trespass, and the places in which he built high places, and set up groves and graven images, before he was humbled: behold, they are written among the sayings of 5 the seers.

Before CHRIST,

624.

20 So Manasseh slept with his fa- 5 or, Hosai. thers, 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 to all the carved images which Manasseh his father had made, and served them;

23 And humbled not himself before the LORD, as Manasseh his father had humbled himself; but Amon 6 trespassed more and more.

pass.

2 Kings 22. 1, &c. 61 Kings 13. 2.

c

Lev. 26. 30.

24 And his servants conspired against 1 or, sun him, and slew him in his own house.

2

images.

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 they gave it, to buy hewn stone, and timber for couplings, and 5 to floor the houses which the kings of Judah had destroyed.

12 And the men did the work faith

Amon; and the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his stead.

CHAP. XXXIV.

of the

graves.

3 or, mauls.

make

der.

pow.

1 Josiah's good reign. 3 He destroyed idola-4 Heb. to try. 8 He taketh order for the repair of the temple. 14 Hilkiah having found the book of the law, Josiah sendeth to Huldah to inquire of the Lord. 23 Huldah prophesieth the destruction of Jerusalem, but respit thereof in Josiah's time. 29 Josiah causing it to be read in a solemn assembly, reneweth the cov· enant with God.

5 or, to

OSIAH was eight years old when rafter.

Jose began to reign, and he reigned in

Jerusalem one and thirty years.

2 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the 8, &c. ways of David his father, and declined neither to the right hand, nor to the left.

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: and

in the twelfth year he began to purge 6 Heb. by the Judah and Jerusalem from the high hand of. places, and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images.

4 And they broke down the altars of Baalim in his presence; and the 1 images, that were on high above them, he cut down; and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images, he 7 Heb. to the hand of. broke in pieces, and made dust of them and strewed it upon the 2 graves of them that had sacrificed to them.

5 And he 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 to

8 Heb. pourmelted.

ed out, or,

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 7 to thy servants, they perform.

17 And they have s collected 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

the scribe, and Asaiah a servant of the king's, saying,

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 Hilkiah, and they that the king had appointed, went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvath, the son of 11 Hasrah, keeper of the 12 wardrobe; (now she dwelt in

Before CHRIST, 624.

or,

following the LORD, the God of their fathers.

CHAP. XXXV.

1 Josiah keepeth a most solemn passover: 20 He provoking Pharaoh-necho, is slain at Megiddo. 25 Lamentations for Josiah.

a

spoke 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 its inhabitants, even all the curses that are written in the book which they have read before the king of Judah :

2 Kings 22.

14.

12 Heb. garments.

13

or, in the school, or, ond part. 2 Kings 23.

in the sec

14 Heb.from great even to small.

25 Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense to other gods, 1. 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 to him, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel concerning the words which 15 Heb. thou hast heard; found.

27 Because thy heart was tender, and thou didst humble thyself before God, when thou didst hear his words against 16 Heb. from after. this place, and against its inhabitants, and didst humble thyself before me, and didst rend thy clothes, and weep before me; I have even heard thee also, saith the LORD.

a 2 Kings 23. 21. 22.

28 Behold, I will gather thee to thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered to thy grave in peace, neither shall thy eyes see all the evil that I will bring upon this place, and upon the inhabitants of the same. So they brought the king wordEx. 12. 6. again.

29 T Then the king sent and conven- 1 Chr. 9.10. ed all the elders of Judah and Jerusa lem.

30 And the king went 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, 14 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.

d1 Chr.23.& 24. &25.&26.

c. 8. 14.

1 Heb. the

house of the fathers.

2 Heb. the

sons of the people.

31 And the king stood in his place, and made a covenant before the LORD, to walk after the LORD, and to keep his commandments, and his testimonies, and 3 Heb. his statutes, with all his heart, and with all his soul, to perform the words of the covenant which are written in this book.

32 And he caused all that were 15 present in Jerusalem and Benjamin, to stand to it. And the inhabitants of Jerusalem did according to the covenant of God, the God of their fathers. 33 And Josiah took away all the abominations out of all the countries that pertained to the children of Israel, and made all that were present in Israel, to serve, even to serve the LORD their God. And all his days they departed not is from

offered.

4 Heb. offered.

5 Heb. offered. see c.29.34.

Ex. 12.8.9.

Heb. made them run.

ver to the LORD in Jerusalem: and they killed the passover on the fourteenth day of the first month.

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

3 And said to the Levites that taught all Israel, who were holy to the LORD, Put the holy ark in the house which Solomon the son of David king of Israel built; it shall not be a burden upon your shoulders: serve now the LORD your God, and his people Israel,

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

e

5 And stand in the holy place according to the divisions of the families of the fathers of your brethren 2 the people, and after the division of the families of the Levites.

6 So kill the passover, and 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 3 gave to the people, of the flock, lambs and kids, all 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.

8 And his princes 4 gave willingly to the people, to the priests, and to the Levites: Hilkiah and Zechariah and Jehiel, rulers of the house of God, gave to 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 Jehiel and Jozabad, chief of the Levites, 5 gave to the Levites for passoverofferings five thousand small cattle, and five hundred oxen.

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

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

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

13 And they roasted the passover with fire according to the ordinance: but the other holy offerings they boiled in pots, and in caldrons, and in pans, and divided 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 burnt-offerings and the fat until night; therefore the Levites prepared for themselves, and for the priests the sons of Aaron.

15 And the singers the sons of Asaph were in their 7 place, according to the A commandment of David, and Asaph, and Heman, and Jeduthun the king's seer; and the porters i 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. 17 And the children of Israel that were 8 present kept the passover at that time, and the feast of unleavened bread seven days.

18 And there was no passover like 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 Levites, 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.

20 ¶ After all this, when Josiah had prepared the temple, Necho king of Egypt came up to fight against Charchemish by Euphrates: and Josiah went out against him.

21 But he sent embassadors to him, saying, What have I to do with thee, thou king of Judah? I come not against thee this day, but against 10 the house with which I have war: for God commanded me to make haste: forbear thee from meddling with God, who is with me, that he may not destroy thee.

22 Nevertheless Josiah would not turn his face from him, but disguised himself that he might fight with him, and heark-2 ened not to the words of Necho from the mouth of God, and came to fight in the valley of Megiddo.

23 And the archers shot at king Josiah; and the king said to his servants, Have me away; for I am severely

i wounded.

24 His servants therefore took him out of that chariot, and put him in the second chariot that he had; and they brought him to Jerusalem, and he died, and was buried 12 in one of the sepulchers of his fathers. And all Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah.

4

6

Kings 24.

Dan. 1. 1. 2. or, Jeconi ah, 1 Chr.3. 16, or, Coniah, Jer. 22. 24. 2 Kings 24.

8.

5 Heb. at the return of the year. Heb. res sels of de

sire.

Mattaniah, 2 Kings 24. 17.

they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah.

CHAP. XXXVI.

1 Jehoahaz succeeding, is deposed by Pharach, and carried into Egypt. 5 Jehoiakim reign. ing ill, is carried bound into Babylon. 9 Jehoiachin succeeding, reigneth ill, and is brought into Babylon. 11 Zedekiah succeed. ing, 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 procla mation of Cyrus.

HEN a the people of the land took Jeho az son of Josiah, and made him king in his father's stead in Jerusalem.

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 deposed him at Jerusalem, and 2 condemned the land in a hundred talents of silver, and a talent of gold.

4 And the king of Egypt made Eliakim his brother king over Judah and Jekim. And Necho took Jehoahaz his rusalem, and changed his name to Jehoibrother, and carried him to Egypt.

5 Jehoiakim was twenty and 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.

6 Against him came up Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and bound him in 3 fetters, to carry him to Babylon.

7 › Nebuchadnezzar 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.

10 And 5 when the year had expired, king Nebuchadnezzar sent, and brought him to Babylon, with the goodly vessels of the house of the LORD, and made 7 d Zedekiah his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem.

11 ¶ Zedekiah was one and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned eleven years in Jerusalem.

12 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD his God, and humbled not himself before Jeremiah the prophet speaking from the mouth of the LORD.

26 Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and his 13 goodness, according to that which was written in the law of the LORD,

27 And his deeds, first and last, behold,'

2 Kings 24. 18. Jer. 52. 1. &c.

13 And he also rebelled against king

swear by God: but he stiffened his neck, and hardened his heart from turning to the LORD God of Israel.

14 Moreover, all the chief of the priests, and the people, transgressed very much after all the abominations of the

10 Heb. healing. 2 Kings 25. 1, &c.

17 Therefore he brought upon them the king of the Chaldees, who slew their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compas-11 sion 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 king, and of his princes; all these he brought to Babylon.

19 And they burnt the house of God, and broke down the wall of Jerusalem,]

i

Heb. the remainder from the sword. Jer. 25. 9.

12. & 29. 10.

Lev. 26. 34.

35. 43.

k Ezra 1. 1. 1 Jer. 25. 12. 13. & 29. 10.

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

23 Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, All the kingdoms of the earth hath the LORD God of heaven given me; and he hath 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, and let him go up.

CHAP. I.

1 The proclamation of Cyrus for the building of the temple. 5 The people provide for the return. 1 Cyrus restoreth the vessels of the temple to Sheshbazzar.

Before CHRIST, 536.

a 2 Chr. 36.

whose spirit God had raised, to go up to build the house of the LORD which is in Jerusalem.

6 And all they that were about them 3 strengthened their hands

1 Heb. caused a voice to

LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah might & 29. 10. be fulfilled, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his king- pass. dom, and put it also in writing, saying, Isa. 44. 28. 2 Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, & 45. 13. The LORD God of heaven hath given me 2 Heb. lift all the kingdoms of the earth; and he him up. hath charged me to build him a house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah.

3 Who is there among you of all his people? his God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and build the house of the LORD God of Israel, (he is the God,) who is in Jerusalem.

