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Bible Reading for September 10

2 Chronicles 33
[1] Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned
fifty and five years in Jerusalem:
[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.
[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. [4] Also he built altars in the
house of the LORD, whereof the LORD had said, In Jerusalem shall my name be
for ever. [5] And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two
courts of the house of the LORD.
[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. [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:
[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. [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.
[10] And the LORD spake to Manasseh, and to his people: but they would not hearken.
[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. [12] And when he was in affliction, he
besought the LORD his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of
his fathers, [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. [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. [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. [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.
[17] Nevertheless the people did sacrifice still in the high places, yet
unto the LORD their God only.
[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. [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.
[20] So Manasseh slept with his fathers, and they buried him in his own
house: and Amon his son reigned in his stead. [21] Amon was two and twenty
years old when he began to reign, and reigned two years in Jerusalem.
[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; [23] And humbled not himself
before the LORD, as Manasseh his father had humbled himself; but Amon
trespassed more and more. [24] And his servants conspired against him, and
slew him in his own house. [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.

2 Chronicles 34
[1] Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in
Jerusalem one and thirty years.
[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.
[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. [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. [5] And he burnt the bones of the
priests upon their altars, and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem.
[6] And so did he in the cities of Manasseh, and Ephraim, and Simeon, even
unto Naphtali, with their mattocks round about. [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. [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.
[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.
[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: [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.
[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. [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. [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.
[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.
[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.
[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.
[18] Then Shaphan the scribe told the king, saying, Hilkiah the priest hath
given me a book. And Shaphan read it before the king. [19] And it came to
pass, when the king had heard the words of the law, that he rent his
clothes.
[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,
[21] Go, inquire 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. [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.
[23] And she answered them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Tell ye the
man that sent you to me,
[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: [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.
[26] And as for the king of Judah, who sent you to inquire of the LORD, so
shall ye say unto him, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel concerning the
words which thou hast heard;
[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.
[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.
[29] Then the king sent and gathered together all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem.
[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.
[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. [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.
[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.

2 Chronicles 35
[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] And he
set the priests in their charges, and encouraged them to the service of the
house of the LORD,
[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, [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.
[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.
[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.
[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.
[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. [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. [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. [11] And they killed the
passover, and the priests sprinkled the blood from their hands, and the
Levites flayed them. [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. [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. [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. [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. [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.
[17] And the children of Israel that were present kept the passover at that
time, and the feast of unleavened bread seven days. [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. [19] In the eighteenth year of
the reign of Josiah was this passover kept. [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.
[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. [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.
[23] And the archers shot at king Josiah; and the king said to his
servants, Have me away; for I am sore wounded. [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.
[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.
[26] Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and his goodness, according to
that which was written in the law of the LORD, [27] And his deeds, first
and last, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and
Judah.

2 Chronicles 36
[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] Jehoahaz was twenty and
three years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months in
Jerusalem.
[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. [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.
[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.
[6] Against him came up Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and bound him in
fetters, to carry him to Babylon.
[7] Nebuchadnezzar also carried of the vessels of the house of the LORD to
Babylon, and put them in his temple at Babylon. [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.
[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.
[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. [11] Zedekiah was one
and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned eleven years in
Jerusalem.
[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.
[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.
[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. [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:
[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.
[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.
[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. [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.
[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:
[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. [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, [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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