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CHAPTER 33
2 Chronicles 33:1
1 Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned
fifty and five years in Jerusalem:
2 Chronicles 33:2
2 But did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, like unto the
abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD had cast out before the children
of Israel.
2 Chronicles 33:3
3 For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken
down, and he reared up altars for Baalim, and made groves, and worshipped
all the host  of heaven,  and served  them. 2 Chronicles 33:4
4 Also he built altars in the house of the LORD, whereof the LORD had said,
In Jerusalem shall my name be for ever. 2 Chronicles 33:5
5 And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the
house of the LORD.
2 Chronicles 33:6
6 And he caused his children to pass through the fire in the valley of the
son of Hinnom: also he observed times, and used enchantments, and used
witchcraft, and dealt with a familiar spirit, and with wizards:  he wrought
much  evil  in the sight  of the LORD,  to provoke him to anger. 2
Chronicles 33:7
7 And he set a carved image, the idol which he had made, in the house of
God, of which God had said to David and to Solomon his son, In this house,
and in Jerusalem,  which I have chosen  before all the tribes  of Israel,
will I put  my name  for ever:
2 Chronicles 33:8
8 Neither will I any more remove the foot of Israel from out of the land
which I have appointed for your fathers; so that they will take heed to do
all that I have commanded them, according to the whole law  and the
statutes and the ordinances  by the hand  of Moses. 2 Chronicles 33:9
9 So Manasseh made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to err, and to do
worse than the heathen, whom the LORD had destroyed before the children  of
Israel.
2 Chronicles 33:10
10 And the LORD spake to Manasseh, and to his people: but they would not hearken.
2 Chronicles 33:11
11 Wherefore the LORD brought upon them the captains of the host of the
king of Assyria, which took Manasseh among the thorns, and bound him with
fetters, and carried him to Babylon. 2 Chronicles 33:12
12 And when he was in affliction, he besought the LORD his God, and humbled
himself greatly before the God of his fathers, 2 Chronicles 33:13
13 And prayed unto him: and he was intreated of him, and heard his
supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then
Manasseh knew that the LORD he was God. 2 Chronicles 33:14
14 Now after this he built a wall without the city of David, on the west
side of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entering in at the fish gate, and
compassed  about Ophel,  and raised it up  a very great height,  and put
captains  of war  in all the fenced  cities  of Judah. 2 Chronicles 33:15
15 And he took away the strange gods, and the idol out of 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. 2 Chronicles 33:16
16 And he repaired the altar of the LORD, and sacrificed thereon peace
offerings and thank offerings, and commanded Judah to serve the LORD God of
Israel.
2 Chronicles 33:17
17 Nevertheless the people did sacrifice still in the high places, yet unto
the LORD their God only.
2 Chronicles 33:18
18 Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and his prayer unto his God, and
the words of the seers that spake to him in the name of the LORD God of
Israel, behold, they are written in the book  of the kings  of Israel. 2
Chronicles 33:19
19 His prayer also, and how God was intreated of him, and all his sin, and
his trespass, and the places wherein he built high places, and set up
groves and graven images, before he was humbled: behold, they are written 
among the sayings  of the seers.
2 Chronicles 33:20
20 So Manasseh slept with his fathers, and they buried him in his own
house: and Amon his son reigned in his stead. 2 Chronicles 33:21
21 Amon was two and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned
two years in Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 33:22
22 But he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, as did Manasseh
his father: for Amon sacrificed unto all the carved images which Manasseh
his father had made,  and served  them; 2 Chronicles 33:23
23 And humbled not himself before the LORD, as Manasseh his father had
humbled himself; but Amon trespassed more and more. 2 Chronicles 33:24
24 And his servants conspired against him, and slew him in his own house. 2
Chronicles 33:25
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.
CHAPTER 34
2 Chronicles 34:1
1 Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in
Jerusalem one and thirty years.
2 Chronicles 34:2
2 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, and walked in
the ways of David his father, and declined neither to the right hand, nor
to the left.
