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28:1 Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned
 sixteen years in Jerusalem:  but he did not that which was right in the
 sight of the LORD, like David his father:
28:2 For he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and made also molten
 images for Baalim.
28:3 Moreover he burnt incense in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and burnt
 his children in the fire, after the abominations of the heathen whom the
 LORD had cast out before the children of Israel.
28:4 He sacrificed also and burnt incense in the high places, and on the
 hills, and under every green tree.
28:5 Wherefore the LORD his God delivered him into the hand of the king of
 Syria; and they smote him, and carried away a great multitude of them
 captives, and brought them to Damascus.  And he was also delivered into
 the hand of the king of Israel, who smote him with a great slaughter.
28:6 For Pekah the son of Remaliah slew in Judah an hundred and twenty
 thousand in one day, which were all valiant men; because they had
 forsaken the LORD God of their fathers.
28:7 And Zichri, a mighty man of Ephraim, slew Maaseiah the king's son, and
 Azrikam the governor of the house, and Elkanah that was next to the king.
28:8 And the children of Israel carried away captive of their brethren two
 hundred thousand, women, sons, and daughters, and took also away much spoil
 from them, and brought the spoil to Samaria.
28:9 But a prophet of the LORD was there, whose name was Oded:  and he
 went out before the host that came to Samaria, and said unto them, Behold,
 because the LORD God of your fathers was wroth with Judah, he hath
 delivered them into your hand, and ye have slain them in a rage that
 reacheth up unto heaven.
28:10 And now ye purpose to keep under the children of Judah and Jerusalem
 for bondmen and bondwomen unto you:  but are there not with you, even
 with you, sins against the LORD your God?
28:11 Now hear me therefore, and deliver the captives again, which ye have
 taken captive of your brethren:  for the fierce wrath of the LORD is upon
 you.
28:12 Then certain of the heads of the children of Ephraim, Azariah the son
 of Johanan, Berechiah the son of Meshillemoth, and Jehizkiah the son of
 Shallum, and Amasa the son of Hadlai, stood up against them that came from
 the war,
28:13 And said unto them, Ye shall not bring in the captives hither:  for
 whereas we have offended against the LORD already, ye intend to add
 more to our sins and to our trespass:  for our trespass is great, and
 there is fierce wrath against Israel.
28:14 So the armed men left the captives and the spoil before the princes
 and all the congregation.
28:15 And the men which were expressed by name rose up, and took the
 captives, and with the spoil clothed all that were naked among them, and
 arrayed them, and shod them, and gave them to eat and to drink, and
 anointed them, and carried all the feeble of them upon asses, and brought
 them to Jericho, the city of palm trees, to their brethren:  then they
 returned to Samaria.
28:16 At that time did king Ahaz send unto the kings of Assyria to help him.
28:17 For again the Edomites had come and smitten Judah, and carried away
 captives.
28:18 The Philistines also had invaded the cities of the low country, and of
 the south of Judah, and had taken Bethshemesh, and Ajalon, and Gederoth,
 and Shocho with the villages thereof, and Timnah with the villages thereof,
 Gimzo also and the villages thereof:  and they dwelt there.
28:19 For the LORD brought Judah low because of Ahaz king of Israel; for he
 made Judah naked, and transgressed sore against the LORD.
28:20 And Tilgathpilneser king of Assyria came unto him, and distressed him,
 but strengthened him not.
28:21 For Ahaz took away a portion out of the house of the LORD, and out
 of the house of the king, and of the princes, and gave it unto the king
 of Assyria:  but he helped him not.
28:22 And in the time of his distress did he trespass yet more against the
 LORD:  this is that king Ahaz.
28:23 For he sacrificed unto the gods of Damascus, which smote him:  and he
 said, Because the gods of the kings of Syria help them, therefore will I
 sacrifice to them, that they may help me.  But they were the ruin of him,
 and of all Israel.
28:24 And Ahaz gathered together the vessels of the house of God, and cut in
 pieces the vessels of the house of God, and shut up the doors of the house
 of the LORD, and he made him altars in every corner of Jerusalem.
28:25 And in every several city of Judah he made high places to burn incense
 unto other gods, and provoked to anger the LORD God of his fathers.
28:26 Now the rest of his acts and of all his ways, first and last, behold,
 they are written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.
28:27 And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city,
 even in Jerusalem:  but they brought him not into the sepulchres of the
 kings of Israel:  and Hezekiah his son reigned in his stead.

