Study it in the app“Before him there was no king like him who turned to YHWH with all his heart and with all his soul and with all his strength, according to all the law of Moses; and after him none like him arose.”
Before himלְפָנָיוthere was noלֹא הָיָהkingמֶלֶךְlike himוְכָמֹהוּwhoאֲשֶׁרturnedשָׁבto YHWHאֶל יְהוָהwith allבְּכָלhis heartלְבָבוֹand with allוּבְכָלhis soulנַפְשׁוֹand with allוּבְכָלhis strength,מְאֹדוֹaccording to allכְּכֹלthe lawתּוֹרַתof Moses;מֹשֶׁהand after himוְאַחֲרָיוnone like himלֹא כָּמֹהוּarose.קָם
before
Literally "to the face of": in sight of someone, or on account of something.
Where else “fanay” appearsexist
To exist: "let there be light".
Where else “haya” appearsking
A king who rules a people.
Where else “melech” appearsturn back
To go back to YHWH, or move away from him.
Where else “shav” appearsYHWH
The personal name of the God of Israel, written in Hebrew with four letters, Y-H-W-H, without vowels. Out of reverence Jews stopped pronouncing it and read "Adonai" (Lord), so many Bibles put "the LORD" or "Jehovah". This translation keeps the four letters. The name is related to the verb "to be" (Exodus 3:14-15). He is not a god other than Elohim: "YHWH Elohim" is the same Creator God, called by his name.
Where else “yehva” appearsheart
The deepest part of a person: where they think, desire and decide.
Where else “levav” appearssoul
A person's innermost self: what they feel and desire.
Where else “nafsh” appearsstrength
All that one is and has: one's strength, one's whole capacity.
Where else “meod” appearslaw
Literally "teaching": what YHWH commands, written in Moses' book.
Where else “torat” appearsMoses
Moses, the man God called to bring Israel out of Egypt and through whom he gave the Law. His name sounds like "draw out" (Exodus 2:10).
Where else “moshe” appearsrise
To go from sitting or lying to standing, or to set out.
Where else “kam” appears24Moreover, those who call up the dead and the spiritists, the teraphim, the idols, and all the detestable things that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, Josiah purged, in order to confirm the words of the law written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of YHWH.
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26Nevertheless, YHWH did not turn from the burning of his great anger with which his anger burned against Judah, because of all the provocations with which Manasseh had provoked him.
