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14Now after this he built an outer wall to the city of David, on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entrance at the fish gate; and he compassed about Ophel, and raised it up a very great height; and he put captains of the army in all the fortified cities of Judah. 15And he took away

the abominations of the nations, whom lon. 12And when he was in distress, the LORD cast out before the children he besought the LORD his God, and of Israel. 3For he built again the high humbled himself greatly before the places which Hezekiah his father had God of his fathers. And he prayed broken down; and he reared up altars unto Him; and He was entreated of for the Baalim, and made Asheroth, him, and heard his supplication, and and worshipped all the host of heaven, brought him back to Jerusalem into and served them. And he built his kingdom.. Then Manasseh knew altars in the house of the LORD, where- that the LORD He was God. of the LORD said: 'In Jerusalem shall My name be for ever.' And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD. He also made his children to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom; and he practised soothsaying, and used enchantments, and practised sorcery, and appointed the strange gods, and the idol out of them that divined by a ghost or a familiar spirit; he wrought much evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke Him. And he set the graven image of the idol, which he had made, in the house of God, of which God said to David and to Solomon his son: 'In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, will I put My name for ever; neither will I any more remove the foot of Israel from off the land which I have appointed for your fathers; if only they will observe to do all that I have commanded them, even all the law and the statutes and the ordinances by the hand of Moses.' 'And Manasseh made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to err, so that they did evil more than did the nations, whom the LORD destroyed before the children of Israel.

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. 16And he built up the altar of the LORD, and offered thereon sacrifices of peaceofferings and of thanksgiving, and commanded Judah to serve the LORD, the God of Israel. 17Nevertheless the people did sacrifice still in the high places, but only unto the LORD their God.

18 Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and his prayer unto his God, and the words of the seers that spoke to him in the name of the LORD, the God of Israel, behold, they are written among the acts of the kings of Israel. 19His prayer also, and how [God] was entreated of him, and all his sin and his transgression, and the places wherein he built high places, and set 10 And the LORD spoke to Manasseh, up the Asherim and the graven images, and to his people; but they gave no before he humbled himself; behold, heed. "Wherefore the LORD brought they are written in the history of the upon them the captains of the host of seers. 20So Manasseh slept with his the king of Assyria, who took Ma- fathers, and they buried him in his nasseh with hooks, and bound him own house; and Amon his son reigned with fetters, and carried him to Baby-in his stead.

broke down the altars, and beat the Asherim and the graven images into powder, and hewed down all the sunimages throughout all the land of Israel, and returned to Jerusalem.

21 Amon was twenty and two years old when he began to reign; and he reigned two years in Jerusalem. 22And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, as did Manasseh his father; and Amon sacrificed unto all the graven images which Manasseh his father had made, and served them. 23 And he humbled not himself before the LORD, as Manasseh his father had humbled himself; but this same Amon became guilty more and more. 24And his servants conspired against him, and put him to death 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. 34 Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign; and he reigned thirty and one years in Jerusalem. 2And he did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD, and walked in the ways of David his father, and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left. 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 Asherim, and the graven images, and the molten images. And they broke down the altars of the Baalim in his presence; and the sun-images, that were on high above them, he hewed down; and the Asherim, and the graven images, and the molten images, he broke in pieces, and made dust of them, and strewed it upon the graves of them that had sacrificed unto them. And he burnt the bones of the priests upon their altars, and purged Judah and Jerusalem. And so did he in the 14And when they brought out the cities of Manasseh and Ephraim and money that was brought into the Simeon, even unto Naphtali, with house of the LORD, Hilkiah the priest their axes round about. "And he found the book of the Law of the LORD

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. And they came to Hilkiah the high priest, and delivered the money that was brought into the house of God, which the Levites, the keepers of the door, 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. 10And they delivered it into the hand of the workmen that had the oversight of the house of the LORD; and the workmen that wrought in the house of the LORD gave it to mend and repair the house; even to the carpenters and to the builders gave they it, to buy hewn stone, and timber for couplings, and to make beams for the houses which the kings of Judah had destroyed. 12And 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 preside over it; and other of the Levites, all that had skill with instruments of music. 13Also they were over the bearers of burdens, and presided over all that did the work in every manner of service; and of the Levites there were scribes, and officers, and porters.

given by Moses. 15And 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 moreover brought back word unto the king, saying: 'All that was committed to thy servants, they do it. 17And they have poured out the money that was found in the house of the LORD, and have delivered it into the hand of the overseers, and into the hand of the workmen.' 18And Shaphan the scribe told the king, saying: 'Hilkiah the priest hath delivered me a book.' And Shaphan read therein before the king. 19And it came to pass, when the king had heard the words of the Law, that he rent his clothes. 20And the king commanded Hilkiah, and Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and Abdon the son of Micah, and Shaphan the scribe, and Asaiah the king's servant, saying: 'Go ye, 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 according unto all that is written in this book.'

