398 Manaffeb's wicked reign. II. CHRONICLES. Amon fucceedeth bim. baffadors of the princes of Babylon, who 10 And the LORD fpake to Manasseh, fent unto him to inquire of the wonder and to his people: but they would not that was done in the fand, God left him, hearken. to try him, that he might know all that was in his heart. 11 ¶ Wherefore the LORD brought upon them the captains of the host of the S2 Now the reft of the acts of Heze- king of Affyria, which took Manaffeh akiah, and his goodness, behold, they are mong the thorns, and bound him with fetwritten in the vifion of Ifaiah the proph-ters, and carried him to Babylon. et, the fon of Amoz, and in the book of the kings of Judah and Ifrael. 33 And Hezekiah flept with his fathers, and they buried him in the chiefeft of the fepulchres of the fons of David: and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerufalem did him honour at his death. And naffeh his fon reigned in his stead. CHAP. XXXIII. 12 And when he was in affliction, he befought the LORD his God, and humbled himfelf greatly before the God of his fathers, 13 And prayed unto him: and he was entreated of him, and heard his fupplicaMa-tion, and brought him again to Jerufalem into his kingdom. Then Manaffeh knew that the LORD he was God. 1 Manaffeb's wicked reign. 11 He is car- 14 Now after this he built a wall withried into Babylon. 12 Upon his prayer out the city of David, on the west side of be is released. 20 Amon fucceedeth Gihon in the valley, even to the enter bim. 2 He being fain, by his own fer-ing in at the fish gate, and compassed avants, 25 Jofiah fucceedetb him. bout Ophel, and raised it up a very great MANASSEH was twelve years old height, and put captains of war in all the when he began to reign, and he reigned fenced cities of Judah. fifty and five years in Jerufalem : 2 But did that which was evil in the fight of the LORD, like unto the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD had caft out before the children of Ifrael. 8 For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down, and he reared up altars for Baalim, and made groves, and worshipped all the hoft of heaven, and ferved them. 4 Alfo he built altars in the houfe of the LORD, whereof the LORD had faid, In Jerufalem thall my name be forever. 5 And he built altars for all the hoft of heaven in the two courts of the houfe of the LORD. 15 And he took away the ftrange gods, and the idol out of the house of the LORD, and all the altars that he had built in the mount of the houfe of the LORD, and in Jerufalem, and caft them out of the city. 16 And he repaired the altarof the LORD, and facrificed thereon peace offerings and thank offerings, and commanded Judah to ferve the LORD God of Ifrael. 17 Nevertheless, the people did facrifice fill in the high places, yer unto the LORD their God only. 18 Now the reft of the acts of Manassch, and his prayer unto his God, and the words of the feers that fpake to him in the name of the LORD God of Ifrael,behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Ifrael. 6 And he caufed his children to pafs through the fire in the valley of the fon of Hinnom alfo he obferved times,and used 19 His prayer alfo, and how God was enchantments, and ufed witchcraft, and entreated of him, and all his fins, and his dealt with a familiar fpirit and with wiz-trefpafs, and the places wherein he built ards: he wrought much evil in the fight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger. 7 And he fet a carved image, the idol which he had made, in the houfe of God, of which Gud had faid to David and to Solomon his fon, In this houfe, and in Jerufalem, which I have chofen before all the tribes of Ifrael,will I put my name for ever: high places, and fet up groves and graven images, before he was humbled: behold, they are written among the fayings of the feers. 20 So Manaffeh flept with his fathers, and they buried him in his own houfe: and Amon his fon reigned in his ftead. 21 Amon was two and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned two years in Jerufalem. 8 Neither will I any more remove the foot of Ifrael from out of the land which 22 But he did that which was evil in I have appointed for your fathers; fo the fight of the LORD, as did Manaffeh that they will take heed to do all that I his father: for Amon facrificed unto all have commanded them, according to the the carved images which Manalleh his whole law and the ftatutes and the ordi-father had made, and ferved them: nances by the hand of Mofes. 