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2
Chronicles 25-27
2Ch
25:1 Amaziah was twenty-five years old when he began to reign; and
he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was
Jehoaddan, of Jerusalem.
2Ch
25:2 He did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, but not with
a perfect heart.
2Ch
25:3 Now it happened, when the kingdom was established to him, that
he killed his servants who had killed the king his father.
2Ch
25:4 But he didn't put their children to death, but did according to
that which is written in the law in the book of Moses, as Yahweh
commanded, saying, The fathers shall not die for the children,
neither shall the children die for the fathers; but every man shall
die for his own sin.
2Ch
25:5 Moreover Amaziah gathered Judah together, and ordered them
according to their fathers' houses, under captains of thousands and
captains of hundreds, even all Judah and Benjamin: and he numbered
them from twenty years old and upward, and found them three hundred
thousand chosen men, able to go forth to war, who could handle spear
and shield.
2Ch
25:6 He hired also one hundred thousand mighty men of valor out of
Israel for one hundred talents of silver.
2Ch
25:7 But there came a man of God to him, saying, O king, don't let
the army of Israel go with you; for Yahweh is not with Israel, to
wit, with all the children of Ephraim.
2Ch
25:8 But if you will go, do valiantly,
be strong for the battle: God will cast you down before the enemy;
for God has power to help, and to cast down.
2Ch
25:9 Amaziah said to the man of God, But what shall we do for the
hundred talents which I have given to the army of Israel? The man of
God answered, Yahweh is able to give you much more than this.
2Ch
25:10 Then Amaziah separated them, to
wit, the army that had come to him out
of Ephraim, to go home again: therefore their anger was greatly
kindled against Judah, and they returned home in fierce anger.
2Ch
25:11 Amaziah took courage, and led forth his people, and went to
the Valley of Salt, and struck of the children of Seir ten thousand.
2Ch
25:12 other
ten thousand did the children of Judah carry away alive, and brought
them to the top of the rock, and cast them down from the top of the
rock, so that they all were broken in pieces.
2Ch
25:13 But the men of the army whom Amaziah sent back, that they
should not go with him to battle, fell on the cities of Judah, from
Samaria even to Beth Horon, and struck of them three thousand, and
took much spoil.
2Ch
25:14 Now it happened, after that Amaziah was come from the
slaughter of the Edomites, that he brought the gods of the children
of Seir, and set them up to be his gods, and bowed down himself
before them, and burned incense to them.
2Ch
25:15 Therefore the anger of Yahweh was kindled against Amaziah, and
he sent to him a prophet, who said to him, Why have you sought after
the gods of the people, which have not delivered their own people out
of your hand?
2Ch
25:16 It happened, as he talked with him, that the
king said to him, Have we made you of
the king's counsel? Stop! Why should you be struck down? Then the
prophet stopped, and said, I know that God has determined to destroy
you, because you have done this, and have not listened to my counsel.
2Ch
25:17 Then Amaziah king of Judah took advice, and sent to Joash, the
son of Jehoahaz the son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, Come, let us
look one another in the face.
2Ch
25:18 Joash king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying,
The thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that was in
Lebanon, saying, Give your daughter to my son as wife: and there
passed by a wild animal that was in Lebanon, and trod down the
thistle.
2Ch
25:19 You say, Behold, you have struck Edom; and your heart lifts
you up to boast: abide now at home; why should you meddle to your
hurt, that you should fall, even you, and Judah with you?
2Ch
25:20 But Amaziah would not hear; for it was of God, that he might
deliver them into the hand of their
enemies, because they had sought after
the gods of Edom.
2Ch
25:21 So Joash king of Israel went up; and he and Amaziah king of
Judah looked one another in the face at Beth Shemesh, which belongs
to Judah.
2Ch
25:22 Judah was defeated by Israel; and they fled every man to his
tent.
2Ch
25:23 Joash king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the son of
Joash the son of Jehoahaz, at Beth Shemesh, and brought him to
Jerusalem, and broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of
Ephraim to the corner gate, four hundred cubits.
2Ch
25:24 He took
all the gold and silver, and all the vessels that were found in the
house of God with Obed-Edom, and the treasures of the king's house,
the hostages also, and returned to Samaria.
2Ch
25:25 Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived after the death
of Joash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel fifteen years.
2Ch
25:26 Now the rest of the acts of Amaziah, first and last, behold,
aren't they written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel?
2Ch
25:27 Now from the time that Amaziah did turn away from following
Yahweh they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem; and he fled
to Lachish: but they sent after him to Lachish, and killed him there.
2Ch
25:28 They brought him on horses, and buried him with his fathers in
the city of Judah.
2Ch
26:1 All the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old,
and made him king in the room of his father Amaziah.
2Ch
26:2 He built Eloth, and restored it to Judah, after that the king
slept with his fathers.
2Ch
26:3 Sixteen years old was Uzziah when he began to reign; and he
reigned fifty-two years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was
Jechiliah, of Jerusalem.
2Ch
26:4 He did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, according to
all that his father Amaziah had done.
2Ch
26:5 He set himself to seek God in the days of Zechariah, who had
understanding in the vision of God: and as long as he sought Yahweh,
God made him to prosper.
2Ch
26:6 He went forth and warred against the Philistines, and broke
down the wall of Gath, and the wall of Jabneh, and the wall of
Ashdod; and he built cities in the
country of Ashdod, and among the
Philistines.
2Ch
26:7 God helped him against the Philistines, and against the
Arabians who lived in Gur Baal, and the Meunim.
2Ch
26:8 The Ammonites gave tribute to Uzziah: and his name spread
abroad even to the entrance of Egypt; for he grew exceeding strong.
2Ch
26:9 Moreover Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem at the corner gate,
and at the valley gate, and at the turning of
the wall, and fortified them.
2Ch
26:10 He built towers in the wilderness, and dug out many cisterns,
for he had much livestock; in the lowland also, and in the plain: and
he had farmers and vineyard keepers in
the mountains and in the fruitful fields; for he loved farming.
2Ch
26:11 Moreover Uzziah had an army of fighting men, who went out to
war by bands, according to the number of their reckoning made by
Jeiel the scribe and Maaseiah the officer, under the hand of
Hananiah, one of the king's captains.
2Ch
26:12 The whole number of the heads of fathers' houses,
even the mighty men of valor, was two thousand and six hundred.
2Ch
26:13 Under their hand was an army, three hundred thousand and seven
thousand and five hundred, who made war with mighty power, to help
the king against the enemy.
2Ch
26:14 Uzziah prepared for them, even for all the army, shields, and
spears, and helmets, and coats of mail, and bows, and stones for
slinging.
2Ch
26:15 He made in Jerusalem engines, invented by skillful men, to be
on the towers and on the battlements, with which to shoot arrows and
great stones. His name spread far abroad; for he was marvelously
helped, until he was strong.
2Ch
26:16 But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up, so that he
did corruptly, and he trespassed against Yahweh his God; for he went
into the temple of Yahweh to burn incense on the altar of incense.
2Ch
26:17 Azariah the priest went in after him, and with him eighty
priests of Yahweh, who were valiant men:
2Ch
26:18 and they withstood Uzziah the king, and said to him, It
pertains not to you, Uzziah, to burn incense to Yahweh, but to the
priests the sons of Aaron, who are consecrated to burn incense: go
out of the sanctuary; for you have trespassed; neither shall it be
for your honor from Yahweh God.
2Ch
26:19 Then Uzziah was angry; and he had a censer in his hand to burn
incense; and while he was angry with the priests, the leprosy broke
forth in his forehead before the priests in the house of Yahweh,
beside the altar of incense.
2Ch
26:20 Azariah the chief priest, and all the priests, looked on him,
and behold, he was leprous in his forehead, and they thrust him out
quickly from there; yes, himself hurried also to go out, because
Yahweh had struck him.
2Ch
26:21 Uzziah the king was a leper to the day of his death, and lived
in a separate house, being a leper; for he was cut off from the house
of Yahweh: and Jotham his son was over the king's house, judging the
people of the land.
2Ch
26:22 Now the rest of the acts of Uzziah, first and last, did Isaiah
the prophet, the son of Amoz, write.
2Ch
26:23 So Uzziah slept with his fathers; and they buried him with his
fathers in the field of burial which belonged to the kings; for they
said, He is a leper: and Jotham his son reigned in his place.
2Ch
27:1 Jotham was twenty-five years old when he began to reign; and he
reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was
Jerushah the daughter of Zadok.
