Josiah destroyeth Before 624. 9 Ps. 51.17. Is. 57. 15. 1 Kings 21. 29. r 624. rael, As touching the words which made for Baal, and for the Before CHRIST thou hast heard; and for all the host of CHRIST grove, 19 Because thine heart was heaven: and he burned them tender, and thou hast humbled without Jerusalem in the fields dch. 21. 2, 7. thyself before the LORD, when of Kidron, and carried the ashes thou heardest what I spake of them unto Beth-el. against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, that Lev. 26. 31, they should become sa desolation and a curse, and hast rent thy clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard thee, saith the LORD. 32. t Jer. 26. 6. & 44. 22. u Ps. 37. 37. Is. 57. 1, 2. a 2 Chr. 34. 29, 30, &c. † Heb.from small even unto great. b ch. 22. 8. ch. 11. 14, 17. 20 Behold therefore, I will gather thee unto thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered into thy grave in peace; and thine eyes shall not see all the evil which I will bring upon this place. And they brought the king word again. CHAPTER XXIII. 1 Josiah causeth the book to be read in a Heb.caused + Heb. to cease. Chemarim, 5 And he † put down the † idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places Zeph. 1.4. round about Jerusalem; "them also that burned incense unto Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and Or, twelve to e all the host of heaven. signs, or, constellations. e cl. 21. 3. f ch. 21. 7. 6 And he brought out the solemn assembly. 3 He reneweth the cor- a i 8 And he brought all the priests out of the cities of Ju AND the king sent, and they dah, and defiled the high places gathered unto him all the elders of Judah and of Jerusalem. 2 And the king went up into the house of the LORD, and all the men of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem with him, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the people, tboth small and great: and he read in their cars all the words of the book of the covenant b which was found in the house of the LORD. 3 And the king stood by a pillar, and made a covenant before the LORD, to walk after the LORD, and to keep his commandments and his testimonies and his statutes with all their heart and all their soul, to perform the words of this covenant that were written in this book. And all the people stood to the covenant. 4 And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the door, to bring forth out of the temple of the LORD all the vessels that were where the priests had burned 10-14. 9 Nevertheless the priests of 1 See Ez. 44. the high places came not up to the altar of the LORD in Jerusalem, m but they did eat of the m1 Sam. 2.36. unleavened bread among their] brethren. I That is, the mount of Olives. 1 Kings 11.7. t Ex. 23. 24. Deut. 7. 5, 25. † Heb. statues. 28, 33. 13 And the high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on the right hand of the mount of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had builded for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Zidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon, did the king defile. 14 And he brake in pieces the images, and cut down the groves, and filled their places with the bones of men. 15 Moreover the altar that was at Beth-el, and the high 1 Kings 12. 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, and stamped it small to powder, and burned the grove. 16 And as Josiah turned himself, he spied the sepulchres that were there in the mount, and sent, and took the bones out of the sepulchres, and burned them upon the altar, and polluted it, *1 Kings 13.2. according to the word of the LORD which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these words. A solemn passover is kept. burned men's bones upon them, and returned to Jerusalem. 21 And the king commanded all the people, saying, e Keep the passover unto the LORD your God, fas it is written in the book of this covenant. Before CHRIST 624. d2 Chr. 34. 5. e 2 Chr. 35. 1. fEx. 12. 3. Lev. 23. 5. 19. 22 Surely there was not holden such a passover from the days of Chr. 35.18, 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, wherein this passover was holden to the LORD in Jerusalem. about 623. His 18th year ending. teraphim, Gen. 31. 19. & 20.27, Deut. 18. 11. 24 Moreover the workers hch. 21. 6. with familiar spirits, and the wizards, and the images, and or, 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, i Lev. 19. 