The Old Testament of the
King James Version of the Bible
Chronicles 2, Chapters 30-36
30:1 And Hezekiah sent to all Israel and
Judah, and wrote letters also
to Ephraim and Manasseh, that they should
come to the house of the
LORD at Jerusalem, to keep the passover unto
the LORD God of Israel.
30:2 For the king had taken counsel, and his
princes, and all the
congregation in Jerusalem, to keep the
passover in the second month.
30:3 For they could not keep it at that
time, because the priests had
not sanctified themselves sufficiently,
neither had the people
gathered themselves together to Jerusalem.
30:4 And the thing pleased the king and all
the congregation.
30:5 So they established a decree to make
proclamation throughout all
Israel, from Beersheba even to Dan, that
they should come to keep the
passover unto the LORD God of Israel at
Jerusalem: for they had not
done it of a long time in such sort as it
was written.
30:6 So the posts went with the letters from
the king and his princes
throughout all Israel and Judah, and
according to the commandment of
the king, saying, Ye children of Israel,
turn again unto the LORD God
of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, and he will
return to the remnant of
you, that are escaped out of the hand of the
kings of Assyria.
30:7 And be not ye like your fathers, and
like your brethren, which
trespassed against the LORD God of their
fathers, who therefore gave
them up to desolation, as ye see.
30:8 Now be ye not stiffnecked, as your
fathers were, but yield
yourselves 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.
30:9 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.
30:10 So the posts passed from city to city
through the country of
Ephraim and Manasseh even unto Zebulun: but
they laughed them to
scorn, and mocked them.
30:11 Nevertheless divers of Asher and
Manasseh and of Zebulun humbled
themselves, and came to Jerusalem.
30:12 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.
30:13 And there assembled at Jerusalem much
people to keep the feast
of unleavened bread in the second month, a
very great congregation.
30:14 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.
30:15 Then they killed the passover on the
fourteenth day of the
second month: and the priests and the
Levites were ashamed, and
sanctified themselves, and brought in the
burnt offerings into the
house of the LORD.
30:16 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.
30:17 For there were many in the
congregation that were not
sanctified: therefore the Levites had the
charge of the killing of the
passovers for every one that was not clean,
to sanctify them unto the
LORD.
30:18 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 30:19 That
prepareth his heart to seek God, the LORD
God of his fathers, though
he be not cleansed according to the
purification of the sanctuary.
30:20 And the LORD hearkened to Hezekiah,
and healed the people.
30:21 And the children of Israel that were
present at Jerusalem kept
the feast of unleavened bread seven days
with great gladness: and the
Levites and the priests praised the LORD day
by day, singing with loud
instruments unto the LORD.
30:22 And Hezekiah spake comfortably 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 God of their fathers.
30:23 And the whole assembly took counsel to
keep other seven days:
and they kept other seven days with
gladness.
30:24 For Hezekiah king of Judah did give to
the congregation a
thousand bullocks and seven thousand sheep;
and the princes gave to
the congregation a thousand bullocks and ten
thousand sheep: and a
great number of priests sanctified
themselves.
30:25 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.
30:26 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.
30:27 Then the priests the Levites arose and
blessed the people: and
their voice was heard, and their prayer came
up to his holy dwelling
place, even unto heaven.
31:1 Now when all this was finished, all
Israel that were present went
out to the cities of Judah, and brake the
images in pieces, and cut
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
utterly destroyed them all. Then all the
children of Israel returned,
every man to his possession, into their own
cities.
31:2 And Hezekiah appointed the courses of
the priests and the Levites
after their courses, every man according to
his service, the priests
and Levites for burnt offerings and for
peace offerings, to minister,
and to give thanks, and to praise in the
gates of the tents of the
LORD.
31:3 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.
31:4 Moreover he commanded the people that
dwelt in Jerusalem to give
the portion of the priests and the Levites,
that they might be
encouraged in the law of the LORD.
31:5 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.
31:6 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 tithe of holy things which were
consecrated unto the LORD
their God, and laid them by heaps.
31:7 In the third month they began to lay
the foundation of the heaps,
and finished them in the seventh month.
