the prophet, the son of Amoz, in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.

And Hezekiah slept with his fathers, and they buried him over the graves of the children of David. And all Judah and they that were at Jerusalem did him honour in his death. And Manasseh his son reigned in his stead.
(2 Chronicles)
Chapter 33
Manasseh and Amon’s government.

Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem;

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

And he turned again, and built the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down, and set up altars for Baalim, and made groves, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and ministered unto them.

He also built altars in the house of the LORD, whereof the LORD spake: In Jerusalem shall my name be for ever.

And built altars of all host in heaven in both courts of the house of the LORD.

And he caused his sons to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and chose days, and hearkened unto the cry of the birds, and wrought magic, and appointed soothsayers and diviners, and did much that was evil in the sight of the LORD to provoke him to anger.

And he set images and graven images, which he made, in the house of God, whereof the LORD spake to David, and to Solomon his son, saying, In this house which is at Jerusalem, which I have chosen before all the tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever; 8. And I will no more turn aside the foot of Israel from the land which I appointed for their fathers, if they will observe to do all that I have commanded them in all the statutes, and in all the commandments, and in all the judgments, by the hand of Moses.

And Manasseh deceived Judah and Jerusalem, so that they did more evil than the heathen, whom the LORD had destroyed from before the children of Israel.

And when the LORD spake unto Manasseh and to his people, they took no notice.

Therefore the LORD sent upon them the captains of the host of the king of Assyria, which took Manasseh captive with fetters, and bound him with chains, and brought him to Babylon.

And when he was in anguish, he besought the LORD his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers,

And he besought him, and besought him. And he heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem unto his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the LORD was God.

And afterward he built the uttermost walls of the city of David from the westward to Gihon in the brook, and from the entering in of the fish gate, and round about to Ophel, and made them very high: and he put captains in the strong cities of Judah.

And he took away the strange gods, and the idols out of the house of the LORD, and all the altars which he had built in the mount of the house of the LORD, and in Jerusalem, and cast them out of the city.

And he set up the altar of the LORD, and offered thereon peace offerings and sacrifices of praise, and commanded Judah to serve the LORD God of Israel.

But the people sacrificed in the high places, though they sacrificed unto the LORD their God.

And the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and his prayers unto his God, and the words of the men that talked with him in the name of the LORD God of Israel, behold, they are among the acts of the kings of Israel.

And his prayer, and his supplication, and all his sin and iniquity, and the place whereon he built the high places, and made groves and idols, before he was humbled, behold, they are written among the tales of the showers.

And Manasseh slept with his fathers, and they buried him in his house. And Amon his son reigned in his stead.

Twenty and two years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned two years in Jerusalem.

And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, as Manasseh his father had done.
And Amon sacrificed unto all the idols which Manasseh his father had made, and served them.

But he humbled not himself before the LORD, as Manasseh his father humbled himself: for he Amon made much iniquity.

And his servants made a league against him, and slew him in his house.

And the people of the land smote all them that had made a covenant against Amon the king.
And the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his stead.
(2 Chronicles)
Chapter 34
Josiah cleans and improves the temple.

Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned thirty and one years in Jerusalem.

And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the way of David his father, and turned not aside to the right hand, nor to the left.

For in the eighth year of his reign, when he was yet a boy, he began to seek the God of David his father; and in the twelfth year he began to cleanse Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, and from the groves, and from the idols, and from the graven images.

And he brake down before him the altars of Baalim, and the graven images that were upon them, and he brake down the groves, and the idols, and the graven images, and made them dust, and scattered them upon the graves of them that sacrificed unto them.

And he burnt the bones of the priests upon the altars, and purified Judah and Jerusalem, 6. And in the cities of Manasseh, and in Ephraim, and in Simeon, and as far as Naphtali, in their deserts round about.

And when he had broken down the altars and the groves, and broken in pieces the idols, and cut down all the images throughout all the land of Israel, he returned to Jerusalem.

In the eighteenth year of his reign, when he had purified the land and the house, he sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, and Maaseiah the governor of the city, and Jehoah the son of Jehoahaz the chancellor, to repair the house of the LORD his God.

And they came to Hilkiah the high priest. And they gave them the money that was brought
into the house of God, which the Levites that kept the threshold had gathered of Manasseh, and of Ephraim, and of all the remnant of Israel, and of all Judah and Benjamin, and of them that dwelt at Jerusalem.

And they put it under the hands of the labourers that were employed in the house of the LORD. And they gave it to them that wrought in the house of the LORD, and where it was broken down, to repair the house.

And they sent away to the carpenters and builders to buy hewn stone and hewn timber for the beams of the houses which the kings of Judah had destroyed.

And the men laboured faithfully in the work. And Jahath and Obadiah the Levite, of the children of Merari; Zechariah and Meshullam, of the children of the Kohathites, were appointed over them to do the work; and all the Levites that knew how to play the string.

And over the bearers of burdens, and the drivers of all manner of work in all offices, were of the Levites the scribes, and the officers, and the porters.

And when they had taken out the money that was laid up for the house of the LORD, Hilkiah the priest found the book of the law of the LORD given by Moses.

And Hilkiah answered and said unto Shaphan the scribe, I have found the book of the law in the house of the LORD. And Hilkiah gave the book unto Shaphan.

And Shaphan brought it unto the king, and told the king again, saying, All that is put into the hands of thy servants, they do.

And they poured out the money that was found in the house of the LORD, and gave it to them that were bidden, and to the workmen.

And Shaphan the scribe told the king, saying, Hilkiah the priest hath given me a book. And Shaphan read within before the king.

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

And the king commanded Hilkiah, and Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and Abdon the son of Micah, and Shaphan the scribe, and Asaiah the king’s servant, saying: 21. Go ye, enquire of the LORD for me, and for the remnant of Israel, and for Judah, concerning the words of the book that is found: for great is the wrath of the LORD that is kindled against us, because our fathers kept not the word of the LORD, to do as it is written in this book.

Then Hilkiah went with the rest of the king’s men unto Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Takehath, the son of Hasrah, the keeper of the garments, which dwelt in Jerusalem in the other part, and spake these things unto her.

And she said unto them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Say unto the man that sent you unto me:

Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, and upon the inhabitants thereof, all the curses that are written in the book that was read before the king of Judah,