rsv 2Kings:17-25
rsv@2Kings:17:1 @ In the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah Hoshe'a the son of Elah began to reign in Sama'ria over Israel, and he reigned nine years.
rsv@2Kings:17:2 @ And he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, yet not as the kings of Israel who were before him.
rsv@2Kings:17:3 @ Against him came up Shalmane'ser king of Assyria; and Hoshe'a became his vassal, and paid him tribute.
rsv@2Kings:17:4 @ But the king of Assyria found treachery in Hoshe'a; for he had sent messengers to So, king of Egypt, and offered no tribute to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year; therefore the king of Assyria shut him up, and bound him in prison.
rsv@2Kings:17:5 @ Then the king of Assyria invaded all the land and came to Sama'ria, and for three years he besieged it.
rsv@2Kings:17:6 @ In the ninth year of Hoshe'a the king of Assyria captured Sama'ria, and he carried the Israelites away to Assyria, and placed them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
rsv@2Kings:17:7 @ And this was so, because the people 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
rsv@2Kings:17:8 @ and walked in the customs of the nations whom the LORD drove out before the people of Israel, and in the customs which the kings of Israel had introduced.
rsv@2Kings:17:9 @ And the people of Israel did secretly against the LORD their God things that were not right. They built for themselves high places at all their towns, from watchtower to fortified city;
rsv@2Kings:17:10 @ they set up for themselves pillars and Ashe'rim on every high hill and under every green tree;
rsv@2Kings:17:11 @ and there they burned incense on all the high places, as the nations did whom the LORD carried away before them. And they did wicked things, provoking the LORD to anger,
rsv@2Kings:17:12 @ and they served idols, of which the LORD had said to them, "You shall not do this."
rsv@2Kings:17:13 @ Yet the LORD warned Israel and Judah by every prophet and every seer, saying, "Turn from your evil ways and keep my commandments and my statutes, in accordance with all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets."
rsv@2Kings:17:14 @ But they would not listen, but were stubborn, as their fathers had been, who did not believe in the LORD their God.
rsv@2Kings:17:15 @ They despised his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and the warnings which he gave them. They went after false idols, and became false, and they followed the nations that were round about them, concerning whom the LORD had commanded them that they should not do like them.
rsv@2Kings:17:16 @ And they forsook all the commandments of the LORD their God, and made for themselves molten images of two calves; and they made an Ashe'rah, and worshiped all the host of heaven, and served Ba'al.
rsv@2Kings:17:17 @ And they burned their sons and their daughters as offerings, and used divination and sorcery, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking him to anger.
rsv@2Kings:17:18 @ Therefore the LORD was very angry with Israel, and removed them out of his sight; none was left but the tribe of Judah only.
rsv@2Kings:17:19 @ Judah also did not keep the commandments of the LORD their God, but walked in the customs which Israel had introduced.
rsv@2Kings:17:20 @ And the LORD rejected all the descendants of Israel, and afflicted them, and gave them into the hand of spoilers, until he had cast them out of his sight.
rsv@2Kings:17:21 @ When he had torn Israel from the house of David they made Jerobo'am the son of Nebat king. And Jerobo'am drove Israel from following the LORD and made them commit great sin.
rsv@2Kings:17:22 @ The people of Israel walked in all the sins which Jerobo'am did; they did not depart from them,
rsv@2Kings:17:23 @ until the LORD removed Israel out of his sight, as he had spoken by all his servants the prophets. So Israel was exiled from their own land to Assyria until this day.
rsv@2Kings:17:24 @ And the king of Assyria brought people from Babylon, Cuthah, Avva, Hamath, and Sephar-va'im, and placed them in the cities of Sama'ria instead of the people of Israel; and they took possession of Sama'ria, and dwelt in its cities.
rsv@2Kings:17:25 @ And at the beginning of their dwelling there, they did not fear the LORD; therefore the LORD sent lions among them, which killed some of them.
rsv@2Kings:17:26 @ So the king of Assyria was told, "The nations which you have carried away and placed in the cities of Sama'ria do not know the law of the god of the land; therefore he has sent lions among them, and behold, they are killing them, because they do not know the law of the god of the land."
rsv@2Kings:17:27 @ Then the king of Assyria commanded, "Send there one of the priests whom you carried away thence; and let him go and dwell there, and teach them the law of the god of the land."
rsv@2Kings:17:28 @ So one of the priests whom they had carried away from Sama'ria came and dwelt in Bethel, and taught them how they should fear the LORD.
rsv@2Kings:17:29 @ But every nation still made gods of its own, and put them in the shrines of the high places which the Samaritans had made, every nation in the cities in which they dwelt;
rsv@2Kings:17:30 @ the men of Babylon made Suc'coth-be'noth, the men of Cuth made Nergal, the men of Hamath made Ashi'ma,
rsv@2Kings:17:31 @ and the Av'vites made Nibhaz and Tartak; and the Sephar'vites burned their children in the fire to Adram'melech and Anam'melech, the gods of Sephar-va'im.
rsv@2Kings:17:32 @ They also feared the LORD, and appointed from among themselves all sorts of people as priests of the high places, who sacrificed for them in the shrines of the high places.
rsv@2Kings:17:33 @ So they feared the LORD but also served their own gods, after the manner of the nations from among whom they had been carried away.
rsv@2Kings:17:34 @ To this day they do according to the former manner. They do not fear the LORD, and they do not follow the statutes or the ordinances or the law or the commandment which the LORD commanded the children of Jacob, whom he named Israel.
rsv@2Kings:17:35 @ The LORD made a covenant with them, and commanded them, "You shall not fear other gods or bow yourselves to them or serve them or sacrifice to them;
rsv@2Kings:17:36 @ but you shall fear the LORD, who brought you out of the land of Egypt with great power and with an outstretched arm; you shall bow yourselves to him, and to him you shall sacrifice.
rsv@2Kings:17:37 @ And the statutes and the ordinances and the law and the commandment which he wrote for you, you shall always be careful to do. You shall not fear other gods,
rsv@2Kings:17:38 @ and you shall not forget the covenant that I have made with you. You shall not fear other gods,
rsv@2Kings:17:39 @ but you shall fear the LORD your God, and he will deliver you out of the hand of all your enemies."
rsv@2Kings:17:40 @ However they would not listen, but they did according to their former manner.
rsv@2Kings:17:41 @ So these nations feared the LORD, and also served their graven images; their children likewise, and their children's children--as their fathers did, so they do to this day.
rsv@2Kings:18:1 @ In the third year of Hoshe'a son of Elah, king of Israel, Hezeki'ah the son of Ahaz, king of Judah, began to reign.
rsv@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 Zechari'ah.
rsv@2Kings:18:3 @ And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, according to all that David his father had done.
rsv@2Kings:18:4 @ He removed the high places, and broke the pillars, and cut down the Ashe'rah. And he broke in pieces the bronze serpent that Moses had made, for until those days the people of Israel had burned incense to it; it was called Nehush'tan.
rsv@2Kings:18:5 @ He trusted in the LORD the God of Israel; so that there was none like him among all the kings of Judah after him, nor among those who were before him.
rsv@2Kings:18:6 @ For he held fast to the LORD; he did not depart from following him, but kept the commandments which the LORD commanded Moses.
rsv@2Kings:18:7 @ And the LORD was with him; wherever he went forth, he prospered. He rebelled against the king of Assyria, and would not serve him.
rsv@2Kings:18:8 @ He smote the Philistines as far as Gaza and its territory, from watchtower to fortified city.
rsv@2Kings:18:9 @ In the fourth year of King Hezeki'ah, which was the seventh year of Hoshe'a son of Elah, king of Israel, Shalmane'ser king of Assyria came up against Sama'ria and besieged it
rsv@2Kings:18:10 @ and at the end of three years he took it. In the sixth year of Hezeki'ah, which was the ninth year of Hoshe'a king of Israel, Sama'ria was taken.
rsv@2Kings:18:11 @ The king of Assyria carried the Israelites away to Assyria, and put them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes,
rsv@2Kings:18:12 @ because they did not obey the voice of the LORD their God but transgressed his covenant, even all that Moses the servant of the LORD commanded; they neither listened nor obeyed.
rsv@2Kings:18:13 @ In the fourteenth year of King Hezeki'ah Sennach'erib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah and took them.
rsv@2Kings:18:14 @ And Hezeki'ah king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria at Lachish, saying, "I have done wrong; withdraw from me; whatever you impose on me I will bear." And the king of Assyria required of Hezeki'ah king of Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold.
rsv@2Kings:18:15 @ And Hezeki'ah gave him all the silver that was found in the house of the LORD, and in the treasuries of the king's house.
rsv@2Kings:18:16 @ At that time Hezeki'ah stripped the gold from the doors of the temple of the LORD, and from the doorposts which Hezeki'ah king of Judah had overlaid and gave it to the king of Assyria.
rsv@2Kings:18:17 @ And the king of Assyria sent the Tartan, the Rab'saris, and the Rab'shakeh with a great army from Lachish to King Hezeki'ah at Jerusalem. And they went up and came to Jerusalem. When they arrived, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is on the highway to the Fuller's Field.
rsv@2Kings:18:18 @ And when they called for the king, there came out to them Eli'akim the son of Hilki'ah, who was over the household, and Shebnah the secretary, and Jo'ah the son of Asaph, the recorder.
rsv@2Kings:18:19 @ And the Rab'shakeh said to them, "Say to Hezeki'ah, `Thus says the great king, the king of Assyria: On what do you rest this confidence of yours?
rsv@2Kings:18:20 @ Do you think that mere words are strategy and power for war? On whom do you now rely, that you have rebelled against me?
rsv@2Kings:18:21 @ Behold, you are relying now on Egypt, that broken reed of a staff, which will pierce the hand of any man who leans on it. Such is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who rely on him.
rsv@2Kings:18:22 @ But if you say to me, "We rely on the LORD our God," is it not he whose high places and altars Hezeki'ah has removed, saying to Judah and to Jerusalem, "You shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem"?
