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Manasseh's reign and idolatry. CHAP. XXI, XXII. Amon's wicked reign. into the city, are they not written in the 14 And I will forsake the remnant of book of the chronicles of the kings of mine inheritance, and deliver them into the Judah?

21 And Hezekiah slept with his fathers: and Manasseh his son reigned in his stead.

CHAP. XXI.

hand of their enemies; and they shall become a prey and a spoil to all their enemies; 15 Because they have done that which was evil in my sight, and have provoked

MANASSEH was twelve years old me to anger, since the day their fathers

when he began to reign, and reign- came forth out of Egypt, even unto this ed fifty and five years in Jerusalem. And day. his mother's name was Hephzi-bah.

16 Moreover, Manasseh shed innocent 2 And he did that which was evil in the blood very much, till he had filled Jerusasight of the LORD, after the abominations lem from one end to another; besides his of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out sin wherewith he made Judah to sin, in before the children of Israel. doing that which was evil in the sight of

3 For he built up again the high places the LORD. which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; 17 Now the rest of the acts of Manasand he reared up altars for Baal, and made seh, and all that he did, and his sin that a grove, as did Ahab king of Israel; and he sinned, are they not written in the book worshipped all the host of heaven, and of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? served them. 18 And Manasseh slept with his fathers, 4 And he built altars in the house of the and was buried in the garden of his own LORD, of which the LORD said, In Jeru- house, in the garden of Uzza: and Amon salem will I put my name. his son reigned in his stead.

5 And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD.

19 T Amon was twenty and two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned two years in Jerusalem. And his mo6 And he made his son pass through the ther's name was Meshullemeth, the daughfire, and observed times, and used enchant-ter of Haruz of Jotbah.

ments, and dealt with familiar spirits and 20 And he did that which was evil in the wizards: he wrought much wickedness in sight of the LORD, as his father Manasseh the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to did.

anger.

21 And he walked in all the way that And he set a graven image of the his father walked in, and served the idols grove that he had made in the house, of that his father served, and worshipped which the LORD said to David, and to So- them:

lomon his son, In this house, and in Jeru- 22 And he forsook the LORD God of his salem, which I have chosen out of all tribes fathers, and walked not in the way of the of Israel, will I put my name for ever:

LORD.

8 Neither will I make the feet of Israel 23 And the servants of Amon conmove any more out of the land which I spired against him, and slew the king in gave their fathers; only if they will ob- his own house.

serve to do according to all that I have 24 And the people of the land slew all commanded them, and according to all the them that had conspired against king law that my servant Moses commanded Amon; and the people of the land made them. Josiah his son king in his stead.

9 But they hearkened not: and Manasseh seduced them to do more evil than did the nations whom the LORD destroyed before the children of Israel.

10 And the LORD spake by his servants the prophets, saying,

11 Because Manasseh king of Judah hath done these abominations, and hath

done wickedly above all that the Amorites

did, which were before him, and hath made Judah also to sin with his idols:

25 Now the rest of the acts of Amon which he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

26 And he was buried in his sepulchre in the garden of Uzza: and Josiah his son reigned in his stead.

CHAP. XXII.

OSA to reign, and he reigned thirty and OSIAH was eight years old when he began to one years in Jerusalem. And his mother's 12 Therefore thus saith the LORD God name was Jedidah the daughter of Adaiah of Israel, Behold, I am bringing such evil of Boscath.

upon Jerusalem and Judah, that whosoever 2 And he did that which was right in the heareth of it, both his ears shall tingle.sight of the LORD, and walked in all the 13 And I will stretch over Jerusalem way of David bis father, and turned not the line of Samaria, and the plummet of aside to the right hand or to the left. the house of Ahab: and I will wipe Jeru- 3 T And it came to pass in the salem as a man wipeth a dish, wiping it, eighteenth year of king Josiah, that the and turning it upside down. king sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah,

The good reign of Jonah.

