An angel slayeth the Assyrians. CHAP. XX, XXI. Manasseh's wicked reign 33 By the way that he came, by the same shall 16 And Isaiah said unto Hezekiah, Hear the he return, and shall not come into this city, saith word of the LORD. the LORD. 17 Behold, the days come, that all that is in thy 34 For I will defend this city, to save it, for house, and that which thy fathers have laid up mine own sake, and for my servant David's sake. in store unto this day, shall be carried into Ba35 ¶ And it came to pass that night, that the bylon: nothing shall be left, saith the LORD. angel of the LORD went out, and smote in the 18 And of thy sons that shall issue from thee, camp of the Assyrians a hundred fourscore and which thou shalt beget, shall they take away; five thousand: and when they arose early in the and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses. king of Babylon. 36 So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, 19 Then said Hezekiah unto Isaiah, Good is and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh. the word of the LORD which thou hast spoken. 37 And it came to pass, as he was worshipping And he said, Is it not good, if peace and truth in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adramme- be in my days? lech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the 20 And the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and sword: and they escaped into the land of Armenia. all his might, and how he made a pool, and a And Esar-haddon his son reigned in his stead. conduit, and brought water into the city, are they not written in the book of the Chronicles of the kings of Judah? IN CHAP. XX. Hezekiah's sickness and recovery. N those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz came to him, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Set thy house in order; for thou shalt die, and not live. 2 Then he turned his face to the wall, and prayed unto the LORD, saying, 21 And Hezekiah slept with his fathers and Manasseh his son reigned in his stead. CHAP. XXI. MA Reigns of Manasseh and Amon. TANASSEH was twelve years old when he began to reign, and reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Hephzi-bah. 2 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, after the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out before the children of Israel. 3I beseech thee, O LORD, remember now how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore. 4 And it came to pass, afore Isaiah was gone out into the middle court, that the word of the 3 For he built up again the high places which LORD came to him, saying, Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he reared 5 Turn again, and tell Hezekiah the captain of my up altars for Baal, and made a grove, as did Ahab people, Thus saith the LORD, the God of David king of Israel; and worshipped all the host of thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen heaven, and served them. thy tears: behold, I will heal thee: on the third 4 And he built altars in the house of the LORD, day thou shalt go up unto the house of the LORD. of which the LORD said, In Jerusalem will I put 6 And I will add unto thy days fifteen years; and I my name. will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of 5 And he built altars for all the host of heaven the king of Assyria; and I will defend this city for in the two courts of the house of the LORD. mine own sake, and for my servant David's sake. 6 And he made his son pass through the fire, 7 And Isaiah said, Take a lump of figs. And and observed times, and used enchantments, and they took and laid it on the bile, and he recovered. dealt with familiar spirits and wizards: he 8 ¶ And Hezekiah said unto Isaiah, What shall wrought much wickedness in the sight of the be the sign that the LORD will heal me, and that LORD, to provoke him to anger. I shall go up into the house of the LORD the 7 And he set a graven image of the grove that he hird day? had made in the house, of which the LORD said 9 And Isaiah said, This sign shalt thou have of to David, and to Solomon his son, In this house, the LORD, that the LORD will do the thing that and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of ali he hath spoken: shall the shadow go forward tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever: ten degrees, or go back ten degrees? 8 Neither will I make the feet of Israel move any 10 And Hezekiah answered, It is a light thing more out of the land which I gave their fathers; for the shadow to go down ten degrees: nay, but only if they will observe to do according to all that let the shadow return backward ten degrees. I have commanded them, and according to all the 11 And Isaiah the prophet cried unto the LORD: law that my servant Moses commanded them. and he brought the shadow ten degrees backward, 9 But they hearkened not: and Manasseh seduced by which it had gone down in the dial of Ahaz. them to do more evil than did the nations whom 12 At that time Berodach-baladan, the son of the LORD destroyed before the children of Israel. Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a 10 T And the LORD spake by his servans the present unto Hezekiah: for he had heard that prophets, saying, Hezekiah had been sick. 11 Because Manasseh king of Judah hath done these abominations, and hath done wickedly above all that the Amorites did, which were be fore him, and hath made Judah also to sin with his idols: 13 And Hezekiah hearkened unto them, and shewed them all the house of his precious things, the silver, and the gold, and the spices, and the precious ointment, and all the house of his armour, and all that was found in his treasures: 12 Therefore thus saith the LORD God of Israci, there was nothing in his house, nor in all his Behold, I am bringing such evil upon Jerusalem dominion, that Hezekiah shewed them not. and Judah, that whosoever heareth of it, both 14 Then came Isaiah the prophet unto king his ears shall tingle. Hezekiah, and said unto him, What said these men? and from whence came they unto thee? And Hezekiah said, They are come from a far country, even from Babylon. 