Assyrian host destroyed. 2 CHRONICLES, XXXIII. Manasseh's wiched reign. of man. 20 T And g for this cause Hezekiah the king, and the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz, prayed r and cried to heaven. 21 T Ands the LORD sent an angel, which cut off all the mighty men of valour, and the leaders and captains, in the camp of the king of Assyria. 'So he returned with shame of face to his own land. And when lie was come into the house of his god, they that came forth of his own bowels 9 slew him there with the sword. 22 Thus u the LORD saved Hezekiah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem from the hand of Sennacherib the king of Assyria, and from the hand of all other, and v guided them on every side. 23 And many brought gifts unto the LORD to Jerusalem, and 10 presents to Hezekiah king of Judah: so that he was magnified in the sight of all nations from thenceforth. 24 T In w those days Hezekiah was sick to the death, and prayed unto the LORD: and he spake unto him, and he 11 gave him a sign. t 73.8-11. 139.19,20. Is.37.1,&c. r Ps.50.15. Ps. 18.50. 9 made him ups.37.39,40. Hos. 1.7. w 2Ki.20.1. Gihon, and brought it straight down to the west side of the city of David. And Hezekiah prospered in all his works. 31 T Howbeit in the business of the 14 ambassadors of the princes of Babylon, who sent f unto him to inquire of the wonder that was done in the land; God left him to try g him, that he might know all that was in his heart. 32 Now the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and his 15 goodness, behold, they are written in the vision of Isaiah h the prophet, the son of Amoz, and in the book of the kings 1 of Judah and Israel. 33 And Hezekiah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the 16 chiefest of the sepulchres of the sons of David: and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem did him honour k at his death. And Manasseh his son reigned in his stead. CHAPTER XXXIII. 11 or,wrought 1 Manasseh's wicked reign: 3 He setteth up idolatry. a miracle for him. Ps.116.12.MANASSEH a was twelve years old when he bagan to reign, Da.5.20,23. and he reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem: y ch.26.16. Hab.2.4. z ch.24. 18. 2 But did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, like unto the b abominations of the heathen, a Je.26.18, 19. whom the LORD had cast out beb 1Ki.21.23.fore the children of Israel. c Pr.10.22. 3 T For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father c had broken down, and he reared up altars for Baalim, and made groves, d and worshipped e all the host of heaven, and served them. 13 instru- 14 interpre ters. 25 But Hezekiah rendered x not again according to the benefit done unto him; for his heart was y lifted up: z therefore there was wrath upon him, and upon Judah and Jerusalem. 26 Notwithstanding Hezekiah ƒ2Ki.20.12. humbled himself for the 12 pride of Is.39,1,&c. his heart, (both he a and the inhabit. De.8.2,16. ants of Jerusalem,) so that ỏ the wrath of the LORD came not upon them in the days of Hezekiah. 27 And c Hezekiah had exceed-; 2Ki.xviii¶ ing much riches and honour and he made himself treasuries for sil-16 or, highest. ver, and for gold, and for precious k Pr. 10.7. stones, and for spices, and for (CHAP. 33.) shields, and for all manner of a 2Ki.21.1. 13 pleasant jewels; 28 Storehouses also for the increase of corn, and wine, and oil; and stalls for all manner of beasts, and cotes for flocks. Ja. 1.13. Is.xxxvi xxxix. XX. b ch.28.3. returned c ch.30.14. 12. 4 Also he built altars in the house of the LORD, whereof the LORD had said, in Jerusalem shall my name be for ever. 5 And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD. 6 And ƒ he caused his children to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom: also g he observed times, and used enchantments, and used witchcraft, and dealt with a familiar spirit, and with wizards: he wrought much evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger. 7 And he set a carved image, (the idol which he had made,) in the house of God, of which God had said to David and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen before 39.all the tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever: 11. 8 Neither will I any more remove the foot of Israel from out of the 29 Moreover he provided him cities, and possessions of flocks dƒEze.23.37, and herds in abundance: for God had given him substance very much.g 30 This same Hezekiah also stopped the upper water-course e of De.18.10, His repentance. 