31:8 And when Hezekiah and the princes came
and saw the heaps, they
blessed the LORD, and his people Israel.
31:9 Then Hezekiah questioned with the
priests and the Levites
concerning the heaps.
31:10 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.
31:11 Then Hezekiah commanded to prepare
chambers in the house of the
LORD; and they prepared them, 31:12 And
brought in the offerings and
the tithes and the dedicated things
faithfully: over which Cononiah
the Levite was ruler, and Shimei his brother
was the next.
31:13 And Jehiel, and Azaziah, and Nahath,
and Asahel, and Jerimoth,
and Jozabad, and Eliel, and Ismachiah, and
Mahath, and Benaiah, were
overseers under the hand of Cononiah and
Shimei his brother, at the
commandment of Hezekiah the king, and
Azariah the ruler of the house
of God.
31:14 And Kore the son of Imnah the Levite,
the porter toward the
east, was over the freewill offerings of
God, to distribute the
oblations of the LORD, and the most holy
things.
31:15 And next him were Eden, and 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: 31:16 Beside 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; 31:17 Both to
the genealogy of the priests
by the house of their fathers, and the
Levites from twenty years old
and upward, in their charges by their
courses; 31:18 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
they sanctified themselves in holiness:
31:19 Also of the sons of
Aaron the priests, which were in the fields
of 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.
31:20 And thus did Hezekiah throughout all
Judah, and wrought that
which was good and right and truth before
the LORD his God.
31:21 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.
32:1 After these things, and the
establishment thereof, Sennacherib
king of Assyria came, and entered into
Judah, and encamped against the
fenced cities, and thought to win them for
himself.
32:2 And when Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib
was come, and that he was
purposed to fight against Jerusalem, 32:3 He
took counsel with his
princes and his mighty men to stop the
waters of the fountains which
were without the city: and they did help
him.
32:4 So there was gathered much people
together, who stopped all the
fountains, and the brook that ran through
the midst of the land,
saying, Why should the kings of Assyria
come, and find much water?
32:5 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
repaired Millo in the city of David, and
made darts and shields in
abundance.
32:6 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
comfortably to them, saying, 32:7 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: 32:8 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.
32:9 After this did Sennacherib king of
Assyria send his servants to
Jerusalem, (but he himself laid siege
against Lachish, and all his
power with him,) unto Hezekiah king of
Judah, and unto all Judah that
were at Jerusalem, saying, 32:10 Thus saith
Sennacherib king of
Assyria, Whereon do ye trust, that ye abide
in the siege in Jerusalem?
32:11 Doth not Hezekiah persuade you to give
over yourselves to die by
famine and by thirst, saying, The LORD our
God shall deliver us out of
the hand of the king of Assyria? 32:12 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? 32:13 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? 32:14 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? 32:15 Now
therefore let 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 my fathers: how much less shall your God
deliver you out of mine
hand? 32:16 And his servants spake yet more
against the LORD God, and
against his servant Hezekiah.
32:17 He wrote also letters to rail on the
LORD God of Israel, and to
speak against him, saying, As the gods of
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.
32:18 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.
32:19 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.
32:20 And for this cause Hezekiah the king,
and the prophet Isaiah the
son of Amoz, prayed and cried to heaven.
32:21 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.
32:22 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 other, and guided them on every side.
32:23 And many brought gifts unto the LORD
to Jerusalem, and presents
to Hezekiah king of Judah: so that he was
magnified in the sight of
all nations from thenceforth.
32:24 In those days Hezekiah was sick to the
death, and prayed unto
the LORD: and he spake unto him, and he gave
him a sign.
32:25 But Hezekiah rendered not again
according to the benefit done
unto him; for his heart was lifted up:
therefore there was wrath upon
him, and upon Judah and Jerusalem.
32:26 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 days of
Hezekiah.
32:27 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; 32:28 Storehouses also for the
increase of corn, and wine, and
oil; and stalls for all manner of beasts,
and cotes for flocks.
32:29 Moreover he provided him cities, and
possessions of flocks and
herds in abundance: for God had given him
substance very much.
32:30 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.