9 So Manaffeh made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerufalem to err, and to do worse than the heathen, whom the LORD had deftroyed before the children of Ifrael. 23 And humbled not himfelt before the LORD, as Manaffeh his father had humbled himfelf; but Amon trefpaffed more and more. 24 And his fervants confpired against him, and flew him in his own houfe. 25 ¶ But Jofab's good reign Chap. xxxiv. He repaireth the temple. 599 ber for couplings, and to floor the houses which the kings of Judah had deftroyed. 25 But the people of the land flew all them that had confpired against king Amon; and the people of the land made Jofiah his fon king in his ftead. CHAP. XXXIV. 12 And the men did the work faithfully; and the overfeers of them were Jahath and Obadiah, the Levites, of the fons of Me1 Jofiah's good reign. 3 He deftroyeth rari; and Zechariah and Mefhullam, of idolatry. 8 He repaireth the temple, the fons of the Kohathites, to fet it for29 and, causing the law to be read, re-ward; and other of the Levites, all that neweth the covenant with God. could kill of inftruments of mufick. JOSIAH was eight years old when he 18 Allo they were over the bearers of began to reign, and he reigned in Jeru-burdens, and were overfeers of all that falem one and thirty years. wrought the work in any manner of fervice and of the Levites there were fcribes and officers, and porters. 2 And he did that which was right in the fight of the LORD, and walked in the ways of David his father, and declined neither to the right hand, nor to the left. SFor in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father: and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerufalem from the high places, and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images. 4 And they brake down the altars of Baalim in his prefence; 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 duft of them, and ftrowed it upon the graves of them that had facrificed unto them. 5 And he burned the bones of the priests upon their altars, and cleansed Judah and Jerafalem. 6 And fo did be in the cities of Manaf feh, 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 beaten the graven images into powder,and cut down all the idols throughout all the land of Ifrael, he returned to Jerufalem. 14 And when they brought out the money that was brought into the houfe of the LORD, Hilkiah the priest found a book of the law of the LORD given by Mofes. 15 And Hilkiah anfwered and faid to Shaphan the fcribe, I have found the book of the law in the houfe 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, faying, All that was cqmmitted to thy fervants, 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 overfeers, and to the hand of the workmen. 18 Then Shaphan the fcribe told the king, faying, Hilkiah the priest hath given me a book. And Shaphan read it be fore the king. 19 And it came to pafs, when the king had heard the words of the law, that he rent his clothes. 20 And the king commanded Hilkiah and Ahikam the fon of Shaphan, and Abdon the fon of Micah, and Shaphan the fcribe, and Afaiah a fervant of the king's, faying,. 21 Go, inquire of the LORD for me, Now in the eighteenth year of his and for them that are left in Ifrael and reign, when he had purged the land, and in Judah, concerning the words of the the houfe, he fent Shaphan the fon of Az-book that is found: for great is the aliah, and Maafeiah the governor of the wrath of the LORD that is poured out city, and Joah the fon of Joahaz the re- upon us, because our fathers have not eorder, to repair the houfe of the LORD kept the word of the LORD, to do after his God. all that is written in this book. 9 And when they came to Hilkiah the 22 And Hilkiah, and they that the king high priest, they delivered the money bad appointed, went to Huldah the proph that was brought into the houfe of God, etefs, the wife of Shallum the fon of Tikwhich the Levites that kept the doors vath, the fon of Hafrah, keeper of the had gathered of the hand of Manaffeh wardrobe: (now the dwelt in Jerufalem and Ephraim, and of all the remnant of in the college :) and they spake to her Ifrael, and of all Judah and Benjamin; to that effect. and they returned to Jerufalem. 