31. which were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of the LORD. 25 kAnd like unto him was k ch. 18. 5. 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 any like 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 prov- Ich. 21.11, 12. ocations that Manassch had provoked him withal. & 24.3, 4. Jer. 15. 4. ↑ Heb. angers. 20. & 18. 11. & 21. 13. 27 And the LORD said, I will remove Judah also out of my sight, as mI have removed Israel, and m ch. 17. 18, will cast off this city Jerusalem which I have chosen, and the house of which I said, " My name 1 Kings 8.29. shall be there. n 28 Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the Chronicles of the kings of Judah? & 9.3. ch. 21.4, 7. 610. 29 In his days Pharaohnechoh king of Egypt went up 2 Chr. 35.20. against the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates: and king Josiah went against him; and he slew him at PMegiddo, when he had seen him. 30 And his servants carried him in a chariot dead from Me P Zech. 12.11. 9 ch. 14. 8. r2 Chr. 35. 24. Jehoiakim's wicked reign. CHRIST 610. II. KINGS. Before giddo, and brought him to Jerusalem, and buried him in his own sepulchre. And the peo2 Chr. 36. 1. ple of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and anointed him, and made him king in his father's stead. I Called t ch. 24. 18. ch. 25. 6. Jer. 52. 27. I Or, because he reigned. † Heb. set a mulet upon the land, 2 Chr. 36. 3. 2 Chr. 36. 4. 31 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 IIamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah. 32 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his fathers had done. 33 And Pharaoh-nechoh put him in bands "at Riblah in the land of Hamath, that he might not reign in Jerusalem; and tput the land to a tribute of a hundred talents of silver, and a talent of gold. 34 And Pharaoh-nechoh made Eliakim the son of Josiah king in the room of Josiah his father, and yturned his name to z Jehoiakim, and took Jehoahaz Matt, 1. 11. away: and he came to Egypt, and died there. J See ch. 24. 17. Dan. 1. 7. called a Jer. 22. 11, 12. Ez. 19. 3, 4. b ver. 33. 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 it unto Pharaoh-nechoh. 36 Jehoiakim was twenty and 2 Chr. 36. 5. five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Zebudah, the daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah. 37 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his fathers had done. 610. 607. 606. 693. 600. CHAPTER XXIV. 1 Jehoiakim, first subdued by Nebuchadnezzar, then rebelling against him, procureth his own ruin. 5 Jehoiachin succeedeth him. 7 The king of Egypt is vanquished by the king of Babylon. 8 Jehoiachin's eril reign. 10 Jerusalem is taken and carried captive into Babylon. 17 Zedekiah is made king, and reigneth ill unto the utter destruction of Judah. a 600. Jerusalem is besieged and taken. 2 b And the LORD sent against Before him bands of the Chaldees, and CHRIST bands of the Syrians, and bands of the Moabites, and bands of 25. 9. & the children of Ammon, and sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word ch. 20. 17 & of the LORD, which he spake by his servants the prophets. 3 Surely at the commandment of the LORD came this upon Judah, to remove them out of his sight, d for the sins of Manassch, according to all that he did; 4 e 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, are they not written in the book of the Chronicles of the kings of Judah? 32. 28. Ez. 19. 8. † Heb, came 599. 10 At that time the serv-k Dan. 1. 1. ants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against Jerusalem, and the city was besieged. 11 And Nebuchadnezzar king of into siege. 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: m and the king of Babylon took him in the eighth year of his reign. 13 P he carried 1 29. 2. Jer. 24. 1. & E.17.12. or eunuchs. m Nebuchad nezzar's eighth year, Jer. 25. 1. n See ch.25. 27. I this day's Nebuchadnezzar 18 Andelst car it out thence ge and Jehoiakim became his serva Chr 36.6. ant three years: then he turned Dan. 1. 1. and rebelled against him. Jer. 25. 1, 9. Jerusalem is again 599. * Jer, 20. 5. s Jer. 24. 