Manasse'd's wickedness. CHAP. XXI. Amon's wicked reign. Baal, and made a grove, as did Ahab fathers came forth out of Egypt, even king of Israel; and worshipped all unto this day. the host of heaven, and served them. 4 And he built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD said, Jerusalem will I put my name. 16 Moreover, Manassch shed innocent blood very much, till he had filled JeInrusalem from one end to another; besides his sin wherewith he made Judan to siu, in doing that which was evil in the sight of the LORD. 5 And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD. 6 And be made his son pass through the fire, and observed times, and used enchautments, and dealt with familiar spirits and wizzards: he wrought much wickedness in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger, 7 And he set a graven image of the grove that he had made in the house, of which the Lonn said to David, and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever: 17 T Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and all that he did, and his sin that he smned, are they not written in the book of the Chronicles of the kings of Judah? 18 And Manasseh slept with his fathers, and was buried in the garden of his own house, in the garden of Uzza; and Amon his son reigned in his stead. 19 ¶ Amon 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, 8 Neither will I make the feet of Is-the daughter of Haruz of Jotbah. rael move any more out of the laud 20. And be did that which was evil which I gave their fathers; only if they in the sight of the Lonu, as his father will observe to do according to all that Manasseh did. I have commanded them, and accord- 21 And he walked in all the way that ing to all the law that my servant Mo-[his father walked in, and served the ses commanded them. idols that his father served, and wor 9 But they bearkened not; and Ma-shipped them: nasseh seduced them to do more evil 22 And he forsook the Lond God of than did the nations whom the Lond his fathers, and walked not m the way destroyed before the children of Israel, of the Lond. 10 ¶ And the LORD spake by his ser vants the prophets, saying, 23 ¶ And the servants of Amon conspired against him, and slew the king 11 Because Manasseh king of Judabțin his own house. nath done these abominations, and 24 And the people of the land slew hath done wickedly above all that the all them that had conspired against Amorites did, which were before him, king Amon; and the people of the and hath made Judah also to sin with land made Josiah his son king in bis his idols; stead. 12 Therefore thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Behold, I am bringing such| evil upon Jerusalem and Judali, that whosoever beareth of it, both his cars shall tingle. 13 And I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria, and the plummet of the house of Ahab; and I will wipe 25 T 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. Jerusalem as a man wipeth a dish, JOS Art OSIAH was eight years old wher wiping it, and turning it upside down. he began to reign, and he reigned 14 And I will forsake the remnant of | thirty and one years in Jerusalem: mine inh 'ritance, and deliver them and his mother's name was Jedidah, into the land of their enemies, and the daughter of Adaiah of Boscath. they shall become a prey and a spoil 2 And he did that which was right in to all their enemies; the sight of the Lond, and walked in 15 Because they have done that which all the way of David his father, and was evil in my sight, and have pro-turned not aside to the right hand or A voked me to anger, since the day their the left. :. Josiah s goud reign. II. KINGS. He reneweth the covenant. And it came to pass, in the eigh-jkam, and Achbor, and Shaphan, and eenth year of king Josiah, thas the Asahiah, went unto Huldah the proph ing sent Shephat the son of Azalialı, etess, the wife of Shallam the son of the son of Meshullain, the scribe, to Tikvah, the son of Harhas, keeper of The house of the Loao, saying, the wardrobe; (now ehe dwelt in Je4 Go up to Hilkiah the high priest, rusalem in the college;) and they comthat he may sun the silver which is muned with her. I rought into the house of the LORD, hich the keepers of the door have thered of the people: And let thein deliver it into the Land of the doers of the work, that have the oversight of the house of the Lond: and let them give it to the doers of the work, which is in the house of the Lond, to repair the breaches of the house, Unto carpenters, and builders, and m sons, and to buy timber and hewn st ne to repair the house. 7 Howbeit there was no reckoning mide with them of the money that was delivered into their hand, because they dealt faithfully. 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. 15 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, 1 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 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 shall be kindled against this place, and shall not be quenched. 18 But to the king of Judah which sent you to enquire of the LORD, thus shall ye say to him, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, As touching the words which thou hast heard: 19 Because thy heart was tender, and thou hast humbled thyself before the Lono, when thou heardest what I spake against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and hast rent thy clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard thee, saith the Lond. 9 And Shaphan the scribe came to 11 And it came to pass, when the King had beard the words of the book of the law, that he rent bis clothes. 