Sennacherib's Blasphemy. burn incense upon it?

2 CHRONICLES, XXXIII.

B. C. 710.

13 Know ye not what I and my fathers have done bunto all the people of other a Job 1.3,9. Lands? were the gods of the nations of 42.11. those lands any ways able to deliver their b Is. 10.14. Jands out of mine hand? Da.5.19.

14 Who was there among all the gods c Is.22.9,11. of those nations, that my fathers utterly 1 interpreters. destroyed, that could deliver his people d 2K1.20.12, out of mine hand, that your God should be able to deliver you out of mine hand?

&c.

Death of Hezekiah. 29 Moreover he provided him cities, and possessions of flocks a and herds in abun dance; for God had given him substance very much.

30 This same Hezekiah also stopped the upper water-course c of Gihon, and brought it straight down to the west side of the city of David. And Hezekiah prospered in all his works.

31 Howbeit, in the business of the 1 amIs.39.1,&c.bassadors of the princes of Babylon, who sentdunto him to inquire of the wonder that was done in the land, God left him

15 Now therefore let not Hezekiah de-e De.8.2,16. ceive you, nor persuade you on this man- Ja.1.13.

ner, neither yet believe him; for no god 2 kindnesses.to try e him, that he might know all that

was in his heart.

32 Now the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and his 2 goodness, behold, they are writ

of any nation or kingdom was able to de- f Da.3.15. Liver his people out of mine hand, and g Is.36-39. out of the hand of my fathers: how h 2Ki.18-20. much f less shall your God deliver you 3 or, highest.ten in the Vision of Isaiah g the prophet out of mine hand? i2Ki.19.9,&c. the son of Amoz, and in the book of the 16 And his servants spake yet more k Pr. 10.7. Kings h of Judah and Israel. against the LORD God, and against his 12Ki.21.1,&c. servant Hezekiah. m De.18.9,12. 17 He wrote also letters i to rail on the 2Ch.28.3. LORD God of Israel, and to speak against n Ne.6.9. him, saying, As the gods of the nations o 1Sa. 17.36. 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.

18 Then they cried with a loud voice, in the Jews' speech, unto the people of Jerusalem that were on the wall, to af- p fright n them, and to trouble them, that they might take the city.

Job 15.25,26
Ps. 10.13,14.
73.8-11.
139.19,20.
returned
and built.
c 30.14.
31.1.
32.12.

19 And o they spake against the God of q De.16.21. Jerusalem, as against the gods of the peo-r De. 17.3. ple of the earth, which were the work of s Is.37.1,&c. the hands of man. t Ps.50.15. 20 And s for this cause Hezekiah the 91.14,15. king, and the prophet Isaiah the son of u Is. 10.16-18. Amoz, prayed t and cried to heaven.

w

42.8. 2Sa.24.16. Ps. 18.50. Da 3.28. 6.22.

Eze.23.37,

39.
De. 18.10,11.
5 made him
fall.
y Ps.37.39,40.

21 And the LORD sent an angel, which v cut off all the mighty men of valor, 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 5 him there with the sword. 22 Thus y the LORD saved Hezekiah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem from the hand of Sennacherib the king of Assyria, Hos.1.7. and from the band of all other, and z guid-z Ps.48.14. ed them on every side. 23 And many brought gifts unto the LORD 6 precious to Jerusalem, and 6 presents to Hezekiah] things. king of Judah: so that he was magnified in a2Ki.20.1,&c the sight of all nations from thenceforth. Is.38.1,&c. 24 In a those days Hezekiah was sick to or, wrought the death, and prayed unto the LORD: & he a miracle spake unto him, and he gave him a siga. for him. 25 But Hezekiah rendered b not again, b Ps.116.12. according to the benefit done unto him; c c.26.16. for his heart was c lifted up: d therefore there was wrath upon him, and upon Judah and Jerusalem.

71.20,21.

Da.5.20,23.
Hab.2.4.
d c.24.18.
lifting up,
2K.14.10.
e Je.26.18,19.

