Amon's wicked reign. 24.3,4. Jer. 15.4. Josiah's good reign. 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? 2 KINGS, XXII. 11 Because o Manasseh king of | B. C. 698. Judah hath done these abominations,and hath done wickedly above o ch.23.26,27. all that the Amorites p did, which were before him, and hath made Judah also to sin with his idols: 12 Therefore thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Behold, I q am bringing such evil upon Jerusalem and Judah, that whosoever heareth of it, both his ears shall tingle. 13 And I will stretch over Jerusalem the liner of Samaria, and the plummet of the house of Ahab: and I will wipe Jerusalem as sa man wipeth a dish, 1 wiping it and turning it upside down. 14 And I will forsake t the rem-1 nant of mine inheritance, and deiver them into the hand of their enemies; u 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 me to anger, since the day their fathers came forth out of Egypt, even unto this day. P ver.9. q 1Sa.3.11. Jer. 19.3. r Is. 10.22. s 1Ki, 14.10. he wipeth t Ps.89.38, u Ps.74.1-7. v Jer.2.34. 26 And he was buried in his sepulchre, in the garden of Uzza: and Josiah h his son reigned in his stead. CHAPTER XXII. 1 Josiah's good reign. 8 Hilkiah findeth the book of the law. OSIAH a was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned thirty and one years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Jedidah, the daughter of Adaiah of Boscath.b 2 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, and walked in all the way of David his father, and turned not aside c to the right hand or to the left. 3 T And it came to pass in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, that the king sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, the son of Meshullam, the scribe, to the house of the LORD, saying, 4 Go up to Hilkiah the high priest, that he may sum the silver dwhich is brought into the house of the 16 Moreover Manasseh shed innocent blood v very much, till he had filled Jerusalem 2 from one end to another; beside his sin from mouth LORD, which the keepers e of the 1 wherewith w he made Judah to sin. in doing that which was evil in the sight of the LORD. to mouth. w IKI. 14.16. 20. 17 Now a the rest of the acts x 2Ch.33.1of Manasseh, and all that he did, and his sin that he sinned, are they y 2Ch.33.21, not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? &c. 1Ki.11.33. 18 And Manasseh slept with hisz ver.2,&c. fathers, and was buried in the gar-a ch.22.17. den of his own house, in the garden of Uzza: and Amon his son reigned in his stead. b Mat. 1. 10, door have gathered of the people: 5 And let them deliver it into the hand of the doers of the work, that have the oversight of the house of the LORD and let them give it to the doers of the work which is in the house of the LORD, to repair the breaches of the house, 6 Unto carpenters, and builders, and masons, and to buy timber and hewn stone 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. 19 Amon y was twenty and two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned two years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Meshullemeth, the daughter of (CHAP. 22.) have found ƒ the book of the law Haruz of Jothah. 20 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, as z his father Manasseh did. 1Ki. 13:2. &c. b Jos. 15.39. 21 And he walked in all the way that his father walked in, and serv-c Deut.5.32. ed the idols that his father served, d ch. 12.4,&c. and worshipped them: 22 And he forsook a the LORD God of his fathers, and walked not in the way of the LORD. 23 T And the servants of Amon conspired against him, and slew the king in his own house. 8 T And Hilkiah the high priest said unto Shaphan the scribe, 1 in the house of the LORD. And Hilkiah gave the book to Shaplan, and he read it. 9 And Shaphan the scribe came to the king, and brought the king word again, and said, Thy servants have 2 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 show&c.ed the king,saying,Hilkiah thepriest hath delivered me a book. And e Ps.84.10. 2Ch.34.14, 2 melted. 24 And the people of the land g slew all them that had conspired & Ne.3.3,18. Shaphan read g it before the king. Je.36.6, 15. against king Amon; and the peo- 11 And it came to pass, when the king had heard the words of the book of the law, that he rent ʼn his clothes. Huldah's prophecy. 2 KINGS, XXIII. 12 And the king commanded Hil- B. C. 624. kiah the priest, and Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and Achbor i thei 2Ch.34.20, son of 9 Michaiah, and Shaphan Abdon. the scribe, and Asaiah a servant 3 or, Micah. of the king's, saying, k 1Ch.10.14, 1 Ps.76.7. 13 Go ye, inquire k of the LORD for me, and for the people, and for all Judah, concerning the words of this book that is found: for great l is the wrath of the LORD that is kindled against us, because our m fathers have not hearkened unto the words of this book, to do n according unto all that which is written concerning us. Na. 1.6. m De.29.27. &c. Josiah destroyeth idolatry. 