The Bible, King James version, Book 12: 2 Kings
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12:022:013 Go ye, enquire 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 fathers have not hearkened unto the words of this
book, to do according unto all that which is written
concerning us.
12:022:014 So Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam, and Achbor, and Shaphan,
and Asahiah, went unto Huldah the prophetess, the wife of
Shallum the son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, keeper of the
wardrobe; (now she dwelt in Jerusalem in the college;) and
they communed with her.
12:022:015 And she said unto them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel,
Tell the man that sent you to me,
12:022:016 Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil upon this
place, and upon the inhabitants thereof, even all the words of
the book which the king of Judah hath read:
12:022:017 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 kindled
against this place, and shall not be quenched.
12:022:018 But to the king of Judah which sent you to enquire of the
LORD, thus shall ye say to him, Thus saith the LORD God of
Israel, As touching the words which thou hast heard;
12:022:019 Because thine heart was tender, and thou hast humbled thyself
before the LORD, when thou heardest what I spake against this
place, and against the inhabitants thereof, that they should
become a desolation and a curse, and hast rent thy clothes,
and wept before me; I also have heard thee, saith the LORD.
12:022:020 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.
12:023:001 And the king sent, and they gathered unto him all the elders
of Judah and of Jerusalem.
12:023:002 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, both
small and great: and he read in their ears all the words of
the book of the covenant which was found in the house of the
LORD.
12:023:003 And 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
written in this book. And all the people stood to the
covenant.
12:023:004 And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the
priests 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, 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 Bethel.
12:023:005 And he put down 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 round about Jerusalem; them
also that burned incense unto Baal, to the sun, and to the
moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven.
12:023:006 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 of the children of the people.
12:023:007 And he brake down the houses of the sodomites, that were by
the house of the LORD, where the women wove hangings for the
grove.
12:023:008 And he brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah, and
defiled the high places where the priests had burned incense,
from Geba to Beersheba, 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.
12:023:009 Nevertheless the priests of the high places came not up to the
altar of the LORD in Jerusalem, but they did eat of the
unleavened bread among their brethren.
12:023:010 And he defiled Topheth, which is in the valley of the children
of Hinnom, that no man might make his son or his daughter to
pass through the fire to Molech.
12:023:011 And he took away the horses that the kings of Judah had given
to the sun, at the entering in of the house of the LORD, by
the chamber of Nathanmelech the chamberlain, which was in the
suburbs, and burned the chariots of the sun with fire.
12:023:012 And the altars that were on the top of the upper chamber of
Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which
Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the LORD,
did the king beat down, and brake them down from thence, and
cast the dust of them into the brook Kidron.
12:023:013 And the high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on
the right hand of the mount of corruption, which Solomon the
king of Israel had builded for Ashtoreth the abomination of
the Zidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of the
Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination of the children of
Ammon, did the king defile.
12:023:014 And he brake in pieces the images, and cut down the groves,
and filled their places with the bones of men.
12:023:015 Moreover the altar that was at Bethel, and the high place
which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, had
made, both that altar and the high place he brake down, and
burned the high place, and stamped it small to powder, and
burned the grove.
12:023:016 And as Josiah turned himself, he spied the sepulchres that
were there in the mount, and sent, and took the bones out of
the sepulchres, and burned them upon the altar, and polluted
it, according to the word of the LORD which the man of God
proclaimed, who proclaimed these words.
12:023:017 Then he said, What title is that that I see? And the men of
the city told him, It is the sepulchre of the man of God,
which came from Judah, and proclaimed these things that thou
hast done against the altar of Bethel.
12:023:018 And he said, Let him alone; let no man move his bones. So they
let his bones alone, with the bones of the prophet that came
out of Samaria.
12:023:019 And all the houses also of the high places that were in the
cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to
provoke the Lord to anger, Josiah took away, and did to them
according to all the acts that he had done in Bethel.
12:023:020 And he slew all the priests of the high places that were there
upon the altars, and burned men's bones upon them, and
returned to Jerusalem.
12:023:021 And the king commanded all the people, saying, Keep the
passover unto the LORD your God, as it is written in the book
of this covenant.
12:023:022 Surely there was not holden such a passover from the days of
the judges that judged Israel, nor in all the days of the
kings of Israel, nor of the kings of Judah;
12:023:023 But in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, wherein this
passover was holden to the LORD in Jerusalem.
