viOey gate, ami i\t the turning oft/ic rvtxtli and fortiiied-tnem. ip Also lie built towers in the desert and digged many wells: for he had raturh etittle, both in the low country xn-i in- the plains; husbandmen also, anil vkie dressers in the mountains, aud in C'anriel: for he loved husbandry. *i Moreover Uzziah had an hod of fighting men, that went out to war by bands, according to the number of their account, by the hand of Jeiel the scribe and Maa-teiah the ruler, under the hand of Hananiah, one of the king's captains. it "The whole number of the chief of the fathers of the mighty men of valour were two thousand and lix hundred. 13 And under their hand Was an army, three hundred thousand and seven fhouland and five hundred, that made war with mighty power, to help the king against the enemy. 74 And Uzziah prepared for them throughout all the host shields, and spears, and helmets, and habergeons, and bows, and flings to cast stones. t i And he made in Jerusalem engines, invented by cunning men, to be on the tovwtrvs and upon the bulwarks, to Ihoot srrows and great stones withal. And his rums spread far abroad; for be was mar▼eHonfly helped, till he was strong. i6«J But when he was strong, his heart wv.51 lifted up to his destruction: for he transgressed against the Lor D his God, and went into the temple of the Lord to hum inceuse upon the altar of incense. 17 And Azariah the priest went in afrcrhim, and with hmrfourscore priests of the Lor r>, thrt inert valiant men: 18And they with stoodUzziah the king, * and (aid unto him, It appertainrth not tmtothee, Uzziah, to bum incense unto the Lor n, but to the priests the Ions of Aaron, that are consecrated to burn incense: %o out of the sanctuary; for thou haft rieTpnssed; neither/fa>// it be for thine honour from the Lor D God. 19 Then Uzziah was wroth, and had a censer in his hand to burn incense: and whirt he was wroth with tile priests, tire 'i-profy even rose up in his forehead be:*>re the priests in The house of the Loan, from beside the incense altar. , 20 And Azarinh the chief priest, and all the priests, looked upon him, ami, behold, he it*?/ letrroirs in his forehead, and they thrust? him'out from thence; yea, himself hilled also to go out, because the Lor n had (mitten him.. Ii And Uzziah the king Was a letier untotheday of hi? death, and tWnHi in a several house, being a !6pcr; sot'he was cut oft'from the house of the Lor a: and Jotham his son writ over the king i house, judging the people of the land. 21 «J Now the reft ot" the acts of Uzziah, first and last, did Isaiah the prophet, tho son of Aino/., write. e? So Uzziah liept with his fathers, and they buried him with his fathers in the field of the burial which belonged'to the kings; for they said, He is j. leper: and Jotham his son reigned in his stead. C H A P. XXV U. « Jotham reigning wellpro/pereth. 5 He J'ubditeth the Ammonites. 7 His reign. 9 Ahaz succeedeth him. JOTHAM was twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also was Jeruihah, the daughter of '/adpk. 2 And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, according to all that his father Uz/.iah did: howbeit he entered not into the temple of the Lord. And the people did yet corruptly. ■; He built the high gate of the house of the Lor n, and on the wall of Ophel he built much. • 4 Moreover he built cities in the mountains of Jtidah, and in the forests he built castles and towers. 5 fl He fought also with the king of the Ammonites, and prevailed against thejn. And the children of Ammon gave him the fame year an hundred talents of silver, and ten thousand measures of wheat, and ten thousand of barley. So much did the children of Ammon pay unto him, both the second year and the third. 6 So Jotham became mighty, because he prepared his ways before the Lord his God. 7 f Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all his wars, and his wavs. lo, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Tudah. 8 He was five and twenty years old when he began to reignf and- reigned sixteen years In Jerusalem. 9 «v And Jotham (lept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David. • and Ahaz his son reigned in bis stead. CHAP. xxvm. t Ahaz reirtiitig wichdly, is affliSlei hy the Syrians. is> Hs dying, HeZekiah surer eds th hi?n. AHAZ was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reicned sixteen years in Jerusalem; but he did not that which was right in the sight of the Lo R D , Ukc David his father: Ddi a For Ahaz's wicked reign. II. C H R O NIC L E S Judah captivated. i For he walked in die ways of the kings of Israel, and made alio molten images for Baalim. 