2 And the king went up into 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 ali the people, 1 both small and great: and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant which was b found in the house of the LORD. 3 ¶ And c 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. or, Hasrah. 5 garments. 14 So Hilkiah the priest, and Ahi-6 or, in the kam, and Achbor, and Shaphan, second and Asaiah, went unto Huldah the part. prophetess, the wife of Shallump De.29.25, the son of Tikvah, o the son of 4 4 And the king commanded HilHarhas, keeper of the 5 wardrobe; Ne.9.26,27. kiah the high priest, and the priest (Now she dwelt in Jerusalem 6 in Da.9.11-14. of the second order, and the keepthe college ;) and they communed q 1Th.2.16. ers of the door, to bring forth out with her. of the temple of the LORD all the vessels that were made for Baal, and for the grove, d 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 Beth-el. 15 T And she said unto them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Tell the man that sent you to me, 16 Thus saith 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 p they have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods, that they might provoke r Ps.51.17. 1Ki.21.29. u Jer.26.6. ver. 11. Is.57.1.2. Jer.22.10. 5 And he put down 3 the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn mcense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places me to anger with all the works of (CHAP. 23.) round about Jerusalem; them also their hands; therefore g my wrath shall be kindled against this place, and shall not be quenched. a 2Ch.34.29, 1 18 But to the king of Judah which sent you to inquire of the LORD, thus shall ye say to him, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, As touching the words which thoub hast heard; &c. from small c ch.11.14,17. ccase. 3 Chemarim. 19 Because thine heart r was ten- d ch.21.3,7. der, and thou hast humbled s thy-2 caused to self before the LORD, when thou heardest what I spake against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, that they should become a desolation t and a curse, u and hast rent v thy clothes, and wept w4 before me; I also have heard thee, saith the LORD, Ho.10.5. Zep.1.4. signs, or, lations. | ƒ IKİ, 14.24. 20 Behold therefore, I will gather thee unto thy fathers, and a thou e 2Ch.34.4. shalt be gathered into thy grave in peace; and thine eyes shall not see all the evil which I will bring upon this place. And they brought the 16.16. king word again. CHAPTER XXIII. g Eze.8. 14. 5 houses. Josiah causeth the book to be read in¦h IKİ,15,22. a solemn assembly. ND a the king sent, and they A rathered unto him, ors of Judah and of Jerusalem. |i Eze.44. 10 that burned incense unto Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the 4 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 thereof upon the graves e of the children of the people. 7 And he brake down the houses f of the sodomites, that were by the house of the LORD, where the women g wove 5 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 Gebah to Beer-sheba, 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. 9 Nevertheless the priests i of the high places came not up to the altar of the LORD in Jerusalem, but they did eat of the unleavened bread among their brethren. 10 And he defiled Topheth, which is in the valley m of the children of Hinnom, n that no man might make his son or his daughter to pass through the fire to Molech. 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 66 chamberlain, which was in the suburbs, and burned the chariots of the sun with fire. B. C. 624. 1 Is.30.33. He is slain at Megiddo. high places that were v in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke the LORD to anger, Josiah took away, and did to them according to all the n Lev. 18.21.acts that he had done in Beth-el. 20 And he 11 slew w all the priests of the high places that were there upon the altars, and burned men's bones z upon them, and returned to Jerusalem. De.18.10. or, eunuch, P ch.21.5. 12 And the altars that were on the o top of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which p Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the LORD, did the king beat down, and 7 brake them down from thence, and cast the dust of them into the brook Ki. 11.7. Kidron. i. e. the mount of r Ex.23.24. Nu.33.52. 9 statues. 1Ki.12.28, 33. 13 And the high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on the right hand of 8 the mount of corruption, which Solomon q the king of Israel had builded for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Zidonians, and for Chemosh the abomi- t 1Ki. 13.2. nation of the Moabites, and for u 1Ki. 13.30, Milcom the abomination of the 10 to escape. children of Ammon, did the king defile. 