Ключевые термины · the divine name (YHWH)
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יהוה Древнееврейский · Strong’s H3068
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But the angel of the LORD said to Elijah the Tishbite, “Get up and go to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria. Say to them, ‘Are you going to consult Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, because there is no God in Israel?
Now therefore the LORD says this: You will not come down from the bed you have gone up to; you will certainly die.’” So Elijah went.
They told him, “A man came up to meet us. He said, ‘Go back to the king who sent you and say to him, The LORD says this: Are you sending men to consult Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, because there is no God in Israel? For that reason you will not come down from the bed you have gone up to; you will certainly die.’”
The angel of the LORD told Elijah, “Go down with him, and have no fear of him.” So Elijah rose and went down with him to the king.
Elijah said to the king, “The LORD says this: You sent messengers to consult Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron. Did you do that because there is no God in Israel whose word you could seek? Because you did this, you will not come down from the bed you have gone up to; you will certainly die.”
So Ahaziah died, in keeping with the word of the LORD that Elijah had spoken. Because Ahaziah had no son, Jehoram became king in his place, in the second year of Jehoram son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah.
When the LORD was about to take Elijah up to heaven by a whirlwind, Elijah and Elisha were setting out from Gilgal.
Elijah said to Elisha, “Please stay here, because the LORD has sent me on to Bethel.” But Elisha said, “As surely as the LORD lives and as surely as you live, I will not leave you.” Then they went down together to Bethel.
The company of prophets at Bethel came out to Elisha and asked him, “Do you know that the LORD is going to take your master from you today?” He said, “Yes, I know. Say no more.”
Then Elijah said to him, “Elisha, please stay here, because the LORD has sent me to Jericho.” But he said, “As surely as the LORD lives and as surely as you live, I will not leave you.” So they came to Jericho.
The company of prophets who were at Jericho came up to Elisha and said to him, “Do you know that the LORD is going to take your master from you today?” He answered, “Yes, I know. Say no more.”
Then Elijah said to him, “Please stay here, because the LORD has sent me to the Jordan.” But he said, “As surely as the LORD lives and as surely as you live, I will not leave you.” And the two of them walked on.
He took Elijah’s cloak that had fallen from him, struck the water and said, “Where is the LORD, the God of Elijah?” When he too had struck the water, it divided to one side and the other, and Elisha crossed over.
They said to him, “Look, we your servants have fifty strong men with us. Please let them go and look for your master. It may be that the Spirit of the LORD has carried him off and set him down on some mountain or in some valley.” But he said, “Do not send them.”
Then he went out to the spring and threw the salt into it, and said, “The LORD says this: ‘I have healed this water. From now on it will no longer cause death or miscarriage.’”
He turned around, looked at them, and cursed them in the name of the LORD. Then two female bears came out of the forest and savaged forty-two of the youngsters.
He did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, though not like his father and mother. He removed the standing stone of Baal that his father had made.
The king of Israel said, “How terrible! The LORD has called these three kings together to hand them over to Moab.”
But Jehoshaphat asked, “Is there no prophet of the LORD here, through whom we can inquire of the LORD?” One of the king of Israel’s officials answered, “Elisha son of Shaphat is here, the man who used to pour water on Elijah’s hands.”
Jehoshaphat said, “The word of the LORD is with him.” Then the king of Israel went down to him, with Jehoshaphat and the king of Edom.
Elisha said to the king of Israel, “What do you and I have to do with each other? Go to your father’s prophets and your mother’s prophets.” But the king of Israel said to him, “No, for the LORD has called these three kings together to hand them over to Moab.”
Elisha said, “As surely as the LORD of Armies lives, whom I serve, if I did not respect Jehoshaphat king of Judah, I would not look at you or even notice you.
But now bring me a musician.” While the musician was playing, the hand of the LORD came on Elisha.
Then he said, “The LORD says this: ‘Dig ditch after ditch in this streambed.’
For the LORD says this: ‘You will see no wind and no rain, yet that streambed will fill with water, and you will drink, you and your livestock and your pack animals.’
