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By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and shall not come into this city, saith the LORD.
He will go back the way he came, and he will not enter this city,’ declares the LORD.
For I will defend this city, to save it, for mine own sake, and for my servant David’s sake.
‘I will defend this city and save it for My own sake and for the sake of My servant David.’”
And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the LORD went out,
and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred
fourscore and five thousand:
and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.
And that very night the angel of the LORD went out and struck down 185,000 men in the camp of the Assyrians. When the people got up the next morning, there were all the dead bodies!
So
Sennacherib king of Assyria broke camp
and withdrew. He returned to
Nineveh and stayed there.
One day, while he was worshiping in the temple of his god
Nisroch, his sons
Adrammelech and Sharezer put him to the sword
and escaped to the land of
Ararat.
And his son Esar-haddon reigned in his place.
In those days was
Hezekiah sick unto death.
And the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz came to him,
and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Set thine house in order; for thou shalt die,
and not live.
In those days
Hezekiah became
mortally ill. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz came to him
and said, “This is what the LORD says: ‘Put your house in order, for you are about to die; you will not recover.’”
Then he turned his face to the wall, and prayed unto the LORD, saying,
Then
Hezekiah turned his face to the wall
and prayed to the LORD, saying,
I
beseech 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 thy sight.
And Hezekiah wept sore.
“Please, O LORD, remember how I have walked before You faithfully
and with wholehearted devotion; I have done what was good in Your sight.”
And Hezekiah wept bitterly.
And it came to pass,
afore Isaiah was gone out into the middle court, that the word of the LORD came to him, saying,
Before Isaiah had left the middle
courtyard, the word of the LORD came to him, saying,
Turn again,
and tell
Hezekiah the captain of my people, Thus saith 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.
“Go back
and tell
Hezekiah the leader of My people that this is what the LORD, the God of your father David, says: ‘I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. I will surely
heal you. On the third day from now you will go up to the house of the LORD.
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 Assyria; and I will defend this city for mine own sake, and for my servant David’s sake.
I will add fifteen years to your life. And I will deliver you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria. I will defend this city for My sake and for the sake of My servant David.’”
And Isaiah said, Take a
lump of figs.
And they took
and laid it on the
boil,
and he recovered.
Then Isaiah said, “Prepare a
poultice of figs.” So they brought it
and applied it to the
boil,
and Hezekiah recovered.
And Hezekiah said unto Isaiah, What shall be the sign that the LORD will
heal me,
and that I shall go up into the house of the LORD the third day?
Now
Hezekiah had asked Isaiah, “What will be the sign that the LORD will
heal me
and that I will go up to the house of the LORD on the third day?”
And Isaiah said, 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?
And Isaiah had replied, “This will be a sign to you from the LORD that He will do what He has promised: Would you like the shadow to go forward ten steps, or back ten steps?”
And Hezekiah answered, It is a light thing for the shadow to go down ten degrees:
nay, but let the shadow return backward ten degrees.
“It is easy for the shadow to
lengthen ten steps,” answered
Hezekiah, “but not for it to go back ten steps.”
And Isaiah the prophet
cried unto the LORD:
and he brought the shadow ten degrees backward, by which it had gone down in the
dial of
Ahaz.
So Isaiah the prophet called out to the LORD,
and He brought the shadow back the ten steps it had descended on the
stairway of
Ahaz.
At that time Berodach-baladan, the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters
and a present unto
Hezekiah: for he had heard that
Hezekiah had been sick.
At that time Merodach-baladan son of Baladan king of Babylon sent letters
and a gift to
Hezekiah, for he had heard about
Hezekiah’s illness.
And Hezekiah hearkened unto them,
and shewed them all the house of his precious things, the silver,
and the gold,
and the spices,
and the precious
ointment,
and all the house of his armour,
and all that was found in his treasures: there was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, that
Hezekiah shewed them not.
And Hezekiah received the envoys
and showed them all that was in his
treasure house—the silver, the gold, the spices,
and the precious oil, as well as his
armory—all that was found in his storehouses. There was nothing in his palace or in all his dominion that
Hezekiah did not show them.
Then came Isaiah the prophet unto king
Hezekiah,
and said unto him, What said these men?
and from whence came they unto thee?
And Hezekiah said, They are come from a far country, even from Babylon.
Then the prophet Isaiah went to King
Hezekiah and asked, “Where did those men come from,
and what did they say to you?” “They came from a distant land,”
Hezekiah replied, “from Babylon.”
And he said, What have they seen in thine house?
And Hezekiah answered, All the things that are in mine house have they seen: there is nothing among my treasures that I have not shewed them.
“What have they seen in your palace?” Isaiah asked. “They have seen everything in my palace,” answered
Hezekiah. “There is nothing among my treasures that I did not show them.”
And Isaiah said unto
Hezekiah, Hear the word of the LORD.
Then Isaiah said to
Hezekiah, “Hear the word of the LORD:
Behold, the days come, that all that is in thine house, and that which thy fathers have laid up in store unto this day, shall be carried into Babylon: nothing shall be left, saith the LORD.
The time will surely come when everything in your palace and all that your fathers have stored up until this day will be carried off to Babylon. Nothing will be left, says the LORD.
And of thy sons that shall issue from thee, which thou shalt
beget, shall they take away;
and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.
And some of your descendants, your own flesh and blood, will be taken away to be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.”
Then said
Hezekiah unto Isaiah, Good is the word of the LORD which thou hast spoken.
And he said, Is it not good, if peace
and truth be in my days?
But
Hezekiah said to Isaiah, “The word of the LORD that you have spoken is good.” For he thought, “Will there not at least be peace
and security in my lifetime?”
And the rest of the acts of
Hezekiah,
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 chronicles of the kings of Judah?
As for the rest of the acts of
Hezekiah, along with all his might
and how he constructed the
pool and the
tunnel to bring water into the city, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?
And Hezekiah rested with his fathers,
and his son
Manasseh reigned in his place.
Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign,
and reigned fifty
and five years in Jerusalem.
And his mother’s name was Hephzi-
bah.
Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king,
and he reigned in Jerusalem fifty-five years. His mother’s name was Hephzibah.
And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, after the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.
And he did evil in the sight of the LORD by following the abominations of the nations that the LORD had driven out before the Israelites.
For he built up again the high places which
Hezekiah his father had destroyed;
and he reared up altars for
Baal,
and made a
grove, as did
Ahab king of Israel;
and worshipped all the host of heaven,
and served them.
For he rebuilt the high places that his father
Hezekiah had destroyed,
and he raised up altars for
Baal. He made an Asherah pole, as King
Ahab of Israel had done,
and he worshiped
and served all the host of heaven.
And he built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD said, In Jerusalem will I put my name.
Manasseh also built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD had said, “In Jerusalem I will put My Name.”
And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD.
In both courtyards of the house of the LORD, he built altars to all the host of heaven.
And he made his son pass through the fire,
and observed times,
and used enchantments,
and dealt with familiar spirits
and wizards: he wrought much wickedness in the sight of the LORD, to
provoke him to anger.
He sacrificed his own son in the fire, practiced
sorcery and divination,
and consulted mediums
and spiritists. He did great evil in the sight of the LORD,
provoking Him to anger.
And he set a
graven image of the
grove that he had made in the house, of which the LORD said to David,
and to Solomon his son, In this house,
and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever:
Manasseh even took the carved Asherah pole he had made
and set it up in the temple, of which the LORD had said to David
and his son Solomon, “In this temple
and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will establish My Name
forever.
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 commanded them, and according to all the law that my servant Moses commanded them.
I will never again cause the feet of the Israelites to
wander from the land that I gave to their fathers, if only they are careful to do all I have commanded them—the whole Law that My servant Moses commanded them.”
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.
But the people did not
listen and Manasseh led them
astray, so that they did greater evil than the nations that the LORD had destroyed before the Israelites.
And the LORD spake by his servants the prophets, saying,
And the LORD spoke through His servants the prophets, saying,
Because
Manasseh king of Judah hath done these abominations,
and hath done wickedly above all that the
Amorites did, which were before him,
and hath made Judah also to sin with his idols:
“Since
Manasseh king of Judah has committed all these abominations, acting more wickedly than the
Amorites who preceded him,
and with his idols has caused Judah to sin,
Therefore thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Behold, I am bringing such evil upon Jerusalem
and Judah, that
whosoever heareth of it, both his ears shall
tingle.
this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Behold, I am bringing such
calamity upon Jerusalem
and Judah that the news will
reverberate in the ears of all who hear it.