II. KINGS.

the son of Meshullam, the scribe, to the book which the king of Judah hath read: He covenants with God. house of the LORD, saying, 4 Go up to Hilkiah the high priest, that have burned incense unto other gods, that 17 Because they have forsaken me, he may sum the silver which is brought they might provoke me to anger with all and into the house of the LORD, which the the works of their hands; therefore my keepers of the door have gathered of wrath shall be kindled against this place, the people: 5 And let them deliver it into the hand and shall not be quenched. of the doers of the work, that have the you to inquire of the LORD, thus shall ye 18 But to the king of Judah which sent oversight of the house of the LORD: and say to him, Thus saith the LORD God of let them give it to the doers of the work, Israel, As touching the words which thou which is in the house of the LORD, to re- hast heard; pair the breaches of the house,

6 Unto carpenters, and builders, and thou hast humbled thyself before the 19 Because thine heart was tender, and masons, and to buy timber and hewn LORD, when thou heardest what I spake stone to repair the house. 7. Howbeit, there was no reckoning ants thereof, that they should become a against this place, and against the inhabit. made with them of the money that was desolation and a curse, and hast rent thy delivered into their hand, because they clothes, and wept before me; I also have dealt faithfully. heard thee, saith the LORD.

8 T And Hilkiah the high priest said unto Shaphan the scribe, I have found the book of the law in the house of the LORD. And Hilkiah gave the book to Shaphan, and he read it.

9 And Shaphan the scribe came to the king, and brought the king word again, and said, Thy servants have gathered the

money that was found in the house, and have delivered it into the hand of them that do the work, that have the oversight of the house of the LORD.

10 And Shaphan the scribe shewed the king, saying, Hilkiah the priest hath delivered me a book. And Shaphan read it before the king.

unto thy fathers, and thou shalt be gather-
20 Behold therefore, I will gather thee
ed into thy grave in peace; and thine eyes
shall not see all the evil which I will bring
king word again.
upon this place. And they brought the
CHAP. XXIII.

AND to him all the elders of Judah and
the king sent, and they gathered

of Jerusalem.

2 And the king went up into the house all the inhabitants of Jerusalem with him, of the LORD, and all the men of Judah and and the priests, and the prophets, and all the people, both small and great: and he 11 And it came to pass, when the king of the covenant which was found in the read in their ears all the words of the book had heard the words of the book of the house of the LORD. law, that he rent his clothes.

12 And the king commanded Hilkiah made a covenant before the LORD, to walk 3 And the king stood by a pillar, and the priest, and Ahikam the son of Sha-after the LORD, and to keep his commandphan, and Achbor the son of Michaiah, ments, and his testimonies, and his staand Shaphan the scribe, and Asahiah a tutes, with all their heart, and all their servant of the king's, saying, 13 Go ye, inquire of the LORD for me, that were written in this book. And all soul, to perform the words of this covenant and for the people, and for all Judah, con- the people stood to the covenant. cerning the words of this book that is found: for great is the wrath of the LORD the high priest, and the priests of the se4 And the king commanded Hilkiah that is kindled against us, because our fa- cond order, and the keepers of the door, thers have not hearkened unto the words to bring forth out of the temple of the of this book, to do according unto all that LORD all the vessels that were made for which is written concerning us. 14 So Hilkiab the priest, and Ahikam, host of heaven: and he burned them withBaal, and for the grove, and for all the and Achbor, and Shaphan, and Asahiah, out Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, and went unto Huldah the prophetess, the carried the ashes of them unto Beth-el. wife of Shallum the son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe; whom the kings of Judah had ordained to 5 And he put down the idolatrous priests, (now she dwelt in Jerusalem in the col- burn incense in the high places in the lege;) and they communed with her. 15 And she said unto them, Thus about Jerusalem; them also that burned cities of Judah, and in the places round saith the LORD God of Israel, Tell the incense unto Baal, to the sun, and to the man that sent you to me, 16 Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will host of heaven. moon, and to the planets, and to all the bring evil upon this place, and upon the in

habitants thereof, even all the words of the the house of the LORD, without Jerusalem, 6 And he brought out the grove from

Josiah destroys idolatry.