This is only a small thing in the sight of the LORD; He will also hand Moab over to you.
The wife of a man from the company of prophets cried out to Elisha, “My husband, your servant, has died, and you know that your servant feared the LORD. Now the man he owed money to has come to take my two children as his slaves.”
When she reached the man of God on the mountain, she clung to his feet. Gehazi came up to push her away, but the man of God said, “Let her be! She is in deep distress. the LORD has hidden it from me and not told me.”
But the boy’s mother said, “As surely as the LORD lives and as surely as you live, I will not leave you.” So Elisha got up and followed her.
He went in, shut the door on the two of them, and prayed to the LORD.
His attendant said, “How can I set this in front of a hundred men?” But Elisha said, “Give it to the people to eat, for the LORD says this: ‘They will eat and have some left over.’”
So he set it before them. They ate, and there was some left over, as the LORD had said.
Naaman was commander of the army of the king of Aram. His master regarded him as a great man and held him in high honor, because through him the LORD had given victory to Aram. He was a mighty warrior, but he had a serious skin disease.
But Naaman went away angry. He said, “I thought that he would surely come out to me, stand and call on the name of the LORD his God, wave his hand over the spot and cure me of the disease.
But Elisha said, “As surely as the LORD lives, whom I serve, I will accept nothing.” Naaman pressed him to take it, but he refused.
Then Naaman said, “If not, then please let your servant be given a load of earth, as much as a pair of mules can carry, because your servant will never again offer burnt offering or sacrifice to other gods, but only to the LORD.
But in one matter may the LORD pardon your servant: when my master goes into the temple of Rimmon to bow down there, he leans on my arm, and I too bow down in the temple of Rimmon. When I bow down in the temple of Rimmon, may the LORD pardon your servant in this matter.”
Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said to himself, “My master has let this Aramean Naaman off without taking any of the things he brought. As surely as the LORD lives, I will chase after him and take something from him.”
Then Elisha prayed, “LORD, please open his eyes so that he can see.” The LORD opened the young man’s eyes, and he saw that the hill was full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha.
As the Arameans came down toward him, Elisha prayed to the LORD, “Please strike these people with a blinding light.” So He struck them with a blinding light, as Elisha had asked.
As soon as they entered Samaria, Elisha said, “LORD, open the eyes of these men so that they can see.” The LORD opened their eyes, and they looked and found that they were in the middle of Samaria.
He said, “If the LORD does not help you, where could I get help for you? From the threshing floor, or from the winepress?”
Elisha was still talking with them when the messenger came down to him. And he said, “This disaster comes from the LORD. Why should I go on waiting for the LORD?”
Elisha said, “Listen to the word of the LORD. The LORD says this: ‘About this time tomorrow, about 7 quarts of fine flour will sell for about 2/5 ounce of silver, and about 13 quarts of barley for about 2/5 ounce of silver, at the gate of Samaria.’”
The officer whose arm the king leaned on replied to the man of God, “Even if the LORD were to make floodgates in the heavens, could this really happen?” Elisha replied, “With your own eyes you will see it happen, but you will not eat any of it.”
Then the people went out and plundered the Aramean camp. So about 7 quarts of fine flour sold for about 2/5 ounce of silver, and about 13 quarts of barley for about 2/5 ounce of silver, just as the LORD had said.
the officer had answered the man of God, “Even if the LORD were to make floodgates in the heavens, could such a thing happen?” And Elisha had replied, “With your own eyes you will see it happen, but you will not eat any of it.”
Elisha had said to the woman whose son he had brought back to life, “Get up and go away with your household, and stay wherever you can find a place to stay, for the LORD has called for a famine, and it will come on the land for seven years.”
The king said to Hazael, “Take a gift with you and go to meet the man of God. Ask the LORD through him, ‘Will I recover from this illness?’”
Elisha said to him, “Go and tell him, ‘You will certainly recover.’ But the LORD has shown me that he will certainly die.”
