Hezekiab's prayer.

II. KINGS. Sennacherib's army destroyed, found the king of Affyria warring am come up to the height of the against Libnah: for he had heard that mountains, to the fides of Lebanon, he was departed from Lachish.

9 And when he heard fay of Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, Behold, he is come out to fight against thee: he fent messengers again unto Hezekiah, faying,

10 Thus shall ye speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, faying, Let not thy God in whom thou trusteft deceive thee, saying, Jerufalem shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Affyria.

11 Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of Affyria have done to all lands, by destroying them utterly and shalt thou be delivered?

and will cut down the tall cedar trees thereof, and the choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the lodgings of his borders, and into the forest of his Carmel.

2.4 1 have digged and drunk ftrange waters, and with the fole of my feet have 1 dried up all the rivers of be. fieged places.

25 Haft thou not heard long ago how I have done it, and of ancient times that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou thouldeft be to lay waste fenced cities into ruinous heaps.

26 Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were difmayed

12 Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have and confounded: they were as the destroyed; as Gozan, and Haran, and grass of the field, and as the green Rezeph; and the children of Eden, herb, as the grafs on the house tops, which were in Thelafar? and as corn blafted before it be growa up.

13 Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivah?

141 And Hezekiah received the letter of the hand of the messengers, and read it: and Hezekiah went up into the house of the LORD, and spread it before the LORD.

15 And Hezekiah prayed before the LORD, and faid, O LORD God of Ifrael, which dwelleft between the cherubims, thou art the God, even

27 But I know thy abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy rage againft me.

28 Because thy rage against me and thy tumult is come up into mine ears, therefore I will put my hook in thy nofe, and my bridle in thy lips, and 1 will turn thee back by the way by which thou cameft.

29 Andthis/ball be a fign unto thee, Ye shall eat this year such things as grow of themselves, and in the fecond

thou alone, of all the kingdoms of year that which springeth of the the earth; thou hast made heaven fame; and in the third year fow уг, and earth. and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat

16 LORD, bow down thine ear, and the fruits thereof. hear: open, LORD, thine eyes, and 30 And the remnant that is efcaped fee and hear the words of Senna- of the house of Judah shall yet again cherib, which hath fent him to re-take root downward, and bear fruit

proach the living God.

17 Of a truth, LORD, the kings of Affyria have deftroyed the nations and their lands,

18 And have caft their gods into the fire: for they were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone: therefore they have destroyed them.

19 Now therefore, O LORD our God, I beseech thee, fave thou us out of his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou art the LORD God, even thou only.

upward.

31 For out of Jerufalem shall go forth a remnant, and they that escape out of mount Zion: the zeal of the LORD of bosts shall do this.

32 Therefore thus faith the LORD concerning the king of Affyria, He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shield, nor caft a bank againft it.

not

33 By the way that he came, by the fame shall he return, and shall come into this city, faith the LORD. 34 For I will defend this city, to fave it, for mine own fake, and for

20 Then Ifaiah the fon of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, faying, Thus faith the LORD God of Ifrael, That which thou haft prayed to me againft Senna-my servant David's fake. cherib king of Affyria I have heard. 35And it came to pass that night,

21 This is the word that the LORD that the angel of the LORD went out, hath spoken concerning him: The and smote in the camp of the Affyrians virgin the daughter of Zion hath dean hundred fourscore and five thou spised thee, and laughed thee to frorn; fand: and when they arose early in the daughter of Jerufalem hath shaken the morning, behold, they were all her head at thee.

dead corpfes.

22 Whom haft thou reproached and 36 So Sennacherib king of Affyria blafphemed? and against whom haft departed, and went and returned, and thou exalted thy voice, and lifted up dwelt at Nineveh. thine eyes on high? even against the 37 And it came to pafs, as he was Holy One of Ifrael. worshipping in the house of Nifroch

23 By thy meffengers thou haft re- his god, that Adrammelech and Shaproached the LORD, and haft faid, rezer his fons fmote him with the With the multitude of my chariots Ilfword: and they escaped into the land

Hezekian's fickness and recovery. CHAP. XXI. Manaffeb's wicked reign.

of Armenia. And Efarhaddon his fon reigned in his ftead.

CHAP. XX.

