your God isgracious and merciful, and will not turn away hisface from you, if ye return unto
him.
10 So the posts passed from city to city through the country of Ephraim and Manasseh even unto
Zebulun: but they laughed them to scorn, and mocked them.
11 Nevertheless divers of Asher and Manasseh and of Zebulun humbled themselves, and came to
Jerusalem.
12 Also in Judah the hand of God was to give them one heart to do the commandment of the king
and of the princes, by the word of the LORD.
13 And there assembled at Jerusalem much people to keep the feast of unleavened bread in the
second month, a very great congregation.
14 And they arose and took away the altars that werein Jerusalem, and all the altars for
incense took they away, and cast theminto the brook Kidron.
15 Then they killed the passover on the fourteenth dayof the second month: and the priests and
the Levites were ashamed, and sanctified themselves, and brought in the burnt offerings into
the house of the LORD.
16 And they stood in their place after their manner, according to the law of Moses the man of
God: the priests sprinkled the blood, which they receivedof the hand of the Levites.
17 For there weremany in the congregation that were not sanctified: therefore the Levites had
the charge of the killing of the passovers for every one that wasnot clean, to sanctify them
unto the LORD.
18 For a multitude of the people, evenmany of Ephraim, and Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun,
had not cleansed themselves, yet did they eat the passover otherwise than it was written. But
Hezekiah prayed for them, saying, The good LORD pardon every one
19 Thatprepareth his heart to seek God, the LORD God of his fathers, though he benot cleansed
according to the purification of the sanctuary.
20 And the LORD hearkened to Hezekiah, and healed the people.
21 And the children of Israel that were present at Jerusalem kept the feast of unleavened
bread seven days with great gladness: and the Levites and the priests praised the LORD day by
day, singingwith loud instruments unto the LORD.
22 And Hezekiah spake comfortably unto all the Levites that taught the good knowledge of the
LORD: and they did eat throughout the feast seven days, offering peace offerings, and making
confession to the LORD God of their fathers.
23 And the whole assembly took counsel to keep other seven days: and they kept otherseven
days with gladness.
24 For Hezekiah king of Judah did give to the congregation a thousand bullocks and seven
thousand sheep; and the princes gave to the congregation a thousand bullocks and ten thousand
sheep: and a great number of priests sanctified themselves.
25 And all the congregation of Judah, with the priests and the Levites, and all the congregation
that came out of Israel, and the strangers that came out of the land of Israel, and that dwelt in
Judah, rejoiced.
26 So there was great joy in Jerusalem: for since the time of Solomon the son of David king of
Israel there wasnot the like in Jerusalem.
27 Then the priests the Levites arose and blessed the people: and their voice was heard, and
their prayer came upto his holy dwelling place, evenunto heaven.
1 Now when all this was finished, all Israel that were present went out to the cities of Judah,
and brake the images in pieces, and cut down the groves, and threw down the high places and the
altars out of all Judah and Benjamin, in Ephraim also and Manasseh, until they had utterly
destroyed them all. Then all the children of Israel returned, every man to his possession, into
their own cities.

2 And Hezekiah appointed the courses of the priests and the Levites after their courses, every
man according to his service, the priests and Levites for burnt offerings and for peace
offerings, to minister, and to give thanks, and to praise in the gates of the tents of the LORD.
3 He appointedalso the king's portion of his substance for the burnt offerings, to wit, for the
morning and evening burnt offerings, and the burnt offerings for the sabbaths, and for the new
moons, and for the set feasts, as it iswritten in the law of the LORD.
4 Moreover he commanded the people that dwelt in Jerusalem to give the portion of the priests
and the Levites, that they might be encouraged in the law of the LORD.
5 And as soon as the commandment came abroad, the children of Israel brought in abundance the
firstfruits of corn, wine, and oil, and honey, and of all the increase of the field; and the tithe of
all thingsbrought they in abundantly.
6 And concerningthe children of Israel and Judah, that dwelt in the cities of Judah, they also
brought in the tithe of oxen and sheep, and the tithe of holy things which were consecrated unto
the LORD their God, and laid themby heaps.
7 In the third month they began to lay the foundation of the heaps, and finished themin the
seventh month.
8 And when Hezekiah and the princes came and saw the heaps, they blessed the LORD, and his
people Israel.
9 Then Hezekiah questioned with the priests and the Levites concerning the heaps.
10 And Azariah the chief priest of the house of Zadok answered him, and said, Since the people
began to bring the offerings into the house of the LORD, we have had enough to eat, and have left
plenty: for the LORD hath blessed his people; and that which is left isthis great store.
11 Then Hezekiah commanded to prepare chambers in the house of the LORD; and they prepared
them,
12 And brought in the offerings and the tithes and the dedicated thingsfaithfully: over which
Cononiah the Levite wasruler, and Shimei his brother wasthe next.
