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B. C. 726. passed against the LORD God of their fathers, who therefore gave them up to desolation, as ye see.

ch. 29. 3. + Heb. harden not your necks.

hand. See

1 Chr. 29. 24. Ezra 10. 19.

h Deut. 10, 16. i ch. 29. 10.

8 Now be ye not stiffnecked, as your fathers were, but yield your+ Heb. give the selves unto the LORD, and enter into his sanctuary, which he hath sanctified for ever and serve the LORD your God, that the fierceness of his wrath may turn away from you. 9 For if ye turn again unto the LORD, your brethren and your children shall find compassion before them that lead them captive, so that they shall come again into this land: for the LORD your God is gracious and merciful, and will not turn away his face from you, if ye return unto him.

* Ps. 106. 46.

1 Ex. 34. 6.

Is. 55. 7.

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22 And Hezekiah spake bly unto all the Levites that taught the good knowledge of the LORD: and they did eat throughout the feast seven days, offering peace offerings, and making confession to the LORD b Ezra 10. 11. God of their fathers.

b

23 And the whole assembly took counsel to keep other seven days: See 1 Kings and they kept other seven days with gladness.

24 For Hezekiah king of Judah

11 Nevertheless, divers of Asher
and Manasseh and of Zebulun hum-did give to the congregation a
bled themselves, and came to Jeru-
salem.

12 Also in Judah "the hand of God
was to give them one heart to do the
commandment of the king and of the
princes, by the word of the LORD.
13 And there assembled at Jerusa-
lem much people to keep the feast of
unleavened bread in the second month,
a very great congregation.

14 And they arose and took away
the altars that were in Jerusalem,
and all the altars for incense took
they away, and cast them into the
brook Kidron.

15 Then they killed the passover
on the fourteenth day of the second
month and the priests and the Le-
vites were ashamed, and sanctified
themselves, and brought in the burnt
offerings into the house of the LORD.
16 And they stood in their place
after their manner, according to the
law of Moses the man of God: the
priests sprinkled the blood, which they
received of the hand of the Levites.
17 For there were many in the con-
gregation that were not sanctified :

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25 And all the congregation of Judah, with the priests and the Levites, and all the congregation 'that came out of Israel, and the strangers that came out of the land of Israel, and that dwelt in Judah, rejoiced.

26 So there was great joy in Jerusalem: for since the time of Solomon the son of David king of Israel there was not the like in Jerusalem.

27 ¶ Then the priests the Levites arose and blessed the people: and their voice was heard, and their prayer came up to this holy dwellingplace, even unto heaven.

CHAPTER XXXI.

The people destroy idol worship. 2 Hezekiah order-
eth the courses of the priests and Levites, and pro-
videth for their work and maintenance. 5 The for-
wardness of the people in offerings and tithes. 11
Hezekiah appointeth officers to dispose of the tithes.
20 His sincerity.
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therefore the Levites had the charge Now when all this was finished,

8. 65.

+ Heb. lifted up, or, offered.

d ch. 35. 7, 8.

e ch. 29. 34.

f ver. 11, 18.

Num. 6. 23.

Heb. the

habitation of his holiness, Ps. 68. 5.

+ Heb. found. a 2 Kings 18.4. + Heb. stat

ues, ch. 30. 14.

all Israel that were present of the killing of the passovers for ev- went out to the cities of Judah, and ery one that was not clean, to sancti-brake the images in pieces, and cut fy them unto the LORD. down the groves, and threw down the high places and the altars out of all Judah and Benjamin, in Ephraim also and Manasseh, until they had + Heb. until utterly destroyed them all. Then all the children of Israel returned, every man to his possession, into their own cities.

18 For a multitude of the people, even many of Ephraim and Manasseh, Issachar and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet did they eat the passover otherwise than it was written. But Hezekiah prayed for them, saying, The good LORD pardon every one

2 ¶ And Hezekiah appointed the

to make an end.

b 1 Chr. 23. 6. & 24. 1.

