Isaiah said, Bring ye a piece of figs. And when they had brought them, they laid them upon the gland, and he was healed.

And Hezekiah said unto Isaiah: What sign is this, that the LORD will heal me, and that I shall go up to the house of the LORD the third day?

And Isaiah said, The sign shalt thou have of the LORD, that the LORD will do that which he hath spoken. Shall the shadow go forth ten steps, or go back ten steps?

And Hezekiah said, It is easy for the shadow to go down ten steps: I will not have it, but it shall go back ten steps behind him.

Then Isaiah the prophet called upon the LORD: and the shadow went back behind him ten steps at the hand of Ahaz, which he had gone down.

At that time Brodach the son of Baledan, the son of Baledan king of Babylon, sent letters and presents unto Hezekiah: for he had heard that Hezekiah was sick.

And Hezekiah was merry with them, and showed them all the treasury, silver, and gold, and spices, and the best oil, and the armoury, and all that was in his treasures. There was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, that Hezekiah showed them not.

And Isaiah the prophet came to Hezekiah the king, and said unto him, What said these men, and whence came they unto thee? And Hezekiah said, They are come unto me from far countries, from Babylon.

And he said, What have they seen in thine house? And Hezekiah said, They have seen all that is in mine house; and there is nothing in my treasures, which I have not shewed them.

And Isaiah said unto Hezekiah, Hear the word of the LORD.

Behold, the days come, that all things shall be carried away to Babylon out of thine house, and that which thy fathers have gathered unto this day; and nothing shall be left, saith the LORD.

And of the children that shall come of thee, which thou shalt beget, they shall be taken to be chamberlains in the palace of the king of Babylon.

And Hezekiah said unto Isaiah: This is good that the LORD hath spoken. And he said, Peace and faithfulness shall be in my days.

And the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and all his might, and all that he did, and the pool, and the pipes, that he might bring water into the city, behold, they are written in the book of Chronicles. Chronicles of the kings of Judah.

And Hezekiah slept with his fathers. And Manasseh his son reigned in his stead.
(2 Kings)
Chapter 21
History of Manasseh and Amon, kings in Judah.

Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Hephzi-Bah.

And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD had cast out from before the children of Israel.

And he turned back, and built the high places which Hezekiah his father had removed, and set up altars unto Baal, and made groves, as Ahab king of Israel had done, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and ministered unto them.

And they built altars in the house of the LORD, whereof the LORD had said: I will set my name in Jerusalem.

And he built altars unto all the armies that were in heaven, in both courts of the house of the LORD.

And he made his son to pass through the fire, and hearkened unto the cry of birds, and to signs, and kept soothsayers and diviners: and he did much that was evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.

And he set a hair idol, which he had made, in the house, of which the LORD spake unto David, and unto Solomon his son: In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever,

And I will no more move the foot of Israel from off the land which I gave unto their fathers, if they will keep and do according to all that I have commanded, and according to all the law which Moses my servant commanded them.

But they hearkened not: but Manasseh deceived them, and they did worse than the heathen, whom the LORD destroyed from before the children of Israel.

Then spake the LORD by his servants the prophets, saying:

Therefore Manasseh king of Judah hath done these abominations, which are worse than all the abominations that the Amorites did, which were before him: and he hath also made Judah to sin with his idols,

Therefore thus saith the LORD God of Israel; Behold, I will bring evil upon Jerusalem and Judah; and whosoever shall hear it, both his ears shall ring.

And I will draw upon Jerusalem the measuring rod of Samaria, and the weight of the house of Ahab; and I will pour out Jerusalem as one pours out bowls, and will overturn her.

And I will leave some of mine inheritance, and will deliver them into the hand of their enemies, and they shall be a spoil and a prey to all their enemies, 15. Because they have done evil in my sight, and have provoked me to anger from the day that their fathers came forth out of Egypt unto this day.

Manasseh also shed much innocent blood, until Jerusalem was filled here and there, without sin, to make Judah sin, that they might do evil in the sight of the LORD.

And the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and all that he did, and his sin which he committed, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah, 18. And Manasseh slept with his fathers, and was buried in the garden of his house, which is in the garden of Uzzah. And Amon his son reigned in his stead.

Amon was twenty and two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned two years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Mesulemeth, daughter of Haruz of Jatba.

And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, as Manasseh his father had done, 21. And he walked in all the way which his father walked, and served the idols which his father served, and worshipped them.

And forsook the LORD God of his fathers, and walked not in the way of the LORD.

And his servants made a league against Amon, and slew the king in his house.

And the people of the land smote all them that had made the covenant against Amon the king. And the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his stead.

And the rest of the acts of Amon, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah.

And they buried him in his sepulchre in the garden of Uzzah. And Josiah his son reigned in his stead.
(2 Kings)
Chapter 22
It is under Josiah that the Book of the Law is found.

Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned thirty and one years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jedida, a daughter of Adaiah of Bazkath.

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, nor to the left.

And in the eighteenth year of king Josiah the king sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, the son of Meshullam, the scribe, into the house of the LORD, saying:

Go up to Hilkiah the high priest, and give them the money that is brought into the house of the LORD, which the keepers of the door have gathered of the people, 5. To give to the workmen that are hired in the house of the LORD, and to give to the workmen of the house of the LORD, to repair that which is broken down in the house, 6. To the carpenters, and builders, and masons, and to buy timber and hewn stone, to repair the house;

But that no account be taken of them of the money that is put under their hand, but that they deal it in faith.

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, that he might read it.

And Shaphan the scribe brought it unto the king, and told him again, saying, Thy servants have gathered together the money that was found in the house, and have given it to the workmen that are hired in the house of the LORD.

And Shaphan the scribe told the king, saying, Hilkiah the priest gave me a book. And Shaphan read it before the king.

And when the king heard the words of the book of the law, he rent his clothes.

And the king commanded Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and Achbor the son of Michaiah, and Shaphan the scribe, and Asaiah the king’s servant, saying: 13. Go ye, enquire 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 hearkened not unto the words of this book, to do according to all that is written therein.

And Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam, and Achbor, and Shaphan, and Asaiah, went unto Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvah,