2 Kings 23 Clementine Vulgate
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1 Et renuntiaverunt regi quod dixerat. Qui misit: et congregati sunt ad eum omnes senes Juda et Jerusalem.
1 The king sent, and they gathered to him all the elders of Judah and of Jerusalem.
2 Ascenditque rex templum Domini, et omnes viri Juda, universique qui habitabant in Jerusalem cum eo sacerdotes et prophetæ, et omnis populus a parvo usque ad magnum: legitque, cunctis audientibus, omnia verba libri fœderis, qui inventus est in domo Domini.
2 The king went up to Yahweh’s house, and all the men of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem with him—with the priests, the prophets, and all the people, both small and great; and he read in their hearing all the words of the book of the covenant which was found in Yahweh’s house.
3 Stetitque rex super gradum: et fœdus percussit coram Domino, ut ambularent post Dominum, et custodirent præcepta ejus, et testimonia, et cæremonias in omni corde, et in tota anima, et suscitarent verba fœderis hujus, quæ scripta erant in libro illo: acquievitque populus pacto.
3 The king stood by the pillar and made a covenant before Yahweh to walk after Yahweh and to keep his commandments, his testimonies, and his statutes with all his heart and all his soul, to confirm the words of this covenant that were written in this book; and all the people agreed to the covenant.
4 Et præcepit rex Helciæ pontifici, et sacerdotibus secundi ordinis, et janitoribus, ut projicerent de templo Domini omnia vasa quæ facta fuerant Baal, et in luco, et universæ militiæ cæli: et combussit ea foris Jerusalem in convalle Cedron, et tulit pulverem eorum in Bethel.
4 The king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the threshold, to bring out of Yahweh’s temple all the vessels that were made for Baal, for the Asherah, and for all the army of the sky; and he burned them outside of Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron, and carried their ashes to Bethel.
5 Et delevit aruspices quos posuerant reges Juda ad sacrificandum in excelsis per civitates Juda, et in circuitu Jerusalem: et eos qui adolebant incensum Baal, et soli, et lunæ, et duodecim signis, et omni militiæ cæli.
5 He got rid of 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 around Jerusalem; those also who burned incense to Baal, to the sun, to the moon, to the planets, and to all the army of the sky.
6 Et efferri fecit lucum de domo Domini foras Jerusalem in convalle Cedron, et combussit eum ibi, et redegit in pulverem, et projecit super sepulchra vulgi.
6 He brought out the Asherah from Yahweh’s house, outside of Jerusalem, to the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and beat it to dust, and cast its dust on the graves of the common people.
7 Destruxit quoque ædiculas effeminatorum quæ erant in domo Domini, pro quibus mulieres texebant quasi domunculas luci.
7 He broke down the houses of the male shrine prostitutes that were in Yahweh’s house, where the women wove hangings for the Asherah.
8 Congregavitque omnes sacerdotes de civitatibus Juda, et contaminavit excelsa ubi sacrificabant sacerdotes de Gabaa usque Bersabee, et destruxit aras portarum in introitu ostii Josue principis civitatis, quod erat ad sinistram portæ civitatis.
8 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 he broke down the high places of the gates that were at the entrance 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 Verumtamen non ascendebant sacerdotes excelsorum ad altare Domini in Jerusalem: sed tantum comedebant azyma in medio fratrum suorum.
9 Nevertheless the priests of the high places didn’t come up to Yahweh’s altar in Jerusalem, but they ate unleavened bread among their brothers.
10 Contaminavit quoque Topheth, quod est in convalle filii Ennom, ut nemo consecraret filium suum aut filiam per ignem, Moloch.
10 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 Abstulit quoque equos quos dederant reges Juda soli in introitu templi Domini juxta exedram Nathanmelech eunuchi, qui erat in Pharurim: currus autem solis combussit igni.
11 He took away the horses that the kings of Judah had dedicated to the sun, at the entrance of Yahweh’s house, by the room of Nathan Melech the officer who was in the court; and he burned the chariots of the sun with fire.
12 Altaria quoque quæ erant super tecta cœnaculi Achaz, quæ fecerant reges Juda, et altaria quæ fecerat Manasses in duobus atriis templi Domini, destruxit rex, et cucurrit inde, et dispersit cinerem eorum in torrentem Cedron.
12 The king broke down the altars that were on the roof of the upper room of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of Yahweh’s house, and beat them down from there, and cast their dust into the brook Kidron.
13 Excelsa quoque, quæ erant in Jerusalem ad dexteram partem montis offensionis, quæ ædificaverat Salomon rex Israël Astaroth idolo Sidoniorum, et Chamos offensioni Moab, et Melchom abominationi filiorum Ammon, polluit rex.
13 The king defiled the high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on the right hand of the mountain of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, and for Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon.
