II. CHRONICLES XXXIV. 9.

built high_places, and -set_up groves and xgraven_images, before he was_ humbled: behold, they are written among the_sayings_of * the seers.
20 So Manasseh slept with his fathers, and they buried him in his_own house: and Amon his son reigned in his stead.
21 a Amon was two and twenty years old when he began_to_reign, and reign- ed two years in Jerusalem.
= But he did that which was xevilin the_sight_of 4 the Lorp, acas did Ma- nasseh his father: for Amon sacrificed unto all the carved_images which Man- — his father had_made, and served them ;
23 And humbled not himself before ithe LorbD, as Manasseh his father had_
passed more and more.
2+ And his servants conspired against him, and slew him in his_own house.
> But heractaey Sens the land slew rall=them_that xking Amon; and the_people_of the land made ~Josiah his son king in his
34 jo JOSIAH was eight years old when he began_to_reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem one and thirty years. 5 2 And he did that which was right | in the_sight_of J the Lorn, and walked
‘declined neither to the right_hand, nor to the left.
3 For in the_eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he an to seek after the_=God_of David his fa- ther: and in the twelfth year he began to purge -Judah and Jerusalem from the high_places, and the groves, andthe carved_images, and the molten_images.
4 And they brake_down rthe_altars_
he cut_down; and the groves, and the carved_images, and the molten_images, he brake_in_pieces, and made_dust of | them, and strewed it upon ‘the graves jof them.
5 And he burnt the_bones_of the priests upon their altars, and cleansed -Judah and -Jerusalem.
6 And so did he in the_cities_of Man- asseh, and Ephraim, and Simeon, even unto Naphtali, with their rmattocks round_about.
7 And when he had_broken_down «the altars and -the groves, and had_ beaten the graven_images into powder, and cut_down all the idols throughout all the_land_of Israél, he returned to Jerusalem.
8 Now in the_eighteenth year_of his reign, when he had_purged -the land, and the house, he sent -Shaphan the_ son_of Azaliah, and «Maaseiah the_ governor_of the city, and -Joah the_
humbled_himself; but »* Amon tres-|
ad_conspired against |
in the_ways_of David his father, and +
of x=Baalim in his presence; and the simages, that were on_high above them, |
B.C. 677.
k. Khozai-.
AMON’S REIGN. 3. 21-23. 2 Kin. 2119-2 |
a. Amon, Faithful. ac. accord-
ing as.
ah. he.
Cs | 24, 5. 2 Kin. 21, 23-25. |
JOSIAH'S REIGN. 1, 2.2 Kin, | 221,2 jo, Josiah, | Given_of
| Jeho J. Jehovah.
3. Ch. 33.17, | 2%
| 4. Lev. 26. 30.
| | |
| s. sun_ images.
| ,t. the-face_ of.
|5.1 Kin. 13. | 2 630.
|r. ruined_ places.
7. Deut. 9. 21.
REPAIRS THE TEMPLE.
624. |$-13. 2 Kin.
23-7. 3.6. Jehovah |
son_of Joahaz the recorder, to repair |"},j- 5)
-the_house_of 4 the Lorp his =God.
3’ And when they came to * Hilkiah the high ~priest, they delivered -the simoney that was_brought into the_
367
as io- him. h. Hilkiah, Portion_of
Jehovah. {st silver.