2Kings:17-25
mkjv@2Kings:17:1 @ In the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah Hoshea the son of Elah began to reign over Israel in Samaria, nine years.
mkjv@2Kings:17:2 @ And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, but not like the kings of Israel who were before him.
mkjv@2Kings:17:3 @ Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against him. And Hoshea became his servant and gave him taxes.
mkjv@2Kings:17:4 @ And the king of Assyria found treachery in Hoshea, for he had sent messengers to So, king of Egypt, and had brought no taxes to the king of Assyria, as before, year by year. And the king of Assyria shut him up and bound him in prison.
mkjv@2Kings:17:5 @ And the king of Assyria went up into all the land. And he went up to Samaria and besieged it three years.
mkjv@2Kings:17:6 @ In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away into Assyria. And he placed them in Halah, and in Habor [by] the river Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
mkjv@2Kings:17:7 @ And it happened because the sons of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God, who had brought them up out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods,
mkjv@2Kings:17:8 @ and walked in the statutes of the nations whom the LORD cast out from before the sons of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which the nations had made.
mkjv@2Kings:17:9 @ And the sons of Israel secretly did things that [were] not right against the LORD their God. And they built high places in all their cities for themselves, from the Watch Tower to the fortified city.
mkjv@2Kings:17:10 @ And they set up images and Asherahs for themselves in every high hill, and under every green tree.
mkjv@2Kings:17:11 @ And they burned incense in all the high places, like the nations whom the LORD had removed from before them; and did evil things to provoke the LORD to anger.
mkjv@2Kings:17:12 @ For they served the idols, of which the LORD had said to them, You shall not do this thing.
mkjv@2Kings:17:13 @ And the LORD testified against Israel, and against Judah, by all the prophets, [by] all the seers, saying, Turn from your evil ways and keep My commandments, My statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by My servants the prophets.
mkjv@2Kings:17:14 @ But they would not hear, but hardened their necks, like the neck of their fathers who did not believe in the LORD their God.
mkjv@2Kings:17:15 @ And [they] rejected His statutes and His covenant which He made with their fathers, and His testimonies which He testified against them. And they went after the vain thing, and became vain, and after the nations around them, concerning whom the LORD had charged them not to do like them.
mkjv@2Kings:17:16 @ And they left all the commandments of the LORD their God, and made molten images, two calves, for themselves. And they made an Asherah and worshiped all the host of heaven, and served Baal.
mkjv@2Kings:17:17 @ And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire. And they used divination and incantations, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke Him to anger.
mkjv@2Kings:17:18 @ So the LORD was very angry with Israel, and turned them away from His face; not one was left, only the tribe of Judah by itself.
mkjv@2Kings:17:19 @ Also Judah did not keep the commandments of the LORD their God, but walked in the statutes which Israel made.
mkjv@2Kings:17:20 @ And the LORD rejected all the seed of Israel, and afflicted them, and delivered them into the hand of spoilers, until He had cast them out of His sight.
mkjv@2Kings:17:21 @ For He tore Israel from the house of David. And they made Jeroboam the son of Nebat king. And Jeroboam drove Israel away from following the LORD, and made them sin a great sin.
mkjv@2Kings:17:22 @ For the sons of Israel walked in all the sins of Jeroboam which he did. They did not depart from them
mkjv@2Kings:17:23 @ until the LORD turned away Israel from His face, as He had said by all His servants the prophets. So Israel was carried away out of their own land to Assyria until this day.
mkjv@2Kings:17:24 @ And the king of Assyria brought [men] from Babylon, and from Cuthah, and from Ava, and from Hamath, and from Sepharvaim, and placed [them] in the cities of Samaria instead of the sons of Israel. And they possessed Samaria and lived in its cities.
mkjv@2Kings:17:25 @ And it happened at the beginning of their dwelling there, that they did not fear Jehovah. And Jehovah sent lions among them, who killed them.
mkjv@2Kings:17:26 @ And they spoke to the king of Assyria, saying, The nations which you have removed and placed in the cities of Samaria do not know the manner of the God of the land. And He has sent lions among them, and, behold, they kill them because they do not know the way of the God of the land.
mkjv@2Kings:17:27 @ And the king of Assyria commanded, saying, Cause one of the priests whom you removed from there to go there. And they shall go and live there, and he shall teach them the way of the God of the land.
mkjv@2Kings:17:28 @ And one of the priests whom they had removed from Samaria came and lived in Bethel. And he taught them how they should fear the LORD.
mkjv@2Kings:17:29 @ And every nation made gods of their own, and put [them] in the houses of the high places which the Samaritans had made, every nation in their cities in which they lived.
mkjv@2Kings:17:30 @ And the men of Babylon made Succoth-benoth, and the men of Cuth made Nergal, and the men of Hamath made Ashima,
mkjv@2Kings:17:31 @ and the Avites made Nibhaz and Tartak, and the Sepharvites burned their sons with fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech the gods of Sepharvaim.