rsv@2Kings:18:23 @ Come now, make a wager with my master the king of Assyria: I will give you two thousand horses, if you are able on your part to set riders upon them.
rsv@2Kings:18:24 @ How then can you repulse a single captain among the least of my master's servants, when you rely on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?
rsv@2Kings:18:25 @ Moreover, is it without the LORD that I have come up against this place to destroy it? The LORD said to me, Go up against this land, and destroy it.'"
rsv@2Kings:18:26 @ Then Eli'akim the son of Hilki'ah, and Shebnah, and Jo'ah, said to the Rab'shakeh, "Pray, speak to your servants in the Aramaic language, for we understand it; do not speak to us in the language of Judah within the hearing of the people who are on the wall."
rsv@2Kings:18:27 @ But the Rab'shakeh said to them, "Has my master sent me to speak these words to your master and to you, and not to the men sitting on the wall, who are doomed with you to eat their own dung and to drink their own urine?"
rsv@2Kings:18:28 @ Then the Rab'shakeh stood and called out in a loud voice in the language of Judah: "Hear the word of the great king, the king of Assyria!
rsv@2Kings:18:29 @ Thus says the king: `Do not let Hezeki'ah deceive you, for he will not be able to deliver you out of my hand.
rsv@2Kings:18:30 @ Do not let Hezeki'ah make you to rely on the LORD by saying, The LORD will surely deliver us, and this city will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.'
rsv@2Kings:18:31 @ Do not listen to Hezeki'ah; for thus says the king of Assyria: `Make your peace with me and come out to me; then every one of you will eat of his own vine, and every one of his own fig tree, and every one of you will drink the water of his own cistern;
rsv@2Kings:18:32 @ until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of grain and wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive trees and honey, that you may live, and not die. And do not listen to Hezeki'ah when he misleads you by saying, The LORD will deliver us.
rsv@2Kings:18:33 @ Has any of the gods of the nations ever delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?
rsv@2Kings:18:34 @ Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharva'im, Hena, and Ivvah? Have they delivered Sama'ria out of my hand?
rsv@2Kings:18:35 @ Who among all the gods of the countries have delivered their countries out of my hand, that the LORD should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?'"
rsv@2Kings:18:36 @ But the people were silent and answered him not a word, for the king's command was, "Do not answer him."
rsv@2Kings:18:37 @ Then Eli'akim the son of Hilki'ah, who was over the household, and Shebna the secretary, and Jo'ah the son of Asaph, the recorder, came to Hezeki'ah with their clothes rent, and told him the words of the Rab'shakeh.
rsv@2Kings:19:1 @ When King Hezeki'ah heard it, he rent his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of the LORD.
rsv@2Kings:19:2 @ And he sent Eli'akim, who was over the household, and Shebna the secretary, and the senior priests, covered with sackcloth, to the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz.
rsv@2Kings:19:3 @ They said to him, "Thus says Hezeki'ah, This day is a day of distress, of rebuke, and of disgrace; children have come to the birth, and there is no strength to bring them forth.
rsv@2Kings:19:4 @ It may be that the LORD your God heard all the words of the Rab'shakeh, whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to mock the living God, and will rebuke the words which the LORD your God has heard; therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left."
rsv@2Kings:19:5 @ When the servants of King Hezeki'ah came to Isaiah,
rsv@2Kings:19:6 @ Isaiah said to them, "Say to your master, `Thus says the LORD: Do not be afraid because of the words that you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have reviled me.
rsv@2Kings:19:7 @ Behold, I will put a spirit in him, so that he shall hear a rumor and return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.'"
rsv@2Kings:19:8 @ The Rab'shakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria fighting against Libnah; for he heard that the king had left Lachish.
rsv@2Kings:19:9 @ And when the king heard concerning Tirha'kah king of Ethiopia, "Behold, he has set out to fight against you," he sent messengers again to Hezeki'ah, saying,
rsv@2Kings:19:10 @ "Thus shall you speak to Hezeki'ah king of Judah: `Do not let your God on whom you rely deceive you by promising that Jerusalem will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.
rsv@2Kings:19:11 @ Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, destroying them utterly. And shall you be delivered?
rsv@2Kings:19:12 @ Have the gods of the nations delivered them, the nations which my fathers destroyed, Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the people of Eden who were in Tel-assar?
rsv@2Kings:19:13 @ Where is the king of Hamath, the king of Arpad, the king of the city of Sepharva'im, the king of Hena, or the king of Ivvah?'"
rsv@2Kings:19:14 @ Hezeki'ah received the letter from the hand of the messengers, and read it; and Hezeki'ah went up to the house of the LORD, and spread it before the LORD.
rsv@2Kings:19:15 @ And Hezeki'ah prayed before the LORD, and said: "O LORD the God of Israel, who art enthroned above the cherubim, thou art the God, thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; thou hast made heaven and earth.
rsv@2Kings:19:16 @ Incline thy ear, O LORD, and hear; open thy eyes, O LORD, and see; and hear the words of Sennach'erib, which he has sent to mock the living God.