2 Chronicles 34:3
3 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 groves,  and
the carved images,  and the molten images. 2 Chronicles 34:4
4 And they brake down the altars of Baalim in his presence; and the images,
that were on high above them, he cut down; and the groves, and the carved
images, and the molten images, he brake in pieces, and made dust of them,
and strowed  it upon  the graves  of them that had sacrificed  unto them. 2
Chronicles 34:5
5 And he burnt the bones of the priests upon their altars, and cleansed
Judah and Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 34:6
6 And so did he in the cities of Manasseh, and Ephraim, and Simeon, even
unto Naphtali, with their mattocks round about. 2 Chronicles 34:7
7 And when he had broken down the altars and the groves, and had beaten the
graven images into powder, and cut down all the idols throughout all the
land of Israel, he returned to Jerusalem. 2 Chronicles 34:8
8 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.
2 Chronicles 34:9
9 And when they came to Hilkiah the high priest, they delivered the money
that was brought into the house of God, which the Levites that kept the
doors 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.
2 Chronicles 34:10
10 And they put it in the hand of the workmen that had the oversight of the
house of the LORD, and they gave it to the workmen that wrought in the
house of the LORD, to repair and amend  the house: 2 Chronicles 34:11
11 Even to the artificers and builders gave they it, to buy hewn stone, and
timber for couplings, and to floor the houses which the kings of Judah had
destroyed.
2 Chronicles 34:12
12 And 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 set it forward;  and other of
the Levites,  all that could skill  of instruments  of musick. 2 Chronicles
34:13
13 Also they were over the bearers of burdens, and were overseers of all
that wrought the work in any manner of service: and of the Levites there
were scribes, and officers, and porters. 2 Chronicles 34:14
14 And when they brought out the money that was brought into the house of
the LORD, Hilkiah the priest found a book of the law of the LORD given by
Moses.
2 Chronicles 34:15
15 And 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.
2 Chronicles 34:16
16 And Shaphan carried the book to the king, and brought the king word back
again, saying, All that was committed to thy servants, they do  it. 2
Chronicles 34:17
17 And they have gathered together the money that was found in the house of
the LORD, and have delivered it into the hand of the overseers, and to the
hand of the workmen.
2 Chronicles 34:18
18 Then Shaphan the scribe told the king, saying, Hilkiah the priest hath
given me a book. And Shaphan read it before the king. 2 Chronicles 34:19
19 And it came to pass, when the king had heard the words of the law, that
he rent his clothes.
2 Chronicles 34:20
20 And the king commanded Hilkiah, and Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and Abdon
the son of Micah, and Shaphan the scribe, and Asaiah a servant  of the
king's,  saying,
2 Chronicles 34:21
21 Go, enquire 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  after all that is written  in this
book.
2 Chronicles 34:22
22 And Hilkiah, and they that the king had appointed, went to Huldah the
prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvath, the son of Hasrah,
keeper of the wardrobe;  (now she dwelt  in Jerusalem  in the college:) 
and they spake  to her to that effect.
2 Chronicles 34:23
23 And she answered them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Tell ye the
man that sent you to me,
2 Chronicles 34:24
24 Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, and upon
the inhabitants thereof, even all the curses that are written in the book
which they have read before the king of Judah: 2 Chronicles 34:25
25 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 poured out upon this place, and shall not be
quenched.
2 Chronicles 34:26
26 And as for the king of Judah, who sent you to enquire of the LORD, so
shall ye say unto him, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel concerning the
words which thou hast heard;
2 Chronicles 34:27
27 Because thine heart was tender, and thou didst humble thyself before
God, when thou heardest his words against this place, and against the
inhabitants thereof, and humbledst thyself before me, and didst rend thy
clothes,  and weep  before  me; I have even heard  thee also, saith  the
LORD. 2 Chronicles 34:28
28 Behold, 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 of the same. So they
brought the king  word  again.
2 Chronicles 34:29
29 Then the king sent and gathered together all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 34:30
30 And the king went up into 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, 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.