2Ch
27:2 He did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, according to
all that his father Uzziah had done: however he didn't enter into the
temple of Yahweh. The people did yet corruptly.
2Ch
27:3 He built the upper gate of the house of Yahweh, and on the wall
of Ophel he built much.
2Ch
27:4 Moreover he built cities in the hill country of Judah, and in
the forests he built castles and towers.
2Ch
27:5 He fought also with the king of the children of Ammon, and
prevailed against them. The children of Ammon gave him the same year
one hundred talents of silver, and ten thousand measures of wheat,
and ten thousand of barley. So much did the children of Ammon render
to him, in the second year also, and in the third.
2Ch
27:6 So Jotham became mighty, because he ordered his ways before
Yahweh his God.
2Ch
27:7 Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all his wars, and his
ways, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and
Judah.
2Ch
27:8 He was five and twenty years old when he began to reign, and
reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem.
2Ch
27:9 Jotham slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city
of David: and Ahaz his son reigned in his place.
Aug.
1
2
Chronicles 28-30
2Ch
28:1 Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign; and he
reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem: and he didn't do that which was
right in the eyes of Yahweh, like David his father;
2Ch
28:2 but he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and made also
molten images for the Baals.
2Ch
28:3 Moreover he burnt incense in the valley of the son of Hinnom,
and burnt his children in the fire, according to the abominations of
the nations whom Yahweh cast out before the children of Israel.
2Ch
28:4 He sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on the
hills, and under every green tree.
2Ch
28:5 Therefore Yahweh his God delivered him into the hand of the
king of Syria; and they struck him, and carried away of his a great
multitude of captives, and brought them to Damascus. He was also
delivered into the hand of the king of Israel, who struck him with a
great slaughter.
2Ch
28:6 For Pekah the son of Remaliah killed in Judah one hundred
twenty thousand in one day, all of them valiant men; because they had
forsaken Yahweh, the God of their fathers.
2Ch
28:7 Zichri, a mighty man of Ephraim, killed Maaseiah the king's
son, and Azrikam the ruler of the house, and Elkanah who was next to
the king.
2Ch
28:8 The children of Israel carried away captive of their brothers
two hundred thousand, women, sons, and daughters, and took also away
much spoil from them, and brought the spoil to Samaria.
2Ch
28:9 But a prophet of Yahweh was there, whose name was Oded: and he
went out to meet the army that came to Samaria, and said to them,
Behold, because Yahweh, the God of your fathers, was angry with
Judah, he has delivered them into your hand, and you have slain them
in a rage which has reached up to heaven.
2Ch
28:10 Now you purpose to keep under the children of Judah and
Jerusalem for bondservants and bondmaids for yourselves: but
aren't there even with you trespasses of your own against Yahweh your
God?
2Ch
28:11 Now hear me therefore, and send back the captives, that you
have taken captive from your brothers; for the fierce wrath of Yahweh
is on you.
2Ch
28:12 Then certain of the heads of the children of Ephraim, Azariah
the son of Johanan, Berechiah the son of Meshillemoth, and Jehizkiah
the son of Shallum, and Amasa the son of Hadlai, stood up against
those who came from the war,
2Ch
28:13 and said to them, You shall not bring in the captives here:
for you purpose that which will bring on us a trespass against
Yahweh, to add to our sins and to our trespass; for our trespass is
great, and there is fierce wrath against Israel.
2Ch
28:14 So the armed men left the captives and the spoil before the
princes and all the assembly.
2Ch
28:15 The men who have been mentioned by name rose up, and took the
captives, and with the spoil clothed all who were naked among them,
and arrayed them, and shod them, and gave them to eat and to drink,
and anointed them, and carried all the feeble of them on donkeys, and
brought them to Jericho, the city of palm trees, to their brothers:
then they returned to Samaria.
2Ch
28:16 At that time did king Ahaz send to the kings of Assyria to
help him.
2Ch
28:17 For again the Edomites had come and struck Judah, and carried
away captives.
2Ch
28:18 The Philistines also had invaded the cities of the lowland,
and of the South of Judah, and had taken Beth Shemesh, and Aijalon,
and Gederoth, and Soco with its towns, and Timnah with its towns,
Gimzo also and its towns: and they lived there.
2Ch
28:19 For Yahweh brought Judah low because of Ahaz king of Israel;
for he had dealt wantonly in Judah, and trespassed severely against
Yahweh.