32:31 Howbeit in the business of the
ambassadors of the princes of
Babylon, who sent unto him to enquire 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.
32:32 Now the rest of the acts of Hezekiah,
and his goodness, behold,
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.
32:33 And Hezekiah slept with his fathers,
and they buried him in the
chiefest of the sepulchres of the sons of
David: and all Judah and the
inhabitants of Jerusalem did him honour at
his death. And Manasseh his
son reigned in his stead.
33:1 Manasseh was twelve years old when he
began to reign, and he
reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem:
33:2 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.
33:3 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 host of heaven, and
served them.
33:4 Also he built altars in the house of
the LORD, whereof the LORD
had said, In Jerusalem shall my name be for
ever.
33:5 And he built altars for all the host of
heaven in the two courts
of the house of the LORD.
33:6 And he caused his children to pass
through the fire in the valley
of the son of Hinnom: also he observed
times, and used enchantments,
and used witchcraft, and dealt with a
familiar spirit, and with
wizards: he wrought much evil in the sight
of the LORD, to provoke him
to anger.
33:7 And he set a carved image, the idol
which he had made, in the
house of God, of which God had said to David
and to Solomon his son,
In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I
have chosen before all the
tribes of Israel, will I put my name for
ever: 33:8 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.
33:9 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.
33:10 And the LORD spake to Manasseh, and to
his people: but they
would not hearken.
33:11 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.
33:12 And when he was in affliction, he
besought the LORD his God, and
humbled himself greatly before the God of
his fathers, 33:13 And
prayed unto him: and he was intreated of
him, and heard his
supplication, and brought him again to
Jerusalem into his kingdom.
Then Manasseh knew that the LORD he was God.
33:14 Now after this he built a wall without
the city of David, on the
west side of Gihon, in the valley, even to
the entering in at the fish
gate, and compassed about Ophel, and raised
it up a very great height,
and put captains of war in all the fenced
cities of Judah.
33:15 And he took away the strange 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.
33:16 And he repaired the altar of the LORD,
and sacrificed thereon
peace offerings and thank offerings, and
commanded Judah to serve the
LORD God of Israel.
33:17 Nevertheless the people did sacrifice
still in the high places,
yet unto the LORD their God only.
33:18 Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh,
and his prayer unto his
God, and the words of the seers that spake
to him in the name of the
LORD God of Israel, behold, they are written
in the book of the kings
of Israel.
33:19 His prayer also, and how God was
intreated 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.
33:20 So Manasseh slept with his fathers,
and they buried him in his
own house: and Amon his son reigned in his
stead.
33:21 Amon was two and twenty years old when
he began to reign, and
reigned two years in Jerusalem.
33:22 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; 33:23 And humbled
not himself before the LORD, as Manasseh his
father had humbled
himself; but Amon trespassed more and more.
33:24 And his servants conspired against
him, and slew him in his own
house.
33:25 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.
34:1 Josiah was eight years old when he
began to reign, and he reigned
in Jerusalem one and thirty years.
34:2 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.
34:3 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.
34:4 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
dust of them, and strowed it upon the graves
of them that had
sacrificed unto them.
34:5 And he burnt the bones of the priests
upon their altars, and
cleansed Judah and Jerusalem.
34:6 And so did he in the cities of
Manasseh, and Ephraim, and Simeon,
even unto Naphtali, with their mattocks
round about.
34:7 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 Israel, he
returned to Jerusalem.
34:8 Now in the eighteenth year of his
reign, when he had purged the
land, and the house, he sent Shaphan the son
of Azaliah, and Maaseiah
the governor of the city, and Joah the son
of Joahaz the recorder, to
repair the house of the LORD his God.
34:9 And when they came to Hilkiah the high
priest, they delivered the
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.
34:10 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:
34:11 Even to the artificers and builders
gave they it, to buy hewn
stone, and timber for couplings, and to
floor the houses which the
kings of Judah had destroyed.
34:12 And the men did the work faithfully:
and the overseers of them
were 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 musick.
34:13 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 were scribes, and officers,
and porters.
34:14 And when they brought out the money
that was brought into the
house of the LORD, Hilkiah the priest found
a book of the law of the
LORD given by Moses.
