Melachim Bais 23
Orthodox Jewish Bible
23 And HaMelech sent, and they gathered unto him kol Ziknei Yehudah and of Yerushalayim.
2 And HaMelech went up into the Beis Hashem, and kol ish Yehudah and all the inhabitants of Yerushalayim with him, and the Kohanim, and the Nevi’im, and kol HaAm, both katon and gadol; and he read in their ears all the Divrei Sefer HaBrit which was found in the Beis Hashem.
3 And HaMelech stood by HaAmmud, and cut HaBrit before Hashem, to walk after Hashem, and to be shomer mitzvot over His commandments and His edot and His chukkot with all their lev and all their nefesh, to carry out these Divrei HaBrit that were written in this Sefer. And kol HaAm stood [under oath] to HaBrit.
4 And HaMelech commanded Chilkiyahu HaKohen HaGadol, and the Kohanei HaMishneh, and the Shomrei HaSaf, to bring forth out of the Heikhal Hashem all the kelim that were made for Ba’al, and for Asherah, and for all the Tzeva HaShomayim; and he burned them outside Yerushalayim in the fields of the Kidron, and carried the ashes of them unto Beit-El.
5 And he did away with hakemarim (the idol priests), whom the Melachim of Yehudah had ordained to burn ketoret in the high places in the towns of Yehudah, and in the places around Yerushalayim; them also that burned ketoret unto Ba’al, to the shemesh, and to the yarei’ach, and to the mazalot (constellations) and to all the Tzeva HaShomayim.
6 And he took out the Asherah from the Beis Hashem, outside Yerushalayim, unto the Kidron Valley, and burned it in the Kidron Valley, and ground it to powder, and cast its aphar upon the keverim of the Bnei HaAm [i.e., them that sacrificed unto them].
7 And he tore down the batim (houses) of hakedeshim (the male and female cult prostitutes) that were in the Beis Hashem, where the nashim were weaving hangings for Asherah.
8 And he brought all the Kohanim out of the towns of Yehudah, and made tameh the high places where the kohanim had burned ketoret, from Geva to Beer Sheva, and broke down the high places at the she’arim (gates) that were at the entrance of the Sha’ar Yehoshua sar Ir, which were on one’s left at the Sha’ar HaIr.
9 Nevertheless the kohanim of the high places came not up to the Mizbe’ach Hashem in Yerushalayim, only they did eat of the matzot among their achim.
10 And he made tameh Tophet, which is in the Gey of the ben Hinnom, that no ish might make his ben or his bat to pass through the eish to Molech.
11 And he took away the susim that the Melachim of Yehudah had dedicated to the shemesh, at the entrance of the Beis Hashem, by the chamber of Natan-Melech the saris, which was in the colonnades, and set eish to merkevot hashemesh.
12 And the mizbechot that were on the roof of the upper chamber of Achaz, which the Melachim of Yehudah had made, and the mizbechot which Menasheh had made in the two khatzerot of the Beis Hashem, did HaMelech pull down, and remove them from there, and cast the aphar of them into the Kidron Valley.
13 And the high places that were before Yerushalayim, which were on the right of the Har HaMashchit, which Sh’lomo Melech Yisroel had built for Ashtoret shikkutz Tzidonim, and for Kemosh shikkutz Mo’av, and for Milcom to’avat Bnei Ammon, did HaMelech make tameh.
14 And he broke in pieces the matzevot, and cut down the Asherim, and filled their makom with the atzmot adam.
15 Moreover the mizbe’ach that was at Beit-El, and the high place which Yarov‘am ben Nevat, who caused Yisroel to sin, had made, both that mizbe’ach and the high place did he break down, burn the high place, did grind it to powder, did burn the Asherah.
16 And as Yoshiyah turned, he saw the keverim that were there in the har, and sent, and took the atzmot out of the keverim, and burned them upon the mizbe’ach, and made it tameh, according to the Devar Hashem which the Ish HaElohim preached, who proclaimed these words [See 1Kgs 13:1-2].
17 Then he said, What tziyyun (monument, tombtone) is that that I see? And the anshei HaIr told him, It is the kever of the Ish HaElohim, which came from Yehudah, and proclaimed these things that thou hast done against the mizbe’ach of Beit-El [see 1Kgs 13:1-3].
18 And he said, Let him alone; let no ish disturb his atzmot. So they left his atzmot undisturbed, with the atzmot of the navi that came out of Shomron [see 1Kgs 13:11,31].