2 CHRONICLES, XXXIV. land which I have appointed for B. C. 610. your fathers: so that they will take heed to do all that I have commanded them, according to the whole law and the statutes and the ordinances by the hand of Moses. 9 So Manasseh made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to err, and to do worse than the heathen, h La.3.7. Ps. 107.10 14. 22 But he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, as did Manasseh his father: for Amon sacrificed unto all the carved uima whom the LORD had destroyed be- 3 or, chains. ges which Manasseh his father had fore the children of Israel. 10 And the LORD spake to Manasseh, and to his people: but they would not hearken. 11 ¶ Wherefore the LORD brought upon them the captains of the host 2 of the king of Assyria, which took Manasseh among the thorns, h and bound i him with 3 fetters, and carried him to Babylon. k Ho.5.15. 1 Pe.5.6. 7 1Ch.5.20. Ezr. 8.23. m Ps.9.16. tower. 12 And when he was in affliction, he besought the LORD his God, n ver.3,5,7. and & humbled himself greatly be- o Le.7.12. fore the God of his fathers. 13 And prayed unto him ; and I heo 2Ki. 15.4. was entreated of him, and heard q 1Jno. 1.9. his supplication, and brought him Ro.5. 16. again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then m Manasseh knew that the LORD he was God. & Ps. 119.67, 71,75. and raised it up a very great height, u Is. 44. 15,&c. and put captains of war in all the 6 multiplied fenced cities of Judah. 15 And he took away the strange n gods, and the idol out of the house of the LORD, and all the altars that he had built in the mount of the house of the LORD, and in Jerusalem, and cast them out of the city. 16 And he repaired the altar of the LORD, and sacrificed thereon peaceofferings, and thank-offerings, o and commanded Judah to serve the LORD God of Israel. 17 Nevertheless, p the people did sacrifice still in the high places, yet unto the LORD their God only. 18 T Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and his prayer unto his God, and the words of the seers that spake to him in the name of the LORD God of Israel, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel. trespass. v Je.7.26. w Ge.9.6. Nu.35.31,33. (CHAP. 34.) a 2Ki.22.1, 19 His prayer also, and how God was entreated q of him, and all r his sins, and his trespass, and the places wherein he built high places, and set up groves and graven images, 3 or, mauls. before s he was humbled, behold, they are written among the sayings of 5 the seers. 4 to make powder. 20 So Manasseh slept with hish De.9.21. fathers, and they buried him in his made, and served them; 23 And humbled not himself before the LORD, as Manasseh his father had humbled himself; but Amon 6 trespassed more v and more. 24 And his servants conspired against him, and slew him in his own house. 25 But the people of the land slew w all them that had conspired against king Amon; and the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his stead. CHAPTER XXXIV. 1 Josiah's good reign: 3 He destroyeth idolatry. OSIAII a was eight years old JWA Le began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem one and thirty years. 2 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the ways of David his father, and declined neither b to the right hand, nor to the left. reign, while he was yet young, c he 3 For in the eighth year of his began to seek after the God of Da vid his father: and in the twelfth year he began to d purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high e places, and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images. 4 And they brake down the altars of Baalim in his presence; and the 1 images that were on high above them, he cut down; and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images, he brake in pieces, and made dust of them, f and strewed it upon the 2 graves of them that had sacrificed unto them. 5 And he burnt g the bones of the priests upon their altars, and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem. 6 And so did he in the cities of Manasseh, and Ephraim, and Simeon, even unto Naphtali, with their 3 mattocks round about. 7 And when he had broken down the altars and the groves, and had beaten the graven images 4 into powder, h and cut down all the idols throughout all the land of Israel, he returned to Jerusalem. 8 Now in the eighteenth year of his reign, when he had purged the land, and the house, he sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, and Maa 2 CHRONICLES | A book of the law found. seiah the governor of the city, and B. C. 621. Joah the son of Joahaz the recorder, to repair the house of the LORD his i 2Ki. 12.4. God. 5 or, rafter. 