Verse 1

2 Kings 23:1

American Standard Version Byzantine Text

1 And the king sent, and they gathered unto him all the elders of Judah and of Jerusalem.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/יִּשְׁלַ֖ח הַ/מֶּ֑לֶךְ וַ/יַּאַסְפ֣וּ אֵלָ֔י/ו כָּל זִקְנֵ֥י יְהוּדָ֖ה וִ/ירוּשָׁלִָֽם
English Translation
And the king sent and gathered to him all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem.
AI translation from hebrew via gpt-4o-mini
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Chapter 23 Context
1 And the king sent, and they gathered unto him all the elders of Judah and of Jerusalem.
2 And the king went up to the house of Jehovah, and all the men of Judah and all the inhabitants of Je... Focus ↗
3 And the king stood by the pillar, and made a covenant before Jehovah, to walk after Jehovah, and to... Focus ↗
4 And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers... Focus ↗
5 And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the... Focus ↗
6 And he brought out the Asherah from the house of Jehovah, without Jerusalem, unto the brook Kidron,... Focus ↗
7 And he brake down the houses of the sodomites, that were in the house of Jehovah, where the women wo... Focus ↗
8 And he brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah, and defiled the high places where the pri... Focus ↗
9 Nevertheless the priests of the high places came not up to the altar of Jehovah in Jerusalem, but th... Focus ↗
10 And he defiled Topheth, which is in the valley of the children of Hinnom, that no man might make his... Focus ↗
11 And he took away the horses that the kings of Judah had given to the sun, at the entrance of the hou... Focus ↗
12 And the altars that were on the roof of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made... Focus ↗
13 And the high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on the right hand of the mount of corrupt... Focus ↗
14 And he brake in pieces the pillars, and cut down the Asherim, and filled their places with the bones... Focus ↗
15 Moreover the altar that was at Beth-el, and the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made... Focus ↗
16 And as Josiah turned himself, he spied the sepulchers that were there in the mount; and he sent, and... Focus ↗
17 Then he said, What monument is that which I see? And the men of the city told him, It is the sepulch... Focus ↗
18 And he said, Let him be; let no man move his bones. So they let his bones alone, with the bones of t... Focus ↗
19 And all the houses also of the high places that were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Is... Focus ↗
20 And he slew all the priests of the high places that were there, upon the altars, and burned men’s bo... Focus ↗
21 And the king commanded all the people, saying, Keep the passover unto Jehovah your God (Elohim), as... Focus ↗
22 Surely there was not kept such a passover from the days of the judges that judged Israel, nor in all... Focus ↗
23 but in the eighteenth year of king Josiah was this passover kept to Jehovah in Jerusalem. Focus ↗
24 Moreover them that had familiar spirits, and the wizards, and the teraphim, and the idols, and all t... Focus ↗
25 And like unto him was there no king before him, that turned to Jehovah with all his heart, and with... Focus ↗
26 Notwithstanding, Jehovah turned not from the fierceness of his great wrath, wherewith his anger was... Focus ↗
27 And Jehovah said, I will remove Judah also out of my sight, as I have removed Israel, and I will cas... Focus ↗
28 Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chr... Focus ↗
29 In his days Pharaoh Neco king of Egypt went up against the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates: a... Focus ↗
30 And his servants carried him in a chariot dead from Megiddo, and brought him to Jerusalem, and burie... Focus ↗
31 Jehoahaz was twenty and three years old when he began to reign; and he reigned three months in Jerus... Focus ↗
32 And he did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, according to all that his fathers had done. Focus ↗
33 And Pharaoh Neco put him in bonds at Riblah in the land of Hamath, that he might not reign in Jerusa... Focus ↗
34 And Pharaoh Neco made Eliakim the son of Josiah king in the room of Josiah his father, and changed h... Focus ↗
35 And Jehoiakim gave the silver and the gold to Pharaoh; but he taxed the land to give the money accor... Focus ↗
36 Jehoiakim was twenty and five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned eleven years in Jerus... Focus ↗
37 And he did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, according to all that his fathers had done. Focus ↗