3 That is, helped them.

2 Kings

24. 13.

2

Chr. 36. 7.

4 And whoever remaineth in any place where he sojourneth, let the men of his place 2 help him with silver, and with d see c. 5.14. gold, and with goods, and with beasts, besides the free-will-offering for the 4 Heb. the house of God that is in Jerusalem. transpor

5 Then arose the chief of the fa- tation. thers of Judah and Benjamin, and the priests, and the Levites, with all them

beasts, and with precious things, besides all that was willingly offered.

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

8 Even those did Cyrus king of Persia bring forth by the hand of Mithredath the treasurer, and numbered them to & 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 basins of gold, silver basins of a second sort four hundred and ten,

and other vessels a thousand.

11 All the vessels of gold and of silver were five thousand and four hundred. All these did Sheshbazzar bring with them of 4 the captivity that were brought from Babylon to Jerusalem. CHAP. II.

1 The number that return of the people, 36 of the priests, 40 of the Levites, 43 of the Ne

thinims, 55 of Solomon's servants, 62 of the priests who could not show their pedigree. 64 The whole number of them, with their substance. 68 Their oblations.

NOW

a these are the children of the

Before CHRIST, 536.

31 The children of the other Elam, a thousand two hundred fifty and four. 32 The children of Harim, three hundred and twenty.

33 The children of Lod, 6 Hadid, and

34 The children of Jericho, three hundred forty and five.

2 Who came with Zerubbabel: Jeshua, Nehemiah, 1 Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mizpar, Bigvai, Re

1 or, Azariah, Neh. 7. 7.

35 The children of Senaah, three thousand and six hundred and thirty.

36 The priests: the children of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, nine hundred seventy and three.

37 The children of Immer, a thou

of the people of Israel;

3 The children of Parosh, two thousand a hundred seventy and two. 4 The children of Shephatiah, three hundred seventy and two.

5 The children of Arah, seven hundred seventy and five.

6 The children of Pahath-moab, of the children of Jeshua and Joab, two thousand eight hundred and twelve.

7 The children of Elam, a thousand two hundred fifty and four.

2 or,

Binnui, Neh. 7. 15.

3 or,

Hariph Neh. 7. 24.

4 or, Gibeon.

38 The children of ƒ Pashur, a thousand two hundred forty and seven.

39 The children of Harim, a thousand and seventeen.

40 T The Levites: the children of Jeshua and Kadmiel, of the children of 7 Hodaviah, seventy and four.

41 The singers: the children of Asaph, a hundred twenty and eight.

42 The children of the porters: the children of Shallum, the children of Ater, the children of Talmon, the chil

9 The children of Zaccai, seven hundred and sixty.

10 The children of 2 Bani, six hundred forty and two.

11 The children of Bebai, six hundred twenty and three.

12 The children of Azgad, a thousand two hundred twenty and two.

13 The children of Adonikam, six hundred sixty and six.

14 The children of Bigvai, two thousand fifty and six.

15 The children of Adin, four hun

dred fifty and four.

5 or, Bethazmaveth, Neh. 7. 28.

see ver. 7.

6 or, Harid, as it is in

some cop

ies.

the children of Shobai, in all a hundred thirty and nine.

43 The Nethinims: the children of Ziha, the children of Hasupha, the children of Tabbaoth,

44 The children of Keros, the children of Siaha, the children of Padon,

45 The children of Lebanah, the children of Hagabah, the children of Akkub, 46 The children of Hagab, the children of 8 Shalmai, the children of Hanan,

47 The children of Giddel, the children of Gahar, the children of Reaiah, 48 The children of Rezin, the chil

21 The children of Beth-lehem, a hundred twenty and three. 22 The men of Netophah, fifty and six. 23 The men of Anathoth, a hundred 8 or, twenty and eight.

24 The children of 5 Azmaveth, forty and two.

25 The children of Kirjath-arim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, seven hundred and forty and three.

26 The children of Ramah and Gaba, six hundred twenty and one. 27 The men of Michmas, a hundred| twenty and two.

28 The men of Bethel and Ai, two hundred twenty and three.

49 The children of Uzza, the children of Paseah, the children of Besai,

50 The children of Asnah, the children of Mehunim, the children of Nephusim,

51 The children of Bakbuk, the children of Hakupha, the children of Harhur,

52 The children of 9 Bazluth, the children of Mehida, the children of Harsha, 53 The children of Barkos, the children of Sisera, the children of Thamah, 54 The children of Neziah, the children of Hatipha.

55 The children of Solomon's servants: the children of Sotai, the children of Sophereth, the children of 10 Peruda, 56 The children of Jaalah, the children of Darkon, the children of Giddel, 57 The children of Shephatiah, the children of Hattil, the children of Po chereth of Zebaim, the children of n Ami.

58 All the Nethinims, and the children of Solomon's servants, were three hundred ninety and two.

59 And these were they who went up from Tel-melah, Tel-harsa, Cherub, Addan, and Immer: but they could not