Hazael said, “But what is your servant, a mere dog, that he should do such a great thing?” Elisha replied, “The LORD has shown me that you are to be king over Aram.”
He walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as the house of Ahab had done, for he had married Ahab’s daughter. He did what was evil in the sight of the LORD.
Yet the LORD was not willing to destroy Judah, for the sake of His servant David, since He had promised to give him a lamp for his descendants for all time.
He walked in the way of the house of Ahab and did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, as the house of Ahab had done, for he was related by marriage to the house of Ahab.
Then pour the flask of oil over his head and say, ‘The LORD says this: I anoint you king over Israel.’ After that, open the door and run; do not wait.”
Jehu got up and went into the house. The young man poured the oil on his head and said to him, “The LORD, the God of Israel, says this: I anoint you king over the people of the LORD, over Israel.
You are to strike down the house of your master Ahab, and so I will avenge on Jezebel the blood of My servants the prophets, and of all who serve the LORD.
But they said, “That is not true! Tell us.” So he said, “This is what he told me: ‘The LORD says this: I anoint you king over Israel.’”
Jehu said to his officer Bidkar, “Pick him up and throw him on the plot of ground that was Naboth the Jezreelite’s field. Remember how you and I were riding side by side behind his father Ahab, when the LORD spoke this oracle against him:
‘I surely saw the blood of Naboth and of his sons yesterday, declares the LORD, and I will repay you on this plot of ground, declares the LORD.’ So now pick him up and throw him on that plot of ground, as the LORD said.”
They went back and told Jehu, and he said, “This is the word of the LORD that He spoke through His servant Elijah the Tishbite: ‘The dogs will eat the flesh of Jezebel on the plot of ground at Jezreel,
Know, then, that not one word that the LORD spoke against the house of Ahab will fail. The LORD has done what He said through His servant Elijah.”
He said, “Come with me and see how zealous I am for the LORD.” So they had him ride in Jehu’s chariot.
When he came to Samaria, he struck down everyone who was left of Ahab’s family in Samaria, until he had wiped them out, as the LORD had said through Elijah.
Then Jehu went into the temple of Baal with Jehonadab son of Rechab. He said to the worshipers of Baal, “Search and make sure that none of the servants of the LORD are here with you, but only the worshipers of Baal.”
Then the LORD told Jehu, “You have done well in doing what is right in My sight. Because you have dealt with the house of Ahab in keeping with all that was in My heart, your sons to the fourth generation will sit on the throne of Israel.”
Yet Jehu took no care to walk in the law of the LORD, the God of Israel, with his whole heart. He did not turn away from the sins of Jeroboam, by which he led Israel to sin.
In those days the LORD began to cut away parts of Israel. Hazael defeated the Israelites throughout their territory,
He stayed hidden with her in the house of the LORD six years, during Athaliah’s rule over the land.
In the seventh year Jehoiada sent for the commanders of hundreds of the Carites and of the guards and had them brought to him in the house of the LORD. He made a covenant with them and put them under oath in the house of the LORD. Then he showed them the king’s son.
The two companies of you who go off duty on the sabbath are all to keep watch over the house of the LORD to protect the king.
The priest gave the commanders of hundreds the spears and shields that had belonged to King David and were kept in the house of the LORD.
When Athaliah heard the noise of the guards and the people, she went to the people at the house of the LORD.
Jehoiada the priest gave orders to the commanders of hundreds who were in charge of the troops: “Bring her out between the ranks, and kill with the sword anyone who follows her.” For the priest had said, “Do not let her be killed in the house of the LORD.”
Jehoiada made the covenant between the LORD, the king and the people, that they would be the people of the LORD. He also made one between the king and the people.
Then all the people of the land went to Baal’s house and tore it down. They smashed its altars and its images to pieces, and killed Mattan, Baal’s priest, before the altars. The priest posted guards over the house of the LORD.
He took the commanders of hundreds, the Carites, the guards and all the people of the land. They escorted the king down from the house of the LORD and went by way of the gate of the guards to the king’s palace. And the king took his seat on the royal throne.
