RESTORATION SCRIPTURES TRUE NAME EDITION Study Bible

You shall not do this thing.
13 Yet vuvh testified against Yisrael, and against
Yahudah, by all the neviim, and by all the seers, saying,
Make teshuvah from your evil halachot, and keep My
mitzvoth and My chukim, according to all the Torah
which I commanded your ahvot, and which I sent to you
by My avadim the neviim.
14 But they would not listen, but hardened their necks,
like the necks of their ahvot, that did not believe in vuvh
their Elohim.
15 And they rejected His chukim, and His brit that He
made with their ahvot, and His testimonies which He
testified against them; and they followed vanity, and
became vain, and went after the heathen that were all
around them, concerning whom vuvh had ordered them,
that they should not do like them.
16 And they left all the mitzvoth of vuvh their Elohim,
and made molten images, even two calves, and made an
Asherah, and worshipped all the hosts of the shamayim,
and served Ba’al.
17 And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass
through the fire, and used divination and enchantments,
and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of vuvh, to
provoke Him to anger.
18 Therefore vuvh was very angry with Yisrael, and
removed them out of His sight: there was none left but the
tribe of Yahudah only. 999
19 Also Yahudah did not guard the mitzvoth of vuvh their
Elohim, but had their halacha in the chukim of Yisrael
that they made. 1000
20 And vuvh rejected all the zera of Yisrael, 1001 and
afflicted them, and delivered them into the hand of
spoilers, until He had cast them out of His sight.
21 For He tore Yisrael away from Beit Dawid; and they
made Yahravam the son of Nevat melech: and Yahravam
drove Yisrael away from following vuvh, and made them
sin a great sin.
22 For the children of Yisrael had their halacha in all the
sins of Yahravam that he did; they departed not from
them;
23 Until vuvh removed Yisrael out of His sight, as He had
said by all His avadim the neviim. So Yisrael was carried
away out of their own land to Ashshur until this day. 1002
24 And the melech of Ashshur brought men from Bavel,
and from Cuthah, and from Ava, and from Hamath, and
from Sefarvayim, and placed them in the cities of
Shomron instead of the children of Yisrael: and they
possessed Shomron, and dwelt in the cities thereof. 1003
25 And so it was at the beginning of their dwelling there,
that they feared not vuvh: therefore vuvh sent lions among
them, that killed some of them.
26 Therefore they spoke to the melech of Ashshur,
saying, The nations whom you have removed, and placed
in the cities of Shomron, know not the manner of the
Elohim of the land: therefore he has sent lions among
them, and, see, they are being killed, because they know
not the manner of the Elohim of the land.
27 Then the melech of Ashshur commanded, saying,
Carry there one of the Kohanim whom you brought from
there; and let them go and dwell there, and let him teach
them the manner of the Elohim of the land.
28 Then one of the Kohanim whom they had carried away
from Shomron came and dwelt in Beth-El, and taught
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them how they should fear vuvh.
29 Yet every nation made elohim of their own, and put
them in the houses of the idol temples that the
Shomronim had made, every nation in their cities in
which they dwelt.
30 And the men of Bavel made Sukkot-Benoth, and the
men of Cuth made Nergal, and the men of Hamath made
Ashima,
31 And the Avites made Nivhaz and Tartak, and the
Sefarvites burned their children in fire to Adram-Melech
and Anam-Melech, the elohim of Sefarvaim.
32 So they feared vuvh, but also made for themselves
from the lowest of them priests for the idol temples, who
sacrificed for them in the houses of the idol temples.
33 They feared vuvh, but they also served their own
elohim, after the manner of the nations who had carried
them away. 1004
34 To this day they do after their former customs and
behaviors: they fear not vuvh, neither do they follow His
chukim, or ordinances, or Torah, or mitzvoth that vuvh
commanded the children of Yaakov, whom He named
Yisrael; 1005
35 With whom vuvh had made a brit, and charged them
saying, You shall not fear other elohim, nor bow
yourselves to them, nor serve them, nor sacrifice to them:
36 But vuvh, who brought you up out of the land of
Mitzrayim with great power and an outstretched Arm,
Him shall you fear, and Him shall you worship, and to
Him shall you do sacrifice.
37 And the chukim, and the mishpatim, and the Torah,
and the mitzvoth, which He wrote for you, you shall
observe to do le-olam-va-ed; and you shall not fear other
elohim.
38 And the brit that I have made with you, you shall not
forget; neither shall you fear other elohim.
39 But vuvh your Elohim you shall fear; and He shall
deliver you out of the hand of all your enemies.
40 But they did not listen, but they did after their former
customs and behaviors.
41 So these nations 1006 feared vuvh, and also served their
graven images, both their children, and their children's
children: as did their ahvot, so do they to this day. 1007
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Now it came to pass in the third year of Hoshea son
of Elah melech of Yisrael, that Hizqiyahu the son of
Achaz melech of Yahudah began to reign.
2 Twenty-five years old was he when he began to reign;
and he reigned twenty-nine years in Yahrushalayim. His
eema's name also was Avi, the daughter of Zecharyah.
3 And he did that which was right in the sight of vuvh,
according to all that Dawid his abba did.
4 He removed the idol temples, and broke the images, and
cut down the Asherim, and broke in pieces the bronze
serpent that Moshe had made: for in those days the
children of Yisrael did burn incense to it: and called it
Nechushtan.
5 He trusted in vuvh Elohim of Yisrael; so that after him
was none like him among all the melechim of Yahudah,
nor any that were before him.
6 For he clave to vuvh, and departed not from following
Him, but kept His mitzvoth, which vuvh commanded
Moshe.
7 And vuvh was with him; and prospered him wherever