rsv@2Kings:19:17 @ Of a truth, O LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste the nations and their lands,
rsv@2Kings:19:18 @ and have cast their gods into the fire; for they were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone; therefore they were destroyed.
rsv@2Kings:19:19 @ So now, O LORD our God, save us, I beseech thee, from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou, O LORD, art God alone."
rsv@2Kings:19:20 @ Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezeki'ah, saying, "Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: Your prayer to me about Sennach'erib king of Assyria I have heard.
rsv@2Kings:19:21 @ This is the word that the LORD has spoken concerning him: "She despises you, she scorns you--the virgin daughter of Zion; she wags her head behind you--the daughter of Jerusalem.
rsv@2Kings:19:22 @ "Whom have you mocked and reviled? Against whom have you raised your voice and haughtily lifted your eyes? Against the Holy One of Israel!
rsv@2Kings:19:23 @ By your messengers you have mocked the LORD, and you have said, `With my many chariots I have gone up the heights of the mountains, to the far recesses of Lebanon; I felled its tallest cedars, its choicest cypresses; I entered its farthest retreat, its densest forest.
rsv@2Kings:19:24 @ I dug wells and drank foreign waters, and I dried up with the sole of my foot all the streams of Egypt.'
rsv@2Kings:19:25 @ "Have you not heard that I determined it long ago? I planned from days of old what now I bring to pass, that you should turn fortified cities into heaps of ruins,
rsv@2Kings:19:26 @ while their inhabitants, shorn of strength, are dismayed and confounded, and have become like plants of the field, and like tender grass, like grass on the housetops; blighted before it is grown?
rsv@2Kings:19:27 @ "But I know your sitting down and your going out and coming in, and your raging against me.
rsv@2Kings:19:28 @ Because you have raged against me and your arrogance has come into my ears, I will put my hook in your nose and my bit in your mouth, and I will turn you back on the way by which you came.
rsv@2Kings:19:29 @ "And this shall be the sign for you: this year you shall eat what grows of itself, and in the second year what springs of the same; then in the third year sow, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat their fruit.
rsv@2Kings:19:30 @ And the surviving remnant of the house of Judah shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward;
rsv@2Kings:19:31 @ for out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and out of Mount Zion a band of survivors. The zeal of the LORD will do this.
rsv@2Kings:19:32 @ "Therefore thus says the LORD concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come into this city or shoot an arrow there, or come before it with a shield or cast up a siege mound against it.
rsv@2Kings:19:33 @ By the way that he came, by the same he shall return, and he shall not come into this city, says the LORD.
rsv@2Kings:19:34 @ For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake and for the sake of my servant David."
rsv@2Kings:19:35 @ And that night the angel of the LORD went forth, and slew a hundred and eighty-five thousand in the camp of the Assyrians; and when men arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.
rsv@2Kings:19:36 @ Then Sennach'erib king of Assyria departed, and went home, and dwelt at Nin'eveh.
rsv@2Kings:19:37 @ And as he was worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god, Adram'melech and Share'zer, his sons, slew him with the sword, and escaped into the land of Ar'arat. And Esarhad'don his son reigned in his stead.
rsv@2Kings:20:1 @ In those days Hezeki'ah became sick and was at the point of death. And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came to him, and said to him, "Thus says the LORD, `Set your house in order; for you shall die, you shall not recover.'"
rsv@2Kings:20:2 @ Then Hezeki'ah turned his face to the wall, and prayed to the LORD, saying,
rsv@2Kings:20:3 @ "Remember now, O LORD, I beseech thee, how I have walked before thee in faithfulness and with a whole heart, and have done what is good in thy sight." And Hezeki'ah wept bitterly.
rsv@2Kings:20:4 @ And before Isaiah had gone out of the middle court, the word of the LORD came to him:
rsv@2Kings:20:5 @ "Turn back, and say to Hezeki'ah the prince of my people, Thus 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.
rsv@2Kings:20:6 @ And I will add fifteen years to your life. 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."
rsv@2Kings:20:7 @ And Isaiah said, "Bring a cake of figs. And let them take and lay it on the boil, that he may recover."
rsv@2Kings:20:8 @ And Hezeki'ah said to Isaiah, "What shall be the sign that the LORD will heal me, and that I shall go up to the house of the LORD on the third day?"
rsv@2Kings:20:9 @ And Isaiah said, "This is the sign to you from the LORD, that the LORD will do the thing that he has promised: shall the shadow go forward ten steps, or go back ten steps?"
rsv@2Kings:20:10 @ And Hezeki'ah answered, "It is an easy thing for the shadow to lengthen ten steps; rather let the shadow go back ten steps."
rsv@2Kings:20:11 @ And Isaiah the prophet cried to the LORD; and he brought the shadow back ten steps, by which the sun had declined on the dial of Ahaz.
rsv@2Kings:20:12 @ At that time Mero'dach-bal'adan the son of Bal'adan, king of Babylon, sent envoys with letters and a present to Hezeki'ah; for he heard that Hezeki'ah had been sick.