3 Moreover he burnt incense in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and burnt his children in the fire, after the abominations of the heathen whom the Lor D had caft out before the children of Israel. 4 He sacrificed also, and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree. 5 Wherefore the LoR D hi* God delivered him into the hand of the king of Syria; and they smote him, and carried away a great multitude os them captives, and brought them to Damascus. And he was also delivered into the hand of the king of Israel, who smote him with a great (laughter. 6 For Pekah the son of Remaliah stew in Judah an hundred and twenty thousand iu one day, which were all valiant men j because they had forsaken the ,Lo R D God of their fathers. J 7 And Zichri, a mighty man of EphraIrh, flew Maasciah the King'sson, and Azrikain the governor of the house, and Elkanah that was next to the king. 8 And the children of Israel carried .away captive of their bretlxren two hundred thousand, women, sons, and daughters, and took also away much spoil from them, and brought the spoil to Samaria. 9 But a prophet of the Lord was there whose name was Oded: aud he went out before the host that came to Samaria, and said unto them, Behold, because the Lor D God of your fathers was wroth with Judah, he hath delivered them into your hand, and ye have stain them in a rage, that reacheth up Unto heaven. io And now ye purpose to keep under the children of Judah and Jerusalem for bondmen and bondwomen unto you: tut are there not with you, even with you, sins against the Lord your God? 11 Now hear me therefore, and deliver the captives again, which ye have taken captive of your brethren: for the fierce wrath of the Lo R D is upon you. 11 Then certain of the heads of the •hildren of Ephraim, Azariah the son of Johanan, Berechiah the son of Mefhillemoth, and Jehizkiah the son of Shallum, and Amasa the son of Hadlai, stood up against them that came from the war, i; And said unto them, Ye shall not bring in the captives hither: for whereas wt have offended against the Lo R D already, ye intend to add mtrt to our sins and to our trespass: for our trespass is great, and th:rt is fierce wrath against Israel. 14. So the armed men left the captive? and the spoil before the princes and all the congregation. 15 And the men which were expressed by name rose up, and took the captives, and with the spoil clothed all that were naked among them, and arrayed them, and mod them, and gave them to eat and to drink, and anointed them, and carried all the feeble of them upon asses, and brought them to Jericho, th« city of palm trees, to their brethren! then they returned to Samaria. 16 At that time did king Ahaz send unto the kings of Assyria to help him. 17 For again the Edomites had com* and smitten Judah, and carried away captives. 1 8 The Philistines also had invaded the cities of the low country, and of the south of Judah, and had taken Beth stiemeih, and Ajalon, and Gederoth, and Shocho with the villages thereof, and Timnah with the villages thereof, Giinzo also and the villages thereof: aud they dwelt there. 19 For the Lor D brought Judah low because os Ahaz king of Israel: for h* made Judah naked, and transgressed sore against the Lord. ao And Tilgath-pilneser king of Assyria came unto him, and distressed him, but strengthened him not. li For Ahaz took away a portion cut of the house of the Lord, and out of the house of the king, and of the princes, and gave it unto the king of Assyria: but he helped him not. ax And in the time of hit distress did he trespass yet more against the Lor D: this is that king Ahaz. 23 For he sacrificed unto the gods os Damascus, whichsmotehim: andnesaid, Because the gods of the kings of Syria help them, therefore will I sacrifice to them, that they may help me. But they were the ruin of him, and of all Israel. t4 And Aha/, gathered together thi vessels of the house of God, and cut 1* pieces the vessels of the house of God»j and shut up the door, of the house ofi the Lord, and he made him altars 1* every corner of Jerusalem. »S And in every several city C(JUC':''3 he made high places to burn inceiuf unto other gods, and provoked toaiigS* the Lo K D God of his fathers. 26 f Now the rest of his acts and 0 all his ways, first and last, behold, the; are written in the book of the king« 1 Judah and Israel. *7 And Ahaz slept with hie fathers, M the WezehjMs good reign. they buried him in the city, even in Jerusalem: but they brought himnotinto the sepalchres of the kings of Israel: and JRezekiah Ibis son reigned in hit stead. CHAP. XXIX. i Hex^kiak's good reign. 3 He re-floreik religion . 11 The be use of Gad cleansed. HEZEKIAH began to reign ivhe* he iveu five and twenty years old, and he reigned nine and twenty yea; s in Jerusalem. And his mother's name <was Abijab, the daughter of Zechariah. a And he did that which lisas right in the fight of the Lor D, according to all that David his father had done. 3 «J He in the first year of his reign, in the first month, opened the doors of the house of the Lor D, and repaired them. 4 And he brought in the priests and the Levites, and gathered them together into the east street, 5 And said unto them, Hear me, ye Levites, sanctify now yourselves, and sanctify the house of the Lor D<God of your fathers, and carry forth the filthineii out of the holy place. 6 For our fathers have trespassed, and done that •which -was evil in the eyes of the Lord our God, and have forsaken him, and have turned away their faces from the habitation of the Lord, and turned their backs. 7 Also they have (hut up the doors of the porch, and put out the lamps, and have not burned incense nor offered burnt offerings in the holy///in- unto the God of Israel. 8 Wherefore the wrath of the Lor D was upon Judah and Jerusalem, and he hath delivered them to trouble, to astonishment, and to hissing, as ye see with your eyes. 9 For, lo, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this. I o Now itis in mine heart to make a corenantwith the Lo R D Godot" Israel, that his fierce wrath may turn away from us. II My sons, be not now negligent: for the Lo R D hath chosen you to (land before him, to serve him, and that ye should minister unto him, and burn incense. 1* % Then the Levites arose, Mahath the son of Amafai, and Joel the son of Azariah, of the sons of the Kohathites: and of the sons of Merari, Kifli the son of Abdi, and Azariah the son of Jehalelel: and of the Gerfhonites; Joah the son of Ziramah, and Eden the son of Joah t 1% And of the sons of Elizaphan; Shimri, and Jeiel: and of the sons of Alaph; Zechariah, and Mattaniah; Chap, xxix. 'The htu/e of God cleansed. 14 And of the sons of Heman; Jehiel, and Shiroei: and of the sons of Jeduthun; Shemaiah, and Uzziel. * 1 5 And they gathered their brethren, and sanctified themselves, and came, according to the commandment of the king, by the words of the Lord, to cleanse the house of the Lo R D . 16 And the priests went into the in.; ner part of the house of the Lo R n, to cleanse it, and brought out all the uncleanneft that they sound in the temple" of the Lor D into the court of the house of the Lor n. And the Levites took it; to carry it out abroad into the brook Kidran. ■ 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 the Lor D: so they sanctified the house of the Lord in eight days; and in the sixteenth day os the first month they made an end. iB Then they went in to Hezekiah the king, and said, We have cleansed all the house of the Lord, and the altar of burnt ottering, with all the vessels thereof, and the Ihewhread table, with all the vessels thereof. 19 Moreover all the vessels, which king Ahaz in his reign did cast away in his transgression, have we.prepared and sanctified, and, behold, they are before the altar of the Lo R D . 10 Then Hezekiah the king rose early, and gathered the rulers of the' city, and went up to the house of the Lor D. Si And they brought seven bullocks, and seven rams, and seven lambs, and seven he goats, for a fin offering for the kingdom, and for the sanctuary, and for Judah. And he commanded the. priest*, the sons of Aaron to offer them on the altar of the Lord. 11 So they killed the bullocks, and the priests received the blood, and sprinkled: // on the altar: likewise, when they had killed the rams, they sprinkled the Wood upon the altar: they killed also the iambs, and they sprinkled the blood upon the altar. 13 And they brought forth the he goats/ar the fin offering before the kinp and the congregation; and they laid" their hands upon them: 1+ And the priests killed them, and they made reconciliation with their blood upon the altar, to make an atonement si -v all Israel: for the king commanded that l he burnt offering and the sin offering should be made for all Iliad. 