Hezekiah fick

thofe days was IN unto death. And the prophet Ifaiah the fon of Amoz came to him, and faid unto him, Thus faith the LORD, Set thine house in order; for thou shalt die, and not live.

2 Then he turned his face to the wall, and prayed unto the LORD, faying,

Hezekiah faid, They are come fron a far country, even from Babylon.

15 And he faid, What have they seen in thine house? And Hezekiah answered, All the things that are in mine house have they feen: there is nothing among my treasures that I have not thewed them.

16 And Isaiah faid unto Hezekiah, Hear the word of the LORD.

17 Behold, the days come, that all that is in thine house, and that which thy fathers have laid up in ftore unto this day, shall be carried into Babylon: nothing shall be left, faith the LORD.

3 I befeech thee, O Lord, remember now how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in 18 And of thy fons that shall iffue thy fight. And Hezekiah wept fore. from thee, which thou shalt beget,

4 And it came to pass, afore Ifaiah was gone out into the middle court, that the word of the LORD came to him, saying,

5 Turn again, and tell Hezekiahthe captain of my people, Thus faith the LORD, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will heal thee: on the third day thou shalt go up unto the house of the LORD.

6 And I will add unto thy days fifteen years; and I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of Affyria; and I will defend this city for mine own fake, and for my fervant David's fake.

on the

7 And Ifaiah faid, Take a lump of figs. And they took and laid it boil, and he recovered.

8 And Hezekiah faid unto Ifaiah, What shall be the fign that the LORD will heal me, and that I shall go up into the house of the LORD the third day?

9 And Ifaiah faid, This sign shalt thou have of the LORD, that the LORD will do the thing that he hath spoken: shall the shadow go forward ten degrees, or go back ten degrees?

10 And Hezekiah answered, It is a light thing for the fhadow to go down ten degrees: nay, but let the shadow return backward ten degrees.

11 And Ifaiah the prophet cried into the LORD: and he brought the fhadow ten degrees backward, by which it had gone down in the dial of

Ahaz.

12 At that time Berodach-baladan, the fon of Baladan, king of Babylon, fent letters and a prefent unto Hezekiah: for he had heard that Hezekiah had been fick.

13 And Hezekiah hearkened unto them, and shewed them all the house of his precious things, the filver, and the gold, and the spices, and the precious ointment, and all the house of his armour, and all that was found in his treafures: there was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, that Hezekiah shewed them not.

14 Then came Ifaiah the prophet unto king Hezekiah, and faid unto him, What faid these men? and from whence came they unto thee? And

shall they take away; and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.

19 Then faid Hezekiah unto Ifaiah, Good is the word of the LORD which thou haft fpoken. And he said, Is it not good, if peace and truth be in my days?

20 And the rest of the acts of Heze. kiah, and all his might, and how he made a pool, and a conduit, and brought water into the city, are they not written in the book of the chro nicles of the kings of Judah?

21 And Hezekiah flept with his fa. thers: and Manasseh his fon reigned in his stead.

CHAP. XXI.

MANASSEH was twelve years old began to reign, and reigned fifty and five years in Jerufalem. And his mother's name was Hephzi-bah.

2 And he did that which was evil in the fight of the LORD, after the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD caft out before the children of Ifrael.

3 For he built up again the high places which Hezekiah his father had deftroyed; and he reared up altars for Baal, and made a grove, as did Ahab king of Ifrael; and worshipped all the hoft of heaven, and ferved them.

4 And he built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD faid, In Jerufalem will I put my name.

5 And he built altars for all the hoft of heaven in the two courts of the houfe of the LORD.

6 And he made his fon pass through the fire, and observed times, and ufed enchantments, and dealt with familiar spirits and wizards: he wrought much wickedness in the fight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.

7 And he fet a graven image of the grove that he had made in the house, of which the LORD faid to David, and to Solomon his fon, In this house, and in Jerufalem, which I have chofen out of all the tribes of Ifrael, will I put my name for ever:

8 Neither will I make the feet of Ifrael move any more out of the land which I gave their fathers; only if

Amen's wicked reign.

II. KINGS.

'they will obferve to do according to all that I have commanded them, and according to all the law that my fervant Mofes commanded them.

9 But they hearkened not; and Manaiseh feduced them to do more evil than did the nations whom the LORD destroyed before the children of Ifrael.

ing of Judah

Johab's good reign.