1. Before CHRIST Before which Solomon king of Israel unto the eleventh year of king CHRIST had made in the temple of the Zedekiah. LORD, as the LORD had said. 3 And on the ninth day of the 14 And she carried away all Je-fourth month the famine prerusalem, and all the princes, and vailed in the city, and there was all the mighty men of valour, no bread for the people of the teven ten thousand captives, and land. "all the craftsmen and smiths: none remained, save the poorest sort of the people of the land. t See Jer. 52. u So 1 Sam. 4 590. 588. b Jer. 39. 2. & 52. 6. 52. 7, &c. And the city was broken Jer. 39. 2. & up, and all the men of war fled by night by the way of the gate between two walls, which is by the king's garden: (now the Chaldees were against the city round about:) and the king Jer. 39. 4-7 went 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. & 52. 7. Ez. 12. 12. 6 So they took the king, and brought him up to the king of Babylon to Riblah; and they ch. 23. 33. tgave 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, gon the seventh day of the month, which is h the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, came Nebuzar-adan, captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, unto Jerusalem: i Jer. 52. 9. + Heb spake judgment with him. Heb. made blind. f Jer. 39. 7. Ez, 12. 13, See Jer. 52. 12-14. See ch. 24. 12.& ver. 27. Jer. 39. 9. 10r, chief marshal. Ps. 79. 1. 1 Jer. 39. 8. Amos 2. 5. 9k And he burnt the house of k2Chr.36.19. the LORD, and the king's house, and all the houses of Jerusalem, and every great man's house burnt he with fire. 10 And all the army of the Chaldees, that were with the captain of the guard, brake down the walls of Jerusalem round about. 11 Now the rest of the people that were left in the city, and the tfugitives that fell away to the king of Babylon, with the remnant of the multitude, did Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard Neh. 1. 3. Jer. 52. 14. Jer. 39.9. & 52. 15. Heb. fallen away. 0 ch.24. 14. P ch. 20. 17. 1Kings 7.27. The nobles of Judah slain. Before CHRIST 588. t Ex. 27, 3. 50. Before 588. Jer. 40, 7, 8, 9. 14 And the pots, and the shov- 23 And when all the captains els, and the snuffers, and the of the armies, they and their CHRIST spoons, and all the vessels of men, heard that the king of 1 Kings 7.45, brass wherewith they minis- Babylon had made Gedaliah tered, took they away. governor, there came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, even Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan the son of Careah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, and Jaazaniah the son of a Maachathite, they and their men. † Heb. the one sea. *1 Kings 7. 15. Jer. 52. 21. 15 And the firepans, and the bowls, and such things as were of gold, in gold, and of silver, in silver, the captain of the guard took away. 16 The two pillars, tone sea, and the bases which Solomon had made for the house of the 1 Kings 7.47. LORD; "the brass of all these vessels was without weight. 17 The height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits, and the chapiter upon it was brass: 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. y Jer. 52 24, &c. 21 Chr 6. 14. Ezra 7, 1. a Jer, 21. 1. & 29, 25. ↑ Heb. threshold. Or, eunuch. b See Jer. 52. 25. ↑ Heb. saw the king's face, Esth. L. 14. Or, scribe of the captain of the host. © Lev. 26. 33. 18 And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and a Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keep ers of the f 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 were found in the city: 20 And Nebuzar-adan captain of the guard took these, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah: 21 And the king of Babylon smote them, and slew them at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was carried away out Deut. 28. 36, of their land. 64. ch. 23. 27. d Jer. 40. 5. 22 And as for the people that remained in the land of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had left, even over them he made Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, ruler. 24 And Gedaliah sware to them, and to their men, and said unto them, Fear not to be the servants of the Chaldees: dwell in the land, and serve the king of Babylon; and it shall be well with you. 25 But fit came to pass in the seventh month, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the seed troyal, came, and ten men with him, and smote Gedaliah, that he died, and the Jews and the Chaldees that were with him at Mizpah. 588. Jer. 41. 1, 2. Heb. of the kingdom. |