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of, even all the curses that are written in the book which they have read before the king of Judah; 25because they have forsaken Me, and have offered unto other gods, that they might provoke Me with all the works of their hands; therefore is My wrath poured out upon this place, and it shall not be quenched. 26But unto the king of Judah, who sent you to inquire of the LORD, thus shall ye say to him: Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel: As touching the words which thou hast heard, 27because thy heart was tender, and thou didst humble thyself before God, when thou heardest His words against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, and hast humbled thyself before Me, and hast rent thy clothes, and wept before Me; I also have heard thee, saith the LORD. 28Behold, 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 thereof.' And they brought back word unto the king.

29Then the king sent and gathered together all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem. 30And the king went up to 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, both 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. 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 that were written in this book. 32And

22So Hilkiah, and they whom the king [had commanded], went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tokhath, the son of Hasrah, keeper of the wardrobe-now she dwelt in Jerusalem in the second quarter and they spoke to her to that effect. 23 And she said unto them: 'Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel: Tell ye the man that sent you unto me: 24Thus saith the LORD: Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, and upon the inhabitants there

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he caused all that were found 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. 33And Josiah took away all the abominations out of all the countries that pertained to the children of Israel, and made all that were found in Israel to serve, even to serve the LORD their God. All his days they departed not from following the LORD, the God of their fathers.

were of the king's substance. And his princes gave willingly unto the people, to the priests, and to the Levites. Hilkiah and Zechariah and Jehiel, the rulers of the house of God, gave unto the priests for the passoverofferings two thousand and six hundred [small cattle], and three hundred oxen. Conaniah also, and Shemaiah and Nethanel, his brethren, and Hashabiah and Jeiel and Jozabad, the chiefs of the Levites, gave unto the Levites for the passover-offerings five thousand [small cattle], and five hundred oxen.

35 And Josiah kept a passover unto the LORD in Jerusalem; and they killed the passover lamb on the four- 10So the service was prepared, and teenth day of the first month. And the priests stood in their place, and he set the priests in their charges, and the Levites by their courses, accordencouraged them to the service of the ing to the king's commandment. house of the LORD. And he said unto 11And they killed the passover lamb, the Levites that taught all Israel, and the priests dashed [the blood, that were holy unto the LORD: 'Put which they received] of their hand, the holy ark in the house which Sol- and the Levites flayed them. 12And omon the son of David king of Israel they removed the portions that were did build; there shall no more be a to be burnt, that they might give burden upon your shoulders; now them to the divisions of the fathers' serve the LORD your God, and His houses of the children of the people, people Israel. And prepare ye after to present unto the LORD, as it is your fathers' houses by your courses, written in the book of Moses. And according to the writing of David king so did they with the oxen. 13And they of Israel, and according to the writing roasted the passover with fire accordof Solomon his son. "And stand in the ing to the ordinance; and the holy holy place according to the divisions offerings sod they in pots, and in of the fathers' houses of your brethren caldrons, and in pans, and carried the children of the people, and [let them quickly to all the children of the there be for each] a portion of a fathers' people. 14And afterward they prehouse of the Levites. "And kill the pared for themselves, and for the passover lamb, and sanctify your- priests; because the priests the sons of selves, and prepare for your brethren, Aaron were busied in offering the to do according to the word of the portions that were to be burnt and LORD by the hand of Moses.' the fat until night; therefore the Le"And Josiah gave to the children of vites prepared for themselves, and the people, of the flock, lambs and for the priests the sons of Aaron. kids, all of them for the passover-15And the singers the sons of Asaph offerings, unto all that were present, were in their place, according to the to the number of thirty thousand, commandment of David, and Asaph, and three thousand bullocks; these and Heman, and Jeduthun the king's

seer; and the porters were at every gate; they needed not to depart from their service, for their brethren the Levites prepared for them.

16So 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. 17And the children of Israel that were present kept the passover at that time, and the feast of unleavened bread seven days. 18And there was no passover like to that kept in Israel from the days of Samuel the prophet; neither did any of 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. 19In the eighteenth year of the reign of Josiah was this passover kept.

20 After all this, when Josiah had prepared the temple, Neco king of Egypt went up to fight against Carchemish by the Euphrates; and Josiah went out against him. 21But 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; and God hath given command to speed me; forbear thee from meddling with God, who is with me, that He destroy thee not.' 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 Neco, 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 sore wounded.' 24So his servants took him out of the chariot, and put him in the

second chariot that he had, and brought him to Jerusalem; and he died, and was buried in the sepulchres of his fathers. And all Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah. 25And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah; and all the singing men and singing women spoke of Josiah in their lamentations, unto this day; and they made them an ordinance in Israel; and, behold, they are written in the lamentations. 26Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and his good deeds, according to that which is written in the Law of the LORD, 27and his acts, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah. 36 Then the people of the land took

Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and made him king in his father's stead in Jerusalem. Joahaz was twenty and three years old when he began to reign; and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. And the king of Egypt deposed him at Jerusalem, and fined the land a hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold. And the king of Egypt made Eliakim his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem, and changed his name to Jehoiakim. And Neco took Joahaz his brother, and carried him to Egypt.

5Jehoiakim 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. "Against him came up Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and bound him in fetters, to carry him to Babylon. 'Nebuchadnezzar also carried of the vessels of the house of the LORD to Babylon, and put them in his temple at Babylon. 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

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