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Bible Reading for August 04
2 Kings 22
[1] Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned thirty
and one years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Jedidah, the daughter of
Adaiah of Boscath.
[2] And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, and walked in
all the way of David his father, and turned not aside to the right hand or to
the left.
[3] And it came to pass in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, that the king
sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, the son of Meshullam, the scribe, to the
house of the LORD, saying,
[4] Go up to Hilkiah the high priest, that he may sum the silver which is
brought into the house of the LORD, which the keepers of the door have
gathered of the people:
[5] And let them deliver it into the hand of the doers of the work, that have
the oversight of the house of the LORD: and let them give it to the doers of
the work which is in the house of the LORD, to repair the breaches of the
house,
[6] Unto carpenters, and builders, and masons, and to buy timber and hewn
stone to repair the house.
[7] Howbeit there was no reckoning made with them of the money that was
delivered into their hand, because they dealt faithfully. [8] And Hilkiah the
high priest said unto Shaphan the scribe, I have found the book of the law in
the house of the LORD. And Hilkiah gave the book to Shaphan, and he read it.
[9] And Shaphan the scribe came to the king, and brought the king word again,
and said, Thy servants have gathered the money that was found in the house,
and have delivered it into the hand of them that do the work, that have the
oversight of the house of the LORD. [10] And Shaphan the scribe shewed the
king, saying, Hilkiah the priest hath delivered me a book. And Shaphan read it
before the king. [11] And it came to pass, when the king had heard the words
of the book of the law, that he rent his clothes.
[12] And the king commanded Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam the son of Shaphan,
and Achbor the son of Michaiah, and Shaphan the scribe, and Asahiah a servant
of the king's, saying,
[13] Go ye, inquire of the LORD for me, and for the people, and for all Judah,
concerning the words of this book that is found: for great is the wrath of the
LORD that is kindled against us, because our fathers have not hearkened unto
the words of this book, to do according unto all that which is written
concerning us.
[14] So Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam, and Achbor, and Shaphan, and Asahiah,
went unto Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvah, the
son of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe; (now she dwelt in Jerusalem in the
college;) and they communed with her. [15] And she said unto them, Thus saith
the LORD God of Israel, Tell the man that sent you to me,
[16] Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, and upon
the inhabitants thereof, even all the words of the book which the king of
Judah hath read:
[17] 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 kindled against this place, and shall not be
quenched.
[18] But to the king of Judah which sent you to inquire of the LORD, thus
shall ye say to him, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, As touching the words
which thou hast heard;
[19] Because thine heart was tender, and thou hast humbled thyself before the
LORD, when thou heardest what I spake against this place, and against the
inhabitants thereof, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and
hast rent thy clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard thee, saith the
LORD.
[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.
2 Kings 23
[1] And the king sent, and they 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, both small and great: and he read in their ears
all the words of the book of the covenant 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 made for Baal, and for the grove, and for
all the host of heaven: and he burned them without Jerusalem in the fields of
Kidron, and carried the ashes of them unto Bethel. [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 round about
Jerusalem; them also that burned incense unto Baal, to the sun, and to the
moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven.
[6] And he brought out the grove from the house of the LORD, without
Jerusalem, unto the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and
stamped it small to powder, and cast the powder thereof upon the graves of the
children of the people.
[7] And he brake down the houses of the sodomites, that were by the house of
the LORD, where the women wove hangings for the grove. [8] And he brought all
the priests out of the cities of Judah, and defiled the high places where the
priests had burned incense, from Geba to Beer-sheba, and brake down the high
places of the gates that were in the entering in of the gate of Joshua the
governor of the city, which were on a man's left hand at the gate of the city.
[9] Nevertheless the priests of the high places came not up to the altar of
the LORD in Jerusalem, but they did eat of the unleavened bread among their
brethren.
[10] And he defiled Topheth, which is in the valley of the children of Hinnom,
that no man might make his son or his daughter to pass through the fire to
Molech.
[11] And he took away the horses that the kings of Judah had given to the sun,
at the entering in of the house of the LORD, by the chamber of Nathan-melech
the chamberlain, which was in the suburbs, and burned the chariots of the sun
with fire.
[12] And the altars that were on the top of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which
the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two
courts of the house of the LORD, did the king beat down, and brake them down
from thence, and cast the dust of them into the brook Kidron. [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
Bethel, and the 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, 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, according to the word of the LORD which the
man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these words. [17] Then he said, What
title is that that I see? And the men of the city told him, It is the
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 were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel
had made to provoke the LORD to 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 were there 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 is written 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, wherein this passover was
holden to the LORD in Jerusalem.
[24] Moreover the workers with familiar 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 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 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,
are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? [29]
In his days Pharaoh-nechoh 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 was
twenty and three years old when he began to reign; and he reigned three months
in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Hamutal, 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 put the land to a tribute of an 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 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 it unto Pharaoh-nechoh. [36] Jehoiakim was twenty and 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.
2 Kings 24
[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
this upon Judah, to remove them out 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, are they 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 was eighteen years old
when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months. And his
mother's name was Nehushta, the daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem.
[9] And he did that which was evil 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, even ten 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, those carried he
into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon. [16] And all the men of might, even
seven thousand, and craftsmen and smiths a thousand, all that were strong and
apt 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 was twenty and one years old
when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his
mother's name was Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
[19] And he did that which was evil 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.
2 Kings 25
[1] And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in
the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar 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 day of the fourth month 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 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 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. [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 day of the month, which is 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: [9]
And he burnt the house of 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 fugitives that fell away to the king of Babylon, with the
remnant of the multitude, did Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard carry
away. [12] But the captain of the guard left of the poor of the land to be
vinedressers and husbandmen.
[13] And the pillars of brass that were in the house of the LORD, and the
bases, and the brasen sea that was in 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, 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, 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 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. [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 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 of their land. [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. [23] And when all the captains of the armies, they and their
men, heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah governor, there came to
Gedaliah to Mizpah, even Ishmael the son of Nethahiah, 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.
[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 it came to pass in the
seventh month, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the
seed royal, came, and ten men with him, and smote Gedaliah, that he died, and
the Jews and the Chaldees that were with him at Mizpah.
[26] And all the people, both small and great, and the captains of the armies,
arose, and came to Egypt: for they were afraid of the Chaldees. [27] And it
came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of Jehoiachin
king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the seven and twentieth day of the
month, that Evil-merodach king of Babylon in the year that he began to reign
did lift up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah out of prison;
[28] And he spake kindly to him, and set his throne above the throne of the
kings that were with him in Babylon; [29] And changed his prison garments: and
he did eat bread continually before him all the days of his life. [30] And his
allowance was a continual allowance given him of the king, a daily rate for
every day, all the days of his life.
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