13 And I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of 15 And he said, What have they seen in thy 15 Because they have done that which was evil 8 And Hilkiah the high priest said unto Sha-priest, and the priests of the second order, and phan the scribe, I have found the book of the law the keepers of the door, to bring forth out of the in the house of the LORD. And Hilkiah gave the temple of the LORD all the vessels that were made bock to Shaphan, and he read it. for Baal, and for the grove, and for all the host 9 And Shaphan the scribe came to the king, and of heaven: and he burned them without Jerusabrought the king word again, and said, Thy ser- lem in the fields of Kidron, and carried the ashies ⚫vants have gathered the money that was found of them unto Beth-el. in the house, and have delivered it into the hand 5 And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom of them that do the work, that have the oversight the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in of the house of the LORD. the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the say-places roundabout rusalem; 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 He is slain by Pharaoh nechok. the LORD, without Jerusalem, unto the brook Kid- 23 But in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, ron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and stamp-wherein this passover was holden to the LORD in ed it small to powder, and cast the powder there- Jerusalem. of upon the graves of the children of the people. 24 T Moreover, the workers with familiar spi7 And he brake down the houses of the sodom-rits, and the wizards, and the images, and the ites that were by the house of the LORD, where idols, and all the abominations that were spied 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 burnt incense, from Geba to Beersheba, 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 Hinuom, that no man might make his son or his daughter to pass through the fire to Molech. Jehoiachin carried captive. II. KINGS. Zedekiah's eyes put out. for the sins of Manasseh, according to all that| 5 And the army of the Chaldees pursued after 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. 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. 5 ¶ Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and all that he did, are they not written in the book 7 And they slew the sons of Zedekiah before of the Chronicles of the kings of Judah? his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and 6 So Jehoiakim slept with his fathers: and Je-bound him with fetters of brass, and carried him hoiachin his son reigned in his stead. to Babylon. 7 And the king of Egypt came not again any 8 And in the fifth month, on the seventh day more out of his land: for the king of Babylon had of the month, (which is the nineteenth year of taken from the river of Egypt unto the river Eu-king Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon,) came phrates all that pertained to the king of Egypt. Nebuzar-adan, captain of the guard, a servant 8 ¶ Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he of the king of Babylon, unto Jerusalem: began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem three 9 And he burnt the house of the LORD, and the months. And his mother's name was Nehushta, king's house, and all the houses of Jerusalem, the daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem. and every great man's house burnt he with fire. 9 And he did that which was evil in the sight of 10 And all the army of the Chaldees, that were the LORD,according to all that his father had done. with the captain of the guard, brake down the 10 At that time the servants of Nebuchad-walls of Jerusalem round about. nezzar 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. 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 vine-dressers and husbandmen. 13 And the pillars of brass that were in the house of the LORD, and the bases, and the brazen sea that was in the house of the LORD, did the Chaldees break in pieces, and carried the brass of them to Babylon. 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 poor-silver, the captain of the guard took away. est 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 tó 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 1 And the king of Babylon made Mattaniah his father's brother king in his stead, and changed his name to Zedekiah. 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 fire-pans, and the bowls, and such things as were of gold, in gold, and of silver, in 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: 18 Zedekiah was twenty and one years old when 19 And out of the city he took an officer that he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years was set over the men of war, and five men of in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Ha-them that were in the king's presence, which mutal, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah. were found in the city, and the principal scribe 19 And he did that which was evil in the sight of of the host, which mustered the people of the the LORD,accordingtoallthat Jehoiakim had done. land, and threescore men of the people of the 20 For through the anger of the LORD it came land that were found in the city: to pass in Jerusalem, and Judah, until he had cast them out from his presence, that Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon. CHAP. XXV. Jerusalem again besieged and taken. 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 AND it came to pass in the ninth year of his Judah was carried away out of their land. reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day 22 ¶ And as for the people that remained in the of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Ba-land of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he, and all his host, against Jerusa-bylon had left, even over them he made Gedaliah lem, and pitched against it; and they built forts the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, ruler. against it round about. 