13 And Jehiel, and Azaziah, and Nahath, and Asahel, and Jerimoth, and Jozabad, and Eliel, and
Ismachiah, and Mahath, and Benaiah, wereoverseers under the hand of Cononiah and Shimei his
brother, at the commandment of Hezekiah the king, and Azariah the ruler of the house of God.
14 And Kore the son of Imnah the Levite, the porter toward the east, wasover the freewill
offerings of God, to distribute the oblations of the LORD, and the most holy things.
15 And next him wereEden, and Miniamin, and Jeshua, and Shemaiah, Amariah, and Shecaniah, in
the cities of the priests, in theirset office, to give to their brethren by courses, as well to the
great as to the small:
16 Beside their genealogy of males, from three years old and upward, evenunto every one that
entereth into the house of the LORD, his daily portion for their service in their charges
according to their courses;
17 Both to the genealogy of the priests by the house of their fathers, and the Levites from
twenty years old and upward, in their charges by their courses;
18 And to the genealogy of all their little ones, their wives, and their sons, and their
daughters, through all the congregation: for in their set office they sanctified themselves in
holiness:
19 Also of the sons of Aaron the priests, which werein the fields of the suburbs of their
cities, in every several city, the men that were expressed by name, to give portions to all the
males among the priests, and to all that were reckoned by genealogies among the Levites.
20 And thus did Hezekiah throughout all Judah, and wrought that which wasgood and right and
truth before the LORD his God.
21 And in every work that he began in the service of the house of God, and in the law, and in the
commandments, to seek his God, he did itwith all his heart, and prospered.

1 After these things, and the establishment thereof, Sennacherib king of Assyria came, and
entered into Judah, and encamped against the fenced cities, and thought to win them for
himself.
2 And when Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib was come, and that he was purposed to fight
against Jerusalem,
3 He took counsel with his princes and his mighty men to stop the waters of the fountains
which werewithout the city: and they did help him.
4 So there was gathered much people together, who stopped all the fountains, and the brook
that ran through the midst of the land, saying, Why should the kings of Assyria come, and find
much water?
5 Also he strengthened himself, and built up all the wall that was broken, and raised itup to
the towers, and another wall without, and repaired Millo inthe city of David, and made darts
and shields in abundance.
6 And he set captains of war over the people, and gathered them together to him in the street
of the gate of the city, and spake comfortably to them, saying,
7 Be strong and courageous, be not afraid nor dismayed for the king of Assyria, nor for all the
multitude that iswith him: for there bemore with us than with him:
8 With him isan arm of flesh; but with us isthe LORD our God to help us, and to fight our
battles. And the people rested themselves upon the words of Hezekiah king of Judah.
9 After this did Sennacherib king of Assyria send his servants to Jerusalem, (but he himself
laid siegeagainst Lachish, and all his power with him,) unto Hezekiah king of Judah, and unto all
Judah that wereat Jerusalem, saying,
10 Thus saith Sennacherib king of Assyria, Whereon do ye trust, that ye abide in the siege in
Jerusalem?
11 Doth not Hezekiah persuade you to give over yourselves to die by famine and by thirst,
saying, The LORD our God shall deliver us out of the hand of the king of Assyria?
12 Hath not the same Hezekiah taken away his high places and his altars, and commanded Judah
and Jerusalem, saying, Ye shall worship before one altar, and burn incense upon it?
13 Know ye not what I and my fathers have done unto all the people of otherlands? were the
gods of the nations of those lands any ways able to deliver their lands out of mine hand?
14 Who was thereamong all the gods of those nations that my fathers utterly destroyed, that
could deliver his people out of mine hand, that your God should be able to deliver you out of mine
hand?
15 Now therefore let not Hezekiah deceive you, nor persuade you on this manner, neither yet
believe him: for no god of any nation or kingdom was able to deliver his people out of mine hand,
and out of the hand of my fathers: how much less shall your God deliver you out of mine hand?
16 And his servants spake yet moreagainst the LORD God, and against his servant Hezekiah.
17 He wrote also letters to rail on the LORD God of Israel, and to speak against him, saying, As
the gods of the nations of otherlands have not delivered their people out of mine hand, so shall
not the God of Hezekiah deliver his people out of mine hand.
18 Then they cried with a loud voice in the Jews' speech unto the people of Jerusalem that
wereon the wall, to affright them, and to trouble them; that they might take the city.
19 And they spake against the God of Jerusalem, as against the gods of the people of the earth,
which werethe work of the hands of man.
20 And for this causeHezekiah the king, and the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz, prayed and
cried to heaven.
21 And the LORD sent an angel, which cut off all the mighty men of valour, and the leaders and
captains in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he returned with shame of face to his own land.
And when he was come into the house of his god, they that came forth of his own bowels slew