him there with the sword.
22 Thus the LORD saved Hezekiah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem from the hand of
Sennacherib the king of Assyria, and from the hand of all other, and guided them on every side.
23 And many brought gifts unto the LORD to Jerusalem, and presents to Hezekiah king of Judah:
so that he was magnified in the sight of all nations from thenceforth.
24 In those days Hezekiah was sick to the death, and prayed unto the LORD: and he spake unto
him, and he gave him a sign.
25 But Hezekiah rendered not again according to the benefit doneunto him; for his heart was
lifted up: therefore there was wrath upon him, and upon Judah and Jerusalem.
26 Notwithstanding Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart, bothhe and the
inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the wrath of the LORD came not upon them in the days of
Hezekiah.
27 And Hezekiah had exceeding much riches and honour: and he made himself treasuries for
silver, and for gold, and for precious stones, and for spices, and for shields, and for all manner
of pleasant jewels;
28 Storehouses also for the increase of corn, and wine, and oil; and stalls for all manner of
beasts, and cotes for flocks.
29 Moreover he provided him cities, and possessions of flocks and herds in abundance: for God
had given him substance very much.
30 This same Hezekiah also stopped the upper watercourse of Gihon, and brought it straight
down to the west side of the city of David. And Hezekiah prospered in all his works.
31 Howbeit in the business ofthe ambassadors of the princes of Babylon, who sent unto him to
enquire of the wonder that was donein the land, God left him, to try him, that he might know all
that wasin his heart.
32 Now the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and his goodness, behold, they arewritten in the
vision of Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, andin the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.
33 And Hezekiah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the chiefest of the sepulchres of
the sons of David: and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem did him honour at his death.
And Manasseh his son reigned in his stead.
1 Manasseh wastwelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty and five years in
Jerusalem:
2 But did that which wasevil in the sight of the LORD, like unto the abominations of the
heathen, whom the LORD had cast out before the children of Israel.
3 For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down, and he reared
up altars for Baalim, and made groves, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them.
4 Also he built altars in the house of the LORD, whereof the LORD had said, In Jerusalem shall
my name be for ever.
5 And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD.
6 And he caused his children to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom: also he
observed times, and used enchantments, and used witchcraft, and dealt with a familiar spirit,
and with wizards: he wrought much evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.
7 And he set a carved image, the idol which he had made, in the house of God, of which God had
said to David and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen
before all the tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever:
8 Neither will I any more remove the foot of Israel from out of the land which I have appointed
for your fathers; so that they will take heed to do all that I have commanded them, according to
the whole law and the statutes and the ordinances by the hand of Moses.
9 So Manasseh made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to err, andto do worse than the
heathen, whom the LORD had destroyed before the children of Israel.

10 And the LORD spake to Manasseh, and to his people: but they would not hearken.
11 Wherefore the LORD brought upon them the captains of the host of the king of Assyria, which
took Manasseh among the thorns, and bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon.
12 And when he was in affliction, he besought the LORD his God, and humbled himself greatly
before the God of his fathers,
13 And prayed unto him: and he was intreated of him, and heard his supplication, and brought
him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the LORD he wasGod.
14 Now after this he built a wall without the city of David, on the west side of Gihon, in the
valley, even to the entering in at the fish gate, and compassed about Ophel, and raised it up a
very great height, and put captains of war in all the fenced cities of Judah.
15 And he took away the strange gods, and the idol out of the house of the LORD, and all the
altars that he had built in the mount of the house of the LORD, and in Jerusalem, and cast them
out of the city.
16 And he repaired the altar of the LORD, and sacrificed thereon peace offerings and thank
offerings, and commanded Judah to serve the LORD God of Israel.
17 Nevertheless the people did sacrifice still in the high places, yetunto the LORD their God
only.
18 Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and his prayer unto his God, and the words of the
seers that spake to him in the name of the LORD God of Israel, behold, they are writtenin the
book of the kings of Israel.
19 His prayer also, and how Godwas intreated of him, and all his sin, and his trespass, and the
places wherein he built high places, and set up groves and graven images, before he was
humbled: behold, they arewritten 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 Amon wastwo and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned two years in
Jerusalem.