14 Et contrivit statuas, et succidit lucos: replevitque loca eorum ossibus mortuorum.
14 He broke in pieces the pillars, cut down the Asherah poles, and filled their places with men’s bones.
15 Insuper et altare quod erat in Bethel, et excelsum quod fecerat Jeroboam filius Nabat, qui peccare fecit Israël: et altare illud, et excelsum destruxit, atque combussit, et comminuit in pulverem, succenditque etiam lucum.
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, even that altar and the high place he broke down; and he burned the high place and beat it to dust, and burned the Asherah.
16 Et conversus Josias, vidit ibi sepulchra quæ erant in monte: misitque et tulit ossa de sepulchris, et combussit ea super altare, et polluit illud juxta verbum Domini quod locutus est vir Dei, qui prædixerat verba hæc.
16 As Josiah turned himself, he spied the tombs that were there in the mountain; and he sent, and took the bones out of the tombs, and burned them on the altar, and defiled it, according to Yahweh’s word which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these things.
17 Et ait: Quis est titulus ille, quem video? Responderuntque ei cives urbis illius: Sepulchrum est hominis Dei, qui venit de Juda, et prædixit verba hæc, quæ fecisti super altare Bethel.
17 Then he said, “What monument is that which I see?” The men of the city told him, “It is the tomb of the man of God who came from Judah and proclaimed these things that you have done against the altar of Bethel.”
18 Et ait: Dimitte eum: nemo commoveat ossa ejus. Et intacta manserunt ossa illius cum ossibus prophetæ qui venerat de Samaria.
18 He said, “Let him be! Let no one move his bones.” So they let his bones alone, with the bones of the prophet who came out of Samaria.
19 Insuper et omnia fana excelsorum quæ erant in civitatibus Samariæ, quæ fecerant reges Israël ad irritandum Dominum, abstulit Josias: et fecit eis secundum omnia opera quæ fecerat in Bethel.
19 All the houses also of the high places that were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke Yahweh to anger, Josiah took away, and did to them according to all the acts that he had done in Bethel.
20 Et occidit universos sacerdotes excelsorum qui erant ibi super altaria, et combussit ossa humana super ea: reversusque est Jerusalem.
20 He killed all the priests of the high places that were there, on the altars, and burned men’s bones on them; and he returned to Jerusalem.
21 Et præcepit omni populo, dicens: Facite Phase Domino Deo vestro, secundum quod scriptum est in libro fœderis hujus.
21 The king commanded all the people, saying, “Keep the Passover to Yahweh your God, as it is written in this book of the covenant.”
22 Nec enim factum est Phase tale a diebus judicum qui judicaverunt Israël, et omnium dierum regum Israël et regum Juda,
22 Surely there was not kept such a Passover from the days of the judges who judged Israel, nor in all the days of the kings of Israel, nor of the kings of Judah;
23 sicut in octavodecimo anno regis Josiæ factum est Phase istud Domino in Jerusalem.
23 but in the eighteenth year of King Josiah, this Passover was kept to Yahweh in Jerusalem.
24 Sed et pythones, et ariolos, et figuras idolorum, et immunditias, et abominationes, quæ fuerant in terra Juda et Jerusalem, abstulit Josias: ut statueret verba legis quæ scripta sunt in libro quem invenit Helcias sacerdos in templo Domini.
24 Moreover, Josiah removed those who had familiar spirits, the wizards, and the teraphim, and the idols, and all the abominations that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, that he might confirm the words of the law which were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in Yahweh’s house.
25 Similis illi non fuit ante eum rex, qui reverteretur ad Dominum in omni corde suo, et in tota anima sua, et in universa virtute sua juxta omnem legem Moysi: neque post eum surrexit similis illi.
25 There was no king like him before him, who turned to Yahweh with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his might, according to all the law of Moses; and there was none like him who arose after him.
26 Verumtamen non est aversus Dominus ab ira furoris sui magni quo iratus est furor ejus contra Judam propter irritationes quibus provocaverat eum Manasses.
26 Notwithstanding, Yahweh didn’t turn from the fierceness of his great wrath, with which his anger burned against Judah, because of all the provocation with which Manasseh had provoked him.
27 Dixit itaque Dominus: Etiam Judam auferam a facie mea, sicut abstuli Israël: et projiciam civitatem hanc quam elegi Jerusalem, et domum de qua dixi: Erit nomen meum ibi.
27 Yahweh said, “I will also remove Judah out of my sight, as I have removed Israel; and I will cast off this city which I have chosen, even Jerusalem, and the house of which I said, ‘My name shall be there.’”
28 Reliqua autem sermonum Josiæ, et universa quæ fecit, nonne hæc scripta sunt in libro verborum dierum regum Juda?
28 Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and all that he did, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
29 In diebus ejus ascendit Pharao Nechao rex Ægypti contra regem Assyriorum ad flumen Euphraten, et abiit Josias rex in occursum ejus: et occisus est in Mageddo cum vidisset eum.
