II. Kines XXIII. 21.

B.C. 624. a. abdahm.
THE PASSOVER Kept.
21-23. 2CHR. 35. 1-19.
3.6. Jehovah | ™
ica
about 623. His 18th year ending. THE LAW
1
FORMED. t. teraphim.
J. Jehovah.
a. according as.
c. chose.
ACTS OF JOSIAH. 28. 2CHR. 35.
26,
His DEATH.
610. 29,30. 2CHR. 35. 20-25.
b. burying. place.
JEHOAHAZ REIGNS
e. Eliakim, God will_ raise-up.
the altars, and burned «men’s ~bones upon them, and returned to Jerusalem.
21 And the king commanded rall the people, saying, “*Keep the passover unto Jthe Lorp your =God, as it is awritten in the_book_of xthis xcove-
22 Surely there was not holden xsuch a xpassover from the_days_of the judges that judged -Israél, nor in all the_days_ of the_kings_of Israél, nor of the_kings_ of Judah ;
2% But in the_eighteenth year_of xking Josiah, wherein xthis xpassover was_ holden to J the Lorp in Jerusalem.
24 Moreover «the workers with fami- liar spirits, and -the wizards, and -the timages, and -the idols, and all the abominations that were_spied in the_ land_of Judah and in Jerusalem, did Josiah put_away, that_he_might per- form -the_words_of the law x+which were_written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the_house_of ‘the Lorp.
2% And like unto him was there no king before him, that turned to ! the LorD with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his might, accord- ing_to all the_law_of Moses; neither after him arose there any like him.
26 Notwithstanding / the Lorp turned not from the_fierceness_of His xgreat wrath, wherewith His anger was _ kin- dled against Judah, because of all the provocations that Manasseh had_pro- voked Him withal.
2 And Jthe Lorp said, “I will_re- move -Judah also out_of My sight, «as I have removed vIsraél, and -will_cast_ off xthis *city “Jerusalem which I c-have_ chosen, and -the house_of which I said, ¢ My name shall_be there.’”
Now the_rest_of the_acts_of Josiah, and all that he did, are thep not writ- ten in the_book_of the chronicles of the_kings_of Judah ?
229 In his days Pharaoh-nechoh king_ of Egypt went_up against the_king_of Assyria to the river Euphrates: and xking Josiah went against him; and he slew him at Megiddo, when he had_ seen him.
30 And his servants carried_him_in_ a_chariot dead from Megiddo, and brought him to Jerusalem, and buried him in his_own 2 sepulchre.
And the_people_of the land took jeJehoahaz the_son_of Josiah, and anointed him, and made him king in his father’s stead.
81 Jehoahaz was twenty and three
.| years old when he began_to_reign ; and
he reigned three months in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was * Hamutal, the_daughter_of Jeremiah of Libnah. *2 And he did that which was xeyil in the_sight_of Jthe Lorp, according_to all that his fathers had_done. 33 And Pharaoh-nechoh put_him_in
y |bands at Riblah in the_land_of Ha-
math, that he might not reign in Jeru- salem ; and put the land to a tribute of
*/ahundred talents-_of silver,andatalent_
of gold. 84 And Pharaoh-nechoh made ¢ -Eli- akim the_son_of Josiah king in the_
.
Il: Krnas XXIV.
room_of Josiah his father, and turned|B.C.: his “name to Jj Jehoiakim, and took 6 -Jehoahaz away : and hecame to Egypt, |j. Jehoi- and died there. ’ pe fe.
3 And Jehoiakim gave the silver and) rice np the gold to Pharaoh ; but he taxed «the land to give the s money according_to the_commandment_of Pharaoh : he ex- acted -the silver and the gold of -the_ people_of the land, of every_one accord- ing_to his taxation, to give ¢t unto Pharaoh-nechoh.
36 Jehoiakim was twenty and five years old when he began_to_reign ; and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem, And his mother’s name was + Zebu- dah, the_daughter_of Pedaiah of Ru- mah. ~
37 And he did that which was xevil in the_sight_of / the Lorp, according_to all that his fathers had done.
s. silver. 4
2 4. IN his days » Nebuchadnezzar
king_of Babylon came_up, and Jehoiakim became his servant three years: then he turned and rebelled against him.