8

26 Notwithstanding, Hezekiah humbled himself for the 8 pride of his heart, (both he e and the inhabitants of Jerusalem,) so that ƒ the wrath of the LORD came not f 1Ki.21.19. upon them in the days of Hezekiah. ¡g Pr.10.22. 27 And g Hezekiah had exceeding much 9 which were riches and honour: and he made himself the king's. treasuries for silver, and for gold, and for instruments precious stones, & for spices, & for shields, of desire. and for all manner of pleasant jewels; h La.3.7. 28 Storehouses also for the increase of iPs. 107.10-14 corn, and wine, and oil; and stalls for all 2 r. chains. manner of beasts, and cotes for flocks. k c.32.26

33 And Hezekiah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the 3 chiefest of the sepulchres of the sons of David: and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusa lem did him honour k at his death. And Manasseh his son reigned in his stead. CHAP. XXXIII.

ANASSEH I was twelve years old

Mwhen he began to reign: and he

reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem: 2 But did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, like unto them abomi nations of the heathen, whom the LORD had cast out before the children of Israel. 3 For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father p had broken down, and he reared up altars for Baalim, and made groves, q and worshipped r all the host of heaven, and served them.

4 Also he built altars in the house of the LORD, whereof the LORD had said, In Jerusalem shall my name be for ever.

5 And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD.

6 And w he caused his children to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom: also x he observed times, and used enchantments, and used witchcraft, and dealt with a familiar spirit, and with wizards: he wrought much evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger. 7 And he set a carved image, the idol which he had made, in the house of God, of which God had said to David, and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen before all the tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever:

8 Neither will I any more remove the foot of Israel from out of the land which I have appointed for your fathers; so that they will take heed to do all that I have commanded them, according to the whole law and the statutes and the ordinances by the hand of Moses.

9 So Manasseh made Judah & the inhabitants of Jerusalem to err, and to do worse than the heathen, whom the LORD had destroyed before the children of Israel.

10 And the LORD spake to Manasseb, and to his people: but they would not hearken. 11 Wherefore the LORD brought upon them the captains of the host 9 of the king of Assyria, which took Manasseh among the thorns, h and bound i him with 2 fet ters, and carried him to Babylon.

12 And when he was in affliction, he be sought the LORD his God, and k humbled

2 CHRONICLES, XXXIV.
B.C. 677.

of Manasseh, and of Amon. himself greatly before the God of his fathers.

13 And prayed unto him: and b he was a 2Ki.23.4. intreated of him, and heard his supplica-1 face of the tion, and brought him again to Jerusalem graves. nto his kingdom. Then d Manasseh b1Ch.5.20. knew that the LORD he was God.

Ezr.8.23. 14 Now after this he built a wall without c 1Ki.13.2. the city of David, on the west side of d Ps.9.16. Gihon, in the valley, even to the entering Da.4.34,35. in at the fish-gate, and compassed about 2 or, mauls. Ophel, 3 and raised it up a very great 3 or, the height, and put captains of war in all the fenced cities of Judah.

tower,
c.27.3.
15 And he took away the strange f gods, 4 to make
and the idol out of the house of the LORD, powder.
and all the altars that he had built in the e De.9.21.
mount of the house of the LORD, and in f ver.3,5,7,
Jerusalem, and cast them out of the city."

16 And he repaired the altar of the LORD,
and sacrificed thereon peace-offerings,and
thank-offerings, g and commanded Judahlg Le.7.12.
to serve the LORD God of Israel.

h 2Ki. 12.4.

17 Nevertheless, i the people did sacri-i 2Ki.15.4. fice still in the high places, yet unto the

LORD their God only.

18 Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and his prayer unto his God, and the words of the seers that spake to him in the name of the LORD God of Israel, be

hold, they are written in the book of the k 1Jno.1.9.
Kings of Israel:
1 Ro.5.16.

19 His prayer also, and how God was m Ps.119.67, 71,75. intreated k of him, and all his sins, and

his trespass, and the places wherein he 5 or, rafter. built high places, and set up groves and 6 or, Hosai. graven images, before m he was hum-n c.31.12. bled, behold, they are written among the Ne.7.2. sayings of the scers.

&c.

pc.2.10.
Ne.4.10.
q Is.44.13,&c.
1Ch.23.4,5.
multiplied
trespass.
Je.7.26.
De.17. 18,19.

100.12. 20 So Manasseh slept with his fathers, o 2K1.21.19, and they buried him in his own house: and Anion his son reigned in his stead. 21 Amon o was two and twenty years ok when he began to reign; and reigned two years in Jerusalem. 22 But he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, as did Manasseh his father; for Amon sacrificed unto all the carved q images which Manasseh his fa-t ther had made, and served them; 23 And humbled not himself before the LORD, as Manasseh his father had humbled himself: but Amon 7 trespassed more s and more.

s

Jos.1.3.

