Manasseh's wicked reign.

Before

CHRIST

712.

nesses.

n Is. 36, &

37, & 38, &

32 Now the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and his † goodness, behold, they are written in a the vision of Isaiah the prophet, the sont Heb. kindof Amoz, and in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel. 33 P And Hezekiah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the chiefest of the sepulchres of the sons of David and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem did him q honour at his death: and Manasseh his son reigned in his] stead.

CHAPTER XXXIII.

1 Mannaseh's wi ́ked reign. 3 He setteth up idolatry, and would not be admomished. He is carried into Babylon. 12 Upon his prayer to God he is released, and putteth down idolatry. 18 His acts. 20 He dying, Amon succeedeth him. 21 Amon reigning wickedly is slain by his servants. 25 The murderers being slain, Josiah succeedeth him.

39.

o 2 Kin. 18,

& 19, & 20. p 2 Kin. 20. 21. Or, highq Prov. 10.7. 698.

est.

2 But did that which was evil in

the sight of the LORD, like unto the

babominations of the heathen, b Deut. 18.9. whom the LORD had cast out before 2 Chr. 28. 3. the children of Israel.

31 For the built again the hight Heb. he places which Hezekiah his father returned had broken down, and he reared and built. up altars for Baalim, and dmade groves, and worshipped e all the host of heaven, and served them.

4 Also he built altars in the house of the LORD, whereof the LORD had said, fIn Jerusalem shall my

name be for ever.

2 Kin. 18. & 31. 1. &

4. ch. 30. 14.

32. 12.
d Deut. 16.
21.

Deut. 12.

e Deut. 17.3.

Before

CHRIST

677.

o Deut. 28. 36. Job 36.

1 Kings 1.

u ch. 27. 3.

Or, the tower.

x ver. 3, 5, 7.

Manasseh's acts and death.

11 T • Wherefore the LORD brought upon them the captains of the host fof the king of Assyria, which took Manasseh among the thorns, and r bound him with | fetters, and carried him to Babylon.

12 And when he was in affliction, he besought the LORD his God, and 9 humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers,

13 And prayed unto him: and he was entreated of him, and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his king dom. Then Manasseh knew that the LORD he was God.

14 Now after this, he built a wall without the city of David, on the west side of t Gihon, in the valley, even to the entering in at the fishgate, and compassed "about || Ophel, and raised it up a very great height, and put captains of war in all the fenced cities of Judah.

15 And he took away the strange 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 y Lev. 7. 12. peace-offerings and y thank-offerings, and commanded Judah to serve the LORD God of Israel.

Deut. 18. 10. 2 Kings 23. 10. ch. 28. 3. Ezek. 23. 37,

5 And he built altars for all the host of heaven g in the two courts of the house of the LORD. 6 h And he caused his children toch. 4. 9. h Lev. 18.21. pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom i also he observed times, and used enchantments, and used witchcraft, and dealt with a familiar spirit, and 39 with wizards: he wrought much 10, 11. evil in the sight of the LORD, tok 2 Kin. 21. provoke him to anger.

8 Neither will I any more re-n 2 Sam. 7. move the foot of Israel from out of 10.

the land which I have appointed for 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, whom the LORD had destroyed before the children of Israel.

10 And the LORD spake to Manasseh, and to his people: but they would not hearken.

19 His prayer also, and how God was entreated of him, and all his sin, and his trespass, and the places wherein he built high places, and set up groves and graven images, before he was humbled: behold, they are written among the sayings Or, Horai. of the seers.

b2 Kin. 21. 18.

c 2 Kin. 21. 19, &c.

d ver. 12.

Heb. multiplied trespass.

e 2 Kin. 21. 23, 24.

641.

20 b So Manasseh slept with his fathers, and they buried him in his own house: and Amon his son reigned in his stead.

21 Te Amon was two and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned two years in Jerusalem.

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 images which Manasseh his father had made, and served them;

23 And humbled not himself before the LORD, das Manasseh his father had humbled himself; but Amon † trespassed more and more.

24 And his servants conspired against him, and slew him in his own house.

25 But the people of the land slew all them that had conspired against king Amon; and the peo

3 For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of b ch. 15. 2. David his father: and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and 1 Kin. 13. Jerusalem d from the high places, and the groves, and the carved ch. 33. 17, images, and the molten images.

2.

22.

30. 2 Kings 23.4.

Or, sun images.

4 And they brake down the al-e Lev. 26. tars of Baalim in his presence; and the 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, and strewed it upon the † graves of them that had sacrificed unto them.

5 And he g burnt 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 mattocks round about.

7 And when he had broken down the altars and the groves, and had h beaten the graven images into powder, and cut down all the idols throughout all the land of Israel, he returned to Jerusalem.

12 Kings 23.

4.

↑ Heb. face of the

graves. g1 Kin. 13.

2.

1 Or, mauls.

h Deut. 9. 21.

↑ Heb, to make por der.

3.

624.

8 Nowi in the eighteenth year of his reign, when he had purgedi 2 Kings 22. the land, and the house, he sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, and Maaseiah the governor of the city, and Joah the son of Joahaz the recorder, to repair the house of the LORD his God.

9 And when they came to Hilkiah the high priest, they delivered the k See 2 Kin. money that was brought into the 12. 4, &c. house of God, which the Levites that kept the doors had gathered of the hand of Manasseh and Ephraim, and of all the remnant of Israel, and of all Judah and Benjamin; 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 mend the house:

11 Even to the artificers and builders gave they it, to buy hewn stone, and timber for couplings,

Before CHRIST 621.

1 Or, to rafter.

11 Chr. 23. 4, 5.

The book of the law found. and I to floor the houses which the kings of Judah had destroyed.

12 And the men did the work faithfully: and the overseers of 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: land of the Levites there were scribes, and offi cers, and porters.

14 And when they brought out the money that was brought into the house of the LORD, Hilkiah the priest m found a book of the law of the LORD given † by Moses.

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 delivered the book to Shaphan.

16 And Shaphan carried the book to the king, and brought the king word back again, saying, All that was committed to thy servants, they do it.

17 And they have gathered together 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.

18 Then Shaphan the scribe told the king, saying, Hilkiah the priest hath given me a book. And Shaphan read it before the king.

19 And it came to pass when the king had heard the words of the law, that he rent his clothes.

20 And the king commanded Hilkiah, and Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and || Abdon the son of Micah, and Shaphan the scribe, and Asaiah a servant of the king's, saving,

21 Go, inquire of the LORD for me, and for them that are left in Israel, and in Judah, concerning the words of the book that is found: for great 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 Hilk.ab, and they that the king had appointed, went to Hu!dah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of a Tikvath, the son of Husrah, keeper of the † wardrobe; (now she dwelt in Jerusalem in the college:) and they spake to her to that effect.

23 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, I will bring evil upon this place, and upon the inhabitants thereof, even all the curses that are written in the book which they have read before the king of Judah:

Huldah's prophecy.

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 shall be poured out upon this 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 concerning the words which thou hast heard;

27 Because thy heart was tender, and thou didst humble 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 also, saith the LORD.

Before CHRIST

624.

28 Behold, I will gather thee to thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered to thy grave in peace, neither 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. 29 Then the king sent and ga-o? Kin. 23. thered together all the elders of 1, &c. 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, t great and small: and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant that was found in the house of the LORD.

31 And the king stood in P his place, 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 his heart, and with all his soul, to perform the words. of the covenant which are written in this book.

Heb. from great even to small.

p2 Kin. 11. 14. & 23. 3. ch. 6. 13.

Before CHRIST cir. 623.

e Deut. 33. 10. ch. 30. 22. Mal. 2.

17.

14.

See ch. 34.

g ch. 5. 7. h1 Chr. 23. 26.

i1 Chr. 9. 10. k1 Chr. 23,

3 And said unto the Levites e that taught all Israel, which were holy unto the LORD, Put the holy ark g in the house which Solomon the son of David king of Israel did build: hit shall not be a burden upon your shoulders: serve now the LORD your God, and his people Israel,

4 And prepare yourselves by the i houses of your fathers after your courses, according to the kwriting & 24, & 25, of David king of Israel, and according to the 1 writing of Solomon his son:

& 26.

1 ch. 8. 14.
m Ps. 134. 1.
Heb. the

house of the fathers. Heb. the sons of the people. In ch. 29. 5,

15. & 30. 3, 15. Ezra 6.

20.

+ Heb. ofered.

5 And m stand in the holy place according to the divisions of t the families of the fathers of your brethren † the people, and after the division of the families of the Le

vites.

6 So kill the passover, and a sanctify yourselves, and prepare your brethren, that they may do according to the word of the LORD by the hand of Moses.

7 And Josiah to gave to the people, of the flock, lambs and kids, all och. 30. 24. for the passover-offerings, for all that were present, to the number of thirty thousand, and three thousand bullocks: these were of the king's substance.

t Heb. ofered.

t Heb. ofered.