2 And !the Lorp sent against him -bands_of the Chaldees, and -bands_of the Syrians, and -bands_of the Moab- ites, and -bands_of the_schildren_of Ammon, and sent them against Judah to destroy it, according_to the-word_of the Lorp, which He spake by His servants the prophets.
3 Surely at the.” commandment_of| 2° "4,, Ithe Lorp came this upon Judah, to}.s, 1 remove them out of His sight, for the_ sins_of Manasseh, according_to all that he did ;
4 And also for the innocent blood that he shed: for he filled -Jerusalem with innocent blood; which ! the Lorp would not pardon.
5 Now the_rest_of the_acts_of Je- hoiakim, and all that he did, are thep not written in the_book_of the chroni- cles of the_kings_of Judah ?
6 So Jehoiakim slept with his fathers: and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his stead.
7 And the_king_of Egypt came not again any_more out_of his land: for the_king_of Babylon had_taken from the_river_of Egypt unto the river Eu- phrates all that pertained to the_king_|J of Egypt.
8 j 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.
9 And he did that which was xevil in the_sight_of ‘the Lorn, according_to all that his father had_done.
10 At xthat xtime the_servants_of Ne- buchadnezzar king_of Babylon came_ up against Jerusalem, and the city was besieged.
ll And Nebuchadnezzar king_of Ba- bylon came against the city, and his} See servants +did_besiege it.
12 And Jehoiachin the_king_of Judah} ™ went_out to the_king_of Babylon, ke,| fzek. and his mother, and his:servants, and his princes, and his « officers: and the}|®
316
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-— Ti. Kines XXIV. 13.
B.C. 599.
. Jehovah.
eunichs.
pe. anah- shim,
n. Matta- niah, Gift_ of Jehovah. ZEDEKIAH'S REIGN. 8. 2CHR, 36. fe JER. 52, . Zedekiah, Righteous- ness.0 Jehovah.
9,20, 2CHR. 26. 12, 13. WER. 52. 2,3.
BD. | 20)
king_of Babylon took hinvin the_eighth year_of his reign.
13 And he carried_out thence the_treasures _of the _house_of ‘the Lorp, and the_treasures_of the king’s house, and cut_in_picces -all the_ves- sels_of xgold which Solomon king_of Israél had_made in the_temple_of ! the LORD, “as 'the Lorp had_said.
14 And he salem, and ~all the princes, and the_mighty_men_of xvalour, even ten thousand captives, and all the ar crafts- men and xsmiths : none remained, save foe popped sort_of the_people_of the and,
J+ And, he carried_away ~Jehoiachin to Babylon, and the king’s "mother, and the king’s -wives, and his ¢ «officers, and -the_mighty_of the land, those carried he into_captivity from Jeru- salem to Babylon.
16 And -all the_~ men_of xmight, even seven thousand, and « xcraftsmen and xsmiths a thousand, xall that were strong and apt for war, even them the_ king_of Babylon brought captive to Ba- bylon.
Ww And the_king_of Babylon made m+Mattaniah his father’s brother king
{in his stead, and changed his “name to
Zedekiah.
18 zZedekiah was twenty and one years old when he began_to_reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Hamutal, the_daughter_of Jeremiah of Libnah.
19 And he did that which was xevil in the_sight_of the Lorp, according_to all that Jehoiakim had_done.
20 For through the_anger_of !the Lorp it_came_to_pass in Jerusalem and Judah, until He had_cast them out from His presence, that Zedekiah re- belled against the_king_of Babylon.
AND it came_to_pass in the ninth
year_of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king_of Babylon came, he, and all his /host, against
ANB erusalem, and pitched against it; and
they built forts against it round _ about.
2 And the city was besieged unto the eleventh year_of xking Zedekiah.
8 And on the_ninth_day_of the fourth
.| month the famine prevailed in the city,
and there was no bread for the_people_ of the land. 4 And the city was_broken_up, and all
2, | the_@ men_of xwar fled by night by the_
way _of the gate between xtwo _ walls, which is by the king’s garden: (now the Chaldees were against the city round_about :) and the king went the way_toward the plain.
5 And the_army-_of the Chaldees pur- sued after the king, and overtook hin in the_plains_of Jericho: and all his army were_scattered from him.
6 So they took -the king, and brought him up to the_king_of Babylon to Rib- lah; and they gave judgment upon him.
7 And they slew ~the_sons_of Zedekiah before his eyes, and 4 put_out -the_eyes_