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or, weapons.

Heb. pake heart, f. 40.

to their

6 And he set captains of war over the 10r, words, people, and gathered them together to him in the street of the gate of the city, and spake comfortably to them, saying, 7Be strong and courageous, 'be not afraid nor dismayed for the king of Assyria, nor for all the multitude that is e Deut. 31.6. with him: for there be more with us than with him:

ch. 30. 22.

f ch. 20. 15. g 2 Kings 6.

16.

Jer. 17.5 ich. 13. 12

1 John 4-4

Rom. & 31.

8 With him is an harm of flesh; but with us is the LORD our God to help us, and to fight our battles. And the people rested themselves upon the words of + Heb. LeanHezekiah king of Judah.

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9 After this did Sennacherib king of Assyria send his servants to Jerusa-Kings lem, (but he himself laid siege against Lachish, and all his power with him,) + Heb. daunto Hezekiah king of Judah, and unto all Judah that were at Jerusalem, saying, 10 Thus saith Sennacherib king of 12 Kings 18 Assyria, Whereon do ye trust, that ye abide in the siege in Jerusalem?

19.

Or, in the strong hold.

11 Doth not Hezekiah persuade you to give over yourselves to die by famine and by thirst, saying, "The LORD our m 2 Kings God shall deliver us out of the hand of the king of Assyria?

18. 39.

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12 "Hath not the same Hezekiah taken n 2 Kings 18. away his high places and his altars, and commanded Judah and Jerusalem, saying, Ye shall worship before one altar, and burn incense upon it?

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13 Know ye not what I and my fathers have done unto all the people of other lands? were the gods of the nations of Kings 18. those lands any ways able to deliver their lands out of mine hand?

33, 34, 35

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14 Who was there among all the gods of those nations that my fathers utterly destroyed, that could deliver his people out of mine hand, that your God should be able to deliver you out of mine hand? 15 Now therefore let not Hezekiah paKings 18. deceive you, nor persuade you on this manner, neither yet believe him: for no god of any nation or kingdom was able to deliver his people out of mine hand, and out of the hand of my fathers: how much less shall your God deliver you out of mine hand?

16 And his servants spake yet more against the LORD God, and against his servant Hezekiah.

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Hezekiah's sickness and recovery.

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CHAP. XXXIII. Jerusalem that were on the wall, to affright them, and to trouble them; that 12 Kings 18. they might take the city.

10.

26, 27, 28.

19 And they spake against the God of Jerusalem, as against the gods of the u2 Kings 19 people of the earth, which were "the work of the hands of man.

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21 And 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 he was come into the house of his god, they that came forth Heb. made of his own bowels + slew him there with the sword.

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cious things. a ch. 17.5

22 Thus 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 guided them on every side.

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Manasseh's wicked reign.

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left him, to "try him, that he might CHRIST
know all that was in his heart.
32 Now the rest of the acts of He-
zekiah, and his goodness, behold, they + Heb. kind.
are written in "the vision of Isaiah the
prophet, the son of Amoz, and in the
book of the kings of Judah and Israel.
33 And Hezekiah slept with his fa-
thers, and they buried him in the || chief- 21.
est of the sepulchres of the sons of David: ¡Or,highest.
and all Judah and the inhabitants of Je-
rusalem did him honour at his death. Prov. 10.7.
And Manasseh his son reigned in his
stead.

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CHAP. XXXIII.

1 Manasseh's wicked reign. 3 He setteth
up idolatry, and would not be admonished.
11 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.

And many brought gifts unto the M when he began to reign, and old

a

the LORD to Jerusalem, and presents to Hezekiah king of Judah: so that he was "magnified in the sight of all nations from thenceforth.

b ch. 1. 1.

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ANASSEH was twelve years 1,2kin 21. reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem: 2 But did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, like unto the abomi- Deut. 18.9. nations of the heathen, whom the LORD 3. had cast out before the children of Israel. 3 For the built again the high places +Heb. he rewhich Hezekiah his father had broken down, and he reared up altars for Baalim, and made groves, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them.

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 h And he caused his children to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom: also 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.

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& ver. 3, 5, 7.

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 peace offery Lev. 7. 12. ings and thank offerings, and commanded Judah to serve the LORD God of Israel. 17 Nevertheless the people did sacrifice still in the high places, yet unto the LORD their God only.

2 ch. 32. 12.

18 Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and his prayer unto his God, and a 1 Sam.9.9. 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.

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19 His prayer also, and how God was intreated of him, and all his sins, 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 of the seers.

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

21 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;

Josiah's good reign.

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23 And humbled not himself before the LORD, das Manasseh his father had humbled himself; but Amon +trespassed a ver. 12 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 people of the land made Josiah his son king in his stead. CHAP. XXXIV.

1

Josiah's good reign. 3 He destroyeth idolatry. 8 He taketh order for the repair of the temple. 14 Hilkiah having found a book of the law, Josiah sendeth to Huldah to enquire of the Lord. 23 Huldah prophesieth the destruction of Jerusalem, but respite thereof in Josiah's time. 29 Josiah, causing it to be read in a solemn assembly, reneweth the covenant with God.

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he began to he reigned
OSIAH was eight years old when a Kings 22.

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 to the right hand, nor to the left.

1, &c.

634

630.

3¶ For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to 'seek after the God of David his father: bcb. 15.2. and in the twelfth year he began to e 1 Kings 13. purge Judah and Jerusalem from the 2 high places, and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images.

d ch. 33. 17.

22.

Lev. 263. or, a image.

2 Kings 23-4

4 "And they brake down the altars 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 (a Kings 23strowed it upon the graves of them that had sacrificed unto them. 5 And he burnt the bones of the Kings 13priests upon their altars, and cleansed * Judah and Jerusalem.

4.

+ Heb. facr of the graves.

6 And so did he in the cities of Manasseh, and Ephraim, and Simeon, even unto Naphtali, with their mattocks | Or, mauls. round about.

7 And when he had broken down the altars and the groves, and had beaten Dent. 9.3km the graven images +into powder, and cut + Heb. to down all the idols throughout all the land der 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 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 money that was brought into the house of God, which the Levites that kept the doors had gathered of the hand of Manasseh

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The book of the law found.

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1 Or, to rafter.

CHAP. XXXIV.

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 amend the house: 11 Even to the artificers and builders gave they it, to buy hewn stone, and timber for couplings, and || 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 musick.

13 Also they were over the bearers of burdens, and were overseers of all that wrought the work in any manner of ser11 Chron. vice: land of the Levites there were scribes, and officers, and porters.

23-4, 5

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

22.8, &c. + Heb. by the hand of.

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 the hand of again, saying, All that was committed to thy servants, they do it.

+ Heb. to

+ Heb. pour el out, or,

melted.

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 Heb, in it. me a book. And Shaphan read tit before the king.

10:,4-bar, 2 Kings 22.

12.

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, saying,

21 Go, enquire 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 Hilkiah, and they that the king had appointed, went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son

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of "Tikvath, the son of || Hasrah, keeper Before of the wardrobe; (now she dwelt in Je- 624. rusalem in the college:) and they spake na Kings 22. to her to that effect.

14. JOr, Harhas.

23 And she answered them, Thus + Heb. garsaith the LORD God of Israel, Tell ye the man that sent you to me,

ments. Or, in the school, or, in the second

24 Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will part. 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 :

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 enquire 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 thine 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.

28 Behold, I wili 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 So they brought the king word

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He is slain at Megiddo. CHRIST serve, even to serve the LORD their God. | ple, to offer unto the LORD, as it is writ-Before r 624. And all his days they departed not from ten 'in the book of Moses. And so did cir. 623. r Jer. 3. 10. following the LORD, the God of their they with the oxen. +Heb.from fathers. after.

eir. 623.

a 2 Kings 23.

21, 22.

1 Esdras 1. 1, &c.

b Exod.12.6.

Ezra 6. 19.

ech. 23. 18. d ch. 29. 5,

Ezra 6. 18.

11.

e Deut. 33.

f

14.

CHAP. XXXV.

1 Josiah keepeth a most solemn passover. 20
He, provoking Pharaoh-necho, is slain at
Megiddo. 25 Lamentations for Josiah.
OREOVER Josiah kept a passover
unto the LORD in Jerusalem: and
they killed the passover on the four-
teenth day of the first month.

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2 And he set the priests in their charges, and encouraged them to the service of the house of the LORD,

3 And said unto the Levites that 10. ch. 30. taught all Israel, which were holy unto See ch. 34. the LORD, Put the holy ark in the house which Solomon the son of David king of Israel did build; it shall not be a burden upon your shoulders: serve now the LORD your God, and his people Israel,

t

Lev. 3.3.

8,9. Deut.

u 1 Sam. 2.

13 And they roasted the passover with Exod. 12. fire according to the ordinance: but the 16.7. other holy offerings "sod they in pots, 13, 142 and in caldrons, and in pans, and di- +Heb. made vided 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.

them run.

↑ Heb. station.

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25. 1, S.

15 And the singers the sons of Asaph were in their place, according to the commandment of David, and Asaph, and Heman, and Jeduthun the king's y Chron. seer; and the porters waited at every y 1 Chron. gate; they might not depart from their 26. 14, &c. service; for their brethren the Levites prepared for them.

g ch.5.7. 23. 26.

i1 Chron. 9. 10.

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4 And prepare yourselves by the houses of your fathers, after your courses, ack1 Chron. cording to the writing of David king of Israel, and according to the 'writing of Solomon his son.

23. & 24. & 25. & 26.

I ch. 8. 14.

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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.

17, 18 &

↑ Heb.

17 And the children of Israel that were present kept the passover at that time, found. and the feast of "unleavened bread seven 2 Exod. 12. days.

6 So kill the passover, and "sanctify 18 And there was no passover like to 15. Ezra 6. yourselves, and prepare your brethren, that kept in Israel from the days of Sathat they may do according to the word muel the prophet; neither did all the of the LORD by the hand of Moses. kings of Israel keep such a passover_as 7 And Josiah + gave to the people, Josiah kept, and the priests, and the Lech. 30. 24. of the flock, lambs and kids, all for the vites, and all Judah and Israel that were passover offerings, for all that were pre-present, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem. sent, to the number of thirty thousand, and three thousand bullocks: these were of the king's substance.

+ Heb. offered.

+ Heb. offered.

8 And his princes † 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 Jeiel and Jozabad, chief of the Levites, † gave unto the Levites for passover offerings five thousand small cattle, and five hundred oxen.

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