19 And all the batim (houses, shrines) also of the high places that were in the towns of Shomron, which the Melachim of Yisroel had made to provoke Hashem to anger, Yoshiyah removed, and did to them according to all the ma’asim that he had done in Beit-El.
20 And he slaughtered all the kohanim of the high places that were there upon the mizbechot, and burned atzmot adam upon them, and returned to Yerushalayim.
21 And HaMelech commanded kol HaAm, saying, Make Pesach unto Hashem Eloheichem, as it is written in the Sefer HaBrit HaZeh.
22 Surely there was not kept such a Pesach from the days of the Shofetim that judged Yisroel, nor in all the days of the Melachim of Yisroel, nor of the Melachim of Yehudah;
23 But in the eighteenth year of Melech Yoshiyah, wherein this Pesach was kept to Hashem in Yerushalayim.
24 Moreover the mediums with familiar spirits, and the yidonim (spiritists), and the terafim, and the gillulim (idols), and all the shikkutzim that were seen in Eretz Yehudah and in Yerushalayim, did Yoshiyah put away, that he might confirm the Divrei HaTorah which were written in the Sefer that Chilkiyah HaKohen found in the Beis Hashem.
25 And like him was there no Melech before him, that turned to Hashem with all his lev, and with all his nefesh, and with all his me’od (strength), according to all the Torat Moshe; neither after him arose there any like him.
26 Notwithstanding Hashem turned not from the fierceness of His af hagadol (great wrath), wherewith His anger was kindled against Yehudah, because of all the provocations with which Menasheh had provoked him.
27 And Hashem said, I will remove Yehudah also out of My presence, as I have removed Yisroel, and will cast off this ir Yerushalayim which I have chosen, and the Beis of which I said, Shmi sham.
28 Now the rest of the acts of Yoshiyah, and all that he did, are they not written in the Sefer Divrei HaYamim of the Melachim of Yehudah?
29 In his days Pharaoh Nekhoh Melech Mitzrayim went up against Melech Ashur to the river Euphrates; and Melech Yoshiyah went out against him; and he slaughtered him at Megiddo, when he saw him.
30 And his avadim carried him in a merkavah dead from Megiddo, and brought him to Yerushalayim, and buried him in his own kever. And the Am HaAretz took Yehoachaz Ben Yoshiyah, and anointed him, and made him Melech in place of Aviv.
31 Yehoachaz was twenty and three years old when he began to reign; and he reigned shloshah chodashim in Yerushalayim. And shem immo was Chamutal Bat Yirmeyahu of Livnah.
32 And he did that which was rah in the eyes of Hashem, according to all that his Avot had done.
33 And Pharaoh Nekhoh put him in chains at Rivlah in Eretz Chamat, that he might not reign in Yerushalayim; and put HaAretz to an ogesh (tribute, fine) of 100 talents of kesef, and a talent of zahav.
34 And Pharaoh Nekhoh made Elyakim Ben Yoshiyah Melech in the place of Yoshiyah Aviv, and changed shmo to Y’hoyakim, and took Yehoachaz away; and he went to Mitzrayim, and died there.
35 And Y’hoyakim gave the kesef and the zahav to Pharaoh; but he taxed HaAretz to give the kesef according to the order of Pharaoh; he exacted the kesef and the zahav of the Am HaAretz of every one according to his tax assessment, to give it unto Pharaoh Nekhoh.
36 Y’hoyakim was 25 years old when he began to reign; and he reigned 11 shanah in Yerushalayim. And shem immo was Zevudah Bat Pedayah of Rumah.
37 And he did that which was rah in the eyes of Hashem, according to all that his Avot had done.
2 Kings 23
King James Version
23 And the king sent, and they gathered unto him all the elders of Judah and of Jerusalem.
2 And the king went up into the house of the Lord, and all the men of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem with him, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the people, both small and great: and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant which was found in the house of the Lord.
3 And the king stood by a pillar, and made a covenant before the Lord, to walk after the Lord, and to keep his commandments and his testimonies and his statutes with all their heart and all their soul, to perform the words of this covenant that were written in this book. And all the people stood to the covenant.
4 And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the door, to bring forth out of the temple of the Lord all the vessels that were made for Baal, and for the grove, and for all the host of heaven: and he burned them without Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, and carried the ashes of them unto Bethel.
5 And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places round about Jerusalem; them also that burned incense unto Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven.
6 And he brought out the grove from the house of the Lord, without Jerusalem, unto the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and stamped it small to powder, and cast the powder thereof upon the graves of the children of the people.