Jehoash did what was right in the sight of the LORD all his days, because Jehoiada the priest instructed him.
Jehoash said to the priests, “All the money from the holy gifts that is brought into the house of the LORD, the money of those who are counted, the money for persons at the value set for each, and all the money anyone is moved to bring into the house of the LORD,
Then Jehoiada the priest took a chest and drilled a hole in its lid. He placed it next to the altar, on the right side as people enter the house of the LORD. The priests who guarded the doorway put into it all the money brought into the house of the LORD.
Each time they saw that the chest held a large sum, the king’s secretary and the high priest came up. They tied up in bags the money found in the house of the LORD and counted it.
Then they gave the weighed money to the men doing the work, who had been put in charge of the house of the LORD. These paid it out to the carpenters and the builders who were working on the house of the LORD,
and to the masons and the stonecutters. With it they also bought timber and dressed stone for mending the house of the LORD, and paid every other cost of the repairs.
But none of the money brought into the house of the LORD was used to make silver basins, wick trimmers, sprinkling bowls, trumpets, or any other articles of gold or silver for the house of the LORD,
for it was given to the men doing the work, who used it to repair the house of the LORD.
The money from guilt offerings and from sin offerings did not go into the house of the LORD. It was for the priests.
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So Jehoash king of Judah took all the holy gifts that his ancestors Jehoshaphat, Jehoram and Ahaziah, kings of Judah, had dedicated, along with his own holy gifts and all the gold there was in the treasuries of the house of the LORD and of the king’s palace, and sent them to Hazael king of Aram. Then Hazael withdrew from Jerusalem.
He did what was evil in the sight of the LORD and followed the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, by which he led Israel to sin; he did not turn away from them.
So the anger of the LORD burned against Israel, and He gave them into the power of Hazael king of Aram and of Ben-hadad son of Hazael throughout that time.
Then Jehoahaz pleaded with the LORD for favor, and the LORD listened to him, because He saw how the king of Aram was oppressing Israel.
The LORD gave Israel a deliverer, and they escaped from the power of Aram. So the Israelites lived in their homes as they had before.
He did what was evil in the sight of the LORD. He did not turn away from any of the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, by which he led Israel to sin, but walked in them.
He said, “Open the window toward the east,” and he opened it. Elisha said, “Shoot!” and he shot. Then Elisha said, “The LORD’s arrow of victory, the arrow of victory over Aram! You will strike down Aram at Aphek until you have made an end of it.”
But the LORD was gracious to them and had compassion on them. He turned toward them for the sake of His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. He was not willing to destroy them, and He had not yet cast them out of His presence.
He did what was right in the sight of the LORD, yet not as his ancestor David had done. He did everything just as his father Joash had done.
But he did not put to death the children of the murderers. In this he kept to the book of the law of Moses, in which the LORD commanded, “Parents are not to be put to death for their children, nor children for their parents. Each one is to be put to death only for their own sin.”
He carried off all the gold and silver, and every article that was found in the house of the LORD and in the palace treasuries. He also took hostages, and then he returned to Samaria.
He did what was evil in the sight of the LORD. He did not turn away from any of the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, who led Israel to sin.
He restored the border of Israel from Lebo-hamath to the Sea of the Arabah, by the word of the LORD the God of Israel, which He had spoken through His servant Jonah son of Amittai, the prophet from Gath-hepher.
For the LORD saw that Israel’s suffering was very bitter. No one was left, bound or free, and there was no one to help Israel.
The LORD had not said that He would blot out the name of Israel from under the heavens, so He saved them through Jeroboam son of Joash.
He did what was right in the sight of the LORD, just as his father Amaziah had done.
The LORD struck the king, and he had a serious skin disease until the day he died. He lived in a separate house, while Jotham the king’s son was in charge of the palace and governed the people of the land.
He did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, as his ancestors had done. He did not turn away from the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, who led Israel to sin.
This was the word of the LORD that He had spoken to Jehu: “Your sons will sit on the throne of Israel to the fourth generation.” And so it happened.
