InterlinearVerse GEN EXO LEV NUM DEUT JOB YEHO (JOS) HERO (JDG) RUTH 1 SAM 2 SAM PSA AMOS HOS 1 KI 2 KI 1 CHR 2 CHR PROV ECC SNG YOEL (JOEL) MIC ISA ZEP HAB YIR (JER) LAM YNA (JNA) NAH OBAD DAN EZEK EZRA EST NEH HAG ZEC MAL 2 PS WIS TOB MAN BAR G DAN G ESD L ESD ESG JDT 3 MAC SIR 1 MAC 2 MAC 4 MAC YHN (JHN) MARK MAT LUKE ACTs YAC (JAM) GAL 1 TH 2 TH 1 COR 2 COR ROM COL LAOD PHM EPH PHP 1 TIM TIT 1 PET 2 PET 2 TIM HEB YUD (JUD) 1 YHN (1 JHN) 2 YHN (2 JHN) 3 YHN (3 JHN) REV
InterlinearVerse 2 Ki C1 C2 C3 C4 C5 C6 C7 C8 C9 C10 C11 C12 C13 C14 C15 C16 C17 C18 C19 C20 C21 C22 C24 C25
2 Ki 23 V1 V2 V3 V4 V5 V6 V7 V8 V9 V10 V11 V12 V13 V14 V15 V16 V17 V18 V19 V20 V21 V23 V24 V25 V26 V27 V28 V29 V30 V31 V32 V33 V34 V35 V36 V37
People tagged in the matching LV passage: Judah (patriarch)
OET-LV If/because not it_had_been_observed like_passover the_this since_the_days_of the_judges who they_judged DOM Yisrāʼēl/(Israel) and_all/each/any/every the_days_of the_kings_of Yisrāʼēl/(Israel) and_the_kings_of Yəhūdāh/(Judah).
OET (OET-RV) Since the days of the leaders who judged Yisrael (Israel), or in all the days of the kings of Yisrael and Yehudah (Judah), a ‘pass-over’ had never been celebrated like that one
Note 1 topic: writing-background
כִּ֣י לֹ֤א נַֽעֲשָׂה֙ כַּפֶּ֣סַח הַזֶּ֔ה
(Some words not found in UHB: that/for/because/then/when not kept like,passover the=this since,the_days_of of,the_judges which/who judged DOM Yisrael and=all/each/any/every days_of kings_of Yisrael and,the_kings_of Yehuda )
The author is providing background information to help readers understand the significance of what Josiah did in this instance. In your translation, introduce this information in a way that would be natural in your own language and culture.
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / activepassive
לֹ֤א נַֽעֲשָׂה֙ כַּפֶּ֣סַח הַזֶּ֔ה
not (Some words not found in UHB: that/for/because/then/when not kept like,passover the=this since,the_days_of of,the_judges which/who judged DOM Yisrael and=all/each/any/every days_of kings_of Yisrael and,the_kings_of Yehuda )
The expression had not been done contains a passive verbal form. If your language would not use that form, you could express the idea in active form or in another way that would be natural in your language. Alternate translation: [no one had observed the Passover in this way]
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / metonymy
מִימֵי֙ הַשֹּׁ֣פְטִ֔ים
since,the_days_of (Some words not found in UHB: that/for/because/then/when not kept like,passover the=this since,the_days_of of,the_judges which/who judged DOM Yisrael and=all/each/any/every days_of kings_of Yisrael and,the_kings_of Yehuda )
See how you translated the similar expression in 10:36. Alternate translation: [from the time of the judges]
Note 4 topic: writing-poetry
הַשֹּׁ֣פְטִ֔ים אֲשֶׁ֥ר שָׁפְט֖וּ אֶת־יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל
(Some words not found in UHB: that/for/because/then/when not kept like,passover the=this since,the_days_of of,the_judges which/who judged DOM Yisrael and=all/each/any/every days_of kings_of Yisrael and,the_kings_of Yehuda )
The author is using a construction in which a verb and its object come from the same root. You may be able to use the same construction in your language to express the meaning here. Alternatively, your language may have another way of saying this. Alternate translation: [the Israelite judges]
OET-LV If/because not it_had_been_observed like_passover the_this since_the_days_of the_judges who they_judged DOM Yisrāʼēl/(Israel) and_all/each/any/every the_days_of the_kings_of Yisrāʼēl/(Israel) and_the_kings_of Yəhūdāh/(Judah).
OET (OET-RV) Since the days of the leaders who judged Yisrael (Israel), or in all the days of the kings of Yisrael and Yehudah (Judah), a ‘pass-over’ had never been celebrated like that one
Note: The OET-RV is still only a first draft, and so far only a few words have been (mostly automatically) matched to the Hebrew or Greek words that they’re translated from.
Acknowledgements: The Hebrew text, lemmas, and morphology are all thanks to the OSHB and some of the glosses are from Macula Hebrew.