7 And he brake down the houses of the sodomites, that were by the house of the Lord, where the women wove hangings for the grove.
8 And he brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah, and defiled the high places where the priests had burned incense, from Geba to Beersheba, and brake down the high places of the gates that were in the entering in of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city, which were on a man's left hand at the gate of the city.
9 Nevertheless the priests of the high places came not up to the altar of the Lord in Jerusalem, but they did eat of the unleavened bread among their brethren.
10 And he defiled Topheth, which is in the valley of the children of Hinnom, that no man might make his son or his daughter to pass through the fire to Molech.
11 And he took away the horses that the kings of Judah had given to the sun, at the entering in of the house of the Lord, by the chamber of Nathanmelech the chamberlain, which was in the suburbs, and burned the chariots of the sun with fire.
12 And the altars that were on the top of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the Lord, did the king beat down, and brake them down from thence, and cast the dust of them into the brook Kidron.
13 And the high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on the right hand of the mount of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had builded for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Zidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon, did the king defile.
14 And he brake in pieces the images, and cut down the groves, and filled their places with the bones of men.
15 Moreover the altar that was at Bethel, and the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, had made, both that altar and the high place he brake down, and burned the high place, and stamped it small to powder, and burned the grove.
16 And as Josiah turned himself, he spied the sepulchres that were there in the mount, and sent, and took the bones out of the sepulchres, and burned them upon the altar, and polluted it, according to the word of the Lord which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these words.
17 Then he said, What title is that that I see? And the men of the city told him, It is the sepulchre of the man of God, which came from Judah, and proclaimed these things that thou hast done against the altar of Bethel.
18 And he said, Let him alone; let no man move his bones. So they let his bones alone, with the bones of the prophet that came out of Samaria.
19 And all the houses also of the high places that were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke the Lord to anger, Josiah took away, and did to them according to all the acts that he had done in Bethel.
20 And he slew all the priests of the high places that were there upon the altars, and burned men's bones upon them, and returned to Jerusalem.
21 And the king commanded all the people, saying, Keep the passover unto the Lord your God, as it is written in the book of this covenant.
22 Surely there was not holden such a passover from the days of the judges that judged Israel, nor in all the days of the kings of Israel, nor of the kings of Judah;
23 But in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, wherein this passover was holden to the Lord in Jerusalem.
24 Moreover the workers with familiar spirits, and the wizards, and the images, and the idols, and all the abominations that were spied in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, did Josiah put away, that he might perform the words of the law which were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of the Lord.
25 And like unto him was there no king before him, that turned to the Lord with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his might, according to all the law of Moses; neither after him arose there any like him.
26 Notwithstanding the Lord turned not from the fierceness of his great wrath, wherewith his anger was kindled against Judah, because of all the provocations that Manasseh had provoked him withal.
27 And the Lord said, I will remove Judah also out of my sight, as I have removed Israel, and will cast off this city Jerusalem which I have chosen, and the house of which I said, My name shall be there.
28 Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
29 In his days Pharaohnechoh king of Egypt went up against the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates: and king Josiah went against him; and he slew him at Megiddo, when he had seen him.
30 And his servants carried him in a chariot dead from Megiddo, and brought him to Jerusalem, and buried him in his own sepulchre. And the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and anointed him, and made him king in his father's stead.
31 Jehoahaz was twenty and three years old when he began to reign; and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
32 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, according to all that his fathers had done.
33 And Pharaohnechoh put him in bands at Riblah in the land of Hamath, that he might not reign in Jerusalem; and put the land to a tribute of an hundred talents of silver, and a talent of gold.
34 And Pharaohnechoh made Eliakim the son of Josiah king in the room of Josiah his father, and turned his name to Jehoiakim, and took Jehoahaz away: and he came to Egypt, and died there.
35 And Jehoiakim gave the silver and the gold to Pharaoh; but he taxed the land to give the money according to the commandment of Pharaoh: he exacted the silver and the gold of the people of the land, of every one according to his taxation, to give it unto Pharaohnechoh.
36 Jehoiakim was twenty and five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Zebudah, the daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah.
37 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, according to all that his fathers had done.