12:023:024 Moreover the workers with familiar spirits, and the wizards,
and the images, and the idols, and all the abominations that
were spied in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, did Josiah
put away, that he might perform the words of the law which
were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the
house of the LORD.
12:023:025 And like unto him was there no king before him, that turned to
the LORD with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with
all his might, according to all the law of Moses; neither
after him arose there any like him.
12:023:026 Notwithstanding the LORD turned not from the fierceness of his
great wrath, wherewith his anger was kindled against Judah,
because of all the provocations that Manasseh had provoked him
withal.
12:023:027 And the LORD said, I will remove Judah also out of my sight,
as I have removed Israel, and will cast off this city
Jerusalem which I have chosen, and the house of which I said,
My name shall be there.
12:023:028 Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and all that he did, are
they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of
Judah?
12:023:029 In his days Pharaohnechoh king of Egypt went up against the
king of Assyria to the river Euphrates: and king Josiah went
against him; and he slew him at Megiddo, when he had seen him.
12:023:030 And his servants carried him in a chariot dead from Megiddo,
and brought him to Jerusalem, and buried him in his own
sepulchre. And the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of
Josiah, and anointed him, and made him king in his father's
stead.
12:023:031 Jehoahaz was twenty and three years old when he began to
reign; and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. And his
mother's name was Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
12:023:032 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD,
according to all that his fathers had done.
12:023:033 And Pharaohnechoh put him in bands at Riblah in the land of
Hamath, that he might not reign in Jerusalem; and put the land
to a tribute of an hundred talents of silver, and a talent of
gold.
12:023:034 And Pharaohnechoh made Eliakim the son of Josiah king in the
room of Josiah his father, and turned his name to Jehoiakim,
and took Jehoahaz away: and he came to Egypt, and died there.
12:023:035 And Jehoiakim gave the silver and the gold to Pharaoh; but he
taxed the land to give the money according to the commandment
of Pharaoh: he exacted the silver and the gold of the people
of the land, of every one according to his taxation, to give
it unto Pharaohnechoh.
12:023:036 Jehoiakim was twenty and five years old when he began to
reign; and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his
mother's name was Zebudah, the daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah.
12:023:037 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD,
according to all that his fathers had done.
12:024:001 In his days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and
Jehoiakim became his servant three years: then he turned and
rebelled against him.
12:024:002 And the LORD sent against him bands of the Chaldees, and bands
of the Syrians, and bands of the Moabites, and bands of the
children of Ammon, and sent them against Judah to destroy it,
according to the word of the LORD, which he spake by his
servants the prophets.
12:024:003 Surely at the commandment of the LORD came this upon Judah, to
remove them out of his sight, for the sins of Manasseh,
according to all that he did;
12:024:004 And also for the innocent blood that he shed: for he filled
Jerusalem with innocent blood; which the LORD would not
pardon.
12:024:005 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and all that he did,
are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the
kings of Judah?
12:024:006 So Jehoiakim slept with his fathers: and Jehoiachin his son
reigned in his stead.
12:024:007 And the king of Egypt came not again any more out of his land:
for the king of Babylon had taken from the river of Egypt unto
the river Euphrates all that pertained to the king of Egypt.
12:024:008 Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he began to reign, and
he reigned in Jerusalem three months. And his mother's name
was Nehushta, the daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem.
12:024:009 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD,
according to all that his father had done.
12:024:010 At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon
came up against Jerusalem, and the city was besieged.
12:024:011 And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came against the city, and
his servants did besiege it.
12:024:012 And Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out to the king of
Babylon, he, and his mother, and his servants, and his
princes, and his officers: and the king of Babylon took him in
the eighth year of his reign.
12:024:013 And he carried out thence all the treasures of the house of
the LORD, and the treasures of the king's house, and cut in
pieces all the vessels of gold which Solomon king of Israel
had made in the temple of the LORD, as the LORD had said.
12:024:014 And he carried away all Jerusalem, and all the princes, and
all the mighty men of valour, even ten thousand captives, and
all the craftsmen and smiths: none remained, save the poorest
sort of the people of the land.
12:024:015 And he carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon, and the king's
mother, and the king's wives, and his officers, and the mighty
of the land, those carried he into captivity from Jerusalem to
Babylon.
12:024:016 And all the men of might, even seven thousand, and craftsmen
and smiths a thousand, all that were strong and apt for war,
even them the king of Babylon brought captive to Babylon.
12:024:017 And the king of Babylon made Mattaniah his father's brother
king in his stead, and changed his name to Zedekiah.