mkjv@2Kings:17:32 @ So they feared the LORD, and made to themselves, of the lowest of them, priests of the high places, who sacrificed for them in the houses of the high places.
mkjv@2Kings:17:33 @ They feared the LORD and served their own gods, according to the custom of the nations whom they removed from there.
mkjv@2Kings:17:34 @ Until this day they do according to their former ways. They do not fear the LORD, neither do they do according to their statutes, or according to their ordinances, or according to the law and commandment which the LORD commanded the sons of Jacob, whom He named Israel.
mkjv@2Kings:17:35 @ And the LORD had made a covenant and charged them, saying, You shall not fear other gods, nor bow yourselves to them, nor serve them, nor sacrifice to them,
mkjv@2Kings:17:36 @ but the LORD, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt with great power and a stretched-out arm, you shall fear Him, and you shall worship Him, and you shall do sacrifice to Him.
mkjv@2Kings:17:37 @ And the statutes, and the ordinances, and the law, and the commandment, which He wrote for you, you shall be careful to do forever. And you shall not fear other gods.
mkjv@2Kings:17:38 @ And the covenant that I have made with you, you shall not forget, and you shall not fear other gods.
mkjv@2Kings:17:39 @ And you shall fear the LORD your God. And He shall deliver you out of the hand of all your enemies.
mkjv@2Kings:17:40 @ But they did not listen, but they followed after their former way.
mkjv@2Kings:17:41 @ And it happened, these nations feared the LORD, and they served their graven images, both their sons and their sons' sons, as their fathers did, they do until this day.
mkjv@2Kings:18:1 @ And it happened in the third year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, Hezekiah the son of Ahaz king of Judah began to reign.
mkjv@2Kings:18:2 @ He [was] twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother's name [was] Abi, the daughter of Zachariah.
mkjv@2Kings:18:3 @ And he did the right in the sight of Jehovah, according to all that David his father did.
mkjv@2Kings:18:4 @ He removed the high places, and broke the pillars, and cut down the Asherah. And he broke in pieces the bronze serpent which Moses had made; for until those days the sons of Israel burned incense to it. And he called it Nehushtan.
mkjv@2Kings:18:5 @ He trusted in Jehovah God of Israel, and after him was none like him among all the kings of Judah, nor who were before him.
mkjv@2Kings:18:6 @ For he clung to Jehovah. He did not depart from following Him, but kept His commandments, which Jehovah commanded Moses.
mkjv@2Kings:18:7 @ And Jehovah was with him. He was blessed wherever he went. And he rebelled against the king of Assyria, and did not serve him.
mkjv@2Kings:18:8 @ He struck the Philistines to Gaza and its borders, from the Watch Tower to the fortified city.
mkjv@2Kings:18:9 @ And it happened in the fourth year of King Hezekiah, the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria and besieged it.
mkjv@2Kings:18:10 @ And at the end of three years they took it, in the sixth year of Hezekiah, it [was] the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel, Samaria was taken.
mkjv@2Kings:18:11 @ And the king of Assyria carried away Israel to Assyria, and put them in Halah and in Habor [by] the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes,
mkjv@2Kings:18:12 @ because they did not obey the voice of the LORD their God, but transgressed His covenant, [and] all that Moses the servant of the LORD commanded, and would not listen to them, nor do them.
mkjv@2Kings:18:13 @ And in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah and took them.
mkjv@2Kings:18:14 @ And Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria to Lachish, saying, I have offended; turn back from me. Whatever you put on me I will bear. And the king of Assyria appointed to Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of silver, and thirty talents of gold.
mkjv@2Kings:18:15 @ And Hezekiah gave him all the silver which was found in the house of the LORD and in the treasures of the king's house.
mkjv@2Kings:18:16 @ At that time Hezekiah cut off the gold from the doors of the temple of the LORD, and from the pillars which Hezekiah king of Judah had overlaid. And he gave them to the king of Assyria.
mkjv@2Kings:18:17 @ And the king of Assyria sent Tartan, and the chief of the eunuchs, and the chief of the cupbearers from Lachish, to king Hezekiah with a great army against Jerusalem. And they went up and came to Jerusalem. And when they had come up, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is in the highway of the Fuller's Field.
mkjv@2Kings:18:18 @ And they called to the king. And Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who [was] over the house, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder, went out to them.
mkjv@2Kings:18:19 @ And the chief of the cupbearers said to them, Speak now to Hezekiah, So says the great king, the king of Assyria, What hope [is] this in which you trust?
mkjv@2Kings:18:20 @ Do you say that a mere word of the lips [is] wisdom and strength for the war? Now on whom do you trust that you rebel against me?
mkjv@2Kings:18:21 @ Now, behold, you trust on the staff of this bruised reed, on Egypt, on which if a man leans, it will go into his hand and pierce it. So [is] Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust on him.
mkjv@2Kings:18:22 @ But if you say to me, We trust in Jehovah our God, is He not the one whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah has taken away, and has said to Judah and Jerusalem, You shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem?