15 And he set the Levites in the house D d 3 o( of the Lo Rd wish cymbals, with psalte-1| CHAP. XXX. rsej, and with harps, according to the i Hexekiahprodaimetlmpajfovtr. commandment osDavidi and of Gad the king's leer, and Nathan Hie prophet: for \ H C'He: so -was the commandment of the Lo R D /* Jud ah, and wrote letters also to by his prophets. •26 And the Levifej stood with the instruments of David, and the priests with the trumpets. . , ^AndHelekialicoraraandodto-offer the burnt cifering upon the altar. And ■when the burnt ttffering began, the song Q.f the Lor n began itl/i with the trumpets, awl with the'instruments on/ai*^ by David king of Israel. 28 And all the congregation worshipped, And -she linger* fane!, and the trumpeters founded: BuddhtJiiscontmaedWn. til the burnt offering wus rurithed.■•• ■.-.. 19 And when they had made an.tnd of ottering, the:king and all rhatwerc present with him bowed themseiivesi and . worlhipped.. - •■ ''■ • . *>>'• .11.1 •' -"••■ 30 Moreover Hsaekiah the king and the princes commanded the Uevrtesto • sing praise unto, the Lo R D vrith the words of David, and of Afuph the seer. And they fang praties with gladness," andthey bowed their heads and worshipped. 31 Then Hezekiah answered and said, Now ye have consecrated yourselves'unto the Lor o, come near and bringsacri■fices and thank offerings into the house of the Lord. And the congregation brought fn sacrifices and thank olfer Ephrarm and Manasseh, that they fho&M come to the house of the Lord at Jerusalem, to keep the pall'over unto %\\% Loa D God of Ifraei. a For the king had taken counsel, and hi* princes, and all the congregation in Jerusalem, to keep the pastover in the second month. 3 For they could not' keep it at that time, because the briests had not sanctified themselves sumciently, neither had tht.people gathered themselves together to Jerusalem. . ..... 4 And tire thing pleased the king and all die congregation. 5 So they established a decree to make /proclamation, throughout nil Israel,from Beer- Iheba even to,Dan, that they should come to keep the pastover unto the 'I.OE.D God of Israel at Jerusalem! for they had not done it of a long tint in ■suelifirt as it was written. (1 So the polls went with the letters -from the king and his princes throughoutall Ifrael and Judah,and according to ,die commandm»nt of the king, faying, Ye children of Israel, turnagainunto the Lo tD God of Abraham, I laac, and Ilra,_cl, and he will return to the remnant .of you, that are escaped out of the hand ings; and as many as were of a free 'of the kings of Assyria heart burnt offerings. 31 And the number of the burnt offerings, which the congregation brought, was threescore and ten bullocks, an hundred rams, and two hundred lambs: all these tvere for a burnt offering t» the Lord. 33 And the consecrated things toert six hundred oxen and three thousand sheep. 34. But the priests were too few, so that they could not stay all the burnt offerings: wherefore their brethren the Levites did help them, till the work was ended, and until the other priests had lanctifted tfurmelves: for the Levites tvere more upright in heart to sanflify themselves than the priests. 35 And also the burnt offerings tverem abundance', with the sot of the peace offerings,and thedrink offerings for every burnt offering. So the service of the hon fe of the Lor D was set in order, yb And'Hesekiah rejoiced, and all the propie, that Gfld had prepared the people! for taie thing wa* Ame sddderdy. 7 And be not ye like your father*, and .like your brethren-, which trerpalfcil against the Lord God of their fathers, viha therefore gave them up to desolation, as ye see. .1 f. . 8 Now be ye not stiff necked, at your fathers tvere, -but yield yourlelves ttitfo the Lor n, and enter into his sanctuary, which he hath siuictihed for even and servetheLoR n yourGod.thatthefierteneis of his wrath may rum away from you. 9 For if ye turn again unfb the Lord, your brethren and your children /halt find compaflion before them that lead them captive,, so that they (hall come agajn into this land: for the Lo R D your God is gracious and merciful, and will not turn awav hit face from you, rf ye return untw him. 10 So the posts passed from city to city through thecou'itryof Ephrajm indM.inaffch even "unto Zebuluh: but theV kiWglied therato scorn,and mocked them. •11 Nevertheless divers of Asliet Tind Manostch and ofZebulun humbled riwoi selves, The pajfaver solemnly kept. jc-ve.^, and come to Jerusalem. , ,. . , 21 Also in Judah the hand of Goil wa* to give them one heart to do the potn,mandinent oi" the king and of thcptiuces, by the word of the Lor D. . 