Reign of Josiah. in pieces, and made dust of them, a and strowed it upon the graves of them that had sacrificed unto them.

5 And he burnt c the bones of the priests upon their altars, and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem.

6 And so did he in the cities of Manasseh and Ephraim, & Simeon, even unto Naphtali, with their 2 mattocks round about.

7 And when he had broken down the altars and the groves, and had beaten the graven images 4 into powder, e and cut down all the idols throughout all the land of Israel, he returned to Jerusalem.

S 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, & Joah the son of Joahaz the recorder, to repair the house of the LORD his God. 9 And when they came to Hilkiah the high priest, they delivered h the money that was brought into the house of God, which the Levites that kept the doors had gathered of the hand of Manasseh and Ephraim, and of all the remnant of Israel, and of all Judah and Benjamin, and they returned to Jerusalem.

10 And they put it in the hand of the workmen that had the oversight of the house of the LORD, and they gave it to the workmen that wrought in the house of the LORD, to repair and mend the house;

11 Even to the artificers and builders gave they it, to buy hewn stone, & timber for couplings, and to 5 floor the houses which the kings of Judah had destroyed. 12And the men did the work n 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. 13 Also they were over the bearers p of burdens, and were overseers of all that wrought the work in any manner of seivice; and r of the Levites, there were scribes, and officers, and porters.

14 And when they brought out the money 8 by the that was brought into the house of the hand of. LORD, Hilkiah the priest found a book t of u Ge.9.6. the law of the LORD given 8 by Moses. Nu.35.31,33. 15 And Hilkiah answered and said to Je.36.20,21. Shaphan the scribe, I have found the book w 2K1.22.1, of the law in the house of the LORD. And Hilkiah delivered the book to Shaphan.

&c,

24 And his servants conspired against him, and slew him in his own house. 25 But the people of the land slew u all them that had conspired against king 9 to the Amon and the people of the land made Josialt his son king in his stead.

CHAP. XXXIV.

JOSIAH was yearsigned in Je
OSIAHw was eight years old when he

rusalem one and thirty years.

hand of.
poured out,
or, melted.
x De.5.32.
17.11,20.
28.14.

2 And he did that which was right in the Jos.1.7. sight of the LORD, and walked in the 2 in it. ways of David his father, and declined y Pr.8.17. neither x to the right hand nor to the left. Ec. 12.1. 3 For in the eighth year of his reign, z Le.26.30. while he was yet young, y he began to a Ro.7.7,9. seek after the God of David his father: b c.33.17,22. and in the twelfth year he began to 3 or, Achbor, Z purge Judah and Jerusalem from the 2K1.22.12. high places, and the groves, and the 4 or, sun carved images, and the molten images. images,

4 And they brake down the altars of c.14.5. Baalim, in his presence: and the 4 images c Je.21.2. that were on high above them he cut Eze.14.1,&c. down and the groves, and the carved 20.1,&c. images, and the molten images, the brake d Is.37.4.

16 And Shaphan carried u the book to the king, and brought the king word back again, saying, All that was committed to 9 thy servants, they do it.

17 And they have 1 gathered together the money that was found in the house of the LORD, and have delivered it into the hand of the overseers, and to the hand of the workmen.

18 Then Shaphan the scribe told the king, saying, Hilkiah the priest hath Igiven me a book. And Shaphan read 2 it before the king:

19 And it came to pass, when the king had heard a the words of the law, tha he rent his clothes.

20 And the king commanded Hilkia and Ahikam the son of Shaphan, a Abdon 3 the son of Micah, and Shapi the scribe, and Asaiah a servant of t. king's, saying,

21 Go, inquire c of the LORD for me, an for them that are left d in Israel and in 319

Huldah's Prophecy.

Josiah's solemn Passover. 2And he set the priests in their a charges

and encouraged them to the service of the house of the LORD.