He did what was evil in the sight of the LORD. All his life he did not turn away from the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, who led Israel to sin.
He did what was evil in the sight of the LORD. He did not turn away from the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, who led Israel to sin.
He did what was evil in the sight of the LORD. He did not turn away from the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, who led Israel to sin.
He did what was right in the sight of the LORD, just as his father Uzziah had done.
However, the high places were not removed; the people still offered sacrifices and burned incense at the high places. He built the Upper Gate of the house of the LORD.
In those days the LORD began sending Rezin king of Aram and Pekah son of Remaliah against Judah.
Ahaz was twenty years old when he became king, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. He did not do what was right in the sight of the LORD his God, as his ancestor David had done.
He walked in the way of the kings of Israel. He even made his son pass through the fire, following the detestable practices of the nations that the LORD had driven out ahead of the Israelites.
Ahaz took the silver and gold to be found in the house of the LORD and in the palace treasuries, and he sent it as a bribe to the king of Assyria.
As for the bronze altar that stood before the LORD, he moved it from the front of the temple, from its place between the new altar and the house of the LORD, and set it beside the new altar on the north.
He also removed from the house of the LORD the covered place for the Sabbath that had been built at the temple, and the king’s outer entrance. He did this because of the king of Assyria.
He did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, yet not as the kings of Israel before him had done.
This happened because the Israelites had sinned against the LORD their God, who had brought them up from the land of Egypt and out from under the power of Pharaoh king of Egypt. They had feared other gods.
They walked in the statutes of the nations whom the LORD had driven out before the Israelites, and in the statutes that the kings of Israel had made.
In secret the Israelites did things against the LORD their God that were not right. They built high places for themselves in all their towns, from the watchtower to the fortified city.
There on all the high places they burned incense, as the nations had done whom the LORD carried away before them, and they did evil things that provoked the LORD to anger.
They served the idols, though the LORD had told them, “You must not do this.”
Yet the LORD warned Israel and Judah through every prophet and every seer: “Turn back from your evil ways. Keep My commandments and My statutes, in keeping with the whole law that I commanded your ancestors and sent to you through My servants the prophets.”
But they would not listen. They stiffened their necks as their ancestors had done, who did not trust in the LORD their God.
They rejected His statutes, the covenant He had made with their ancestors, and the decrees by which He had warned them. They went after worthless idols and became worthless themselves. They followed the nations around them, although the LORD had commanded them not to do as those nations did.
They abandoned every commandment of the LORD their God and made themselves cast images, two calves. They made an Asherah pole, bowed down to all the host of heaven, and served Baal.
They made their sons and daughters pass through the fire, practiced divination and read omens, and sold themselves to do what was evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking Him to anger.
So the LORD was very angry with Israel and removed them from His presence. None was left but the tribe of Judah alone.
Even Judah failed to keep the commandments of the LORD their God. They walked in the statutes that Israel had made.
So the LORD rejected all Israel’s descendants. He afflicted them and handed them over to plunderers, until He had thrown them out of His presence.
When He had torn Israel from David’s house, they made Jeroboam son of Nebat king. Jeroboam drove Israel away from following the LORD and led them to commit a great sin.
until the LORD removed Israel from His presence, as He had said through all His servants the prophets. So Israel went into exile from its own land to Assyria, to this day.
When they first lived there they did not fear the LORD, so the LORD sent lions among them, and the lions killed some of them.
So one of the priests who had been carried away from Samaria came and lived in Bethel, and he taught them how they should fear the LORD.
They feared the LORD, but they also appointed priests of the high places from all sorts of their own people, who offered sacrifices for them in the shrines of the high places.
They feared the LORD, and they served their own gods, according to the custom of the nations from which they had been carried away.
To this day they keep to their former customs. They do not truly fear the LORD, and they do not follow their statutes and rulings, or the law and the commandment that the LORD gave the descendants of Jacob, the man He named Israel.
