Josiah reneweth the covenant. BEFORE CHRIST 624. ? Heb. from small even unto great. ch. 22. 8. C ch. 11. 14, 17. b II. KINGS, XXIII. Jerusalem with him, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the people, 2 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. 3 ¶ And the king stood by a pillar, and made a covenant before the LORD, to walk 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 of this covenant that were written in this book. And all the people stood to the covenant. 4 And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, 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 4 ch. 21. 3, 7. the grove, and for all the host of 3 Heb. caused to cease. 'Heb. Chemarim, Hos. 10. 5. Foretold, Zeph. 1. 4. 5 Or, twelve signs, or, constellations. B e ch. 21. 3. ch. 21. 7. heaven: and he burned them without Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, and carried the ashes of them unto Beth-el. 5 And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn 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. 6 And he brought out the 'grove from the house of the LORD, without Jerusalem, unto the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and stamped it small to powder, and cast the powder there2 Chron. 34.4. of upon the graves of the children of the people. 7 And he brake down the houses h of the sodomites, that were by the house of the LORD, where the women wove hangings for the grove. 8 And he brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah, and defiled the high places where the priests had burned incense, from Geba to Beer-sheba, and brake down the high places of the gates He destroyeth idolatry. BEFORE CHRIST 624. that were in the entering in of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city, which were on a man's left hand at the gate of the city. 9 'Nevertheless the priests of the See Ezek. 44. high places came not up to the altar of the LORD in Jerusalem, " but they did eat of the unleavened bread among their brethren. m 10 And he defiled "Topheth, which is in the valley of the children of Hinnom, P that no man might make his son or his daughter to pass through the fire to Molech. 10-14. m 1 Sam. 2. 36. n Isai. 30. 33. Jer. 7. 31. & 19. 6, 11, 12, 13. • Josh. 15. 8. 39. 11 And he took away the horses that the kings of Judah had given to the sun, at the entering in of the house of the LORD, by the chamber of Nathan-melech the chamber-2 Or, eunuch, lain, which was in the suburbs, and burned the chariots of the sun with fire. or, officer. Josiah keepeth BEFORE CHRIST 624. II. KINGS, XXIII. he spied the sepulchres that were there in the mount, and sent, and took the bones out of the sepulchres, and burned them upon the altar, and polluted it, according to * 1 Kings 13. 2. the word of the LORD which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these words. 30. X 17 Then he said, What title is that that I see? And the men of the city 1 Kings 13. 1, told him, It is the sepulchre of the man of God, which came from Judah, and proclaimed these things that thou hast done against the altar of Beth-el. a solemn passover. kiah the priest found in the house of the LORD. BEFORE CHRIST about 623. 25 And like unto him was there no king before him, that turned to the LORD with all his heart, and ch. 18. 5. with all his soul, and with all his might, according to all the law of Moses; neither after him arose there any like him. 26 ¶ Notwithstanding the LORD turned not from the fierceness of his great wrath, wherewith his anger was kindled against Judah,' because ch. 21.11, 12. of all the 2 provocations that Manasseh had provoked him withal. m & 24. 3, 4. Jer. 15. 4. 2 Heb. angers. m & 18. 11. & 21. 13. 27 And the LORD said, I will remove Judah also out_of_my_sight, as I have removed Israel, and ch. 17. 18, 20. will cast off this city Jerusalem which I have chosen, and the house of which I said, "My name shall be 1 Kings 8. 29. there. 28 Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? & 9. 3. ch. 21.4, 7. 29 In his days Pharaoh-nechoh king of Egypt went up against the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates: and king Josiah went against him; and he slew him at P Megiddo, when he had seen him. Zech. 12. 11. 30 And his servants carried him in a chariot dead from Megiddo, and brought him to Jerusalem, and buried him in his own sepulchre. And the people of the land took 2 Chron. 36. 1. Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and anointed him, and made him king in his father's stead. 31 ¶ Jehoahaz was twenty and Called three years old when he began to reign; and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Hamutal, the daughter ch. 24. 18. of Jeremiah of Libnah. 32 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his fathers had done. 33 And Pharaoh-nechoh put him in bands "at Riblah in the land of Hamath, that he might not reign in Jerusalem; and 5 put the land to u ch. 25. 6. Jer. 52. 27. Or, because he reigned. 5 Heb. set a mulct upon the land. 2 Chron. 36. 3 II. KINGS, XXIV. BEFORE a tribute of an hundred talents of silver, and a talent of gold. CHRIST 610. 12 Chron. 36.4. See ch. 24. 17. Dan. 1. 7. * Matt. 1. 11, called Jakim. Jer. 22.11, 12. Ezek. 19. 3, 4. ver. 33. 610. X 34 And Pharaoh-nechoh made Eliakim the son of Josiah king in the room of Josiah his father, and y turned his name to Jehoiakim, and took Jehoahaz away: and he came to Egypt, and died there. 35 And Jehoiakim gave the silver and the gold to Pharaoh; but he taxed the land to give the money according to the commandment of Pharaoh: he exacted the silver and the gold of the people of the land, of every one according to his taxation, to give it unto Pharaoh nechoh. 36 ¶Jehoiakim was twenty and 2 Chron.36.5. five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Zebudah, the daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah. 607. 606. 603. 600. 2 Chron. 36.6. Jer. 25. 1, 9. Dan. 1. 1. Jer. 25. 9. & 32. 28. Ezek. 19. 8. ch. 20. 17. & 21. 12, 13, 14. & 23. 27. Heb. by the hand of. ch. 21. 2, 11. & 23. 26. 37 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his fathers had done. CHAPTER XXIV. 1 Jehoiakim, first subdued by Nebuchadnezzar, then rebelling against him, procureth his own ruin. 5 Jehoiachin succeedeth him. 7 The king of Egypt is vanquished by the king of Babylon. 8 Jehoiachin's evil reign. 10 Jerusalem is taken and carried captive into Babylon. 