And I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria,
and the
plummet of the house of
Ahab:
and I will
wipe Jerusalem as a man wipeth a
dish,
wiping it,
and turning it
upside down.
I will stretch out over Jerusalem the measuring line used against Samaria
and the
plumb line used against the house of
Ahab,
and I will
wipe out Jerusalem as one wipes out a
bowl—
wiping it
and turning it
upside down.
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;
So I will
forsake the
remnant of My inheritance
and deliver them into the hands of their enemies.
And they will become
plunder and spoil to all their enemies,
Because they have done that which was evil in my sight,
and have
provoked me to anger, since the day their fathers came forth out of Egypt, even unto this day.
because they have done evil in My sight
and have
provoked Me to anger from the day their fathers came out of Egypt until this day.’”
Now the rest of the acts of
Manasseh,
and all that he did,
and his sin that he
sinned, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
As for the rest of the acts of
Manasseh, along with all his accomplishments
and the sin that he committed, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?
And Manasseh slept with his fathers,
and was buried in the garden of his own house, in the garden of Uzza:
and Amon his son reigned in his
stead.
And Manasseh rested with his fathers
and was buried in his palace garden, the garden of Uzza.
And his son Amon reigned in his place.
Amon was twenty and two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned two years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Meshullemeth, the daughter of Haruz of Jotbah.
Amon was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem two years. His mother’s name was Meshullemeth daughter of Haruz; she was from Jotbah.
And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, as his father
Manasseh did.
And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, as his father
Manasseh had done.
And he walked in all the way that his father walked in, and served the idols that his father served, and worshipped them:
He walked in all the ways of his father, and he served and worshiped the idols his father had served.
And he
forsook the LORD God of his fathers,
and walked not in the way of the LORD.
He abandoned the LORD, the God of his fathers, and did not walk in the way of the LORD.
And the servants of Amon
conspired against him,
and slew the king in his own house.
Then the servants of Amon
conspired against him
and killed the king in his palace.
And 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.
But the people of the land killed all those who had
conspired against King Amon,
and they made his son
Josiah king in his place.
And he was buried in his tomb in the garden of Uzza,
and his son
Josiah reigned in his place.
Josiah 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 of Boscath.
Josiah was eight years old when he became king,
and he reigned in Jerusalem thirty-one years. His mother’s name was Jedidah daughter of Adaiah; she was from Bozkath.
And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, and walked in all the way of David his father, and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left.
And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD and walked in all the ways of his father David; he did not turn aside to the right or to the left.
And it came to pass in the
eighteenth year of king
Josiah, that the king sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, the son of Meshullam, the
scribe, to the house of the LORD, saying,
Now in the
eighteenth year of his reign, King
Josiah sent the
scribe, Shaphan son of Azaliah, the son of Meshullam, to the house of the LORD, saying,
Go up to Hilkiah the high priest, that he may sum the silver which is brought into the house of the LORD, which the keepers of the door have gathered of the people:
“Go up to Hilkiah the high priest and have him count the money that has been brought into the house of the LORD, which the doorkeepers have collected from the people.
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 LORD, to repair the breaches of the house,
And let them deliver it into the hands of the supervisors of those doing the work on the house of the LORD, who in turn are to give it to the workmen repairing the damages to the house of the LORD—
Unto carpenters,
and builders,
and masons,
and to
buy timber
and hewn stone to repair the house.
to the carpenters, builders,
and masons—to
buy timber
and dressed stone to repair the temple.
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.
Then Hilkiah the high priest said to Shaphan the
scribe, “I have found the Book of the Law in the house of the LORD!”
And he gave it to Shaphan, who read it.
And Shaphan the
scribe came to the king,
and brought the king word again,
and said, Thy servants have gathered the money that was found in the house,
and have delivered it into the hand of them that do the work, that have the oversight of the house of the LORD.
And Shaphan the
scribe went to the king
and reported, “Your servants have paid out the money that was found in the temple
and have put it into the hands of the workers
and supervisors of the house of the LORD.”
And Shaphan the
scribe shewed the king, saying, Hilkiah the priest hath delivered me a book.
And Shaphan read it before the king.
Moreover, Shaphan the
scribe told the king, “Hilkiah the priest has given me a book.”
And Shaphan read it in the presence of the king.
And it came to pass, when the king had heard the words of the book of the law, that he rent his clothes.
When the king heard the words of the Book of the Law, he
tore his clothes
And the king commanded Hilkiah 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,
and commanded Hilkiah the priest,
Ahikam son of Shaphan, Achbor son of Micaiah, Shaphan the
scribe,
and Asaiah the servant of the king:
Go ye,
enquire of the LORD for me,
and for the people,
and for all Judah, concerning the words of this book that is found: for great is the wrath of the LORD that is
kindled against us, because our fathers have not
hearkened unto the words of this book, to do according unto all that which is written concerning us.
“Go and inquire of the LORD for me, for the people, and for all Judah concerning the words in this book that has been found. For great is the wrath of the LORD that burns against us because our fathers have not obeyed the words of this book by doing all that is written about us.”
So Hilkiah the priest,
and Ahikam,
and Achbor,
and Shaphan,
and Asahiah, went unto Huldah the
prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, keeper of the
wardrobe; (now she dwelt in Jerusalem in the college;)
and they communed with her.
So Hilkiah the priest,
Ahikam, Achbor, Shaphan,
and Asaiah went
and spoke to Huldah the
prophetess, the wife of Shallum son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, the keeper of the
wardrobe. She lived in Jerusalem, in the Second District.
And she said unto them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Tell the man that sent you to me,
And Huldah said to them, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Tell the man who sent you
Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, and upon the inhabitants thereof, even all the words of the book which the king of Judah hath read:
that this is what the LORD says: I am about to bring
calamity on this place
and on its people, according to all the words of the book that the king of Judah has read,
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
kindled against this place,
and shall not be
quenched.
because they have
forsaken Me
and burned incense to other gods, that they might
provoke Me to anger with all the works of their hands. My wrath will be
kindled against this place
and will not be
quenched.’
Because thine heart was tender,
and thou hast humbled
thyself before the LORD, when thou heardest what I spake against this place,
and against the inhabitants thereof, that they should become a
desolation and a
curse,
and hast rent thy clothes,
and wept before me; I also have heard thee, saith the LORD.
because your heart was tender
and you humbled
yourself before the LORD when you heard what I spoke against this place
and against its people, that they would become a
desolation and a
curse,
and because you have
torn your clothes
and wept before Me, I have heard you,’ declares the LORD.
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 king word again.
‘Therefore I will indeed gather you to your fathers,
and you will be gathered to your grave in peace. Your eyes will not see all the
calamity that I will bring on this place.’” So they brought her answer back to the king.
And the king sent, and they gathered unto him all the elders of Judah and of Jerusalem.
Then the king summoned all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem.
And the king went up into the house 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 house of the LORD.
And he went up to the house of the LORD with all the people of Judah and Jerusalem, as well as the priests and the prophets—all the people small and great—and in their hearing he read all the words of the Book of the Covenant that had been found in the house of the LORD.
And the king stood by a
pillar,
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 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.
So the king stood by the
pillar and made a covenant before the LORD to follow the LORD
and to keep His commandments, decrees,
and statutes with all his heart
and all his soul,
and to carry out the words of this covenant that were written in this book.
And all the people entered into the covenant.
And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest,
and the priests of the second order,
and the keepers of the door, to bring forth out of the temple of the LORD all the vessels that were made for
Baal,
and for the
grove,
and for all the host of heaven:
and he burned them without Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron,
and carried the ashes of them unto
Bethel.
Then the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, the priests second in rank,
and the doorkeepers to remove from the temple of the LORD all the articles made for
Baal, Asherah,
and all the host of heaven.
And he burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron
and carried their ashes to
Bethel.
And he put down the
idolatrous priests, 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.