13 »3 And there assembled ut Jerulakm much people to.keep the feast of unleavened bread in the second month, a very great congregation. 1+ And they arose, and took away the 'all the ami altars that -were in Jerusalem, and a altars for incense toqk they away j cast, them into the brook Kidron. , 1 5 Then they killed the pall'ovcr on riic feutrteenth day of the lecond month.: and ttte-priests and the Levitts were aihained, and lanctiried themselves,, and tjrojglit in the burnt otferings into, the bouse of the 1L0 K D. , «. i6.?\nd. they stood in their place."after tbeir.manper, according to tlie law of Motes the man of God: the, priests fpnnKsed the blood, which thry-received at the band of the Levites. 17 For there wsnMuuny in the coilgretratioxi that were not sanctified: there-1 ?ore the Levites had the charge of the' JciHing of the passovers for every one] that v.a. net clean, to sanctify them unto the Lonp. 18 For a multitude of the people.ff en many ofEphraim, and Manalleh, IH'acbar, and Zcbulun, had not cleansed: themselves, yet did they eat the pastover otherwise than it was written. But Hezekiah prayed for them, faying, The good Lor i) pardon every one 19 That prepareth his heart to seek Ood,the Lord God of his fathers, though 1 Me be not cleansed according totkepuri-j fication of she-sanctuary. 1 ■lo And the Lo R D hearkened to Hezekiah, and healed the people. * i,-And the children of Israel that were present at Jerusalem kept the Yeast of unleavened bread seven day* with gloat' gladness; and the Levites and the priests praised the Lout) day by day, stltging with loud instruments unto the Lord. I». And Hezekiah spake comfortably unto all theLevites that taught the .good' knowtedge,of the Lord: and tliey did' eat throughout the feast seven days, offering peaceofferings, and making con.-, session to the Lo R D (jod oftheir fathers.! 13 And the whole assembly took coup-' set to keep other seven days: and they. kept ether seveivdays with gladness. 14 For Hezekiah king of Judah did five to the congregation a thousand; ullocks, and seven thousand llietp 1 and the.princes gave to the congregation a Chap. xxxi. . „. j, Idolatry destroyed. thousand bullocks and ten thousand ilievp: and a great number of priests sanctified tlieujselveS;. ' , , 15 Aud 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 hi Judah, rejoiced. z6 So there was great joy in Jerusalem: for since the time of Solomon the lbn of David king of Israel there ivojvnut the like in Jerusalem.,;.., ;;.'..' 17 Thcn-thc priests the. Levites aiole and bit-fled the pqopk: and, their \oice was heard, and their prayer cunicap to his holy dwelling place, even unto (tcivcti. : ,cfi,A,f.. xxxi. j Thepeoplejorxyctrd in destroying iddctlry. 11 Hezekiah appointeth twicers lo dispose, ofthe tithe..., 19 His funwily* , P \y\vl|t)l ail. this wjs finished, nil Israel that^ware present we.uto.ut to the tititii ot; judjij), and. brake the ullages in pieces, and cut down the groves-, anil threw down the high, place* aiul.tlie altars out of a,U j udah aii(j Btiijaminj in Lphraim aUo.and,Manalleh, until they had utterly destroyed them all. Then all the children of Israel returned every mail to his posteilion, ,^ito their own cities. 1 And Hezekiah appointed the courses of the prielts and the Levites after theijcourses, every man according tohisservice, the priests and Levitt* tot: burnt offei ings and for peace olfet ingsj to minister, and to give thanks, widto praise in the gates of the tents osth&Lp^jp„ 3 He appointed also the. king's portion of his ftibstunce for; the burnt .osteruijgf, to isiit, foi; the morning and .evening burnt offerings, and the burnt offerings for the sabbaths, and for the new moons, and for the set. feasts, as, if it written in the.kvtv..pf-the Lord. ,> .. 4,Moreovi:r he commanded the people that dwelt in Jerusalem to give tlie portion of the priests and the -Levites, that they might be encouraged in the law of the Lord. ..... jAtutasfoon as thecommandmentcame abroad, the children of Itrael brought in abundance, the firstfruits of corn, wine, and oil, and honey, and of all the. increase of tlie field j and the tithe of all things brought they in abundantly.. ■'. 6 And wncsrniHg the children,qf Israel and Judah, that dwelt in the citiesos Judah, they alse brought in the *itue o'syjcen and UHtep, and the tithe of holytliuigs which were consecrated unto the Loaxi) their Go<j, and l*M th*tn by.|i£aps.-' ... 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