12 And the king commanded Hilkiah the priest, and film the dd i klah AND the king sent, and they gath 2 And the king went up into the house of the LORD, and all the men of 13 Go ye, inquire of the Lond for me, Judah, and all the inhabitants of Jeru and for the people, and for all Judah, salem with him, and the priests, and concerning the words of this book that the prophets, and all the people, both is found: for great is the wrath of the small and great: and he read in their LORD that is kindled against us, be-ears all the words of the book of the cause our fathers have not hearkened covenant which was found in the house unto the words of this book, to do ac-[of the LORD. cording unto all that which is written 3T And the king stood by a pillar, 14 So Ilkiah the priest, and Ahi-to walk after the LORD, and to keep He destroys idolatry CHAP. XXII. and reforms Judak. his commandments and his testimonies [melech the chamberlain, which 2003 and his statutes with all their heart and in the suburbs, and burned the chariall their soul, to perform the words of ots of the sun with fire. this covenant that were written in this book. And all the people stood to the Covenant. 4 And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the door, to bring forth out of the temple of the Lond all the vessels that were made for Baal, and for the grove, 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-ei. 5 And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places round about Jerusalem; them also that burned incense unto Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven. 12 And the altars that were on the top of the upper chamber of Auaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the LonD, did the king beat down, and brake them down from thence, and cast the dust of them into the brook Kidron. 13 And the high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on the right hand of the mount of Corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had builded for Aahtoreth the abomination of the Zidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination of the cbildren 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. 15 ¶ Moreover the altar that was at 6 And he brought out the grove from Beth-el, and the high place which Jethe house of the LORD, without Jeru- roboam the son of Nebat, who made salem, unto the brook Kidron, and Israel to sin, bad made, both that altar burned it at the brook Kidron, and and the high place he brake down, and stamped it small to powder, and cast burned the high place, and stamped the powder thereof upon the graves of it small to powder and burned the the children of the people. 7 And he brake down the houses of the sodomites, that were by the house of the Lond, where the women wove hangings for the grove. grove. 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 8 And he brought all the priests out them upon the altar, and polluted it, of the cities of Judah, and defiled the according to the word of the Lond high places where the priests had which the man of God proclaimed, burned incense, from Geba to Beer-who proclaimed these words sheba, and brake down the high places 17 Then he said, What title is that of the gates that were in the entering that I see? And the men of the city in of the gates of Joshua the governor of the city, which were on a man's left hand at the gate of the city. 9 Nevertheless the priests of the high places came not up to the altar of the LORD in Jerusalem, but they did eat of the unleavened bread among their brethren. told him, It is the sepulchre of the man of God, which came from Judah, and proclaimed these things that thou hast done against the altar of Beth-el. 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. 10 And he defiled Topheth, which is 19 And all the houses also of the high in the valley of the children of Hin-places that were in the cities of Samanom, that no man might make his son or his daughter to pass through the fire to Molech. ria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke ine LORD to anger, Josiah took away, and did to them according to all the acts that he had dona in Beth-el. 11. And he took away the horses that the kings of Judah had given to the un, at the entering in of the house of 20 And he slew all the priests of the the Lono, by the chamber of Nathan-[high places that were there upon the God's final wrath II. KINGS. against Jubah altars, and burued men's bones upon 31 Jehoahaz was twenty and thre them, and returned to Jerusalein. years old when he began to reign; and 21 ¶ And the king commanded all he reigned three months in Jerusalem. the people, saying, Keep the passover And his mother's name was Hamutal, unto the LORD your God, as it is writ-the daughter of Jeremiah of Libman. ten in the book of this covenant. 32 And he did that which was evil mn 22 Surely there was not holden such the sight of the Lord, according to ali a passover, from the days of the judges that his fathers had done. that julged Israel, nor in all the days of the kings of Israel, nor of the kings of Judab; 33 And Pharaoh-nechoh put him in bands at Riblah in the land of Hamath, that he might not reign in Jerusalem ; and put the land to a tribute of a hundred talents of silver, and a talent of 23 But in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, wherein this passover was holden to the Lono in Jerusalem. gold. 21 ¶ Moreover, the workers with fa-| 31 And Pharaoh-nechoh made Eliamiliar spirits, and the wizards, and the kim the son of Josiah king in the room images, and the idols, and all the abom-[of Josiah his father, and turned his inations that were spied in the land of naine to Jehoakim,and took Jehoahaz Judah and in Jerusalem,did Josiah put away; and he came to Egypt,and died away, that he night perform the words there. of the law, which were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of the Lond. 35 1 And Jehoiakim gave the silver and the gold to Pharaoh ; but he taxed the land to give the money, according 25 And like unto him there was no to the commandment of Pharaoh : he king before him, that turned to the exacted the silver and the gold of the Lond with all his heart, and with all people of the land, of every one accorhis soul, and with all his might, acing to his taxation, to give it unto Phacording to all the law of Moses; neiraob-nechoh. ther after him arose there any like 36 T Jehoiakim was twenty and five him. 26 T Notwithstanding, the Lono turned not from the fierceness of his great wrath, wherewith his anger was kindled against Judab, because of all the provocations that Manasseh bad provoked him withal. 27 And the Lono said, I will remove Judah also out of my sight, as I have removed Israel, and will cast of this city Jerusalem which I have chosen, and the house of which I have said, My name shall be there. years old when he began to reign; and CHAP. XXIV. Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim Nhis days Nebuchadnezzar king of became his servant three years: then he turned and rebelled against him. 2 And the LORD sent against him 28 Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, bands of the Chaidees, and bands of and all that he did, are they not writ-the Syrians, and bands of the Moabites, ten in the book of the Chronicles of and bauds of the children of Ammon, the kings of Judab ? and sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of the Lond, which he spake by his servants the prophets. 29 Tinys days Pharaoh-nechoch 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, when he had seen him. 30 And his servants carried him in a chariot dead_from_Megiddo, and brought him to Jerusalem, and buried him in his own sepulchre. And the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and anointed him, and made him king in his father's stead. 3 Surely at the commandment of the Lond came this upon Judah, to remove them out of his sight, for the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he did; 4 And also for the innocent blood that he shed, (for he filled Jerusalem with immocen: blood,) which the LORD would not pardon. 5 T Now the rest of the acts of Jehor Jerusalem taken CHAP. XXV by Nebuchadnezzår. akum, and all that he did, are they not his stead, and changed his name to written in the book of the Chronicles Zedekiah. of the kings of Judah? 6 So Jehoiakim slept with his fathers; and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his stead. 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 Libuah. 19 And be did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to 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 Eu-all that Jehoiakim bad done. phrates, all that pertained to the king of Egypt. ST Jehojachin was eighteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months and his mother's name was Nebustha, the daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem. 9 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lond, according to all that his father had done. 20For through the anger of the Lon V it came to pass in Jerusalem and Ju dab, until he had cast them out from his presence, that Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon. CHAP. XXV. it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth mouth, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon 10 ¶ At that time the servants of Neb-came, he, and all his host, against Jeuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up rusalem, and pitched against it; and against Jerusalem, and the city was they built forts agamst it round about. besieged. 2 And the city was besieged unto the 11 And Nebuchadnezzar king of Bab-eleventh year of king Zedekiah. ylon came against the city, and his servants did besiege it. 3 And on the ninth day of the fourth month the famine prevailed in the ci12 And Jehoiachin the king of Judab ty, and there was no bread for the went out to the king of Babylou, be,|people of the land. and his mother, and his servants, and 4 And the city was brokea up, and ris princes, and his officers; and the all the men of war fled by night by king of Babylon took him in the eighth year of his reign. the way of the gate between two walls, which is by the king's garden: (now 13 And he carried out thence all the the Chaldees were against the city treasures of the house of the Lono, round about:) and the king went the and the treasures of the king's house, way toward the plain. and cut in pieces all the vessels of gold | 5 And the army of the Chaldees purwhich Solomon king of Ismael had sued after the king, and overtook him made in the temple of the Long, as in the plains of Jericho: and all bis the LORD had said. army were scattered from him. 14 And he carried away all Jerusa-| 6So they took the king, and brought tem, and all the princes, and all the him up to the king of Babylon to Ribmighty men of valour, even ten thou-lah; and they gave judgment upon sand captives, and all the craftsmen bim. and smiths: none remained, save the 7 And they slew the sons of Zedekiah poorest sort of the people of the land. [before his eyes, and put out the eyes 15 And he carried away Jehoiachin of Zedekiah, and bound him with fet Babylon, and the king's mother, ters of brass, and carried him to Baband the king's wives, and his officers, ylon. and the mighty of the land ; those car-| 8 And in the fifth month, on the edhe into captivity from Jerusalemn seventh day of the month, which is to Babylon. the nineteenth year of king Nebuchad 16 And all the men of might, even nezzar king of Babylon, came Nebuseven thousand, and craftsmen and zar-adan, captain of the guard, a ser smiths a thousand, all that were strong vant of the king of Babylon, unto Je adapt for war, even them the king rusalem: of Babylon brought captive to Babylon. 9 Aud he burnt the house of the 17¶ And the king of Babylon inade Lond, and the king's house, and all Mattaniah his father's brother king in the houses of Jerusalem, and every |