25 Now the reft of the acts of Amon which he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

26 And he was buried in his fe. pulchre in the garden of. Uzza: and Jofiah his fon reigned in his ftead. CHAP. XΧΙΙ.

JOSIAH was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned thirty and one years in Jerufalem. And his mother's name was Jedidah,

10 And the LORD spake by his fervants the prophets, saying, 11 Because Manaffeh king of hath done these abominations, and the daughter of Adaiah of Bofcath. hath done wickedly above all that the 2 And he did that which was right Amorites did, which were before him, in the fight of the LORD, and walked and hath made Judah alfo to fin with in all the way of David his father, and his idols: turned not afide to the right hand or to the left.

12 Therefore thus faith the LORD God of Ifrael, Behold, I am bringing fuch evil upon Jerufalem and Judah, that whofoever heareth of it, both his ears small tingle.

13 And I will stretchover Jerufalem the line of Samaria, and the plummet of the house of Ahab: and I will wipe Jerufalem as a man wipeth a dish, wiping It, and turning it upside down. 14 And I will forsake the remnant of mine inheritance, and deliver them into the hand of their enemies; and they shall become a prey and a spoil to all their enemies;

3 And it came to pass in the eighteenth year of king jofiah, that the king fent Shaphan the fon of Azaliah, the fon of Meshullam, the scribe, to the house of the LORD, faying,

4 Go up to Hilkiah the high prieft, that he may fum the filver which is brought into the house of the LORD, which the keepers of the door have gathered of 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 Lorn, to repair the breaches of the house,

15 Because they have done that which was evil in my fight, and have provoked me to anger, fince the day their fathers came forth out of Egypt, 6 Unto carpenters, and builders, and

even unto this day.

16 Moreover Manasseh shed innocent blood very much, till he had filled Jerufalem from one end to ano ther; befide his fin wherewith he made Judah to fin, in doing that which was evil in the fight of the LORD.

mafons, and to buy timber and hewa ftone to repair the house.

7 Howbeit 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 prieft fald

17 Now the rest of the acts of Ma-unto Shaphan the scribe, I have found naffeh, and all that he did, and his the book of the law in the house of fin that he finned, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

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

18 And Manasseh flept with his fathers, and was buried in the garden of again, and faid, Thy fervants have his own house, in the garden of Uzza: gathered the money that was found in and Amon his fon reigned in his flead. the house, and have delivered it into 19 Amon was twenty and two the hand of them that do the work, years old when he began to reign, and that have the overfight of the house he reigned two years in Jerufalem. And of the LORD. his mother's name Meshullemeth, 10 And Shaphan the fcribe shew. the daughter of Haruz of Jotbah.

20 And hedid that which was evil in the ught of the LORD, as his father Manafleh did.

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

ed the king, saying, Hilkiah the prieft hath delivered me a book. And Shaphan read it before the king.

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

22 And he forfook the LORD God of his fathers, and walked not in the way chaiah, and Shaphan the scribe, and of the LORD.

23 Andthefervants of Amon conspired against him, and flew the king in his own heufe.

12 And the kingcommanded Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and Achbor the fon of MiAfahiah a fervant of the king's, faying, 13 Go ye, enquire of the LORD for me, and for the people, and for all

24 And the people of the land flew Judah, concerning the words of this all them that had confpired againft book that is found for great is the king Amon; and the people of the wrath of the Lown that is kindled land made Jofiah his fon king in his against us, because our fathers have flead. Inot hearkened unto the words of this

!

CHAP. XXIII. Fofiab destroyeth idolatry.

19 Because thine heart was tender, and thou haft humbled thyfelf before the LORD, when thou heardest what I fpake against this place, and against the LORD in Jerufalem, but they did the inhabitants thereof, that they eat of the unleavened bread among should become a defolation and a their brethren.

curse, and haft rent thy clothes, and IO And he defiled Topheth, which wept before me; I alfo have heard is in the valley of the children of Hin.

ND the king fent, and they gain the fuburbs, and burned the chathered unto him all the elders of riots of the fun with fire. Judah and of Jerufalem.

