Jerusalem as a man wipeth a dish, 1 wiping it, and turning it upside down.

14 And I will forsake the remnant of my inheritance, and deliver them into the hand of their enemies; and they shall become a prey and a spoil to all their enemies;

15 Because they have done that which was evil in my sight, and have provoked me to anger, since the day their fathers came out of Egypt, even to this day.

16 Moreover, Manasseh shed innocent blood very much, till he had filled Jerusalem 2 from one end to another; besides his sin with which he made Judah to sin, in doing evil in the sight of the LORD.

17 Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and all that he did, and his sin that he sinned, 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 33. 20. 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, the daughter of Haruz of Jotbah.

a 2 Chr.

20 And he did that which was evil in 34. 1. the sight of the LORD, as his father Manasseh did.

21 And he walked in all the way that his father walked in, and served the idols that his father served, and worshiped them:

22 And he forsook the LORD God of his fathers, and walked not in the way of the LORD.

23 ¶ And the servants of Amon conspired against him, and slew the king in his own house.

24 And 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.

1 Heb. threshold.

25 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 2 Heb. Judah ?

26 And he was buried in his sepulcher in the garden of Uzza: and Josiah his son reigned in his stead.

CHAP. XXII.

melted.

of Meshullam, the scribe, to the house of the LORD, saying,

4 Go to Hilkiah the high priest, that he may sum the silver which is brought into the house of the LORD, which the keepers of the 1 door have gathered from the people:

.5 And let them deliver it into the hand of the doers of the work, that have the oversight of the house of the LORD: and let them give it to the doers of the work, which is in the house of the LORD, to repair the breaches of the house,

6 To carpenters, and builders, and masons, and to buy timber, and hewn stone to repair the house.

7 But there was no reckoning made with them of the money that was delivered into their hand, because they dealt faithfully.

8 ¶ And Hilkiah the high priest said to 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.

9 And Shaphan the scribe came to the king, and brought the king word again, and said, Thy servants have 2 gathered the money that was found in the house, and have delivered it into the hand of them that do the work, that have the oversight of the house of the LORD.

10 And Shaphan the scribe showed the king, saying, Hilkiah the priest hath delivered me a book. And Shaphan

read it before the king.

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

12 And the king commanded Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and Achbor the son of Michaiah, and Shaphan the scribe, and Asahiah a servant of the king's, saying,

13 Go ye, inquire of the LORD for me, and for the people, and for all Judah, concerning the words of this book that is found: for great is the wrath of the LORD that is kindled against us, because our fathers have not hearkened to the words of this book, to do according to all that which is written concerning us.

14 So Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam, and Achbor, and Shaphan, and Asahiah, went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, keeper of the 3 wardrobe; (now she dwelt in Jerusalem 4 in the college;) and they communed with her.

15 And she said to them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Tell the man that sent you to me,

16 Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, and upon its inhabitants, even all the words of the book which the king of Judah hath read:

17 Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense to 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 who sent

you to inquire of the LORD, thus shall ye say to him, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, concerning the words which thou hast heard;

19 Because thy heart was tender, and thou hast humbled thyself before the

Before CHRIST, 624.

7 And he broke down the houses of the sodomites that were by the house of the LORD, where the women woves hangings for the grove.

8 And he brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah, and defiled the

against this place, and against its inhab- 29. itants, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and hast rent thy clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard 1 Heb. thee, saith the LORD.

from small

even unto

great.

20 Behold therefore, I will gather thee to thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered into thy grave in peace; and thy eyes shall not see all the evil which I will 2 Heb. bring upon this place. And they brought the king word again.

CHAP. XXIII.

caused to

cease.

chemarim.