8 And his princes gave willing ly 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 Cononiah also, and Shemaiah, and Nethaneel, his brethren, and Hashabiah, and Jeiel, and Jozabad, chief of the Levites, † gave unto the Levites for passover-offerings five thousand smail cattle, and five hundred oxen.

10 So the service was prepared, p Ezra 6. 18. and the priests P stood in their place, and the Levites in their courses, according to the king's commandment.

q ch. 29. 22.

r See ch. 29.

34.

11 And they killed the passover, and the priests a sprinkled the blood from their hands, and the Levitos flayed them.

12 And they removed the burnt offerings, that they might give according to the divisions of the families of the people, to offer unto the LORD, as it is written in the book of Moses. And so did they with the oxen.

13 And they roasted the pass9. Deut. 16. over with fire according to the ordinance: but the other holy offerings usod they in pots, and in caldrons, and in pans, and divided Heb. made them speedily among all the people.

u 1 Sam. 2. 13, 14, 15.

them run.

14 And afterward they made ready for themselves, and for the priests: because the priests the sons of Aaron were busied in offering of burntofferings and the fat until night; therefore the Levites prepared for

Before CHRIST

cir. 623.

15 And the singers the sons of Asaph were in their † place, ac- Heb. cording to the commandment of station. David, and Asaph, and Heman, and Jeduthun the king's seer; and the porters y 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 burnt-offerings upon the altar of the LORD, according to the commandment of king Josiah.

I Chr. 25. 1, &c. y 1 Chr. 9. 17, 18. & 26. 14, &c.

17 And the children of Israel that were present kept the passover at Heb. that time, and the feast of unleavened bread seven days.

18 And a there was no passover like to that kept in Israel from the days of Samuel the prophet; neither did all the kings of Israel keep such a passover as Josiah kept, and the priests, and the Levités, 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.

fond.

7 Ex. 12. 15. & 13. 6. ch. 30. 21. a2 Kin. 23. 22, 23.

610.

20 Tb After all this, when Josiah had prepared the temple, Necho b 2 Kin. 23. king of Egypt came up to fight a- 29. Jer. 46. gainst Charchemish by Euphrates: Heb. and Josiah went out against him.

2.

house.

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 against the house wherewith I have war: for God commanded house of my me to make haste: forbear thee war. from meddling with God, who is with me, that he destroy thee

not.

22 Nevertheless Josiah would not

Heb. the

turn his face from him, but e dis-c So 1 Kings guised himself that he might fight 22. 31. with him, and hearkened not unto the words of Necho from the mouth of God, and came to fight in the valley of Megiddo.

23 Aud the archers shot at king Josiah; and the king said to his servants, Have me away; for I am Bore wounded.

+ Heb. made

34.

30.

24 e His servants therefore took sick. him out of that chariot, and put him! Kings 22. in the second chariot that he had; 2 Kings 23. and they brought him to Jerusalem, and he died, and was buried in one of the sepulchres of his Or, among fathers. And fall Judah and Jeru-the sepulsalem mourned for Josiah. 25 And Jeremiah g lamented for Josiah and ball the singing Lam. 4. men and the singing women spake of 20. Josiah in their lamentations to this day, and made them an ordinance 9. 23. in Israel and behold, they are written in the lamentations.

26 Now the rest of the acts of

Before CHRIST 610.

GIO.

Zedekiah's bad reign.

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 Pheraoh, and carried into Egypt. 5 Jehoiakim reigning ill is carried bound into Babylon. 9 Jehoiachin succeeding reigneth ill, and is brought into Babylon. 11 Zedekiah succeeding reigneth ill, and despiseth the prophets, and rebelleth against Nebuchadnezzar, 14 Jerusalem, for the sins of the priests and people, is wholly destroyed. 22 The proclamation of Cyrus.

a

a2 Kin. 23. THEN the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and made him king in his father's stead in Jerusalem.

30, &c.

Heb. re

2 Jehoahaz was twenty and three years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem.

3 And the king of Egypt † put moved him. him down at Jerusalem, and † condemned the land in a hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.

Heb. |mulated.

610.

36, 37.

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 2 Kin. 23. 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.

607. d2 Kin. 24.

6 d Against him came up Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and bound him infetters, to e carry him to Babylon.

7fNebuchadnezzar 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 || Jehoiachin his son reigned in his stead.

