Verse 21

2 Kings 23:21

Literal Standard Version

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21 And the king commands the whole of the people, saying, “Make a Passover to your God (Elohim) YHWH, as it is written on this scroll of the covenant.”

Original Language Text

hebrew

וַ/יְצַ֤ו הַ/מֶּ֨לֶךְ֙ אֶת כָּל הָ/עָ֣ם לֵ/אמֹ֔ר עֲשׂ֣וּ פֶ֔סַח לַֽ/יהוָ֖ה אֱלֹֽהֵי/כֶ֑ם כַּ/כָּת֕וּב עַ֛ל סֵ֥פֶר הַ/בְּרִ֖ית הַ/זֶּֽה

English Translation

And the king commanded all the people, saying, "Make a Passover to Yahweh your God, as it is written in the book of this covenant."

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Chapter 23 Context

1 And the king sends, and they gather all the elderly of Judah and Jerusalem to him, Focus ↗

2 and the king goes up to the house of YHWH, and every man of Judah, and all the inhabitants of Jerusa... Focus ↗

3 And the king stands by the pillar, and makes the covenant before YHWH, to walk after YHWH, and to ke... Focus ↗

4 And the king commands Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers... Focus ↗

5 And he has caused to cease the idolatrous priests whom the kings of Judah have appointed (and they m... Focus ↗

6 And he brings out the Asherah from the house of YHWH to the outside of Jerusalem, to the Brook of Ki... Focus ↗

7 And he breaks down the houses of the whoremongers that are in the house of YHWH, where the women are... Focus ↗

8 And he brings in all the priests out of the cities of Judah, and defiles the high places where the p... Focus ↗

9 only, the priests of the high places do not come up to the altar of YHWH in Jerusalem, but they have... Focus ↗

10 And he has defiled Topheth that is in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, so that no man causes his son... Focus ↗

11 And he causes to cease the horses that the kings of Judah have given to the sun from the entering in... Focus ↗

12 And the altars that are on the top of the upper chamber of Ahaz, that the kings of Judah made, and t... Focus ↗

13 And the high places that are on the front of Jerusalem, that are on the right of the Mount of Corrup... Focus ↗

14 And he has broken the standing-pillars in pieces, and cuts down the Asherim, and fills their place w... Focus ↗

15 and also the altar that is in Beth-El, the high place that Jeroboam son of Nebat made, by which he m... Focus ↗

16 And Josiah turns, and sees the graves that are there on the mountain, and sends and takes the bones... Focus ↗

17 And he says, “What is this sign that I see?” And the men of the city say to him, “The grave of the m... Focus ↗

18 And he says, “Leave him alone, let no man touch his bones”; and they let his bones escape with the b... Focus ↗

19 And also all the houses of the high places that are in the cities of Samaria, that the kings of Isra... Focus ↗

20 And he slays all the priests of the high places who are there by the altars, and burns the bones of... Focus ↗

21 And the king commands the whole of the people, saying, “Make a Passover to your God (Elohim) YHWH, a...

22 Surely there has not been made like this Passover from the days of the ones judging who judged Israe... Focus ↗

23 but in the eighteenth year of King Josiah, this Passover has been made to YHWH in Jerusalem. Focus ↗

24 And also, those having familiar spirits, and the wizards, and the teraphim, and the idols, and all t... Focus ↗

25 And like him there has not been before him a king who turned back to YHWH with all his heart, and wi... Focus ↗

26 Only, YHWH has not turned back from the fierceness of His great anger with which His anger burned ag... Focus ↗

27 and YHWH says, “I also turn Judah aside from my presence, as I turned Israel aside, and I have rejec... Focus ↗

28 And the rest of the matters of Josiah and all that he did, are they not written on the scroll of the... Focus ↗

29 In his days Pharaoh Necho king of Egypt has come up against the king of Asshur, by the Euphrates Riv... Focus ↗

30 And his servants cause him to ride dying from Megiddo, and bring him to Jerusalem, and bury him in h... Focus ↗

31 Jehoahaz is a son of twenty-three years in his reigning, and he has reigned three months in Jerusale... Focus ↗

32 and he does evil in the eyes of YHWH, according to all that his fathers did, Focus ↗

33 and Pharaoh Necho binds him in Riblah, in the land of Hamath, from reigning in Jerusalem, and he put... Focus ↗

34 And Pharaoh Necho causes Eliakim son of Josiah to reign instead of his father Josiah, and turns his... Focus ↗

35 And Jehoiakim has given the silver and the gold to Pharaoh; only he valued the land to give the silv... Focus ↗

36 Jehoiakim is a son of twenty-five years in his reigning, and he has reigned eleven years in Jerusale... Focus ↗

37 and he does evil in the eyes of YHWH, according to all that his fathers did. Focus ↗

Verse Information

Book: 2 Kings
Chapter: Chapter 23 (37 verses)
Version: Literal Standard Version

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