Category Archives: Divrei-HamYamim Bet (2 Ch)

1 After all this was over, all Isra’el who were there went out to the cities of Y’hudah and smashed the standing-stones, chopped down the sacred poles, and broke down the high places and altars throughout Y’hudah, Binyamin, Efrayim and M’nasheh, until they had destroyed them all. Then all the people of Isra’el returned to […]

1 After these events and this faithfulness of [Hizkiyahu’s], Sancheriv king of Ashur came, invaded Y’hudah and besieged the fortified cities, thinking that he would break in [and capture] them. 2 When Hizkiyahu saw that Sancheriv had come and intended to attack Yerushalayim, 3 he consulted his leading men and military advisers about sealing off […]

1 M’nasheh was twelve years old when he began his reign, and he ruled for fifty-five years in Yerushalayim. 2 He did what was evil fromAdonai’s perspective, following the disgusting practices of the nations whomAdonaihad expelled ahead of the people of Isra’el. 3 For he rebuilt the high places which Hizkiyahu his father had smashed; […]

1 Yoshiyahu was eight years old when he began his reign, and he ruled for thirty-one years in Yerushalayim. 2 He did what was right fromAdonai’s perspective, living entirely in the manner of David his ancestor and turning away neither to the right nor to the left. 3 For in the eighth year of his […]

1 Yoshiyahu keptPesachtoAdonaiin Yerushalayim. They slaughtered thePesachlamb on the fourteenth day of the first month. 2 He assigned thecohanimto their posts and encouraged them to perform the service of the house ofAdonai. 3 To theL’vi’imwho were teaching all Isra’el and were holy forAdonaihe said, “Put the holy ark in the house which Shlomo the son […]

1 Then the people of the land took Y’ho’achaz the son of Yoshiyahu and made him king in his father’s place, in Yerushalayim. 2 Y’ho’achaz was twenty-three years old when he began his reign, and he ruled for three months in Yerushalayim. 3 But the king of Egypt deposed him in Yerushalayim and imposed a […]