mkjv@2Kings:18:23 @ And now, please give pledges to my lord the king of Assyria, and I will deliver two thousand horses to you if you are able to set riders on them.
mkjv@2Kings:18:24 @ And how will you turn away the face of one commander of the least of my master's servants, and put your trust in Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?
mkjv@2Kings:18:25 @ Have I now come up against this place to destroy it without Jehovah? Jehovah said to me, Go up against this land and destroy it.
mkjv@2Kings:18:26 @ Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, and Shebna, and Joah said to the chief of the cupbearers, Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, for we understand. And do not talk with us in Jewish, in the ears of the people who are on the wall.
mkjv@2Kings:18:27 @ And the chief of the cupbearers said to them, Has my master sent me to your master and to you, to speak these words, [and] not to the men who sit on the wall, to eat their own dung and drink their own urine with you?
mkjv@2Kings:18:28 @ And the chief of the cupbearers stood and cried with a loud voice in Jewish, and spoke, saying, Hear the word of the great king, the king of Assyria:
mkjv@2Kings:18:29 @ so says the king, Do not let Hezekiah deceive you. For he shall not be able to deliver you out of his hand.
mkjv@2Kings:18:30 @ And do not let Hezekiah make you trust in Jehovah, saying, Jehovah will surely deliver us, and this city shall not be delivered into the hands of the king of Assyria.
mkjv@2Kings:18:31 @ Do not listen to Hezekiah. For so says the king of Assyria, Make with me a blessing, and come out to me, and you each shall eat of his vine, and each of his fig tree, and you each shall drink of the waters of his own cistern,
mkjv@2Kings:18:32 @ until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive oil and of honey, and live, and not die. And do not listen to Hezekiah when he deceives you, saying, Jehovah will deliver us.
mkjv@2Kings:18:33 @ Has any of the gods of the nations at all delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?
mkjv@2Kings:18:34 @ Where [are] the gods of Hamath and of Arpad? Where [are] the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah? Have they delivered Samaria out of my hand?
mkjv@2Kings:18:35 @ Who among all the gods of the lands have delivered their land out of my hand, that Jehovah should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?
mkjv@2Kings:18:36 @ But the people kept silent and did not answer him a word. For the king's command was, saying, Do not answer him.
mkjv@2Kings:18:37 @ And Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who [was] over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder, came to Hezekiah with their clothes torn. And they told him the words of the chief of the cupbearers.
mkjv@2Kings:19:1 @ And it happened when King Hezekiah heard, he tore his clothes and covered himself with sackcloth. And he went into the house of the LORD.
mkjv@2Kings:19:2 @ And he sent Eliakim who [was] over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz.
mkjv@2Kings:19:3 @ And they said to him, So says Hezekiah, [This is] a day of trouble and of rebuke and contempt. For the sons have come to the birth, and [there is] no strength to bring forth.
mkjv@2Kings:19:4 @ It may be the LORD your God will hear all the words of the chief cupbearer with which his master the king of Assyria has sent to reproach the living God, and will rebuke the words which the LORD your God has heard. And you shall lift up prayer for the rest who are left.
mkjv@2Kings:19:5 @ And the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah.
mkjv@2Kings:19:6 @ And Isaiah said to them, You shall say to your master, So says the LORD, Do not be afraid of the words which you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed Me.
mkjv@2Kings:19:7 @ Behold, I will send a blast on him, and he shall hear a rumor and shall return to his own land. And I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.
mkjv@2Kings:19:8 @ And the chief cupbearer returned and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah, for he had heard that he had departed from Lachish.
mkjv@2Kings:19:9 @ And when he heard it said of Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, Behold, he has come out to fight against you, he sent messengers again to Hezekiah, saying,
mkjv@2Kings:19:10 @ So you shall speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Do not let your God in whom you trust deceive you, saying, Jerusalem shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.
mkjv@2Kings:19:11 @ Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands by completely destroying them. And shall you be delivered?
mkjv@2Kings:19:12 @ Have the gods of the nations delivered them, nations which my fathers have destroyed, Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the sons of Eden in Telassar?
mkjv@2Kings:19:13 @ Where [is] the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and of Ivah?
mkjv@2Kings:19:14 @ And Hezekiah received the letters from the hand of the messengers, and read it. And Hezekiah went up into the house of the LORD, and spread it before the LORD.
mkjv@2Kings:19:15 @ And Hezekiah prayed before Jehovah and said, O Jehovah God of Israel, who dwells [between] the cherubs, You [are] God Himself, You alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made the heavens and the earth.
mkjv@2Kings:19:16 @ LORD, bow down Your ear and hear. O LORD, open Your eyes and see, and hear the words of Sennacherib, who has sent him to taunt the living God.
mkjv@2Kings:19:17 @ Truly, LORD, the kings of Assyria have destroyed the nations and their lands,
mkjv@2Kings:19:18 @ and have thrown their gods into the fire; for they [were] no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone, and they have destroyed them.
mkjv@2Kings:19:19 @ And now, O, LORD our God, I beseech You, save us out of his hand, so that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that You [are] the LORD God, and You only.