The LORD had made a covenant with them and commanded them, “Do not fear other gods, or bow down to them, or serve them, or sacrifice to them,
but fear the LORD, who brought you up from the land of Egypt with great power and an outstretched arm. Bow down to Him, and sacrifice to Him.
Fear the LORD your God instead, and He will rescue you from the power of all your enemies.”
So these nations feared the LORD and also served their idols. Their children and their grandchildren have done as their ancestors did, to this day.
He did what was right in the sight of the LORD, in every way as his ancestor David had done.
He trusted in the LORD, the God of Israel. Among all the kings of Judah there was no one like him, either after him or among those who were before him.
He held fast to the LORD and did not turn away from following Him. He kept the commandments the LORD had given to Moses.
The LORD was with him, and he succeeded in everything he set out to do. He rebelled against the king of Assyria and would not serve him.
This happened because they did not obey the voice of the LORD their God, but broke His covenant, everything Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded. They would neither listen nor do it.
Hezekiah handed over to him all the silver to be found in the LORD’s house and in the treasuries of the king’s palace.
At that time Hezekiah stripped the gold from the doors of the LORD’s temple and from the doorposts that he, Hezekiah king of Judah, had covered with it, and gave it to the king of Assyria.
Or if you tell me, “Our trust is in the LORD our God,” did Hezekiah not get rid of His high places and His altars? Did he not tell Judah and Jerusalem, “It is before this altar in Jerusalem that you must bow down”?
Now, was it apart from the LORD that I came up against this place to ruin it? It was the LORD who said to me, “Go up against this land and ruin it.”’”
And do not let Hezekiah lead you to rely on the LORD when he tells you, “The LORD is sure to rescue us. The king of Assyria will never be given this city.”’
until I come to move you to a country like your own, a country of grain and fresh wine, of bread and vineyards, of olive oil and honey. Then you will live and not die. Do not listen to Hezekiah, for he is leading you astray when he says, “The LORD will rescue us.”
Among all the gods of the lands, which ones have rescued their land from my hand, that the LORD should rescue Jerusalem from me?’”
As soon as King Hezekiah heard it, he tore his clothes, wrapped himself in sackcloth, and entered the house of the LORD.
Perhaps the LORD your God will hear everything the chief officer said when his master the king of Assyria sent him to insult the living God, and will call him to account for the words the LORD your God has heard. Lift up a prayer, then, for the remnant that is still here.”
Isaiah said to them, “Say to your master, ‘The LORD says this: Do not be frightened by what you have heard, the words with which the king of Assyria’s lackeys have reviled Me.
Hezekiah took the letter from the messengers’ hand and read it through. He went up to the house of the LORD and opened it out in the presence of the LORD.
Then Hezekiah prayed before the LORD: “LORD, God of Israel, enthroned above the cherubim: You, and no one else, are God of every kingdom on earth. It was You who made the heavens and the earth.
Turn Your ear, LORD, and listen; open Your eyes, LORD, and look. Hear the words of Sennacherib, who has sent his envoy to insult the living God.
It is true, LORD, that the kings of Assyria have devastated the nations and their lands,
So now, LORD our God, please rescue us from his power, so that every kingdom on earth will know that You, LORD, alone are God.”
Then Isaiah son of Amoz sent word to Hezekiah: “The LORD, the God of Israel, says this: I have heard your prayer to Me about Sennacherib king of Assyria.
This is the word the LORD has spoken against him: The virgin, Daughter Zion, looks down on you and laughs at you; Daughter Jerusalem shakes her head at your back.
For a remnant will go out from Jerusalem, and from Mount Zion those who have escaped. The burning zeal of the LORD of Armies will make this happen.
Therefore the LORD says this about the king of Assyria: He will never set foot in this city. He will not fire a single arrow into it, nor face it with a shield, nor pile up an earthen ramp against its walls.
The road that brought him here will take him back again. This city he will not enter, declares the LORD.
That night the angel of the LORD went out into the Assyrian camp and struck down 185,000. At dawn, when people got up, they found them all lying dead.
