Manaffeh's wicked reign, II. KINGS. All the things that are in mine house have they feen there is nothing among my treasures that I have not fhewed them. 16 And Ifaiah faid unto Hezekiah, Hear the word of the LORD. and great idolatry. 8 Neither will I make the feet of Ifrael move any more out of the land which I gave their fathers; only if they will obferve to do according to all that I have commanded them, and according to all the law that my fervant Mofes com 17 Behold, the day is come, that all that is in thine house, and that which thy fa-manded them. thers have laid up in ftore unto this day, fhall be carried into Babylon: nothing fhall be left, faith the LORD. 18 And of thy fons that thall iffue from thee, which thou shalt beget, fhall they take away; and they fhall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon. 9 But they hearkened not: and Manaffeh feduced them to do more evil than did the nations whom the LORD destroyed before the children of Ifrael. IO And the LORD spake by his fervant's the prophets, faying, II Because Manaffeh king of Judah 19 Then faid Hezekiah unto Ifaiah, hath done these abominations, and hath Good is the word of the LORD which done wickedly above all that the Amothou haft spoken. And he said, Is it not rites did, which were before him, and good, if peace and truth be in my days? hath made Judah alfo to fin with his 20 And the rest of the acts of He-idols: zekiah, and all his might, and how he 12 Therefore thus faith the LORD made a pool, and a conduit, and brought God of Israel, Behold, I am bringing water into the city, are they not written fuch evil upon Jerufalem and Judah, in the book of the chronicles of the kings that whofoever heareth of it, both his of Judah? ears fhall tingle. 21 And Hezekiah slept with his fathers: and Manaffeh his fon reigned in his ftead. CHAP. XXI. I Manaffeh's reign. 3 His great idolatry. 19 Amon's wicked reign. 23 He being flain, Jofiah is made king. MANAS 13 And I will ftretch over Jerufalem the line of Samaria, and the plummet of the house of Ahab and I will wipe Jerufalem as a man wipeth a dith, wiping it, and turning it upfide down. 14 And I will forfake the remnant of ANASSEH was twelve years old mine inheritance, and deliver them into when he began to reign, and reign-the hand of their enemy; and they thall ed fifty and five years in Jerufalem. And become a prey and a spoil to all their his mother's name was Hephzi-bah. enemies ; 2 And he did that which evil evil in 15 Because they have done that which the fight of the LORD, after the abomina-was evil in my fight, and have provoked tions of the heathen, whom the LORD me to anger, fince the day their fathers caft out before the children of Ifrael. came forth out of Egypt, even unto this 3 For he built up again the high day. places which Hezekiah his father had de 16 Moreover Manaffeh fhed innocent ftroyed; and he reared up altars for Baal, blood very much, till he had filled Jeruand made a grove, as did Ahab king of falem from one end to another; beside Ifrael; and worshipped all the hoft of his fin wherewith he made Judah to fin, heaven, and ferved them. in doing that which was evil in the fight of the LORD. 4 And he built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD faid, In Jerufalem will I put my name. 5 And he built altars for all the hoft of heaven in the two courts of the houfe of the LORD. 6 And he made his fon pass through the fire, and obferved times, and used enchantments, and dealt with familiar fpirits and wizards: he wrought much wickedness in the fight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger. 7 And he fet a graven image of the grove that he had made in the house, of which the LORD faid to David, and to Solomon his fon, In this houfe, and in Jerufalem, which I have chofen out of all tribes of Ifrael, will I put my name for ever: 17 Now the reft of the acts of Manaffeh, and all that he did, and the fin that he finned, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? 18 And Manaffeh flept with his fathers, and was buried in the garden of his own house, in the garden of Uzza: and Amon his fon reigned in his ftead. 19 ¶ Amon was twenty and two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned two years in Jerufalem. And his mother's name was Mefhullemeth, the daughter of Haruz of Jotbah. 20 And he did that which was evil in the fight of the LORD, as his father Manaffeh did. 21 And he walked in all the way that his father walked in, and ferved the Jofiah's good reign. Chap. xxii. Jerufalem's deftruction foretold. idols that his father ferved, and worship- and faid, Thy fervants have gathered the ped them: money that was found in the house, and 22 And he forfook the LORD God of have delivered it into the hand of them his fathers, and walked not in the way that do the work, that have the overfight of the LORD. of the house of the LORD. 23 And the fervants of Amon confpired against him, and flew the king in his own house. 24 And the people of the land flew all them that had confpired against king Amon; and the people of the land made Jofiah his fon king in his ftead. 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 fepulchre in the garden of Uzza: and Jofiah his fon reigned in his stead. 2 And he did that which was right in the fight of the LORD, and walked in all the way of David his father, and turned not afide to the right hand or to the left. 3 ¶ And it came to pafs in the eighteenth year of king Jofiah, that the king fent Shaphan the fon of Azaliah, the fon of Meshullam, the fcribe, to the house of the LORD, faying, 4 Go up to Hilkiah the high prieft, that he may fum the filver which is brought into the house of the LORD, which the keepers of the door have gathered of the people: s And let them deliver it into the hand of the doers of the work, that have the overfight of the house of the LORD: and let them give it to the doers of the work which is in the houfe of the LORD, to repair the breaches of the house, 6 Unto carpenters, and builders, and mafons, and to buy timber and hewn ftone to repair the house. 7 Howbeit there was no reckoning made with them of the money that was delivered into their hand, because they dealt faithfully. 8 And Hilkiah the high prieft faid unto Shaphan the fcribe, I have found the book of the law in the houfe 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, 10 And Shaphan the scribe fhewed the king, faying, Hilkiah the priest hath delivered me a book. And Shaphan read it before the king. II And it came to pafs, when the king had heard the words of the book of the law, that he rent his clothes. 12 And the king commanded Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam the fon of Shaphan, and Achbor the fon of Michaiah, and Shaphan the fcribe, and Afahiah a fervant of the king's, faying, 13 Go ye, enquire of the LORD for me, and for the people, and for all Judah, concerning the words of this book that is found: for great is the wrath of the LORD that is kindled against us, becaufe our fathers have not hearkened unto the words of this book, to do according unto all that which is written, concerning us. 14 So Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam, and Achbor, and Shaphan, and Afahiah, went unto Huldah the prophetefs, the wife of Shallum the fon of Tikvah, the fon of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe; (now the dwelt in Jerufalem in the college;) and they communed with her. 15 And the faid unto them, Thus faith the LORD God of Ifrael, Tell the man that fent you to me, 16 Thus faith the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, and upon the inhabitants thereof, even all the words of the book which the king of Judah hath read: 17 Because they have forfaken me, and have burned incenfe unto other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the works of their hands; therefore my wrath fhall be kindled against this place, and fhall not be quenched. 18 But to the king of Judah which fent you to enquire of the LORD, thus fhall ye fay to him, Thus faith the LORD God of Ifrael, As touching the words which thou haft heard; 19 Because thine heart was tender, and thou haft humbled thyself before the LORD, when thou heardeft what I fpake against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, that they fhould become a defolation and a curfe, and haft rent thy clothes, and wept before me; I alfo have heard thee, faith the LORD. 20 Behold therefore, I will gather thee unto thy fathers, and thou fhalt be gathered into thy grave in peace; and Z3 thine Jofiah destroyeth idolatry : II. KINGS. I Jofiah caufeth the book of the law to be dah and of Jerufalem. His zeal and reformation. 9 Nevertheless the priests of the high places came not up to the altar of the LORD in Jerufalem, but they did eat of the unleavened bread among their brethren. IO And he defiled Topheth, which is ' in the valley of the children of Hinnom, that no man might make his fon or his daughter to pals through the fire to Molech. 2 And the king went up into the house II And he took away the horses that of the LORD, and all the men of Judah the kings of Judah had given to the fun, and all the inhabitants of Jerufalem with at the entering in of the house of the him, and the priests, and the prophets, LORD, by the chamber of Nathan-melech and all the people, both fmall and great: the chamberlain, which was in the fuband he read in their ears all the words of urbs, and burned the chariots of the fun the book of the covenant which was with fire. found in the houfe 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 teftimonies and his ftatutes 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 fecond order, and the keepers of the door, to bring forth out of the temple of the LORD all the veffels that were made for Baal, and for the grove, and for all the hoft of heaven: and he burned them without Jerufalem in the fields of Kidron, and carried the ashes of them unto Beth-el.. 12 And the altars that avere on the top of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manaffeh had made in the two courts of the houfe of the LORD, did the king beat down, and brake them down from thence, and caft the duft of them into the brook Kidron. 13 And the high places that were before Jerufalem, which were on the right hand of the mount of corruption, which Solomon the king of Ifrael bad builded for Afhtoreth the abomination of the Zidonians, and for Chemoth the abomination of the Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon, did the king defile. 14 And he brake in pieces the images, and cut down the groves, and filled their places with the bones of men. 5 And he put down the idolatrous priefts, whom the kings of Judah had 15 Moreover the altar that was at ordained to burn incenfe in the high Beth-el, and the high place which Jeroplaces in the cities of Judah, and in the boam the fon of Nebat, who made Ifrael places round about Jerufalem; them alfo that burned incenfe unto Baal, to the fun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the hoft of heaven. 6 And he brought out the grove from the house of the LORD, without Jerufalem, unto the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and ftamped it fmall to powder, and caft the powder thereof upon the graves of the children of the people. 7 And he brake down the houfes of the fodomites, 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 incenfe, from Geba to Beer-fheba, and brake down the high places of the gates 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. to fin, had made, both that altar and the high place he brake down, and burned the high place, and stamped it small, to powder, and burned the grove. 16 And as Jofiah turned himself, he fpied the fepulchres that were there in the mount, and fent, and took the bones out of the fepulchres, and burned them upon the altar, and polluted it, according to the word of the LORD which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these words. 17 Then he faid, What title is that that I fee? And the men of the city told him,. It is the fepulchre of the man of God, which came from Judah, and proclaimed these things that thou haft done against the altar of Beth-el. 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 came out of Samaria. 19 And all the houfes alfo of the high pláces Jofiah keepeth the paffover. Chap. xxiv. Jehoiakim's rebellion. places that were in the cities of Samaria, 31 Jehoahaz was twenty and three which the kings of Ifrael had made to years old when he began to reign; and provoke the LORD to anger, Jofiah took he reigned three months in Jerufalem. away, and did to them according to all And his mother's name was Hamutal, the acts that he had done in Beth-el. the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah. 20 And he flew all the priests of the high places that were there upon the altars, and burned men's bones upon them, and returned to Jerufalem. 21 And the king commanded all the people, faying, Keep the paffover unto the LORD your God, as it is written in the book of this covenant. 22 Surely there was not holden fuch a paffover from the days of the judges that judged Ifrael, nor in all the days of the kings of Ifrael, nor of the kings of Judah; 23 But in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, wherein this paffover was holden to the LORD in Jerufalem. 32 And he did that which was evil in the fight 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 Jerufalem; and put the land to a tribute of an hundred talents of filver, and a talent of gold. 34 And Pharaoh-nechoh made Eliakim the fon of Jofiah king in the room of Jofiah his father, and he turned his name to Jehoiakim, and took Jehoahaz away: and he came to Egypt, and died there. 35 And Jehoiakim gave the filver and the gold to Pharaoh; but he taxed the land to give the money according to the 24 Moreover the avorkers with fami- commandment of Pharaoh: he exacted the liar fpirits, and the wizards, and the filver and the gold of the people of the images, and the idols, and all the abo-land, of every one according to his taxminations that were spied in the land of ation, to give it unto Pharaoh-nechoh. Judah and in Jerufalem, did Jofiah put 36 Jehoiakim was twenty and five away, that he might perform the words of the law which were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the houfe of the LORD. 25 And like unto him was there no king before him, that turned to the LORD with all his heart, and with all his foul, and with all his might, according to all the law of Mofes ; 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 of all the provocations that Manaffeh had provoked him withal. 27 And the LORD faid, I will remove Judah alfo out of my fight, as I have removed Ifrael, and will caft off this city Jerufalem which I have chofen, and the house of which I said, My name fhall be there. 28 Now the rest of the acts of Jofiah, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? years old when he began to reign; and he reigned eleven years in Jerufalem. And his mother's name was Zebudah, the daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah. 37 And he did that which was evil in the fight of the LORD, according to all that his fathers had done. CHAP. XXIV. 1 Jehoiakim rebelling, procureth his own ruin. 10 ferufalem is taken 17 Zedekiah's evil reign. Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim beIN his days Nebuchadnezzar king of came his fervant three years: then he turned and rebelled against him. 2 And the LORD fent against him bands. of the Chaldees, and bands of the Syrians, and bands of the Moabites, and bands of the children of Ammon, and fent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of the LORD, which he fpake by his fervants the prophets. 3 Surely at the commandment of the LORD came this upon Judah, to remove them out of his fight, for the fins of Ma29 In his days Pharaoh-nechoh king of naffeh, according to all that he did; Egypt went up against the king of Affyria 4 And alfo for the innocent blood that to the river Euphrates: and king Jofiah | he fhed: for he filled Jerufalem with inwent against him; and he flew him at nocent blood; which the LORD would Megiddo, when he had feen him. not pardon. 30 And his fervants carried him in a chariot dead from Megiddo, and brought him to Jerufalem, and buried him in his own sepulchre. And the people of the land took Jehoahaz the fon of Jofiah, and anointed him, and made him king in his father's ftead. 5 Now the reft 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 flept with his fathers: and Jehoiachin his fon reigned in his Za 4 7 And tead. Jerulafem taken and spoiled. II. KINGS. Zedekiah taken and his eyes put out. 7 And the king of Egypt came not a-until he had caft them out from his pregain any more out of his land: for the fence, that Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon had taken from the river king of Babylon. of Egypt unto the river Euphrates all that pertained to the king of Egypt. 8 Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerufalem three months. And his mother's name was Nehushta, the daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem. 9 And he did that which was evil in the fight of the LORD, according to all that his father had done. IO TAt that time the fervants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against Jerufalem, and the city was befieged 11 And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came against the city, and his fervants did befiege it. 12 And Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out to the king of Babylon, he, and his mother, and his fervants, and his princes, and his officers: and the king of Babylon took him in the eighth year of his reign. 13 And he carried out thence all the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king's houfe, and cut in pieces all the veffels of gold which Solomon king of Ifrael had made in the temple of the LORD, as the LORD had faid. 14 And he carried away all Jerufalem, and all the princes, and all the mighty men of valour, even ten thoufand captives, and all the craftsmen and smiths none remained, fave the poorer fort 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, thofe carried he into captivity from Jerufalem to Babylon. 16 And all the men of might, even feven thousand, and craftsmen and fmiths a thousand, all that were ftrong and apt for war, even them the king of Babylon brought captive to Babylon. CHAP. XXV. I Jerufalem is befieged: 4 Zedekiah taken, his fons flain, and his eyes put out. AND it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he, and all his hoft, againft Jerufalem, and pitched against it; and they built forts against it round about. 2 And the city was befieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah. 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. 4 T 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 avere against the city round about :) and the king went the way toward the plain. 5 And the army of the Chaldees purfued 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 flew the fons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him with fetters of brass, and carried him to Babylon. 8 And in the fifth month, on the feventh day of the month, which is the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, came Nebuzar-adan, captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, unto Jerufalem: 9 And he burnt the house of the LORD, and the king's houfe, and all the houses of Jerufalem, and every great man's house burnt he with fire. 10 And all the army ofthe Chaldees,that were with the captain of the guard, brake down the walls of Jerufalem round about. 17 And the king of Babylon made II Now the rest of the people that avere Mattaniah his father's brother king in left in the city, and the fugitives that fell his ftead, and changed his name to Ze-away to the king of Babylon, with the dekiah. remnant of the multitude, did Nebuzar18 Zedekiah was twenty and one adan the captain of the guard carry away. years old when he began to reign, and 12 But the captain of the guard left of he reigned eleven years in Jerufalem. the poor of the land to be vinedreffers And his mother's name was Hamutal, and hufbandmen. the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah. 19 And he did that which was evil in the fight of the LORD, according to all that Jehoiakim had done. 20 For through the anger of the LORD it came to pass in Jerufalem and Judah, 13 And the pillars of brafs that were in the house of the LORD, and the bafes, and the brafen fea that was in the house of the LORD, did the Chaldees break in pieces, and carried the brafs of them to Babylon. |