mkjv@2Kings:19:20 @ And Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, So says Jehovah God of Israel, I have heard what you have prayed to Me against Sennacherib king of Assyria.
mkjv@2Kings:19:21 @ This [is] the word that the LORD has spoken concerning him: The virgin, the daughter of Zion, has despised you [and] laughed you to scorn. The daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at you.
mkjv@2Kings:19:22 @ Whom have you mocked and blasphemed? And against whom have you exalted [your] voice and lifted up your eyes on high? Even against the Holy One of Israel!
mkjv@2Kings:19:23 @ You have mocked the Lord by your messengers, and have said, With the multitude of my chariots I have come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon, and will cut down its tall cedar trees, its choice fir trees. And I will enter into the lodgings of its borders, its densest forest;
mkjv@2Kings:19:24 @ I have dug and drunk foreign waters, and with the sole of my feet I have dried up all the rivers of Egypt.
mkjv@2Kings:19:25 @ Have you not heard it from afar, I made it? From days of old I fashioned it! Now I have caused it to come; that you should make fortified cities desolate heaps of ruins.
mkjv@2Kings:19:26 @ And their people were of small power, they were fearful and put to shame. They were [like] the grass of the field, and the green herb, like the grass on the house-tops, and like grain blasted before it was grown up.
mkjv@2Kings:19:27 @ But I know your sitting down, and your going out, and your coming in, and your rage against Me.
mkjv@2Kings:19:28 @ Because of your rage against Me, and because your arrogance has come up into My ears, even I will put My hook in your nose, and My bridle in your lips. And I will turn you back by the way in which you came.
mkjv@2Kings:19:29 @ And this shall be a sign to you: you shall eat this year such things as grow of themselves, and in the second year that which springs up of the same. And in the third year, sow and reap and plant vineyards and eat the fruits of them.
mkjv@2Kings:19:30 @ And the remnant that has escaped of the house of Judah shall yet again take root downward and bear fruit upward.
mkjv@2Kings:19:31 @ For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and they who escape out of Mount Zion. The zeal of Jehovah of Hosts shall do this.
mkjv@2Kings:19:32 @ So the LORD says this concerning the king of Assyria. He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shield, nor throw up a bank against it.
mkjv@2Kings:19:33 @ By the way that he came, by the same he shall return, and shall not come into this city, says the LORD.
mkjv@2Kings:19:34 @ For I will defend this city, to save it for My own sake and for My servant David's sake.
mkjv@2Kings:19:35 @ And it happened that night, the Angel of Jehovah went out and struck a hundred and eighty-five thousand in the camp of the Assyrians. And they arose early in the morning, and behold, they were all dead bodies.
mkjv@2Kings:19:36 @ And Sennacherib king of Assyria departed. And he went and returned and lived at Nineveh.
mkjv@2Kings:19:37 @ And it happened as he was worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god, Adrammelech and Sharezer, his sons, struck him with the sword. And they escaped into the land of Ararat. And Esarhaddon his son reigned in his place.
mkjv@2Kings:20:1 @ In those days Hezekiah was sick to death. And the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz came to him and said to him, So says the LORD, Set your house in order, for you shall die and not live.
mkjv@2Kings:20:2 @ And he turned his face to the wall and prayed to the LORD, saying, O LORD,
mkjv@2Kings:20:3 @ I pray, O LORD, remember now how I have walked before You in truth and with a sincere heart, and have done good in Your sight. And Hezekiah wept with a great weeping.
mkjv@2Kings:20:4 @ And it happened, Isaiah had gone out into the middle of the court, the word of the LORD came to him saying,
mkjv@2Kings:20:5 @ Return again and tell Hezekiah the leader of My people, So says the LORD, the God of David your father, I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears. Behold, I will heal you. On the third day you shall go up to the house of the LORD.
mkjv@2Kings:20:6 @ And I will add fifteen years to your days. And I will deliver you and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria. And I will defend this city for My own sake, and for My servant David's sake.
mkjv@2Kings:20:7 @ And Isaiah said, Take a lump of figs. And they took and laid [it] on the boil, and he recovered.
mkjv@2Kings:20:8 @ And Hezekiah said to Isaiah, What [shall be] the sign that the LORD will heal me, and that I shall go up into the house of the LORD the third day?
mkjv@2Kings:20:9 @ And Isaiah said, This [will be] the sign from the LORD, that the LORD will do the thing which He has spoken. Shall the shadow go forward ten steps, or go back ten steps?
mkjv@2Kings:20:10 @ And Hezekiah answered, It is a light thing for the shadow to go down ten steps. No, but let the shadow go backward ten steps.
mkjv@2Kings:20:11 @ And Isaiah the prophet cried to the LORD. And He brought the shadow ten steps backward, by which it had gone down on the sundial of Ahaz.
mkjv@2Kings:20:12 @ At that time Berodach-baladan, the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present to Hezekiah. For he had heard that Hezekiah had been sick.