rsv@2Kings:20:13 @ And Hezeki'ah welcomed them, and he showed them all his treasure house, the silver, the gold, the spices, the precious oil, his armory, all that was found in his storehouses; there was nothing in his house or in all his realm that Hezeki'ah did not show them.
rsv@2Kings:20:14 @ Then Isaiah the prophet came to King Hezeki'ah, and said to him, "What did these men say? And whence did they come to you?" And Hezeki'ah said, "They have come from a far country, from Babylon."
rsv@2Kings:20:15 @ He said, "What have they seen in your house?" And Hezeki'ah answered, "They have seen all that is in my house; there is nothing in my storehouses that I did not show them."
rsv@2Kings:20:16 @ Then Isaiah said to Hezeki'ah, "Hear the word of the LORD:
rsv@2Kings:20:17 @ Behold, the days are coming, when all that is in your house, and that which your fathers have stored up till this day, shall be carried to Babylon; nothing shall be left, says the LORD.
rsv@2Kings:20:18 @ And some of your own sons, who are born to you, shall be taken away; and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon."
rsv@2Kings:20:19 @ Then said Hezeki'ah to Isaiah, "The word of the LORD which you have spoken is good." For he thought, "Why not, if there will be peace and security in my days?"
rsv@2Kings:20:20 @ The rest of the deeds of Hezeki'ah, and all his might, and how he made the pool and the conduit and brought water into the city, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?
rsv@2Kings:20:21 @ And Hezeki'ah slept with his fathers; and Manas'seh his son reigned in his stead.
rsv@2Kings:21:1 @ Manas'seh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Heph'zibah.
rsv@2Kings:21:2 @ And he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to the abominable practices of the nations whom the LORD drove out before the people of Israel.
rsv@2Kings:21:3 @ For he rebuilt the high places which Hezeki'ah his father had destroyed; and he erected altars for Ba'al, and made an Ashe'rah, as Ahab king of Israel had done, and worshiped all the host of heaven, and served them.
rsv@2Kings:21:4 @ And he built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD had said, "In Jerusalem will I put my name."
rsv@2Kings:21:5 @ And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD.
rsv@2Kings:21:6 @ And he burned his son as an offering, and practiced soothsaying and augury, and dealt with mediums and with wizards. He did much evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking him to anger.
rsv@2Kings:21:7 @ And the graven image of Ashe'rah that he had made he set in the house of which the LORD 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 for ever;
rsv@2Kings:21:8 @ and I will not cause the feet of Israel to wander any more out of the land which I gave to their fathers, if only 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."
rsv@2Kings:21:9 @ But they did not listen, and Manas'seh seduced them to do more evil than the nations had done whom the LORD destroyed before the people of Israel.
rsv@2Kings:21:10 @ And the LORD said by his servants the prophets,
rsv@2Kings:21:11 @ "Because Manas'seh king of Judah has committed these abominations, and has done things more wicked than all that the Amorites did, who were before him, and has made Judah also to sin with his idols;
rsv@2Kings:21:12 @ therefore thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, Behold, I am bringing upon Jerusalem and Judah such evil that the ears of every one who hears of it will tingle.
rsv@2Kings:21:13 @ And I will stretch over Jerusalem the measuring line of Sama'ria, and the plummet of the house of Ahab; and I will wipe Jerusalem as one wipes a dish, wiping it and turning it upside down.
rsv@2Kings:21:14 @ And I will cast off the remnant of my heritage, and give them into the hand of their enemies, and they shall become a prey and a spoil to all their enemies,
rsv@2Kings:21:15 @ because they have done what is evil in my sight and have provoked me to anger, since the day their fathers came out of Egypt, even to this day."
rsv@2Kings:21:16 @ Moreover Manas'seh shed very much innocent blood, till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another, besides the sin which he made Judah to sin so that they did what was evil in the sight of the LORD.
rsv@2Kings:21:17 @ Now the rest of the acts of Manas'seh, and all that he did, and the sin that he committed, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?
rsv@2Kings:21:18 @ And Manas'seh slept with his fathers, and was buried in the garden of his house, in the garden of Uzza; and Amon his son reigned in his stead.
rsv@2Kings:21:19 @ Amon was twenty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned two years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Meshul'lemeth the daughter of Haruz of Jotbah.
rsv@2Kings:21:20 @ And he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, as Manas'seh his father had done.
rsv@2Kings:21:21 @ He walked in all the way in which his father walked, and served the idols that his father served, and worshiped them;
rsv@2Kings:21:22 @ he forsook the LORD, the God of his fathers, and did not walk in the way of the LORD.
rsv@2Kings:21:23 @ And the servants of Amon conspired against him, and killed the king in his house.
rsv@2Kings:21:24 @ But the people of the land slew all those who had conspired against King Amon, and the people of the land made Josi'ah his son king in his stead.
rsv@2Kings:21:25 @ Now the rest of the acts of Amon which he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?