CHAP. XXIII.

His zeal for reformation.

unto the brook Kidron, and burned it at I see? And the men of the city told him, the brook Kidron, and stamped it small to It is the sepulchre of the man of God, powder, and cast the powder thereof upon which came from Judah, and proclaimed the graves of the children of the people. these things that thou hast done against 7 And he brake down the houses of the the altar of Beth-el. sodomites that were by the house of the LORD, where the women wove hangings for the grove.

18 And he said, Let him alone; let no man move his bones. So they let his bones alone, with the bones of the prophet that 8 And he brought all the priests out of came out of Samaria. the cities of Judah, and defiled the high 19 And all the houses also of the high places where the priests had burnt incense, places that were in the cities of Samaria, from Geba to Beer-sheba, and brake down which the kings of Israel had made to prothe high places of the gates that were in voke the LORD to anger, Josiah took the entering in of the gate of Joshua the away, and did to them according to all governor of the city, which were on a the acts that he had done in Beth-el. man's left hand at the gate of the city. 20 And he slew all the priests of the 9 Nevertheless, the priests of the high high places that were there upon the altars, places came not up to the altar of the and burnt men's bones upon them, and LORD in Jerusalem, but they did eat of the returned to Jerusalem. unleavened bread among their brethren.

21 ¶ And the king commanded all the 10 And he defiled Topheth, which is people, saying, Keep the passover unto in the valley of the children of Hinnom, the LORD your God, as it is written in the that no man might make his son or his book of this covenant.

daughter to pass through the fire to Molech. 22 Surely there was not holden such a 11 And he took away the horses that passover from the days of the judges that the kings of Judah had given to the sun, judged Israel, nor in all the days of the at the entering in of the house of the LORD, kings of Israel, nor of the kings of Judah; by the chamber of Nathan-melech the 23 But in the eighteenth year of king chamberlain, which was in the suburbs, Josiah, wherein this passover was holden and burned the chariots of the sun with fire. to the LORD in Jerusalem.

12 And the altars that were on the top 24 ¶ Moreover, the workers with faof the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the miliar spirits, and the wizards, and the kings of Judah had made, and the altars images, and the idols, and all the abomiwhich Manasseh had made in the two nations that were spied in the land of Jucourts of the house of the LORD, did the dah and in Jerusalem, did Josiah put king beat down, and brake them down away, that he might perform the words of from thence, and cast the dust of them into the law which were written in the book the brook Kidron. that Hilkiah the priest found in the house

13 And the high places that were before of the LORD. Jerusalem, which were on the right hand 25 And like unto him was there no king of the mount of Corruption, which Solo- before him, that turned to the LORD with mon the king of Israel had builded for all his heart, and with all his soul, and Ashtoreth the abomination of the Zidoni-with all his might, according to all the law ans, and for Chemosh the abomination of of Moses; neither after him arose there the Moabites, and for Milcom the abomi- any like him. nation of the children of Ammon, did the 26 Notwithstanding, the LORD turned king defile.. not from the fierceness of his great wrath, wherewith his anger was kindled against Judah, because of all the provocations that Manasseh had provoked him withal. 15 Moreover, the altar that was at 27 And the LORD said, I will remove Beth-el, and the high place which Jero- Judah also out of my sight, as I have reboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel moved Israel, and will cast off this city to sin, had made, both that altar and the Jerusalem which I have chosen, and the high place he brake down, and burned the house of which I have said, My name high place, and stamped it small to pow-shall be there.

14 And he brake in pieces the images, and cut down the groves, and filled their places with the bones of men.

der, and burned the grove.