9 And when they came to Hilkiah k ch.31.12. the high priest, they delivered i the money that was brought into the house of God, which the Levites 1 ch.2.18. that kept the doors had gathered of the hand of Manasseh and Ephraim, m 1Ch.23.4, and of all the remnant of Israel. and of all Judah and Benjamin; n De. 17.18, and they returned to Jerusalem. 10 And they put it in the hand of the workmen that had the oversight of the house of the LORD, and they gave it to the workmen that wrought in the house of the LORD, to repair and amend the house: 11 Even to the artificers and build ers gave they it, to buy hewn stone, and timber for couplings, and to 5 floor the houses which the kings of Judah had destroyed. Ne.7.2. 1C0.4.2. Ne.4.10. 5. 19. Jos. 1.8. by the hand of. o Je.36.20,21. to the hand of. poured out, 8 or, melted. 9 in it. p Ro.7.7,9. 2Kİ.22.12. q Je.21.2. Eze. 14. 1, XXXIV. The elders assembled. phan, and 10 Abdon the son of Micah, and Shaphan the scribe, and Asaiah a servant of the king's, saying, 21 Go, inquire g of the LORD for me, and for them that are left r in Israel and in Judah, concerning the words of the book that is found: for greats is the wrath of the LORD that is poured out upon us, because our fathers have not kept the word of the LORD, to do after all that is written in this book. 22 And Hilkiah, and they that the king had appointed, went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvath, the son of 11 Hasrah, keeper of the 12 wardrobe; (now she dwelt in Jerusalem in the 13 college :) and they spake to her to that effect. 23 T And she answered them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Tell ye the man that sent you to me, 24 Thus saith the LORD, Behold, It will bring evil upon this place, 12 And the men did the work k faithfully: and the overseers of 10 or, Achbor, and upon the inhabitants thereof, them were Jahath and Obadiah, the Levites, of the sons of Merari; and Zechariah and Meshullam, of the sons of the Kohathites, to set it forward; and other of the Levites, all that could skill of instruments of music. 13 Also they were over the bearers / of burdens, and were overseers of all that wrought the work in any manner of service: and m of the Levites there were scribes, and officers, and porters. 14 And when they brought out the money that was brought into the house of the LORD, Hilkiah the priest found a book n of the law of the LORD given 6 by Moses. &c. r Is.37.4. 15 And Hilkiah answered and said to Shaphan the scribe, I have found the book of the law in the house of the LORD. And Hilkiah deliver-t ed the book to Shaphan. De.28. 15, &c. even all the curses that are written in the book which they have read before the king of Judah: 25 Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the works of their hands; therefore my wrath 29.18-28. shall be poured out u upon this 30.17-19. place, and shall not be quenched. 26 And as for the king of Judah, who sent you to inquire of the LORD, so shall ye say unto him, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, 11 or, Harhas, concerning the words which thou 2Ki.22.14.hast heard; 31.16-22. 32. 15-25. Ro.1.18. 2.8-12. 12 garments. 16 And Shaphan carried o the book to the king, and brought the king u Is.42.25. word back again, saying, All that was committed 7 to thy servants, they do it. 17 And they have 8 gathered togetner the money that was found in the house of the LORD, and have delivered it into the hand of the overseers, and to the hand of the workmen. Je.7.20. La.2.4. 4.11. 27 Because thine heart was v tender, and thou didst humble w thyself before God, when thou heardest his words against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, and humbledst thyself before me, and didst rend thy clothes, and weep before me; I have even heard thee r also, saith the LORD. 28 Behold, I will gather thee to thy fathers, and thou shalt be gatherch.33.12,13. ed to thy grave in peace, neithery Ps.34.18. shall thine eyes see all the evil that I will bring upon this place, and upon the inhabitants of the same. So they brought the king word again. 51.17. Is.57.15. 66.2. Eze.9.4. Ps. 10.17. Is.65.24. y lKi.21.29. 2Ki.20.19. 18 Then Shaphan the scribe told w Ja.4.6, 10. the king, saying, Hilkiah the priest hath given me a book. And Shaphan read 9 it before the king. 19 And it came to pass, when the king had heard p the words of the law, that he rent his clothes. 20 And the king commanded Hilkiah and Ahikamı the son of Sha 22Ki.23.1,&c. even to 29 Then z the king sent and gathered together all the clders of Judah and Jerusalem. 