Josiah also did away with the
idolatrous priests ordained by the kings of Judah to burn incense on the high places of the cities of Judah
and in the places all around Jerusalem—those who had burned incense to
Baal, to the sun
and moon, to the constellations,
and to all the host of heaven.
And he brought out the
grove from the house of the LORD, without Jerusalem, unto the
brook Kidron,
and burned it at the
brook Kidron,
and stamped it small to powder,
and cast the powder thereof upon the graves of the children of the people.
He brought the Asherah pole from the house of the LORD to the Kidron Valley outside Jerusalem, and there he burned it, ground it to powder, and threw its dust on the graves of the common people.
And he
brake down the houses of the sodomites, that were by the house of the LORD, where the women
wove hangings for the
grove.
He also
tore down the quarters of the male
shrine prostitutes that were in the house of the LORD, where the women had
woven tapestries for Asherah.
And he brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah,
and defiled the high places where the priests had burned incense, from Geba to Beer-
sheba,
and brake down the high places of the gates that were in the entering in of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city, which were on a man’s left hand at the gate of the city.
Then
Josiah brought all the priests from the cities of Judah
and desecrated the high places, from Geba to
Beersheba, where the priests had burned incense. He
tore down the high places of the gates at the entrance of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city, which was to the left of the city gate.
And he
defiled Topheth, which is in the valley of the children of
Hinnom, that no man might make his son or his daughter to pass through the fire to
Molech.
He also
desecrated Topheth in the Valley of Ben-
hinnom so that no one could sacrifice his son or daughter in the fire to
Molech.
And he took away the horses that the kings of Judah had given to the sun, at the entering in of the house of the LORD, by the chamber of
Nathan-melech the
chamberlain, which was in the suburbs,
and burned the
chariots of the sun with fire.
And he removed from the entrance to the house of the LORD the horses that the kings of Judah had dedicated to the sun. They were in the court near the chamber of an official named
Nathan-melech.
And Josiah burned up the
chariots of the sun.
And the altars that were on the top of the upper chamber of
Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made,
and the altars which
Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the LORD, did the king beat down,
and brake them down from thence,
and cast the dust of them into the
brook Kidron.
He pulled down the altars that the kings of Judah had set up on the roof near the upper chamber of
Ahaz,
and the altars that
Manasseh had set up in the two courtyards of the house of the LORD. The king
pulverized them there
and threw their dust into the Kidron Valley.
And the high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on the right hand of the mount of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had builded for
Ashtoreth the
abomination of the Zidonians,
and for
Chemosh the
abomination of the Moabites,
and for Milcom the
abomination of the children of
Ammon, did the king
defile.
And he
brake in pieces the images,
and cut down the groves,
and filled their places with the bones of men.
He
smashed the sacred pillars to pieces, cut down the Asherah poles,
and covered the sites with human bones.
Moreover the altar that was at
Bethel,
and the high place which
Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, had made, both that altar
and the high place he
brake down,
and burned the high place,
and stamped it small to powder,
and burned the
grove.
He even pulled down the altar at
Bethel, the high place set up by
Jeroboam son of Nebat, who had caused Israel to sin. Then he burned the high place, ground it to powder,
and burned the Asherah pole.
And as
Josiah turned himself, he
spied the
sepulchres that were there in the mount,
and sent,
and took the bones out of the
sepulchres,
and burned them upon the altar,
and polluted it, according to the word of the LORD which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these words.
And as
Josiah turned, he saw the tombs there on the
hillside,
and he sent someone to take the bones out of the tombs,
and he burned them on the altar to
defile it, according to the word of the LORD proclaimed by the man of God who had
foretold these things.
Then he said, What title is that that I see?
And the men of the city told him, It is the
sepulchre of the man of God, which came from Judah,
and proclaimed these things that thou hast done against the altar of
Bethel.
Then the king asked, “What is this monument I see?”
And the men of the city replied, “It is the tomb of the man of God who came from Judah
and pronounced these things that you have done to the altar of
Bethel.”
And he said, 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.
“Let him rest,” said
Josiah. “Do not let
anyone disturb his bones.” So they left his bones undisturbed, along with those of the prophet who had come from Samaria.
And all the houses also of the high places that were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to
provoke the LORD to anger,
Josiah took away,
and did to them according to all the acts that he had done in
Bethel.
