the son of Amoz, in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.
032:033 Hezekiah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in
the ascent of the tombs of the sons of David: and all Judah
and the inhabitants of Jerusalem did him honor at his death.
Manasseh his son reigned in his place.
033:001 Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign;
and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem.
033:002 He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh,
after the abominations of the nations whom Yahweh cast out
before the children of Israel.
033:003 For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father
had broken down; and he reared up altars for the Baals,
and made Asheroth, and worshiped all the army of the sky,
and served them.
033:004 He built altars in the house of Yahweh, of which Yahweh said,
In Jerusalem shall my name be forever.
033:005 He built altars for all the army of the sky in the two courts
of the house of Yahweh.
033:006 He also made his children to pass through the fire in
the valley of the son of Hinnom; and he practiced sorcery,
and used enchantments, and practiced sorcery, and dealt
with those who had familiar spirits, and with wizards:
he worked much evil in the sight of Yahweh, to provoke
him to anger.
033:007 He set the engraved image of the idol, which he had made,
in the house of God, of which God said to David and to Solomon
his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen
out of all the tribes of Israel, will I put my name forever:
033:008 neither will I any more remove the foot of Israel from off
the land which I have appointed for your fathers, if only they
will observe to do all that I have commanded them, even all
the law and the statutes and the ordinances [given] by Moses.
033:009 Manasseh seduced Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem,
so that they did evil more than did the nations whom Yahweh
destroyed before the children of Israel.
033:010 Yahweh spoke to Manasseh, and to his people; but they
gave no heed.
033:011 Therefore Yahweh brought on them the captains of the army
of the king of Assyria, who took Manasseh in chains,
and bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon.
033:012 When he was in distress, he begged Yahweh his God, and humbled
himself greatly before the God of his fathers.
033:013 He prayed to him; and he was entreated of him, and heard his
supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom.
Then Manasseh knew that Yahweh he was God.
033:014 Now after this he built an outer wall to the city of David,
on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entrance
at the fish gate; and he compassed Ophel about [with it],
and raised it up to a very great height: and he put valiant
captains in all the fortified cities of Judah.
033:015 He took away the foreign gods, and the idol out of the house
of Yahweh, and all the altars that he had built in the mountain
of the house of Yahweh, and in Jerusalem, and cast them out
of the city.
033:016 He built up the altar of Yahweh, and offered thereon sacrifices
of peace offerings and of thanksgiving, and commanded Judah
to serve Yahweh, the God of Israel.
033:017 Nevertheless the people sacrificed still in the high places,
but only to Yahweh their God.
033:018 Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and his prayer to his God,
and the words of the seers who spoke to him in the name of Yahweh,
the God of Israel, behold, they are written among the acts
of the kings of Israel.
033:019 His prayer also, and how [God] was entreated of him, and all
his sin and his trespass, and the places in which he built
high places, and set up the Asherim and the engraved images,
before he humbled himself: behold, they are written in
the history of Hozai.
033:020 So Manasseh slept with his fathers, and they buried him in his
own house: and Amon his son reigned in his place.
033:021 Amon was twenty-two years old when he began to reign;
and he reigned two years in Jerusalem.
033:022 He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, as did
Manasseh his father; and Amon sacrificed to all the engraved
images which Manasseh his father had made, and served them.
033:023 He didn't humble himself before Yahweh, as Manasseh his
father had humbled himself; but this same Amon trespassed
more and more.
033:024 His servants conspired against him, and put him to death
in his own house.
033:025 But the people of the land killed all those who had conspired
against king Amon; and the people of the land made Josiah
his son king in his place.
034:001 Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign;
and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem.
034:002 He did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, and walked
in the ways of David his father, and didn't turn aside
to the right hand or to the left.
034:003 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 Asherim, and the engraved images,
and the molten images.
034:004 They broke down the altars of the Baals in his presence;
and the incense altars that were on high above them he hewed down;
and the Asherim, and the engraved images, and the molten images,
he broke in pieces, and made dust of them, and strewed it
on the graves [of those] who had sacrificed to them.
