Josiah destroys idolatry.

CHAP. XXIII.

His zeal for reformation. unto the brook Kidron, and burned it at I see? And the men of the city told him, the brook Kidron, and stamped it small to It is the sepulchre of the man of God, powder, and cast the powder thereof upon which came from Judah, and proclaimed the graves of the children of the people. these things that thou hast done against 7 And he brake down the houses of the the altar of Beth-el. sodomites that were by the house of the LORD, where the women wove hangings for the grove.

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 8 And he brought all the priests out of came out of Samaria. the cities of Judah, and defiled the high 19 And all the houses also of the high places where the priests had burnt incense, places that were in the cities of Samaria, from Geba to Beer-sheba, and brake down which the kings of Israel had made to prothe high places of the gates that were in voke the LORD to anger, Josiah took the entering in of the gate of Joshua the away, and did to them according to all governor of the city, which were on a the acts that he had done in Beth-el. 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.

20 And he slew all the priests of the high places that were there upon the altars, and burnt men's bones upon them, and returned to Jerusalem.

21 ¶ And the king commanded all the 10 And he defiled Topheth, which is people, saying, Keep the passover unto in the valley of the childrer of Hinnom, the LORD your God, as it is written in the that no man might make his son or his book of this covenant.

daughter to pass through the fire to Molech. 22 Surely there was not holden such a 11 And he took away the horses that passover from the days of the judges that the kings of Judah had given to the sun, judged Israel, nor in all the days of the at the entering in of the house of the LORD, kings of Israel, nor of the kings of Judah; by the chamber of Nathan-melech the 23 But in the eighteenth year of king chamberlain, which was in the suburbs, Josiah, wherein this passover was holden and burned the chariots of the sun with fire. to the LORD in Jerusalem.

12 And the altars that were on the top 24 Moreover, the workers with fa of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the miliar spirits, and the wizards, and the kings of Judah had made, and the altars images, and the idols, and all the abomiwhich Manasseb had made in the two nations that were spied in the land of Jucourts of the house of the LORD, did the dah and in Jerusalem, did Josiah put king beat down, and brake them down away, that he might perform the words of from thence, and cast the dust of them into the law which were written in the book the brook Kidron. that Hilkiah the priest found in the house

13 And the high places that were before of the LORD. Jerusalem, which were on the right hand 25 And like unto him was there no king of the mount of Corruption, which Solo- before him, that turned to the LORD with mon the king of Israel had builded for all his heart, and with all his soul, and Ashtoreth the abomination of the Zidoni- with all his might, according to all the law ans, and for Chemosh the abomination of of Moses; neither after him arose there the Moabites, and for Milcom the abomi- any like him. nation 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.

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. 15 Moreover, the altar that was at 27 And the LORD said, I will remove Beth-el, and the high place which Jero- Judah also out of my sight, as I have reboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel moved Israel, and will cast off this city to sin, had made, both that altar and the Jerusalem which I have chosen, and the high place he brake down, and burned the house of which I have said, My name high place, and stamped it small to pow-shall be there. der, and burned the grove.

28 Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, 16 And as Josiah turned himself, he and all that he did, are they not written in spied the sepulchres that were there in the the book of the Chronicles of the kings of mount, and sent, and took the bones out Judah?

of the sepulchres, and burned them upon 29 In his days Pharaoh-nechoh king the altar, and polluted it, according to the of Egypt went up against the king of Asword of the LORD which the man of God syria to the river Euphrates: and king proclaimed, who proclaimed these words. Josiah went against him; and he slew him 17 Then be said, What title is that that at Megiddo, when he had seen him.

Rebellion of Jehoiakim.

II. KINGS.

Jerusalem taken and spoiled. 30 And his servants carried him in a and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his chariot dead from Megiddo, and brought stead. him to Jerusalem, and buried him in bis 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.

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.

33 And Pharaoh-nechoh put him in 10 At that time the servants of Nebands at Riblah in the land of Hamath, buchadnezzar king of Babylon came up that he might not reign in Jerusalem; and against Jerusalem, and the city was beput the land to a tribute of a hundred sieged. talents of silver, and a talent of gold.

11 And Nebuchadnezzar king of Baby34 And Pharaoh-nechoh made Eliakim lon came against the city, and his servants the son of Josiah king in the room of Jo- did besiege it.