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29:1 Hezekiah began to reign when he was five and twenty years old, and he
 reigned nine and twenty years in Jerusalem.  And his mother's name was
 Abijah, the daughter of Zechariah.
29:2 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according
 to all that David his father had done.
29:3 He in the first year of his reign, in the first month, opened the doors
 of the house of the LORD, and repaired them.
29:4 And he brought in the priests and the Levites, and gathered them
 together into the east street,
29:5 And said unto them, Hear me, ye Levites, sanctify now yourselves, and
 sanctify the house of the LORD God of your fathers, and carry forth the
 filthiness out of the holy place.
29:6 For our fathers have trespassed, and done that which was evil in the
 eyes of the LORD our God, and have forsaken him, and have turned away their
 faces from the habitation of the LORD, and turned their backs.
29:7 Also they have shut up the doors of the porch, and put out the lamps,
 and have not burned incense nor offered burnt offerings in the holy place
 unto the God of Israel.
29:8 Wherefore the wrath of the LORD was upon Judah and Jerusalem, and he
 hath delivered them to trouble, to astonishment, and to hissing, as ye see
 with your eyes.
29:9 For, lo, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our
 daughters and our wives are in captivity for this.
29:10 Now it is in mine heart to make a covenant with the LORD God of
 Israel, that his fierce wrath may turn away from us.
29:11 My sons, be not now negligent:  for the LORD hath chosen you to stand
 before him, to serve him, and that ye should minister unto him, and burn
 incense.
29:12 Then the Levites arose, Mahath the son of Amasai, and Joel the son of
 Azariah, of the sons of the Kohathites:  and of the sons of Merari, Kish
 the son of Abdi, and Azariah the son of Jehalelel:  and of the Gershonites;
 Joah the son of Zimmah, and Eden the son of Joah:
29:13 And of the sons of Elizaphan; Shimri, and Jeiel:  and of the sons of
 Asaph; Zechariah, and Mattaniah:
29:14 And of the sons of Heman; Jehiel, and Shimei:  and of the sons of
 Jeduthun; Shemaiah, and Uzziel.
29:15 And they gathered their brethren, and sanctified themselves, and came,
 according to the commandment of the king, by the words of the LORD, to
 cleanse the house of the LORD.
29:16 And the priests went into the inner part of the house of the LORD, to
 cleanse it, and brought out all the uncleanness that they found in the
 temple of the LORD into the court of the house of the LORD.  And the
 Levites took it, to carry it out abroad into the brook Kidron.
29:17 Now they began on the first day of the first month to sanctify, and
 on the eighth day of the month came they to the porch of the LORD:  so they
 sanctified the house of the LORD in eight days; and in the sixteenth day of
 the first month they made an end.
29:18 Then they went in to Hezekiah the king, and said, We have cleansed all
 the house of the LORD, and the altar of burnt offering, with all the
 vessels thereof, and the showbread table, with all the vessels thereof.
29:19 Moreover all the vessels, which king Ahaz in his reign did cast away
 in his transgression, have we prepared and sanctified, and, behold, they
 are before the altar of the LORD.
29:20 Then Hezekiah the king rose early, and gathered the rulers of the
 city, and went up to the house of the LORD.
29:21 And they brought seven bullocks, and seven rams, and seven lambs, and
 seven he goats, for a sin offering for the kingdom, and for the sanctuary,
 and for Judah.  And he commanded the priests the sons of Aaron to offer
 them on the altar of the LORD.
29:22 So they killed the bullocks, and the priests received the blood, and
 sprinkled it on the altar:  likewise, when they had killed the rams, they
 sprinkled the blood upon the altar:  they killed also the lambs, and they
 sprinkled the blood upon the altar.
29:23 And they brought forth the he goats for the sin offering before the
 king and the congregation; and they laid their hands upon them:
29:24 And the priests killed them, and they made reconciliation with their
 blood upon the altar, to make an atonement for all Israel:  for the king
 commanded that the burnt offering and the sin offering should be made
 for all Israel.
29:25 And he set the Levites in the house of the LORD with cymbals, with
 psalteries, and with harps, according to the commandment of David, and of
 Gad the king's seer, and Nathan the prophet:  for so was the commandment
 of the LORD by his prophets.
29:26 And the Levites stood with the instruments of David, and the priests
 with the trumpets.
29:27 And Hezekiah commanded to offer the burnt offering upon the altar. 
 And when the burnt offering began, the song of the LORD began also with
 the trumpets, and with the instruments ordained by David king of Israel.
29:28 And all the congregation worshipped, and the singers sang, and the
 trumpeters sounded:  and all this continued until the burnt offering
 was finished.
29:29 And when they had made an end of offering, the king and all that were
 present with him bowed themselves, and worshipped.
29:30 Moreover Hezekiah the king and the princes commanded the Levites to
 sing praise unto the LORD with the words of David, and of Asaph the seer. 
 And they sang praises with gladness, and they bowed their heads and
 worshipped.
29:31 Then Hezekiah answered and said, Now ye have consecrated yourselves
 unto the LORD, come near and bring sacrifices and thank offerings into the
 house of the LORD.  And the congregation brought in sacrifices and thank
 offerings; and as many as were of a free heart burnt offerings.
29:32 And the number of the burnt offerings, which the congregation brought,
 was threescore and ten bullocks, an hundred rams, and two hundred lambs: 
 all these were for a burnt offering to the LORD.
29:33 And the consecrated things were six hundred oxen and three thousand
 sheep.
29:34 But the priests were too few, so that they could not flay all the
 burnt offerings:  wherefore their brethren the Levites did help them, till
 the work was ended, and until the other priests had sanctified
 themselves:  for the Levites were more upright in heart to sanctify
 themselves than the priests.
29:35 And also the burnt offerings were in abundance, with the fat of the
 peace offerings, and the drink offerings for every burnt offering.  So
 the service of the house of the LORD was set in order.
29:36 And Hezekiah rejoiced, and all the people, that God had prepared the
 people:  for the thing was done suddenly.

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30:1 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.
30:2 For the king had taken counsel, and his princes, and all the
 congregation in Jerusalem, to keep the passover in the second month.
30:3 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.
30:4 And the thing pleased the king and all the congregation.
30:5 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.
30:6 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.
30:7 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.
30:8 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.
30:9 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.
30:10 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.
30:11 Nevertheless divers of Asher and Manasseh and of Zebulun humbled
 themselves, and came to Jerusalem.
30:12 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.
30:13 And there assembled at Jerusalem much people to keep the feast of
 unleavened bread in the second month, a very great congregation.
30:14 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.
30:15 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.
30:16 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.
30:17 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.
30:18 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
30:19 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.
30:20 And the LORD hearkened to Hezekiah, and healed the people.
30:21 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.
30:22 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.
30:23 And the whole assembly took counsel to keep other seven days:  and
 they kept other seven days with gladness.
30:24 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.
30:25 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.
30:26 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.
30:27 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.

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31:1 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.
31:2 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.
31:3 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.
31:4 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.
31:5 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.
31:6 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.
31:7 In the third month they began to lay the foundation of the heaps, and
 finished them in the seventh month.
31:8 And when Hezekiah and the princes came and saw the heaps, they blessed
 the LORD, and his people Israel.
31:9 Then Hezekiah questioned with the priests and the Levites concerning
 the heaps.
31:10 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.
31:11 Then Hezekiah commanded to prepare chambers in the house of the LORD;
 and they prepared them,
31:12 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.
31:13 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.
31:14 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.
31:15 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:
31:16 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;
31:17 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;
31:18 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:
31:19 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.
31:20 And thus did Hezekiah throughout all Judah, and wrought that which
 was good and right and truth before the LORD his God.
31:21 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.

