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Hezekiah mourneth,

away to a land like your own land: a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of oil-olive and of honey, that ye may live, and not die: and hearken not unto Hezekiah when he 17 persuadeth you, saying, The LORD will deliver us.

33 Hath y any of the gods of the nations delivered at all his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?

34 Where are the gods of Hamath,z and of Arpad? where are the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah? a have they delivered Samaria out of mine hand?

35 Who b are they among all the gods of the countries, that have delivered their country out of mine hand, that the LORD should deliver Jerusalem out of mine hand?

36 But the people held their peace, and answered him not c a word: for the king's commandment was, saying, Auswer him not.

2 KINGS, XIX. B. C. 710.

37 Then came Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, which was over the house-1 hold, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder, to Hezekiah, d with their clothes rent, and told him the words of Rab-shakeh.

CHAPTER XIX. Hezekiah mourning, sendeth to Isaiah to pray for them.

x De.8.7,8.

eth.

His prayer.

of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me.

7 Behold, I i will send a blast k upon him, and he shall hear a ru17 or, deceiv-mour, and shall return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall y ch.19.12,13. by the sword in his own land. Is. 10. 10,11.8T So Rab-shakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah: for he had heard that he was departed from Lachish./

z Je.49.23. a ch.17.24. Ava.

b ch. 19. 17, 18. Dan.3.15.

c Pr.26.4.

Am.5.13.

d Is.33.7.

(CHAP. 19.)

a Is.37.1,&c.

b Lu.3.4,

called
Esaias.

c Je.30.7.

or, provo-
cation.

d ch.18. 17.
e Ps.74.18.

f Ps.50.21.

g Rom.9.27.

AND ait came to pass, when king 2 found.

Hezekiah heard it, that he rent his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of the LORD.

h ch.18.35.

ང་འཀ འ ངང བ

2 And he sent Eliakim, which was i ver.35-37. over the household, and Sheba k Jer.51.1. the scribe, and the elders of the

priests, covered with sackcloth, to ch. 18.14. Isaiah 6 the prophet the son of m 1 Sa. 23.27.

Amoz.

3 And they said unto him, Thus n ch. 18.5. saith Hezekiah, this day is a day c of trouble, and of rebuke, and o ch,18.33,34. 1 blasphemy: for the children are p Eze.27.23. come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth.

s 1Ki.18.39. Is.44.6.

q 2Ch.32.20. 4 It may be the LORD thy Godr 1Sam.4.4. will hear all the words of Rab-sha- 2Ch.5.7,8. keh, whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent d to reproach e the living God; and will reprove f the words which the LORD thy t Ps. 102.25. God hath heard: wherefore lift up u Ps.31.2. thy prayer for the remnant g that are 2 left. 5 So the servants of king Heze- 3 given. kiah came to Isaiah. w Ps. 115.4, &c.

6 And Isaiah said unto them, Thus shall ye say to your master, Thus saith the LORD, Be not afraid of the words which thou hast heard, with which h the servants.

v 2Ch.6.40.

Is.44.10,&c.

1Ki.20.28.

9 And m when he heard say of Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, Behold, he is come out to fight against thee: he sent messengers again unto Hezekiah, saying,

10 Thus shall ye speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Let not thy God in whom thou trustest n deceive thee, saying, Jerusalem shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.

11 Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, by destroying them utterly and shalt thou be delivered? 12 Have o the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed; as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden p which were in Thelasar!

13 Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivah?

14 And Hezekiah received the letter of the hand of the messengers, and read it: and Hezekiah went up into the house of the LORD, and spread it before the LORD.

15 And Hezekiah prayed a before the LORD, and said, O LORD God of Israel, which r dwellest between the cherubims, thous art the God, even thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; thou t hast made heaven and earth.

16 LORD, bow u down thine ear, and hear: open, v LORD, thine eyes and see and hear the words of Sennacherib, which hath sent him to reproach the living God.

17 Of a truth, LORD, the kings of Assyria have destroyed the nations and their lands,

18 And have 3 cast their gods into the fire for they were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone: therefore they have de stroyed them.

19 Now therefore, O LORD our God, I beseech thee, save thou us out of his hand, that all the king doms of the earth may know, that thou art the LORD God, even thou only.