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. 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 Nethaniah, and Johanan the son of Careah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, and Jaazaniah the son of a Maacha:hite, they and their men. 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 24 And Gedaliah sware to them, and to their men, the Chaldees were against the city round about ;) and said unto them, Fear not to be the servants and the king went the way toward the plain."of the Chaldees: dwell in the land, and serve the Gedaliah slain by Ishmael. CHAP. XXV. Jehoiachin advanced king of Babylon, and it shall be well with you. twentieth day of the month, that Evil-morodach 25 But it came to pass in the seventh month, king of Babylon in the year that he began to that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, the son of reign did lift up the head of Jehoiachin king of Elishama, of the seed royal, came, and ten men Judah out of prison; with him, and smote Gedaliah, that he died, and 28 And he spake kindly to him, and set his the Jews and the Chaldees that were with him throne above the throne of the kings that were at Mizpah. with him in Babylon; 29 And changed his prison garments: and he did eat bread continually before him all the days of his life. 26 And all the people, both small and great, and The sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras. 6 And the sons of Gomer; Ashchenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah. 7 And the sons of Javan; Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim. 8 The sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, Put, and Canaan. 9 And the sons of Cush; Seba, and Havilah, and Sabta, and Raamah, and Sabtecha. And the sons of Raamah; Sheba, and Dedan. 10 And Cush begat Nimrod. He began to be mighty upon the earth. 11 And Mizraim begat Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and Naphtuhim, 12 And Pathrusim, and Casluhim, (of whom came the Philistines,) and Caphtorim. 13 And Canaan begat Zidon his first-born, and Heth, 14 The Jebusite also, and the Amorite, and the Girgashite, 15 And the Hivite, and the Archite, and the Sinite, 16 And the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite. 17 ¶ The sons of Shem; Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram, and Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Meshech. 18 And Arphaxad begat Shelah, and Shelah begat Eber. 19 And unto Eber were born two sons: the name of the one was Peleg; because in his days the earth was divided: and his brother's name was Joktan. 20 And Joktan begat Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazarmaveth, and Jerah, 21 Hadoram also, and Uzal, and Diklah, 22 And Ebal, and Abimael, and Sheba, 23 And Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab. these were the sons of Joktan. 24 T Shem, Arphaxad, Shelah, 25 Eber, Peleg, Reu, 26 Serug, Nahor, Terah, 27 Abram; the same is Abraham. 30 And his allowance was a continual allow. ance given him of the king, a daily rate for every and Henoch, and Abida, and Eldaah. All these are the sons of Keturali. 34 And Abraham begat Isaac. The sons of Isaac; Esau, and Israel. 35 The sons of Esau; Eliphaz, Reuel, and Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah. 36 The sons of Eliphaz; Teman, and Omar, Zephi, and Gatam, Kenaz, and Timna, and Amalek. 37 The sons of Reuel; Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah. 38 And the sons of Seir; Lotan, and Shobal, and Zibeon, and Anah, and Dishon, and Ezer, and Dishan. 39 And the sons of Lotan; Hori, and Homam. and Timna was Lotan's sister. 40 The sons of Shobal; Alian, and Manahath, and Ebal, Shephi, and Onam. And the sons of Zibeon; Aiah, and Anah. 41 The sons of Anah; Dishon. And the sons of Dishon; Amram, and Eshban, and Ithran, and Cheran. 42 The sons of Ezer; Bilhan, and Zavan, and Jakan. The sons of Dishan; Uz, and Aran. 43 Now these are the kings that reigned in the land of Edom before any king reigned over the children of Israel; Bela the son of Beor: and the name of his city was Dinhabah. 44 And when Bela was dead, Jobab the son of Zera of Bozrah reigned in his stead. 45 And when Jobab was dead, Husham of the land of the Temanites reigned in his stead. 46 And when Husham was dead, Hadad the son of Bedad, which smote Midian in the field of Moab, reigned in his stead: and the name of his city was Avith. 47 And when Hadad was dead, Samlah of 48 And when Samlah was dead, Shaul of Re- 50 And when Baal-hanan was dead, Hadad reigned in his stead: and the name of his city was Pai; and his wife's name was Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, the daughter of Mezahab. All 51 Hadad died also. And the dukes of Edom were; duke Timnah, duke Aliah, duke Jetheth, 52 Duke Aholibamah, duke Elah, duke Pinon, 53 Duke Kenaz, duke Teman, duke Mibzar, 54 Duke Magdiel, duke Iram. These are the dukes of Edom. 28 The sons of Abraham; Isaac, and Ishmael. 29 These are their generations. The firstborn of Ishmael, Nebaioth; then Kedar, and Adbeel, and Mibsam, CHAP. II. The posterity of Israel. TH Levi, and Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun, 2 Dan, Joseph, and Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher. 30 Mishma, and Dumah, Massa, Hadad, and Tema, 31 Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah. These are 3 ¶ The sons of Judah; Er, and Onan, and Shethe sons of Ishmael. lah: which three were born unto him of the 32 Now the sons of Keturah, Abraham's con- daughter of Shua the Canaanitess. And Er, the cubine: she bare Zimran, and Jokshan, and Me-first-born of Judah, was evil in the sight of the dan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah. And LORD; and he slew him. the sons of Jokshan; Sheba, and Dedan. 4 And Tamar his daughter-in-law bare him Pha 33 And the sons of Midian; Ephah, and Epher,[rez and Zerah All the sons of Judah were five. |