28 Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, 16 And as Josiah turned himself, he and all that he did, are they not written in spied the sepulchres that were there in the the book of the chronicles of the kings of mount, and sent, and took the bones out Judah?

of the sepulchres, and burned them upon 29 In his days Pharaoh-nechoh king the altar, and polluted it, according to the of Egypt went up against the king of Asword of the LORD which the man of God syria to the river Euphrates: and king proclaimed, who proclaimed these words. Josiah went against him; and he slew him 17 Then he said, What title is that that at Megiddo, when he had seen him.

Rebellion of Jehoiakim.

II. KINGS.

Jerusalem taken and spoiled. 30 And his servants carried him in a and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his chariot dead from Megiddo, and brought stead. him to Jerusalem, and buried him in his own sepulchre. And the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and anointed him, and made him king in his father's 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.

31 ¶ Jehoahaz was twenty and three 8 Jehoiachin was eighteen years old years old when he began to reign; and he when he began to reign, and he reigned in reigned three months in Jerusalem. And Jerusalem three months. And his mohis mother's name. was Hamutal, the ther's name was Nehushta, the daughter of daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah. Elnathan of Jerusalem.

32 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his fathers had done.

9. And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father had done.

33 And Pharaoh-nechoh put him in 10 At that time the servants of Nebands at Riblah in the land of Hamath, buchadnezzar king of Babylon came up that he might not reign in Jerusalem; and against Jerusalem, and the city was beput the land to a tribute of a hundred sieged. talents of silver, and a talent of gold. 11 And Nebuchadnezzar king of Baby34 And Pharaoh-nechoh made Eliakim lon came against the city, and his servants the son of Josiah king in the room of Jo- did besiege it. siah his father, and turned his name to 12 And Jehoiachin the king of Judah Jehoiakim, and took Jehoahaz away: and went out to the king of Babylon, he, and his he came to Egypt, and died there. mother, and his servants, and his princes, and his officers: and the king of Babylon took him in the eighth year of his reign.

35 And Jehoiakim gave the silver and the gold to Pharaoh; but he taxed the land to give the money according to the com- 13 And he carried out thence all the mandment of Pharaoh: he exacted the treasures of the house of the LORD, and silver and the gold of the people of the the treasures of the king's house, and cut land, of every one according to his taxa- in pieces all the vessels of gold which Sotion, to give it unto Pharaoh-nechob. lomon king of Israel had made in the tem36 Jehoiakim was twenty and five ple of the LORD, as the LORD had said. 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.

37 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his fathers had done.

IN

CHAP. XXIV.

N his days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim became his servant three years: then he turned and rebelled against him.

14 And he carried away all Jerusalem, and all the princes, and all the mighty men of valour, even ten thousand captives, and all the craftsmen, and smiths: none remained, save the poorest sort of the people of the land.

15 And he carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon, and the king's mother, and the king's wives, and his officers, and the mighty of the land, those carried he into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon.

16 And all the men of might, even seven 2 And the LORD sent against him bands thousand, and craftsmen and smiths a of the Chaldees, and bands of the Syrians, thousand, all that were strong and apt for and bands of the Moabites, and bands of war, even them the king of Babylon the children of Ammon, and sent them brought captive to Babylon.

against Judah to destroy it, according to 17 And the king of Babylon made the word of the LORD, which he spake by Mattaniah his father's brother king in his 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;

stead, and changed his name to Zedekiah.

18 Zedekiah was twenty and one 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 Lilnah.

4 And also for the innocent blood that he shed, (for he filled Jerusalem with in- 19 And he did that which was evil in nocent blood,) which the LORD would not the sight of the LORD, according to all that pardon. Jehoiakim had done.

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?

20 For through the anger of the LORD it came to pass in Jerusalem, and Judah, until he had cast them out from his presence, that Zedekiah rebelled against the 6 So Jehoiakim slept with his fathers: king of Babylon.

The people carried away.

CHAP. XXV.

CHAP. XXV.