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32:1 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.
32:2 And when Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib was come, and that he was
 purposed to fight against Jerusalem,
32:3 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.
32:4 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?
32:5 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.
32:6 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,
32:7 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:
32:8 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.
32:9 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,
32:10 Thus saith Sennacherib king of Assyria, Whereon do ye trust, that ye
 abide in the siege in Jerusalem?
32:11 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?
32:12 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?
32:13 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?
32:14 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?
32:15 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?
32:16 And his servants spake yet more against the LORD God, and against
 his servant Hezekiah.
32:17 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.
32:18 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.
32:19 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.
32:20 And for this cause Hezekiah the king, and the prophet Isaiah the son
 of Amoz, prayed and cried to heaven.
32:21 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.
32:22 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.
32:23 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.
32:24 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.
32:25 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.
32:26 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.
32:27 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;
32:28 Storehouses also for the increase of corn, and wine, and oil; and
 stalls for all manner of beasts, and cotes for flocks.
32:29 Moreover he provided him cities, and possessions of flocks and herds
 in abundance:  for God had given him substance very much.
32:30 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.
32:31 Howbeit in the business of the ambassadors of the princes of
 Babylon, who sent unto him to inquire 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.
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.
32:33 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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33:1 Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned
 fifty and five years in Jerusalem:
33:2 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.
33:3 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.
33:4 Also he built altars in the house of the LORD, whereof the LORD had
 said, In Jerusalem shall my name be for ever.
33:5 And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the
 house of the LORD.
33:6 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.
33:7 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:
33:8 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.
33:9 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.
33:10 And the LORD spake to Manasseh, and to his people:  but they would not
 hearken.
33:11 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.
33:12 And when he was in affliction, he besought the LORD his God, and
 humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers,
33:13 And prayed unto him:  and he was entreated of him, and heard his
 supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom.  Then
 Manasseh knew that the LORD he was God.
33:14 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.
33:15 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.
33:16 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.
33:17 Nevertheless the people did sacrifice still in the high places, yet
 unto the LORD their God only.
33:18 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.
33:19 His prayer also, and how God was entreated of him, and all his sins,
 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.
33:20 So Manasseh slept with his fathers, and they buried him in his own
 house:  and Amon his son reigned in his stead.
33:21 Amon was two and twenty years old when he began to reign, and
 reigned two years in Jerusalem.
33:22 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;
33:23 And humbled not himself before the LORD, as Manasseh his father had
 humbled himself; but Amon trespassed more and more.
33:24 And his servants conspired against him, and slew him in his own house.
33:25 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.

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34:1 Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in
 Jerusalem one and thirty years.
34:2 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.
34:3 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.
34:4 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.
34:5 And he burnt the bones of the priests upon their altars, and cleansed
 Judah and Jerusalem.
34:6 And so did he in the cities of Manasseh, and Ephraim, and Simeon,
 even unto Naphtali, with their mattocks round about.
34:7 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.
34:8 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.
34:9 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.
34:10 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:
34:11 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.
34:12 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 music.
34:13 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.
34:14 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.
34:15 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.
34:16 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.
34:17 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.
34:18 Then Shaphan the scribe told the king, saying, Hilkiah the priest hath
 given me a book.  And Shaphan read it before the king.
34:19 And it came to pass, when the king had heard the words of the law,
 that he rent his clothes.
34:20 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,
34:21 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.
34:22 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.
34:23 And she answered them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Tell ye the
 man that sent you to me,
34:24 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:
34:25 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.
34:26 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;
34:27 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.
34:28 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.
34:29 Then the king sent and gathered together all the elders of Judah and
 Jerusalem.
34:30 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.
34:31 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.
34:32 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.
34:33 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.

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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.
35:2 And he set the priests in their charges, and encouraged them to the
 service of the house of the LORD,
35:3 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,
35:4 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.
35:5 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.
35:6 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.
35:7 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.
35:8 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.
35:9 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.
35:10 So the service was prepared, and the priests stood in their place, and
 the Levites in their courses, according to the king's commandment.
35:11 And they killed the passover, and the priests sprinkled the blood
 from their hands, and the Levites flayed them.
35:12 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.
35:13 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.
35:14 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.
35:15 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.
35:16 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.
35:17 And the children of Israel that were present kept the passover at that
 time, and the feast of unleavened bread seven days.
35:18 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.
35:19 In the eighteenth year of the reign of Josiah was this passover kept.
35:20 After all this, when Josiah had prepared the temple, Necho king of
 Egypt came up to fight against Charchemish by Euphrates:  and Josiah went
 out against him.
35:21 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.
35:22 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.
35:23 And the archers shot at king Josiah; and the king said to his
 servants, Have me away; for I am sore wounded.
35:24 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.
35:25 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.
35:26 Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and his goodness, according to
 that which was written in the law of the LORD,
35:27 And his deeds, first and last, behold, they are written in the book
 of the kings of Israel and Judah.

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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.
36:2 Jehoahaz was twenty and three years old when he began to reign, and
 he reigned three months in Jerusalem.
36:3 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.
36:4 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.
36:5 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.
36:6 Against him came up Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and bound him in
 fetters, to carry him to Babylon.
36:7 Nebuchadnezzar also carried of the vessels of the house of the LORD to
 Babylon, and put them in his temple at Babylon.
36:8 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.
36:9 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.
36:10 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.
36:11 Zedekiah was one and twenty years old when he began to reign, and
 reigned eleven years in Jerusalem.
36:12 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.
36:13 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.
36:14 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.
36:15 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:
36:16 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.
36:17 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.
36:18 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.
36:19 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.
36:20 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:
36:21 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.
36:22 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,
36:23 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.