rsv@2Kings:21:26 @ And he was buried in his tomb in the garden of Uzza; and Josi'ah his son reigned in his stead.
rsv@2Kings:22:1 @ Josi'ah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Jedi'dah the daughter of Adai'ah of Bozkath.
rsv@2Kings:22:2 @ And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, and walked in all the way of David his father, and he did not turn aside to the right hand or to the left.
rsv@2Kings:22:3 @ In the eighteenth year of King Josi'ah, the king sent Shaphan the son of Azali'ah, son of Meshul'lam, the secretary, to the house of the LORD, saying,
rsv@2Kings:22:4 @ "Go up to Hilki'ah the high priest, that he may reckon the amount of the money which has been brought into the house of the LORD, which the keepers of the threshold have collected from the people;
rsv@2Kings:22:5 @ and let it be given into the hand of the workmen who have the oversight of the house of the LORD; and let them give it to the workmen who are at the house of the LORD, repairing the house,
rsv@2Kings:22:6 @ that is, to the carpenters, and to the builders, and to the masons, as well as for buying timber and quarried stone to repair the house.
rsv@2Kings:22:7 @ But no accounting shall be asked from them for the money which is delivered into their hand, for they deal honestly."
rsv@2Kings:22:8 @ And Hilki'ah the high priest said to Shaphan the secretary, "I have found the book of the law in the house of the LORD." And Hilki'ah gave the book to Shaphan, and he read it.
rsv@2Kings:22:9 @ And Shaphan the secretary came to the king, and reported to the king, "Your servants have emptied out the money that was found in the house, and have delivered it into the hand of the workmen who have the oversight of the house of the LORD."
rsv@2Kings:22:10 @ Then Shaphan the secretary told the king, "Hilki'ah the priest has given me a book." And Shaphan read it before the king.
rsv@2Kings:22:11 @ And when the king heard the words of the book of the law, he rent his clothes.
rsv@2Kings:22:12 @ And the king commanded Hilki'ah the priest, and Ahi'kam the son of Shaphan, and Achbor the son of Micai'ah, and Shaphan the secretary, and Asai'ah the king's servant, saying,
rsv@2Kings:22:13 @ "Go, inquire of the LORD for me, and for the people, and for all Judah, concerning the words of this book that has been found; for great is the wrath of the LORD that is kindled against us, because our fathers have not obeyed the words of this book, to do according to all that is written concerning us."
rsv@2Kings:22:14 @ So Hilki'ah the priest, and Ahi'kam, and Achbor, and Shaphan, and Asai'ah went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvah, son of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe (now she dwelt in Jerusalem in the Second Quarter); and they talked with her.
rsv@2Kings:22:15 @ And she said to them, "Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: `Tell the man who sent you to me,
rsv@2Kings:22:16 @ Thus says the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil upon this place and upon its inhabitants, all the words of the book which the king of Judah has read.
rsv@2Kings:22:17 @ Because they have forsaken me and have burned incense to other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the work of their hands, therefore my wrath will be kindled against this place, and it will not be quenched.
rsv@2Kings:22:18 @ But as to the king of Judah, who sent you to inquire of the LORD, thus shall you say to him, Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: Regarding the words which you have heard,
rsv@2Kings:22:19 @ because your heart was penitent, and you humbled yourself before the LORD, when you heard how I spoke against this place, and against its inhabitants, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and you have rent your clothes and wept before me, I also have heard you, says the LORD.
rsv@2Kings:22:20 @ Therefore, behold, 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 upon this place.'" And they brought back word to the king.
rsv@2Kings:23:1 @ Then the king sent, and all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem were gathered to him.
rsv@2Kings:23:2 @ And the king went up to the house of the LORD, and with him all the men of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the priests and the prophets, all the people, both small and great; and he read in their hearing all the words of the book of the covenant which had been found in the house of the LORD.
rsv@2Kings:23:3 @ And the king stood by the 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 that were written in this book; and all the people joined in the covenant.
rsv@2Kings:23:4 @ And the king commanded Hilki'ah, the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the threshold, to bring out of the temple of the LORD all the vessels made for Ba'al, for Ashe'rah, and for all the host of heaven; he burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron, and carried their ashes to Bethel.
rsv@2Kings:23:5 @ And he deposed the idolatrous priests whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places at the cities of Judah and round about Jerusalem; those also who burned incense to Ba'al, to the sun, and the moon, and the constellations, and all the host of the heavens.
rsv@2Kings:23:6 @ And he brought out the Ashe'rah from the house of the LORD, outside Jerusalem, to the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and beat it to dust and cast the dust of it upon the graves of the common people.
rsv@2Kings:23:7 @ And he broke down the houses of the male cult prostitutes which were in the house of the LORD, where the women wove hangings for the Ashe'rah.
rsv@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 that were at the entrance of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city, which were on one's left at the gate of the city.
rsv@2Kings:23:9 @ However, the priests of the high places did not come up to the altar of the LORD in Jerusalem, but they ate unleavened bread among their brethren.