10 And they put it in the hand of the workmen that had the overfight of the houfe of the LORD,and they gave it to the workmen that wrought in the house of the LORD, to repair and mend the houfe: 23 And the anfwered them, Thus faith the LORD God of Ifrael, Tell ye the man that fent you to me, 24 Thus faith the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, and upon the inhabitants thereof, even all the curles 11 Even to the artificers and builders that are written in the book which they gave they it, to buy hewn ftone,and tim-have read before the king of Judah : 25 Becaufe 100 The covenant renewed. ÎI. CHRONICLES. Johab's folemn paffover: 25 Because they have forfaken me,ges, and encouraged them to the fervice and have burned incenfe unto other gods, of the houfe of the LORD, that they might provoke me to anger 5. And faid unto the Levites that taught with all the works of their hands; there-all Ifrael,which were holy unto the LORD, fore my wrath fhall be poured out upon this place, and fhall not be quenched. 26 And as for the king of Judah, who fent you to inquire of the LORD, fo fhall ye fay unto him, Thus faith the LORD God of Ifrael concerning the words which thou hast heard: Put the holy ark in the houfe which Solomon the fon of David king of Hrael did build; it fball not be a burden upon your fhoulders: ferve now the LORD your God, and his people Ifrael, 4 And prepare yourselves by the houses of your fathers, after your courfes, according to the writing of David king of Ifrael, and according to the writing of Solomon his fon. 27 Because thine heart was tender and thou didst humble thy felf before God, when thou heardeft his words against this place, and against the inhabitants 5 And ftand in the holy place according thereof, and humbledft thyfelf before to the divifions of the families of the fath me, and didft rend thy clothes, and weepers of your brethren the people,and after before me; I have even heard thee alfo, the divifion of the families of the Levites. faith the LORD. 6 So kill the paffover, and fanctify 28 Behold, I will gather thee to thy yourselves, and prepare your brethren, fathers, and thou shalt be gathered to that they may do according to the word thy grave in peace, neither fhall thine of the LORD by the hand of Mofes. eyes fee all the evil that I will bring upon this place, and upon the inhabitants of the fame. So they brought the king word again. 29 Then the king fent and gathered together all the elders of Judah and Jerufalem. 30 And the king went up into the houfe of the LORD, and all the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerufalem, and the priests, and the Levites, and all the people, great and fmall: 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 ftood in his place, and made a covenant before the LORD, to walk after the LORD, and to keep his commandments, and his teftimonies, and his ftatutes, with all his heart, and with all his foul, to perform the words of the covenant which are written in this book. 32 And he caufed all that were prefent in Jerufalem and Benjamin to stand to it. And the inhabitants of Jerufalem did according to the covenant of God, the God of their fathers. 7 And Jofiah gave to the people, of the flock, lambs and kids, all for the paffover offerings, for all that were prefent, to the number of thirty thoufand; and three thoufand bullocks: thefe were of the king's fubftance. 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 paffover offerings twa thousand and fix hundred small cattle, and three hundred oxen. 9 Conaniah alfo, and Shemaiah and Nethaneel, his brethren, and Hafhabiah and Jeiel and Jozabad, chief of the Levites, gave unto the Levites for paffover offerings five thousand fmall cattle, and five hundred oxen. 10 So the service was prepared, and the priests ftood in their place, and the Levites in their courses, according to the king's commandment. 11 And they killed the paflover, and the priests fprinkled the blood from their hands, and the Levites flayed them. 12 And they removed the burnt offer$3 And Jofiah took away all the a-ings, that they might give according to bominations out of all the countries the divifions of the families of the people that pertained to the children of Ifrael, to offer unto the LORD, as it is written and made all that were prefent in Ifrael in the book of Mofes. And fo did they to ferve, even to ferve the LORD their with the oxen. God. And all his days they departed not from following the LORD, the God of their fathers. CHAP. XXXV. 1 Jofiah keepeth a folemn paffover. 20 He, provoking Pharaobnechob, is fain at Megiddo. 25 Lamentations for him. MOREOVER, Jofiah kept a pafiover unto the LORD in Jerufalem: and they killed the paffover on the fourteenth day of the first month. 18 And they roafted the paffover with fire according to the ordinance: but the other holy offerings fed they in pots, and in caldrons, and in pans, and divided them fpeedily among all the people. 14 And afterward they made ready for themfelves, and for the priests: becaufe the priefts the fons of Aaron were bufied in offering of burnt offerings and the fat until night; therefore the Le vites prepared for themfelves, and for the 2 And he fet the priests in their char-priests the fons of Aaron. xxvi. 1 Jeboabaz is depofed by Pharaob. 5 THEN the people of the land took Je 16 So all the fervice of the LORD was prepared the fame day, to keep the paffhoahaz the fon of Jofiah, and made him over, and to offer burnt offerings upon king in his father's ftead in Jerufalem. the altar of the LORD, according to the 2 Jehoahaz was twenty and three years commandment of king Jonah. old when he began to reign, and he reign, ed three months in Jerufalem. 17 And the children of Ifrael that were prefent kept the paffover at that time, and the feaft of unleavened bread leven days. 18 And there was no paffover like to that kept in Ifrael from the days of Samuel the prophet; neither did all the kings of Ifrael keep fuch a paffover as Jofiah kept, and the priests, and the Le. vites, and all Judah and Ifrael that were prefent, and the inhabitants of Jerufalem. 19 In the eighteenth year of the reign of Jofiah was this paffover kept. S And the king of Egypt put him down at Jerufalem, and condemned the land in an hundred talents of filver and a talent of gold. And the king of Egypt made Eliakim his brother king over Judah and Jerufalem, 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 Jerufalem: and he did that which was evil in the fight of the LORD his God. 20 ¶ After all this, when Jofiah had prepared the temple, Necho king of Egypt came up to fight against Carche-zar mith by Euphrates: and Josiah went out against him. Againft him came up Nebuchadnezking of Babylon, and bound him in fetters, to carry him to Babylon. 7 Nebuchadnezzar alfo carried off the 21 But he fent ambaffadors to him, velfels of the houfe of the LORD to Bab faying, What have I to do with thee, ylon, and put them in his temple at theu king of Judah? I come not against Babylon. thee this day, but against the houle 8 Now the reft of the acts of Jehoiawherewith I have war for God com-kim, and his abominations which he did, manded me to make hafte: forbear thee and that which was found in him, befrom meddling with God, who is with hold, they are written in the book of the me, that he deftroy thee not. kings of Ifrael and Judah and Jehoia 22 Neverthelefs, Jofiah would not turn chin his fon reigned in his ftead. his face from him, but difguifed himself, 9 Jehoiachin was eight years old that he might fight with him, and heark-when he began to reign, and he reigned ened not unto the words of Necho from three months and ten days in Jerufalem: the mouth of God, and came to fight in and he did that which was evil in the the valley of Megiddo. fight of the LORD. 23 And the archers fhot at king Jofiah; and the king faid to his fervants, Have ine away; for I am fore wounded. 24 His fervants therefore took him out of that chariot, and put him in the fecond chariot that he had; and they brought him to Jerufalem, and he died, and was buried in one of the fepulchres of his fathers. And all Judah and Jerufalem mourned for Jofiah. 10 And when the year was expired, king Nebuchadnezzar fent, and brought him to Babylon, with the goodly vetiels of the houfe of the LORD, and made Zedekiah his brother king over Judah and Jerufalem. 11 ¶ Zedekiah was one and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned eleven years in Jerufalem 12 And he did that which was evil in the 23 And Jeremiah lamented for Jo-fight of the LORD his God, and humbled fiah; and all the finging men and the not himfelt before Jeremiah the prophet, finging women fpake of Jofiah in their Speaking from the mouth of the LORD. lamentations to this day, and made them 13 And he alfo rebelled again't king an ordinance in Ifrael: and, behold, they Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him are written in the Lamentations. fwear by God: but he ftiffened his neck, and hardened his heart from turning unto the LORD God of Ifrael. 26 Now the reft of the acts of Jofiah, and his goodness according to that which vas written in the law of the LORD, 27 And his deeds, firft and laft, behold, 3 C 14 Moreover,all the chief of the priests, and the people, tranfgreifed very much after 402 The proclamation of Cyras. EZRA. He refloreth the wefels of the temple. and burned all the palaces thereof with fire, and destroyed all the goodly veffels thereof. after all the abominations of the heathen and polluted the houfe of the LORD which he had hallowed in lerufalem. 