Just as
Josiah had done at
Bethel, so also in the cities of Samaria he removed all the shrines of the high places set up by the kings of Israel who had
provoked the LORD to anger.
And he
slew all the priests of the high places that were there upon the altars,
and burned men’s bones upon them,
and returned to Jerusalem.
On the altars he slaughtered all the priests of the high places, and he burned human bones on them. Then he returned to Jerusalem.
And the king commanded all the people, saying, Keep the
passover unto the LORD your God, as it is written in the book of this covenant.
The king commanded all the people, “Keep the
Passover of the LORD your God, as it is written in this Book of the Covenant.”
Surely there was not
holden such a
passover from the days of the judges that judged Israel, nor in all the days of the kings of Israel, nor of the kings of Judah;
No such
Passover had been observed from the days of the judges who had governed Israel through all the days of the kings of Israel
and Judah.
Moreover the workers with familiar spirits,
and the wizards,
and the images,
and the idols,
and all the abominations that were
spied in the land of Judah
and in Jerusalem, did
Josiah 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.
Furthermore,
Josiah removed the mediums
and spiritists, the household gods
and idols,
and all the abominations that were seen in the land of Judah
and in Jerusalem. He did this to carry out the words of the law written in the book that Hilkiah the priest had found in the house of the LORD.
And like unto him was there no king before him, that turned to the LORD with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his might, according to all the law of Moses; neither after him arose there any like him.
Neither before nor after
Josiah was there any king like him, who turned to the LORD with all his heart
and with all his soul
and with all his strength, according to all the Law of Moses.
And the LORD said, I will remove Judah also out of my sight, as I have removed Israel, and will cast off this city Jerusalem which I have chosen, and the house of which I said, My name shall be there.
For the LORD had said, “I will remove Judah from My sight, just as I removed Israel. I will
reject this city Jerusalem, which I chose,
and the temple of which I said, ‘My Name shall be there.’”
Now the rest of the acts of
Josiah,
and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
As for the rest of the acts of
Josiah, along with all his accomplishments, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?
In his days Pharaoh-nechoh king of Egypt went up against the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates:
and king
Josiah went against him;
and he
slew him at
Megiddo, when he had seen him.
At the end of
Josiah’s reign, Pharaoh Neco king of Egypt marched up to help the king of Assyria at the Euphrates River. King
Josiah went out to
confront him, but Neco faced him
and killed him at
Megiddo.
From
Megiddo his servants carried his body in a
chariot, brought him to Jerusalem,
and buried him in his own tomb. Then the people of the land took
Jehoahaz son of
Josiah,
anointed him,
and made him king in place of his father.
Jehoahaz was twenty
and three years old when he began to reign;
and he reigned three months in Jerusalem.
And his mother’s name was Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah of
Libnah.
Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he became king,
and he reigned in Jerusalem three months. His mother’s name was Hamutal daughter of Jeremiah; she was from
Libnah.
And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his fathers had done.
And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, just as his fathers had done.
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 tribute of an hundred talents of silver,
and a talent of gold.
And Pharaoh Neco imprisoned
Jehoahaz at Riblah in the land of
Hamath so that he could not reign in Jerusalem,
and he imposed on Judah a
levy of a hundred talents of silver
and a talent of gold.
And Pharaoh-nechoh made Eliakim the son of
Josiah king in the room of
Josiah his father,
and turned his name to
Jehoiakim,
and took
Jehoahaz away:
and he came to Egypt,
and died there.
Then Pharaoh Neco made Eliakim son of
Josiah king in place of his father
Josiah,
and he changed Eliakim’s name to
Jehoiakim. But Neco took
Jehoahaz and carried him off to Egypt, where he died.
And Jehoiakim gave the silver
and the gold to Pharaoh; but he taxed the land to give the money according to the commandment of Pharaoh: he exacted the silver
and the gold of the people of the land, of every one according to his taxation, to give it unto Pharaoh-nechoh.
So
Jehoiakim paid the silver
and gold to Pharaoh Neco, but to meet Pharaoh’s demand he taxed the land
and exacted the silver
and the gold from the people, each according to his wealth.