34:15 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.
34:16 And Shaphan carried the book to the
king, and brought the king
word back again, saying, All that was
committed to thy servants, they
do it.
34:17 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
overseers, and to the hand of the workmen.
34:18 Then Shaphan the scribe told the king,
saying, Hilkiah the
priest hath given me a book. And Shaphan
read it before the king.
34:19 And it came to pass, when the king had
heard the words of the
law, that he rent his clothes.
34:20 And the king commanded Hilkiah, and
Ahikam the son of Shaphan,
and Abdon the son of Micah, and Shaphan the
scribe, and Asaiah a
servant of the king's, saying, 34:21 Go,
enquire 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.
34:22 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 Hasrah, keeper of the wardrobe; (now she
dwelt in Jerusalem in the
college:) and they spake to her to that
effect.
34:23 And she answered them, Thus saith the
LORD God of Israel, Tell
ye the man that sent you to me, 34:24 Thus
saith the LORD, Behold, I
will bring evil upon this place, and upon
the inhabitants thereof,
even all the curses that are written in the
book which they have read
before the king of Judah: 34:25 Because they
have forsaken me, and
have burned incense unto other gods, 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.
34:26 And as for the king of Judah, who sent
you to enquire of the
LORD, so shall ye say unto him, Thus saith
the LORD God of Israel
concerning the words which thou hast heard;
34:27 Because thine heart
was tender, and thou didst humble thyself
before God, when thou
heardest his words against this place, and
against the inhabitants
thereof, and humbledst thyself before me,
and didst rend thy clothes,
and weep before me; I have even heard thee
also, saith the LORD.
34:28 Behold, I will gather thee to thy
fathers, and thou shalt be
gathered to thy grave in peace, neither
shall thine eyes see all the
evil that I will bring upon this place, and
upon the inhabitants of
the same. So they brought the king word
again.
34:29 Then the king sent and gathered
together all the elders of Judah
and Jerusalem.
34:30 And the king went up 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, 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.
34:31 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 his statutes, with all his
heart, and with all his
soul, to perform the words of the covenant
which are written in this
book.
34:32 And he caused all that were 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.
34:33 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 from
following the LORD, the God of
their fathers.
35:1 Moreover Josiah kept a passover unto
the LORD in Jerusalem: and
they killed the passover on the fourteenth
day of the first month.
35:2 And he set the priests in their
charges, and encouraged them to
the service of the house of the LORD, 35:3
And said unto the Levites
that taught all Israel, which were holy unto
the LORD, Put the holy
ark in the house which Solomon the son of
David king of Israel did
build; it shall not be a burden upon your
shoulders: serve now the
LORD your God, and his people Israel, 35:4
And prepare yourselves by
the houses of your fathers, after your
courses, according to the
writing of David king of Israel, and
according to the writing of
Solomon his son.
35:5 And stand in the holy place according
to the divisions of the
families of the fathers of your brethren the
people, and after the
division of the families of the Levites.
35:6 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.
35:7 And Josiah 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.
35:8 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
passover offerings two
thousand and six hundred small cattle and
three hundred oxen.
35:9 Conaniah also, and Shemaiah and
Nethaneel, his brethren, and
Hashabiah and Jeiel and Jozabad, chief of
the Levites, gave unto the
Levites for passover offerings five thousand
small cattle, and five
hundred oxen.
35:10 So the service was prepared, and the
priests stood in their
place, and the Levites in their courses,
according to the king's
commandment.
35:11 And they killed the passover, and the
priests sprinkled the
blood from their hands, and the Levites
flayed them.
35:12 And they removed the burnt offerings,
that they might give
according to the divisions of the families
of the people, to offer
unto the LORD, as it is written in the book
of Moses. And so did they
with the oxen.
35:13 And they roasted the passover with
fire according to the
ordinance: but the other holy offerings sod
they in pots, and in
caldrons, and in pans, and divided them
speedily among all the people.
35:14 And afterward they made ready for
themselves, and for the
priests: because the priests the sons of
Aaron were busied in offering
of burnt offerings and the fat until night;
therefore the Levites
prepared for themselves, and for the priests
the sons of Aaron.