1 Josiah causeth the book to be read in a solemn assembly. 3 He reneweth the covenant of 3 Heb. the Lord. He destroyeth idolatry. 15 He burneth dead men's bones upon the altar of Beth-el, as was prophesied. 21 He keepeth a most solemn passover. 24 He putteth away witches and all abomination. 26 God's 4 or, twelve final wrath against Judah. 29 Josiah pro- signs, or, roking Pharaoh-nechoh, is slain at Megiddo. 31 Jehoahaz succeeding him, is imprisoned by Pharaoh-nechoh, who makes Jehoiakim king. 36 Jehoiakim's wicked reign.

A

constella

tions.

ND a the king sent, and they gath&c. 21. 7. ered to him all the elders of Judah and of Jerusalem.

2 And the king went up into the house of the LORD, and all the men of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem with him, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the people, 1 both small and great: and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant which was found in the house of the LORD.

5 Heb. houses.

3 And the king stood by a pillar, 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 their heart and all their soul, to perform the words of this covenant that were written in this book. And all the people stood to the covenant. c. 21. 5. 4 And the king commanded Hilkiah

ran from

the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the door, 7 or, to bring forth out of the temple of the LORD all the vessels that were made for thence. 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 to Beth-el.

s That is, of Olives.

the mount

5 And he 2 put down 3 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 1 Kings places around Jerusalem; them also that burned incense to Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the 4 planets, and to all the host of heaven.

6 And he brought out the grove from the house of the LORD, without Jerusalem, to the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and stamped it small to powder, and cast the powder of it upon the graves of the children of the people.

11. 7.

9 Heb. statues.

1 Kings 13. 2.

11 And he took away the horses that the kings of Judah had given to the sun, at the entrance of the house of the LORD, by the chamber of Nathan-melech the 6 chamberlain, which was in the suburbs, and burned the chariots of the sun with fire.

12 And the altars that were on the top of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the LORD, did the king beat down, and 7 broke 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 8 the mount of corruption, which & Solomon the king of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Zidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon, did the king defile.

14 And he broke 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 Beth-el, and the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, had made, both that altar and the high place he broke down, and burned the high place, and stamped it small to powder, and burned the grove.

16 And as Josiah turned himself, he espied the sepulchers that were there on the mount, and sent, and took the bones out of the sepulchers, and burned them upon the altar, and polluted it, according to the word of the LORD which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these words.

17 Then he said, What title is that which I see? And the men of the city told him, It is the sepulcher of the man of God, who 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 10 alone, with the bones of the| prophet that came out of Samaria.

19 And all the houses also of the high places that were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke the LORD to anger, Josiah took away, and did to them according to all the acts that he had done in Beth-el. 20 And he u slew all the priests of the high places, that were there upon the altars, and burnt men's bones upon them, and returned to Jerusalem.

21 And the king commanded all the people, saying, Keep the passover to the LORD your God, as it is written in the book of this covenant."

22 Surely there was not held such a passover from the days of the judges that judged Israel, nor in all the days of the kings of Israel, nor of the kings of

Judah.

23 But in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, in which this passover was held to the LORD in Jerusalem.

Before CHRIST, 624.

10 Heb. to escape.

11 or,

sacrificed.

f 2 Chr.

35. 1.

Ex. 12. 3. Deut. 16. 2.

His 18th year end. ing.

12 or,
teraphim.

Deut. 18.
10. 11.

Lev. 20. 27,

13 Heb. angers.

24 Moreover the workers with familiar spirits, and the wizards, and the 12 images, and the idols, and all the abom-i 1 Kings 8. inations that were seen in the land of 29. & 9. 3. Judah and in Jerusalem, did Josiah put c. 21. 7. away, that he might perform the words of the law which were written in the 2 Chr. book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of the LORD.

25 And like him was there no king before him, that turned to the LORD with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his might, according to all the law of Moses; neither after him arose there any like him.

26 ¶ Notwithstanding, the LORD turned not from the fierceness of his great! wrath, with which his anger was kindled against Judah, because of all the 13 provocations by which Manasseh had provoked him.

27 And the LORD said, I will remove Judah also out of my sight, as I have removed Israel, and will reject this city Jerusalem which I have chosen, and the house of which I said, My name shall be there.