In those days Hezekiah fell ill and was close to death. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz came to him and said, “The LORD says this: Give final instructions to your household, for you are dying and will not live.”
Hezekiah turned his face toward the wall and prayed to the LORD:
“Please, LORD, remember how I have lived before You faithfully and with an undivided heart, doing what is good in Your sight.” And Hezekiah wept loudly.
Isaiah had not yet left the middle courtyard when the word of the LORD came to him:
“Go back and say to Hezekiah, the ruler of My people, ‘The LORD, the God of your ancestor David, says this: I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. I am about to heal you, and on the third day you will go up to the house of the LORD.
Hezekiah had asked Isaiah, “What sign will there be that the LORD is going to heal me, and that on the third day I will go up to the house of the LORD?”
Isaiah answered, “This will be your sign from the LORD that the LORD will carry out what He has said: Should the shadow go forward ten steps, or should it go back ten steps?”
Then the prophet Isaiah called out to the LORD, and He made the shadow go back ten steps, back up the steps of Ahaz that it had gone down.
Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, “Listen to the word of the LORD:
Look, a time is coming when all that is in your palace, everything your ancestors have laid up until today, will be hauled off to Babylon. Not one thing will remain, says the LORD.
Hezekiah answered Isaiah, “This word of the LORD that you have brought is good.” He was thinking, “Is it not good, if there will be peace and stability as long as I live?”
He did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, following the detestable practices of the nations that the LORD had driven out ahead of the Israelites.
He built altars in the house of the LORD, the house about which the LORD had said, “In Jerusalem I will put My name.”
He built altars to all the host of heaven in the two courtyards of the house of the LORD.
He made his son pass through the fire, practiced fortune-telling and read omens, and consulted a medium and spiritists. He did much evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking Him to anger.
He placed the carved Asherah image he had made in the house about which the LORD had said to David and to his son Solomon, “In this house, and in Jerusalem, the city I chose from among all the tribes of Israel, I will put My name forever.
But they did not listen. Manasseh led them astray, so that they did more evil than the nations the LORD had destroyed ahead of the Israelites.
The LORD spoke through His servants the prophets, saying,
therefore the LORD, the God of Israel, says this: Look, I am about to bring such disaster on Jerusalem and Judah that it will make both ears of all who hear of it tingle.
Manasseh also shed so much innocent blood that he filled Jerusalem with it from one end to the other. This was besides the sin he led Judah into, so that they did what was evil in the sight of the LORD.
He did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, as his father Manasseh had done.
He abandoned the LORD, the God of his ancestors, and did not walk in the way of the LORD.
He did what was right in the sight of the LORD and walked in all the way of his ancestor David. He did not turn aside to the right or to the left.
In the eighteenth year of King Josiah, the king sent the secretary Shaphan son of Azaliah, son of Meshullam, to the house of the LORD, saying,
“Go up to Hilkiah the high priest and have him count up the money brought into the house of the LORD, the money the doorkeepers have taken in from the people,
and have them hand it to the men doing the work, who have been put in charge of the house of the LORD. Let these pay it to the workmen in the house of the LORD who are repairing the damage to the house,
Hilkiah the high priest said to Shaphan the secretary, “In the house of the LORD I have found the book of the law.” Hilkiah gave the book to Shaphan, and he read it.
Shaphan the secretary went to the king and reported to him, “Your officials have emptied out the money found in the house and handed it over to the men doing the work, who have been put in charge of the house of the LORD.”
“Go and ask the LORD on my behalf, and on behalf of the people and all Judah, about the words of this book that has been found. The LORD’s anger burns hot against us, because our ancestors did not listen to the words of this book or do all that it lays down for us.”
She said to them, “The LORD, the God of Israel, says this: Tell the man who sent you to me,
‘The LORD says this: I am about to bring disaster on this place and on those who live in it, all the words in the book the king of Judah has read,
But to the king of Judah, who sent you to ask the LORD, say this: ‘The LORD, the God of Israel, says this: As for the words you have heard,
because your heart was tender, and when you heard what I spoke against this place and its people, that they would become a horror and a curse, you humbled yourself before the LORD; and because you tore your clothes and wept before Me, I in turn have heard you, declares the LORD.
