15 Moreover the altar that wasat Bethel, andthe high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat,
who made Israel to sin, had made, both that altar and the high place he brake down, and burned
the high place, andstamped itsmall to powder, and burned the grove.
16 And as Josiah turned himself, he spied the sepulchres that werethere in the mount, and
sent, and took the bones out of the sepulchres, and burned themupon the altar, and polluted it,
according to the word of the LORD which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these
words.
17 Then he said, What title isthat that I see? And the men of the city told him, It isthe
sepulchre of the man of God, which came from Judah, and proclaimed these things that thou hast
done against the altar of Bethel.
18 And he said, Let him alone; let no man move his bones. So they let his bones alone, with the
bones of the prophet that came out of Samaria.
19 And all the houses also of the high places that werein the cities of Samaria, which the
kings of Israel had made to provoke the LORDto anger, Josiah took away, and did to them
according to all the acts that he had done in Bethel.
20 And he slew all the priests of the high places that werethere upon the altars, and burned
men's bones upon them, and returned to Jerusalem.
21 And the king commanded all the people, saying, Keep the passover unto the LORD your God, as
it iswritten in the book of this covenant.
22 Surely there was not holden such a passover from the days of the judges that judged Israel,
nor in all the days of the kings of Israel, nor of the kings of Judah;
23 But in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, whereinthis passover was holden to the LORD in
Jerusalem.
24 Moreover the workers withfamiliar spirits, and the wizards, and the images, 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 perform the words of the law which were written in the book that Hilkiah
the priest found in the house of the LORD.
25 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, according to all the law of Moses; neither after
him arose there anylike him.
26 Notwithstanding the LORD turned not from the fierceness of his great wrath, wherewith his
anger was kindled against Judah, because of all the provocations that Manasseh had provoked
him withal.
27 And the LORD said, I will remove Judah also out of my sight, as I have removed Israel, and
will cast off this city Jerusalem which I have chosen, and the house of which I said, My name
shall be there.
28 Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and all that he did, arethey not written in the book of
the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
29 In his days Pharaohnechoh king of Egypt went up against the king of Assyria to the river
Euphrates: and king 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 sepulchre. And the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah,
and anointed him, and made him king in his father's stead.
31 Jehoahaz wastwenty and three years old when he began to reign; and he reigned three
months in Jerusalem. And his mother's name wasHamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
32 And he did that which wasevil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his fathers had
done.
33 And Pharaohnechoh put him in bands at Riblah in the land of Hamath, that he might not reign
in Jerusalem; and put the land to a tribute of an hundred talents of silver, and a talent of gold.

34 And Pharaohnechoh made Eliakim the son of Josiah king in the room of Josiah his father, and
turned his name to Jehoiakim, and took Jehoahaz away: and he came to Egypt, and died there.
35 And Jehoiakim gave the silver and the gold to Pharaoh; but he taxed the land to give the
money according to the commandment of Pharaoh: he exacted the silver and the gold of the
people of the land, of every one according to his taxation, to give itunto Pharaohnechoh.
36 Jehoiakim wastwenty and five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned eleven
years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name wasZebudah, the daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah.
37 And he did that which wasevil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his fathers had
done.
1 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 LORD sent against him bands of the Chaldees, and bands of the Syrians, and bands of
the Moabites, and bands of the children of Ammon, and sent them against Judah to destroy it,
according to the word of the LORD, which he spake by his servants the prophets.
3 Surely at the commandment of the LORD came thisupon Judah, to remove themout 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 LORD would not pardon.
5 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and all that he did, arethey not written in the book of
the chronicles 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 Euphrates all that pertained to the king of Egypt.
8 Jehoiachin waseighteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem three
months. And his mother's name wasNehushta, the daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem.
9 And he did that which wasevil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father had
done.
10 At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against Jerusalem, and
the city was besieged.
11 And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came against the city, and his servants did besiege it.
12 And Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out to the king of Babylon, he, and his mother, and his
servants, and his princes, and his officers: and the king of Babylon took him in the eighth year of
his reign.
13 And he carried out thence 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 which Solomon king of Israel had made
in the temple of the LORD, as the LORD had said.
14 And he carried away all Jerusalem, and all the princes, and all the mighty men of valour,
eventen thousand captives, and all the craftsmen and smiths: none remained, save the poorest
sort of the people of the land.
15 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, thosecarried he into captivity from Jerusalem to
Babylon.
16 And all the men of might, evenseven thousand, and craftsmen and smiths a thousand, all
that werestrong andapt for war, even them the king of Babylon brought captive to Babylon.
17 And the king of Babylon made Mattaniah his father's brother king in his stead, and changed
his name to Zedekiah.
18 Zedekiah wastwenty and one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years
in Jerusalem. And his mother's name wasHamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
19 And he did that which wasevil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that Jehoiakim had

done.
20 For through the anger of the LORD it came to pass in Jerusalem and Judah, until he had cast
them out from his presence, that Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.
1 And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth dayof the
month, thatNebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he, and all his host, against Jerusalem, and
pitched against it; and they built forts against it round about.
2 And the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.
3 And on the ninth dayof the fourthmonth 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 the men of war fledby night by the way of the gate
between two walls, which isby the king's garden: (now the Chaldees wereagainst the city round
about:) and the kingwent the way toward the plain.
5 And the army of the Chaldees pursued after the king, and overtook him 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 Riblah; and they gave
judgment upon him.
7 And they slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and
bound him with fetters of brass, and carried him to Babylon.
8 And in the fifth month, on the seventh dayof the month, which isthe nineteenth year of king
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, came Nebuzaradan, captain of the guard, a servant of the king
of Babylon, unto Jerusalem:
9 And he burnt the house of the LORD, and the king's house, and all the houses of Jerusalem, and
every great man'shouse burnt he with fire.
10 And all the army of the Chaldees, that were withthe captain of the guard, brake down the
walls of Jerusalem round about.
11 Now the rest of the people that wereleft in the city, and the fugitives that fell away to the
king of Babylon, with the remnant of the multitude, did Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard
carry away.
12 But the captain of the guard left of the poor of the land to bevinedressers and husbandmen.
13 And the pillars of brass that werein the house of the LORD, and the bases, and the brasen
sea that wasin the house of the LORD, did the Chaldees break in pieces, and carried the brass of
them to Babylon.
14 And the pots, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the spoons, and all the vessels of brass
wherewith they ministered, took they away.
15 And the firepans, and the bowls, andsuch things as wereof gold, ingold, and of silver, in
silver, the captain of the guard took away.
16 The two pillars, one sea, and the bases which Solomon had made for the house of the LORD;
the brass of all these vessels was without weight.
17 The height of the one pillar waseighteen cubits, and the chapiter upon it wasbrass: and the
height of the chapiter three cubits; and the wreathen work, and pomegranates upon the chapiter
round about, all of brass: and like unto these had the second pillar with wreathen work.
18 And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah the second priest,
and the three keepers of the door:
19 And out of the city he took an officer that was set over the men of war, and five men of
them that were in the king's presence, which were found in the city, and the principal scribe of
the host, which mustered the people of the land, and threescore men of the people of the land
that werefound in the city:
20 And Nebuzaradan captain of the guard took these, and brought them to the king of Babylon to
Riblah: