shouted, it came to pass, that God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] struck Yarov’am [the people will contend] and all Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] before Aviyah [Yehovah is (my) father] and Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised].

¹⁶And the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] fled before Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised]: and God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] delivered them into their hand.

¹⁷And Aviyah [Yehovah is (my) father] and his people killed them with a great slaughter: so there fell down slain of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] five hundred thousand chosen men.

¹⁸Thus the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] were brought under at that time, and the children of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] prevailed, because they relied upon the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of their fathers.

¹⁹And Aviyah [Yehovah is (my) father] pursued after Yarov’am [the people will contend], and took cities from him, Beit-El [House of God] with the towns thereof, and Y’shanah [storage] with the towns thereof, and ‘Efrayin [fawn-like] with the towns thereof.

²⁰Neither did Yarov’am [the people will contend] recover strength again in the days of Aviyah [Yehovah is (my) father]: and the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) struck him, and he died.

²¹But Aviyah [Yehovah is (my) father] waxed mighty, and married fourteen wives, and begat (to be father of; be ancestor of) twenty and two sons, and sixteen daughters.

²²And the rest of the acts of Aviyah [Yehovah is (my) father], and his ways, and his sayings, [are] written in the story of the prophet ‘Iddo [His witness].

¹So Aviyah [Yehovah is (my) father] slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David [beloved]: and Asa [healer; injurious?] his son reigned in his stead. In his days the land was quiet ten years.

²And Asa [healer; injurious?] did [that which was] good and right in the eyes of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) his God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered]:

³For he took away the altars of the strange [gods], and the high places, and broke down the images, and cut down the groves:

⁴And commanded Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] to seek the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] f their fathers, and to do the law and the commandment.

⁵Also he took away out of all the cities of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] the high places and the images: and the kingdom was quiet before him.

⁶And he built fenced cities in Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised]: for the land had rest, and he had no war in those years; because the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) had given him rest.

⁷Therefore he said unto Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], Let us build these cities, and make about [them] walls, and towers, gates, and bars, [while] the land [is] yet before us; because we have sought the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) our God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], we have sought [him], and he has given us rest on every side. So they built and prospered.

⁸And Asa [healer; injurious?] had an army [of men] that bore targets and spears, out of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] three hundred thousand; and out of Binyamin [Son of the Right Hand/Strength], that bore shields and drew bows, two hundred and eighty thousand: all these [were] mighty men of valour.

⁹And there came out against them Zerach [Rising] the Cushi (Ethiopian) with an host of a thousand thousand, and three hundred chariots; and came unto Mareshah [Crest of a Hill].

¹⁰Then Asa [healer; injurious?] went out against him, and they set the battle in array (to put on; to clothe) in the valley of Tz’fat [watch-tower] at Mareshah [Crest of a Hill].

¹¹And Asa [healer; injurious?] cried unto the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) his God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], and said, LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), [it is] nothing with youi to help, whether with many, or with them that have no power: help us, O LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) our God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered]; for we rest on youi, and in youi name we go against this multitude. O LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), youi [are] our God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered]; let not man prevail against youi.

¹²So the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) struck the Cushi [Ethiopians] before Asa [healer; injurious?], and before Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised]; and the Cushi [Ethiopians] fled.

¹³And Asa [healer; injurious?] and the people that [were] with him pursued them unto Gera [A Grain] r: and the Cushi [Ethiopians] were overthrown, that they could not recover themselves; for they were destroyed before the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), and before his host; and they carried away very much spoil (plunder; prey; booty).

¹⁴And they struck all the cities round about Gera [A Grain] r; for the fear of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) came upon them: and they spoiled all the cities; for there was exceeding much spoil (plunder; prey; booty) in them.

¹⁵They struck also the tents of cattle, and carried away sheep and camels in abundance, and returned to Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace].

¹And the Spirit of God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] came upon ‘Azaryah [Yehovah has helped] the son of ‘Oded [restorer]:

²And he went out to meet Asa [healer; injurious?], and said unto him, Hear you2f me, Asa [healer; injurious?], and all Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] and Binyamin [Son of the Right Hand/Strength]; The LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) [is] with you, while you2f be with him; and if you2f seek him, he will be found of you; but if you2f forsake him, he will forsake you.

³Now for a long season Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] [has been] without the true God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], and without a teaching priest, and without law.

⁴But when they in their trouble did turn unto the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], and sought him, he was found of them.

⁵And in those times [there was] no peace to him that went out, nor to him that came in, but great vexations [were] upon all the inhabitants of the countries.

⁶And nation was destroyed of nation, and city of city: for God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] did vex them with all adversity.

⁷Be you2f strong therefore, and let not your hands be weak: for your work shall be rewarded.

⁸And when Asa [healer; injurious?] heard these words, and the prophecy of ‘Oded [restorer] the prophet, he took courage, and put away the abominable idols out of all the land of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] and Binyamin [Son of the Right Hand/Strength], and out of the cities which he had taken from mount Efrayim [Doubly Fruitful], and renewed the altar of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), that [was] before the porch of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

⁹And he gathered all Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] and Binyamin [Son of the Right Hand/Strength], and the strangers with them out of Efrayim [Doubly Fruitful] and M’nasheh [Causing to Forget], and out of Shim’on [he who hears]: for they fell to him out of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] in abundance, when they saw that the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) his God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] [was] with him.

¹⁰So they gathered themselves together at Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace] in the third month, in the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa [healer; injurious?].

¹¹And they offered unto the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) the same time, of the spoil (plunder; prey; booty) [which] they had brought, seven hundred oxen and seven thousand sheep.

¹²And they entered into a covenant to seek the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of their fathers with all their heart and with all their soul;

¹³That whosoever would not seek the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] should be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman.

¹⁴And they swore unto the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) with a loud voice, and with shouting, and with trumpets, and with cornets.

¹⁵And all Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] rejoiced at the oath: for they had sworn with all their heart, and sought him with their whole desire; and he was found of them: and the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) gave them rest round about.

¹⁶And also [concerning] Ma’akhah [oppression] the mother of Asa [healer; injurious?] the king, he removed her from [being] queen, because she had made an idol in a grove: and Asa [healer; injurious?] cut down her idol, and stamped [it], and burnt [it] at the brook Kidron [dark].

¹⁷But the high places were not taken away out of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God]: nevertheless the heart of Asa [healer; injurious?] was perfect all his days.

¹⁸And he brought into the house of God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] the things that his father had dedicated, and that he himself had dedicated, silver, and gold, and vessels.

¹⁹And there was no [more] war unto the five and thirtieth year of the reign of Asa [healer; injurious?].

¹In the six and thirtieth year of the reign of Asa [healer; injurious?] Ba’sha [wicked] king of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] came up against Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], and built Ramah [Hill], to the intent that he might let none go out or come in to Asa [healer; injurious?] king of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised].

²Then Asa [healer; injurious?] brought out silver and gold out of the treasures of the house of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) and of the king’s house, and sent to Ben [son] -Hadad [son of the (false god) Hadad] king of Aram [exalted] (Syria) [exalted], that dwelt at Dammesek (Damascus) [silent is the sackcloth weaver], saying,

³[There is] a league between me and youi, as [there was] between my father and youi father: behold, I have sent youi silver and gold; go, break youi league with Ba’sha [wicked] king of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], that he may depart from me.

⁴And Ben [son] -Hadad [son of the (false god) Hadad] listened unto king Asa [healer; injurious?], and sent the captains of his armies against the cities of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God]; and they struck ‘Iyon [a ruin], and Dan [Judge], and Avel-Mayim [meadow of waters], and all the store cities of Naftali [My Wrestling].

⁵And it came to pass, when Ba’sha [wicked] heard [it], that he left off building of Ramah [Hill], and let his work cease.

⁶Then Asa [healer; injurious?] the king took all Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised]; and they carried away the stones of Ramah [Hill], and the timber thereof, which Ba’sha [wicked] was building; and he built with that Geva [hill] and Mitzpah [watchtower].

⁷And at that time Hanani [gracious] the seer came to Asa [healer; injurious?] king of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], and said unto him, Because youi have relied on the king of Aram [exalted] (Syria) [exalted], and not relied on the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) youi God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], therefore is the host of the king of Aram [exalted] (Syria) [exalted] escaped out of youi hand.

⁸Were not the Cushi [Ethiopians] and the Luvim [empty-hearted] a huge host, with very many chariots and horsemen? yet, because youi did rely on the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), he delivered them into youri hand.

⁹For the eyes of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show himself strong in the behalf of [them] whose heart [is] perfect toward him. Herein youi have done foolishly: therefore from from this time forth (from now on) youi shall have wars.

¹⁰Then Asa [healer; injurious?] was exceedingly angry with the seer, and put him in a prison house; for [he was] in a rage with him because of this [thing]. And Asa [healer; injurious?] oppressed [some] of the people the same time.

¹¹And, behold, the acts of Asa [healer; injurious?], first and last, lo, they [are] written in the book of the kings of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] and Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God].

¹²And Asa [healer; injurious?] in the thirty and ninth year of his reign was diseased in his feet, until his disease [was] exceeding [great]: yet in his disease he sought not to the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), but to the physicians.

¹³And Asa [healer; injurious?] slept with his fathers, and died in the one and fortieth year of his reign.

¹⁴And they buried him in his own sepulchres, which he had made for himself in the city of David [beloved], and laid him in the bed which was filled with sweet odours and diverse kinds [of spices] prepared by the apothecaries’ are: and they made a very great burning for him.

¹And Y’hoshafat [Yehovah has judged] his son reigned in his stead, and strengthened himself against Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God].

²And he placed forces in all the fenced cities of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], and set garrisons in the land of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], and in the cities of Efrayim [Doubly Fruitful], which Asa [healer; injurious?] his father had taken.

³And the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) was with Y’hoshafat [Yehovah has judged], because he walked in the first ways of his father David [beloved], and sought not unto Ba’alim [lords (false gods)];

⁴But sought to the [LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate)] God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of his father, and walked in his commandments, and not after the doings of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God].

⁵Therefore the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) established the kingdom in his hand; and all Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] brought to Y’hoshafat [Yehovah has judged] presents; and he had riches and honour in abundance.

⁶And his heart was lifted up in the ways of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate): moreover he took away the high places and groves out of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised].

⁷Also in the third year of his reign he sent to his princes, [even] to Ben-Chayil [son of strength], and to ‘Ovadyah [servant of Yehovah], and to Z’kharyah [Yehovah remembers], and to N’tan’el [God’s Gift], and to Mikhayah [who is like God?], to teach in the cities of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised].

⁸And with them [he sent] Levi’im (Levites) [Joined to], [even] Sh’may’yah [Yehovah hears], and N’tanyah [given of Yehovah], and Z’vadyah [endowment of Yehovah], and ‘Asah’el [God-made], and Sh’miramot [name of heights], and Y’honatan [Yehovah has given], and Adoniyah [my lord is Yehovah], and Toviyah [Yehovah is good], and Tobadonijah, Levi’im (Levites) [Joined to]; and with them Elishama [My God has Heard] and Y’horam [Yehovah is exalted], priests.

⁹And they taught in Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], and [had] the book of the law of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) with them, and went about throughout all the cities of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], and taught the people.

¹⁰And the fear of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) fell upon all the kingdoms of the lands that [were] round about Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], so that they made no war against Y’hoshafat [Yehovah has judged].

¹¹Also [some] of the P’lishtim [Immigrants] brought Y’hoshafat [Yehovah has judged] presents, and tribute silver; and the Arabians brought him flocks, seven thousand and seven hundred rams, and seven thousand and seven hundred he goats.

¹²And Y’hoshafat [Yehovah has judged] waxed great exceedingly; and he built in Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] castles, and cities of store.

¹³And he had much business in the cities of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised]: and the men of war, mighty men of valour, [were] in Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace].

¹⁴And these [are] the of them according to the house of their fathers: Of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], the captains of thousands; ‘Adnach [pleasure] the chief, and with him mighty men of valour three hundred thousand.

¹⁵And next to him [was] Y’hochanan [Yehovah has graced] the captain, and with him two hundred and eighty thousand.

¹⁶And next him [was] ‘Amasyah [Yehovah is strength] the son of Zikhri [Illustrious], who willingly offered himself unto the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate); and with him two hundred thousand mighty men of valour.

¹⁷And of Binyamin [Son of the Right Hand/Strength]; El-yada [God knows] a mighty man of valour, and with him armed men with bow and shield two hundred thousand.

¹⁸And next him [was] Y’hozavad [Yehovah has endowed], and with him an hundred and eighty thousand ready prepared for the war.

¹⁹These waited on the king, beside [those] whom the king put in the fenced cities throughout all Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised].

¹Now Y’hoshafat [Yehovah has judged] had riches and honour in abundance, and joined affinity (to become an in-law) with Ach’av [father’s brother].

²And after [certain] years he went down to Ach’av [father’s brother] to Shomron [watch mountain]. And Ach’av [father’s brother] killed sheep and oxen for him in abundance, and for the people that [he had] with him, and persuaded him to go up [with him] to Ramot-Gil’ad [rocky region].

³And Ach’av [father’s brother] king of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] said unto Y’hoshafat [Yehovah has judged] king of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], Will youi go with me to Ramot-Gil’ad [rocky region]? And he answered him, I [am] as youi [are], and my people as youi people; and [we will be] with youi in the war.

⁴And Y’hoshafat [Yehovah has judged] said unto the king of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], Enquire, I pray youi, at the word of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) to day.

⁵Therefore the king of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] gathered together of prophets four hundred men, and said unto them, Shall we go to Ramot-Gil’ad [rocky region] to battle, or shall I refrain (restrain; refrein from acting)? And they said, Go up; for God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] will deliver [it] into the king’s hand.

⁶But Y’hoshafat [Yehovah has judged] said, [Is there] not here a prophet of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) besides, that we might enquire of him?

⁷And the king of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] said unto Y’hoshafat [Yehovah has judged], [There is] yet one man, by whom we may enquire of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate): but I hate him; for he never prophesied good unto me, but always evil: the same [is] Mikhay’hu [who is like God?] the son of Yimlah [whom God will fill up]. And Y’hoshafat [Yehovah has judged] said, Let not the king say so.

⁸And the king of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] called for one [of his] officers, and said, Fetch quickly Mikhay’hu [who is like God?] the son of Yimlah [whom God will fill up].

⁹And the king of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] and Y’hoshafat [Yehovah has judged] king of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] sat either of them on his throne, clothed in [their] robes, and they sat in a void place at the entering in of the gate of Shomron [watch mountain]; and all the prophets prophesied before them.

¹⁰And Tzidkiyah [Yehovah is righteous] the son of Kena’anah [trader] had made him horns of iron, and said, Thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), With these youi shall push Aram [exalted] (Syria) [exalted] until they be consumed.

¹¹And all the prophets prophesied so, saying, Go up to Ramot-Gil’ad [rocky region], and prosper: for the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) shall deliver [it] into the hand of the king.

¹²And the messenger that went to call Mikhay’hu [who is like God?] spoke to him, saying, Behold, the words of the prophets [declare] good to the king with one assent (accord; agreement); let youi word therefore, I pray youi, be like one of theirs, and speak youi good.

¹³And Mikhay’hu [who is like God?] said, [As] the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) lives, even what my God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] says, that will I speak.

¹⁴And when he was come to the king, the king said unto him, Mikhay’hu [who is like God?], shall we go to Ramot-Gil’ad [rocky region] to battle, or shall I refrain (restrain; refrein from acting)? And he said, Go you2f up, and prosper, and they shall be delivered into your hand.

¹⁵And the king said to him, How many times shall I adjure (to command under oath or threat) youi that youi say nothing but the tto me in the name of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate)?

¹⁶Then he said, I did see all Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] scattered upon the mountains, as sheep that have no shepherd: and the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) said, These have no master; let them return [therefore] every man to his house in peace.

¹⁷And the king of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] said to Y’hoshafat [Yehovah has judged], Did I not tell youi [that] he would not prophesy good unto me, but evil?

¹⁸Again he said, Therefore hear the word of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate); I saw the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) sitting upon his throne, and all the army of heaven standing on his right hand and [on] his left.

¹⁹And the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) said, Who shall entice Ach’av [father’s brother] king of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], that he may go up and fall at Ramot-Gil’ad [rocky region]? And one spoke saying after this manner, and another saying after that manner.

²⁰Then there came out a spirit, and stood before the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), and said, I will entice him. And the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) said unto him, Wherewith?

²¹And he said, I will go out, and be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And [the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate)] said, youi shall entice [him], and youi shall also prevail: go out, and do [even] so.

²²Now therefore, behold, the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) has put a lying spirit in the mouth of these youi prophets, and the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) has spoken evil against youi.

²³Then Tzidkiyah [Yehovah is righteous] the son of Kena’anah [trader] came near, and struck Mikhay’hu [who is like God?] upon the cheek, and said, Which way went the Spirit of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) from me to speak unto youi?

²⁴And Mikhay’hu [who is like God?] said, Behold, youi shall see on that day when youi shall go into an inner chamber to hide yourself.

²⁵Then the king of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] said, Take you2f Mikhay’hu [who is like God?], and carry him back to ‘Amon [master workman] the governor of the city, and to Yo’ash [Given by the Lord] the king’s son;

²⁶And say, Thus says the king, Put [a bow] this [fellow] in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I return in peace.

²⁷And Mikhay’hu [who is like God?] said, If youi certainly return in peace, [then] has not the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) spoken by me. And he said, Listen, all you2f people.

²⁸So the king of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] and Y’hoshafat [Yehovah has judged] the king of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] went up to Ramot-Gil’ad [rocky region].

²⁹And the king of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] said unto Y’hoshafat [Yehovah has judged], I will disguise myself, and will go to the battle; but put youi on youi robes. So the king of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] disguised himself; and they went to the battle.

³⁰Now the king of Aram [exalted] (Syria) [exalted] had commanded the captains of the chariots that [were] with him, saying, Fight you2f not with small or great, save only with the king of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God].

³¹And it came to pass, when the captains of the chariots saw Y’hoshafat [Yehovah has judged], that they said, It [is] the king of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God]. Therefore they compassed about him to fight: but Y’hoshafat [Yehovah has judged] cried out, and the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) helped him; and God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] moved them [to depart] from him.

³²For it came to pass, that, when the captains of the chariots perceived that it was not the king of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], they turned back again from pursuing him.

³³And a [certain] man drew a bow at a venture, and struck the king of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] between the joints of the harness: therefore he said to his chariot man, Turn youi hand, that youi may carry me out of the host; for I am wounded.

³⁴And the battle increased that day: howbeit the king of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] detained (held) [himself] up in [his] chariot against the Aram [exalted] [Syrians] until the even: and about the time of the sun going down he died.

¹And Y’hoshafat [Yehovah has judged] the king of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] returned to his house in peace to Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace].

²And Yehu [Yehovah is He] the son of Hanani [gracious] the seer went out to meet him, and said to king Y’hoshafat [Yehovah has judged], Should youi help the ungodly, and love them that hate the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate)? therefore [is] wrath upon youi from before the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

³Nevertheless there are good things found in youi, in that youi have taken away the Asherot out of the land, and have prepared youri heart to seek God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered].

⁴And Y’hoshafat [Yehovah has judged] dwelt at Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace]: and he went out again through the people from Be’er-sheva [Well of the sevenfold Oath] to mount Efrayim [Doubly Fruitful], and brought them back unto the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of their fathers.

⁵And he set in the land throughout all the fenced cities of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], city by city,

⁶And said to the judges, Take heed what you2f do: for you2f judge not for man, but for the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), who [is] with you in the judgment.

⁷For what reason now let the fear of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) be upon you; take heed and do [it]: for [there is] no iniquity with the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) our God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], nor respect of persons, nor taking of gifts.

⁸Moreover in Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace] did Y’hoshafat [Yehovah has judged] set of the Levi’im (Levites) [Joined to], and [of] the priests, and of the chief of the fathers of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], for the judgment of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), and for controversies, when they returned to Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace].

⁹And he charged them, saying, Thus shall you2f do in the fear of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), faithfully, and with a perfect heart.

¹⁰And what cause whosoever shall come to you of your brethren that dwell in their cities, between blood and blood, between law and commandment, statutes and judgments, you2f shall even warn them that they trespass not against the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), and [so] wrath come upon you, and upon your brethren: this do, and you2f shall not trespass.

¹¹And, behold, Amaryah [Yehovah speaks] the chief priest [is] over you in all matters of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate); and Z’vadyah [endowment of Yehovah] the son of Yishma’el [God will hear], the ruler of the house of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], for all the king’s matters: also the Levi’im (Levites) [Joined to] [shall be] officers before you. Deal courageously, and the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) shall be with the good.

¹It came to pass after this also, [that] the children of Mo’av [Seed of my Father], and the children of ‘Amon [Inbred], and with them [other] beside the ‘Amon [Inbred], came against Y’hoshafat [Yehovah has judged] to battle.

²Then there came some that told Y’hoshafat [Yehovah has judged], saying, There comes a great multitude against youi from beyond the sea on this side Aram [exalted] (Syria) [exalted]; and, behold, they [be] in Hatzatzon-Tamar [dividing the date-palm], which [is] ‘Ein-Gedi [Fount of the Kid].

³And Y’hoshafat [Yehovah has judged] feared, and set himself to seek the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), and proclaimed a fast throughout all Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised].

⁴And Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] gathered themselves together, to ask [help] of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate): even out of all the cities of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] they came to seek the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

⁵And Y’hoshafat [Yehovah has judged] stood in the congregation of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] and Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace], in the house of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), before the new court,

⁶And said, O LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of our fathers, [are] not youi God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] in heaven? and rule [not] youi over all the kingdoms of the heathen? and in youri hand [is there not] power and might, so that none is able that is to withstand youi?

⁷[Are] not youi our God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], [who] did drive out the inhabitants of this land before youri people Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], and gave it to the seed of Avraham [Exalted Father] youri friend forever?

⁸And they dwelt in it, and have built youi a sanctuary in it for youri name, saying,

⁹If, [when] evil comes upon us, [as] the sword, judgment, or pestilence, or famine, we stand before this house, and in youri presence, (for youri name [is] in this house,) and cry unto youi in our affliction, then youi will hear and help.

¹⁰And now, behold, the children of ‘Amon [Inbred] and Mo’av [Seed of my Father] and mount Se’ir [Shaggy], whom youi would not let Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] invade, when they came out of the land of Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place], but they turned from them, and destroyed them not;

¹¹Behold, [I say, how] they reward us, to come to cast us out of youri possession, which youi have given us to inherit.

¹²O our God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], will youi not judge them? for we have no might against this great company that comes against us; neither know we what to do: but our eyes [are] upon youi.

¹³And all Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] stood before the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), with their little ones, their wives, and their children.

¹⁴Then upon Yachazi’el [beheld of God] the son of Z’kharyah [Yehovah remembers], the son of B’nayahu [Yehovah has built], the son of Ye’i’el [God sweeps away], the son of Matanyah [gift of Yehovah], a Levi (Levite) [Joined to] of the sons of Asaf [gatherer], came the Spirit of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) in the midst of the congregation;

¹⁵And he said, Listen you2f, all Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], and you2f inhabitants of Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace], and youi king Y’hoshafat [Yehovah has judged], Thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) unto you, Be not afraid nor dismayed by reason of this great multitude; for the battle [is] not yours, but God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered]’s.

¹⁶Tomorrow go you2f down against them: behold, they come up by the cliff of Tzitz [flower]; and you2f shall find them at the end of the brook, before the wilderness of Yeru’el [taught by God].

¹⁷You2f shall not [need] to fight in this [battle]: set yourselves, stand you2f [still], and see the salvation of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) with you, O Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] and Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace]: fear not, nor be dismayed; tomorrow go out against them: for the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) [will be] with you.

¹⁸And Y’hoshafat [Yehovah has judged] bowed his head with [his] face to the ground: and all Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] and the inhabitants of Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace] fell before the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), worshipping the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

¹⁹And the Levi’im (Levites) [Joined to], of the children of the K’hati, and of the children of the Korchi [of baldness], stood up to praise the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] with a loud voice on high.

²⁰And they rose early in the morning, and went forth into the wilderness of T’koa [a stockade]: and as they went forth, Y’hoshafat [Yehovah has judged] stood and said, Hear me, O Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], and you2f inhabitants of Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace]; Believe in the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) your God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], so shall you2f be established; believe his prophets, so shall you2f prosper.

²¹And when he had consulted with the people, he appointed singers unto the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), and that should praise the beauty of holiness, as they went out before the army, and to say, Praise the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate); for his mercy [endures] forever.

²²And when they began to sing and to praise, the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) set ambushes against the children of ‘Amon [Inbred], Mo’av [Seed of my Father], and mount Se’ir [Shaggy], which were come against Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised]; and they were smitten.

²³For the children of ‘Amon [Inbred] and Mo’av [Seed of my Father] stood up against the inhabitants of mount Se’ir [Shaggy], utterly to slay and destroy [them]: and when they had made an end of the inhabitants of Se’ir [Shaggy], every one helped to destroy another.

²⁴And when Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] came toward the watch tower in the wilderness, they looked unto the multitude, and, behold, they [were] dead bodies fallen to the earth, and none escaped.

²⁵And when Y’hoshafat [Yehovah has judged] and his people came to take away the spoil (plunder; prey; booty) of them, they found among them in abundance both riches with the dead bodies, and precious jewels, which they stripped off for themselves, more than they could carry away: and they were three days in gathering of the spoil (plunder; prey; booty), it was so much.

²⁶And on the fourth day they assembled themselves in the valley of B’rakhah [blessing]; for there they Blessed (Favored by God; happy; prosperous) the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate): therefore the name of the same place was called, The valley of B’rakhah [blessing], unto this day.

²⁷Then they returned, every man of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] and Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace], and Y’hoshafat [Yehovah has judged] in the forefront of them, to go again to Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace] with joy; for the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) had made them to rejoice over their enemies.

²⁸And they came to Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace] with psalteries and harps and trumpets unto the house of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

²⁹And the fear of God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] was on all the kingdoms of [those] countries, when they had heard that the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) fought against the enemies of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God].

³⁰So the realm of Y’hoshafat [Yehovah has judged] was quiet: for his God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] gave him rest round about.

³¹And Y’hoshafat [Yehovah has judged] reigned over Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised]: [he was] thirty and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty and five years in Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace]. And his mother’s name [was] ‘Azuvah [forsaken] the daughter of Shilchi [armed].

³²And he walked in the way of Asa [healer; injurious?] his father, and departed not from it, doing [that which was] right in the sight of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

³³However the high places were not taken away: for as yet the people had not prepared their hearts unto the God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of their fathers.

³⁴Now the rest of the acts of Y’hoshafat [Yehovah has judged], first and last, behold, they [are] written in the book of Yehu [Yehovah is He] the son of Hanani [gracious], who [is] mentioned in the book of the kings of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God].

³⁵And after this did Y’hoshafat [Yehovah has judged] king of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] join himself with Achazyah [Yehovah possesses] king of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], who did very wickedly:

³⁶And he joined himself with him to make ships to go to Tarshish [yellow jasper]: and they made the ships in ‘Etzyon-Gever [backbone of a man].

³⁷Then Eli’ezer [God is help] the son of Dodavahu [beloved of Yehovah] of Mareshah [Crest of a Hill] prophesied against Y’hoshafat [Yehovah has judged], saying, Because youi have joined yourself with Achazyah [Yehovah possesses], the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) has broken youri works. And the ships were broken, that they were not able to go to Tarshish [yellow jasper].

¹Now Y’hoshafat [Yehovah has judged] slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David [beloved]. And Y’horam [Yehovah is exalted] his son reigned in his stead.

²And he had brethren the sons of Y’hoshafat [Yehovah has judged], ‘Azaryah [Yehovah has helped], and Jehiel, and Z’kharyah [Yehovah remembers], and ‘Azaryah [Yehovah has helped], and Mikha’el [Who is Like God?], and Sh’fatyah [Yehovah has judged]: all these [were] the sons of Y’hoshafat [Yehovah has judged] king of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God].

³And their father gave them great gifts of silver, and of gold, and of precious things, with fenced cities in Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised]: but the kingdom gave he to Y’horam [Yehovah is exalted]; because he [was] the firstborn.

⁴Now when Y’horam [Yehovah is exalted] was risen up to the kingdom of his father, he strengthened himself, and killed all his brethren with the sword, and [diverse] also of the princes of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God].

⁵Y’horam [Yehovah is exalted] [was] thirty and two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eight years in Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace].

⁶And he walked in the way of the kings of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], like as did the house of Ach’av [father’s brother]: for he had the daughter of Ach’av [father’s brother] to wife: and he wrought [that which was] evil in the eyes of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

⁷However the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) would not destroy the house of David [beloved], because of the covenant that he had made with David [beloved], and as he promised to give a light to him and to his sons forever.

⁸In his days the Edomi [red] revolted from under the dominion of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], and made themselves a king.

⁹Then Y’horam [Yehovah is exalted] went forth with his princes, and all his chariots with him: and he rose up by night, and struck the Edomi [red] which compassed him in, and the captains of the chariots.

¹⁰So the Edomi [red] revolted from under the hand of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] unto this day. The same time [also] did Livnah [Pavement] revolt from under his hand; because he had forsaken the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of his fathers.

¹¹Moreover he made high places in the mountains of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], and caused the inhabitants of Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace] to commit fornication, and compelled Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] [thereto].

¹²And there came a writing to him from Eliyahu [my God is Yehovah] the prophet, saying, Thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of David [beloved] youi father, Because youi have not walked in the ways of Y’hoshafat [Yehovah has judged] youi father, nor in the ways of Asa [healer; injurious?] king of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised],

¹³But have walked in the way of the kings of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], and have made Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] and the inhabitants of Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace] to go a whoring, like to the cult prostitution of the house of Ach’av [father’s brother], and also have slain youi brethren of youi father’s house, [which were] better than yourself:

¹⁴Behold, with a great plague will the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) strike youi people, and youi children, and youi wives, and all youi goods:

¹⁵And youi [shall have] great sickness by disease of youi bowels (inward parts; affections), until youi bowels (inward parts; affections) fall out by reason of the sickness day by day.

¹⁶Moreover the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) stirred up against Y’horam [Yehovah is exalted] the spirit of the P’lishtim [Immigrants], and of the Arabians, that [were] near the Cushi [Ethiopians]:

¹⁷And they came up into Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], and broke into it, and carried away all the substance that was found in the king’s house, and his sons also, and his wives; so that there was never a son left him, save Y’ho’achaz [Yehovah has seized], the youngest of his sons.

¹⁸And after all this the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) struck him in his bowels (inward parts; affections) with an incurable disease.

¹⁹And it came to pass, that in process of time, after the end of two years, his bowels (inward parts; affections) fell out by reason of his sickness: so he died of sore diseases. And his people made no burning for him, like the burning of his fathers.

²⁰Thirty and two years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned in Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace] eight years, and departed without being desired. However they buried him in the city of David [beloved], but not in the sepulchres of the kings.

¹And the inhabitants of Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace] made Achazyah [Yehovah possesses] his youngest son king in his stead: for the band of men that came with the Arabians to the camp had slain all the eldest. So Achazyah [Yehovah possesses] the son of Y’horam [Yehovah is exalted] king of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] reigned.

²Forty and two years old [was] Achazyah [Yehovah possesses] when he began to reign, and he reigned one year in Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace]. His mother’s name also [was] ‘Atalyahu [afflicted of the Lord] the daughter of ‘Omri [pupil of Yehovah].

³He also walked in the ways of the house of Ach’av [father’s brother]: for his mother was his counsellor to do wickedly.

⁴For what reason he did evil in the sight of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) like the house of Ach’av [father’s brother]: for they were his counsellors after the death of his father to his destruction.

⁵He walked also after their counsel, and went with Y’horam [Yehovah is exalted] the son of Ach’av [father’s brother] king of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] to war against Haza’el [one who sees God] king of Aram [exalted] (Syria) [exalted] at Ramot-Gil’ad [rocky region]: and the Aram [exalted] [Syrians] struck Yoram [Yehovah is exalted].

⁶And he returned to be healed in Yizre’el [God Sows] because of the wounds which were given him at Ramah [Hill], when he fought with Haza’el [one who sees God] king of Aram [exalted] (Syria) [exalted]. And ‘Azaryah [Yehovah has helped] the son of Y’horam [Yehovah is exalted] king of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] went down to see Y’horam [Yehovah is exalted] the son of Ach’av [father’s brother] at Yizre’el [God Sows], because he was sick.

⁷And the destruction of Achazyah [Yehovah possesses] was of God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] by coming to Yoram [Yehovah is exalted]: for when he was come, he went out with Y’horam [Yehovah is exalted] against Yehu [Yehovah is He] the son of Nimshi [rescued], whom the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) had anointed to cut off the house of Ach’av [father’s brother].

⁸And it came to pass, that, when Yehu [Yehovah is He] was executing judgment upon the house of Ach’av [father’s brother], and found the princes of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], and the sons of the brethren of Achazyah [Yehovah possesses], that ministered to Achazyah [Yehovah possesses], he killed them.

⁹And he sought Achazyah [Yehovah possesses]: and they caught him, (for he was hid in Shomron [watch mountain],) and brought him to Yehu [Yehovah is He]: and when they had slain him, they buried him: Because, said they, he [is] the son of Y’hoshafat [Yehovah has judged], who sought the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) with all his heart. So the house of Achazyah [Yehovah possesses] had no power to keep still the kingdom.

¹⁰But when ‘Atalyahu [afflicted of the Lord] the mother of Achazyah [Yehovah possesses] saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the seed royal of the house of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised].

¹¹But Y’hoshav’at [Yehovah is an oath], the daughter of the king, took Yo’ash [Given by the Lord] the son of Achazyah [Yehovah possesses], and stole him from among the king’s sons that were slain, and put him and his nurse in a bedchamber. So Y’hoshav’at [Yehovah is an oath], the daughter of king Y’horam [Yehovah is exalted], the wife of Y’hoyada [Yehovah knows] the priest, (for she was the sister of Achazyah [Yehovah possesses],) hid him from ‘Atalyahu [afflicted of the Lord], so that she killed him not.

¹²And he was with them hid in the house of God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] six years: and ‘Atalyahu [afflicted of the Lord] reigned over the land.

¹And in the seventh year Y’hoyada [Yehovah knows] strengthened himself, and took the captains of hundreds, ‘Azaryah [Yehovah has helped] the son of Yerocham [showing pity], and Yishma’el [God will hear] the son of Y’hochanan [Yehovah has graced], and ‘Azaryah [Yehovah has helped] the son of ‘Oved [serving], and Ma’aseiyah [work of Yehovah] the son of ‘Adayah [Yehovah has adorned Himself], and Elishafat [my God has judged] the son of Zikhri [Illustrious], into covenant with him.

²And they went about in Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], and gathered the Levi’im (Levites) [Joined to] out of all the cities of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], and the chief of the fathers of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], and they came to Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace].

³And all the congregation made a covenant with the king in the house of God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered]. And he said unto them, Behold, the king’s son shall reign, as the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) has said of the sons of David [beloved].

⁴This [is] the thing that you2f shall do; A third part of you entering on the Shabbat [Rest], of the priests and of the Levi’im (Levites) [Joined to], [shall be] porters of the doors;

⁵And a third part [shall be] at the king’s house; and a third part at the gate of the foundation: and all the people [shall be] in the courts of the house of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

⁶But let none come into the house of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), save the priests, and they that minister of the Levi’im (Levites) [Joined to]; they shall go in, for they [are] holy: but all the people shall keep the watch of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

⁷And the Levi’im (Levites) [Joined to] shall compass (go around, encircle; encompass) the king round about, every man with his weapons in his hand; and whosoever [else] comes into the house, he shall be put to death: but be you2f with the king when he comes in, and when he goes out.

⁸So the Levi’im (Levites) [Joined to] and all Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] did according to all things that Y’hoyada [Yehovah knows] the priest had commanded, and took every man his men that were to come in on the Shabbat [Rest], with them that were to go [out] on the Shabbat [Rest]: for Y’hoyada [Yehovah knows] the priest dismissed not the courses.

⁹Moreover Y’hoyada [Yehovah knows] the priest delivered to the captains of hundreds spears, and bucklers, and shields, that [had been] king David’s [beloved]’s, which [were] in the house of God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered].

¹⁰And he set all the people, every man having his weapon in his hand, from the right side of the temple to the left side of the temple, along by the altar and the temple, by the king round about.

¹¹Then they brought out the king’s son, and put upon him the crown, and [gave him] the testimony, and made him king. And Y’hoyada [Yehovah knows] and his sons anointed him, and said, Long live the king!

¹²Now when ‘Atalyahu [afflicted of the Lord] heard the noise of the people running and praising the king, she came to the people into the house of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate):

¹³And she looked, and, behold, the king stood at his pillar at the entering in, and the princes and the trumpets by the king: and all the people of the land rejoiced, and sounded with trumpets, also the singers with instruments of music, and such as taught to sing praise. Then ‘Atalyahu [afflicted of the Lord] rent her clothes, and said, Treason, Treason.

¹⁴Then Y’hoyada [Yehovah knows] the priest brought out the captains of hundreds that were set over the host, and said unto them, Have her forth of the ranges: and whoso follows her, let him be slain with the sword. For the priest said, Slay her not in the house of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

¹⁵So they laid hands on her; and when she was come to the entering of the horse gate by the king’s house, they killed her there.

¹⁶And Y’hoyada [Yehovah knows] made a covenant between him, and between all the people, and between the king, that they should be the LORD-Yehōvah’s [Messiah Pre-Incarnate] people.

¹⁷Then all the people went to the house of Ba’al [lord (a false god)], and broke it down, and broke his altars and his images in pieces, and killed Mattan [a gift] the priest of Ba’al [lord (a false god)] before the altars.

¹⁸Also Y’hoyada [Yehovah knows] appointed the offices of the house of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) by the hand of the priests the Levi’im (Levites) [Joined to], whom David [beloved] had distributed in the house of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), to offer the burnt offerings of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), as [it is] written in the law of Moshe [He Who Draws Out Of The Waters], with rejoicing and with singing, [as it was ordained] by David [beloved].

¹⁹And he set the porters at the gates of the house of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), that none [which was] unclean in any thing should enter in.

²⁰And he took the captains of hundreds, and the nobles, and the governors of the people, and all the people of the land, and brought down the king from the house of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate): and they came through the high gate into the king’s house, and set the king upon the throne of the kingdom.

²¹And all the people of the land rejoiced: and the city was quiet, after that they had slain ‘Atalyahu [afflicted of the Lord] with the sword.

¹Yo’ash [Given by the Lord] [was] seven years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years in Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace]. His mother’s name also [was] Tzivyah [roe] of Be’er-sheva [Well of the sevenfold Oath].

²And Yo’ash [Given by the Lord] did [that which was] right in the sight of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) all the days of Y’hoyada [Yehovah knows] the priest.

³And Y’hoyada [Yehovah knows] took for him two wives; and he begat (to be father of; be ancestor of) sons and daughters.

⁴And it came to pass after this, [that] Yo’ash [Given by the Lord] was minded to repair the house of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

⁵And he gathered together the priests and the Levi’im (Levites) [Joined to], and said to them, Go out unto the cities of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], and gather of all Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] money to repair the house of your God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] from year to year, and see that you2f hasten the matter. However the Levi’im (Levites) [Joined to] hastened [it] not.

⁶And the king called for Y’hoyada [Yehovah knows] the chief, and said unto him, Why have youi not required of the Levi’im (Levites) [Joined to] to bring in out of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] and out of Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace] the collection, [according to the commandment] of Moshe [He Who Draws Out Of The Waters] the servant of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), and of the congregation of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], for the tabernacle of witness?

⁷For the sons of ‘Atalyahu [afflicted of the Lord], that wicked woman, had broken up the house of God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered]; and also all the dedicated things of the house of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) did they bestow upon Ba’alim [lords (false gods)].

⁸And at the king’s commandment they made a chest, and set it without at the gate of the house of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

⁹And they made a proclamation through Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] and Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace], to bring in to the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) the collection [that] Moshe [He Who Draws Out Of The Waters] the servant of God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] [laid] upon Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] in the wilderness.

¹⁰And all the princes and all the people rejoiced, and brought in, and cast into the chest, until they had made an end.

¹¹Now it came to pass, that at what time the chest was brought unto the king’s office by the hand of the Levi’im (Levites) [Joined to], and when they saw that [there was] much money, the king’s scribe and the high priest’s officer came and emptied the chest, and took it, and carried it to his place again. Thus they did day by day, and gathered money in abundance.

¹²And the king and Y’hoyada [Yehovah knows] gave it to such as did the work of the service of the house of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), and hired masons and carpenters to repair the house of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), and also such as wrought iron and brass to mend the house of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

¹³So the workmen wrought, and the work was perfected by them, and they set the house of God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] in his state, and strengthened it.

¹⁴And when they had finished [it], they brought the rest of the money before the king and Y’hoyada [Yehovah knows], whereof were made vessels for the house of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), [even] vessels to minister, and to offer [withal], and spoons, and vessels of gold and silver. And they offered burnt offerings in the house of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) continually all the days of Y’hoyada [Yehovah knows].

¹⁵But Y’hoyada [Yehovah knows] waxed old, and was full of days when he died; an hundred and thirty years old [was he] when he died.

¹⁶And they buried him in the city of David [beloved] among the kings, because he had done good in Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], both toward God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], and toward his house.

¹⁷Now after the death of Y’hoyada [Yehovah knows] came the princes of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], and made obesiance (bowing or kneeling in respect) to the king. Then the king listened unto them.

¹⁸And they left the house of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of their fathers, and served groves and idols: and wrath came upon Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] and Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace] for this their trespass.

¹⁹Yet he sent prophets to them, to bring them again unto the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate); and they testified against them: but they would not give ear.

²⁰And the Spirit of God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] came upon Z’kharyah [Yehovah remembers] the son of Y’hoyada [Yehovah knows] the priest, which stood above the people, and said unto them, Thus says God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], Why transgress you2f the commandments of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), that you2f cannot prosper? because you2f have forsaken the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), he has also forsaken you.

²¹And they conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the commandment of the king in the court of the house of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

²²Thus Yo’ash [Given by the Lord] the king remembered not the kindness which Y’hoyada [Yehovah knows] his father had done to him, but killed his son. And when he died, he said, The LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) look upon [it], and require [it].

²³And it came to pass at the end of the year, [that] the host of Aram [exalted] (Syria) [exalted] came up against him: and they came to Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] and Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace], and destroyed all the princes of the people from among the people, and sent all the spoil (plunder; prey; booty) of them unto the king of Dammesek (Damascus) [silent is the sackcloth weaver].

²⁴For the army of the Aram [exalted] [Syrians] came with a small company of men, and the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) delivered a very great host into their hand, because they had forsaken the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of their fathers. So they executed judgment against Yo’ash [Given by the Lord].

²⁵And when they were departed from him, (for they left him in great diseases,) his own servants conspired against him for the blood of the sons of Y’hoyada [Yehovah knows] the priest, and killed him on his bed, and he died: and they buried him in the city of David [beloved], but they buried him not in the sepulchres of the kings.

²⁶And these are they that conspired against him; Zavad [he endows] the son of Shim’at [report] an ‘Amonit [tribal], and Y’hozavad [Yehovah has endowed] the son of Shimrith a Moaviah [from father: what father?].

²⁷Now [concerning] his sons, and the greatness of the burdens [laid] upon him, and the repairing of the house of God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], behold, they [are] written in the story of the book of the kings. And Amatzyah [Yehovah is mighty] his son reigned in his stead.

¹Amatzyah [Yehovah is mighty] [was] twenty and five years old [when] he began to reign, and he reigned twenty and nine years in Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace]. And his mother’s name [was] Y’ho’adan [Yehovah delights] of Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace].

²And he did [that which was] right in the sight of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), but not with a perfect heart.

³Now it came to pass, when the kingdom was established to him, that he killed his servants that had killed the king his father.

⁴But he killed not their children, but [did] as [it is] written in the law in the book of Moshe [He Who Draws Out Of The Waters], where the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) commanded, saying, The fathers shall not die for the children, neither shall the children die for the fathers, but every man shall die for his own sin.

⁵Moreover Amatzyah [Yehovah is mighty] gathered Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] together, and made them captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, according to the houses of [their] fathers, throughout all Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] and Binyamin [Son of the Right Hand/Strength]: and he numbered them from twenty years old and above, and found them three hundred thousand choice [men, able] to go forth to war, that could handle spear and shield.

⁶He hired also an hundred thousand mighty men of valour out of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] for an hundred talents of silver.

⁷But there came a man of God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] to him, saying, O king, let not the army of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] go with youi; for the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) [is] not with Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], [that is to say, with] all the children of Efrayim [Doubly Fruitful].

⁸But if youi will go, do [it], be strong for the battle: God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] shall make youi fall before the enemy: for God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The any Powered] has power to help, and to cast down.

⁹And Amatzyah [Yehovah is mighty] said to the man of God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], But what shall we do for the hundred talents which I have given to the army of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God]? And the man of God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] answered, The LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) is able to give youi much more than this.

¹⁰Then Amatzyah [Yehovah is mighty] separated them, [that is to say], the army that was come to him out of Efrayim [Doubly Fruitful], to go home again: wherefore their anger was greatly kindled against Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], and they returned home in great anger.

¹¹And Amatzyah [Yehovah is mighty] strengthened himself, and led forth his people, and went to the valley of salt, and struck of the children of Se’ir [Shaggy] ten thousand.

¹²And [other] ten thousand [left] alive did the children of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] carry away captive, and brought them unto the top of the rock, and cast them down from the top of the rock, that they all were broken in pieces.

¹³But the soldiers of the army which Amatzyah [Yehovah is mighty] sent back, that they should not go with him to battle, fell upon the cities of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], from Shomron [watch mountain] even unto Beit-Horon [House of Hollowness], and struck three thousand of them, and took much spoil (plunder; prey; booty).

¹⁴Now it came to pass, after that Amatzyah [Yehovah is mighty] was come from the slaughter of the Edomi [red], that he brought the gods of the children of Se’ir [Shaggy], and set them up [to be] his gods, and bowed down himself before them, and burned incense unto them.

¹⁵For what reason the anger of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) was kindled against Amatzyah [Yehovah is mighty], and he sent unto him a prophet, which said unto him, Why have youi sought after the gods of the people, which could not deliver their own people out of youi hand?

¹⁶And it came to pass, as he talked with him, that [the king] said unto him, Are youi made of the king’s counsel? refrain (restrain; refrein from acting); why should youi be smitten? Then the prophet forbare, and said, I know that God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] has determined to destroy youi, because youi have done this, and have not listened unto my counsel.

¹⁷Then Amatzyah [Yehovah is mighty] king of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] took advice, and sent to Yo’ash [Given by the Lord], the son of Y’ho’achaz [Yehovah has seized], the son of Yehu [Yehovah is He], king of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], saying, Come, let us see one another in the face.

¹⁸And Yo’ash [Given by the Lord] king of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] sent to Amatzyah [Yehovah is mighty] king of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], saying, The thistle that [was] in L’vanon [Whiteness] sent to the cedar that [was] in L’vanon [Whiteness], saying, Give youi daughter to my son to wife: and there passed by a wild beast that [was] in L’vanon [Whiteness], and trampled down the thistle.

¹⁹youi say, Lo, youi have smitten the Edomi [red]; and youi heart lifts youi up to boast: abide now at home; why should youi meddle to [youi] hurt, that youi should fall, [even] youi, and Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] with youi?

²⁰But Amatzyah [Yehovah is mighty] would not hear; for it [came] of God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], that he might deliver them into the hand [of their enemies], because they sought after the gods of Edom [Red].

²¹So Yo’ash [Given by the Lord] the king of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] went up; and they saw one another in the face, [both] he and Amatzyah [Yehovah is mighty] king of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], at Beit-Shemesh [House of the Sun], which [belongs] to Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised].

²²And Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] was put to the worse before Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], and they fled every man to his tent.

²³And Yo’ash [Given by the Lord] the king of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] took Amatzyah [Yehovah is mighty] king of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], the son of Yo’ash [Given by the Lord], the son of Y’ho’achaz [Yehovah has seized], at Beit-Shemesh [House of the Sun], and brought him to Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace], and broke down the wall of Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace] from the gate of Efrayim [Doubly Fruitful] to the corner gate, four hundred cubits.

²⁴And [he took] all the gold and the silver, and all the vessels that were found in the house of God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] with ‘Oved-Edom [servant of Edom], and the treasures of the king’s house, the hostages also, and returned to Shomron [watch mountain].

²⁵And Amatzyah [Yehovah is mighty] the son of Yo’ash [Given by the Lord] king of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] lived after the death of Yo’ash [Given by the Lord] son of Y’ho’achaz [Yehovah has seized] king of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] fifteen years.

²⁶Now the rest of the acts of Amatzyah [Yehovah is mighty], first and last, behold, [are] they not written in the book of the kings of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] and Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God]?

²⁷Now after the time that Amatzyah [Yehovah is mighty] did turn away from following the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) they made a conspiracy against him in Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace]; and he fled to Lakhish [Invincible]: but they sent to Lakhish [Invincible] after him, and killed him there.

²⁸And they brought him upon horses, and buried him with his fathers in the city of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised].

¹Then all the people of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] took ‘Uziyah [my strength is Yehovah], who [was] sixteen years old, and made him king in the room of his father Amatzyah [Yehovah is mighty].

²He built Elot [grove of lofty trees], and restored it to Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], after that the king slept with his fathers.

³Sixteen years old [was] ‘Uziyah [my strength is Yehovah] when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty and two years in Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace]. His mother’s name also [was] Y’kholyahu [Yehovah is able] of Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace].

⁴And he did [that which was] right in the sight of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), according to all that his father Amatzyah [Yehovah is mighty] did.

⁵And he sought God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] in the days of Z’kharyah [Yehovah remembers], who had understanding in the visions of God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered]: and as long as he sought the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] made him to prosper.

⁶And he went forth and warred against the P’lishtim [Immigrants], and broke down the wall of Gat [Winepress], and the wall of Yavneh [building of God], and the wall of Ashdod [powerful], and built cities about Ashdod [powerful], and among the P’lishtim [Immigrants].

⁷And God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] helped him against the P’lishtim [Immigrants], and against the Arabians that dwelt in Gur-Ba’al [dwelling of lord], and the Me’unim [habitations].

⁸And the ‘Amon [Inbred] gave gifts to ‘Uziyah [my strength is Yehovah]: and his name spread abroad [even] to the entering in of Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place]; for he strengthened [himself] exceedingly.

⁹Moreover ‘Uziyah [my strength is Yehovah] built towers in Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace] at the corner gate, and at the valley gate, and at the turning [of the wall], and fortified them.

¹⁰Also he built towers in the desert, and excavated many wells: for he had much cattle, both in the low country, and in the plains: husbandmen [also], and vine dressers in the mountains, and in Carmel [Garden-land]: for he loved husbandry.

¹¹Moreover ‘Uziyah [my strength is Yehovah] had an host of fighting men, that went out to war by bands, according to the number of their account by the hand of Ye’i’el [God sweeps away] the scribe and Ma’aseiyah [work of Yehovah] the ruler, under the hand of Hananyah [God has favoured], [one] of the king’s captains.

¹²The whole number of the chief of the fathers of the mighty men of valour [were] two thousand and six hundred.

¹³And under their hand [was] an army, three hundred thousand and seven thousand and five hundred, that made war with mighty power, to help the king against the enemy.

¹⁴And ‘Uziyah [my strength is Yehovah] prepared for them throughout all the host shields, and spears, and helmets, and habergeons, and bows, and slings [to cast] stones.

¹⁵And he made in Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace] engines, invented by cunning men, to be on the towers and upon the bulwarks, to shoot arrows and great stones withal. And his name spread far abroad; for he was marvellously helped, till he was strong.

¹⁶But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up to [his] destruction: for he transgressed against the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) his God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], and went into the temple of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) to burn incense upon the altar of incense.

¹⁷And ‘Azaryah [Yehovah has helped] the priest went in after him, and with him eighty priests of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), [that were] valiant men:

¹⁸And they withstood ‘Uziyah [my strength is Yehovah] the king, and said unto him, [It pertains] not unto youi, ‘Uziyah [my strength is Yehovah], to burn incense unto the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), but to the priests the sons of Aharon [Bright, Very High], that are consecrated to burn incense: go out of the sanctuary; for youi have trespassed; neither [shall it be] for youi honour from the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered].

¹⁹Then ‘Uziyah [my strength is Yehovah] was exceedingly angry, and [had] a censer in his hand to burn incense: and while he was exceedingly angry with the priests, the leprosy even rose up in his forehead before the priests in the house of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), from beside the incense altar.

²⁰And ‘Azaryah [Yehovah has helped] the chief priest, and all the priests, looked upon him, and, behold, he [was] leprous in his forehead, and they thrust him out from there; yes, himself hasted also to go out, because the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) had smitten him.

²¹And ‘Uziyah [my strength is Yehovah] the king was a leper unto the day of his death, and dwelt in a several house, [being] a leper; for he was cut off from the house of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate): and Toram [Yehovah is Perfect] his son [was] over the king’s house, judging the people of the land.

²²Now the rest of the acts of ‘Uziyah [my strength is Yehovah], first and last, did Yesha’yahu [Yehovah has saved] the prophet, the son of Amotz [strong], write.

²³So ‘Uziyah [my strength is Yehovah] slept with his fathers, and they buried him with his fathers in the field of the burial which [belonged] to the kings; for they said, He [is] a leper: and Toram [Yehovah is Perfect] his son reigned in his stead.

¹Toram [Yehovah is Perfect] [was] twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace]. His mother’s name also [was] Yerushah [dispossessor], the daughter of Tzadok [righteous].

²And he did [that which was] right in the sight of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), according to all that his father ‘Uziyah [my strength is Yehovah] did: howbeit he entered not into the temple of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate). And the people did yet corruptly.

³He built the high gate of the house of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), and on the wall of ‘Ofel [hill] he built much.

⁴Moreover he built cities in the mountains of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], and in the forests he built castles and towers.

⁵He fought also with the king of the ‘Amon [Inbred], and prevailed against them. And the children of ‘Amon [Inbred] gave him the same year an hundred talents of silver, and ten thousand measures of wheat, and ten thousand of barley. So much did the children of ‘Amon [Inbred] pay unto him, both the second year, and the third.

⁶So Toram [Yehovah is Perfect] became mighty, because he prepared his ways before the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) his God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered].

⁷Now the rest of the acts of Toram [Yehovah is Perfect], and all his wars, and his ways, lo, they [are] written in the book of the kings of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] and Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised].

⁸He was five and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned sixteen years in Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace].

⁹And Toram [Yehovah is Perfect] slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David [beloved]: and Achaz [he has grasped] his son reigned in his stead.

¹Achaz [he has grasped] [was] twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace]: but he did not [that which was] right in the sight of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), like David [beloved] his father:

²For he walked in the ways of the kings of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], and made also molten images for Ba’alim [lords (false gods)].

³Moreover he burnt incense in the valley of the son of Hinnom [Lamentation], and burnt his children in the fire, after the abominations of the heathen whom the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) had cast out before the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God].

⁴He sacrificed also and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.

⁵For what reason the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) his God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] delivered him into the hand of the king of Aram [exalted] (Syria) [exalted]; and they struck him, and carried away a great multitude of them captives, and brought [them] to Dammesek (Damascus) [silent is the sackcloth weaver]. And he was also delivered into the hand of the king of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], who struck him with a great slaughter.

⁶For Pekach [opened] the son of Remalyahu [protected by Yehovah] killed in Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] an hundred and twenty thousand in one day, [which were] all valiant men; because they had forsaken the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of their fathers.

⁷And Zikhri [Illustrious], a mighty man of Efrayim [Doubly Fruitful], killed Ma’aseiyah [work of Yehovah] the king’s son, and ‘Azrikam [help against the enemy] the governor of the house, and Elkanah [God Has Taken Possession] [that was] next to the king.

⁸And the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] carried away captive of their brethren two hundred thousand, women, sons, and daughters, and took also away much spoil (plunder; prey; booty) from them, and brought the spoil (plunder; prey; booty) to Shomron [watch mountain].

⁹But a prophet of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) was there, whose name [was] ‘Oded [restorer]: and he went out before the host that came to Shomron [watch mountain], and said unto them, Behold, because the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of your fathers was exceedingly angry with Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], he has delivered them into your hand, and you2f have slain them in a rage [that] reaches up unto heaven.

¹⁰And now you2f purpose to keep under the children of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] and Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace] for bondmen and bondwomen unto you: [but are there] not with you, even with you, sins against the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) your God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered]?

¹¹Now hear me therefore, and deliver the captives again, which you2f have taken captive of your brethren: for the fierce wrath of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) [is] upon you.

¹²Then certain of the heads of the children of Efrayim [Doubly Fruitful], ‘Azaryah [Yehovah has helped] the son of Yochanan [Yehovah has graced], Berekhyah [Yehovah blesses] the son of Meshillemot [recompense], and Y’chizkiyah [Yehovah has made me strong] the son of Shalum [retribution], and ‘Amasa [burden] the son of Hadlai [rest of God], stood up against them that came from the war,

¹³And said unto them, You2f shall not bring in the captives here: for whereas we have offended against the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) [already], you2f intend to add [more] to our sins and to our trespass: for our trespass is great, and [there is] fierce wrath against Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God].

¹⁴So the armed men left the captives and the spoil (plunder; prey; booty) before the princes and all the congregation.

¹⁵And the men which were expressed by name rose up, and took the captives, and with the spoil (plunder; prey; booty) clothed all that were naked among them, and arrayed them, and shod them, and gave them to eat and to drink, and anointed them, and carried all the feeble of them upon asses, and brought them to Yericho [Its Moon], the city of palm trees, to their brethren: then they returned to Shomron [watch mountain].

¹⁶At that time did king Achaz [he has grasped] send unto the kings of Ashur [the level plain] (the land of the sons of Shem [name] (name, renown (great reputation; being well-known))) to help him.

¹⁷For again the Edomi [red] had come and smitten Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], and carried away captives.

¹⁸The P’lishtim [Immigrants] also had invaded the cities of the low country, and of the south of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], and had taken Beit-Shemesh [House of the Sun], and Ayalon [Field of Deer], and G’derot [Walls], and Sokho [bushy] with the villages thereof, and Timnah [Portion] with the villages thereof, Gimzo [fertile sycamores] also and the villages thereof: and they dwelt there.

¹⁹For the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) brought Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] low because of Achaz [he has grasped] king of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God]; for he made Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] naked, and transgressed sore against the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

²⁰And Tigat-Piln’eser [you will uncover the wonderful bond] king of Ashur [the level plain] (the land of the sons of Shem [name] (name, renown (great reputation; being well-known))) came unto him, and distressed him, but strengthened him not.

²¹For Achaz [he has grasped] took away a portion [out] of the house of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), and [out] of the house of the king, and of the princes, and gave [it] unto the king of Ashur [the level plain] (the land of the sons of Shem [name] (name, renown (great reputation; being well-known))): but he helped him not.

²²And in the time of his distress did he trespass yet more against the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate): this [is that] king Achaz [he has grasped].

²³For he sacrificed unto the gods of Dammesek (Damascus) [silent is the sackcloth weaver], which struck him: and he said, Because the gods of the kings of Aram [exalted] (Syria) [exalted] help them, [therefore] will I sacrifice to them, that they may help me. But they were the ruin of him, and of all Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God].

²⁴And Achaz [he has grasped] gathered together the vessels of the house of God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], and cut in pieces the vessels of the house of God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], and shut up the doors of the house of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), and he made him altars in every corner of Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace].

²⁵And in every single (each one separately) city of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] he made high places to burn incense unto other gods, and provoked to anger the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of his fathers.

²⁶Now the rest of his acts and of all his ways, first and last, behold, they [are] written in the book of the kings of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] and Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God].

²⁷And Achaz [he has grasped] slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city, [even] in Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace]: but they brought him not into the sepulchres of the kings of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God]: and Hizkiyahu [Yehovah is my strength] his son reigned in his stead.

¹Hizkiyahu [Yehovah is my strength] began to reign [when he was] five and twenty years old, and he reigned nine and twenty years in Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace]. And his mother’s name [was] Aviyah [Yehovah is (my) father], the daughter of Z’kharyah [Yehovah remembers].

²And he did [that which was] right in the sight of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), according to all that David [beloved] his father had done.

³He in the first year of his reign, in the first month, opened the doors of the house of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), and repaired them.

⁴And he brought in the priests and the Levi’im (Levites) [Joined to], and gathered them together into the east street,

⁵And said unto them, Hear me, you2f Levi’im (Levites) [Joined to], sanctify (make holy; set apart for God’s use) now yourselves, and sanctify (make holy; set apart for God’s use) the house of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of your fathers, and carry forth the filthiness out of the holy [place].

⁶For our fathers have trespassed, and done [that which was] evil in the eyes of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) our God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], and have forsaken him, and have turned away their faces from the habitation of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), and turned [their] backs.

⁷Also they have shut up the doors of the porch, and put out the lamps, and have not burned incense nor offered burnt offerings in the holy [place] unto the God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God].

⁸For what reason the wrath of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) was upon Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] and Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace], and he has delivered them to trouble, to astonishment, and to hissing, as you2f see with your eyes.

⁹For, lo, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives [are] in captivity for this.

¹⁰Now [it is] in my heart to make a covenant with the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], that his fierce wrath may turn away from us.

¹¹My sons, be not now negligent: for the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) has chosen you to stand before him, to serve him, and that you2f should minister unto him, and burn incense.

¹²Then the Levi’im (Levites) [Joined to] arose, Machat [grasping] the son of ‘Amasai [burdensome], and Yo’el [Yehovah is God] the son of ‘Azaryah [Yehovah has helped], of the sons of the K’hati: and of the sons of M’rari [Bitter], Kish [bent] the son of ‘Abdi [servant of Yehovah], and ‘Azaryah [Yehovah has helped] the son of Yehallel’el [God is praised]: and of the Gershuni [Exiled Ones]; Yo’ach [Yahovah is brother] the son of Zimah [plotter], and ‘Eden [pleasure] the son of Yo’ach [Yahovah is brother]:

¹³And of the sons of Elitzafan [My God has Protected]; Shimri [vigilant], and Ye’i’el [God sweeps away]: and of the sons of Asaf [gatherer]; Z’kharyah [Yehovah remembers], and Matanyah [gift of Yehovah]:

¹⁴And of the sons of Heiman [faithful]; Jehiel, and Shime’i [Fame]: and of the sons of Y’dutun [praising]; Sh’may’yah [Yehovah hears], and Uzziel [My Strength is God].

¹⁵And they gathered their brethren, and sanctified themselves, and came, according to the commandment of the king, by the words of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), to cleanse the house of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

¹⁶And the priests went into the inner part of the house of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), to cleanse [it], and brought out all the uncleanness that they found in the temple of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) into the court of the house of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate). And the Levi’im (Levites) [Joined to] took [it], to carry [it] out abroad into the brook Kidron [dark].

¹⁷Now they began on the first [day] of the first month to sanctify (make holy; set apart for God’s use), and on the eighth day of the month came they to the porch of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate): so they sanctified the house of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) in eight days; and in the sixteenth day of the first month they made an end.

¹⁸Then they went in to Hizkiyahu [Yehovah is my strength] the king, and said, We have cleansed all the house of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), and the altar of burnt offering, with all the vessels thereof, and the showbread table, with all the vessels thereof.

¹⁹Moreover all the vessels, which king Achaz [he has grasped] in his reign did cast away in his transgression, have we prepared and sanctified, and, behold, they [are] before the altar of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

²⁰Then Hizkiyahu [Yehovah is my strength] the king rose early, and gathered the rulers of the city, and went up to the house of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

²¹And they brought seven bullocks, and seven rams, and seven lambs, and seven he goats, for a sin offering for the kingdom, and for the sanctuary, and for Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised]. And he commanded the priests the sons of Aharon [Bright, Very High] to offer [them] on the altar of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

²²So they killed the bullocks, and the priests received the blood, and sprinkled [it] on the altar: likewise, when they had killed the rams, they sprinkled the blood upon the altar: they killed also the lambs, and they sprinkled the blood upon the altar.

²³And they brought forth the he goats [for] the sin offering before the king and the congregation; and they laid their hands upon them:

²⁴And the priests killed them, and they made reconciliation with their blood upon the altar, to make an atonement for all Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God]: for the king commanded [that] the burnt offering and the sin offering [should be made] for all Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God].

²⁵And he set the Levi’im (Levites) [Joined to] in the house of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) with cymbals, with psalteries, and with harps, according to the commandment of David [beloved], and of Gad [Good Fortune with Troublesome Effort] the king’s seer, and Natan [giver] the prophet: for [so was] the commandment of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) by his prophets.

²⁶And the Levi’im (Levites) [Joined to] stood with the instruments of David [beloved], and the priests with the trumpets.

²⁷And Hizkiyahu [Yehovah is my strength] commanded to offer the burnt offering upon the altar. And when the burnt offering began, the song of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) began [also] with the trumpets, and with the instruments [ordained] by David [beloved] king of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God].

²⁸And all the congregation worshipped, and the singers sang, and the trumpeters sounded: [and] all [this continued] until the burnt offering was finished.

²⁹And when they had made an end of offering, the king and all that were present with him bowed themselves, and worshipped.

³⁰Moreover Hizkiyahu [Yehovah is my strength] the king and the princes commanded the Levi’im (Levites) [Joined to] to sing praise unto the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) with the words of David [beloved], and of Asaf [gatherer] the seer. And they sang praises with gladness, and they bowed their heads and worshipped.

³¹Then Hizkiyahu [Yehovah is my strength] answered and said, Now you2f have consecrated yourselves unto the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), come near and bring sacrifices and thank offerings into the house of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate). And the congregation brought in sacrifices and thank offerings; and as many as were of a free heart burnt offerings.

³²And the number of the burnt offerings, which the congregation brought, was threescore and ten bullocks, an hundred rams, [and] two hundred lambs: all these [were] for a burnt offering to the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

³³And the consecrated things [were] six hundred oxen and three thousand sheep.

³⁴But the priests were too few, so that they could not flay (stip the skin off) all the burnt offerings: wherefore their brethren the Levi’im (Levites) [Joined to] did help them, till the work was ended, and until the [other] priests had sanctified themselves: for the Levi’im (Levites) [Joined to] [were] more upright in heart to sanctify (make holy; set apart for God’s use) themselves than the priests.

³⁵And also the burnt offerings [were] in abundance, with the fat of the peace offerings, and the drink offerings for [every] burnt offering. So the service of the house of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) was set in order.

³⁶And Hizkiyahu [Yehovah is my strength] rejoiced, and all the people, that God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] had prepared the people: for the thing was [done] suddenly.

¹And Hizkiyahu [Yehovah is my strength] sent to all Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] and Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], and wrote letters also to Efrayim [Doubly Fruitful] and M’nasheh [Causing to Forget], that they should come to the house of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) at Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace], to keep the Passover unto the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God].

²For the king had taken counsel, and his princes, and all the congregation in Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace], to keep the Passover in the second month.

³For they could not keep it at that time, because the priests had not sanctified themselves sufficiently, neither had the people gathered themselves together to Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace].

⁴And the thing pleased the king and all the congregation.

⁵So they established a decree to make proclamation throughout all Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], from Be’er-sheva [Well of the sevenfold Oath] even to Dan [Judge], that they should come to keep the Passover unto the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] at Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace]: for they had not done [it] of a long [time in such sort] as it was written.

⁶So the posts went with the letters from the king and his princes throughout all Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] and Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], and according to the commandment of the king, saying, You2f people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], turn again unto the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of Avraham [Exalted Father], Yitz’khak [Laughter], and Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], and he will return to the remnant of you, that are escaped out of the hand of the kings of Ashur [the level plain] (the land of the sons of Shem [name] (name, renown (great reputation; being well-known))).

⁷And be not you2f like your fathers, and like your brethren, which trespassed against the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of their fathers, [who] therefore gave them up to desolation, as you2f see.

⁸Now be you2f not stiffnecked, as your fathers [were, but] yield yourselves unto the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), and enter into his sanctuary, which he has sanctified forever: and serve the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) your God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], that the fierceness of his wrath may turn away from you.

⁹For if you2f turn again unto the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), your brethren and your children [shall find] compassion before them that lead them captive, so that they shall come again into this land: for the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) your God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] [is] gracious and merciful, and will not turn away [his] face from you, if you2f return unto him.

¹⁰So the posts passed from city to city through the country of Efrayim [Doubly Fruitful] and M’nasheh [Causing to Forget] even unto Z’vulun [Glorious Dwelling Place]: but they laughed them to scorn, and mocked them.

¹¹Nevertheless diverse of Asher [Happy] and M’nasheh [Causing to Forget] and of Z’vulun [Glorious Dwelling Place] humbled themselves, and came to Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace].

¹²Also in Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] the hand of God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] was to give them one heart to do the commandment of the king and of the princes, by the word of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

¹³And there assembled at Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace] much people to keep the feast of unleavened bread in the second month, a very great congregation.

¹⁴And they arose and took away the altars that [were] in Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace], and all the altars for incense took they away, and cast [them] into the brook Kidron [dark].

¹⁵Then they killed the Passover on the fourteenth [day] of the second month: and the priests and the Levi’im (Levites) [Joined to] were ashamed, and sanctified themselves, and brought in the burnt offerings into the house of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

¹⁶And they stood in their place after their manner, according to the law of Moshe [He Who Draws Out Of The Waters] the man of God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered]: the priests sprinkled the blood, [which they received] of the hand of the Levi’im (Levites) [Joined to].

¹⁷For [there were] many in the congregation that were not sanctified: therefore the Levi’im (Levites) [Joined to] had the charge of the killing of the passovers for every one [that was] not clean, to sanctify (make holy; set apart for God’s use) [them] unto the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

¹⁸For a multitude of the people, [even] many of Efrayim [Doubly Fruitful], and M’nasheh [Causing to Forget], Yissakhar [There Is Recompense], and Z’vulun [Glorious Dwelling Place], had not cleansed themselves, yet did they eat the Passover otherwise than it was written. But Hizkiyahu [Yehovah is my strength] prayed for them, saying, The good LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) pardon every one

¹⁹[That] prepares his heart to seek God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of his fathers, though [he be] not [cleansed] according to the purification of the sanctuary.

²⁰And the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) listened to Hizkiyahu [Yehovah is my strength], and healed the people.

²¹And the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] that were present at Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace] kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with great gladness: and the Levi’im (Levites) [Joined to] and the priests praised the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) day by day, [singing] with loud instruments unto the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

²²And Hizkiyahu [Yehovah is my strength] spoke comfortably unto all the Levi’im (Levites) [Joined to] that taught the good knowledge of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate): and they did eat throughout the feast seven days, offering peace offerings, and making confession to the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of their fathers.

²³And the whole assembly took counsel to keep other seven days: and they kept [other] seven days with gladness.

²⁴For Hizkiyahu [Yehovah is my strength] king of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] did give to the congregation a thousand bullocks and seven thousand sheep; and the princes gave to the congregation a thousand bullocks and ten thousand sheep: and a great number of priests sanctified themselves.

²⁵And all the congregation of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], with the priests and the Levi’im (Levites) [Joined to], and all the congregation that came out of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], and the strangers that came out of the land of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], and that dwelt in Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], rejoiced.

²⁶So there was great joy in Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace]: for since the time of Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] the son of David [beloved] king of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] [there was] not the like in Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace].

²⁷Then the priests the Levi’im (Levites) [Joined to] arose and Blessed (Favored by God; happy; prosperous) the people: and their voice was heard, and their prayer came [up] to his holy dwelling place, [even] unto heaven.

¹Now when all this was finished, all Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] that were present went out to the cities of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], and broke the images in pieces, and cut down the groves, and threw down the high places and the altars out of all Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] and Binyamin [Son of the Right Hand/Strength], in Efrayim [Doubly Fruitful] also and M’nasheh [Causing to Forget], until they had utterly destroyed them all. Then all the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] returned, every man to his possession, into their own cities.

²And Hizkiyahu [Yehovah is my strength] appointed the courses of the priests and the Levi’im (Levites) [Joined to] after their courses, every man according to his service, the priests and Levi’im (Levites) [Joined to] for burnt offerings and for peace offerings, to minister, and to give thanks, and to praise in the gates of the tents of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

³[He appointed] also the king’s portion of his substance for the burnt offerings, [that is to say], for the morning and evening burnt offerings, and the burnt offerings for the Shabbat, and for the new moons, and for the set feasts, as [it is] written in the law of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

⁴Moreover he commanded the people that dwelt in Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace] to give the portion of the priests and the Levi’im (Levites) [Joined to], that they might be encouraged in the law of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

⁵And as soon as the commandment came abroad, the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] brought in abundance the firstfruits of corn, wine, and oil, and honey, and of all the increase of the field; and the tithe of all [things] brought they in abundantly.

⁶And [concerning] the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] and Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], that dwelt in the cities of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], they also brought in the tithe of oxen and sheep, and the tithe of holy things which were consecrated unto the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) their God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], and laid [them] by heaps.

⁷In the third month they began to lay the foundation of the heaps, and finished [them] in the seventh month.

⁸And when Hizkiyahu [Yehovah is my strength] and the princes came and saw the heaps, they Blessed (Favored by God; happy; prosperous) the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), and his people Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God].

⁹Then Hizkiyahu [Yehovah is my strength] questioned with the priests and the Levi’im (Levites) [Joined to] concerning the heaps.

¹⁰And ‘Azaryah [Yehovah has helped] the chief priest of the house of Tzadok [righteous] answered him, and said, Since [the people] began to bring the offerings into the house of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), we have had enough to eat, and have left plenty: for the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) has Blessed (Favored by God; happy; prosperous) his people; and that which is left [is] this great store.

¹¹Then Hizkiyahu [Yehovah is my strength] commanded to prepare chambers in the house of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate); and they prepared [them],

¹²And brought in the offerings and the tithes and the dedicated [things] faithfully: over which Konanyahu [Yehovah has established] the Levi (Levite) [Joined to] [was] ruler, and Shime’i [Fame] his brother [was] the next.

¹³And Jehiel, and ‘Azazyahu [Yehovah is mighty], and Nachat [rest], and ‘Asah’el [God-made], and Yerimot [He is Most High], and Yozavad [Yehovah has endowed], and Eli’el [my God is God], and Yishmachyah [Yehovah sustains], and Machat [grasping], and B’nayahu [Yehovah has built], [were] overseers under the hand of Konanyahu [Yehovah has established] and Shime’i [Fame] his brother, at the commandment of Hizkiyahu [Yehovah is my strength] the king, and ‘Azaryah [Yehovah has helped] the ruler of the house of God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered].

¹⁴And Kore [crier] the son of Yimnah [right hand] the Levi (Levite) [Joined to], the porter toward the east, [was] over the freewill offerings of God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], to distribute the oblations of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), and the most holy things.

¹⁵And next him [were] ‘Eden [pleasure], and Minyamin [from the right hand], and Yeshua [he is saved], and Sh’may’yah [Yehovah hears], Amaryah [Yehovah speaks], and Sh’khanyahu [dweller with Yehovah], in the cities of the priests, in [their] set office, to give to their brethren by courses, as well to the great as to the small:

¹⁶Beside their genealogy of males, from three years old and upward, [even] unto every one that enters into the house of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), his daily portion for their service in their charges according to their courses;

¹⁷Both to the genealogy of the priests by the house of their fathers, and the Levi’im (Levites) [Joined to] from twenty years old and upward, in their charges by their courses;

¹⁸And to the genealogy of all their little ones, their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, through all the congregation: for in their set office they sanctified themselves in holiness:

¹⁹Also of the sons of Aharon [Bright, Very High] the priests, [which were] in the fields of the suburbs of their cities, in every single (each one separately) city, the men that were expressed by name, to give portions to all the males among the priests, and to all that were reckoned by genealogies among the Levi’im (Levites) [Joined to].

²⁰And thus did Hizkiyahu [Yehovah is my strength] throughout all Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], and wrought [that which was] good and right and tbefore the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) his God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered].

²¹And in every work that he began in the service of the house of God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], and in the law, and in the commandments, to seek his God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], he did [it] with all his heart, and prospered.

¹After these things, and the establishment thereof, Sancheriv [Sin (the moon) multiplied brothers] king of Ashur [the level plain] (the land of the sons of Shem [name] (name, renown (great reputation; being well-known))) came, and entered into Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], and encamped against the fenced cities, and thought to win them for himself.

²And when Hizkiyahu [Yehovah is my strength] saw that Sancheriv [Sin (the moon) multiplied brothers] was come, and that he was purposed to fight against Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace],

³He took counsel with his princes and his mighty men to stop the waters of the fountains which [were] without the city: and they did help him.

⁴So there was gathered much people together, who stopped all the fountains, and the brook that ran through the midst of the land, saying, Why should the kings of Ashur [the level plain] (the land of the sons of Shem [name] (name, renown (great reputation; being well-known))) come, and find much water?

⁵Also he strengthened himself, and built up all the wall that was broken, and raised [it] up to the towers, and another wall without, and repaired Millo [fortification (defensive structure) or mound] [in] the city of David [beloved], and made darts and shields in abundance.

⁶And he set captains of war over the people, and gathered them together to him in the street of the gate of the city, and spoke comfortably to them, saying,

⁷Be strong and courageous, be not afraid nor dismayed for the king of Ashur [the level plain] (the land of the sons of Shem [name] (name, renown (great reputation; being well-known))), nor for all the multitude that [is] with him: for [there be] more with us than with him:

⁸With him [is] an arm of flesh; but with us [is] the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) our God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] to help us, and to fight our battles. And the people rested themselves upon the words of Hizkiyahu [Yehovah is my strength] king of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised].

⁹After this did Sancheriv [Sin (the moon) multiplied brothers] king of Ashur [the level plain] (the land of the sons of Shem [name] (name, renown (great reputation; being well-known))) send his servants to Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace], (but he [himself laid siege] against Lakhish [Invincible], and all his power with him,) unto Hizkiyahu [Yehovah is my strength] king of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], and unto all Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] that [were] at Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace], saying,

¹⁰Thus says Sancheriv [Sin (the moon) multiplied brothers] king of Ashur [the level plain] (the land of the sons of Shem [name] (name, renown (great reputation; being well-known))), Whereon do you2f trust, that you2f abide in the siege in Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace]?

¹¹Does not Hizkiyahu [Yehovah is my strength] persuade you to give over yourselves to die by famine and by thirst, saying, The LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) our God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] shall deliver us out of the hand of the king of Ashur [the level plain] (the land of the sons of Shem [name] (name, renown (great reputation; being well-known)))?

¹²Has not the same Hizkiyahu [Yehovah is my strength] taken away his high places and his altars, and commanded Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] and Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace], saying, You2f shall worship before one altar, and burn incense upon it?

¹³Know you2f not what I and my fathers have done unto all the people of [other] lands? were the gods of the nations of those lands any ways able to deliver their lands out of my hand?

¹⁴Who [was there] among all the gods of those nations that my fathers utterly destroyed, that could deliver his people out of my hand, that your God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] should be able to deliver you out of my hand?

¹⁵Now therefore let not Hizkiyahu [Yehovah is my strength] deceive you, nor persuade you on this manner, neither yet believe him: for no god of any nation or kingdom was able to deliver his people out of my hand, and out of the hand of my fathers: how much less shall your God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] deliver you out of my hand?

¹⁶And his servants spoke yet [more] against the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], and against his servant Hizkiyahu [Yehovah is my strength].

¹⁷He wrote also letters to rail on the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], and to speak against him, saying, As the gods of the nations of [other] lands have not delivered their people out of my hand, so shall not the God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of Hizkiyahu [Yehovah is my strength] deliver his people out of my hand.

¹⁸Then they cried with a loud voice in the Y’hudit (Y’hudim (Judeans)’) speech unto the people of Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace] that [were] on the wall, to affright them, and to trouble them; that they might take the city.

¹⁹And they spoke against the God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace], as against the gods of the people of the earth, [which were] the work of the hands of man.

²⁰And for this [cause] Hizkiyahu [Yehovah is my strength] the king, and the prophet Yesha’yahu [Yehovah has saved] the son of Amotz [strong], prayed and cried to heaven.

²¹And the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) sent an angel, which cut off all the mighty men of valour, and the leaders and captains in the camp of the king of Ashur [the level plain] (the land of the sons of Shem [name] (name, renown (great reputation; being well-known))). So he returned with shame of face to his own land. And when he was come into the house of his god, they that came forth of his own bowels (inward parts; affections) killed him there with the sword.

²²Thus the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) saved Hizkiyahu [Yehovah is my strength] and the inhabitants of Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace] from the hand of Sancheriv [Sin (the moon) multiplied brothers] the king of Ashur [the level plain] (the land of the sons of Shem [name] (name, renown (great reputation; being well-known))), and from the hand of all [other], and guided them on every side.

²³And many brought gifts unto the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) to Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace], and presents to Hizkiyahu [Yehovah is my strength] king of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised]: so that he was magnified in the sight of all nations from thenceforth.

²⁴In those days Hizkiyahu [Yehovah is my strength] was sick to the death, and prayed unto the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate): and he spoke unto him, and he gave him a sign.

²⁵But Hizkiyahu [Yehovah is my strength] rendered not again according to the benefit [done] unto him; for his heart was lifted up: therefore there was wrath upon him, and upon Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] and Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace].

²⁶Yet Hizkiyahu [Yehovah is my strength] humbled himself for the pride of his heart, [both] he and the inhabitants of Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace], so that the wrath of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) came not upon them in the days of Hizkiyahu [Yehovah is my strength].

²⁷And Hizkiyahu [Yehovah is my strength] had exceeding much riches and honour: and he made himself treasuries for silver, and for gold, and for precious stones, and for spices, and for shields, and for all manner of pleasant jewels;

²⁸Storehouses also for the increase of corn, and wine, and oil; and stalls for all manner of beasts, and stables for flocks.

²⁹Moreover he provided him cities, and possessions of flocks and herds in abundance: for God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] had given him substance very much.

³⁰This same Hizkiyahu [Yehovah is my strength] also stopped the upper watercourse of Gikhon (Bursting Forth), and brought it straight down to the west side of the city of David [beloved]. And Hizkiyahu [Yehovah is my strength] prospered in all his works.

³¹However in [the business of] the ambassadors of the princes of Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion], who sent unto him to enquire of the wonder that was [done] in the land, God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] left him, to try him, that he might know all [that was] in his heart.

³²Now the rest of the acts of Hizkiyahu [Yehovah is my strength], and his goodness, behold, they [are] written in the vision of Yesha’yahu [Yehovah has saved] the prophet, the son of Amotz [strong], [and] in the book of the kings of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] and Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God].

³³And Hizkiyahu [Yehovah is my strength] slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the most important of the sepulchres of the sons of David [beloved]: and all Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] and the inhabitants of Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace] did him honour at his death. And M’nasheh [Causing to Forget] his son reigned in his stead.

¹M’nasheh [Causing to Forget] [was] twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty and five years in Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace]:

²But did [that which was] evil in the sight of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), like unto the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) had cast out before the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God].

³For he built again the high places which Hizkiyahu [Yehovah is my strength] his father had broken down, and he reared up altars for Ba’alim [lords (false gods)], and made groves, and worshipped all the army of heaven, and served them.

⁴Also he built altars in the house of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), whereof the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) had said, In Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace] shall my name be forever.

⁵And he built altars for all the army of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

⁶And he caused his children to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom [Lamentation]: also he observed times, and used enchantments, and used witchcraft, and dealt with a familiar spirit, and with wizards: he wrought much evil in the sight of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), to provoke him to anger.

⁷And he set a carved image, the idol which he had made, in the house of God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], of which God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] had said to David [beloved] and to Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] his son, In this house, and in Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace], which I have chosen before all the tribes of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], will I put my name forever:

⁸Neither will I any more remove the foot of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] from out of the land which I have appointed for your fathers; so that they will take heed to do all that I have commanded them, according to the whole law and the statutes and the ordinances by the hand of Moshe [He Who Draws Out Of The Waters].

⁹So M’nasheh [Causing to Forget] made Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] and the inhabitants of Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace] to err, [and] to do worse than the heathen, whom the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) had destroyed before the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God].

¹⁰And the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) spoke to M’nasheh [Causing to Forget], and to his people: but they would not hearken.

¹¹For what reason the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) brought upon them the captains of the host of the king of Ashur [the level plain] (the land of the sons of Shem [name] (name, renown (great reputation; being well-known))), which took M’nasheh [Causing to Forget] among the thorns, and bound him with fetters, and carried him to Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion].

¹²And when he was in affliction, he besought the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) his God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], and humbled himself greatly before the God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of his fathers,

¹³And prayed unto him: and he was intreated of him, and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace] into his kingdom. Then M’nasheh [Causing to Forget] knew that the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) he [was] God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered].

¹⁴Now after this he built a wall without the city of David [beloved], on the west side of Gikhon (Bursting Forth), in the valley, even to the entering in at the fish gate, and compassed about ‘Ofel [hill], and raised it up a very great height, and put captains of war in all the fenced cities of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised].

¹⁵And he took away the strange gods, and the idol out of the house of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), and all the altars that he had built in the mount of the house of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), and in Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace], and cast [them] out of the city.

¹⁶And he repaired the altar of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), and sacrificed thereon peace offerings and thank offerings, and commanded Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] to serve the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God].

¹⁷Nevertheless the people did sacrifice still in the high places, [yet] unto the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) their God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] only.

¹⁸Now the rest of the acts of M’nasheh [Causing to Forget], and his prayer unto his God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], and the words of the seers that spoke to him in the name of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], behold, they [are written] in the book of the kings of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God].

¹⁹His prayer also, and [how God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered]] was intreated of him, and all his sin, and his trespass, and the places wherein he built high places, and set up groves and graven images, before he was humbled: behold, they [are] written among the sayings of the seers.

²⁰So M’nasheh [Causing to Forget] slept with his fathers, and they buried him in his own house: and ‘Amon [master workman] his son reigned in his stead.

²¹‘Amon [master workman] [was] two and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned two years in Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace].

²²But he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), as did M’nasheh [Causing to Forget] his father: for ‘Amon [master workman] sacrificed unto all the carved images which M’nasheh [Causing to Forget] his father had made, and served them;

²³And humbled not himself before the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), as M’nasheh [Causing to Forget] his father had humbled himself; but ‘Amon [master workman] trespassed more and more.

²⁴And his servants conspired against him, and killed him in his own house.

²⁵But the people of the land killed all them that had conspired against king ‘Amon [master workman]; and the people of the land made Yoshiyahu [whom Yehovah heals] his son king in his stead.

¹Yoshiyahu [whom Yehovah heals] [was] eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace] one and thirty years.

²And he did [that which was] right in the sight of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), and walked in the ways of David [beloved] his father, and declined [neither] to the right hand, nor to the left.

³For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of David [beloved] his father: and in the twelfth year he began to purge Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] and Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace] from the high places, and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images.

⁴And they broke down the altars of Ba’alim [lords (false gods)] in his presence; and the images, that [were] on high above them, he cut down; and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images, he broke in pieces, and made dust [of them], and strewed [it] upon the graves of them that had sacrificed unto them.

⁵And he burnt the bones of the priests upon their altars, and cleansed Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] and Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace].

⁶And [so did he] in the cities of M’nasheh [Causing to Forget], and Efrayim [Doubly Fruitful], and Shim’on [he who hears], even unto Naftali [My Wrestling], with their mattocks round about.

⁷And when he had broken down the altars and the groves, and had beaten the graven images into powder, and cut down all the idols throughout all the land of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], he returned to Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace].

⁸Now in the eighteenth year of his reign, when he had purged the land, and the house, he sent Shafan [coney] the son of Atzalyahu [Yehovah has set apart], and Ma’aseiyah [work of Yehovah] the governor of the city, and Yo’ach [Yahovah is brother] the son of Yo’achaz [Yehovah has grasped] the recorder, to repair the house of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) his God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered].

⁹And when they came to Hilkiyahu [my portion is Yehovah] the High Priest, they delivered the money that was brought into the house of God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], which the Levi’im (Levites) [Joined to] that kept the doors had gathered of the hand of M’nasheh [Causing to Forget] and Efrayim [Doubly Fruitful], and of all the remnant of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], and of all Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] and Binyamin [Son of the Right Hand/Strength]; and they returned to Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace].

¹⁰And they put [it] in the hand of the workmen that had the oversight of the house of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), and they gave it to the workmen that wrought in the house of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), to repair and amend the house:

¹¹Even to the artificers and builders gave they [it], to buy cut stone, and timber for couplings, and to floor the houses which the kings of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] had destroyed.

¹²And the men did the work faithfully: and the overseers of them [were] Yachat [He will snatch up] and ‘Ovadyah [servant of Yehovah], the Levi’im (Levites) [Joined to], of the sons of M’rari [Bitter]; and Z’kharyah [Yehovah remembers] and Meshulam [friend], of the sons of the K’hati, to set [it] forward; and [other of] the Levi’im (Levites) [Joined to], all that could skill of instruments of music.

¹³Also [they were] over the bearers of burdens, and [were] overseers of all that wrought the work in any manner of service: and of the Levi’im (Levites) [Joined to] [there were] scribes, and officers, and porters.

¹⁴And when they brought out the money that was brought into the house of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), Hilkiyahu [my portion is Yehovah] the priest found a book of the law of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) [given] by Moshe [He Who Draws Out Of The Waters].

¹⁵And Hilkiyahu [my portion is Yehovah] answered and said to Shafan [coney] the scribe, I have found the book of the law in the house of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate). And Hilkiyahu [my portion is Yehovah] delivered the book to Shafan [coney].

¹⁶And Shafan [coney] carried the book to the king, and brought the king word back again, saying, All that was committed to youi servants, they do [it].

¹⁷And they have gathered together the money that was found in the house of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), and have delivered it into the hand of the overseers, and to the hand of the workmen.

¹⁸Then Shafan [coney] the scribe told the king, saying, Hilkiyahu [my portion is Yehovah] the priest has given me a book. And Shafan [coney] read it before the king.

¹⁹And it came to pass, when the king had heard the words of the law, that he rent his clothes.

²⁰And the king commanded Hilkiyahu [my portion is Yehovah], and Achikam [my brother has arisen] the son of Shafan [coney], and Avdon [Servile] the son of Mikhay’hu [Who is Like God?], and Shafan [coney] the scribe, and ‘Asayah [made by Yehovah] a servant of the king’s, saying,

²¹Go, enquire of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) for me, and for them that are left in Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] and in Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], concerning the words of the book that is found: for great [is] the wrath of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) that is poured out upon us, because our fathers have not kept the word of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), to do after all that is written in this book.

²²And Hilkiyahu [my portion is Yehovah], and [they] that the king [had appointed], went to Huldah [weasel] the prophetess, the wife of Shalum [retribution] the son of Tikevah [hope], the son of Hasrat [lack], keeper of the wardrobe; (now she dwelt in Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace] in the college) and they spoke to her to that [effect].

²³And she answered them, Thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], Tell you2f the man that sent you to me,

²⁴Thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, and upon the inhabitants thereof, [even] all the curses that are written in the book which they have read before the king of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised]:

²⁵Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the works of their hands; therefore my wrath shall be poured out upon this place, and shall not be quenched.

²⁶And as for the king of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], who sent you to enquire of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), so shall you2f say unto him, Thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] [concerning] the words which youi have heard;

²⁷Because youri heart was tender, and youi did humble yourself before God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], when youi heard his words against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, and humbled yourself before me, and did rend (tear apart; forcefully rip apart) youri clothes, and weep before me; I have even heard [youi] also, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

²⁸Behold, I will gather youi to youri fathers, and youi shall be gathered to youri grave in peace, neither shall youri eyes see all the evil that I will bring upon this place, and upon the inhabitants of the same. So they brought the king word again.

²⁹Then the king sent and gathered together all the elders of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] and Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace].

³⁰And the king went up into the house of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), and all the men of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], and the inhabitants of Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace], and the priests, and the Levi’im (Levites) [Joined to], and all the people, great and small: and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant that was found in the house of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

³¹And the king stood in his place, and made a covenant before the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), to walk after the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), and to keep his commandments, and his testimonies, and his statutes, with all his heart, and with all his soul, to perform the words of the covenant which are written in this book.

³²And he caused all that were present in Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace] and Binyamin [Son of the Right Hand/Strength] to stand [to it]. And the inhabitants of Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace] did according to the covenant of God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], the God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of their fathers.

³³And Yoshiyahu [whom Yehovah heals] took away all the abominations out of all the countries that [pertained] to the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], and made all that were present in Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] to serve, [even] to serve the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) their God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered]. [And] all his days they departed not from following the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), the God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of their fathers.

¹Moreover Yoshiyahu [whom Yehovah heals] kept a Passover unto the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) in Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace]: and they killed the Passover on the fourteenth [day] of the first month.

²And he set the priests in their charges, and encouraged them to the service of the house of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate),

³And said unto the Levi’im (Levites) [Joined to] that taught all Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], which were holy unto the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), Put [a bow] the holy ark in the house which Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] the son of David [beloved] king of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] did build; [it shall] not [be] a burden upon [your] shoulders: serve now the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) your God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], and his people Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God],

⁴And prepare [yourselves] by the houses of your fathers, after your courses, according to the writing of David [beloved] king of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], and according to the writing of Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] his son.

⁵And stand in the holy [place] according to the divisions of the families of the fathers of your brethren the people, and [after] the division of the families of the Levi’im (Levites) [Joined to].

⁶So kill the Passover, and sanctify (make holy; set apart for God’s use) yourselves, and prepare your brethren, that [they] may do according to the word of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) by the hand of Moshe [He Who Draws Out Of The Waters].

⁷And Yoshiyahu [whom Yehovah heals] gave to the people, of the flock, lambs and kids, all for the Passover offerings, for all that were present, to the number of thirty thousand, and three thousand bullocks: these [were] of the king’s substance.

⁸And his princes gave willingly unto the people, to the priests, and to the Levi’im (Levites) [Joined to]: Hilkiyahu [my portion is Yehovah] and Z’kharyah [Yehovah remembers] and Jehiel, rulers of the house of God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], gave unto the priests for the Passover offerings two thousand and six hundred [small cattle], and three hundred oxen.

⁹Konanyah [Yehovah has established] also, and Sh’may’yah [Yehovah hears] and N’tan’el [God’s Gift], his brethren, and Hashavyah [Yehovah has considered] and Ye’i’el [God sweeps away] and Yozavad [Yehovah has endowed], chief of the Levi’im (Levites) [Joined to], gave unto the Levi’im (Levites) [Joined to] for Passover offerings five thousand [small cattle], and five hundred oxen.

¹⁰So the service was prepared, and the priests stood in their place, and the Levi’im (Levites) [Joined to] in their courses, according to the king’s commandment.

¹¹And they killed the Passover, and the priests sprinkled [the blood] from their hands, and the Levi’im (Levites) [Joined to] flayed [them].

¹²And they removed the burnt offerings, that they might give according to the divisions of the families of the people, to offer unto the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), as [it is] written in the book of Moshe [He Who Draws Out Of The Waters]. And so [did they] with the oxen.

¹³And they roasted the Passover with fire according to the ordinance: but the [other] holy [offerings] coocked (boiled) they in pots, and in caldrons, and in pans, and divided [them] speedily among all the people.

¹⁴And afterward they made ready for themselves, and for the priests: because the priests the sons of Aharon [Bright, Very High] [were busied] in offering of burnt offerings and the fat until night; therefore the Levi’im (Levites) [Joined to] prepared for themselves, and for the priests the sons of Aharon [Bright, Very High].

¹⁵And the singers the sons of Asaf [gatherer] [were] in their place, according to the commandment of David [beloved], and Asaf [gatherer], and Heiman [faithful], and Y’dutun [praising] the king’s seer; and the porters [waited] at every gate; they might not depart from their service; for their brethren the Levi’im (Levites) [Joined to] prepared for them.

¹⁶So all the service of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) was prepared the same day, to keep the Passover, and to offer burnt offerings upon the altar of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), according to the commandment of king Yoshiyahu [whom Yehovah heals].

¹⁷And the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] that were present kept the Passover at that time, and the feast of unleavened bread seven days.

¹⁸And there was no Passover like to that kept in Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] from the days of Sh’mu’el [His name is El] the prophet; neither did all the kings of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] keep such a Passover as Yoshiyahu [whom Yehovah heals] kept, and the priests, and the Levi’im (Levites) [Joined to], and all Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] and Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] that were present, and the inhabitants of Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace].

¹⁹In the eighteenth year of the reign of Yoshiyahu [whom Yehovah heals] was this Passover kept.

²⁰After all this, when Yoshiyahu [whom Yehovah heals] had prepared the temple, N’kho [lame] king of Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place] came up to fight against Kark’mish [fortress of Chemosh (subdue)] by Euphrates (to break forth, to gush): and Yoshiyahu [whom Yehovah heals] went out against him.

²¹But he sent ambassadors to him, saying, What have I to do with youi, youi king of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised]? [I come] not against youi this day, but against the house which I have war: for God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] commanded me to make haste: refrain (restrain; refrein from acting) youi from [meddling with] God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], who [is] with me, that he destroy youi not.

²²Nevertheless Yoshiyahu [whom Yehovah heals] would not turn his face from him, but disguised himself, that he might fight with him, and listened not unto the words of N’kho [lame] from the mouth of God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], and came to fight in the valley of Megiddo [Place of Crowds].

²³And the archers shot at king Yoshiyahu [whom Yehovah heals]; and the king said to his servants, Have me away; for I am sore wounded.

²⁴His servants therefore took him out of that chariot, and put him in the second chariot that he had; and they brought him to Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace], and he died, and was buried in [one of] the sepulchres of his fathers. And all Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] and Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace] mourned for Yoshiyahu [whom Yehovah heals].

²⁵And Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed] lamented for Yoshiyahu [whom Yehovah heals]: and all the singing men and the singing women spoke of Yoshiyahu [whom Yehovah heals] in their lamentations to this day, and made them an ordinance in Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God]: and, behold, they [are] written in the lamentations.

²⁶Now the rest of the acts of Yoshiyahu [whom Yehovah heals], and his goodness, according to [that which was] written in the law of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate),

²⁷And his deeds, first and last, behold, they [are] written in the book of the kings of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] and Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised].

¹Then the people of the land took Y’ho’achaz [Yehovah has seized] the son of Yoshiyahu [whom Yehovah heals], and made him king in his father’s stead in Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace].

²Y’ho’achaz [Yehovah has seized] [was] twenty and three years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months in Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace].

³And the king of Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place] put him down at Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace], and condemned the land in an hundred talents of silver and a talent (weight of money; weight; gift) of gold.

⁴And the king of Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place] made Elyakim [God sets up] his brother king over Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] and Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace], and turned his name to Y’hoyakim [Yehovah raises up]. And N’kho [lame] took Y’ho’achaz [Yehovah has seized] his brother, and carried him to Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place].

⁵Y’hoyakim [Yehovah raises up] [was] twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace]: and he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) his God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered].

⁶Against him came up N’vukhadnetzar [May Nebo protect the crown] king of Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion], and bound him in fetters, to carry him to Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion].

⁷N’vukhadnetzar [May Nebo protect the crown] also carried of the vessels of the house of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) to Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion], and put them in his temple at Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion].

⁸Now the rest of the acts of Y’hoyakim [Yehovah raises up], and his abominations which he did, and that which was found in him, behold, they [are] written in the book of the kings of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] and Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised]: and Y’hoyakhin [Yehovah establishes] his son reigned in his stead.

⁹Y’hoyakhin [Yehovah establishes] [was] eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months and ten days in Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace]: and he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

¹⁰And when the year was expired, king N’vukhadnetzar [May Nebo protect the crown] sent, and brought him to Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion], with the goodly vessels of the house of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), and made Tzidkiyah [Yehovah is righteous] his brother king over Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] and Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace].

¹¹Tzidkiyah [Yehovah is righteous] [was] one and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned eleven years in Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace].

¹²And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) his God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], [and] humbled not himself before Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed] the prophet [speaking] from the mouth of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

¹³And he also rebelled against king N’vukhadnetzar [May Nebo protect the crown], who had made him swear by God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered]: but he stiffened his neck, and hardened his heart from turning unto the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God].

¹⁴Moreover all the chief of the priests, and the people, transgressed very much after all the abominations of the heathen; and polluted the house of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) which he had consecrated in Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace].

¹⁵And the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of their fathers sent to them by his messengers, rising up early, and sending; because he had compassion on his people, and on his dwelling place:

¹⁶But they mocked the messengers of God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], and despised his words, and misused his prophets, until the wrath of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) arose against his people, till [there was] no remedy.

¹⁷Therefore he brought upon them the king of the Kasdim [clod-breakers] [clod-breakers], who killed their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion upon young man or virgin, old man, or him that stooped for age: he gave [them] all into his hand.

¹⁸And all the vessels of the house of God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], great and small, and the treasures of the house of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), and the treasures of the king, and of his princes; all [these] he brought to Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion].

¹⁹And they burnt the house of God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], and broke down the wall of Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace], and burnt all the palaces thereof with fire, and destroyed all the goodly vessels thereof.

²⁰And them that had escaped from the sword carried he away to Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion]; where they were servants to him and his sons until the reign of the kingdom of Paras (Persia) [pure or splendid]:

²¹To fulfil the word of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) by the mouth of Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed], until the land had enjoyed her Shabbat: [for] as long as she lay desolate she kept Shabbat [Rest], to fulfil threescore and ten years.

²²Now in the first year of Koresh (Cyrus) [possess you the furnace] king of Paras (Persia) [pure or splendid], that the word of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) [spoken] by the mouth of Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed] might be accomplished, the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) stirred up the spirit of Koresh (Cyrus) [possess you the furnace] king of Paras (Persia) [pure or splendid], that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and [put it] also in writing, saying,

²³Thus says Koresh (Cyrus) [possess you the furnace] king of Paras (Persia) [pure or splendid], All the kingdoms of the earth has the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of heaven given me; and he has charged me to build him an house in Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace], which [is] in Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised]. Who [is there] among you of all his people? The LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) his God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] [be] with him, and let him go up.

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