034:005 He burnt the bones of the priests on their altars, and purged
Judah and Jerusalem.
034:006 [So did he] in the cities of Manasseh and Ephraim and Simeon,
even to Naphtali, in their ruins round about.
034:007 He broke down the altars, and beat the Asherim and the engraved
images into powder, and hewed down all the incense altars
throughout all the land of Israel, and returned to Jerusalem.
034:008 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 Yahweh his God.
034:009 They came to Hilkiah the high priest, and delivered the money
that was brought into the house of God, which the Levites,
the keepers of the threshold, had gathered of the hand
of Manasseh and Ephraim, and of all the remnant of Israel,
and of all Judah and Benjamin, and of the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
034:010 They delivered it into the hand of the workmen who had the
oversight of the house of Yahweh; and the workmen who labored
in the house of Yahweh gave it to mend and repair the house;
034:011 even to the carpenters and to the builders gave they it,
to buy hewn stone, and timber for couplings, and to make beams
for the houses which the kings of Judah had destroyed.
034:012 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 [others of] the Levites, all who were
skillful with instruments of music.
034:013 Also they were over the bearers of burdens, and set
forward all who did the work in every manner of service:
and of the Levites there were scribes, and officers, and porters.
034:014 When they brought out the money that was brought into the house
of Yahweh, Hilkiah the priest found the book of the law
of Yahweh [given] by Moses.
034:015 Hilkiah answered Shaphan the scribe, I have found the book
of the law in the house of Yahweh. Hilkiah delivered
the book to Shaphan.
034:016 Shaphan carried the book to the king, and moreover brought back
word to the king, saying, All that was committed to your servants,
they are doing.
034:017 They have emptied out the money that was found in the house
of Yahweh, and have delivered it into the hand of the overseers,
and into the hand of the workmen.
034:018 Shaphan the scribe told the king, saying, Hilkiah the priest has
delivered me a book. Shaphan read therein before the king.
034:019 It happened, when the king had heard the words of the law,
that he tore his clothes.
034:020 The king commanded Hilkiah, and Ahikam the son of Shaphan,
and Abdon the son of Micah, and Shaphan the scribe, and Asaiah
the king's servant, saying,
034:021 Go you, inquire of Yahweh for me, and for those who are left in Israel
and in Judah, concerning the words of the book that is found;
for great is the wrath of Yahweh that is poured out on us,
because our fathers have not kept the word of Yahweh,
to do according to all that is written in this book.
034:022 So Hilkiah, and they whom the king [had commanded],
went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son
of Tokhath, the son of Hasrah, keeper of the wardrobe;
(now she lived in Jerusalem in the second quarter;)
and they spoke to her to that effect.
034:023 She said to them, Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel: Tell you
the man who sent you to me,
034:024 Thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will bring evil on this place,
and on the inhabitants of it, even all the curses that are written
in the book which they have read before the king of Judah.
034:025 Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense to other gods,
that they might provoke me to anger with all the works of
their hands; therefore is my wrath poured out on this place,
and it shall not be quenched.
034:026 But to the king of Judah, who sent you to inquire of Yahweh,
thus shall you tell him, Thus says Yahweh, the God
of Israel: As touching the words which you have heard,
034:027 because your heart was tender, and you did humble yourself
before God, when you heard his words against this place,
and against the inhabitants of it, and have humbled yourself
before me, and have torn your clothes, and wept before me;
I also have heard you, says Yahweh.
034:028 Behold, I will gather you to your fathers, and you shall be gathered
to your grave in peace, neither shall your eyes see all the evil
that I will bring on this place, and on the inhabitants of it.
They brought back word to the king.
034:029 Then the king sent and gathered together all the elders
of Judah and Jerusalem.
034:030 The king went up to the house of Yahweh, and all the men
of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the priests,
and the Levites, and all the people, both 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 Yahweh.
034:031 The king stood in his place, and made a covenant before Yahweh,
to walk after Yahweh, 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
that were written in this book.
034:032 He caused all who were found in Jerusalem and Benjamin
to stand [to it]. The inhabitants of Jerusalem did according
to the covenant of God, the God of their fathers.
034:033 Josiah took away all the abominations out of all the countries
that pertained to the children of Israel, and made all who were
found in Israel to serve, even to serve Yahweh their God.
All his days they didn't depart from following Yahweh,
the God of their fathers.
035:001 Josiah kept a Passover to Yahweh in Jerusalem: and they killed
the Passover on the fourteenth [day] of the first month.
035:002 He set the priests in their offices, and encouraged them
to the service of the house of Yahweh.
035:003 He said to the Levites who taught all Israel, who were holy
to Yahweh, Put the holy ark in the house which Solomon the son
of David king of Israel did build; there shall no more be
a burden on your shoulders: now serve Yahweh your God,
and his people Israel.
035:004 Prepare yourselves after your fathers' houses by your divisions,
according to the writing of David king of Israel, and according
to the writing of Solomon his son.
035:005 Stand in the holy place according to the divisions of the fathers'
houses of your brothers the children of the people,
and [let there be for each] a portion of a fathers'
house of the Levites.
035:006 Kill the Passover, and sanctify yourselves, and prepare for
your brothers, to do according to the word of Yahweh by Moses.
035:007 Josiah gave to the children of the people, of the flock,
lambs and kids, all of them for the Passover offerings,
to all who were present, to the number of thirty thousand,
and three thousand bulls: these were of the king's substance.
035:008 His princes gave for a freewill offering to the people,
to the priests, and to the Levites. Hilkiah and Zechariah
and Jehiel, the rulers of the house of God, gave to the priests
for the Passover offerings two thousand and six hundred
[small livestock], and three hundred oxen.
035:009 Conaniah also, and Shemaiah and Nethanel, his brothers,
and Hashabiah and Jeiel and Jozabad, the chiefs of the Levites,
gave to the Levites for the Passover offerings five thousand
[small livestock], and five hundred oxen.
035:010 So the service was prepared, and the priests stood in
their place, and the Levites by their divisions, according to
the king's commandment.
035:011 They killed the Passover, and the priests sprinkled [the blood
which they received] of their hand, and the Levites flayed them.
035:012 They removed the burnt offerings, that they might give them
according to the divisions of the fathers' houses of the children
of the people, to offer to Yahweh, as it is written in the book
of Moses. So did they with the oxen.
035:013 They roasted the Passover with fire according to the ordinance:
and the holy offerings boiled they in pots, and in caldrons,
and in pans, and carried them quickly to all the children
of the people.
035:014 Afterward they prepared for themselves, and for the priests,
because the priests the sons of Aaron [were busied]
in offering the burnt offerings and the fat until night:
therefore the Levites prepared for themselves, and for the priests
the sons of Aaron.
035:015 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 were at every gate:
they didn't need to depart from their service; for their
brothers the Levites prepared for them.
035:016 So all the service of Yahweh was prepared the same day,
to keep the Passover, and to offer burnt offerings on the altar
of Yahweh, according to the commandment of king Josiah.
035:017 The children of Israel who were present kept the Passover
at that time, and the feast of unleavened bread seven days.
035:018 There was no Passover like that kept in Israel from the days
of Samuel the prophet; neither did any of the kings of Israel
keep such a Passover as Josiah kept, and the priests,
and the Levites, and all Judah and Israel who were present,
and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
035:019 In the eighteenth year of the reign of Josiah was this Passover kept.
035:020 After all this, when Josiah had prepared the temple, Neco king
of Egypt went up to fight against Carchemish by the Euphrates:
and Josiah went out against him.
035:021 But he sent ambassadors to him, saying, What have I to do with you,
you king of Judah? [I come] not against you this day,
but against the house with which I have war; and God has commanded
me to make haste: forbear you from [meddling with] God,
who is with me, that he not destroy you.
035:022 Nevertheless Josiah would not turn his face from him,
but disguised himself, that he might fight with him,
and didn't listen to the words of Neco from the mouth of God,
and came to fight in the valley of Megiddo.
035:023 The archers shot at king Josiah; and the king said to his servants,
Have me away; for I am sore wounded.
035:024 So his servants took him out of the chariot, and put him in
the second chariot that he had, and brought him to Jerusalem;
and he died, and was buried in the tombs of his fathers.
All Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah.
035:025 Jeremiah lamented for Josiah: and all the singing men
and singing women spoke of Josiah in their lamentations
to this day; and they made them an ordinance in Israel:
and behold, they are written in the lamentations.
035:026 Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and his good deeds,
according to that which is written in the law of Yahweh,
035:027 and his acts, first and last, behold, they are written
in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah.
036:001 Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah,
and made him king in his father's place in Jerusalem.
036:002 Joahaz was twenty-three years old when he began to reign;
and he reigned three months in Jerusalem.
036:003 The king of Egypt deposed him at Jerusalem, and fined the land
one hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.
036:004 The king of Egypt made Eliakim his brother king over Judah
and Jerusalem, and changed his name to Jehoiakim.
Neco took Joahaz his brother, and carried him to Egypt.
036:005 Jehoiakim was Twenty-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 Yahweh his God.
036:006 Against him came up Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and bound
him in fetters, to carry him to Babylon.
036:007 Nebuchadnezzar also carried of the vessels of the house of Yahweh
to Babylon, and put them in his temple at Babylon.
036:008 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 place.
036:009 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 Yahweh.
036:010 At the return of the year king Nebuchadnezzar sent, and brought
him to Babylon, with the goodly vessels of the house of Yahweh,
and made Zedekiah his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem.
036:011 Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he began to reign;
and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem:
036:012 and he did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh his God;
he didn't humble himself before Jeremiah the prophet [speaking]
from the mouth of Yahweh.
036:013 He also rebelled against king Nebuchadnezzar, who had made
him swear by God: but he stiffened his neck, and hardened
his heart against turning to Yahweh, the God of Israel.
036:014 Moreover all the chiefs of the priests, and the people,
trespassed very greatly after all the abominations of the nations;
and they polluted the house of Yahweh which he had made
holy in Jerusalem.
036:015 Yahweh, the God of their fathers, sent to them by his messengers,
rising up early and sending, because he had compassion on
his people, and on his dwelling place:
036:016 but they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words,
and scoffed at his prophets, until the wrath of Yahweh arose
against his people, until there was no remedy.
036:017 Therefore he brought on them the king of the Chaldeans,
who killed their young men with the sword in the house of
their sanctuary, and had no compassion on young man or virgin,
old man or gray-headed: he gave them all into his hand.
036:018 All the vessels of the house of God, great and small, and the
treasures of the house of Yahweh, and the treasures of the king,
and of his princes, all these he brought to Babylon.
036:019 They burnt the house of God, and broke down the wall of Jerusalem,
and burnt all the palaces of it with fire, and destroyed
all the goodly vessels of it.
036:020 He carried those who had escaped from the sword away to Babylon;
and they were servants to him and his sons until the reign
of the kingdom of Persia:
036:021 to fulfill the word of Yahweh by the mouth of Jeremiah,
until the land had enjoyed its Sabbaths: [for] as long as it
lay desolate it kept Sabbath, to fulfill seventy years.
036:022 Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word
of Yahweh by the mouth of Jeremiah might be accomplished,
Yahweh stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia,
so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom,
and [put it] also in writing, saying,
036:023 Thus says Cyrus king of Persia, All the kingdoms of the earth
has Yahweh, the God of heaven, given me; and he has charged
me to build him a house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah.
Whoever there is among you of all his people, Yahweh his God
be with him, and let him go up.