29 In his days Pharaoh Necoh king of Egypt went up against the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates; and King Josiah went against him, but Pharaoh Necoh killed him at Megiddo when he saw him.
30 Et portaverunt eum servi sui mortuum de Mageddo: et pertulerunt in Jerusalem, et sepelierunt eum in sepulchro suo. Tulitque populus terræ Joachaz filium Josiæ: et unxerunt eum, et constituerunt eum regem pro patre suo.
30 His servants carried him dead in a chariot from Megiddo, brought him to Jerusalem, and buried him in his own tomb. The people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and anointed him, and made him king in his father’s place.
31 Viginti trium annorum erat Joachaz cum regnare cœpisset, et tribus mensibus regnavit in Jerusalem: nomen matris ejus Amital filia Jeremiæ de Lobna.
31 Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he began to reign; and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
32 Et fecit malum coram Domino, juxta omnia quæ fecerant patres ejus.
32 He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, according to all that his fathers had done.
33 Vinxitque eum Pharao Nechao in Rebla, quæ est in terra Emath, ne regnaret in Jerusalem: et imposuit mulctam terræ centum talentis argenti, et talento auri.
33 Pharaoh Necoh put him in bonds at Riblah in the land of Hamath, that he might not reign in Jerusalem; and put the land to a tribute of one hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.
34 Regemque constituit Pharao Nechao Eliacim filium Josiæ pro Josia patre ejus: vertitque nomen ejus Joakim. Porro Joachaz tulit, et duxit in Ægyptum, et mortuus est ibi.
34 Pharaoh Necoh made Eliakim the son of Josiah king in the place of Josiah his father, and changed his name to Jehoiakim; but he took Jehoahaz away, and he came to Egypt and died there.
35 Argentum autem et aurum dedit Joakim Pharaoni, cum indixisset terræ per singulos, ut conferretur juxta præceptum Pharaonis: et unumquemque juxta vires suas exegit, tam argentum quam aurum, de populo terræ, ut daret Pharaoni Nechao.
35 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, from everyone according to his assessment, to give it to Pharaoh Necoh.
36 Viginti quinque annorum erat Joakim cum regnare cœpisset, et undecim annis regnavit in Jerusalem: nomen matris ejus Zebida filia Phadaia de Ruma.
36 Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Zebidah the daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah.
37 Et fecit malum coram Domino juxta omnia quæ fecerant patres ejus.
37 He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, according to all that his fathers had done.
People & places in this chapter
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People
Hamutal
Daughter of Jeremiah from Libnah, named as the mother of Jehoahaz and of Zedekiah, kings of Judah.
Cited in the guide: 2 Kings 23:31; 2 Kings 24:18; Jeremiah 52:1
Jehoahaz
Josiah's son, anointed king by the people of the land at twenty-three, who reigned three months before Pharaoh Neco imprisoned him at Riblah and carried him off to Egypt, where he…
Cited in the guide: 2 Kings 23:30; 2 Kings 23:31; 2 Kings 23:33
Jehoiakim
Josiah's son Eliakim, made king by Pharaoh Neco who changed his name, who reigned eleven years, became Nebuchadnezzar's vassal for three years and then rebelled, and was succeeded…
Cited in the guide: 2 Kings 23:34; 2 Kings 23:36; 2 Kings 24:1
Jeremiah
A man of Libnah named as the father of Hamutal, mother of King Zedekiah.
Cited in the guide: 2 Kings 23:31; 2 Kings 24:18; Jeremiah 52:1
Joshua
A governor of the city of Jerusalem, whose gate stood to the left of the city gate where Josiah tore down the high places of the gates.
Cited in the guide: 2 Kings 23:8
Josiah
The boy king who rediscovered the Law and led Judah's last great reform.
Cited in the guide: 2 Kings 22-23; 2 Chron. 34-35; Matt. 1:10-11
Nathan-melech
An official whose chamber stood near the court where Josiah removed the horses dedicated to the sun.
Cited in the guide: 2 Kings 23:11
Neco
Pharaoh and king of Egypt who marched to help the king of Assyria at the Euphrates, killed Josiah at Megiddo, imprisoned Jehoahaz, and made Eliakim king as Jehoiakim.
Cited in the guide: 2 Kings 23:29; 2 Kings 23:33; 2 Kings 23:34
Pedaiah
Named as the father of Zebidah, the mother of King Jehoiakim.
Cited in the guide: 2 Kings 23:36
Zebidah
Daughter of Pedaiah from Rumah and mother of King Jehoiakim of Judah.