2Ch
28:20 Tilgath Pilneser king of Assyria came to him, and distressed
him, but didn't strengthen him.
2Ch
28:21 For Ahaz took away a portion out of the house of Yahweh, and
out of the house of the king and of the princes, and gave it to the
king of Assyria: but it didn't help him.
2Ch
28:22 In the time of his distress did he trespass yet more against
Yahweh, this same king Ahaz.
2Ch
28:23 For he sacrificed to the gods of Damascus, which struck him;
and he said, Because the gods of the kings of Syria helped them,
therefore
will I sacrifice to them, that they may help me. But they were the
ruin of him, and of all Israel.
2Ch
28:24 Ahaz gathered together the vessels of the house of God, and
cut in pieces the vessels of the house of God, and shut up the doors
of the house of Yahweh; and he made him altars in every corner of
Jerusalem.
2Ch
28:25 In every city of Judah he made high places to burn incense to
other gods, and provoked to anger Yahweh, the God of his fathers.
2Ch
28:26 Now the rest of his acts, and all his ways, first and last,
behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Judah and
Israel.
2Ch
28:27 Ahaz slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city,
even in Jerusalem; for they didn't bring him into the tombs of the
kings of Israel: and Hezekiah his son reigned in his place.
2Ch
29:1 Hezekiah began to reign when he was twenty-five years old; and
he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was
Abijah, the daughter of Zechariah.
2Ch
29:2 He did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, according to
all that David his father had done.
2Ch
29:3 He in the first year of his reign, in the first month, opened
the doors of the house of Yahweh, and repaired them.
2Ch
29:4 He brought in the priests and the Levites, and gathered them
together into the broad place on the east,
2Ch
29:5 and said to them, Hear me, you Levites; now sanctify
yourselves, and sanctify the house of Yahweh, the God of your
fathers, and carry forth the filthiness out of the holy place.
2Ch
29:6 For our fathers have trespassed, and done that which was evil
in the sight of Yahweh our God, and have forsaken him, and have
turned away their faces from the habitation of Yahweh, and turned
their backs.
2Ch
29:7 Also they have shut up the doors of the porch, and put out the
lamps, and have not burned incense nor offered burnt offerings in the
holy place to the God of Israel.
2Ch
29:8 Therefore the wrath of Yahweh was on Judah and Jerusalem, and
he has delivered them to be tossed back and forth, to be an
astonishment, and a hissing, as you see with your eyes.
2Ch
29:9 For, behold, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons
and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this.
2Ch
29:10 Now it is in my heart to make a covenant with Yahweh, the God
of Israel, that his fierce anger may turn away from us.
2Ch
29:11 My sons, don't be negligent now; for Yahweh has chosen you to
stand before him, to minister to him, and that you should be his
ministers, and burn incense.
2Ch
29:12 Then the Levites arose, Mahath, the son of Amasai, and Joel
the son of Azariah, of the sons of the Kohathites; and of the sons of
Merari, Kish the son of Abdi, and Azariah the son of Jehallelel; and
of the Gershonites, Joah the son of Zimmah, and Eden the son of Joah;
2Ch
29:13 and of the sons of Elizaphan, Shimri and Jeuel; and of the
sons of Asaph, Zechariah and Mattaniah;
2Ch
29:14 and of the sons of Heman, Jehuel and Shimei; and of the sons
of Jeduthun, Shemaiah and Uzziel.
2Ch
29:15 They gathered their brothers, and sanctified themselves, and
went in, according to the commandment of the king by the words of
Yahweh, to cleanse the house of Yahweh.
2Ch
29:16 The priests went in to the inner part of the house of Yahweh,
to cleanse it, and brought out all the uncleanness that they found in
the temple of Yahweh into the court of the house of Yahweh. The
Levites took it, to carry it out abroad to the brook Kidron.
2Ch
29:17 Now they began on the first day
of the first month to sanctify, and on the eighth day of the month
came they to the porch of Yahweh; and they sanctified the house of
Yahweh in eight days: and on the sixteenth day of the first month
they made an end.
2Ch
29:18 Then they went in to Hezekiah the king within the
palace, and said, We have cleansed all
the house of Yahweh, and the altar of burnt offering, with all its
vessels, and the table of show bread, with all its vessels.
2Ch
29:19 Moreover all the vessels, which king Ahaz in his reign did
cast away when he trespassed, have we prepared and sanctified; and
behold, they are before the altar of Yahweh.
2Ch
29:20 Then Hezekiah the king arose early, and gathered the princes
of the city, and went up to the house of Yahweh.
2Ch
29:21 They brought seven bulls, and seven rams, and seven lambs, and
seven male goats, for a sin offering for the kingdom and for the
sanctuary and for Judah. He commanded the priests the sons of Aaron
to offer them on the altar of Yahweh.
2Ch
29:22 So they killed the bulls, and the priests received the blood,
and sprinkled it on the altar: and they killed the rams, and
sprinkled the blood on the altar: they killed also the lambs, and
sprinkled the blood on the altar.
2Ch
29:23 They brought near the male goats for the sin offering before
the king and the assembly; and they laid their hands on them:
2Ch
29:24 and the priests killed them, and they made a sin offering with
their blood on the altar, to make atonement for all Israel; for the
king commanded that
the burnt offering and the sin offering should
be made for all Israel.
2Ch
29:25 He set the Levites in the house of Yahweh with cymbals, with
stringed instruments, and with harps, according to the commandment of
David, and of Gad the king's seer, and Nathan the prophet; for the
commandment was of Yahweh by his prophets.
2Ch
29:26 The Levites stood with the instruments of David, and the
priests with the trumpets.
2Ch
29:27 Hezekiah commanded to offer the burnt offering on the altar.
When the burnt offering began, the song of Yahweh began also, and the
trumpets, together with the instruments of David king of Israel.
2Ch
29:28 All the assembly worshiped, and the singers sang, and the
trumpeters sounded; all this continued
until the burnt offering was finished.
2Ch
29:29 When they had made an end of offering, the king and all who
were present with him bowed themselves and worshiped.
2Ch
29:30 Moreover Hezekiah the king and the princes commanded the
Levites to sing praises to Yahweh with the words of David, and of
Asaph the seer. They sang praises with gladness, and they bowed their
heads and worshiped.
2Ch
29:31 Then Hezekiah answered, Now you have consecrated yourselves to
Yahweh; come near and bring sacrifices and thank offerings into the
house of Yahweh. The assembly brought in sacrifices and thank
offerings; and as many as were of a willing heart brought
burnt offerings.
2Ch
29:32 The number of the burnt offerings which the assembly brought
was seventy bulls, one hundred rams, and two hundred lambs: all these
were for a burnt offering to Yahweh.
2Ch
29:33 The consecrated things were six hundred head of cattle and
three thousand sheep.
2Ch
29:34 But the priests were too few, so that they could not flay all
the burnt offerings: therefore their brothers the Levites helped
them, until the work was ended, and until the priests had sanctified
themselves; for the Levites were more upright in heart to sanctify
themselves than the priests.
2Ch
29:35 Also the burnt offerings were in abundance, with the fat of
the peace offerings, and with the drink offerings for every burnt
offering. So the service of the house of Yahweh was set in order.
2Ch
29:36 Hezekiah rejoiced, and all the people, because of that which
God had prepared for the people: for the thing was done suddenly.
2Ch
30:1 Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah, and wrote letters also
to Ephraim and Manasseh, that they should come to the house of Yahweh
at Jerusalem, to keep the Passover to Yahweh, the God of Israel.
2Ch
30:2 For the king had taken counsel, and his princes, and all the
assembly in Jerusalem, to keep the Passover in the second month.
2Ch
30:3 For they could not keep it at that time, because the priests
had not sanctified themselves in sufficient number, neither had the
people gathered themselves together to Jerusalem.
2Ch
30:4 The thing was right in the eyes of the king and of all the
assembly.
2Ch
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 to Yahweh, the God of Israel, at Jerusalem: for they had
not kept it in great numbers in such sort as it is written.
2Ch
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, You children of Israel, turn again
to Yahweh, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, that he may return
to the remnant that have escaped of you out of the hand of the kings
of Assyria.
2Ch
30:7 Don't be like your fathers, and like your brothers, who
trespassed against Yahweh, the God of their fathers, so that he gave
them up to desolation, as you see.
2Ch
30:8 Now don't you be stiff-necked, as your fathers were; but yield
yourselves to Yahweh, and enter into his sanctuary, which he has
sanctified forever, and serve Yahweh your God, that his fierce anger
may turn away from you.
2Ch
30:9 For if you turn again to Yahweh, your brothers and your
children shall find compassion before those who led them captive, and
shall come again into this land: for Yahweh your God is gracious and
merciful, and will not turn away his face from you, if you return to
him.
2Ch
30:10 So the posts passed from city to city through the country of
Ephraim and Manasseh, even to Zebulun: but they ridiculed them, and
mocked them.
2Ch
30:11 Nevertheless certain men of Asher and Manasseh and of Zebulun
humbled themselves, and came to Jerusalem.
2Ch
30:12 Also on Judah came the hand of God to give them one heart, to
do the commandment of the king and of the princes by the word of
Yahweh.
2Ch
30:13 There assembled at Jerusalem much people to keep the feast of
unleavened bread in the second month, a very great assembly.
2Ch
30:14 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.
2Ch
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 burnt offerings into the house
of Yahweh.
2Ch
30:16 They stood in their place after their order, according to the
law of Moses the man of God: the priests sprinkled the blood which
they received of the hand of the
Levites.
2Ch
30:17 For there were many in the assembly who had not sanctified
themselves: therefore the Levites were in charge of killing the
Passovers for everyone who was not clean, to sanctify them to Yahweh.
2Ch
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 is written. For Hezekiah had
prayed for them, saying, The good Yahweh pardon everyone
2Ch
30:19 who sets his heart to seek God, Yahweh, the God of his
fathers, though not cleansed
according to the purification of the sanctuary.
2Ch
30:20 Yahweh listened to Hezekiah, and healed the people.
2Ch
30:21 The children of Israel who were present at Jerusalem kept the
feast of unleavened bread seven days with great gladness; and the
Levites and the priests praised Yahweh day by day, singing
with loud instruments to Yahweh.
2Ch
30:22 Hezekiah spoke comfortably to all the Levites who had good
understanding in the service
of Yahweh. So they ate throughout the feast for the seven days,
offering sacrifices of peace offerings, and making confession to
Yahweh, the God of their fathers.
2Ch
30:23 The whole assembly took counsel to keep other seven days; and
they kept other
seven days with gladness.
2Ch
30:24 For Hezekiah king of Judah did give to the assembly for
offerings one thousand bulls and seven thousand sheep; and the
princes gave to the assembly a thousand bulls and ten thousand sheep:
and a great number of priests sanctified themselves.
2Ch
30:25 All the assembly of Judah, with the priests and the Levites,
and all the assembly who came out of Israel, and the foreigners who
came out of the land of Israel, and who lived in Judah, rejoiced.
2Ch
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.
2Ch
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
habitation, even to heaven.
Aug.
2
2
Chronicles 31-33
2Ch
31:1 Now when all this was finished, all Israel who were present
went out to the cities of Judah, and broke in pieces the pillars, and
cut down the Asherim, and broke down the high places and the altars
out of all Judah and Benjamin, in Ephraim also and Manasseh, until
they had destroyed them all. Then all the children of Israel
returned, every man to his possession, into their own cities.
2Ch
31:2 Hezekiah appointed the divisions of the priests and the Levites
after their divisions, every man according to his service, both the
priests and the Levites, for burnt offerings and for peace offerings,
to minister, and to give thanks, and to praise in the gates of the
camp of Yahweh.
2Ch
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 Yahweh.
2Ch
31:4 Moreover he commanded the people who lived in Jerusalem to give
the portion of the priests and the Levites, that they might give
themselves to the law of Yahweh.
2Ch
31:5 As soon as the commandment came abroad, the children of Israel
gave in abundance the first fruits of grain, new wine, and oil, and
honey, and of all the increase of the field; and the tithe of all
things brought they in abundantly.
2Ch
31:6 The children of Israel and Judah, who lived in the cities of
Judah, they also brought in the tithe of cattle and sheep, and the
tithe of dedicated things which were consecrated to Yahweh their God,
and laid them by heaps.
2Ch
31:7 In the third month they began to lay the foundation of the
heaps, and finished them in the seventh month.
2Ch
31:8 When Hezekiah and the princes came and saw the heaps, they
blessed Yahweh, and his people Israel.
2Ch
31:9 Then Hezekiah questioned the priests and the Levites concerning
the heaps.
2Ch
31:10 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 Yahweh, we have eaten
and had enough, and have left plenty: for Yahweh has blessed his
people; and that which is left is this great store.
2Ch
31:11 Then Hezekiah commanded to prepare chambers in the house of
Yahweh; and they prepared them.
2Ch
31:12 They brought in the offerings and the tithes and the dedicated
things faithfully: and over them Conaniah the Levite was ruler, and
Shimei his brother was second.
2Ch
31:13 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 Conaniah and Shimei his brother, by the
appointment of Hezekiah the king, and Azariah the ruler of the house
of God.
2Ch
31:14 Kore the son of Imnah the Levite, the porter at the east gate,
was over the freewill offerings of God, to distribute the offerings
of Yahweh, and the most holy things.
2Ch
31:15 Under him were Eden, and Miniamin, and Jeshua, and Shemaiah,
Amariah, and Shecaniah, in the cities of the priests, in their office
of trust, to give to their brothers by divisions, as well to the
great as to the small:
2Ch
31:16 besides those who were reckoned by genealogy of males, from
three years old and upward, even everyone who entered into the house
of Yahweh, as the duty of every day required, for their service in
their offices according to their divisions;
2Ch
31:17 and those who were reckoned by genealogy of the priests by
their fathers' houses, and the Levites from twenty years old and
upward, in their offices by their divisions;
2Ch
31:18 and those who were reckoned by genealogy of all their little
ones, their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, through all
the congregation: for in their office of trust they sanctified
themselves in holiness.
2Ch
31:19 Also for the sons of Aaron the priests, who were in the fields
of the suburbs of their cities, in every city, there were men who
were mentioned by name, to give portions to all the males among the
priests, and to all who were reckoned by genealogy among the Levites.
2Ch
31:20 Hezekiah did so throughout all Judah; and he worked that which
was good and right and faithful before Yahweh his God.
2Ch
31:21 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.
2Ch
32:1 After these things, and this faithfulness, Sennacherib king of
Assyria came, and entered into Judah, and encamped against the
fortified cities, and thought to win them for himself.
2Ch
32:2 When Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib was come, and that he was
purposed to fight against Jerusalem,
2Ch
32:3 he took counsel with his princes and his mighty men to stop the
waters of the springs which were outside of the city; and they helped
him.
2Ch
32:4 So there was gathered much people together, and they stopped
all the springs, and the brook that flowed through the midst of the
land, saying, Why should the kings of Assyria come, and find much
water?
2Ch
32:5 He took courage, and built up all the wall that was broken
down, and raised it
up to the towers, and the other wall outside, and strengthened Millo
in the city
of David, and made weapons and shields in abundance.
2Ch
32:6 He set captains of war over the people, and gathered them
together to him in the broad place at the gate of the city, and spoke
comfortably to them, saying,
2Ch
32:7 Be strong and of good courage, don't be afraid nor dismayed for
the king of Assyria, nor for all the multitude who is with him; for
there is a greater with us than with him:
2Ch
32:8 with him is an arm of flesh; but with us is Yahweh our God to
help us, and to fight our battles. The people rested themselves on
the words of Hezekiah king of Judah.
2Ch
32:9 After this did Sennacherib king of Assyria send his servants to
Jerusalem, (now he was before Lachish, and all his power with him),
to Hezekiah king of Judah, and to all Judah who were at Jerusalem,
saying,
2Ch
32:10 Thus says Sennacherib king of Assyria, In whom do you trust,
that you abide the siege in Jerusalem?
2Ch
32:11 Doesn't Hezekiah persuade you, to give you over to die by
famine and by thirst, saying, Yahweh our God will deliver us out of
the hand of the king of Assyria?
2Ch
32:12 Has not the same Hezekiah taken away his high places and his
altars, and commanded Judah and Jerusalem, saying, You shall worship
before one altar, and on it you shall burn incense?
2Ch
32:13 Don't you know what I and my fathers have done to all the
peoples of the lands? Were the gods of the nations of the lands in
any wise able to deliver their land out of my hand?
2Ch
32:14 Who was there among all the gods of those nations which my
fathers utterly destroyed, that could deliver his people out of my
hand, that your God should be able to deliver you out of my hand?