2 CHRONICLES, XXXV. Judah, concerning the words of the book] B. C. 624. that is found: for great bis 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.

a c.23.18.

b Le.26.14,&c 3 And said unto the Levites that taught De.28.15,&c. all c Israel, which were holy unto the 29.18-25. LORD, Put the holy ark in the house which 30.17-19. Solomon the son of David king of Israel 31.16-22. did build; it d shall not lea burden upon 32.15-25. your shoulders; serve now the LORD your Ro.1.18. God, and his people Israel,

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 1 Hasrah keeper of the wardrobe; 2 (now she dwelt in Jeru-| 2.8-12. salem in the 3 college ;) and they spake to c De.33.10. her to that effect. c.30.22.

23 And she answered them, Thus saith Mal.2.7. the LORD God of Israel, Tell ye the mand 1Ch.23.26. that sent you to me, 1 or, Harhas,

4 And prepare yourselves by the houses of your fathers, after your courses, according to the writing of David e king of Israel, and according to the writing of Solomon f his son;

5 And stand g in the holy place,accord

24 Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I h will 2Ki.22.14.ing to the divisions of the 4 families of bring evil upon this place, and upon the 2 garments. the fathers of your brethren the 5 people, inhabitants thereof, even all the curses 3 or, school, and after the division of the families that are written in the book which they or, second of the Levites: have read before the king of Judah:

part.

19 3.15.
35.17.

25 Because they have forsaken me, and e 1Ch.23.26. have burned incense unto other gods, fc.S.14. that they might provoke me to anger g Ps.134.1. with all the works of their hands; there-h Je.6.19. fore my wrath shall be poured out I upon this place, and shall not be quenched. 26 And as for the king of Judah, who 4 house. sent you to inquire of the LORD, so shall ye say unto him, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, concerning the words which thou hast heard;

27 Because thine heart was tender, and thou didst humble n 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 o also, saith the LORD.

5

sons of the people. c.30.3.15. Ezr.6.20.

offered.
k c.7.8-10.

30.24.
Is.42.25.
Je.7.20.
La.2.4.
4.11.
m c.33.12,13.
Ps.34.18.
51.17.
Is.57.15.

66.2.
Eze.9.4.
n Ja.4.6,10.

28 Behold, I will gather thee to thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered to thy] grave in peace, neither p shall thine eyes see all the evil that I will bring upon this place, & upon the inhabitants of the same. So they brought the king word again. 29 Then the king sent and gathered o Ps. 10.17. together all the elders of Judah and Jeru-| Is.65.24. salem. PIKI.21.29. 2Ki.20.19.

6 So kill the passover, and sanctify your selves, and prepare your brethren, that they may do according to the word of the LORD by the hand of Moses.

7 And Josiah 6 gave to k the people, of the flock, lambs and kids, all for the passover-offerings, for all that were present, to the number of thirty thousand, and three thousand bullocks: these were of the king's substance.

8 And his princes 6 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 caitle, and three hundred oxen.

9 Conaniah also, and Shemaiah and Nethaneel his brethren, and Hashabiah, and Jehiel, and Jozabad, chief of the Le vites, 6 gave unto the Levites, for pass over-offerings, five thousand small cattle, and five hundred oxen.

10 So the service was prepared, and the priests stood in their place, and the Levites in their courses, q according to the king's commandment.

11 Ands they killed the passover, and the priests sprinkled the blood from their hands, and the Levites flayed them.

12 And they removed the burnt-offer2K1.23.1,&cings, that they might give according to s c.29.22,34. the divisions of the families of the peo from great ple, to offer unto the LORD, as it is writ even to small ten t in the book of Moses: and so did t Le.3.3. they with the oxen. 2Ki.11.14.

c.6.13.

30 And the king went up into the house of the LORD, and all the men of Judah, q Ezr.6.18. and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the priests, and the Levites, & all the people, great and small; & he read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant that was found in the house of the LORD. 31 And the king stood u in his place, and made a covenant w before the LORD, to walk after the LORD, and to keep his commandments, and his testimonies, y and his statutes, with all his heart, and with all his soul, to perform z the words of the covenant which are written in this book. 32 And he caused all that were 9 present in Jerusalem and Benjamin to stand 8 made to it. And the inhabitants of Jerusalem them run. did according to the covenant of God, z Ps.:19. 106. the God of their fathers. 9 found.

Ex.12.8,9.
De. 16.7.
w Je.50.5.
1Sa.2. 13-15.
y Ps.119.111,

112.

33 And Josiah took away all the abomina-
tions aout of all the countries that pertain- a 1Ki.11.5.
ed to the children of Israel, and made all station.
that were present in Israel to serve, even b ICh.25.1,&e
to serve the LORD their God. And all his c 1Ch.9.17.
days d they departed not from 2 follow-d Je.3.10.
ing the LORD, the God of their fathers. Hos.6.4.
CHAP. XXXV.
2 after.

MOREOVER, Josiah kept a passover e 2Ki.23.21,
unto the LORD in Jerusalem: and) &c.
they killed the passover on the fourteenth f Ex.12.6.
day f of the first month.
Ezr.6.19.

13 And they roasted v the passover with fire, according to the ordinance: but the other holy offerings sod x they in pots, and in caldrons, and in pans, and 8 divided them speedily among all the people.

14 And afterward they made ready for themselves, and for the priests: because the priests the sons of Aaron were busied in offering of burnt-offerings and the fat until night; therefore the Levites prepared for themselves, and for the priests

the sons of Aaron.

15 And the singers the sons of Asaph,wers in their place,according to the coinuandment of David, b and Asaph, and Heman, and Jeduthun the king's seer: and the porters c waited at every gate: they might not depart from their service; for their brethren the Levites prepared for them. 16 So all the service of the LORD was prepared the same day, to keep the passover, and to offer burnt-offerings upor the altar of the LORD, according to the commandment of king Josiah.

The Death of Josiah.

2 CHRONICLES, XXXVI.

B. C. 623.

17 And the children of Israel that were] present kept the passover at that time,& the feast of unleavened bread seven days. 1 found. 18 And there was no passover like to 20r,Jcconiah, that kept in Israel, from the days of Samuel the prophet; neither did all the kings! of Israel keep such a passover as Josiah kept, and the priests, and the Levites, and all Judah and Israel that were present, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem. 19 In the eighteenth year of the reign of Josiah was this passover kept.

Destruction of Jerusalem. that which was found in him, behold, they are written in the book of the Kings f Israel and Judah and 2 Jehoiachin his sou reigned in his stead.

1Ch.3.16. 9 Jehoiachin a was eight years old wher or, Coniah, he began to reign; and he reigned three Je.22.24. months and ten days in Jerusalem: and a2Ki.24.8, & he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD. 3at the return 10 And3 when the year was expired,king of the year. Nebuchadnezzar sent and brought him to vessels (f Babylon, with the 4 goodly vessels b of the des re. house of the LORD, and made 5 Zadekith hisdbrother king overJudah & Jerusalem

4

5

5.2.

or, Mattaniah, his father's brother, 2K1.24.17. c 2K1.23.29,

20 After call this, when Josiah had prepared the temple, Necho e king of Egypt b Da.1.1,2. came up to fight against Carchemish by Euphrates: &Josiah went out against him. 21 But he sent ambassadors to him, say-1 ing, 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 d Je.37.1. destroy thee not. 6 house. 22 Nevertheless, Josiah would not turn e Je.46.2,&c. his face from him, but disguised himself, f Je.52.1,&c. that he might fight with him, and hearken-1 of my war. ed not unto the words of Necho from the g Je.52.3. mouth of God, and came to fight in the Eze.17.15,18 valley of Megiddo. h2Ki.17.14.

&c.

23 And the archers shot at king Josiah :)
and the king said to his servants, Have i Je.25.3.4.
me away; for I am sore 9 wounded.

35.15.

by the hand

of.

24 His servants therefore took him out of
that chariot, & put him in the second cha-
riot that he had; and they brought him to
Jerusalem, & he died, and was buried 2 in
one of the sepulchres of his fathers: & all 1
Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah.
25 And Jeremiah lamented m for Josiah;
and all the singing-men n and the singing- k 1s.28.22.
women spake of Josiah in their lamenta-2
tions to this day, and made them an or-
dinance p in Israel: and, behold, they are
written in the Lamentations.

made sick,
IKI.22.34.
i. e. conti-
nually and
carefully.
or, among
the sepul
chre.

Pr. 1.24-30.

26 Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, m Zec.12.11.
and his 4 goodness, according to that La.4.20.
which was written in the law of the LORD, 3 healing.
27 And his deeds, first and last, behold,n Mat.9.23.
they are written in the book of the Kings o De.28 49.
of Israel and Judah.
2K1.25.1,&c
Ezr.9.7.

THEN

CHAP. XXXVI.

HEN q the people of the land tookJe-p Je.22.20. hoahaz the son of Josiah, and made 4 kindnesses, him king in his father's stead in Jerusa- c.32.32. lem. q 2Ki.23.30,

Is.64.11.
5 the remain-
der from the
sword.
6 removed
him.

2 Jehoahaz was twenty and three years &c. old when he began to reign; and her Ps.74.6-8. reigned three months in Jerusalem. 3 And the king of Egypt 6 put him down at Jerusalem, & condemned the land in an hundred talents of silver &a talent of gold. 4 And the king of Egypt made Eliakim his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem, and turned his name to Jehoiakim. mulcted. And Necho took Jehoahaz his brother, s Je. 15 9-12. and carried him to Egypt.

26.6,7.
29.10.

5 Jehoiakim was twenty and five years old when he began to reign; and he reign. t Le.26.34,43. ed eleven years in Jerusalem: and he did Da.9.2. that which was evil in the sight of the LORD his God.

6 Against to him came up Nebuchad-| nezzar king of Babylon, and bound him in fetters, 9 to carry him to Babylon. 7 Nebuchadnezzar also carried of the ves-8 sels of the house of the LORD to Babylon, and put them in his temple at Babylon. S Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakin, and his abominations which he did, and

u Ezr.1.1,&c.
v Is.44.28.

45.1,&c.
2Ki.24.13

c.

11 Zedekiah f was one and twenty years jold when he began to reign; and reigned jeleven years in Jerusalem.

12 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD his God, and humbled not himself before Jeremiah the prophet, speaking from the mouth of the LORD. 13 And he also rebelled g against king Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God: but he stiffened h his neck, and hardened his heart from turning unto the LORD God of Israel.

14 Moreover, all the chief of the priests, and the people, transgressed very much, after all the abominations of the heathen, and polluted the house of the LORD which he had hallowed in Jerusalem.

15 And i the LORD God of their fathers sent to them 8 by his messengers, rising up 1 betimes, and sending; because he had compassion on his people, and on his dwelling place.

16 But they mocked k the messengers of God, and despised I his words, and misused his prophets, until the wrath of the LORD arose against his people, til there was no 3 remedy.

17 Therefore o he brought upon them the king of the Chaldees, who slew their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion upon young man or maiden old man, or him that stooped for age; he gave them all into his hand.

18 And all the vessels of the house of God, great and small, and the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king and of his princes, all these he brought to Babylon.

19 And r they burnt the house of God, & brake down the wall of Jerusalem, and burnt all the palaces thereof with fire, & destroyed all the goodly vessels thereof. 20 And them that had escaped from the sword carried he away to Babylon, where they were servants to him and his sons, until the reign of the kingdom of Persia: 21 To fulfil the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah, s until the land had enjoyed her sabbaths: t for as long as she lay desolate she kept sabbath, to fulfil threescore and ten years.

22 Now,u in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, (that the word of the LORDSpoken by the mouthof Jeremiah might be accom. plished,) the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus v king of Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying,

23 Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, A the kingdoms of the earth hath the LORD or, chains. God of heaven given me, and he hat foretold, charged me to build him an house in Hab.1.6,&c. rusalem, which is in Judah. Who is the among you of all his people? the Lo This God be with him and let him go up

EZRA.

21 The children of Beth-lehem, an hun. dred twenty and three.

22 The men of Netophah, fifty and six.

23 The men of Anathoth, an hundred twenty and eight.

2Ti.2.20,21. 24 The children of Azmaveth, forty transporta- and two. tion. 25 The children of Kirjath-arim, Che Mat.1.11,12. phirath, and Beeroth, seven hundred and p Ne.7.6,&c. forty and three. q 2Ki.24.14

vince that went up out of the capti-j vity, q of those which had been carried] some copies away, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king's Hag.1.1,&c. of Babylon had carried away unto Baby- or, Azariah, lon, and came again unto Jerusalem and Ne.7.7. Judah, every one unto his city; 12 or, Raa. 2 Which came with Zerubbabel: s Je- miah. shua, Nehemiah, 1 Seraiah, 2 Reclaiah, 3 cr, MisMordecai, Bilshan, 3Mizpar, Bigvai, Re- pereth. hun, t Baanah. The number of the menor, Nehum. of the people of Israel. it c.4.8.