35:15 And the singers the sons of Asaph were
in their place, according
to the commandment of David, and Asaph, and
Heman, and Jeduthun the
king's seer; and the porters waited at every
gate; they might not
depart from their service; for their
brethren the Levites prepared for
them.
35:16 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.
35:17 And the children of Israel that were
present kept the passover
at that time, and the feast of unleavened
bread seven days.
35:18 And there was no passover like to 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.
35:19 In the eighteenth year of the reign of
Josiah was this passover
kept.
35:20 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.
35:21 But he sent ambassadors to him,
saying, What have I to do with
thee, thou king of Judah? I come not against
thee this day, but
against the house wherewith I have war: for
God commanded me to make
haste: forbear thee from meddling with God,
who is with me, that he
destroy thee not.
35:22 Nevertheless Josiah would not turn his
face from him, but
disguised himself, that he might fight with
him, and hearkened not
unto the words of Necho from the mouth of
God, and came to fight in
the valley of Megiddo.
35:23 And the archers shot at king Josiah;
and the king said to his
servants, Have me away; for I am sore
wounded.
35:24 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 in one of the
sepulchres of his fathers.
And all Judah and Jerusalem mourned for
Josiah.
35:25 And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah: and
all the singing men and
the singing women spake of Josiah in their
lamentations to this day,
and made them an ordinance in Israel: and,
behold, they are written in
the lamentations.
35:26 Now the rest of the acts of Josiah,
and his goodness, according
to that which was written in the law of the
LORD, 35:27 And his deeds,
first and last, behold, they are written in
the book of the kings of
Israel and Judah.
36:1 Then the people of the land took
Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and
made him king in his father's stead in
Jerusalem.
36:2 Jehoahaz was twenty and three years old
when he began to reign,
and he reigned three months in Jerusalem.
36:3 And the king of Egypt put him down at
Jerusalem, and condemned
the land in an hundred talents of silver and
a talent of gold.
36:4 And the king of Egypt made Eliakim his
brother king over Judah
and Jerusalem, and turned his name to
Jehoiakim. And Necho took
Jehoahaz his brother, and carried him to
Egypt.
36:5 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.
36:6 Against him came up Nebuchadnezzar king
of Babylon, and bound him
in fetters, to carry him to Babylon.
36:7 Nebuchadnezzar also carried of the
vessels of the house of the
LORD to Babylon, and put them in his temple
at Babylon.
36:8 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.
36:9 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.
36:10 And when the year was expired, king
Nebuchadnezzar sent, and
brought him to Babylon, with the goodly
vessels of the house of the
LORD, and made Zedekiah his brother king
over Judah and Jerusalem.
36:11 Zedekiah was one and twenty years old
when he began to reign,
and reigned eleven years in Jerusalem.
36:12 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.
36:13 And he also rebelled against king
Nebuchadnezzar, who had made
him swear by God: but he stiffened his neck,
and hardened his heart
from turning unto the LORD God of Israel.
36:14 Moreover all the chief of the priests,
and the people,
transgressed very much after all the
abominations of the heathen; and
polluted the house of the LORD which he had
hallowed in Jerusalem.
36:15 And the LORD God of their fathers sent
to them by his
messengers, rising up betimes, and sending;
because he had compassion
on his people, and on his dwelling place:
36:16 But they mocked the
messengers of God, and despised his words,
and misused his prophets,
until the wrath of the LORD arose against
his people, till there was
no remedy.
36:17 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 compassion upon young man or
maiden, old man, or him that
stooped for age: he gave them all into his
hand.
36:18 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.
36:19 And they burnt the house of God, and
brake down the wall of
Jerusalem, and burnt all the palaces thereof
with fire, and destroyed
all the goodly vessels thereof.
36:20 And them that had escaped from the
sword carried he away to
Babylon; where they were servants to him and
his sons until the reign
of the kingdom of Persia: 36:21 To fulfil
the word of the LORD by the
mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had
enjoyed her sabbaths: for as
long as she lay desolate she kept sabbath,
to fulfil threescore and
ten years.
36:22 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,
36:23 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 an 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. |
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