9 Jehoiachin was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem: and he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD.

year. h2 Kin. 24. 10,-17. 10 And when the year was exDan. 1. 1,pired, h king Nebuchadnezzar sent, 2. & 5. 2. and brought him to Babylon, i with 599. the f goodly vessels of the house of + Heb. the LORD, and made || Zedekiah ressels of desire. his brother king over Judah and Or, Matta-Jerusalem. niah, his fa

ther's bro

Jer. 22. 20.

24. 17.

k Jer. 37. 1. 12 Kings 24. 18. Jer. 52. 1, &c.

12 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD hie God, and humbled not himself be

king Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God: but he CHRIST stiffened his neck, and hardened his heart from turning unto then 2 Kings 17. 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.

14.

Before CHRIST 588.

2 Kin. 25. 9. Ps. 74. 6,7. 3 79. 1, 7.

+ Heb. the remainder from the sword.

22 Kin. 25. 11.

a Jer. 27. 7.

o Jer. 25. 3, 4. & 35. 15. 15 And the LORD God of their & 44. 4. fathers sent to them by his mes-Heb. by the sengers, rising up || betimes and hand of his sending; because he had compas-That is, sion on his people, and on his dwel-continually ling-place: and care16 But P they mocked the mes-fully. sengers of God, and a despised his words, and misused his prophets, until the wrath of the LORD arose against his people, till there was no remedy.

17 Therefore he brought upon them the king of the Chaldees, who U slew their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion upon young man or maiden, old man, or him that stooped for age: he gave them all into his hand.

18 And all the vessels of the house of God, great and small, and the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the

& 38. 6.

13. 30.

Jer. 5. 12,

Prov. 1. 25,

5.

Jer. 82. 3. Matt. 23. 31. Ps. 74. 1.& 79. 5.

590. Heb. healing.

Deut. 28. 49. 2 Kings 25. 1, &c.

Ezra 9. 7. 588.

u Ps. 74. 20. & 79. 2, 3. x 2 Kin. 25. 13, &c.

14.

Is. 44. 28.

h Ezra 1. 2, 13.

for building the temple. king, and of his princes; all these he brought to Babylon

19 y And they burnt the house of God, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem, and burnt all the palaces thereof with fire, and destroyed all the goodly vessels thereof.

20 And them that had escaped from the sword carried he away to Babylon; a where they were servants to him and his sons until the reign of the kingdom of Persia:

21 To fulfil the word of the LORD by the mouth of b Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed her sabbaths for as long as she lay desolate d she kept sabbath, to fulfil threescore and ten years.

22 e Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the LORD spoken by the mouth of f Jeremiah might be accomplished, the LORD stirred up the spirit of E Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying,

23 h Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, All the kingdoms of the earth hath the LORD God of heaven given me; and he nath charged me to build him a house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Who is there among you of all his people ? The LORD his God be with him, land let him go up.

The proclamation of Cyrus for the CHRIST building of the temple. 5 The people provide for the return. 7 Cyrus restoreth the vessels of the temple to Sheshbazzar.

NOW in the first year of Cyrus

king of Persia, that the word

of the LORD a by the mouth of a 2 Ch 36. Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the 22, 23. Jer. LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus 25. 12. & 29. king of Persia, b that he made abch. 5. 13, proclamation throughout all his 14. kingdom, and put it also in writing,Heb.

Before

free-will-offering for the house o CHRIST God that is in Jerusalem.

cir. 536.

5 Then rose up the chief of the fathers of Judah and Benjamin, and the priests, and the Levites, e Phil. 2. 13. with all them whose spirit e God had raised, to go up to build the house of the LORD which is in Jerusalem.

helped

6 And all they that were about That is, them strengthened their hands them.with vessels of silver, with gold, with goods, and with beasts, and with precious things, besides all that was willingly offered.

fch. 5. 14. & 6. 5.

2 Kin. 21. 13. 2 Chr. 36. 7.

h See ch. 5.

Heb. li

with silver, and with gold, and with him up. goods, and with beasts, besides the

7 Also Cyrus the king brought forth the vessels of the house of the LORD, which Nebuchadnezzar had brought forth out of Jerusalem, and had put them in the house of his gods;

8 Even those did Cyrus king of Persia bring forth by the hand of Mithredath the treasurer, and numbered them unto à Sheshbazzar, the prince of Judah.

9 And this is the number of them thirty chargers of gold, a thousand chargers of silver, nine and twenty knives,

10 Thirty basons of gold, silver basons of a second sort four hun.