2 And the king went up into the top of the upper chamber of Ahaz, houfe of the LORD, and all the men which the kings of Judah had made, of Judah and all the inhabitants of Je-and the altars which Manafleh had rusalem with him, and the priests and made in the two courts of the house the prophets, and all the people, both of the Lo LORD, did the king beat down, and brake them down from thence, and caft the duft of them into the brook Kidron.

commandments and his teftimonies builded for Afhtoreth the abomination

and his ftatutes with all their heart
and all their foul, to perform the words
of this covenant that were written in
this book. And all the people ftood
to the covenant.

4 And the king commanded Hilkiah
the high prieft, and the priests of the
fecond order, and the keepers of the
door, to bring forth out of the temple
of the LORE all the the veffels that were
made for Baal, and for the grove, and
for all the host of heaven and he
burned them without Jerufalem in the

Jopan's zeal and reformation. II. KINGS. He is flain by Pharass.

altar and the high place he brake down, and burned the high place, and fstamped it small to powder, and burned the grove.

written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

20 In his days Pharaoh-nechohking of Egypt went up against the king of Affyria to the river Euphrates: and king Jofiah went against him; and he flew him at Megiddo, when he had seen him.

16 And as Jofiah turned himself, he spied the fepulchres that were there in the mount, and fent, and took the bones out of the sepulchres, and burned them upon the altar, and pol30 And his fervants carried him in luted it, according to the word of the a chariot dead from Megiddo, and LORD which the man of God pro- brought him to Jerufalem, and buried claimed, who proclaimed these words.

17 Then he said, What title is that that I fee? And the men of the city told him, It is the sepulchre of the

him in his own fepulchre. And the people of the land took Jehoahaz the foun of Jofiah, and anointed him, and made him king in his father's flead.

man of God, which came from Judah, 31 Jehoahaz was twenty and three

and proclaimed these things that thou haft done against the altar of Beth-el.

18 And he faid, Let him alone; let no man move his bones. So they let his bones 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 Ifrael had made to provoke the LORD to anger, Jofiah took away, and did to them according to all the acts that he had done in Beth-el.

20 And he flew all the priests of the high places that were there upon the altars, and burned men's bones upon them, and returned to Jerufalem.

21 And the king commanded all the people, faying, Keep the paffover unto the LORD your God, as it is written in the book of this covenant.

22 Surely there was not holden such a paffover from the days of the judges that judged Ifrael, nor in all the days of the kings of Ifrael, nor of the kings of Judah;

years old when he began to reign; and he reigned three months in Jerufalem. And his mother's name was Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.

32 And he did that which was evil in the fight 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, that he might not reign in Jerusalem; and put the land to a tri. bute of an hundred talents of filver, and a talent of gold.

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

35 And Jehoiakim gave the filver and the gold to Pharaoh; but he taxed the land to give the money according to the commandment of Pharaoh he exacted the filver and the gold of the people of the land, of every one according to his taxation, to give it unto Pharaoh-nechoh.

23 But in the eighteenth year of king Jofiah, wherein this paffover was 36 Jehoiakim was twenty and five holden to the LORD in Jerusalem. years old when he began to reign; 24 Moreovertherworker swithfamiliar spirits, and the wizards, and the falem. And his mother's name was images, and the idols, and all the abominations that were spied in the land of Judah and in Jerufalem, did Jofiah put away, that he might perform the words of the law which were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of the LORD.

and he reigned eleven years in JeruZebudah, the daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah.

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

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

CHAP. XXIV.
TN his days Nebuchadnezzar king of
Ibadan and Jening became his fervant three years: then
he turned and rebelled against him.

2 And the LORD fent against him bands of the Chaldees, and bands of the Syrians, and bands of the Moabites, and bands of the children of Ammon, and fent them againft Judah to deftroy it, according to the word of the LORD, prophets.

26 Notwithstanding the LORDturned not from the fierceness of his great wrath, wherewith his anger was kin-which he spake by his servants the

dled against Judah, because of all the provocations that Manassen had provoked him withal.

27 And the Lordsaid, I will remove Judah alfo out of my fight, as I have removed Ifrael, and will caft off this city Jerufalem which I have chofen, and the house of which I faid, My name shall be there.

28 Now the rest of the acts of Jofiah, and all that he did, are they not

3 Surely at the commandment of the LORD came this upon Judah, to remove them out of his fight, for the fins of Manaffeh, according to all that he did;

4 And alfo for the innocent blood that he fhed: for he filled Jerufalem with innocent blood; which the LORD would not pardon.

5 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoi