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2 Kings 23

2 Kings 23:24 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Moreovera the workers with familiar spirits
'owb (Hebrew #178)
properly, a mumble, i.e. a water skin (from its hollow sound); hence a necromancer (ventriloquist, as from a jar)
KJV usage: bottle, familiar spirit.
Pronounce: obe
Origin: from the same as 1 (apparently through the idea of prattling a father's name)
, and the wizards
yidd`oniy (Hebrew #3049)
properly, a knowing one; specifically, a conjurer; (by impl) a ghost
KJV usage: wizard.
Pronounce: yid-deh-o-nee'
Origin: from 3045
, and the βimages
traphiym (Hebrew #8655)
a healer; Teraphim (singular or plural) a family idol
KJV usage: idols(-atry), images, teraphim.
Pronounce: ter-aw-feme'
Origin: plural from 7495
, and the idols
gilluwl (Hebrew #1544)
from 1556; properly, a log (as round); by implication, an idol
KJV usage: idol.
Pronounce: ghil-lool'
Origin: or (shortened) gillul {ghil-lool'}
, and all the abominations
shiqquwts (Hebrew #8251)
from 8262; disgusting, i.e. filthy; especially idolatrous or (concretely) an idol
KJV usage: abominable filth (idol, -ation), detestable (thing).
Pronounce: shik-koots'
Origin: or shiqquts {shik-koots'}
that were spied
ra'ah (Hebrew #7200)
to see, literally or figuratively (in numerous applications, direct and implied, transitive, intransitive and causative)
KJV usage: advise self, appear, approve, behold, X certainly, consider, discern, (make to) enjoy, have experience, gaze, take heed, X indeed, X joyfully, lo, look (on, one another, one on another, one upon another, out, up, upon), mark, meet, X be near, perceive, present, provide, regard, (have) respect, (fore-, cause to, let) see(-r, -m, one another), shew (self), X sight of others, (e-)spy, stare, X surely, X think, view, visions.
Pronounce: raw-aw'
Origin: a primitive root
in the land
'erets (Hebrew #776)
the earth (at large, or partitively a land)
KJV usage: X common, country, earth, field, ground, land, X natins, way, + wilderness, world.
Pronounce: eh'-rets
Origin: from an unused root probably meaning to be firm
of Judah
Yhuwdah (Hebrew #3063)
celebrated; Jehudah (or Judah), the name of five Israelites; also of the tribe descended from the first, and of its territory
KJV usage: Judah.
Pronounce: yeh-hoo-daw'
Origin: from 3034
and in Jerusalem
Yruwshalaim (Hebrew #3389)
a dual (in allusion to its two main hills (the true pointing, at least of the former reading, seems to be that of 3390)); probably from (the passive participle of) 3384 and 7999; founded peaceful; Jerushalaim or Jerushalem, the capital city of Palestine
KJV usage: Jerusalem.
Pronounce: yer-oo-shaw-lah'-im
Origin: rarely Yruwshalayim {yer-oo- shaw-lah'-yim}
, did Josiah
Yo'shiyah (Hebrew #2977)
from the same root as 803 and 3050; founded of Jah; Joshijah, the name of two Israelites
KJV usage: Josiah.
Pronounce: yo-shee-yaw'
Origin: or {yo-she-yaw'-hoo}
put away
ba`ar (Hebrew #1197)
to kindle, i.e. consume (by fire or by eating); also (as denominative from 1198) to be(-come) brutish
KJV usage: be brutish, bring (put, take) away, burn, (cause to) eat (up), feed, heat, kindle, set ((on fire)), waste.
Pronounce: baw-ar'
Origin: a primitive root
, that he might perform
quwm (Hebrew #6965)
to rise (in various applications, literal, figurative, intensive and causative)
KJV usage: abide, accomplish, X be clearer, confirm, continue, decree, X be dim, endure, X enemy, enjoin, get up, make good, help, hold, (help to) lift up (again), make, X but newly, ordain, perform, pitch, raise (up), rear (up), remain, (a-)rise (up) (again, against), rouse up, set (up), (e-)stablish, (make to) stand (up), stir up, strengthen, succeed, (as-, make) sure(-ly), (be) up(-hold, - rising).
Pronounce: koom
Origin: a primitive root
the words
dabar (Hebrew #1697)
a word; by implication, a matter (as spoken of) or thing; adverbially, a cause
KJV usage: act, advice, affair, answer, X any such (thing), because of, book, business, care, case, cause, certain rate, + chronicles, commandment, X commune(-ication), + concern(-ing), + confer, counsel, + dearth, decree, deed, X disease, due, duty, effect, + eloquent, errand, (evil favoured-)ness, + glory, + harm, hurt, + iniquity, + judgment, language, + lying, manner, matter, message, (no) thing, oracle, X ought, X parts, + pertaining, + please, portion, + power, promise, provision, purpose, question, rate, reason, report, request, X (as hast) said, sake, saying, sentence, + sign, + so, some (uncleanness), somewhat to say, + song, speech, X spoken, talk, task, + that, X there done, thing (concerning), thought, + thus, tidings, what(-soever), + wherewith, which, word, work.
Pronounce: daw-baw'
Origin: from 1696
of thec law
towrah (Hebrew #8451)
from 3384; a precept or statute, especially the Decalogue or Pentateuch
KJV usage: law.
Pronounce: to-raw'
Origin: or torah {to-raw'}
which were written
kathab (Hebrew #3789)
to grave, by implication, to write (describe, inscribe, prescribe, subscribe)
KJV usage: describe, record, prescribe, subscribe, write(-ing, -ten).
Pronounce: kaw-thab'
Origin: a primitive root
in the book
cepher (Hebrew #5612)
from 5608; properly, writing (the art or a document); by implication, a book
KJV usage: bill, book, evidence, X learn(-ed) (-ing), letter, register, scroll.
Pronounce: say'-fer
Origin: or (feminine) ciphrah (Psa. 56:8 (9)) {sif-raw'}
that Hilkiah
Chilqiyah (Hebrew #2518)
portion of Jah; {Chilhijah, the name of eight Israelites
KJV usage: Hillkiah.
Pronounce: khil-kee-yaw'
Origin: or Chilqiyahuw {khil-kee-yaw'-hoo}'from 2506 and 3050
the priest
kohen (Hebrew #3548)
literally, one officiating, a priest; also (by courtesy) an acting priest (although a layman)
KJV usage: chief ruler, X own, priest, prince, principal officer.
Pronounce: ko-hane'
Origin: active participle of 3547
found
matsa' (Hebrew #4672)
properly, to come forth to, i.e. appear or exist; transitively, to attain, i.e. find or acquire; figuratively, to occur, meet or be present
KJV usage: + be able, befall, being, catch, X certainly, (cause to) come (on, to, to hand), deliver, be enough (cause to) find(-ing, occasion, out), get (hold upon), X have (here), be here, hit, be left, light (up-)on, meet (with), X occasion serve, (be) present, ready, speed, suffice, take hold on.
Pronounce: maw-tsaw'
Origin: a primitive root
in the house
bayith (Hebrew #1004)
a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.)
KJV usage: court, daughter, door, + dungeon, family, + forth of, X great as would contain, hangings, home(born), (winter)house(-hold), inside(-ward), palace, place, + prison, + steward, + tablet, temple, web, + within(-out).
Pronounce: bah'-yith
Origin: probably from 1129 abbreviated
of the Lord
Yhovah (Hebrew #3068)
(the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
KJV usage: Jehovah, the Lord. Compare 3050, 3069.
Pronounce: yeh-ho-vaw'
Origin: from 1961
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2 Kings 21:6• 6And he made his son pass through the fire, and observed times, and used enchantments, and dealt with familiar spirits and wizards: he wrought much wickedness in the sight of Jehovah to provoke him to anger. (2 Kings 21:6)
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Rev. 22:15• 15Without {i}are{/i} the dogs and the sorcerers and the fornicators and the murderers and the idolaters and every one that loveth and practiceth a lie. (Rev. 22:15)
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or, teraphim,
Gen. 31:19• 19Now Laban was gone to shear his sheep. And Rachel stole the teraphim that [were] her father's. (Gen. 31:19)
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Lev. 19:31• 31Turn ye not to those that have familiar spirits, nor to the wizards; seek them not to be defiled by them: I [am] Jehovah, your God. (Lev. 19:31)
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Lev. 20:27• 27{i}And if there be a man or a woman in whom is a spirit of Python or of divination, they shall certainly be put to death: they shall stone them with stones; their blood is upon them.{/i} (Lev. 20:27)
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Deut. 18:11• 11{i}or a charmer, or one that inquireth of a spirit of Python, or a soothsayer, or one that consulteth the dead{/i}. (Deut. 18:11)

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Book,
Hilkiah,
House,
Idolatry,
Image,
Jerusalem,
Josiah,
Judah,
Law,
Priest; Priesthood,
Wizard,
Writing

Cross References

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Moreover."His eighteenth year ending."the workers.
2 Kings 21:3,6• 3For he built up again the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he reared up altars for Baal, and made a grove, as did Ahab king of Israel; and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them.
 6And he made his son pass through the fire, and observed times, and used enchantments, and dealt with familiar spirits and wizards: he wrought much wickedness in the sight of Jehovah to provoke him to anger. (2 Kings 21:3,6)
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1 Sam. 28:3‑7• 3Now Samuel was dead, {i}and all Israel had lamented him, and they had buried him in Ramah, even in his own city{/i}. And Saul had put away those that had familiar spirits, and the wizards, out of the land.
 4{i}And the Philistines gathered themselves together, and came and encamped in Shunem; and Saul gathered all Israel together, and they encamped in Gilboa.{/i}
 5{i}And when Saul saw the camp of the Philistines, he was afraid, and his heart greatly trembled.{/i}
 6{i}And Saul inquired of Jehovah; but Jehovah did not answer him, either by dreams, or by Urim, or by prophets{/i}.
 7{i}Then said Saul to his servants{/i}, Seek me a woman that hath a familiar spirit, that I may go to her, and inquire of her. {i}And his servants said to him, Behold, there is a woman who has a spirit of Python at En-dor.{/i} (1 Sam. 28:3‑7)
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Isa. 8:19• 19And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits and unto the wizards, that chirp and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? on behalf of the living [should they seek] unto the dead. (Isa. 8:19)
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Isa. 19:3• 3And the spirit of Egypt shall be made void in the midst of it; and I will destroy the counsel thereof; and they shall seek unto the idols, and unto the conjurers, and unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto the soothsayers. (Isa. 19:3)
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Acts 16:16‑18• 16And it came to pass as we were going unto prayer, that a certain maid having a spirit of Python met us, who brought her masters much gain by divinations.
 17She, having followed Paul and us, cried, saying, These men are bondmen of the most high God, who announce to you salvation's way.
 18And this she did for many days. But Paul being distressed, turned and said to the spirit, I charge thee in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her. And it came out the same hour. (Acts 16:16‑18)
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Rev. 22:15• 15Without {i}are{/i} the dogs and the sorcerers and the fornicators and the murderers and the idolaters and every one that loveth and practiceth a lie. (Rev. 22:15)
images.
or, teraphim.
Gen. 31:19• 19Now Laban was gone to shear his sheep. And Rachel stole the teraphim that [were] her father's. (Gen. 31:19)
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Judg. 17:5• 5{i}And the man Micah had a house of gods, and made an ephod and teraphim, and consecrated one of his sons, who became his priest.{/i} (Judg. 17:5)
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Judg. 18:17‑18• 17{i}And the five men that had gone to spy out the land went up, entered in thither, and took the graven image, and the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image; and the priest stood at the entrance of the gate with the six hundred men that were girded with weapons of war.{/i}
 18{i}And these came into Micah's house, and took the carved image, the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image. And the priest said to them, What do ye?{/i} (Judg. 18:17‑18)
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Hos. 3:4• 4For the children of Israel shall abide many days without a king, and without a prince, and without a sacrifice, and without an image, and without an ephod, and without teraphim: (Hos. 3:4)
that he might.
Lev. 19:31• 31Turn ye not to those that have familiar spirits, nor to the wizards; seek them not to be defiled by them: I [am] Jehovah, your God. (Lev. 19:31)
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Lev. 20:27• 27{i}And if there be a man or a woman in whom is a spirit of Python or of divination, they shall certainly be put to death: they shall stone them with stones; their blood is upon them.{/i} (Lev. 20:27)
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Deut. 18:10‑12• 10{i}There shall not be found among you he that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, that useth divination, that useth auguries, or an enchanter, or a sorcerer,{/i}
 11{i}or a charmer, or one that inquireth of a spirit of Python, or a soothsayer, or one that consulteth the dead{/i}.
 12For all that do these things are an abomination unto Jehovah: and because of these abominations Jehovah thy God doth drive them out from before thee. (Deut. 18:10‑12)
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Isa. 8:20• 20To the law and to the testimony! if they speak not according to this word, surely there is no morning for them. (Isa. 8:20)
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Rom. 3:20• 20Wherefore by works of law no flesh shall be justified before him, for by law [is] knowledge of sin. (Rom. 3:20)
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James 1:25• 25But he that closely looked into perfect law, that of liberty, and abode close, being not a quite forgetful hearer, but a work-doer, he shall be blessed in his doing. (James 1:25)
the book.
2 Kings 22:8‑13• 8{i}And Hilkijah the high priest said to Shaphan the scribe{/i}, I have found the book of the law in the house of Jehovah. {i}And Hilkijah gave the book to Shaphan, and he read it.{/i}
 9{i}And Shaphan the scribe came to the king, and brought the king word again and said, Thy servants have emptied out the money that was found in the house, and have delivered it into the hand of them that do the work, that have the oversight of the house of Jehovah.{/i}
 10{i}And Shaphan the scribe informed the king saying, Hilkijah the priest has given me a book. And Shaphan read it before the king.{/i}
 11And it came to pass when the king had heard the words of the book of the law, he rent his clothes.
 12{i}And the king commanded Hilkijah the priest, and Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and Achbor the son of Micaiah, and Shaphan the scribe, and Asaiah a servant of the king, saying,{/i}
 13{i}Go, inquire of Jehovah for me, and for the people, and for all Judah, concerning the words of this book which is found; for great is the wrath of Jehovah that is kindled against us, because our fathers have not hearkened to the words of this book, to do according to all that is written there for us.{/i} (2 Kings 22:8‑13)
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2 Chron. 34:14‑19• 14{i}And when they brought out the money that had been brought into the house of Jehovah, Hilkijah the priest found the book of the law of Jehovah by Moses.{/i}
 15And Hilkiah answered and said to Shaphan the scribe, I have found the book of the law in the house of Jehovah. And Hilkiah delivered the book to Shaphan.
 16{i}And Shaphan carried the book to the king. And moreover he brought the king word again saying, All that was committed to the hand of thy servants, they do;{/i}
 17{i}and they have emptied out the money that was found in the house of Jehovah, and have delivered it into the hand of the overseers, and into the hand of the workmen{/i}.
 18{i}And Shaphan the scribe informed the king saying, Hilkijah the priest has given me a book. And Shaphan read out of it before the king.{/i}
 19{i}And it came to pass when the king heard the words of the law, that he rent his garments.{/i} (2 Chron. 34:14‑19)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Moreover the necromancers and the soothsayers, and the teraphim and the idols, and all the abominations that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, Josiah took away, that he might perform the words of the law which were written in the book that Hilkijah the priest had found in the house of Jehovah.

W. Kelly Translation

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Moreover the necromancers and the soothsayers, and the teraphim and the idols, and all the abominations that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, Josiah took away, that he might perform the words of the law which were written in the book that Hilkijah the priest had found in the house of Jehovah.

WK Verse Note

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(Note: Words in italics have been inserted from the J. N. Darby translation where the W. Kelly translation doesn’t exist.)