rsv@2Kings:23:10 @ And he defiled To'pheth, which is in the valley of the sons of Hinnom, that no one might burn his son or his daughter as an offering to Molech.
rsv@2Kings:23:11 @ And he removed the horses that the kings of Judah had dedicated to the sun, at the entrance to the house of the LORD, by the chamber of Nathan-melech the chamberlain, which was in the precincts; and he burned the chariots of the sun with fire.
rsv@2Kings:23:12 @ And the altars on the roof of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manas'seh had made in the two courts of the house of the LORD, he pulled down and broke in pieces, and cast the dust of them into the brook Kidron.
rsv@2Kings:23:13 @ And the king defiled the high places that were east of Jerusalem, to the south of the mount of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had built for Ash'toreth the abomination of the Sido'nians, and for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, and for Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.
rsv@2Kings:23:14 @ And he broke in pieces the pillars, and cut down the Ashe'rim, and filled their places with the bones of men.
rsv@2Kings:23:15 @ Moreover the altar at Bethel, the high place erected by Jerobo'am the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, that altar with the high place he pulled down and he broke in pieces its stones, crushing them to dust; also he burned the Ashe'rah.
rsv@2Kings:23:16 @ And as Josi'ah turned, he saw the tombs there on the mount; and he sent and took the bones out of the tombs, and burned them upon the altar, and defiled it, according to the word of the LORD which the man of God proclaimed, who had predicted these things.
rsv@2Kings:23:17 @ Then he said, "What is yonder monument that I see?" And the men of the city told him, "It is the tomb of the man of God who came from Judah and predicted these things which you have done against the altar at Bethel."
rsv@2Kings:23:18 @ And he said, "Let him be; let no man move his bones." So they let his bones alone, with the bones of the prophet who came out of Sama'ria.
rsv@2Kings:23:19 @ And all the shrines also of the high places that were in the cities of Sama'ria, which kings of Israel had made, provoking the LORD to anger, Josi'ah removed; he did to them according to all that he had done at Bethel.
rsv@2Kings:23:20 @ And he slew all the priests of the high places who were there, upon the altars, and burned the bones of men upon them. Then he returned to Jerusalem.
rsv@2Kings:23:21 @ And the king commanded all the people, "Keep the passover to the LORD your God, as it is written in this book of the covenant."
rsv@2Kings:23:22 @ For no such passover had been kept since the days of the judges who judged Israel, or during all the days of the kings of Israel or of the kings of Judah;
rsv@2Kings:23:23 @ but in the eighteenth year of King Josi'ah this passover was kept to the LORD in Jerusalem.
rsv@2Kings:23:24 @ Moreover Josi'ah put away the mediums and the wizards and the teraphim and the idols and all the abominations that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, that he might establish the words of the law which were written in the book that Hilki'ah the priest found in the house of the LORD.
rsv@2Kings:23:25 @ Before him there was no king like 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; nor did any like him arise after him.
rsv@2Kings:23:26 @ Still the LORD did not turn from the fierceness of his great wrath, by which his anger was kindled against Judah, because of all the provocations with which Manas'seh had provoked him.
rsv@2Kings:23:27 @ And the LORD said, "I will remove Judah also out of my sight, as I have removed Israel, and I will cast off this city which I have chosen, Jerusalem, and the house of which I said, My name shall be there."
rsv@2Kings:23:28 @ Now the rest of the acts of Josi'ah, and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?
rsv@2Kings:23:29 @ In his days Pharaoh Neco king of Egypt went up to the king of Assyria to the river Euphra'tes. King Josi'ah went to meet him; and Pharaoh Neco slew him at Megid'do, when he saw him.
rsv@2Kings:23:30 @ And his servants carried him dead in a chariot from Megid'do, and brought him to Jerusalem, and buried him in his own tomb. And the people of the land took Jeho'ahaz the son of Josi'ah, and anointed him, and made him king in his father's stead.
rsv@2Kings:23:31 @ Jeho'ahaz was twenty-three years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Hamu'tal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
rsv@2Kings:23:32 @ And he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his fathers had done.
rsv@2Kings:23:33 @ And Pharaoh Neco put him in bonds at Riblah in the land of Hamath, that he might not reign in Jerusalem, and laid upon the land a tribute of a hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.
rsv@2Kings:23:34 @ And Pharaoh Neco made Eli'akim the son of Josi'ah king in the place of Josi'ah his father, and changed his name to Jehoi'akim. But he took Jeho'ahaz away; and he came to Egypt, and died there.
rsv@2Kings:23:35 @ And Jehoi'akim gave the silver and the gold to Pharaoh, but he taxed the land to give the money according to the command of Pharaoh. He exacted the silver and the gold of the people of the land, from every one according to his assessment, to give it to Pharaoh Neco.
rsv@2Kings:23:36 @ Jehoi'akim was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Zebi'dah the daughter of Pedai'ah of Rumah.
rsv@2Kings:23:37 @ And he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his fathers had done.
rsv@2Kings:24:1 @ In his days Nebuchadnez'zar king of Babylon came up, and Jehoi'akim became his servant three years; then he turned and rebelled against him.