1 15 And the LORD God of their fathers 20 And them that had escaped from the fent to them by his messengers, rifing up fword carried he away to Babylon: where betimes, and fending; because he had they were fervants to him and his fons uncompaffion on his people, and on his til the reign of the kingdom of Persia: 21 To fulfil the word of the LORD dwelling place : 16 But they mocked the meffengers by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the of God, and defpifed his words, and land had enjoyed her fabbaths: for as mifufed his prophets, until the wrath of long as the lay defolate fhe kept fabbath, the LORD arofe against his people, till to fulfil threescore and ten years. there was no remedy. 22 Now in the firft year of Cyrus 17 Therefore he brought upon them king of Perfia, that the word of the the king of the Chaldees, who flew their LORD spoken by the mouth of Jeremiah young men with the fword in the houfe might be accomplished, the LORD ftirred of their fanctuary,and had no compaffion up the fpirit of Cyrus king of Perfia, upon young man or maiden, old man, or that he made a proclamation throughout it alfo in writhim that ftooped for age: he gave them all his kingdom, and pur all into his hand. ing, faying. 18 And all the veffels of the house of 23 Thus faith Cyrus king of Perfia, All God, great and fmall, and the treasures the kingdoms of the earth hath the LORD of the house of the LORD, and the treaf-God of heaven given me ; and he hath ures of the king, and of his princes; all charged me to build him an houfe in Jethefe he brought to Babylon rufalem, which is in Judah. Who is there 19 And they burned the house of God, among you of all his people? The LORD and brake down the wall of Jerufalem, his God be with him, and let him go up. CHAP. I. filver, with gold, with goods, and with beafts, and with precious things, befide all that was willingly offered. 6 And all they that were about them 1 The proclamation of Cyrus for the build-ftrengthened their hands with veffels of ing of the temple. 5 The people provide for their return. 7 Cyrus reftoreth the veels of the temple to Shefbbazzar. NOW in the first year of Cyrus king of Perfia, that the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the LORD ftirred up the fpirit of Cyrus king of Perlia, that he made a proclama tion throughout all his kingdom, and put it alfo in writing, faying, 2 Thus faith Cyrus king of Perfia, The LORD God of heaven hath given me all the kingdoms of the earth; and he hath charged me to build him an houfe at Je. rufalem, which is in Judah. 7¶Alfo Cyrus the king brought forth the veffels of the houfe of the LORD, which Nebuchadnezzar had brought forth out of Jerufalem, and had put them in the houfe of his gods; 8 Even thofe did Cyrus king of Perfia bring forth by the hand of Mithredath the treasurer, and numbered them unto Shehbazzar, the prince of Judah. 9 And this is the number of them: thirty chargers of gold;a thousand chargers of filver, nine and twenty knives, 3 Who is there among you of all his 10 Thirty bafons of gold, filver bafons people? His God be with him, and let of a fecond for four hundred and ten, him go up to Jerufalem, which is in Ju-and other vellels a thoufand. dah, and build the houfe of the LORD 11 All the veffels of gold and of filver God of Ifrael, (he is the God,) which is were five thousand and four hundred. in Jerufalem. All thefe did Shefhbazzar bring up with them of the captivity that were brought up from Babylon unto Jerufalem. CHAP. II. And whofoever remaineth in any place where he fojourneth, let the men of his place help him with filver, and with gold, and with goods, and with beafts, befide the freewill offering for the houfe of God that is in Jerufalem. 1 Who returned from Babylon. 64 Their number and fubftance. 68 Their oblations. NOW these are the children of the 5 Then rofe up the chief of the fa- province that went up out of the captiv thers of Judah and Benjamin, and theity, of thofe which had been carried priefts, and the Levites, with all them away, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king whofe fpirit God had railed, to go up to of Babylon had carried away unto Baby; build the houfe of the LORD which is in lon, and came again unto Jerufalem and Jerufalem. Judah, every one unto his city; 2 Which |