2 Könige 23
Schlachter 1951
Josia erneuert den Bund; Ausrottung des Götzendienstes
23 Da sandte der König hin und ließ alle Ältesten von Juda und Jerusalem zu sich versammeln. 2 Und der König ging hinauf in das Haus des Herrn, und alle Männer von Juda und alle Einwohner von Jerusalem mit ihm, auch die Priester und Propheten und alles Volk, klein und groß, und man las vor ihren Ohren alle Worte des Bundesbuches, das man im Hause des Herrn gefunden hatte. 3 Der König aber trat an die Säule und machte einen Bund vor dem Herrn, dem Herrn nachzuwandeln und seine Gebote und Zeugnisse und Satzungen von ganzem Herzen und von ganzer Seele zu beobachten, die Worte dieses Bundes, welche in diesem Buche geschrieben standen, auszuführen. Und das ganze Volk trat in den Bund.
4 Und der König gebot dem Hohenpriester Hilkia und den Priestern der zweiten Ordnung und den Hütern der Schwelle, daß sie aus dem Tempel des Herrn alle Geräte entfernen sollten, die man dem Baal und der Aschera und dem ganzen Heer des Himmels gemacht hatte; und er verbrannte sie draußen vor Jerusalem, auf den Feldern des Kidron, und trug ihren Staub nach Bethel. 5 Und er setzte die Götzenpriester ab, welche die Könige von Juda eingesetzt hatten und die auf den Höhen in den Städten Judas und um Jerusalem her räucherten; auch die, welche dem Baal, der Sonne und dem Mond und den Gestirnen und dem ganzen Heer des Himmels räucherten. 6 Er ließ auch die Aschera aus dem Hause des Herrn hinausführen vor Jerusalem, an den Bach Kidron, und verbrannte sie beim Bach Kidron und machte sie zu Staub und warf ihren Staub auf die Gräber der gemeinen Leute. 7 Und er brach die Häuser der Buhler ab, die am Hause des Herrn waren, darin die Weiber für die Aschera Zelte wirkten.
8 Auch ließ er alle Priester aus den Städten kommen und verunreinigte die Höhen, wo die Priester geräuchert hatten, von Geba an bis gen Beerseba; und er brach die Höhen der Tore ab, die am Eingang des Tores Josuas, des Stadtobersten, waren, zur Linken, wenn man zum Stadttor kommt. 9 Doch durften die Höhenpriester nicht auf dem Altar des Herrn zu Jerusalem opfern, dagegen aßen sie von dem ungesäuerten Brot unter ihren Brüdern.
10 Er verunreinigte auch das Tophet im Tale der Söhne Hinnom, damit niemand mehr seinen Sohn oder seine Tochter dem Moloch durchs Feuer gehen lasse. 11 Und er schaffte die Rosse ab, welche die Könige von Juda der Sonne geweiht hatten, beim Eingang des Hauses des Herrn, gegen die Kammer Netan-Melechs, des Kämmerers, die im Anbau war; und die Wagen der Sonne verbrannte er mit Feuer.
12 Der König brach auch die Altäre ab auf dem Dache, dem Söller des Ahas, welche die Könige von Juda gemacht hatten; desgleichen die Altäre, welche Manasse in den beiden Vorhöfen des Hauses des Herrn gemacht hatte, er zerstörte sie und schaffte sie fort und warf ihren Staub in den Bach Kidron. 13 Auch die Höhen, die gegenüber[a] von Jerusalem, zur Rechten am Berge des Verderbens waren, welche Salomo, der König von Israel, der Astarte, dem Greuel der Zidonier, und Kamos, dem Greuel der Moabiter, und Milkom, dem Greuel der Kinder Ammon, gebaut hatte, verunreinigte der König. 14 Er zerbrach die Säulen und hieb die Ascheren um und füllte ihren Platz mit Menschengebeinen.
15 Desgleichen auch den Altar zu Bethel und die Höhe, die Jerobeam, der Sohn Nebats, der Israel zur Sünde verführte, erbaut hatte: auch diesen Altar und die Höhe brach er ab und verbrannte die Höhe und machte sie zu Staub und verbrannte die Aschera.
16 Und Josia sah sich um und erblickte die Gräber, welche dort auf dem Berge waren, und sandte hin und ließ die Gebeine aus den Gräbern nehmen und verbrannte sie auf dem Altar und verunreinigte ihn, nach dem Worte des Herrn, welches der Mann Gottes verkündigt hatte, als er solches ausrief.
17 Und er sprach: Was ist das für ein Grabmal, das ich hier sehe? Da sprachen die Leute der Stadt zu ihm: Es ist das Grab des Mannes Gottes, der von Juda kam, und diese Dinge ankündigte, die du wider den Altar zu Bethel getan hast.
18 Da sprach er: So laßt ihn liegen; niemand rühre seine Gebeine an! Also blieben seine Gebeine erhalten, samt den Gebeinen des Propheten, der von Samaria gekommen war.