rsv@2Kings:24:2 @ And the LORD sent against him bands of the Chalde'ans, and bands of the Syrians, and bands of the Moabites, and bands of the Ammonites, and sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of the LORD which he spoke by his servants the prophets.
rsv@2Kings:24:3 @ Surely this came upon Judah at the command of the LORD, to remove them out of his sight, for the sins of Manas'seh, according to all that he had done,
rsv@2Kings:24:4 @ and also for the innocent blood that he had shed; for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and the LORD would not pardon.
rsv@2Kings:24:5 @ Now the rest of the deeds of Jehoi'akim, and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?
rsv@2Kings:24:6 @ So Jehoi'akim slept with his fathers, and Jehoi'achin his son reigned in his stead.
rsv@2Kings:24:7 @ And the king of Egypt did not come again out of his land, for the king of Babylon had taken all that belonged to the king of Egypt from the Brook of Egypt to the river Euphra'tes.
rsv@2Kings:24:8 @ Jehoi'achin was eighteen years old when he became king, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Nehush'ta the daughter of Elna'than of Jerusalem.
rsv@2Kings:24:9 @ And he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father had done.
rsv@2Kings:24:10 @ At that time the servants of Nebuchadnez'zar king of Babylon came up to Jerusalem, and the city was besieged.
rsv@2Kings:24:11 @ And Nebuchadnez'zar king of Babylon came to the city, while his servants were besieging it;
rsv@2Kings:24:12 @ and Jehoi'achin the king of Judah gave himself up to the king of Babylon, himself, and his mother, and his servants, and his princes, and his palace officials. The king of Babylon took him prisoner in the eighth year of his reign,
rsv@2Kings:24:13 @ and carried off 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 in the temple of the LORD, which Solomon king of Israel had made, as the LORD had foretold.
rsv@2Kings:24:14 @ He carried away all Jerusalem, and all the princes, and all the mighty men of valor, ten thousand captives, and all the craftsmen and the smiths; none remained, except the poorest people of the land.
rsv@2Kings:24:15 @ And he carried away Jehoi'achin to Babylon; the king's mother, the king's wives, his officials, and the chief men of the land, he took into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon.
rsv@2Kings:24:16 @ And the king of Babylon brought captive to Babylon all the men of valor, seven thousand, and the craftsmen and the smiths, one thousand, all of them strong and fit for war.
rsv@2Kings:24:17 @ And the king of Babylon made Mattani'ah, Jehoi'achin's uncle, king in his stead, and changed his name to Zedeki'ah.
rsv@2Kings:24:18 @ Zedeki'ah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Hamu'tal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
rsv@2Kings:24:19 @ And he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that Jehoi'akim had done.
rsv@2Kings:24:20 @ For because of the anger of the LORD it came to the point in Jerusalem and Judah that he cast them out from his presence. And Zedeki'ah rebelled against the king of Babylon.
rsv@2Kings:25:1 @ And in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month, Nebuchadnez'zar king of Babylon came with all his army against Jerusalem, and laid siege to it; and they built siegeworks against it round about.
rsv@2Kings:25:2 @ So the city was besieged till the eleventh year of King Zedeki'ah.
rsv@2Kings:25:3 @ On the ninth day of the fourth month the famine was so severe in the city that there was no food for the people of the land.
rsv@2Kings:25:4 @ Then a breach was made in the city; the king with all the men of war fled by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, by the king's garden, though the Chalde'ans were around the city. And they went in the direction of the Arabah.
rsv@2Kings:25:5 @ But the army of the Chalde'ans pursued the king, and overtook him in the plains of Jericho; and all his army was scattered from him.
rsv@2Kings:25:6 @ Then they captured the king, and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah, who passed sentence upon him.
rsv@2Kings:25:7 @ They slew the sons of Zedeki'ah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedeki'ah, and bound him in fetters, and took him to Babylon.
rsv@2Kings:25:8 @ In the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month--which was the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnez'zar, king of Babylon--Nebu'zarad'an, the captain of the bodyguard, a servant of the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem.
rsv@2Kings:25:9 @ And he burned the house of the LORD, and the king's house and all the houses of Jerusalem; every great house he burned down.
rsv@2Kings:25:10 @ And all the army of the Chalde'ans, who were with the captain of the guard, broke down the walls around Jerusalem.
rsv@2Kings:25:11 @ And the rest of the people who were left in the city and the deserters who had deserted to the king of Babylon, together with the rest of the multitude, Nebu'zarad'an the captain of the guard carried into exile.
rsv@2Kings:25:12 @ But the captain of the guard left some of the poorest of the land to be vinedressers and plowmen.
rsv@2Kings:25:13 @ And the pillars of bronze that were in the house of the LORD, and the stands and the bronze sea that were in the house of the LORD, the Chalde'ans broke in pieces, and carried the bronze to Babylon.
rsv@2Kings:25:14 @ And they took away the pots, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the dishes for incense and all the vessels of bronze used in the temple service,![[pBiblx2]](/img/pbiblx2_logo3.png){kind=logo}