Isiah his father, and turned his name to 12 And Jehoiachin the king of Judah Jehoiakim, and took Jehoahaz away: and he came to Egypt, and died there.

went out to the king of Babylon, he, and his mother, and his servants, and his princes, 35 And Jehoiakim gave the silver and and his officers: and the king of Babylon the gold to Pharaoh; but he taxed the land took him in the eighth year of his reign. to give the money according to the com- 13 And he carried out thence all the mandment of Pharaoh: he exacted the treasures of the house of the LORD, and silver and the gold of the people of the the treasures of the king's house, and cut land, of every one according to his taxa- in pieces all the vessels of gold which Sotion, to give it unto Pharaoh-nechoh. lomon king of Israel had made in the tem36 Jehoiakim was twenty and five ple of the LORD, as the LORD had said. 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.

CHAP. XXIV.

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 N his days Nebuchadnezzar king of king's wives, and his officers, and the

be

then he

came his servant three years: captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon. turned and rebelled against him. 16 And all the men of might, even seven 2 And the LORD sent against him bands thousand, and craftsmen and smiths a of the Chaldees, and bands of the Syrians, thousand, all that were strong and apt for and bands of the Moabites, and bands of war, even them the king of Babylon the children of Ammon, and sent them brought captive to Babylon. against Judah to destroy it, according to 17 ¶ And the king of Babylon made the word of the LORD, which he spake by Mattaniah his father's brother king in his his servants the prophets.

3 Surely at the commandment of the LORD came this upon Judah, to remove then 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.

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.

5 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoia- 20 For through the anger of the LORD kim, and all that he did, are they not it came to pass in Jerusalem, and Judah, written in the book of the Chronicles of the until he had cast them out from his prekings of Judah? sence, that Zedekiah rebelled against the 6 So Jehoiakim slept with his fathers: king of Babylon.

The people carried away.

A

CHAP. XXV.

Gedaliah is slain. CHAP. XXV. 16 The two pillars, one sea, and the ND it came to pass in the ninth year bases which Solomon had made for the of his reign, in the tenth month, in house of the LORD; the brass of all these the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchad- vessels was without weight. nezzar king of Babylon came, he, and all 17 The beight of the one pillar was his host, against Jerusalem, and pitched eighteen cubits, and the chapiter upon it against it; and they built forts against it was brass and the height of the chapiter round about. 2 And the city was besieged unto the pomegranates upon the chapiter round eleventh year of king Zedekiah. about, all of brass: and like unto these had 3 And on the ninth day of the fourth the second pillar with wreathen work. month the famine prevailed in the city, 18 And the captain of the guard took and there was no bread for the people of Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah the land. the second priest, and the three keepers

three cubits; and the wreathen work, and

4 And the city was broken up, and of the door: all the men of war fled by night by the 19 And out of the city he took an officer way of the gate between two walls, which that was set over the men of war, and five is by the king's garden: (now the Chal- men of them that were in the king's predees were against the city round about ;) sence, which were found in the city, and and the king went the way toward the plain. the principal scribe of the host, which 5 And the army of the Chaldees pur- mustered the people of the land, and threesued after the king, and overtook him in score men of the people of the land that the plains of Jericho and all his army were found in the city: were scattered from him.

20 And Nebuzar-adan captain of the

6 So they took the king, and brought guard took these, and brought them to the him up to the king of Babylon to Riblah; king of Babylon to Riblah: and they gave judgment upon him. 21 And the king of Babylon smote

7 And they slew the sons of Zedekiah them, and slew them at Riblah in the land before his eyes, and put out the eyes of of Hamath. So Judah was carried away Zedekiah, and bound him with fetters of out of their land. brass, and carried him to Babylon.

22 And as for the people that re

8 And in the fifth month, on the se-mained in the land of Judah, whom Neventh day of the month,(which is the nine-buchadnezzar king of Babylon had left, teenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar king even over them he made Gedaliah the son of Babylon,)came Nebuzar-adan, captain of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, ruler. of the guard, a servant of the king of Ba- 23 And when all the captains of the arbylon, unto Jerusalem:

9 And be 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.

mies, they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah governor, there came to Gedaliah to Miz pah, even Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan the son of Careah, and Serai10 And all the army of the Chaldees, that ah the son of Tanhumeth the Netophawere with the captain of the guard, brake thite, and Jaazaniah the son of a Maachadown the walls of Jerusalem round about. thite, they and their men.

11 Now the rest of the people that were 24 And Gedaliah sware to them, and left in the city, and the fugitives that fell to their men, and said unto them, Fear away to the king of Babylon, with the not to be the servants of the Chaldees: remnant of the multitude, did Nebuzar- dwell in the land, and serve the king of adan the captain of the guard carry away. Babylon, and it shall be well with you. 12 But the captain of the guard left of the poor of the land to be vine-dressers and husbandmen.

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, 13 And the pillars of brass that were in and ten men with him, and smote Gedathe house of the LORD, and the bases, and liah, that he died, and the Jews and the the brazen sea that was in the house of the Chaldees that were with him at Mizpah. LORD, did the Chaldees break in pieces, 26 And all the people, both small and and carried the brass of them to Babylon. great, and the captains of the armies, arose, 14 And the pots, and the shovels, and and came to Egypt: for they were afraid the snuffers, and the spoons, and all the of the Chaldees.

vessels of brass wherewith they minister- 27 ¶ And it came to pass in the seven ed, took they away. and thirtieth year of the captivity of Je15 And the fire-pans, and the bowls, hoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth and such things as were of gold, in gold, month, on the seven and twentieth day of and of silver, in silver, the captain of the the month, that Evil-merodach king of guard took away. Babylon in the year that he began to reign

Adam's line. The sons of Shem. I. CHRONICLES.

The posterity of Abraham.

did lift up the head of Jehoiachin king of and he did eat bread continually before Judah out of prison; him all the days of his life. 30 And bis allowance was a continual

28 And he spake kindly to him, and set his throne above the throne of the allowance given him of the king, a daily rate for every day, all the days of his

kings that were with him in Babylon;

29 And changed his prison garments: li.

¶ The First Book of the CHRONICLES.

CHAP. I.

ADAM, Sheth, Enosh,

2 Kenan, Mahalaleel, Jered, 3 Henoch, Methuselah, Lamech, 4 Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. 5 T 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,a d Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.

first-born of Ishmael, Nebaioth; then Kedar, and Adbeel, and Mibsam,

30 Mishma, and Dumah, Massa, Hadad, and Tema,

31 Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah. These are the sons of Ishmael.

32 Now the sons of Keturah, Abraham's concubine: she bare Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah. And the sons of Jokshan; Sheba, and Dedan.

33 And the sons of Midian; Ephah, and

8 The sons of Ham; Cush, and Miz- Epher, and Henoch, and Abida, and Elraim, Put, and Canaan. daah. All these are the sons of Keturah. 34 And Abraham begat Isaac.

9 And the sons of Cush; eba, and Havilah, and Sabta, and Raamah, and Sab-sons of Isaac ; Esau, and Israel. techa. 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 firstborn, 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.

The

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,

17 The sons of Shem; Elam, and As-and Ithran, and Cheran. shur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram,

42 The sons of Ezer; Bilhan, and Zaand Uz, and Hul,and Gether,and Meshech. van, and Jakan. The sons of Dishan; Uz, 18 And Arphaxad begat Shelah, and and Aran. 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,

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 Job' was dead, Husham

21 Hadoram also, and Uzal, and Diklah, 22 And Ebal, and Abimael, and Sheba, of the land of the Temanites reigned in his 23 And Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab.stead. All these were the sons of Joktan.

24 Shem, Arphaxad, Shelah, 25 Eber, Peleg, Reu,

26 Serug, Nahor, Terah,

27 Abram; the same is Abraham. 28 The sons of Abraham; Isaac, and Ishmael.

29 1 These are their generations. The

46 And when Husham was dead, Hadad the son of Bedad, which smote Midian in the field of Moab, reigned in bis stead: and the name of his city was Avith.

47 And when Hadad was dead, Samlah of Mazrekah reigned in his stead. 48 And when Samlah was dead, Shaul

CHAP. II. The posterity of Jerahmeel.

of Rehoboth by the river reigned in his rioth: her sons are these; Jesher, and stead. Shobab, and Ardon.

19 And when Azubah was dead, Caleb took unto him Ephrath, which bare him Hur.

20 And Hur begat Uri, and Uri begat Bezaleel.

21 ¶ And afterward Hezron went in to the daughter of Machir the father of Gilead, whom he married when he was threescore years old; and she bare him Segub.

22 And Segub begat Jair, who had three and twenty cities in the land of Gilead.

23 And he took Geshur, and Aram, with the towns of Jair, from them, with Kenath and the towns thereof, even threescore cities. All these belonged to the sons of MaThese chir the father of Gilead.

24 And after that Hezron was dead in Caleb-ephratah, then Abiah,Hezron's wife HESE are the sons of Israel; Reuben, bare him Ashur the father of Tekoa. Simeon, Levi, and Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun,

14 Nethaneel the fourth, Raddai the fifth, 15 Ozem the sixth, David the seventh: 16 Whose sisters were Zeruiah, and gat Azariah, Abigail. And the sons of Zeruiah; Abi-| shai, and Joab, and Asahel, three.

17 And Abigail bare Amasa: and the father of Amasa was Jether the Ishmaelite.

18 And Caleb the son of Hezron be- 41 And Shallum begat Jekamiah, and gat children of Azubah his wife, and of Je-Jekamiah begat Elishama.