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“ Because that you have not walked in the ways of your father Jehoshaphat, and in the ways of Asa king of Judah, 13 and you walk in the way of the kings of Israel, and cause Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to commit whoredom like the whoredoms of the house of Ahab, and also your brothers, the house of your father, who are better than yourself, you have slain ”

“ Chapter 33 1 Manasseh is a son of twelve years in his reigning, and he has reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem; 2 and he does evil in the eyes of YHWH, like the abominations of the nations that YHWH dispossessed from the presence of the sons of Israel, 3 and he turns and builds the high places that his father Hezekiah has broken down, and raises altars for Ba'alim, and makes Asherim, and bows himself to all the host of the heavens, and serves them. ”

“ Chapter 35 1 And Josiah makes a Passover to YHWH in Jerusalem, and they slaughter the Passover-offering on the fourteenth of the first month, 2 and he stations the priests over their charges, and strengthens them for the service of the house of YHWH, 3 and says to the Levites who are teaching all Israel, who are sanctified to YHWH, "Put the holy Ark in the house that Solomon son of David, king of Israel, built; it is not a burden on the shoulder to you. ”

“ God, and His priests and trumpets of shouting to shout against you; O sons of Israel, do not fight with YHWH, God of your fathers, for you do not prosper." 13 And Jeroboam has brought around the ambush to come in from behind them, and they are before Judah, and the ambush [is] behind them. 14 And Judah turns, and behold, the battle [is] against them, before and behind, and they cry to YHWH, and the priests are blowing with trumpets, 15 and the men of Judah shout; and it comes to pass, at the shouting of the men of Judah, that God has struck Jeroboam and all Israel before Abijah and Judah. ”

“ And in your leaning on YHWH He gave them into your hand, 9 for YHWH—His eyes go to and fro in all the earth, to show Himself strong [for] a people whose heart [is] perfect toward Him; you have been foolish concerning this, because from now on there are wars with you." 10 And Asa is angry at the seer, and puts him [in] the house of stocks, for [he is] in a rage with him for this; and Asa oppresses [some] of the people at that time. 11 And behold, the matters of Asa, the first and the last, behold, they are written on the scroll of the kings of Judah and Israel. ”

“ Israel who are found present have gone out to the cities of Judah, and break the standing-pillars, and cut down the Asherim, and break down the high places and the altars, out of all Judah and Benjamin, and in Ephraim and Manasseh, even to completion, and all the sons of Israel return, each to his possession, to their cities. ”

“ Hilkiah, and Zechariah, and Jehiel, leaders in the house of God, have given two thousand and six hundred to the priests for Passover-offerings, and three hundred oxen; 9 and Conaniah, and Shemaiah, and Nethaneel, his brothers, and Hashabiah, and Jeiel, and Jozabad, heads of the Levites, have lifted up five thousand to the Levites for Passover-offerings, and five hundred oxen. ”

“ Because you have forsaken YHWH, He forsakes you." 21 And they conspire against him, and stone him [with] stone by the command of the king, in the court of the house of YHWH, 22 and Joash the king has not remembered the kindness that his father Jehoiada did with him, and slays his son, and in his death he said, "YHWH sees and requires." ”

“ Let each return to his house, for this thing has been from Me"; and they hear the words of YHWH, and turn back from going against Jeroboam. 5 And Rehoboam dwells in Jerusalem, and builds cities for a bulwark in Judah, 6 indeed, he builds Beth-Lehem, and Etam, and Tekoa, 7 and Beth-Zur, and Shocho, and Adullam, 8 and Gath, and Mareshah, and Ziph, 9 and Adoraim, and Lachish, and Azekah, 10 and Zorah, and Aijalon, and Hebron, that [are] in Judah and in Benjamin, cities of bulwarks. ”

“ Chapter 2 1 And Solomon says to build a house for the Name of YHWH, and a house for his kingdom, 2 and Solomon numbers seventy thousand men bearing burden, and eighty thousand men hewing in the mountain, and three thousand and six hundred overseers over them. 3 And Solomon sends to Huram king of Tyre, saying, "When you have dealt with my father David, then you send cedars to him to build a house for him to dwell in ”

“ Bread of the Presentation; 20 and the lampstands, and their lamps, for their burning according to the ordinance, before the oracle, of gold refined; 21 and the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs of gold—it [is] the perfection of gold ”