Monthly Archives: August 2017

1 Y’hoshafat slept with his ancestors and was buried with his ancestors in the City of David, and Y’horam his son became king in his place. 2 He had brothers who were sons of Y’hoshafat — ‘Azaryah, Yechi’el, Z’kharyahu, ‘Azaryahu, Mikha’el and Sh’fatyahu; all these were sons of Y’hoshafat king of Isra’el. 3 Their father […]

1 The people living in Yerushalayim made Achazyah his youngest son king in place of him, since the raiding party that had invaded the camp with the Arabs had killed all the older ones. So Achazyah the son of Y’horam king of Y’hudah reigned. 2 Achazyah was forty-two years old when he began his reign, […]

1 In the seventh year Y’hoyada took courage and formed a conspiracy with certain captains of hundred-man platoons — ‘Azaryah the son of Yerocham, Yishma‘el the son of Y’hochanan, ‘Azaryah the son of ‘Oved, Ma‘aseiyahu the son of ‘Adayahu and Elishafat the son of Zikhri. 2 They canvassed Y’hudah and gathered theL’vi’imfrom all the cities […]

1 Yo’ash was seven years old when he began his reign, and he reigned forty years in Yerushalayim. His mother’s name was Tzivyah, from Be’er-Sheva. 2 Yo’ash did what was right fromAdonai’s perspective throughout the lifetime of Y’hoyada thecohen. 3 Y’hoyada chose two wives for him, and he became the father of sons and daughters. […]

1 Amatzyahu was twenty-five years old when he began his reign, and he ruled for twenty-nine years in Yerushalayim. His mother’s name was Y’ho‘adan, from Yerushalayim. 2 He did what was right fromAdonai’s perspective, but not wholeheartedly. 3 As soon as he had the kingdom firmly in his control, he put to death the servants […]

1 Meanwhile, all the people of Y’hudah had taken ‘Uziyahu at the age of sixteen and made him king in place of his father Amatzyahu. 2 He recovered Eilot for Y’hudah and rebuilt it; it was after this that the king [Amatzyahu] slept with his ancestors. 3 ‘Uziyahu was sixteen years old when he began […]

1 Yotam was twenty-five years old when he began his reign, and he ruled for sixteen years in Yerushalayim. His mother’s name was Yerushah the daughter of Tzadok. 2 He did what was right fromAdonai’s perspective, following the example of everything his father ‘Uziyah had done, except that he did not enter the temple ofAdonai. […]

1 Achaz was twenty years old when he began his reign, and he ruled sixteen years in Yerushalayim. But he did not do what was right from the perspective ofAdonai, as David his ancestor had done. 2 Rather, he lived in the manner of the kings of Isra’el and made cast metal images for theba‘alim. […]

1 Hizkiyahu was twenty-five years old when he began his reign, and he ruled for twenty-nine years in Yerushalayim. His mother’s name was Aviyah the daughter of Z’kharyah. 2 He did what was right fromAdonai’s perspective, following the example of everything David his ancestor had done. 3 In the first month of the first year […]

1 Then Hizkiyahu sent to all Isra’el and Y’hudah, and wrote letters also to Efrayim and M’nasheh, summoning them to the house ofAdonaiin Yerushalayim, to keep thePesachtoAdonaithe God of Isra’el. 2 For the king, his officials and the entire Yerushalayim community had agreed to keep thePesachin the second month. 3 They had not been able […]