The king went up to the house of the LORD, and with him went all the people of Judah and all who lived in Jerusalem, the priests and the prophets, and all the people, from the least to the greatest. In their hearing he read out all the words of the book of the covenant, which had been found in the house of the LORD.
The king stood by the pillar and made the covenant in the presence of the LORD: to follow the LORD and to keep His commandments, His decrees and His statutes with all his heart and all his being, and so to carry out the words of this covenant written in this book. And all the people committed themselves to the covenant.
The king ordered Hilkiah the high priest, the priests next in rank and the keepers of the threshold to bring out of the temple of the LORD all the objects made for Baal, for Asherah and for all the host of heaven. He burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron Valley and carried their ashes to Bethel.
He took the Asherah pole out of the house of the LORD to the Kidron Valley outside Jerusalem. He burned it there in the Kidron Valley, ground it to dust and threw the dust on the graves of the common people.
He tore down the quarters of the male shrine prostitutes in the house of the LORD, where the women wove coverings for Asherah.
The priests of the high places did not serve at the altar of the LORD in Jerusalem, but they ate unleavened bread with their fellow priests.
He removed the horses the kings of Judah had dedicated to the sun from the entrance to the house of the LORD, by the room of Nathan-melech the official, which was in the precincts. And he burned up the chariots of the sun.
The king pulled down the altars that the kings of Judah had made on the roof of the upper room of Ahaz, and the altars Manasseh had built in the two courts of the house of the LORD. He broke them in pieces and removed them from there, and he threw their dust into the Kidron Valley.
As Josiah turned around, he saw the tombs there on the hillside, and he sent men to take the bones out of the tombs. He burned them on the altar and so defiled it, in keeping with the word of the LORD that the man of God had cried out when he foretold these things.
The king commanded all the people, “Keep the Passover to the LORD your God in the way that is written in this book of the covenant.”
But this Passover was kept to the LORD in Jerusalem in the eighteenth year of King Josiah.
Josiah also purged the mediums and the spiritists, the household gods, the idols and all the detestable things to be seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem. He did this so as to carry out the words of the law, as they were written in the book Hilkiah the priest had discovered in the house of the LORD.
Before him there was no king like him, who turned to the LORD with his whole heart, with his whole being, and with all his strength, in keeping with all the law of Moses; and after him no one like him arose.
Even so, the LORD did not turn away from the fierceness of His great anger, which burned against Judah because of all the ways Manasseh had provoked Him.
The LORD said, “I will remove Judah from My sight too, as I removed Israel. I will reject this city I chose, Jerusalem, and the house of which I said, ‘My name will be there.’”
He did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, just as his ancestors had done.
He did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, just as his ancestors had done.
The LORD sent raiding bands of Chaldeans, Arameans, Moabites and Ammonites against him. He sent them against Judah to destroy it, in keeping with the word the LORD had spoken through His servants the prophets.
Surely it was at the command of the LORD that this came upon Judah, to put them away from His presence because of Manasseh’s sins, all that he had done,
and also because of the innocent blood he had shed. He had filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and the LORD was not willing to forgive.
He did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, just as his father had done.
He carried off from there all the treasures of the house of the LORD and those of the king’s palace, and he cut up all the gold vessels that Solomon king of Israel had made for the temple of the LORD, just as the LORD had said.
He did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, just as Jehoiakim had done.
It was because of the anger of the LORD that all this happened in Jerusalem and Judah, until He cast them out of His presence. And Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.
He burned the house of the LORD, the king’s palace and all the houses of Jerusalem; every important house he burned down.
The Chaldeans broke up the bronze pillars that were in the house of the LORD, the stands, and the bronze Sea that was in the house of the LORD, and they hauled the metal off to Babylon.
As for the two pillars, the one Sea and the stands Solomon made for the house of the LORD, the bronze of all these things was more than could be weighed.