Jehu, he was flain by Jehu. 2 Chron. xxii. 1-9.

21 Q. Who fucceeded to the Throne of Judah when Ahaziah was dead? A. Athaliah his Mother feized the Kingdom, and deftroyed all the Seed Royal of the Houfe of Judah, except Joah, the Son of Ahaziah, an Infant of a Year old, who was hid in the Temple. 2 Chron. xxii. 2, 10—12.

22 Q. How did Athaliah reign? A. As the counfelled her Son Abaziah before, fo fhe herfelf practifed the Idolatry of the Houfe of Ahab. 2 Chron. xxii. 3, 17. and xxiv. 7.

23 Q. How was Athaliah depofed? A. Fehoiada the High-Prieft ftirred up the Captains of the Army, the Levites, and the chief of the People against her: he fet Joash on the Throne when he was seven years old, anointed and proclaimed him King, then ordered the Guards to Day Athaliah, and deftroyed the Worship of Baal. 2 Chron. xxiii.

24 Q. What was the Conduct of Joafh in his Government? A. He did that which was right in the fight of the Lord all the days of Jehoiada the Prieft, who was his Uncle; he repaired the Tem→ ple, and the Veffels thereof, and reftored the Worhip of God. 2 Chron. xxiv. 115.

25 Q. How did Joafh behave after Jehoiada's death? A. He was perfuaded to change the Worship of God for Idols, and moft ungratefully flew Zechariah, the Son of Jehoiada, because he reproved the Idolatry of the People. 2 Chron. xxiv. 17-22. Matth. xxiii. 35.

26 Q. In what manner did God punish him for. bis Crime? A. He fent an Army of the Syrians against him, who pillaged the Country; he fmote him with fore Difeafes, and at laft his own Servants flew him on his Bed. ver. 23-26.

27 Q. How did Amaziah the Son of Joafh reign? A. At first he feemed to work Righteoufnefs, and hearkened to the Voice of God and his Prophets; but afterwards, gaining a Victory over the Edomites, he learnt to worship the Gods of Edom. 2 Chron. xxv.

28 Q. How came Amaziah to meet his Ruin and his Death? A. Being puffed up with his Succefs against Edom, he challenged the King of Ifrael to Battle, and was routed fhamefully, and was flain at laft by a Confpiracy of his own People, 2 Chron. XXV. 17-18.

29 Q. What was the Character and Reign of Uzziah the King? A. He was made King at fixteen Years old, in the room: of his Father Amaziab; he fought after God in the Days of Zechariah the Prophet, and God profpered his Arms against all his Enemies, and made his Name great. 2 Chron. xxvi.

Note, This was feveral hundred Years before that Zechariah who prophefied after the Captivity.

30 Q. Wherein did he provoke God afterwards? A. His Heart was lifted up by his Profperity, and he affumed the Priest's Office, and burnt Incense in the Temple, though the Priefts oppofed him. ver. 16.

31 Q. What was his Punishment for this Crime? A. While he had a Cenfer in his Hand to burn Incense, the Leprofy rofe up in his Forehead, and he continued a Leper till his Death. ver. 19.

32 Q. Is there any thing very remarkable in the Reign of Jotham, the Son of Uzziah? A. He was a good King, and God bleffed his Arms, fo that he brought the Ammonites under Tribute. 2 Chron, xxvii. 33 Qi

33 Q. How did Ahaz, the Son of Jotham, behave himself? A. He walked in the Ways of the Kings of Ifrael, made Images for Baal and offered his Children in Sacrifice by Fire, after the Abominations of the Heathen, 2 Chron. xxviii. 1, 4.

34 Q. How did God fhew his Difpleasure against Ahaz? A. His Land was invaded by the King of Syria, and by the King of Ifrael; Multitudes of his People were flain, and many Captives was carried to Damafcus and to Samaria, though the Ifraelites restored their Captives again at the Word of the Prophet Oded, ver. 5-15.

35 Q: What further Iniquities of Ahaz are recorded? A. That he fet afide the Brazen Altar which was before the Lord, and fet up another in the Court of the Temple, according to the Pattern of an Altar he had feen at Damafcus, and at laft fell in with the Idolatry of the Heathen Nations, 2 Kings xvi. 10. 2 Chron. xxviii.