The people's forwardness

B. C. 726.

31.

II. CHRONICLES.

B. C. 726.

in offerings and tithes. courses of the priests and the Levites | mandment of Hezekiah the king, and after their courses, every man accord- Azariah the ruler of the house of God. ing to his service, the priests and 14 And Kore the son of Imnah the e1 Chr. 23. 30, Levites for burnt offerings and for Levite, the porter toward the east, peace offerings, to minister, and to was over the freewill offerings of give thanks, and to praise in the gates God, to distribute the oblations of the of the tents of the LORD. LORD, and the most holy things. 15 And next him were Eden, and Heb. at his Miniamin, and Jeshua, and Shemaiah, Amariah, and Shecaniah, in the cities of the priests, in their "set office, to give to their brethren by courses, as well to the great as to the small:

d Num. 28. & 29.

e Num. 18. 8,

3 He appointed also the king's portion of his substance for the burnt offerings, to wit, for the morning and evening burnt offerings, and the burnt offerings for the sabbaths, and for the new moons, and for the set feasts, as it is written in the law of the LORD.

4 Moreover he commanded the people that dwelt in Jerusalem to give the portion of the priests and the &c. Neh. 13. Levites, that they might be encouraged in the law of the LORD.

10.

f Mal. 2. 7.

+ Heb. brake forth.

g Ex. 22. 29. Neh. 13. 12. Or, dates.

h Lev. 27. 30. Deut. 14. 28.

+ Heb. heaps, heaps.

i Mal. 3. 10.

Or, storehouses.

5 ¶ And as soon as the commandment came abroad, the children of Israel brought in abundance the firstfruits of corn, wine, and oil, and honey, and of all the increase of the field; and the tithe of all things brought they in abundantly.

6 And concerning the children of
Israel and Judah, that dwelt in the
cities of Judah, they also brought in
the tithe of oxen and sheep, and the
htithe of holy things which were con-
secrated unto the LORD their God,
and laid them by heaps.

7 In the third month they began to
lay the foundation of the heaps, and
finished them in the seventh month.
8 And when Hezekiah and the
princes came and saw the heaps,
they blessed the LORD, and his peo-
ple Israel.

9 Then Hezekiah questioned with
the priests and the Levites concern-
ing the heaps.

10 And Azariah the chief priest of the house of Zadok answered him, and said, Since the people began to bring the offerings into the house of the LORD, we have had enough to eat, and have left plenty for the LORD hath blessed his people; and that which is left is this great store.

11 ¶ Then Hezekiah commanded to

prepare "chambers in the house of
the LORD; and they prepared them,

12 And brought in the offerings and the tithes and the dedicated things Neh. 13. 13. faithfully over which Conaniah the Levite was ruler, and Shimei his brother was the next.

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16 Besides their genealogy of males, from three years old and upward, even unto every one that entereth into the house of the LORD, his daily portion for their service in their charges according to their courses;

m

hand.

1 Josh. 21. 9. Or, trust,

1 Chr. 9. 22.

17 Both to the genealogy of the priests by the house of their fathers, and the Levites from twenty years 1 Chr. 23. old and upward, in their charges by their courses;

24, 27.

18 And to the genealogy of all their little ones, their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, through all the congregation for in their set office || Or, trust. they sanctified themselves in holiness:

Num. 35. 2 o ver. 12, 18, 14, 15.

19 Also of the sons of Aaron the priests, which were in the fields of Lev. 25. 34. the suburbs of their cities, in every several city, the men that were expressed by name, to give portions to all the males among the priests, and to all that were reckoned by genealogies among the Levites.

20 T And thus did Hezekiah throughout all Judah, and P wrought that which p2 Kings 20. was good and right and truth before the LORD his God.

21 And in every work that he began in the service of the house of God, and in the law, and in the commandments, to seek his God, he did it with all his heart, and prospered.

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AFTER these things, and the es-
tablishment thereof, Sennacherib 2 Kings 18
king of Assyria came, and entered in-
to Judah, and encamped against the
fenced cities, and thought to win Heb. to
them for himself.