Cited in the guide: 2 Kings 23:36
Cross references (36)
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- 1 2 Chronicles 34:29–33; Deuteronomy 31:28; 2 Chronicles 29:20; 2 Chronicles 30:2; 2 Samuel 6:1
- 2 2 Kings 22:8; Deuteronomy 31:10–13; Revelation 20:12; Nehemiah 13:1; Nehemiah 8:1–8
- 3 2 Kings 11:14; 2 Kings 11:17; Deuteronomy 13:4; Joshua 24:24–25; Deuteronomy 8:19
- 4 2 Kings 21:7; 2 Kings 21:3; 2 Chronicles 33:3; 2 Kings 25:18; 1 Kings 16:31
- 5 Jeremiah 44:17–19; 2 Kings 21:3–4; Hosea 10:5; Jeremiah 8:1–2
- 6 2 Kings 23:15; 2 Chronicles 34:4; 2 Kings 10:27; Judges 3:7; Exodus 32:20
- 7 Ezekiel 16:16; 1 Kings 15:12; 1 Kings 14:24; Exodus 35:25–26; Genesis 19:4–5
- 8 1 Kings 15:22; Joshua 21:17; Isaiah 10:29; Genesis 26:23; Judges 20:1
- 9 Ezekiel 44:10–14; 1 Samuel 2:36; Malachi 2:8–9; Ezekiel 44:29–31
- 10 Jeremiah 19:6; Isaiah 30:33; Jeremiah 7:31–32; Leviticus 18:21; Jeremiah 32:35
- 11 Ezekiel 8:16; 2 Chronicles 34:4; 2 Kings 23:5; Deuteronomy 4:19; 2 Chronicles 14:5
- 12 Zephaniah 1:5; 2 Kings 21:5; Jeremiah 19:13; 2 Chronicles 33:5; 2 Chronicles 33:15
- 13 1 Kings 11:7; 1 Kings 11:5; Numbers 21:29; Judges 2:13; Judges 11:24
- 14 Exodus 23:24; Deuteronomy 7:5; 2 Kings 23:16; Micah 1:7; Numbers 33:52
- 15 2 Kings 23:6; 1 Kings 14:16; 2 Kings 10:31; 1 Kings 21:22; 1 Kings 12:28–13:1
- 16 1 Kings 13:1–2; 1 Kings 13:32; John 10:35; Matthew 24:35
- 17 1 Kings 13:1; 1 Kings 13:30–31
- 18 1 Kings 13:31; 1 Kings 13:1–22
- 19 2 Chronicles 34:6–7; Ezekiel 8:17–18; 2 Kings 17:9; 2 Kings 21:6; 1 Kings 13:32
- 20 2 Kings 11:18; 2 Chronicles 34:5; Exodus 22:20; 2 Kings 10:25; 1 Kings 13:2
- 21 Deuteronomy 16:1–8; Numbers 9:2–5; Numbers 28:16–25; 2 Chronicles 35:1–19; Exodus 12:3–20
- 22 2 Chronicles 35:3–19; 2 Chronicles 30:1–3; 2 Chronicles 30:13–20
- 24 Leviticus 19:31; Genesis 31:19; 2 Kings 21:6; Deuteronomy 18:10–12; Leviticus 20:27
- 25 2 Kings 18:5; Jeremiah 29:13; 1 Kings 8:48; Deuteronomy 6:5; John 1:17
- 26 2 Kings 24:4; 2 Kings 21:11–13; Jeremiah 15:1–4; 2 Kings 24:2; 2 Chronicles 36:16
- 27 2 Kings 18:11; 2 Kings 21:13; 2 Kings 21:4; 2 Kings 17:18; Jeremiah 33:24
- 28 2 Kings 20:20
- 29 Jeremiah 46:2; 2 Chronicles 35:20–24; Judges 5:19; Zechariah 12:11; 1 Kings 4:12
- 30 2 Kings 9:28; 2 Chronicles 36:1–4; 2 Kings 21:24; 2 Kings 14:21; 2 Chronicles 35:24
- 31 2 Kings 24:18; 1 Chronicles 3:15; Jeremiah 22:11
- 32 2 Kings 21:2–7; 2 Kings 21:21–22
- 33 2 Kings 25:6; 1 Kings 8:65; Jeremiah 52:26–27; Jeremiah 39:5–6; Jeremiah 52:9–10
- 34 Ezekiel 19:3–4; 1 Chronicles 3:15; 2 Kings 24:17; Jeremiah 22:11–12; Daniel 1:7
- 35 2 Kings 23:33; 2 Kings 15:19–20
- 36 2 Chronicles 36:5; Jeremiah 26:1; Jeremiah 1:3; 1 Chronicles 3:15
- 37 2 Chronicles 28:22–25; Jeremiah 36:31; Jeremiah 26:20–23; 2 Chronicles 33:22–23; 2 Chronicles 33:4–10
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