20 T Then Isaiah the son Amoz

Isaiah's prophecy.

2 KINGS, XX.
B. C. 710.

sent to Hezekiah, saving.Thus saith the LORD God of Israel. That which thou hast prayed to me against Sen-y Ps.65.2. nacherib king of Assyria I have 2 Lam.2. 13. a Job 16.4. heard.y Lam.2.15. b Is.5.24. Jer.51.5.

21 This is the word that the LORD hath spoken concerning him: The virgin z the daughter of Zion hath despised thee, and laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken a her head at thee. 22 Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice, and lifted up thine eyes on high? even, against the Holy One of Israel. 234 By thy messengers thou hast reproached the LORD, and hast said, With the multitude of my chariots c I am come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon, and will cut down 5 the tall cedar trees thereof, and the choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the lodgings of his borders, and into 6 the forest of his Carmel.

24 I have digged and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of 7 besieged places.

258 Hast thou not heard long ago how I have d done it, and of ancient times that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste fenced cities into ruinous heaps.

26 Therefore their inhabitants were 9 of small power, they were dismayed and confounded; they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as e the grass on the house-tops, and as corn blasted before it be grown up.

by the hand of. Ps.20.7. the tallness. 6 or, the fo

5

rest and his fruitful field,

Is. 10. 18.

or, fenced.

8 or, Hast

thou not

heard how

I have made it long ago,

and formed itof ancient

times? should I now bring it to be laid waste, and fenced cities to be ruinous heaps? d Is.45.7. 9 short of

hand.

e Ps. 129.6. 10 or, sitting. f Eze.38.4. 11 the escaping of the house of Judah that remaineth.

g ver.4.

Sennacherib is slain. 32 Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shield, nor cast a bank against it.

33 By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and shall not come into this city, saith the LORD.

34 For h I will defend this city to save it, for mine own sake, and for my servant David's sake.

35 T And i it came to pass that night, that the angel of the LORD went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses. 36 So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh.k

37 And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword: and they escaped into the land of 13 Armenia. And Esarhaddon his m son reigned in his stead.

CHAPTER XX. 1 Hezekiah, by prayer, hath his life lengthened. 20 Manasseh succeedeth him.

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27 But I know thy 10 abode, and 12 the escap- wall, and prayed unto the LORD, thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy rage against me.

28 Because thy rage against me and thy tumult is come up into mine ears, therefore I will put my hook fin thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camnest.

29 And this shall be a sign unto thee, Ye shall eat this year such things as grow of themselves, and in the second year that which springeth of the same; and in the third year sow ye, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruits thereof.

30 And 11 the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall yet again take root downward, and bear fruit upward.

31 For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, g and 12 they that escape out of mount Zion: the zeal of the LORD of hosts shall do this.

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saying,

3 I beseech thee, O LORD, bremember now how I have walked c before thee in truth d and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept 2 sore.

4 And it came to pass, afore Isaiah was gone out into the middle 3 court, that the word of the LORD came to him, saying,

5 Turn again and tell Hezekiah the captain e of my people, Thus saith the LORD, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: g behold, I will heal h thee: on the third day thou shalt go up unto the house of the LORD.

6 And I will add unto thy days fifteen years; and I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria; and i I will defend this city for mine own sake, and for my servant David's sake.

Captivity of Babylon foretold.

7 And Isaiah said, Take a lump of figs. And they took and laid it on the boil, and he recovered. 8And Hezekiah said unto Isaiah,

What shall be the sign k that the LORD will heal me, and that I shall go up into the house of the LORD the third day?

9 And Isaiah said, This sign shalt thou have of the LORD, that the LORD will do the thing that he hath spoken; shall the shadow go forward ten degrees, or go back ten degrees?

2 KINGS, XXI.

B. C. 710.

Ju 6.17,37.
Is.7.11,14.

1 Jos. 10.12.

4 degrees.
m Is.39.1,&c.
s or, Mero-

dach-ba-
ladan.