mkjv@2Kings:20:13 @ And Hezekiah listened to them, and showed them all the house of his precious things, the silver and the gold, and the spices, and the precious ointment, and the house of his armor, and all that was found in his treasures. There was nothing in his house nor in all his dominion which Hezekiah did not show them.
mkjv@2Kings:20:14 @ And Isaiah the prophet came to King Hezekiah and said to him, What did these men say? And from where did they come to you? And Hezekiah said, They have come from a far country, from Babylon.
mkjv@2Kings:20:15 @ And he said, What have they seen in your house? And Hezekiah answered, They have seen all that [is] in my house. There is nothing among my treasures which I have not shown to them.
mkjv@2Kings:20:16 @ And Isaiah said to Hezekiah, Hear the word of the LORD.
mkjv@2Kings:20:17 @ Behold, the days come when all that [is] in your house, and which your fathers have laid up in store until today, shall be carried into Babylon. Nothing shall be left, says the LORD.
mkjv@2Kings:20:18 @ And of your sons which shall issue from you, which you shall father, they shall take away. And they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.
mkjv@2Kings:20:19 @ And Hezekiah said to Isaiah, Good [is] the word of the LORD which you have spoken. And he said, [Is it] not [good] if peace and truth are in my days?
mkjv@2Kings:20:20 @ And the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and all his might, and how he made a pool and a conduit, and brought water into the city, [are] they not written in the Book of the Matters of the Days of the Kings of Judah?
mkjv@2Kings:20:21 @ And Hezekiah slept with his fathers. And Manasseh his son reigned in his place.
mkjv@2Kings:21:1 @ Manasseh [was] twelve years old when he began to reign. And he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name [was] Hephzibah.
mkjv@2Kings:21:2 @ And he did the evil in the sight of the LORD, after the abominations of the heathen whom the LORD cast out before the sons of Israel.
mkjv@2Kings:21:3 @ For he built up again the high places which his father Hezekiah had destroyed. And he reared up altars for Baal, and made an Asherah, as Ahab king of Israel did. And he worshiped all the host of heaven, and served them.
mkjv@2Kings:21:4 @ And he built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD said, In Jerusalem I will put My name.
mkjv@2Kings:21:5 @ And he built altars for all the host of the heavens in the two courts of the house of the LORD.
mkjv@2Kings:21:6 @ And he made his son pass through the fire, and observed times and used fortune-tellers. And he dealt with familiar spirits and wizards. He worked much wickedness in the sight of the LORD, to provoke [Him] to anger.
mkjv@2Kings:21:7 @ And he set a graven image of the Asherah which he had made in the house, of which the LORD had 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, I will put My name forever.
mkjv@2Kings:21:8 @ And I will not again make the feet of Israel wander any more out of the land which I gave their fathers; only if they will be careful to do according to all that I have commanded them, and according to all the law that My servant Moses commanded them.
mkjv@2Kings:21:9 @ But they did not listen. And Manasseh seduced them to do more evil than the nations ever did, whom the LORD destroyed before the sons of Israel.
mkjv@2Kings:21:10 @ And the LORD spoke by His servants the prophets, saying,
mkjv@2Kings:21:11 @ Because Manasseh king of Judah has done these abominations, doing more wickedly than all that the Amorites did, who were before him, and has made Judah also to sin with his idols,
mkjv@2Kings:21:12 @ therefore, so says the LORD God of Israel, Behold, I [am] bringing evil on Jerusalem and Judah, so that whoever hears of it, both his ears shall tingle.
mkjv@2Kings:21:13 @ And I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria, and the measuring line of the house of Ahab. And I will wipe Jerusalem as a dish is wiped, wiping and turning [it] upside down.
mkjv@2Kings:21:14 @ And I will forsake the remnant of My inheritance, and deliver them into the hand of their enemies. And they shall become a prey and a spoil to all their enemies,
mkjv@2Kings:21:15 @ because they have done the evil in My sight, and have provoked Me to anger, since the day their fathers came forth out of Egypt even until this day.
mkjv@2Kings:21:16 @ And also Manasseh shed very much innocent blood, until he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another, besides his sin with which he made Judah to sin, in doing the evil in the sight of the LORD.
mkjv@2Kings:21:17 @ Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and all that he did, and his sin which he sinned, [are] they not written in the Book of the Matters of the Days of the Kings of Judah?
mkjv@2Kings:21:18 @ And Manasseh slept with his fathers, and was buried in the garden of his own house, in the garden of Uzza. And his son Amon reigned in his place.
mkjv@2Kings:21:19 @ Amon [was] twenty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned two years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name [was] Meshullemeth, the daughter of Haruz of Jotbah.
mkjv@2Kings:21:20 @ And he did the evil in the sight of the LORD, as his father Manasseh did.
mkjv@2Kings:21:21 @ And he walked in all the way that his father walked, and served the idols which his father served, and worshiped them.
mkjv@2Kings:21:22 @ And [he] left Jehovah God of his fathers, and did not walk in the way of the LORD.