12:024:018 Zedekiah was twenty and one years old when he began to reign,
and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother's
name was Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
12:024:019 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD,
according to all that Jehoiakim had done.
12:024:020 For through the anger of the LORD it came to pass in Jerusalem
and Judah, until he had cast them out from his presence, that
Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.
12:025:001 And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the
tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he, and all his host,
against Jerusalem, and pitched against it; and they built
forts against it round about.
12:025:002 And the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king
Zedekiah.
12:025:003 And on the ninth day of the fourth month the famine prevailed
in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the
land.
12:025:004 And the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled by
night by the way of the gate between two walls, which is by
the king's garden: (now the Chaldees were against the city
round about:) and the king went the way toward the plain.
12:025:005 And the army of the Chaldees pursued after the king, and
overtook him in the plains of Jericho: and all his army were
scattered from him.
12:025:006 So they took the king, and brought him up to the king of
Babylon to Riblah; and they gave judgment upon him.
12:025:007 And they slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put
out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him with fetters of brass,
and carried him to Babylon.
12:025:008 And in the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month, which
is the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon,
came Nebuzaradan, captain of the guard, a servant of the king
of Babylon, unto Jerusalem:
12:025:009 And he burnt the house of the LORD, and the king's house, and
all the houses of Jerusalem, and every great man's house burnt
he with fire.
12:025:010 And all the army of the Chaldees, that were with the captain
of the guard, brake down the walls of Jerusalem round about.
12:025:011 Now the rest of the people that were left in the city, and the
fugitives that fell away to the king of Babylon, with the
remnant of the multitude, did Nebuzaradan the captain of the
guard carry away.
12:025:012 But the captain of the guard left of the door of the poor of
the land to be vinedressers and husbandmen.
12:025:013 And the pillars of brass that were in the house of the LORD,
and the bases, and the brasen sea that was in the house of the
LORD, did the Chaldees break in pieces, and carried the brass
of them to Babylon.
12:025:014 And the pots, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the
spoons, and all the vessels of brass wherewith they
ministered, took they away.
12:025:015 And the firepans, and the bowls, and such things as were of
gold, in gold, and of silver, in silver, the captain of the
guard took away.
12:025:016 The two pillars, one sea, and the bases which Solomon had made
for the house of the LORD; the brass of all these vessels was
without weight.
12:025:017 The height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits, and the
chapiter upon it was brass: and the height of the chapiter
three cubits; and the wreathen work, and pomegranates upon the
chapiter round about, all of brass: and like unto these had
the second pillar with wreathen work.
12:025:018 And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest,
and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the
door:
12:025:019 And out of the city he took an officer that was set over the
men of war, and five men of them that were in the king's
presence, which were found in the city, and the principal
scribe of the host, which mustered the people of the land, and
threescore men of the people of the land that were found in
the city:
12:025:020 And Nebuzaradan captain of the guard took these, and brought
them to the king of Babylon to Riblah:
12:025:021 And the king of Babylon smote them, and slew them at Riblah in
the land of Hamath. So Judah was carried away out of their
land.
12:025:022 And as for the people that remained in the land of Judah, whom
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had left, even over them he
made Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, ruler.
12:025:023 And when all the captains of the armies, they and their men,
heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah governor,
there came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, even Ishmael the son of
Nethaniah, and Johanan the son of Careah, and Seraiah the son
of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, and Jaazaniah the son of a
Maachathite, they and their men.
12:025:024 And Gedaliah sware to them, and to their men, and said unto
them, Fear not to be the servants of the Chaldees: dwell in
the land, and serve the king of Babylon; and it shall be well
with you.
12:025:025 But it came to pass in the seventh month, that Ishmael the son
of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the seed royal, came,
and ten men with him, and smote Gedaliah, that he died, and
the Jews and the Chaldees that were with him at Mizpah.
12:025:026 And all the people, both small and great, and the captains of
the armies, arose, and came to Egypt: for they were afraid of
the Chaldees.
12:025:027 And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the
captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month,
on the seven and twentieth day of the month, that Evilmerodach
king of Babylon in the year that he began to reign did lift up
the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah out of prison;
12:025:028 And he spake kindly to him, and set his throne above the
throne of the kings that were with him in Babylon;
12:025:029 And changed his prison garments: and he did eat bread
continually before him all the days of his life.
12:025:030 And his allowance was a continual allowance given him of the
king, a daily rate for every day, all the days of his life.
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