Strong's H4428: מֶלֶךְ (melek) Definition
- Strong's number
- H4428
- Lemma
- מֶלֶךְ
- Transliteration
- melek
- Pronunciation
- meh'-lek
- Strong's definition
- a king king, royal. from H4427 (מָלַךְ);
2 Kings 22:20 - Behold therefore I will gather thee unto thy fathers Behold therefore I will gather into thy grave in peace shall not see and thine eyes all the evil which I will bring upon this place And they brought the king word
2 Kings 23:1 - sent And the king and they gathered unto him all the elders of Judah and of Jerusalem
2 Kings 23:2 - went up And the king in the house of the LORD and all the men of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem with him and the priests and the prophets and all the people both small and great and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant which was found in the house of the LORD
2 Kings 23:3 - stood And the king by a pillar and made a covenant before the LORD after the LORD and to keep his commandments and his testimonies and his statutes with all their heart and all their soul to perform the words a covenant that were written in this book stood And all the people a covenant
2 Kings 23:4 - commanded And the king Hilkiah and the priests the high and the priests of the second order and the keepers of the door to bring forth out of the temple of the LORD all the vessels that were made for Baal and for the grove and for all the host of heaven and he burned them without Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron and carried the ashes of them unto Bethel
2 Kings 23:5 - And he put down the idolatrous priests had ordained whom the kings of Judah them also that burned incense in the high places in the cities of Judah and in the places round about Jerusalem them also that burned incense unto Baal to the sun and to the moon and to the planets and to all the host of heaven
2 Kings 23:11 - And he took away the horses had given that the kings of Judah of the sun at the entering in of the house of the LORD by the chamber of Nathanmelech the chamberlain which was in the suburbs the chariots of the sun and burned with fire
2 Kings 23:12 - And the altars that were on the top of the upper chamber of Ahaz had made did the king of Judah And the altars had made which Manasseh in the two courts of the house of the LORD beat down did the king and brake them down from thence and cast the dust of them into the brook Kidron
2 Kings 23:13 - And the high places that were before Jerusalem which were on the right hand of the mount of corruption had builded which Solomon did the king of Israel for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Zidonians and for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites and for Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon defile did the king
2 Kings 23:19 - And all the houses also of the high places that were in the cities of Samaria and did which the kings of Israel to provoke the LORD to anger took away Josiah and did to them according to all the acts and did in Bethel
2 Kings 23:21 - commanded And the king all the people saying Keep the passover unto the LORD your God as it is written in the book of this covenant
2 Kings 23:22 - Surely there was not holden such a passover from the days of the judges of the judges Israel from the days nor of the kings Israel nor of the kings of Judah
2 Kings 23:23 - But in the eighteenth year of king Josiah was holden wherein this passover to the LORD in Jerusalem
2 Kings 23:25 - before And like unto him was there no king him that turned to the LORD with all his heart and with all his soul and with all his might according to all the law of Moses neither after him arose
2 Kings 23:28 - Now the rest of the acts of Josiah and all that he did are they not written in the book of the acts of the kings of Judah
2 Kings 23:29 - In his days went up Pharaohnechoh against the king of Egypt against the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates against the king Josiah against him and he slew him at Megiddo when he had seen
2 Kings 24:1 - In his days came up Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and Jehoiakim became his servant three years then he turned and rebelled
2 Kings 24:5 - Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim and all that he did are they not written in the book of the acts of the kings of Judah
2 Kings 24:7 - not again And the king of Egypt came any more out of his land had taken And the king of Babylon from the river of Egypt unto the river Euphrates And the king of Egypt
2 Kings 24:10 - At that time came up the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon against Jerusalem was besieged and the city