22 But he did that which wasevil in the sight of the LORD, as did Manasseh his father: for Amon
sacrificed unto all the carved images which Manasseh his father had made, and served them;
23 And humbled not himself before the LORD, as Manasseh his father had humbled himself; but
Amon trespassed more and more.
24 And his servants conspired against him, and slew him in his own house.
25 But the people of the land slew all them that had conspired against king Amon; and the
people of the land made Josiah his son king in his stead.
1 Josiah waseight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem one and thirty
years.
2 And he did that which wasright in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the ways of David his
father, and declined neitherto the right hand, nor to the left.
3 For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of
David his father: and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high
places, and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images.
4 And they brake down the altars of Baalim in his presence; and the images, that wereon high
above them, he cut down; and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images, he
brake in pieces, and made dust of them, and strowed itupon the graves of them that had
sacrificed unto them.
5 And he burnt the bones of the priests upon their altars, and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem.
6 And so did hein the cities of Manasseh, and Ephraim, and Simeon, even unto Naphtali, with
their mattocks 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 Israel, 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 son of Joahaz
the recorder, to repair the house of the LORD his God.
9 And when they came to Hilkiah the high priest, they delivered the money that was brought
into the house of God, which the Levites that kept the doors had gathered of the hand of
Manasseh and Ephraim, and of all the remnant of Israel, and of all Judah and Benjamin; and they
returned to Jerusalem.
10 And they put itin the hand of the workmen that had the oversight of the house of the LORD,
and they gave it to the workmen that wrought in the house of the LORD, to repair and amend the
house:
11 Even to the artificers and builders gave they it, to buy hewn stone, and timber for couplings,
and to floor the houses which the kings of Judah had destroyed.
12 And the men did the work faithfully: and the overseers of them wereJahath and Obadiah, the
Levites, of the sons of Merari; and Zechariah and Meshullam, of the sons of the Kohathites, to
set itforward; and other ofthe Levites, all that could skill of instruments of musick.
13 Also they wereover the bearers of burdens, and wereoverseers of all that wrought the
work in any manner of service: and of the Levites there werescribes, and officers, and porters.
14 And when they brought out the money that was brought into the house of the LORD, Hilkiah
the priest found a book of the law of the LORD givenby Moses.
15 And Hilkiah answered and said to Shaphan the scribe, I have found the book of the law in the
house of the LORD. And Hilkiah delivered the book to Shaphan.
16 And Shaphan carried the book to the king, and brought the king word back again, saying, All
that was committed to thy servants, they do it.
17 And they have gathered together the money that was found in the house of the LORD, and
have delivered it into the hand of the overseers, and to the hand of the workmen.
18 Then Shaphan the scribe told the king, saying, Hilkiah the priest hath given me a book. And
Shaphan read it before the king.
19 And it came to pass, when the king had heard the words of the law, that he rent his clothes.
20 And the king commanded Hilkiah, and Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and Abdon the son of Micah,
and Shaphan the scribe, and Asaiah a servant of the king's, saying,
21 Go, enquire of the LORD for me, and for them that are left in Israel and in Judah, concerning
the words of the book that is found: for great isthe wrath of the LORD that is poured out upon
us, because our fathers have not kept the word of the LORD, to do after all that is written in
this book.
22 And Hilkiah, and theythat the king had appointed, went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of
Shallum the son of Tikvath, the son of Hasrah, keeper of the wardrobe; (now she dwelt in
Jerusalem in the college:) and they spake to her to that effect.
23 And she answered them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Tell ye the man that sent you to
me,
24 Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, and upon the inhabitants
thereof, evenall the curses that are written in the book which they have read before the king of
Judah:
25 Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods, that they might
provoke me to anger with all the works of their hands; therefore my wrath shall be poured out
upon this place, and shall not be quenched.
26 And as for the king of Judah, who sent you to enquire of the LORD, so shall ye say unto him,
Thus saith the LORD God of Israel concerningthe words which thou hast heard;