2Ch
32:15 Now therefore don't let Hezekiah deceive you, nor persuade you
after this manner, neither believe you him; for no god of any nation
or kingdom was able to deliver his people out of my hand, and out of
the hand of my fathers: how much less shall your God deliver you out
of my hand?
2Ch
32:16 His servants spoke yet more against Yahweh God, and against
his servant Hezekiah.
2Ch
32:17 He wrote also letters, to rail on Yahweh, the God of Israel,
and to speak against him, saying, As the gods of the nations of the
lands, which have not delivered their people out of my hand, so shall
the God of Hezekiah not deliver his people out of my hand.
2Ch
32:18 They cried with a loud voice in the Jews' language to the
people of Jerusalem who were on the wall, to frighten them, and to
trouble them; that they might take the city.
2Ch
32:19 They spoke of the God of Jerusalem, as of the gods of the
peoples of the earth, which are the work of men's hands.
2Ch
32:20 Hezekiah the king, and Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz,
prayed because of this, and cried to heaven.
2Ch
32:21 Yahweh sent an angel, who 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. When he was come into
the house of his god, those who came forth from his own bowels killed
him there with the sword.
2Ch
32:22 Thus Yahweh saved Hezekiah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem
from the hand of Sennacherib the king of Assyria, and from the hand
of all others,
and guided them on every side.
2Ch
32:23 Many brought gifts to Yahweh to Jerusalem, and precious things
to Hezekiah king of Judah; so that he was exalted in the sight of all
nations from thenceforth.
2Ch
32:24 In those days Hezekiah was sick even to death: and he prayed
to Yahweh; and he spoke to him, and gave him a sign.
2Ch
32:25 But Hezekiah didn't render again according to the benefit done
to him; for his heart was lifted up: therefore there was wrath on
him, and on Judah and Jerusalem.
2Ch
32:26 Notwithstanding Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his
heart, both he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the wrath of
Yahweh didn't come on them in the days of Hezekiah.
2Ch
32:27 Hezekiah had exceeding much riches and honor: and he provided
him treasuries for silver, and for gold, and for precious stones, and
for spices, and for shields, and for all manner of goodly vessels;
2Ch
32:28 storehouses also for the increase of grain and new wine and
oil; and stalls for all manner of animals, and flocks in folds.
2Ch
32:29 Moreover he provided him cities, and possessions of flocks and
herds in abundance; for God had given him very much substance.
2Ch
32:30 This same Hezekiah also stopped the upper spring of the waters
of Gihon, and brought them straight down on the west side of the city
of David. Hezekiah prospered in all his works.
2Ch
32:31 However in the business of
the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon, who sent to 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.
2Ch
32:32 Now the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and his good deeds,
behold, they are written in the vision of Isaiah the prophet the son
of Amoz, in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.
2Ch
32:33 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.
2Ch
33:1 Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign; and he
reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem.
2Ch
33:2 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.
2Ch
33:3 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.
2Ch
33:4 He built altars in the house of Yahweh, of which Yahweh said,
In Jerusalem shall my name be forever.
2Ch
33:5 He built altars for all the army of the sky in the two courts
of the house of Yahweh.
2Ch
33:6 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.
2Ch
33:7 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:
2Ch
33:8 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.
2Ch
33:9 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.
2Ch
33:10 Yahweh spoke to Manasseh, and to his people; but they gave no
heed.
2Ch
33:11 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.
2Ch
33:12 When he was in distress, he begged Yahweh his God, and humbled
himself greatly before the God of his fathers.
2Ch
33:13 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.
2Ch
33:14 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 encircled Ophel with
it, and raised it up to a very great
height: and he put valiant captains in all the fortified cities of
Judah.
2Ch
33:15 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.
2Ch
33:16 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.
2Ch
33:17 Nevertheless the people sacrificed still in the high places,
but only to Yahweh their God.
2Ch
33:18 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.
2Ch
33:19 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.
2Ch
33:20 So Manasseh slept with his fathers, and they buried him in his
own house: and Amon his son reigned in his place.
2Ch
33:21 Amon was twenty-two years old when he began to reign; and he
reigned two years in Jerusalem.
2Ch
33:22 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.
2Ch
33:23 He didn't humble himself before Yahweh, as Manasseh his father
had humbled himself; but this same Amon trespassed more and more.
2Ch
33:24 His servants conspired against him, and put him to death in
his own house.
2Ch
33:25 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.