2 And when Hezekiah saw that Sen-
nacherib was come, and that he was
purposed to fight against Jerusalem,
3 He took counsel with his princes
and his mighty men to stop the wa-
ters of the fountains which were with-
out the city and they did help him.

break them up.

+ Heb. his face was to

war.

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4 So there was gathered much people together, who stopped all the fountains, and the brook that tran through the midst of the land, saying, Why should the kings of Assyria come, and find much water? 5 Also he strengthened himself, and built up all the wall that was broken, and raised it up to the towers, and another wall without, and repair1224ed Millo in the city of David, and Or, cords, made darts and shields in abundor, weapons.

bls. 22. 9, 10. ech. 25. 23.

42 Sam. 5. 9.

ance.

6 And he set captains of war over the people, and gathered them together to him in the street of the gate of the city, and † spake comforttheir heart ably to them, saying,

+ Heb. spake

ch. 30. 22. Is. 40.2

• Deut. 31. 6. Ich. 20. 15.

(2 Kings 6.

16.

à Jer. 17. 5. ¡ Jetn 4. 4. Joh. 13. 12. Rm 8.31.

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7 Be strong and courageous, 'be not afraid nor dismayed for the king of Assyria, nor for all the multitude that is with him for there be more with us than with him.

8 With him is an arm 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 Hezekiah king of Judah. 9 After this did Sennacherib king of Assyria send his servants to Jerusalem, (but he himself laid siege against Heb. domin-Lachish, and all his power with him,) unto Hezekiah king of Judah, and unto all Judah that were at Jerusalem, saying,

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12 Kings 18.

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12 Kings 18.

12 Kings 18. 33, 34, 35,

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

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 those lands any ways able to deliver their lands out of mine hand? 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 Plet not Hezekiah 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

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17 He wrote also letters to rail on q2 Kings 19.9. the LORD God of Israel, and to speak against him, saying, "As the gods of r2 Kings 19. the nations of other lands have not delivered their people out of mine hand, so shall not the God of Hezekiah deliver his people out of mine hand. 18 Then they cried with a loud voice, in the Jews' speech, unto the people of Jerusalem that were on the wall, to affright them, and to trouble them; that they might take the city.

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

20 And for this cause Hezekiah the king, and the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz, prayed and cried to heaven. 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 of his own bowels slew him there with the sword. 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 others, and guided them on every side. 23 And many brought gifts unto the LORD to Jerusalem, and a presents to Hezekiah king of Judah: so that he was magnified in the sight of all nations from thenceforth.

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265 Notwithstanding, Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart, both he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the wrath of the LORD came not upon them in the 1 2 Kings 20. days of Hezekiah.

27 And Hezekiah had exceeding much riches and honour and he made himself treasuries for silver, and for gold, and for precious stones, and for spices, and for shields, and for all manner of pleasant jewels;

28 Storehouses also for the increase of corn, and wine, and oil; and stalls

19.

f Heb, instruments of desire.

Manasseh's wicked reign.

B. C. 713.

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for all manner of beasts, and cotes for he wrought much evil in the sight of B. C.698.
flocks.
the LORD, to provoke him to anger.

29 Moreover he provided him cities, and possessions of flocks and herds in i 1 Chr. 29. 12. abundance: for God had given him substance very much.

k Is. 22. 9, 11.

712.

† Heb. interpreters. 12 Kings 20. 12. Is. 39. 1. m Deut. 8. 2.

+ Heb, kind

nesses.

30 This same Hezekiah also stopped the upper watercourse of Gihon, and brought it straight down to the west side of the city of David. And Hezekiah prospered in all his works. 31 ¶ Howbeit, in the business of the tambassadors of the princes of Babylon, who sent unto him to inquire of the wonder that was done in the land, God left him, to try him, that he might know all that was in his heart.

In

32 ¶ Now the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and his † goodness, behold, n Is. 36, & 37, they are written in "the vision of Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, and in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.