19 Josia beseitigte auch alle Höhenhäuser in den Städten Samarias, welche die Könige von Israel gemacht hatten, den Herrn zu erzürnen, und verfuhr mit ihnen ganz so, wie er zu Bethel getan hatte. 20 Und er opferte alle Höhenpriester, die daselbst waren, auf den Altären; und verbrannte also Menschengebeine darauf und kehrte dann nach Jerusalem zurück.
Wiedereinsetzung der Passahfeier
21 Dann gebot der König allem Volk und sprach: Feiert dem Herrn, eurem Gott, das Passah, wie es in diesem Bundesbuch geschrieben steht! 22 Denn es war kein solches Passah gehalten worden, seit der Zeit der Richter, die Israel gerichtet hatten, und während der ganzen Zeit der Könige von Israel und der Könige von Juda; 23 erst im achtzehnten Jahre des Königs Josia ist dieses Passah dem Herrn zu Jerusalem gefeiert worden.
24 Auch die Totenbeschwörer und Zeichendeuter, die Teraphim[b] und Götzen und alle Greuel, die im Lande Juda und zu Jerusalem gesehen wurden, rottete Josia aus, um die Worte des Gesetzes zu vollstrecken, die geschrieben standen in dem Buche, welches der Priester Hilkia im Hause des Herrn gefunden hatte. 25 Und seinesgleichen ist vor ihm kein König gewesen, der sich also von ganzem Herzen und von ganzer Seele und mit allen seinen Kräften dem Herrn zuwandte, ganz nach dem Gesetze Moses; auch nach ihm ist keiner seinesgleichen aufgestanden.
26 Doch kehrte sich der Herr nicht von dem Grimm seines großen Zornes, womit er über Juda erzürnt war, um aller Ärgernisse willen, womit Manasse ihn gereizt hatte. 27 Denn der Herr sprach: Ich will auch Juda von meinem Angesicht hinwegtun, wie ich Israel hinweggetan habe, und ich will diese Stadt Jerusalem, die ich erwählt hatte, verwerfen, und das Haus, von dem ich gesagt habe: Mein Name soll daselbst sein!
28 Was aber mehr von Josia zu sagen ist, und alles, was er getan hat, ist das nicht geschrieben in der Chronik der Könige von Juda?
29 Zu seiner Zeit zog der Pharao Necho, der König von Ägypten, herauf wider den König von Assyrien an den Euphratstrom; dem zog der König Josia entgegen; aber der Pharao tötete ihn zu Megiddo, sowie er ihn gesehen hatte. 30 Und seine Knechte führten ihn tot von Megiddo weg und brachten ihn nach Jerusalem und begruben ihn in seinem Grabe. Da nahm das Volk des Landes Joahas, den Sohn Josias, und sie salbten ihn und machten ihn zum König an seines Vaters Statt.
Joahas, König von Juda
31 Dreiundzwanzig Jahre alt war Joahas, als er König ward, und regierte drei Monate lang zu Jerusalem. Seine Mutter hieß Hamutal, die Tochter Jeremias von Libna.
32 Er tat, was dem Herrn übel gefiel, ganz wie seine Väter getan hatten. 33 Aber der Pharao Necho nahm ihn gefangen zu Ribla, im Lande Chamat, so daß er nicht mehr König war zu Jerusalem; und legte eine Geldbuße auf das Land, hundert Talente Silber und ein Talent Gold. 34 Und der Pharao Necho machte Eljakim, den Sohn Josias, zum König an Stelle seines Vaters Josia und veränderte seinen Namen in Jehojakim. Aber den Joahas nahm er und brachte ihn nach Ägypten, wo er starb. 35 Und Jehojakim gab das Silber und das Gold dem Pharao; doch schätzte er das Land ein, um das Silber nach dem Befehl des Pharao geben zu können; er zwang das Volk des Landes, daß ein jeder nach seiner Schätzung Silber und Gold dem Pharao Necho gäbe.
Jehojakim, König von Juda; Feldzug von Nebukadnezar
36 Fünfundzwanzig Jahre alt war Jehojakim, als er König ward, und regierte elf Jahre lang zu Jerusalem. Seine Mutter hieß Sebudda, die Tochter Pedajas von Ruma.
37 Und er tat, was dem Herrn übel gefiel, ganz wie seine Väter getan hatten.
Footnotes
- 2 Könige 23:13 gegenüber, d.h. östlich (FES)
- 2 Könige 23:24 Teraphim, bed. Hausgötter (FES)
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