30 And the king went up into the house of the LORD, and all the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the priests, and the Levites, and all the people, 14 great and small: and he read in their Josiah keepeth a 2 CHRONICLES, XXXV. mosi solemn passover. cars all the words of the book of B. C. 624. | sand bullocks: these were of the the covenant that was found in the house of the LORD. a ch.6.13. 2Ki.11.14. b Je.50.5. c Ps. 119.111, 31 And the king stood a in his place, and made a covenant b before the LORD, to walk after the LORD, and to keep his commandments, and his testimonies, c and his statutes, with all his heart, and with all his soul, to perform d'the words d Ps. 119. 106. of the covenant which are written 15 found. in this book. 112. 32 And he caused all that were e 1Ki. 11.5. 15 present in Jerusalem and Benja-f Je.3. 10. min to stand to it. And the inhabitants of Jerusalem did according Hos.6.4. to the covenant of God, the God of 16 after. their fathers. b Ex. 12.6. 33 And Josiah took away all the (CHAP. 35.) abominations e out of all the coun- a 2Ki.23.21, tries that pertained to the children &c. of Israel, and made all that were present in Israel to serve, even to serve the LORD their God. ́ ́ And all his days f they departed not from 16 following the LORD, the God of their fathers. CHAPTER XXXV. over. Ezr.6.19. c ch.23.18. d ch.30.22. De.33.10. e 1Ch.23.26. f1Ch.23.26. OREOVER a Josiah kept a passover unto the LORD in g ch.8.14. Jerusalem: and they killed the pass-h Ps. 134. 1. over on the tourteenth day b of the first month. 2 And he set the priests in their c charges, and encouraged them to the service of the house of the LORD, 3 And said unto the Levites that taught all d Israel, which were holy unto the LORD, Put the holy ark in the house which Solomon the son of David king of Israel did build; it e shall not be a burden upon your shoulders: serve now the LORD your God, and his people Israel, 1 house. 2 sons of the people. i ch.30.3.15. Ezr.6.20. 3 offered. k ch.7.8.10. 30.24. 3 offered. 4 And prepare yourselves by the houses of your fathers, after your 1 Ezr.6.18. courses, according to the writing of David f king of Israel, and ac-mch.29.22,34. cording to the writing of Solomongn Le.3.3. his son. 5 And stand h in the holy place, ac- o Ex. 12.8,9. De. 16.7. cording to the divisions of the 1 families of the fathers of your 2 brethren the people, and after the divi- p 1Sa.2.13-15. sion of the families of the Levites. 4 made them 6 So kill the passover, and sanc- run. tify i yourselves, and prepare yours station. brethren, that they may do accord ing to the word of the LORD by the q 1Ch.25.1, 7 And Josiah 3 gave to k the people, of the flock, lambs and kids, r 1Ch.9.17. all for the passover-offerings, for all that were present, to the number of thirty thousand, and three thou 6 found. king's substance. 8 And his princes 3 gave willingly unto the people, to the priests, and to the Levites: Hilkiah and Zechariah and Jehiel, rulers of the house of God gave unto the priests for the passover-offerings two thousand and six hundred small cattle, and three hundred oxen. 9 Conaniah also, and Shemaiah and Nethaneel his brethren, and Hashabiah and Jehiel and Jozabad, chief of the Levites, 3 gave unto the Levites for passover-offerings, five thousand small cattle, and five hundred oxen. 10 So the service was prepared, and the priests stood in their place. and the Levites in their courses, l according to the king's command ment. 11 And m they killed the passover, and the priests sprinkled the blood from their hands, and the Levites flayed them. 12 And they removed the burntofferings, that they might give according to the divisions of the families of the people, to offer unto the LORD, as it is written n in the book of Moses. And so did they with the oxen. 13 And they roasted o the passover with fire according to the ordinance but the other holy offerings sod p they in pots, and in caldrons, and in pans, and 4 divided them speedily among all the people. 14 And afterward they made ready for themselves, and for the priests: because the priests the sons of Aaron were busied in offering of burnt-offerings and the fat until night; therefore the Levites prepared for themselves, and for the priests the sons of Aaron. 15 And the singers the sons of Asaph were in their 5 place, according to the commandment of David, g and Asaph, and Heman, and Jeduthun the king's seer; and the porters r waited at every gate; they might not depart from their service; for their brethren the Levites prepared for them. 16 So all the service of the LORD was prepared the same day, to keep the passover, and to offer burntofferings upon the altar of the LORD, according to the commandment of king Josiah. 