Manasseh's reign and idolatry. CHAP. XXI, XXII. Amon's wicked reign. into the city, are they not written in the 14 And I will forsake the remnant of book of the Chronicles of the kings of Judah?

21 And Hezekiah slept with his fathers: and Manasseh his son reigned in his stead. CHAP. XXI.

mine inheritance, and deliver them into the hand of their enemies; and they shall become a prey and a spoil to all their enemies; 15 Because they have done that which was evil in my sight, and have provoked MANASSEH was twelve years old me to anger, since the day their fathers when he began to reign, and reign-came forth out of Egypt, even unto this ed fifty and five years in Jerusalem. And day. his mother's name was Hephzi-bah.

16 Moreover, Manasseh shed innocent 2 And he did that which was evil in the blood very much, till he had filled Jerusasight of the LORD, after the abominations lem from one end to another; besides his of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out sin wherewith he made Judah to sin, in before the children of Israel. doing that which was evil in the sight of

3 For he built up again the high places the LORD. which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; 17 Now the rest of the acts of Manasand he reared up altars for Baal, and made seh, and all that he did, and his sin that a grove, as did Ahab king of Israel; and he sinned, are they not written in the book worshipped all the host of heaven, and of the Chronicles of the kings of Judah? served them. 18 And Manasseh slept with his fathers, 4 And he built altars in the house of the and was buried in the garden of his own LORD, of which the LORD said, In Jeru- house, in the garden of Uzza: and Amon salem will I put my name. his son reigned in his stead. 5 And he built altars for all the host of 19 Amon was twenty and two years heaven in the two courts of the house of old when he began to reign, and he reignthe LORD. ed two years in Jerusalem. And his mo

6 And he made his son pass through the ther's name was Meshullemeth, the daughfire, and observed times, and used enchant-ter of Haruz of Jotbah.

ments, and dealt with familiar spirits and 20 And he did that which was evil in the wizards: he wrought much wickedness in sight of the LORD, as his father Manasseh the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to did.

anger.

21 And he walked in all the way that

7 And he set a graven image of the his father walked in, and served the idols grove that he had made in the house, of that his father served, and worshipped which the LORD said to David, and to So-them:

lomon his son, In this house, and in Jeru- 22 And he forsook the LORD God of his salem, which I have chosen out of all tribes fathers, and walked not in the way of the of Israel, will I put my name for ever:

LORD.

23 ¶ And the servants of Amon conspired against him, and slew the king io his own house.

8 Neither will I make the feet of Israel move any more out of the land which I gave their fathers; only if they will observe to do according to all that I have 24 And the people of the land slew all commanded them, and according to all the them that had conspired against king law that my servant Moses commanded Amon; and the people of the land made them. Josiah his son king in his stead.

9 But they hearkened not: and Manasseh seduced them to do more evil than did the nations whom the LORD destroyed before the children of Israel.

10 And the LORD spake by his servants the prophets, saying,

11 Because Manasseh king of Judah hath done these abominations, and hath done wickedly did, which we above all that the Amorites

Judah also to sin with his idols:

25 Now the rest 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 sepulchre in the garden of Uzza: and Josiah his son reigned in his stead.

CHAP. XXII.

OSIAH was eight years old when he began to reign and he reigned thirty and

one years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Jedidah the daughter of Adaiah

12 Therefore thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Behold, I am bringing such evil of Boscath. upon Jerusalem and Judah, that whosoever 2 And he did that which was right in the beareth of it, both his ears shall tingle. sight of the LORD, and walked in all the 13 And I will stretch over Jerusalem way of David his father, and turned not the line of Samaria, and the plummet of aside to the right hand or to the left. the house of Ahab: and I will wipe Jeru- 3 And it came to pass in the salem as a man wipeth a dish, wiping it, eighteenth year of king Josiah, that the and turning it upside down. king sent Shaphan the son of Azaliab,

The good reign of Josiah.

II. KINGS.

He covenants with God. the son of Meshullam, the scribe, to the book which the king of Judah hath read: house of the LORD, saying, 17 Because they have forsaken me, and 4 Go up to Hilkiah the high priest, that have burned incense unto other gods, that he may sum the silver which is brought they might provoke me to anger with all into the house of the LORD, which the the works of their hands; therefore my keepers of the door have gathered of wrath shall be kindled against this place, the people: and shall not be quenched.

5 And let them deliver it into the hand 18 But to the king of Judah which sent of the doers of the work, that have the you to inquire of the LORD, thus shall ye oversight of the house of the LORD: and say to him, Thus saith the LORD God of let them give it to the doers of the work, Israel, As touching the words which thou which is in the house of the LORD, to re- hast heard;

pair the breaches of the house,

19 Because thy heart was tender, and 6 Unto carpenters, and builders, and thou hast humbled thyself before the masons, and to buy timber and hewn LORD, when thou heardest what I spake stone to repair the house. against this place, and against the inhabit7 Howbeit, there was no reckoning ants thereof, that they should become a made with them of the money that was desolation and a curse, and hast rent thy delivered into their hand, because they clothes, and wept before me; I also have dealt faithfully. heard thee, saith the LORD.

8 T And Hilkiah the high priest said unto Shaphan the scribe, I have found the book of the law in the house of the LORD. And Hilkiah gave the book to Shaphan, and he read it.

20 Behold therefore, I will gather thee unto thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered into thy grave in peace; and thine eyes shall not see all the evil which I will bring upon this place. And they brought the 9 And Shaphan the scribe came to the king word again. king, and brought the king word again, and said, Thy servants have gathered the

CHAP. XXIII.

money that was found in the house, and AND the king sent, and they gathered

unto him all the elders of Judah and have delivered it into the hand of them of Jerusalem. that do the work, that have the oversight 2 And the king went up into the house of the house of the LORD.

10 And Shaphan the scribe shewed the king, saying, Hilkiah the priest hath delivered me a book. And Shaphan read it before the king.

of the LORD, and all the men of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem with him, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the people, both small and great: and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant which was found in the

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

3 And the king stood by a pillar, and 12 And the king commanded Hilkiah made a covenant before the LORD, to walk the priest, and Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and Achbor the son of Michaiah, and Shaphan the scribe, and Asahiah a servant of the king's, saying,

after the LORD, and to keep his commandments, and his testimonies, and his statutes, with all their heart, and all their soul, to perform the words of this covenant that were written in this book. And all the people stood to the covenant.

13 Go ye, inquire of the LORD for me, and for the people, and for all Judah, concerning the words of this book that is 4 And the king commanded Hilkiah found for great is the wrath of the LORD the high priest, and the priests of the sethat is kindled against us, because our fa- cond order, and the keepers of the door, thers have not hearkened unto the words to bring forth out of the temple of the of this book, to do according unto all that LORD all the vessels that were made for which is written concerning us. Baal, and for the grove, and for all the 14 So Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam, host of heaven: and he burned them with. and Achbor, and Shaphan, and Asahiah, out Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, and went unto Huldah the prophetess, the carried the ashes of them unto Beth-el. wife of Shallum the son of Tikvah, the 5 And he put down the idolatrous priests, son of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe; (now she dwelt in Jerusalem in the college;) and they communed with her.

15 T And she said unto them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Tell the man that sent you to me,

16 Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, and upon the inhabitants thereof, even all the words of the

whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places round about Jerusalem; them also that burned incense unto Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven.

6 And he brought out the grove from the house of the LORD, without Jerusalem.