28 Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

35.20.

12 Chr. 36. 1.

14 or, be

cause he reigned.

32 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his fathers had done.

33 And Pharaoh-nechoh put him in bands at Riblah in the land of Hamath, 14 that he might not reign in Jerusalem; and 15 subjected the land to a tribute of a hundred talents of silver, and a talent of gold.

34 And Pharaoh-nechoh made Eliakim the son of Josiah king in the room of Josiah his father, and turned his name to m Jehoiakim, and took Jehoahaz away: and he came to Egypt and died there.

35 And Jehoiakim gave the silver and the gold to Pharaoh; but he taxed the land to give the money according to the commandment of Pharaoh: he exacted the silver and the gold from the people of the land, from every one according to his taxation, to give it to Pharaohnechoh.

36 Jehoiakim was twenty and five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Zebudah, the daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah.

37 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his fathers had done.

CHAP. XXIV.

the land.

29 In his days Pharaoh-nechoh king of Egypt went up against the king m Mat. 1. 11. of Assyria to the river Euphrates: and called 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

Jakim.

3 Surely at the commandment of the LORD 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 innocent blood; which the LORD would not pardon.

5¶ Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah ?

6 So Jehoiakim slept with his fathers:

father's stead.

stead.

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 to the river Euphrates all that pertained to the king of Egypt.

8 Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned

eunuch.

8 Heb. saw the king's face.

19 And out of the city he took an 7 of-7 or, ficer that was set over the men of war, and five men of them that s were in the king's presence, who were found in the city, and the principal scribe of the host, who mustered the people of the land, and sixty men of the people of the land that were found in the city:

20 And Nebuzar-adan captain of the guard took these, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah: 21 And the king of Babylon smote them, and slew them at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was carried away out of their land.

22 And as for the people that remained in the land of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had left, even over them he made Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan,

ruler.

9 or,

scribe of the captain

of the host. Jer. 45. 9. Jer. 40. 7.

the king. 10 Heb. of dom.

Jer. 41. 2.

23 And when all the captains of the armies, they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah governor, there came to Gedaliah to Miz-11 Heb. good pah, even Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, things and Johanan the son of Careah, and Se- with him. raiah the son of Tanhumeth the Neto

phathite, and Jaazaniah the son of Maachathite, they and their men.

24 And Gedaliah swore to them, and to their men, and said to them, Fear not to be the servants of the Chaldees: dwell in the land, and serve the king of Babylon; and it shall be well with you.

25 But it came to pass in the seventh month, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the seed 10 royal, came, and ten men with him, and smote Gedaliah, that he died, and the Jews and the Chaldees that were with him at Mizpah.

26 And all the people, both small and great, and the captains of the armies, arose, and came to Egypt: for they were afraid of the Chaldees.

27¶ And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, that Evil-merodach king of Babylon, in the year that he began to reign, lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah out of prison;

28 And he spoke i kindly to him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings that were with him in Babylon;

29 And changed his prison garments: and he ate bread continually before him all the days of his life.

30 And his allowance was a continual allowance given him by the king, a daily rate for every day, all the days of his life.

CHAP. I.

1 Adam's line to Noah 5 The sons of Ja pheth. 8 The sons of Ham. 17 The sons of Shem. 24 Shem's line to Abraham. 29 Ishmael's sons. 32 The sons of Keturah. 34 The posterity of Abraham by Esau. 43 The kings of Edom. 51 The dukes of Edom. Enosh,

a

ADAM, Sheth, Eindeel, Jered,

3 Henoch, Methuselah, Lamech, 4 Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. 5 The sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.

6 And the sons of Gomer; Ashchenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah.

13 And Canaan begat Zidon his firstborn, and Heth,

14 The Jebusite also, and the Amorite, and the Girgashite,

15 And the Hivite, and the Archite, and the Sinite,

16 And the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite.

17 The sons of Shem; Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and

and 3 Meshech.