36Q. What was one particular Aggravation of his Crimes? A. That even in the Time of his Diftrefs he finned the more against God; and becaufe God did not help him, he facrificed to the Gods of Damafcus; he cut in pieces the Veffels of the Houfe of God, fhut up the Doors of the Temple, and fet up Idols in Jerufalem, and through all the Land, 2 Chron. xxviii. 22.

37 Q. Did Hezekiah, the Son of Ahaz, continue in the Sins of his Father? A. No; but he made a great Reformation, not only in Judah, but also in Ephraim and Manaffeh; he brake the Images, cut down their Groves, deftroyed their Altars, repaired the Temple, and restored the Worship of the true God there, 2 Chron. xxix. and xxxi.

38 Q. What peculiar Inftance did he give of his Zeal against all manner of Idolatry? A. He brake

in pieces the brazen Serpent that Mofes had made in the Wildernefs, because the People burnt Incenfe to it, 2 Kings xviii. 4.

39 Q. In what manner did he keep the Paffover? A. He fent to all Ifrael, as well as to Judah, to invite them to keep the Paflover at Jerufalem, according to the Appointment of God, 2 Chron. xxx.

Though Hezekiah, King of Judah, began this Reformation in the first Year of his Reign, yet it might not be carried to this Height till the fixth or feventh Year; at which time there was no King in Ifrael, Hofhea, the last King, being taken and imprifoned by the King of Affyria, and a great part of the People being carried into Captivity, in the fixth Year of Hezekiah's Reign. See 2 Chron. xxix. 3. and 2 Kings xviii. 9-11.

40 Q. Did the other Tribes of Ifrael come at his Invitation? A. Some mocked the Meffage, but many out of several Tribes came to the Paffover, fo that there was not the like fince the time of Solemon, ver. 18, 25, 26.

41 Q. Were all thefe People fufficiently purified to keep the Paffover? A. No, but at the Prayer of Hezekiah the Lord pardoned and accepted them, though feveral things in this Paffover were not. exactly conformable to the holy Inftitution, ver, 18-20.

42 Q. Wherein did God fhew his Acceptance of Hezekiah's Zeal and Piety? A. God profpered him in his Wars against his Enemies, and enabled. him to caft off the Yoke of the King of Affyria while he trufted in him, 2 Kings xvii. 7, 8.

43Q What Weakness was Hezekiah guilty of afterward, when Sennacherib King of Affyria in-. vaded Judah? A. He bribed him to depart, with Gold and Silver taken from the Houfe of God, ver. 13-16.

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44 Q What Succefs had this Conduct of Hezekiah? A. Very ill Succefs; for fome few Years after Sennacherib fent an Army to take Jerufalem, 2 Kings xviii. 9—13, 17.

45 Q. What did Hezekiah do in this Diftrefs? A. When Sennacherib sent Rabhakeh with Blafphemies against God, and Threatnings against the People, Hezekiah humbled himself greatly, and fpread the railing Letter before the Lord in the Temple, and prayed earneftly to God for Delive-rance, 1 Kings xviii. and xix.

46Q What was the Succefs of Hezekiah's Prayer? A. Ifaiah the Prophet allured him of Deliverance; and the Angel of the Lord flew in the Camp of the Affyrians, one hundred and fourfcore and five thousand Men at once, 2 Kings xix. 20-35.

47 Q. What further Favour did Hezekiah receive from God? A. When he was fick, near to Death, God heard his Prayer, and affured him he fhould live fifteen Years longer, 2 Kings xx. 1-6.

48 Q. What Sign did God give him to confirm bis Faith in this Promife? A. The Shadow returned backward ten Degrees upon the Dial of Abaz, ver. 8-11.

49 Q. Wherein did Hezekiah misbehave himself after he had received all this Mercy? A. In the Vanity and Pride of his Heart, he fhewed the Meffengers of the King of Babylon all his Treasures, ver. 12, 13. and 2 Chron, xxiv. 31.

50Q How was Hezekiah's Pride punished? A. God told him, by the Prophet Ifaiah, that all thefe Treasures fhould be carried into Babylon: but because Hezekiah humbled himfelf, God deferred the Execution of it till after his Death, 2 Chron. xxxii. 25, 26.

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