17 Zedekiah is made king, and reigneth ill unto the utter destruction of Judah. IN his days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim became his servant three years: then he turned and rebelled against him. с 2 "And the LORD sent against him bands of the Chaldees, and bands of the Syrians, and bands of the Moabites, and bands of the children of Ammon, and sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake 2 by his servants the prophets. 3 Surely at the commandment of the LORD came this upon Judah, to remove them out of his sight, for the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he did; Jerusalem is taken. CHRIST 4 And also for the innocent blood BEFORE that he shed: for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood; which the LORD would not pardon. 5¶ Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? 6 So Jehoiakim slept with his fathers: and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his stead. 7 And the king of Egypt came not again any more out of his land: for the king of Babylon had taken from the river of Egypt unto the river Euphrates all that pertained to the king of Egypt. 82 Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months. And his mother's name was Nehushta, the daughter of El-nathan of Jerusalem. 9 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father had done. Zedekiah's wicked reign. BEFORE CHRIST 599. * ch. 25. 12. Jer. 40. 7. X II. KINGS, XXV. He is taken and his sons slain. ed, save the poorest sort of the the eleventh year of king Zede- 15 And he carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon, and the king's mother, and the king's wives, and 32 Chron. 36. his officers, and the mighty of the land, those carried he into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon. 10. Esth. 2. 6. Jer. 22. 24, &c. 2 Or, eunuchs. z See Jer. 52. 28. 599. . Jer. 37. 1. b 1 Chron. 3. 15. 2 Chron. 36. 10. So ch. 23. 34. 2 Chron.36.4. 11. 18 Zedekiah was twenty and one 2 Chron. 36. years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah. Jer. 37. 1. & 52. 1. ch. 23. 31. e 19 And he did that which was 20 For through the anger of the CHAPTER XXV. 1 Jerusalem is besieged. 4 Zedekiah taken, his A1 ND it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth Jer. 34. 2. & month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he, and all his host, against Jerusalem, and pitched against it; and they built forts against it round about. 2 And the city was besieged unto b 3 And on the ninth day of the fourth month the famine prevailed in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land. c BEFORE CHRIST 590. 588. b Jer. 39. 2. & 52. 6. © Jer. 39. 2. & 52. 7, &c. 4 ¶ And the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled by night by the way of the gate between two walls, which is by the king's garden: (now the Chaldees were against the city round about:) and the king went the way toward Jer. 39.4–7. the plain. 5 And the army of the Chaldees pursued after the king, and overtook him in the plains of Jericho: and all his army were scattered from him. 6 So they took the king, and brought him up to the king of Babylon to Riblah; and they gave judgment upon him. 7 And they slew the sons of Ze-judgment dekiah before his eyes, and put Heb. made out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him with fetters of brass, and carried him to Babylon. blind. 'Jer. 39. 7. Ezek. 12. 13. h 8 See Jer. 52. 12-14. ver. 27. See ch. 24. 8 And in the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month, which is the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, came Nebuzar-adan, captain of Jer. 39. 9. the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, unto Jerusalem: i 9 And he burnt the house of the LORD, and the king's house, and 10 And all the army of the Chal- m 11 "Now the rest of the people that were left in the city, and the 5 fugitives that fell away to the king of Babylon, with the remnant of the multitude, did Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard carry away. 12 But the captain of the guard left of the poor of the land to be vinedressers and husbandmen. 12. i 'Or, chief marshal. 2 Chron. 36. 19. Ps. 79. 1. Jer. 39. 8. Amos 2. 5. 13 And the pillars of brass that Kings 7.15. were in the house of the LORD, and the bases, and the brasen sea that was in the house of the LORD, did the Chaldees break in pieces, and 1 Kings 7.27. carried the brass of them to Babylon. 1 Kings 7. 23. + Exod. 27. 3. 1 Kings 7. 45, 50. ? Heb. the one 14 And the pots, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the spoons, and all the vessels of brass wherewith they ministered, took they away. 15 And the firepans, and the bowls, and such things as were of gold, in gold, and of silver, in silver, the captain of the guard took away. 16 The two pillars, one sea, and the bases which Solomon had made 1 Kings 7.47. for the house of the LORD; "the brass of all these vessels was without weight. sea. 17 The height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits, and the chapiter upon it was brass: and the height of the chapiter three cubits; and the wreathen work, and pomegranates upon the chapiter round about, all of brass: and like unto these had the second pillar with wreathen work. 18 ¶ And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the 3 door: 4 5 19 And out of the city he took an officer that was set over the men of war, and 'five men of them that were in the king's presence, which were found in the city, and the principal scribe of the host, which the captain mustered the people of the land, and threescore men of the people of the land that were found in the city: Esth. 1. 14. of the host. Gedaliah is slain. bylon had left, even over them he made Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, ruler. e 23 And when all the captains of Jer. 40. 7, 8, the armies, they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah governor, there came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, even Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan the son of Careah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, and Jaazaniah the son of a Maachathite, they and their men. 24 And Gedaliah sware to them, and to their men, and said unto them, Fear not to be the servants of the Chaldees: dwell in the land, and serve the king of Babylon; and it shall be well with you. things with him. 28 And he spake kindly to him, Heb. good and set his throne above the throne of the kings that were with him in Babylon; k 29 And changed his prison garments: and he did eat bread continually before him all the days of his life. 30 And his allowance was a continual allowance given him of the king, a daily rate for every day, all the days of his life. * 2 Samı. 9. 7. |