17 And the children of Israel that were 6 present kept the passover at that time, and the feast of unleavened bread seven days. 18 And there was no passover like to that kept in Israel, from the days of Samuel the prophet; 2 CHRONICLES, XXXVI. Jehoiakim's wicked reign Josiah slain at Megiddo. neither did all the kings of Israel B. C. 610. keep such a passover as Josiah kept, and the priests, and the Levites, and all Judah and Israel that were present, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem. 19 In the eighteenth year of the reign of Josiah was this passover kept. 2Ki.23.29, house. &c. t Je.46.2,&c. 8 of my war. 10 or, among u Zec.12.11. 20 T Afters all this, when Josiah had prepared the 7 temple, Nechot king of Egypt came up to fight against Charchemish by Euphrates: and Josiah went out against him. 21 But he sent ambassadors to him, saying, What have I to do with thee, thou king of Judah? I come not against thee this day, but w Je.22.20. against the house wherewith 11 kindnesses, 8 I have war: for God commanded me to make haste: forbear thee v Mat.9.23. ch.32.32. (CHAP. 36.) a 2Ki.23.30, from meddling with God, who is with me, that he destroy thee not. 22 Nevertheless Josiah would not turn his face from him, but dis-1 removed guised himself, that he might fight with him, and hearkened not unto the words of Necho from the mouth him. &c. of God, and came to fight in the 2 mulcted. valley of Megiddo. 23 And the archers shot at king b 2Ki.24.13, &c. down at Jerusalem, and 2 condemned the land in an hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold. 4 And the king of Egypt made Eliakim his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem, and turned his name to Jehoiakim. And Necho took Jehoahaz his brother, and carried him to Egypt. 5 Jehoiakim was twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD his God. 6 Against b him came up Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and bound him in 3 fetters, to carry him to Babylon. 7 Nebuchadnezzar also carried of the vessels of the house of the LORD to Babylon, and put them in his temple at Babylon. 8 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and his abominations which he did, and that which was found in him, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah: and 4 Jehoiachin his son reigned in his stead. 9 Jehoiachin c was eight years Josiah; and the king said to his 3 or, chains: old when he began to reign, and he servants, Have me away; for I am sore 9 wounded. 24 His servants therefore took him out of that chariot, and put him in the second chariot that he had. d; and they brought him to Jerusalem, and he died, and was buried 10 in one of the sepulchres of his fathers. And all Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah. or, Coniah, Je.22.24. 2Ki.24.8,&c 5 at the return of the year. vessels of desire. 25 T And Jeremiah lamented u for Josiah and all the singingmenu and the singing-women spake of Josiah in their lamentations to this day, and made them an ordi-d Da.1.1,2. nance win Israel: and, behold, they are written in the lamentations. 26 Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and his 11 goodness, according to that which was written in the law of the LORD. 27 And his deeds, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah. CHAPTER XXXVI. Jehoahaz succeeding, is deposed by Pharaoh. 5.2. " or, Matta niah, his e Je.37.1. f Je.51.2.&c. g Je.52.3. Eze. 17. 15, λ 2Ki. 17. 14. i Je.25,3,4. 35.15. 8 by the hand of. 9 i. e. continually and carefully. reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem: and he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD. 10 And 5 when the year was expired, king Nebuchadnezzar sent, and brought him to Babylon, with of the LORD, and made 7 Zedekiah the goodly vessels d of the house hise brother king over Judah and Jerusalem. 11 T Zedekiah ƒ was one and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. 12 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD his God, and humbled not himself before Jeremiah the prophet speaking from the mouth of the LORD. 13 And he also rebelled g against king Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God: but he stiffened h his neck, and hardened his heart from turning unto the LORD God of Israel. 14 T Moreover all the chief of the priests, and the people, transgressed very much after all the abominations of the heathen; and polluted the house of the LORD which he had hallowed in Jerusalem. 15 Andi the LORD God of their fathers sent to them 8 by his messengers, rising up betimes, and sending; because he had com |