Gedaliah is slain. 16 The two pillars, one sea, and the

AND it came to pass in the ninth year bases which Solomon had made for the

of his reign, in the tenth month, in house of the LORD; the brass of all these the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchad- vessels was without weight. nezzar king of Babylon came, he, and all 17 The height of the one pillar was his host, against Jerusalem, and pitched eighteen cubits, and the chapiter upon it against it; and they built forts against it was brass: and the height of the chapiter round about. three cubits; and the wreathen work, and

2 And the city was besieged unto the pomegranates upon the chapiter round eleventh year of king Zedekiah. about, all of brass: and like unto these had

3 And on the ninth day of the fourth the second pillar with wreathen work. month the famine prevailed in the city, 18 And the captain of the guard took and there was no bread for the people of Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah the land. the second priest, and the three keepers

4 And the city was broken up, and of the door: all the men of war fled by night by the 19 And out of the city he took an officer way of the gate between two walls, which that was set over the men of war, and five is by the king's garden: (now the Chal- men of them that were in the king's predees were against the city round about;) sence, which were found in the city, and and the king went the way toward the plain. the principal scribe of the host, which 5 And the army of the Chaldees pur- mustered the people of the land, and threesued after the king, and overtook him in score men of the people of the land that the plains of Jericho and all his army were found in the city:

were scattered from him.

20 And Nebuzar-adan captain of the

6 So they took the king, and brought guard took these, and brought them to the him up to the king of Babylon to Riblah; king of Babylon to Riblah: and they gave judgment upon him. 21 And the king of Babylon smote

7 And they slew the sons of Zedekiah them, and slew them at Ribiah in the land before his eyes, and put out the eyes of of Hamath. So Judah was carried away Zedekiah, and bound him with etters of out of their land. brass, and carried him to Babylon.

22 And as for the people that re

8 ¶ And in the fifth month, on the se- mained in the land of Judah, whom Neventh day of the month,(which is the nine-buchadnezzar king of Babylon had left, teenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar king even over them he made Gedaliah the son of Babylon,) came Nebuzar-adan, captain of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, ruler. of the guard, a servant of the king of Ba- 23 And when all the captains of the arbylon, unto Jerusalem:

9 And he burnt the house of the LORD, and the king's house, and all the houses of Jerusalem, and every great man's house burnt he with fire.

mies, they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah goernor, there came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, even Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan the son of Careah, and Serai10 And all the army of the Chaldees, that ab the son of Tanhumeth the Netophawere with the captain of the guard, brake thite, and Jaazaniah the son of a Maachadown the walls of Jerusalem round about. thite, they and their men.

11 Now the rest of the people that were 24 And Gedaliah sware to them, and left in the city, and the fugitives that fell to their men, and said unto them, Fear away to the king of Babylon, with the not to be the servants of the Chaldees: remnant of the multitude, did Nebuzar- dwell in the land, and serve the king of adan the captain of the guard carry away. Babylon, and it shall be well with you. 12 But the captain of the guard left of 25 But it came to pass in the seventh the poor of the land to be vine-dressers month, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and husbandmen. the son of Elishama, of the seed royal, came,

13 And the pillars of brass that were in and ten men with him, and smote Gedathe house of the LORD, and the bases, and liab, that he died, and the Jews and the the brazen sea that was in the house of the Chaldees that were with him at Mizpah. LORD, did the Chaldees break in pieces, 26 And all the people, both small and and carried the brass of them to Babylon. great, and the captains of the armies, arose, 14 And the pots, and the shovels, and and came to Egypt: for they were afraid the snuffers, and the spoons, and all the of the Chaldees.

vessels of brass wherewith they minister- 27 ¶ And it came to pass in the seven ed, took they away. and thirtieth year of the captivity of Je15 And the fire-pans, and the bowls, boiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth and such things as were of gold, in gold, month, on the seven and twentieth day of and of silver, in silver, the captain of the the month, that Evil-merodach king of guard took away. Babylon in the year that he began to reign

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