1 And the king sent, and they gathered unto him all the elders of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] and of Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace].

2 And 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 all the inhabitants of Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace] 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-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

3 And the king stood by a pillar, 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 [their] heart and all [their] soul, to perform the words of this Covenant that were written in this Book. And all the people pledged [themselves] to the covenant.

4 And the king commanded Hilkiyahu [my portion is Yehovah] 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-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) all the vessels that were made for Ba’al [lord (a false god)], and for the Asherah [consort of Ba’al], and for all the army of heaven: and he burned them outside Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace] in the fields of Kidron [dark], and carried the ashes of them unto Beit-El [House of God].

5 And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], and in the places round about Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace]; them also that burned incense unto Ba’al [lord (a false god)], to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the army of heaven.

6 And he brought out the Asherah from the house of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), without Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace], unto the river Kidron [dark], and burned it at the river Kidron [dark], and stamped [it] small to (to do entirely, do wholly) powder, and cast the powder thereof upon the graves of the children of the people.

7 And he broke down the houses of the sodomites (cult prostitutes), that [were] by the house of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), where the women wove hangings for the Asherah.

8 And he brought all the priests out of the cities of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], and defiled the high places where the priests had burned incense, from Geva [hill] to Be’er-sheva [Well of the sevenfold Oath], and broke down the high places of the gates that [were] in the entering in of the gate of Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation] 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-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) in Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace], but they did eat of the unleavened bread among their brethren.

10 And he defiled Tofet [place of fire], which [is] in the valley of the children of Hinnom [Lamentation], that no man might make his son or his daughter to pass through the fire (as a sacrifice) to Molekh [king].

11 And he took away the horses that the kings of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] had given to the sun, at the entering in of the house of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), by the chamber of N’tan-Melekh [the gift of the king] the Chamberlain (eunuch or chief servant; one in charge of the king’s quarters), which [was] in the side-courtyard, and burned the chariots of the sun with fire.

12 And the altars that [were] on the top of the upper chamber of Achaz [he has grasped], which the kings of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] had made, and the altars which M’nasheh [Causing to Forget] had made in the two courts of the house of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), did the king beat down, and broke [them] down from there, and cast the dust of them into the brook Kidron [dark].

13 And the high places that [were] before Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace], which [were] on the right hand of the Mount of Destruction, which Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] the king of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] had built for ‘Ashtoret [star] the abomination of the people of Tzidon [Hunting], and for K’mosh [Subduer] the abomination of the Mo’avi [of his father], and for Milkom [great king] the abomination of the children of ‘Amon [Inbred], did the king defile.

14 And he broke in pieces the images, and cut down the Asherah [consort of Ba’al], and filled their places with the bones of men.

15 Moreover the altar that [was] at Beit-El [House of God], [and] the high place which Yarov’am [the people will contend] the son of N’vat [aspect], who made Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] to sin, had made, both that altar and the high place he broke down, and burned the high place, [and] stamped [it] small to (to do entirely, do wholly) powder, and burned the Asherah.

16 And as Yoshiyahu [whom Yehovah heals] turned himself, he spied the sepulchers that [were] there in the mount, and sent, and took the bones out of the sepulchers, and burned [them] upon the altar, and polluted it, according to the word of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) which the man of God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] proclaimed, who proclaimed these words.

17 Then he said, What monument [is] that that I see? And the men of the city told him, [It is] the sepulcher of the man of God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], which came from Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], and proclaimed these things that youi have done against the altar of Beit-El [House of God].

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 Shomron [watch mountain].

19 And all the houses also of the high places that [were] in the cities of Shomron [watch mountain], which the kings of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] had made to provoke [the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate)] to anger, Yoshiyahu [whom Yehovah heals] took away, and did to them according to all the acts that he had done in Beit-El [House of God].

20 And he killed all the priests of the high places that [were] there upon the altars, and burned men’s bones upon them, and returned to Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace].

21 And the king commanded all the people, saying, Keep the Passover the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) your God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], as [it is] written in the Book of this Covenant.

22 Surely there was not held such a Passover from the days of the that judged Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], nor in all the days of the kings of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], nor of the kings of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised];

23 But in the eighteenth year of king Yoshiyahu [whom Yehovah heals], [in it] this Passover was held to the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) in Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace].

24 Moreover the [workers with] familiar spirits (spirit guides), and the wizards, and the images (household gods), and the idols, and all the abominations that were spied in the land of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] and in Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace], did Yoshiyahu [whom Yehovah heals] put away, that he might perform the words of the law which were written in the Book that Hilkiyahu [my portion is Yehovah] the priest found in the house of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

25 And like unto him was there no king before him, that turned to the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his might, according to all the law of Moshe [He Who Draws Out Of The Waters]; neither after him arose there [any] like him.

26 Yet the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) turned not from the fierceness of his great wrath, which his anger was kindled against Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], because of all the provocations that M’nasheh [Causing to Forget] had provoked him with it all.

27 And the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) said, I will remove Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] also out of my sight, as I have removed Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], and will cast off this city Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace] which I have chosen, and the house of which I said, My name shall be there.

28 Now the rest of the acts of Yoshiyahu [whom Yehovah heals], and all that he did, [are] they not written in the book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised]?

29 In his days Pharaoh N’khoh [great house-he is smitten] king of Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place] went up against the king of Ashur [the level plain] (the land of the sons of Shem (name, renown (great reputation; being well-known))) to the river Euphrates (to break forth, to gush): and king Yoshiyahu [whom Yehovah heals] went against him; and he killed him at Megiddo [Place of Crowds], when he had seen him.

30 And his servants carried him in a chariot dead from Megiddo [Place of Crowds], and brought him to Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace], and buried him in his own sepulcher. And the people of the land took Y’ho’achaz [Yehovah has seized] the son of Yoshiyahu [whom Yehovah heals], and anointed him, and made him king in his father’s stead.

31 Y’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]. And his mother’s name [was] Hamuta [father-in-law is protection], the daughter of Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed] of Livnah [Pavement].

32 And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), according to all that his fathers had done.

33 And Pharaoh N’khoh [great house-he is smitten] put him in bands at Rivlah [Fertility] in the land of Hamat [Fortress], that he might not reign in Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace]; and put the land to a tribute of an hundred talents of silver, and a sixty-six tons of gold.

34 And Pharaoh N’khoh [great house-he is smitten] made Elyakim [God sets up] the son of Yoshiyahu [whom Yehovah heals] king in the room of Yoshiyahu [whom Yehovah heals] his father, and turned his name to Y’hoyakim [Yehovah raises up], and took Y’ho’achaz [Yehovah has seized] away: and he came to Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place], and died there.

35 And Y’hoyakim [Yehovah raises up] gave the silver and the gold to Par’oh [Pharaoh - Great House]; but he taxed the land to give the money according to the commandment of Par’oh [Pharaoh - Great House]: he exacted the silver and the gold of the people of the land, of everyone according to his taxation, to give [it] unto Pharaoh N’khoh [great house-he is smitten].

36 Y’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 his mother’s name [was] Z’vudah [given], the daughter of P’dayah [Yehovah has ransomed] of Rumah [height].

37 And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), according to all that his fathers had done.