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Bible Reading for August 04

2 Kings 22
[1] 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.
[2] 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.
[3] 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,
[4] 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:
[5] 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,
[6] Unto carpenters, and builders, and masons, and to buy timber and hewn
stone to repair the house.
[7] Howbeit there was no reckoning made with them of the money that was
delivered into their hand, because they dealt faithfully. [8] 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.
[9] 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. [10] And Shaphan the scribe
shewed the king, saying, Hilkiah the priest hath delivered me a book. And
Shaphan read it before the king. [11] And it came to pass, when the king
had heard the words of the book of the law, that he rent his clothes.
[12] 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,
[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 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.
[14] 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. [15] 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 book which the king
of Judah hath read:
[17] 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.
[18] But to the king of Judah which sent you to inquire of the LORD, thus
shall ye say to him, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, As touching the
words which thou hast heard;
[19] 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.
[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 king word
again.

2 Kings 23
[1] And the king sent, and they gathered unto him all the elders of Judah
and of Jerusalem.
[2] 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.
[3] 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.
[4] 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. [5] 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.
[6] 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.
[7] 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. [8] 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. [9] Nevertheless the priests of the high places came
not up to the altar of the LORD in Jerusalem, but they did eat of the
unleavened bread among their brethren.
[10] 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.
[11] 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.
[12] 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. [13] 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.
[14] And he brake in pieces the images, and cut down the groves, and filled
their places with the bones of men. [15] 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. [16] 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. [17] 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.
[18] 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. [19]
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.
[20] 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.
[21] 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. [22]
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;
[23] But in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, wherein this passover was
holden to the LORD in Jerusalem.
[24] 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.
[25] 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. [26] Notwithstanding the LORD turned not from the fierceness of his
great wrath, wherewith his anger was kindled against Judah, because of all
the provocations that Manasseh had provoked him withal. [27] 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. [28] 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? [29] 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.
[30] And his servants carried him in a chariot dead from Megiddo, and
brought him to Jerusalem, and buried him in his own sepulchre. And the
people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and anointed him, and
made him king in his father's stead. [31] 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.
[32] And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to
all that his fathers had done.
[33] 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. [34] 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. [35] 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. [36]
Jehoiakim was twenty and five years old when he began to reign; and he
reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Zebudah, the
daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah.
[37] And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to
all that his fathers had done.

2 Kings 24
[1] In his days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim
became his servant three years: then he turned and rebelled against him.
[2] And the LORD sent against him bands of the Chaldees, and bands of the
Syrians, and bands of the Moabites, and bands of the children of Ammon, and
sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of the LORD,
which he spake by his servants the prophets. [3] Surely at the commandment
of the LORD came this upon Judah, to remove them out of his sight, for the
sins of Manasseh, according to all that he did;
[4] And also for the innocent blood that he shed: for he filled Jerusalem
with innocent blood; which the LORD would not pardon. [5] Now the rest of
the acts of Jehoiakim, and all that he did, are they not written in the
book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? [6] So Jehoiakim slept with
his fathers: and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his stead.
[7] And the king of Egypt came not again any more out of his land: for the
king of Babylon had taken from the river of Egypt unto the river Euphrates
all that pertained to the king of Egypt. [8] Jehoiachin was eighteen years
old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months. And
his mother's name was Nehushta, the daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem.
[9] And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to
all that his father had done.
[10] At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up
against Jerusalem, and the city was besieged. [11] And Nebuchadnezzar king
of Babylon came against the city, and his servants did besiege it.
[12] And Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out to the king of Babylon, he,
and his mother, and his servants, and his princes, and his officers: and
the king of Babylon took him in the eighth year of his reign. [13] And he
carried out thence all the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the
treasures of the king's house, and cut in pieces all the vessels of gold
which Solomon king of Israel had made in the temple of the LORD, as the
LORD had said.
[14] And he carried away all Jerusalem, and all the princes, and all the
mighty men of valour, even ten thousand captives, and all the craftsmen and
smiths: none remained, save the poorest sort of the people of the land.
[15] And he carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon, and the king's mother, and
the king's wives, and his officers, and the mighty of the land, those
carried he into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon. [16] And all the men
of might, even seven thousand, and craftsmen and smiths a thousand, all
that were strong and apt for war, even them the king of Babylon brought
captive to Babylon. [17] And the king of Babylon made Mattaniah his
father's brother king in his stead, and changed his name to Zedekiah. [18]
Zedekiah was twenty and one years old when he began to reign, and he
reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Hamutal, the
daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
[19] And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to
all that Jehoiakim had done.
[20] For through the anger of the LORD it came to pass in Jerusalem and
Judah, until he had cast them out from his presence, that Zedekiah rebelled
against the king of Babylon.

2 Kings 25
[1] And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month,
in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came,
he, and all his host, against Jerusalem, and pitched against it; and they
built forts against it round about.
[2] And the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah. [3]
And on the ninth day of the fourth month the famine prevailed in the city,
and there was no bread for the people of the land. [4] And the city was
broken up, and all the men of war fled by night by the way of the gate
between two walls, which is by the king's garden: (now the Chaldees were
against the city round about:) and the king went the way toward the plain.
[5] And the army of the Chaldees pursued after the king, and overtook him
in the plains of Jericho: and all his army were scattered from him. [6] So
they took the king, and brought him up to the king of Babylon to Riblah;
and they gave judgment upon him. [7] And they slew the sons of Zedekiah
before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him with
fetters of brass, and carried him to Babylon.
[8] And in the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month, which is the
nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, came Nebuzar-adan,
captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, unto Jerusalem: [9]
And he burnt the house of the LORD, and the king's house, and all the
houses of Jerusalem, and every great man's house burnt he with fire. [10]
And all the army of the Chaldees, that were with the captain of the guard,
brake down the walls of Jerusalem round about. [11] Now the rest of the
people that were left in the city, and the fugitives that fell away to the
king of Babylon, with the remnant of the multitude, did Nebuzar-adan the
captain of the guard carry away. [12] But the captain of the guard left of
the poor of the land to be vinedressers and husbandmen.
[13] And the pillars of brass that were in the house of the LORD, and the
bases, and the brasen sea that was in the house of the LORD, did the
Chaldees break in pieces, and carried the brass of them to Babylon. [14]
And the pots, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the spoons, and all
the vessels of brass wherewith they ministered, took they away. [15] And
the firepans, and the bowls, and such things as were of gold, in gold, and
of silver, in silver, the captain of the guard took away. [16] The two
pillars, one sea, and the bases which Solomon had made for the house of the
LORD; the brass of all these vessels was without weight. [17] The height of
the one pillar was eighteen cubits, and the chapiter upon it was brass: and
the height of the chapiter three cubits; and the wreathen work, and
pomegranates upon the chapiter round about, all of brass: and like unto
these had the second pillar with wreathen work. [18] And the captain of the
guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and
the three keepers of the door: [19] And out of the city he took an officer
that was set over the men of war, and five men of them that were in the
king's presence, which were found in the city, and the principal scribe of
the host, which mustered the people of the land, and threescore men of the
people of the land that were found in the city:
[20] And Nebuzar-adan captain of the guard took these, and brought them to
the king of Babylon to Riblah:
[21] And the king of Babylon smote them, and slew them at Riblah in the
land of Hamath. So Judah was carried away out of their land. [22] And as
for the people that remained in the land of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar king
of Babylon had left, even over them he made Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the
son of Shaphan, ruler. [23] And when all the captains of the armies, they
and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah governor,
there came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, even Ishmael the son of Nethahiah, and
Johanan the son of Careah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth the
Netophathite, and Jaazaniah the son of a Maachathite, they and their men.
[24] And Gedaliah sware to them, and to their men, and said unto them, Fear
not to be the servants of the Chaldees: dwell in the land, and serve the
king of Babylon; and it shall be well with you. [25] But it came to pass in
the seventh month, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama,
of the seed royal, came, and ten men with him, and smote Gedaliah, that he
died, and the Jews and the Chaldees that were with him at Mizpah.
[26] And all the people, both small and great, and the captains of the
armies, arose, and came to Egypt: for they were afraid of the Chaldees.
[27] And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity
of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the seven and
twentieth day of the month, that Evil-merodach king of Babylon in the year
that he began to reign did lift up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah out
of prison;
[28] And he spake kindly to him, and set his throne above the throne of the
kings that were with him in Babylon; [29] And changed his prison garments:
and he did eat bread continually before him all the days of his life. [30]
And his allowance was a continual allowance given him of the king, a daily
rate for every day, all the days of his life.

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