14 And he brake r in pieces the 9 images, and cut down the groves, and filled their places with the bones of men. 15 T Moreover the altar that was at Beth-el, and the high place s which Jeroboam the son of Ne 31. v 2Ch.34.6,7. w ch.11.19. &c. Nu.9.2. bat, who made Israel to sin, had y Ex. 12.3, &c. 19. 21 ¶ And the king commande all the people, saying, Keep the passover unto the LORD your God, as it is written y in the book of this covenant. 22 Surely z there was not holden such a passover from the days of the judges that judged Israel, nor in all the days of the kings of Israel, nor of the kings of Judah; 23 But in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, wherein this passover was holden to the LORD in Jerusa lem. 21 ¶ Moreover, a the workers with familiar spirits, and the wizards, and the 12 images, and the idols, and all the abominations that were spied in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, did Josiah put away, of the b law which were written in that he might perform the words the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of the LORD. 25 And c like unto him was there no king before him, that turned ¿ to the LORD with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his might, according e 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 ƒ of all the 13 provocations that Manasseh had provoked him Rev.22.15.withal. 12 or, teraphim Ge.31. 19. a ch.21.6. 16 And as Josiah turned himself. 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 the word t of the LORD, which the man of God proclaimed, who pro- c ch. 18.5. claimed these words. 17 Then he said, What title is that that I see? And the men of the city told him, It is the sepulchre of the man of u God which came from Judah, and proclaimed these things that thou hast 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 10 alone, with the bones of the prophets that came out of Samaria. 19 And all the houses also of the 27 And the LORD said I will g remove Judah also out of my sight, will cast off this city Jerusalem as I have removedh Israel, and which I have chosen, and the house of which I said, My name shall be 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? 29 Ink 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 Megiddo, l when he had seen him. 30 And his servants carried him in a chariot dead from Megiddo, and brought him to Jerusalem, and Jehoiakim's rebellion. 2 KINGS, XXIV. buried him in his own sepulchre. | B. C. 623. And m the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and m 2Ch.36.1, anointed him, and made him king in his father's stead. 31 T 14 Jehoahaz was twenty and three years old when he began to reign; and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was n Hamutal, the daughter 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, o in the land of Hamath, 15 that he might not reign in Jerusalem; and 16 put the land to a tribute of an hundred talents of silver, and a talent of gold. 14 called &c. Shallum, 15 or, because upon the p ch.24.17. 31 And Pharaoh-nechoh made Eliakim the son of Josiah king in the room of Josiah his father, 9 Je.22.11.12. Eze.19.3,4. and turned his name to Jehoiap kim, and took Jehoahaz away:r ver.33. and he came to Egypt, and died (CHAP. 24.) q there. 35 And Jehoiakim gave the silver r 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-c nechoh. a 2Ch.36.5, &c. b Jer.25.9. 1 32.28. by the d ch.21.16. De. 19. 10. 36 Jehoiakim was twenty and five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Zebudah, the daughter Ps. 106.38. of Pedaiah of Rumah. 37 And did that which was evil in e 19.4. Jerusalem is taken. Jsalem with innocent blood,) which the LORD would not pardon.f Jehoiakim, and all that he did, are 5 Now the rest of the acts of they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? 6 Sog Jehoiakim slept with his fathers and Jehoiachiin his son reigned in his stead. 7 And h the king of Egypt came not again any more out of his land: for the king of Babylon had taken i from the river of Egypt unto the river Euphrates all that pertained to the king of Egypt. 8 T 2 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 Elnathan of Jerusalem. 9 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father had done. 10 T At k that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Baby on came up against Jerusalem, and the city 3 was besieged. 11 And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came against the city, and his servants did besiege it. 12 And Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out to the king of Baby lon, he, and his mother, and his servants, and his princes, and his 4 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 house, and cut in pieces all the vessels of gold which Solomon the sight of the LORD, according to ƒ Eze.33.25. king of Israel had made in the tem Jeconiah, 1Ch.3.16. Jer.24.1. and Coniah, 2 And b the LORD sent against him bands of the Chaldees, and Je.22.24,28. bands of the Syrians, and bands of k Dan. 1.1,2. the Moabites, and bands of the children of Ammon, and sent them 3 came into siege. against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of the LORD, which 1 Je.29. 1,2. he spake 1 by his servants the pro- or,eunuchs. phets. m ch.20.17. 3 Surely at the commandment of the LORD came this upon Judah, to n Je.24.1. remove them out of his sight, for co ch.25.12. the sins of Manasseh, according to 5 or,eunuchs. all that he did; 4 And also for the innocent blood d│P Je.37.1. that he shed, (for e he filled Jeru ple of the LORD, as the LORD m had said. 14 And n 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 o 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 5 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 thousand, and craftsmen and smiths a thousand, all that were strong and apt for war, even them the king of Babylon brought captive to Babylon. made Mattaniah his father's bro17 ¶ And p the king of Babylon ther king in his stead, and changed his name to Zedekiah. Jerusalem pillaged. 2 KINGS, XXV. 18 Zedekiah q 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, r the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah. 19 And he did that which was evil m the sight of the LORD, according to all that Jehoiakim had done. 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 s against the king of Babylon. CHAPTER XXV. Zedekiah taken, his sons slain, and his eyes put out. q Je.52.1,&c. s 2Ch.36.13. Nobles slain at Riblah. the guard, brake downg the walls of Jerusalem round about. 11 Now the rest of the people that were left in the city, and the 4 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 &c. left of the poor h of the land to be Je.34.2,&c. vinedressers and husbandmen. 39.1,&c. 13 And i the pillars k of brass that 52.4,&c. were in the house of the LORD, and Eze.24.2, the bases, and the brazen sea that &c. was in the house of the LORD, did the Chaldees break in pieces, and carried the brass of them to Babylon. b Eze. 12.12. 1 c ch.23.33. spake 2made blind. ND a 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 host, against Jerusalem, and pitch-3 or, chief ed against it; and they built forts against it round about. &c. marshal. e 1Ki.9.8. Is.64.10,11. 2 And the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah. 3 And on the ninth day of the fourth month the famine prevailed ƒ Am.2.5. 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 were against the city round about:) and the king b went the way toward the plain. g Ne. 1.3. fallen away. &c. h ch.24.14. Je.40.7. iJe.27.19,&c. 1Ki.7.15-27. 5 And the army of the Chaldees pursued after the king, and over-k Ex.27.3. took him in the plains of Jericho : | 1Ki.7.47,50. and all his army were scattered 5 the one. from him. 6 So they took the king, and m 1Ki.7.15. brought him up to the king of Baby-n ICh.6. 14, lon to c Riblah; and they 1 gave Ezra 7.1. judgment upon him. o Je.21.1. 7 And they slew the sons of Zede- 29.25,29. kiah before his eyes, and 2 put out 6 threshold. the eyes of d Zedekiah, and bound him with fetters of brass, and car-Tor, ried him to Babylon. 8 T 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, 3 captain of the guard, a servant of the p king of Babylon, unto Jerusalem : 9 And e he burnt the house of the LORD, and the king's house, and all the houses of Jerusalem, and f every great man's house burnt he with fire. eunuch. 8 saw the or, scribe of 64. Eze. 12.25 28. 24.14. 14 And the pots, I and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the spoons, and all the vessels of brass where with they ministered, took they away. 15 And the fire-pans, 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, 5 one sea, and the bases which Solomon had made for the house of the LORD; the brass of all these vessels was without weight. 17 The height m 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 T And the captain of the guard took Seraiah n the chief priest, and o Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the 6 door 19 And out of the city he took an 7 officer that was set over the men of war, and five men of them that 8 were in the king's presence, which were found in the city, and the 9 principal scribe of the host, which mustered the people of the land, and threescore men of the people of the land that were found in the city : 20 And Nebuzar-adan captain of the guard took these, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah : 21 And the king of Babylon smote them, and slew them at Riblah in the land of Hanath. So p Judah was carried away out of their land. 22 ¶ And g as for the people that remained in the land of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had left, even over them 10 And all the army of the Chal-q Je. 40.5,&c. he made Gedaliah the son of Ahi kam, the son of Shaphau, ruler. |