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CHAPTER 30
2 Chronicles 30:1
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. 2
Chronicles 30:2
2 For the king had taken counsel, and his princes, and all the congregation
in Jerusalem, to keep the passover in the second month. 2 Chronicles 30:3
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.
2 Chronicles 30:4
4 And the thing pleased the king and all the congregation. 2 Chronicles 30:5
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. 2 Chronicles 30:6
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. 2 Chronicles
30:7
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.
2 Chronicles 30:8
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.
2 Chronicles 30:9
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. 2
Chronicles 30:10
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. 2 Chronicles 30:11
11 Nevertheless divers of Asher and Manasseh and of Zebulun humbled
themselves, and came to Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 30:12
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. 2
Chronicles 30:13
13 And there assembled at Jerusalem much people to keep the feast of
unleavened bread in the second month, a very great congregation. 2
Chronicles 30:14
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.
2 Chronicles 30:15
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. 2 Chronicles
30:16
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.
2 Chronicles 30:17
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. 2 Chronicles
30:18
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 2 Chronicles 30:19
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. 2
Chronicles 30:20
20 And the LORD hearkened to Hezekiah, and healed the people. 2 Chronicles 30:21
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.
2 Chronicles 30:22
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.
2 Chronicles 30:23
23 And the whole assembly took counsel to keep other seven days: and they
kept other seven days with gladness. 2 Chronicles 30:24
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.
2 Chronicles 30:25
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. 2 Chronicles
30:26
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. 2
Chronicles 30:27
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.
CHAPTER 31
2 Chronicles 31:1
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. 2 Chronicles 31:2
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. 2
Chronicles 31:3
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. 2 Chronicles 31:4
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.
2 Chronicles 31:5
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.
2 Chronicles 31:6
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.
2 Chronicles 31:7
7 In the third month they began to lay the foundation of the heaps, and
finished them in the seventh month. 2 Chronicles 31:8
8 And when Hezekiah and the princes came and saw the heaps, they blessed
the LORD, and his people Israel.
2 Chronicles 31:9
9 Then Hezekiah questioned with the priests and the Levites concerning the heaps.
2 Chronicles 31:10
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. 2
Chronicles 31:11
11 Then Hezekiah commanded to prepare chambers in the house of the LORD;
and they prepared them,
2 Chronicles 31:12
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.
2 Chronicles 31:13
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. 2
Chronicles 31:14
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.
2 Chronicles 31:15
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: 2
Chronicles 31:16
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; 2
Chronicles 31:17
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;
2 Chronicles 31:18
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: 2 Chronicles 31:19
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. 2 Chronicles 31:20
20 And thus did Hezekiah throughout all Judah, and wrought that which was
good and right and truth before the LORD his God. 2 Chronicles 31:21
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.
CHAPTER 32
2 Chronicles 32:1
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. 2 Chronicles 32:2
2 And when Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib was come, and that he was purposed
to fight against Jerusalem,
2 Chronicles 32:3
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. 2
Chronicles 32:4
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? 2 Chronicles
32:5
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. 2
Chronicles 32:6
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,
2 Chronicles 32:7
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:
2 Chronicles 32:8
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.
2 Chronicles 32:9
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,
2 Chronicles 32:10
10 Thus saith Sennacherib king of Assyria, Whereon do ye trust, that ye
abide in the siege in Jerusalem?
2 Chronicles 32:11
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?
2 Chronicles 32:12
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?
2 Chronicles 32:13
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?
2 Chronicles 32:14
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? 2 Chronicles 32:15
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? 2
Chronicles 32:16
16 And his servants spake yet more against the LORD God, and against his
servant Hezekiah.
2 Chronicles 32:17
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. 2 Chronicles 32:18
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.
2 Chronicles 32:19
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. 2 Chronicles
32:20
20 And for this cause Hezekiah the king, and the prophet Isaiah the son of
Amoz, prayed and cried to heaven.
2 Chronicles 32:21
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.
2 Chronicles 32:22
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.
2 Chronicles 32:23
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.
2 Chronicles 32:24
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. 2 Chronicles 32:25
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.
2 Chronicles 32:26
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.
2 Chronicles 32:27
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; 2
Chronicles 32:28
28 Storehouses also for the increase of corn, and wine, and oil; and stalls
for all manner of beasts, and cotes for flocks. 2 Chronicles 32:29
29 Moreover he provided him cities, and possessions of flocks and herds in
abundance: for God had given him substance very much. 2 Chronicles 32:30
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.
2 Chronicles 32:31
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. 2
Chronicles 32:32
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. 2 Chronicles 32:33
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.


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