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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.
 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.
 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.
 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.
 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.
 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.
 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.