& 38, & 39.

o 2 Kings 18, & 19, & 20.

p 2 Kings 20. 21.

|| Or, highest.

698.

q Prov. 10. 7.

a 2 Kings 21. 1, &c.

b Deut. 18. 9. 2 Chr. 28. 3.

+ Heb. he returned and built.

e 2 Kings 18.4.

ch. 30. 14. & 31. 1. & 32. 12.

d Deut. 16.21.

e Deut. 17. 3.

f Deut. 12. 11. 1 Kings 8. 29. & 9. 3. ch. 6. 6. & 7. 16.

8 ch. 4. 9.

h Lev. 18. 21. Deut. 18. 10. 2 Kings 23. 10. ch. 28. 3. Ez. 23. 37, 39.

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CHAPTER XXXIII.

Manasseh's wicked reign, 3 He restoreth idolatry. 11 He is carried captive to Babylon. 12 Upon repentance he is restored to his kingdom. 15 He putteth down idolatry. 18 His acts. 20 Amon succeedeth him. 21 He reigneth wickedly, and is slain by his servants. 25 Josiah succeedeth him.

ANASSEH was twelve years

and he reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem:

2 But did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, like unto the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD had cast out before the children of Israel.

3 For the 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 host of heaven, and served them.

d

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 obDeut. 18. 10, served times, and used enchantments, and used witchcraft, and dealt with a familiar spirit, and with wizards:

11.

k2 Kings 21.6.

m Ps. 132. 14.

n 2 Sam. 7. 10.

7 And he set a carved image, the 12 Kings 21. 7. idol which he had made, in the house of God, of which God had said to David and to Solomon his son, In m this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen before all the tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever: 8 Neither will I any more remove the foot of Israel from out of 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.

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

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15 And he took away the strange ver. 3,5,7. 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 offerings and thank offerings, and y Lev. 7. 12 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.

18 T Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and his prayer unto his God, and the words of the seers

z ch. 32. 12

a 1 Sam. 9. 9.

Josiah's good reign.

B. C. 677.

I Or, Hosai.

2 Kings 21.

18.

2 Kings 21. 19, &c.

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that spake to him in the name of the | dust of them, 'and strewed it upon LORD God of Israel, behold, they are the graves of them that had sacriwritten in the book of the kings of ficed unto them. Israel.

19 His prayer also, and how God was entreated 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;

23 And humbled not himself before 14 ver. 12 the LORD, as Manasseh his father had Heb. multi-humbled himself; but Amon trespassed more and more.

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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.

CHAPTER XXXIV.

Josiah's good reign. 3 He destroyeth idolatry. 8 He provideth for the repair of the temple. 14 Hilkiah Andeth the book of the law in the temple. 20 Josiah sendeth to Huldah to inquire of the Lord. 23 Huldah foretelleth the destruction of Jerusalem, to take place after the death of Josiah. 29 Josiah causeth the book to be read in a solemn assembly, and reneweth the covenant with God.

OSIAH years

5 And he burnt the bones of the

B. C. 630.

+ Heb. face of the graves. f 2 Kings 23. 4.

priests upon their altars, and cleansed g1 Kings 13.2. Judah and Jerusalem.

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

7 And when he had broken down the altars and the groves, and had a Deut. 9. 21. beaten the graven images into pow-† Heb. to make powder. der, and cut down all the idols throughout all the land of Israel, he returned to Jerusalem.

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12. 4, &c.

9 And when they came to Hilkiah the high priest, they delivered the See 2 Kings money that was brought into the 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 amend the house:

11 Even to the artificers and builders gave they it, to buy hewn stone, and timber for couplings, and to floor Or, to rafter. the houses which the kings of Judah had destroyed.

12 And the men did the work faith

Johan & was tighter, and he fully, and the overseers of them were

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 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 Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images.

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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

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: 'and of the Levites there 11 Chr. 23.4,5. were scribes, and officers, 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.

m 2 Kings 22. 8, &c. + Heb. by the hand of.

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