mkjv@2Kings:21:23 @ And the servants of Amon plotted against him and killed the king in his own house.
mkjv@2Kings:21:24 @ And the people of the land killed all those who had plotted against King Amon. And the people of the land made his son Josiah king in his place.
mkjv@2Kings:21:25 @ And the rest of the acts of Amon which he did, [are] they not written in the Books of the Matters of the Days of the Kings of Judah?
mkjv@2Kings:21:26 @ And [he was] buried in his tomb in the garden of Uzza. And his son Josiah reigned in his place.
mkjv@2Kings:22:1 @ Josiah [was] eight years old when he began to reign. And he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name [was] Jedidah, the daughter of Adaiah of Boscath.
mkjv@2Kings:22:2 @ And he did the right in the sight of the LORD, and walked in all the way of David his father, and did not turn aside to the right or to the left.
mkjv@2Kings:22:3 @ And it happened in the eighteenth year of Josiah, the king sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, the son of Meshullam the scribe, to the house of the LORD, saying,
mkjv@2Kings:22:4 @ Go up to Hilkiah the high priest, so that he may count the silver which is brought into the house of the LORD, which the doorkeepers have gathered from the people.
mkjv@2Kings:22:5 @ And let them deliver it into the hand of the workers who have the oversight of the house of the Lord. And let them give it to the workers who [are] in the house of the LORD, in order to repair the breaks of the house,
mkjv@2Kings:22:6 @ to carpenters, and builders, and masons, and to buy timber and cut stone to repair the house.
mkjv@2Kings:22:7 @ Only, the silver that is given into their hand shall not be reckoned with them, for they are dealing in faithfulness.
mkjv@2Kings:22:8 @ And Hilkiah the high priest said to Shaphan the scribe, I have found the Book of the Law in the house of the LORD. And Hilkiah gave the book to Shaphan, and he read it.
mkjv@2Kings:22:9 @ And Shaphan the scribe came to the king and brought the king word again, and said, Your servants have gathered the silver that was found in the house, and have delivered it into the hand of the workers, who have the oversight of the house of the LORD.
mkjv@2Kings:22:10 @ And Shaphan the scribe showed the king, saying, Hilkiah the priest has delivered me a book. And Shaphan read it before the king.
mkjv@2Kings:22:11 @ And it happened when the king had heard the words of the Book of the Law, he tore his clothes.
mkjv@2Kings:22:12 @ And the king commanded Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and Achbor the son of Michaiah, and Shaphan the scribe, and Asahiah a servant of the king, saying,
mkjv@2Kings:22:13 @ Go inquire of the LORD for me, and for the people, and for all Judah, concerning the words of this book which is found. For great [is] the wrath of the LORD which is kindled against us, because our fathers have not listened to the words of this book, to do according to all which is written concerning us.
mkjv@2Kings:22:14 @ And Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam, and Achbor, and Shaphan, and Asahiah, went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe. And she lived in Jerusalem in the second [part]. And they talked with her.
mkjv@2Kings:22:15 @ And she said to them, So says Jehovah God of Israel, Tell the man who sent you to me,
mkjv@2Kings:22:16 @ So says the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil on this place and on the people of it, all the words of the book which the king of Judah has read;
mkjv@2Kings:22:17 @ because they have forsaken Me, and have burned incense to other gods, so that they might provoke Me to anger with all the works of their hands, therefore My wrath shall be kindled against this place, and it shall not be quenched.
mkjv@2Kings:22:18 @ But to the king of Judah who sent you to inquire of the LORD, so you shall say to him, So says the LORD God of Israel, The words which you have heard,
mkjv@2Kings:22:19 @ because your heart [was] tender and you have humbled yourself before the LORD, when you heard what I spoke against this place, and against its people (that they should become a waste and a curse, and have torn your clothes and wept before Me), I have heard you, says the LORD.
mkjv@2Kings:22:20 @ Behold, even so I will gather you to your fathers, and you shall be gathered to your grave in peace. And your eyes shall not see all the evil which I will bring on this place. And they brought the king [this] word again.
mkjv@2Kings:23:1 @ And the king sent. And they gathered to him all the elders of Judah and of Jerusalem.
mkjv@2Kings:23:2 @ And the king went up into the house of the LORD. And all the men of Judah and all the people of Jerusalem with him, and the priests and the prophets, and all the people, from the small even to the great. And he read all the words of the book of the covenant which was found in the house of the LORD in their ears.
mkjv@2Kings:23:3 @ 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 [his] heart and all [his soul, to perform the words of this covenant which was written in this Book. And all the people stood to the covenant.
mkjv@2Kings:23:4 @ And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the doorkeepers, to bring forth out of the temple of the LORD all the vessels which were made for Baal, and for the Asherah, and for all the host of heaven. And he burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, and carried the ashes of them to Bethel.
mkjv@2Kings:23:5 @ And he put down the idol-worshiping priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn [incense] in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places around Jerusalem. He also put down those who burned incense to Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of the heavens.