Manasseh's wicked reign. Is it not good, if peace and truth be in my days?

said,

20 And the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and all his might, and how he made a pool, u and a conduit, and brought water v into the city, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

21 And Hezekiah slept with his fathers and Manasseh his son reigned in his stead.

CHAPTER XXI. 1 Manasseh's reign: 3 His great idolatry.

a light thing for the shadow to go 8 or, spicery. Mold when he began to reign, 10 And Hezekiah answered, It is n 2Ch.32.27.

down ten degrees: nav, but let the
shadow return backward ten de-vessels, or,
degrees.

11 And Isaiah the prophet cried unto the LORD; and he brought the shadow ten degrees backward, by which it had gone down in the 4 dial of Ahaz.

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jewels.

o Pr.23.5.

p ver. 13.

q ch.24. 13.

25.13. Lev.26.19. Jer. 27.21. 52.17.

r ch.24. 12.

2 Ch.33.11.

s Dan. 1.3.

12 At m that time 5 Berodachbaladan, the son of Baladan king of Babylon, sent letters and a preao Hezekiah: for he had heard that Hezekiah had been sick. 13 And Hezekiah hearkened unto them, and showed n them all the house of his precious things, the silver, and the gold, and the spices, t Job 1.21. and the precious ointment, and all the house of his 7 armour, and all that was found in his treasures: 0 there was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, that Hezekiah showed them not.

8 shall there
not be peace
and truth?

u Ne.3.16.

v 2Ch.32.30.

14 Then came Isaiah the prophet unto king Hezekiah, and said unto him, What said these men? and from whence came they unto (CHAP. 21.) thee? And Hezekiah said, They

are come from a far country, even a 2Ch.33.1, from Babylon.

&c.

15 And he said, What have they b ch.16.3. seen in thine house? And Hezekiah answered, All p the things e ch.18.4. that are in mine house have they d 1Ki. 16.32. seen there is nothing among my treasures that I have not showed them.

16 And Isaiah said unto Hezekiah, Hear the word of the LORD.

e ch.17.16.
Deut.4.19.

Job 31.26.

f Jer.32.34.

17 Behold, q the days come, that all that is in thine house, and that & 1Ki.8.29. which thy fathers have laid up in h ch.16.3. store unto this day, shall be carried into Babylon: nothing shall be left, saith the LORD.

17.17. Mi.6.7.

i De.18.10.

18 And of thy sons that shall issue from thee, which thou shalt beget, k 2Sa.7.13. shall they take away; r and s they 7 Ki.9.3. shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.

m 251.7.10.

19 Then said Hezekiah unto Isaiah, Good t is the word of the LORD, n Pr.29.12. which thou hast spoken. And he

ANASSEH a was twelve years

and reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Hephzi-bah.

2 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, after b the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.

3 For he built up again the high places which c Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he reared up altars for Baal, and made a grove, as d did Ahab king of Israel; and worshipped e all the host of heaven, and served them.

4 And he built altars in the house f of the LORD, of which the LORD said, In Jerusalem will I put my

name.

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

6 And he made his son h pass through the fire, and observed times, i and used enchantments, wizards: he wrought much wickand dealt with familiar spirits and edness in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.

7 And he set a graven image of the grove that he had made in the house, of which the LORD said to David, k 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 for ever:

8 Neither m will I make the feet of Israel move any more out of the land which I gave their fathers; only if they will observe to do according to all that I have commanded them, and according to all the law that my servant Moses commanded them.

9 But they hearkened not: and n Manasseh seduced them to do more levil than did the nations whom the LORD destroyed before the children of Israel.

10 And the LORD spake by his servants the prophets, saying,

Amon's wicked reign.

2 KINGS, XXII.
Josiah's good reign.
B. C. 698. | 25 Now the rest of the acts of
Amon which he did, are they not
written in the book of the chroni-
cles of the kings of Judah?

o ch.23.26.27.

24.3,4. Jer. 15.4.

11 Because o Manasseh king of Judah hath done these abominations and hath done wickedly above all that the Amorites p did, which were before him, and hath made Judah also to sin with his idols: 12 Therefore thus saith the LORD P ver.9. God of Israel, Behold, I qam bringing such evil upon Jerusalem and Judah, that whosoever heareth of it, both his ears shall tingle.

13 And I will stretch over Jerusalem the liner of Samaria, and the plummet of the house of Ahab: and I will wipe Jerusalem as sa man wipeth a dish, 1 wiping it and turning it upside down.

14 And I will forsake t the rem-1 nant of mine inheritance, and deliver them into the hand of their enemies; u and they shall become a prey and a spoil to all their eneintes:

15 Because they have done that which was evil in my sight, and have provoked me to anger, since the day their fathers came forth out of Egypt, even unto this day.

IKI.21.26.

q 1Sa.3.11.

Jer. 19.3.
Am,3.2.

r Is. 10.22.

34.11. Lam.2.8. Am.7.7,8.

s 1Ki. 14.10.

he wipeth
and turn
eth it upon
the face
thereof.
Ps.89.38,

&c.
Jer. 12.7.
Am.5.2.

u Ps.74.1-7.

v Jer.2.34.

19.4.

from mouth

to mouth.

w 1Ki. 14.16.

16 Moreover Manasseh shed innocent blood v very much, till he had filled Jerusalem 2 from one end to another; beside his sin wherewith w he made Judah to sin, in doing that which was evil in the sight of the LORD. 17 Now & the rest of the acts x 2Ch.33.1of Manasseh, and all that he did, and his sin that he sinned, are they y 2Ch.33.21, not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

20.

&c

18 And Manasseh slept with his z ver.2,&c. fathers, and was buried in the gar-a ch.22.17. den of his own house, in the garden of Uzza: and Amon his son reigned in his stead.

19 Amon y was twenty and two rears old when he began to reign, and he reigned two years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was

IKI.11.33.

b Mat.1.10,
called
Josias.

26 And he was buried in his sepulchre, in the garden of Uzza: and Josiah h his son reigned in his stead.

CHAPTER XXII.

JOSIAH

1 Josiah's good reign. 8 Hilkiah findeth the book of the law. OSIAH a was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned thirty and one years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Jedidah, the daughter of Adaiah of Boscath.b

2 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, and walked in all the way of David his father, and turned not aside c to the right hand or to the left.

3 And it came to pass in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, that the king sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, the son of Meshullam, the scribe, to the house of the LORD, saying,

4 Go up to Hilkiah the high priest, that he may sum the silver d which is brought into the house of the LORD, which the keepers e of the 1 door have gathered of the people:

5 And let them deliver it into the hand of the doers of the work, that have the oversight of the house of the LORD: and let them give it to the doers of the work which is in the house of the LORD, to repair the breaches of the house,

6 Unto carpenters, and builders, and masons, and to buy timber and hewn stone to repair the house.

7 Howbeit there was no reckoning made with them of the money that was delivered into their hand, because they dealt faithfully.

8 And Hilkiah the high priest said unto Shaphan the scribe, 1

Meshullemeth, the daughter of (CHAP. 22.) have found f the book of the law

Haraz of Jotbah.

20 And he did that which was evil m the sight of the LORD, as z his father Manasseh did.

a lki.13.2.
2Ch.34.1,
&c.

b Jos. 15.39.

21 And he walked in all the way
that his father walked in, and serv-c Deut.5.32.
ed the idols that his father served, d ch. 12.4,&c.
and worshipped them:

22 And he forsook athe LORD God of his fathers, and walked not in the way of the LORD.

23 And the servants of Amon conspired against him, and slew the king in his own house.

|

c Ps.84.10.

1 threshold. f De.31.24.

in the house of the LORD. And Hilkiah gave the book to Shaphan, and he read it.

9 And Shaphan the scribe came to the king, and brought the king word again, and said, Thy servants have 2 gathered the money that was found in the house, and have delivered it into the hand of them that do the work, that have the oversight of the house of the LORD. 10 And Shaphan the scribe show&c.ed the king,saying,Hilkiah thepriest hath delivered me a book. And Shaphan read g it before the king. 11 And it came to pass, when the king had heard the words of the book of the law, that he rent h his clothes.

2Ch.34.14,

2 melted. 21 And the people of the land g Ne.8.3, 18. Sew all them that had conspired Je.36.6,15. against king Amon; and the peoFe of the land made Josiah his son h ver. 19. Ling in his stead.

Huldah's prophecy.

2 KINGS, XXIII. 12 And the king commanded Hil-! B. C. 624. kiah the priest, and Ahikam the

son of Shaphan, and Achbor i thei 2Ch.34.20,
son of 3 Michaiah, and Shaphan Abdon.
the scribe, and Asaiah a servant 3 or, Micah.
of the king's, saying,
k1Ch. 10. 14.

1 Ps.76.7.
Na.1.6.
Rev.6.17.

m De.29.27.

n Ja. 1.22-25.
o 2Ch.34.22,
Tikvath.

13 Go ye, inquire k of the LORD for me, and for the people, and for all Judah, concerning the words of this book that is found: for great is the wrath of the LORD that is kindled against us, because our m fathers have not hearkened unto the words of this book, to do n according unto all that which is writ-or, Hasrah. ten concerning us. 5 garments. or, in the second part.

&c.

14 So Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam, and Achbor, and Shaphan, and Asaiah, went unto Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum p De.29.25, the son of Tikvah, o the son of 4 Harhas, keeper of the 5 wardrobe; (Now she dwelt in Jerusalem 6 in the college) and they communed q 1Th.2.16. with her. r Ps.51.17. Is.57.15.

Josiah destroyeth idolatry.

2 And the king went up into the house of the LORD, and all the men of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem with him, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the people, 1 both small and great: and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant which was b found in the house of the LORD.

3 And c the king stood by a pillar, 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 their heart and all their soul, to perform the words of this covenant that were writtea in this book. And all the people stood to the covenant.

4 And the king commanded HilNe.9.26,27. kiah the high priest, and the priest Da.9.11-14. of the second order, and the keepers of the door, to bring forth out of the temple of the LORD all the vessels that were made for Baal, and for the grove, d and for all the host of heaven: and he burned them without Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, and carried the ashes of them unto Beth-el.

s 1Ki.21.29.

t Le.26.31,32.
u Jer.26.6.
44.22.

15 And she said unto them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Tell the man that sent you to me, 16 Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, and upon the inhabitants thereof, even all the words of the book v ver. 11. which the king of Judah hath read: w Ne.1.4.

17 Because p they have forsaken

me, and have burned incense unto other gods. that they might provoke

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5 And he put down 3 the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places

me to anger with all the works of (CHAP. 23.) round about Jerusalem; them also

their hands; therefore q my wrath shall be kindled against this place, and shall not be quenched.

a 2Ch.34.29,

&c.

1 from small
even unto
great.

18 But to the king of Judah which sent you to inquire of the LORD, thus shall ye say to him, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, As touching the words which thou 5 ch.22.8. hast heard;

e ch. 11.14, 17.

cease.

19 Because thine heart r was ten- d ch.21.3,7. der, and thou hast humbled s thy-2 caused to self before the LORD, when thou heardest what I spake against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, that they should become: a desolation t and a curse, u and hast rent v thy clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard thee, saith the LORD,

20 Behold therefore, I will gather thee unto thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered into thy grave in peace; and thine eyes shall not see all the evil which I will bring upon this place. And they brought the king word again.

CHAPTER XXIII. Josiah causeth the book to be read in a solemn assembly.

AND a the king sent, and they

3 Chemarim.
Foretold,
Ho. 10.5.
Zep.1.4.
4 or, twelve
signs, or,
constel-
lations.

e 2Ch.31.4.
fiki. 14.24.
15.12.
g Eze.8.14.
16.16.

5 houses.
h 1Ki. 15.22.

i Eze.44.10

14.

gathered unto him all the eld- k 1Sa.2.36.

ers of Judah and of Jerusalem.

that burned incense unto Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and tɔ the 4 planets, and to all the host of heaven.

6 And he brought out the grove from the house of the LORD, without Jerusalem, unto the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and stamped it small to powder, and cast the powder thereof upon the graves e of the children of the people.

7 And he brake down the houses f of the sodomites, that were by the house of the LORD, where the wo men g wove 5 hangings for the grove.

8 And he brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah, and defiled the high places where the priests had burned incense, from Gebah to Beer-sheba, and brake down the high places of the gates that were in the entering in of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city, which were on a man's left hand at the gate of the city. 9 Nevertheless the priests i of the high places came not up to the altar of the LORD in Jerusalem. but they did eat of the unleavened bread k among their brethren.

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