2 Chronicles 34:31
31 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  which are written  in this book. 2 Chronicles
34:32
32 And he caused all that were present 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.
2 Chronicles 34:33
33 And Josiah took away all the abominations out of all the countries that
pertained to the children of Israel, and made all that were present in
Israel to serve, even to serve the LORD their God. And all his days  they
departed  not from following  the LORD,  the God  of their fathers. CHAPTER
35
2 Chronicles 35:1
1 Moreover Josiah kept a passover unto the LORD in Jerusalem: and they
killed the passover on the fourteenth day of the first month. 2 Chronicles
35:2
2 And he set the priests in their charges, and encouraged them to the
service of the house of the LORD,
2 Chronicles 35:3
3 And said unto the Levites that taught all Israel, which were holy unto
the LORD, Put the holy ark in the house which Solomon the son of David 
king  of Israel  did build;  it shall not be a burden  upon your shoulders:
 serve now the LORD  your God,  and his people  Israel, 2 Chronicles 35:4
4 And prepare yourselves by the houses of your fathers, after your courses,
according to the writing of David king of Israel, and according to the
writing of Solomon his son.
2 Chronicles 35:5
5 And stand in the holy place according to the divisions of the families of
the fathers of your brethren the people, and after the division of the
families of the Levites.
2 Chronicles 35:6
6 So kill the passover, and sanctify yourselves, and prepare your brethren,
that they may do according to the word of the LORD by the hand of Moses. 2
Chronicles 35:7
7 And Josiah gave to the people, of the flock, lambs and kids, all for the
passover offerings, for all that were present, to the number of thirty
thousand, and three thousand  bullocks:  these were of the king's
substance.
2 Chronicles 35:8
8 And his princes gave willingly unto the people, to the priests, and to
the Levites: Hilkiah and Zechariah and Jehiel, rulers of the house of God,
gave unto the priests  for the passover offerings  two thousand  and six 
hundred small cattle, and three  hundred  oxen. 2 Chronicles 35:9
9 Conaniah also, and Shemaiah and Nethaneel, his brethren, and Hashabiah
and Jeiel and Jozabad, chief of the Levites, gave unto the Levites for
passover offerings five  thousand  small cattle, and five  hundred  oxen. 2
Chronicles 35:10
10 So the service was prepared, and the priests stood in their place, and
the Levites in their courses, according to the king's commandment. 2
Chronicles 35:11
11 And they killed the passover, and the priests sprinkled the blood from
their hands, and the Levites flayed them. 2 Chronicles 35:12
12 And they removed the burnt offerings, that they might give according to
the divisions of the families of the people, to offer unto the LORD, as it
is written in the book of Moses. And so did they with the oxen. 2
Chronicles 35:13
13 And they roasted the passover with fire according to the ordinance: but
the other holy offerings sod they in pots, and in caldrons, and in pans,
and divided them speedily among all the people. 2 Chronicles 35:14
14 And afterward they made ready for themselves, and for the priests:
because the priests the sons of Aaron were busied in offering of burnt
offerings and the fat until night; therefore the Levites prepared for
themselves, and for the priests  the sons  of Aaron. 2 Chronicles 35:15
15 And the singers the sons of Asaph were in their place, according to the
commandment of David, and Asaph, and Heman, and Jeduthun the king's seer;
and the porters waited at every gate;  they might not depart  from their
service;  for their brethren  the Levites  prepared  for them. 2 Chronicles
35:16
16 So 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.
2 Chronicles 35:17
17 And the children of Israel that were present kept the passover at that
time, and the feast of unleavened bread seven days. 2 Chronicles 35:18
18 And there was no passover like to that kept in Israel from the days of
Samuel the prophet; neither did all 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. 2
Chronicles 35:19
19 In the eighteenth year of the reign of Josiah was this passover kept. 2
Chronicles 35:20
20 After all this, when Josiah had prepared the temple, Necho king of Egypt
came up to fight against Carchemish by Euphrates: and Josiah went out
against  him.
2 Chronicles 35:21
21 But 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: for God commanded me to make haste: forbear thee from
meddling with God,  who is with me, that he destroy  thee not. 2 Chronicles
35:22
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
Necho from the mouth of God, and came to fight in the valley  of Megiddo. 2
Chronicles 35:23
23 And the archers shot at king Josiah; and the king said to his servants,
Have me away; for I am sore wounded. 2 Chronicles 35:24
24 His servants therefore took him out of that chariot, and put him in the
second chariot that he had; and they brought him to Jerusalem, and he died,
and was buried in one of the sepulchres of his fathers. And all Judah  and
Jerusalem  mourned  for Josiah.
2 Chronicles 35:25
25 And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah: and all the singing men and the
singing women spake of Josiah in their lamentations to this day, and made
them an ordinance in Israel: and, behold, they are written  in the
lamentations. 2 Chronicles 35:26
26 Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and his goodness, according to that
which was written in the law of the LORD, 2 Chronicles 35:27
27 And his deeds, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of
the kings of Israel and Judah.
CHAPTER 36
2 Chronicles 36:1
1 Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and made him
king in his father's stead in Jerusalem. 2 Chronicles 36:2
2 Jehoahaz was twenty and three years old when he began to reign, and he
reigned three months in Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 36:3
3 And the king of Egypt put him down at Jerusalem, and condemned the land
in an hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold. 2 Chronicles 36:4
4 And the king of Egypt made Eliakim his brother king over Judah and
Jerusalem, and turned his name to Jehoiakim. And Necho took Jehoahaz  his
brother,  and carried  him to Egypt. 2 Chronicles 36:5
5 Jehoiakim 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.
2 Chronicles 36:6
6 Against him came up Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and bound him in
fetters, to carry him to Babylon.
2 Chronicles 36:7
7 Nebuchadnezzar also carried of the vessels of the house of the LORD to
Babylon, and put them in his temple at Babylon. 2 Chronicles 36:8
8 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 of
the kings of Israel and Judah: and Jehoiachin his son  reigned  in his
stead. 2 Chronicles 36:9
9 Jehoiachin was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned
three months and ten days in Jerusalem: and he did that which was evil  in
the sight  of the LORD.
2 Chronicles 36:10
10 And when the year was expired, king Nebuchadnezzar sent, and brought him
to Babylon, with the goodly vessels of the house of the LORD, and made
Zedekiah his brother  king  over Judah  and Jerusalem. 2 Chronicles 36:11
11 Zedekiah was one and twenty years old when he began to reign, and
reigned eleven years in Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 36:12
12 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD his God, and
humbled not himself before Jeremiah the prophet speaking from the mouth of
the LORD.
2 Chronicles 36:13
13 And he also rebelled against king Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear
by God: but he stiffened his neck, and hardened his heart from turning unto
the LORD God of Israel.
2 Chronicles 36:14
14 Moreover all the chief of the priests, and the people, transgressed very
much after all the abominations of the heathen; and polluted the house of
the LORD which he had hallowed in Jerusalem. 2 Chronicles 36:15
15 And the LORD God of their fathers sent to them by his messengers, rising
up betimes, and sending; because he had compassion on his people, and on
his dwelling place:
2 Chronicles 36:16
16 But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and
misused his prophets, until the wrath of the LORD arose against his people,
till there was no remedy.
2 Chronicles 36:17
17 Therefore he brought upon them the king of the Chaldees, who slew their
young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no
compassion upon young man or maiden, old man, or him that stooped for age:
he gave  them all into his hand.
2 Chronicles 36:18
18 And all the vessels of the house of God, great and small, and the
treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king, and of
his princes; all these he brought to Babylon. 2 Chronicles 36:19
19 And they burnt the house of God, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem,
and burnt all the palaces thereof with fire, and destroyed all the goodly
vessels thereof.
2 Chronicles 36:20
20 And them that had escaped from the sword carried he away to Babylon;
where they were servants to him and his sons until the reign of the kingdom
of Persia:
2 Chronicles 36:21
21 To fulfil the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land
had enjoyed her sabbaths: for as long as she lay desolate she kept sabbath,
to fulfil threescore and ten  years. 2 Chronicles 36:22
22 Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the LORD
spoken by the mouth of Jeremiah might be accomplished, the LORD stirred up
the spirit  of Cyrus  king  of Persia,  that he made a proclamation
throughout all his kingdom,  and put it also in writing,  saying, 2
Chronicles 36:23
23 Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, All the kingdoms of the earth hath the
LORD God of heaven given me; and he hath charged me to build him an house
in Jerusalem,  which is in Judah.  Who is there among you of all his
people? The LORD  his God  be with him, and let him go up.


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