mkjv@2Kings:23:6 @ And he brought out the Asherah from the house of the LORD outside Jerusalem, to the torrent Kidron, and burned it at the torrent Kidron, and stamped [it] to powder, and threw the powder of it on the graves of the sons of the people.
mkjv@2Kings:23:7 @ And he broke down the houses of the sodomites, which [were] by the house of the LORD, where the women wove coverings for the Asherah.
mkjv@2Kings:23:8 @ And he brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah, and defiled the high places where the priests had burned [incense], from Geba to Beer-sheba. And he broke down the high places of the gates which [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.
mkjv@2Kings:23:9 @ But the priests of the high places did not come up to the altar of the LORD in Jerusalem, but they ate of the unleavened [bread] among their brothers.
mkjv@2Kings:23:10 @ And he defiled Topheth, in the valley of the sons of Hinnom, so that no man might make his son or his daughter to pass through the fire to Molech.
mkjv@2Kings:23:11 @ And he took away the horses which the kings of Judah had given to the sun, at the entering in of the house of the LORD, by the room of Nathan-melech the eunuch, which [was] in the suburbs. And he burned the chariots of the sun with fire.
mkjv@2Kings:23:12 @ And the altars which [were] on the top of the upper room of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made, and the two courts of the house of the LORD, the king beat them down, and broke them down from there. And he threw the dust of them into the torrent Kidron.
mkjv@2Kings:23:13 @ And the high places which [were] before Jerusalem on the right hand of the Mount of Corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination of the sons of Ammon, the king defiled.
mkjv@2Kings:23:14 @ And he broke the images in pieces, and cut down the Asherahs, and filled their places with the bones of men.
mkjv@2Kings:23:15 @ And also the altar which [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 broke down, and burned the high place; he stamped it to powder, and burned the Asherah.
mkjv@2Kings:23:16 @ And as Josiah turned, he spied the tombs which [were] there in the mountain. And he sent and took the bones out of the tombs, and burned [them] on the altar and defiled it, according to the word of the LORD which the man of God had proclaimed, who spoke these words.
mkjv@2Kings:23:17 @ And he said, What monument [is] that which I see? And the men of the city told him, [It is] the grave of the man of God who came from Judah and proclaimed these things which you have done against the altar of Bethel.
mkjv@2Kings:23:18 @ And he said, Let him alone; let no one move his bones. And they let his bones alone, with the bones of the prophet who came out of Samaria.
mkjv@2Kings:23:19 @ And also all the houses of the high places 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 which he had done in Bethel.
mkjv@2Kings:23:20 @ And he killed all the priests of the high places [which were] there on the altars, and burned men's bones on them, and returned to Jerusalem.
mkjv@2Kings:23:21 @ And the king commanded all the people saying, Prepare the Passover to the LORD your God, as [it is] written in the Book of the Covenant.
mkjv@2Kings:23:22 @ Surely there was not held such a Passover from the days of the judges who judged Israel, nor in all the days of the kings of Israel, nor of the kings of Judah,
mkjv@2Kings:23:23 @ but in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, this Passover was held to the LORD in Jerusalem.
mkjv@2Kings:23:24 @ And also Josiah put away the mediums, and the soothsayers, and the family gods, and the idols, and all the abominations which were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, so that he might perform the words of the law which were written in the book which Hilkiah the priest found in the house of the LORD.
mkjv@2Kings:23:25 @ And there was no king like him before him, who 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. And after him none rose up like him.
mkjv@2Kings:23:26 @ But the Lord did not turn from the heat of His great wrath, with which His anger was kindled against Judah, because of all the provocations with which Manasseh had provoked Him.
mkjv@2Kings:23:27 @ And the LORD said, I will also remove Judah 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.
mkjv@2Kings:23:28 @ And the rest of the acts of Josiah, and all that he did, [are] they not written in the Book of the Matters of the Days of the Kings of Judah?
mkjv@2Kings:23:29 @ In his days Pharaoh-necho king of Egypt went up against the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates. And King Josiah went against him. And he killed him at Megiddo, when he saw him.
mkjv@2Kings:23:30 @ And his servants made him ride dead in a chariot from Megiddo, and brought him to Jerusalem, and buried him in his own tomb. And the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and anointed him, and made him king in his father's place.
mkjv@2Kings:23:31 @ Jehoahaz [was] twenty-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.
mkjv@2Kings:23:32 @ And he did the evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his fathers had done.
mkjv@2Kings:23:33 @ And Pharaoh-necho put him in bonds at Riblah in the land of Hamath, so that he might not reign in Jerusalem. And he put the land to a tax of a hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.
mkjv@2Kings:23:34 @ And Pharaoh-necho made Eliakim the son of Josiah king in place of Josiah his father. And he changed his name to Jehoiakim, and took Jehoahaz away. And he came to Egypt and died there.
mkjv@2Kings:23:35 @ And Jehoiakim gave the silver and the gold to Pharaoh. But he taxed the land to give the silver according to Pharaoh's command. He exacted the silver and the gold from the people of the land, from each one according to his worth, to give it to Pharaoh-necho.
mkjv@2Kings:23:36 @ Jehoiakim [was] twenty-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.
mkjv@2Kings:23:37 @ And he did the evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his fathers had done.
mkjv@2Kings:24:1 @ In his days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim became his servant three years. Then he turned and rebelled against him.
mkjv@2Kings:24:2 @ And the LORD sent against him troops of the Chaldees, and bands of the Syrians, and troops of the Moabites, and troops of the Ammonites. And He sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of the LORD which He spoke by His servants the prophets.
mkjv@2Kings:24:3 @ Surely at the commandment of the Lord [this] came on Judah, to remove [them] out of His sight, for the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he did;
mkjv@2Kings:24:4 @ and also for the innocent blood which he shed, for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, which the LORD would not pardon.
mkjv@2Kings:24:5 @ And the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and all that he did, [are] they not written in the Book of the Matters of the Days of the Kings of Judah?
mkjv@2Kings:24:6 @ And Jehoiakim slept with his fathers. And Jehoiachin his son reigned in his place.
mkjv@2Kings:24:7 @ And the king of Egypt did not come again out of his land any more. For the king of Babylon had taken from the river of Egypt to the river Euphrates all that [belonged to] the king of Egypt.
mkjv@2Kings:24:8 @ 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.
mkjv@2Kings:24:9 @ And he did the evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father had done.
mkjv@2Kings:24:10 @ At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against Jerusalem, and the city was besieged.
mkjv@2Kings:24:11 @ And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came against the city, and his servants besieged it.
mkjv@2Kings:24:12 @ And Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out to the king of Babylon, he and his mother, and his servants, and his leaders, and his eunuchs. And the king of Babylon took him in the eighth year of his reign.
mkjv@2Kings:24:13 @ And [he] carried out from there 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.
mkjv@2Kings:24:14 @ And he carried away all Jerusalem, and all the leaders, and all the mighty men of war, ten thousand captives, and all the craftsmen and smiths. None remained except the poorest sort of the people of the land.
mkjv@2Kings:24:15 @ And he carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon, and the king's mother, and the king's wives, and his eunuchs. And the mighty of the land he carried into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon.
mkjv@2Kings:24:16 @ And the king of Babylon brought captive to Babylon all the men of might, seven thousand of them, and a thousand craftsmen and smiths, all who were strong and able for war.
mkjv@2Kings:24:17 @ And the king of Babylon made Mattaniah, his father's brother, king in his place. And he changed his name to Zedekiah.
mkjv@2Kings:24:18 @ Zedekiah [was] twenty-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.
mkjv@2Kings:24:19 @ And he did the evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that Jehoiakim had done.
mkjv@2Kings:24:20 @ For it was through the anger of the LORD that Zedekiah happened to rebel against the king of Babylon in Jerusalem and in Judah, until [God] had put them out of His presence.
mkjv@2Kings:25:1 @ And it happened in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came. He and all his army came against Jerusalem and pitched against it, and built a siege-mound all around it.
mkjv@2Kings:25:2 @ And the city was besieged until the eleventh year of king Zedekiah,
mkjv@2Kings:25:3 @ on the ninth of the [fourth] month, when famine was severe in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land.
mkjv@2Kings:25:4 @ And the city was broken up, and by night all the men of war [went] by the way of the gate between two walls, which is by the king's garden. And the Chaldeans were against the city all round. And the king went the way toward the plain.
mkjv@2Kings:25:5 @ And the army of the Chaldees pursued the king, and overtook him in the plains of Jericho. And all his army were scattered from him.
mkjv@2Kings:25:6 @ And they took the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon, to Riblah. And they gave judgment on him.
mkjv@2Kings:25:7 @ And they killed the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him with bronze chains and carried him to Babylon.
mkjv@2Kings:25:8 @ And in the fifth month, on the seventh of the month; it was the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; Nebuzaradan the chief of the executioners, a servant of the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem.
mkjv@2Kings:25:9 @ And he burned the house of the LORD, and the king's house, and all the houses of Jerusalem. And every great one's house he burned with fire.
mkjv@2Kings:25:10 @ And all the army of the Chaldeans who [were] with the chief of the executioners broke down the walls of Jerusalem all around.
mkjv@2Kings:25:11 @ And the rest of the people who were left in the city, and the fugitives who fell away to the king of Babylon, with the rest of the multitude, the chief of the executioners carried away.
mkjv@2Kings:25:12 @ But the chief of the executioners left a few of the poor of the land to be vinedressers and husbandmen.
mkjv@2Kings:25:13 @ And the bronze pillars in the house of the LORD, and the bases, and the bronze sea in the house of the LORD, the Chaldeans broke into pieces and carried the bronze from them to Babylon.
mkjv@2Kings:25:14 @ And the pots, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the spoons, and all the vessels of bronze with which they ministered, they also took away. ![[pBiblx2]](/img/menu.png)