11 And Urijah the priest built an altar according Jer. 2,9 to all that king Ahaz had sent from Damascus: so Isa. 8,2 Urijah the priest made it against king Ahaz came 2 Tim. 4, 10. from Damascus. Hos. 7, 7. 12 And when the king was come from Damascus, the king saw the altar and the king approached to Gal. 1, 10. the altar, and offered thereon. 13 And he burnt his burnt-offering, and his meat2 Tim. 3,15. offering, and poured his drink-offering, and sprinkled 7 Lev. 1, 3. the blood of his peace-offerings upon the altar. 14 And he brought also the brazen altar, which was "before the LORD, from the fore-front of the house, Ex. 40, 23. from between the altar and the house of the LORD, and put it on the north side of the altar. a 2 Chr. 4, 1. C verse 11. Israel carried away captive. CHRIST 721. 1 Ex. 20, 1 ned against the LORD their God, which had 'brought Before r n Jer 2.18 o 1 Kings 12, 19. verse 19. + Hah. or hid 9 And the children of Israel † did secretly those things that were not right against the LORD their God, and they built them high places in all theircities, from the P tower of the watchmen to the fenced city. 10 And they set them up images and groves in every high hill, and under every green tree: 11 And there they burnt incense in all the high places, as did the heathen whom the LORD carried Ezek. 7, away before them; and wrought wicked things to provoke the LORD to anger: t 23. & 9, 9. r Mic. 5, 14. s Ex. 30, L. 27, 28. & 25, 5. 15 And king Ahaz commanded Urijah the priest, 13 Yet the LORD testified against Israel, and against Lev. 18, saying, Upon the great altar burn the morning burnt- Judah, by all " the prophets, and by all the seers, sayoffering, and the evening meat-offering, and the king's ing, Turn ye from your evil ways, and keep my burnt-sacrifice, and his meat-offering, with the burnt-commandments and my statutes, according to all the offering of all the people of the land, and their meat-law which I commanded your fathers, and which I offering, and their drink-offerings; and sprinkle upon sent to you by my servants the prophets. it all the blood of the burnt-offering, and all the blood of the sacrifice: and the brazen altar shall be for me to inquire by. 16 Thus did Urijah the priest, according to all 1 Thess, that king Ahaz commanded. 15 And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified against them; and they followed vanity, and became 2 vain, and went after the heathen 2 Rom. 1, that were round about them, concerning whom the LORD had charged them, that they should not do like aJosh. 23,7 them. 16 And they left all the commandments of the b Isa. 1,4,& LORD their God, and made them molten images, cEx. 32, a even two calves, and made a grove, and worshipped d1 Kings all the host of heaven, and served Baal. 17 And they caused their sons and their daughters e Jer. 8, 2 to pass through the fire, and used divination and fch. 16, s. 20 And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and was buried enchantments, and sold themselves to do evil in the with his fathers in the city of David: and Heze-sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger. kiah his son reigned in his stead. CHAPTER XVII. the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah, began Hoshea the son of Elah to reign in Samaria over Israel nine years. 2 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the 5 ch.3, 2. LORD, but not as the kings of Israel that were before him. m 1 ch. 13, 3. &15, 29. 20 And the LORD rejected all the seed of Israel, and afflicted them, and delivered them into the hand of spoilers, until he had cast them out of his sight. 21 For he rent " Israel from the house of David; m1 King and they made Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, king: 24 and Jeroboam drave Israel from following the LORD, and made them sin a great sin. 11,31. & 12, 15, 32 & 14 16. 678. 22 For the children of Israel walked in all the sins of n 1 Kgs Jeroboam which he did; they departed not from them; 23 Until the LORD removed Israel out of his sight, as he had said "by all his servants the prophets. So o Ezra 4, 2 was Israel carried away out of their own land to Assyria unto this day. P P Gen. 10 10. 24 And the king of Assyria brought men from 9 Deut. z Babylon, and from Cuthah, and from Ava, and from Hamath, and from Sepharvaim, and placed them in the cities of Samaria, instead of the children of Israel: and they possessed Samaria, and dwelt in the cities thereof. s Gen. 47, verse & Mat. 10, 8 A mixture of religions. Before CHRIST 672. t Isa. 29, 13. Mat. 15, 8. Eph. 2. 12. a Judg. 17, 13. 31. CHAPTER XVII. CHRIST Hezekiah's good reign. 25 And so it was, at the beginning of their dwelling to reign; and he reigned twenty and nine years in Before there, that they feared not the LORD; therefore the Jerusalem. His mother's name also was Abi, the Cir. 2 LORD sent lions among them, which slew some of daughter of Zachariah. them. 26 Wherefore they spake to the king of Assyria, saying, The nations which thou hast removed, and placed in the cities of Samaria, know not the manner of the God of the land: therefore he hath sent lions among them, and, behold, they slay them, because they know not the manner of the God of the land. 27 Then the king of Assyria commanded, saying, Kings 12, Carry thither one of the "priests whom ye brought Ch.11.13 from thence; and let them go and dwell there, and Rom. 16,15. let him teach them the manner of the God of the land. 28 Then one of the priests, whom they had carried away from Samaria, caine and dwelt in Beth-el, tination, and taught them how they should fear the LORD. * 1 Kings 12, 32. ↑ Heb. naGen. 7, 2. y verse 30. X 29 Howbeit † every nation made gods of their own, and put them in the houses of the high places 1 Cor. &,5 which the Samaritans had made, every nation in Mat. 10,5. their cities wherein they dwelt. Luke 17, 16. 21. 30 And the men of Babylon made Succoth-benoth, and the men of Cuth made Nergal, and the men of Hamath made Ashima, 9 And it came to pass in the fourth yea of king Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hosnea son valiantly, 31 And the Avites made Nibhaz and Tartak, and of Elah king of Israel, that Shalmaucser king of As- P. 60, 12. A Lev. 13, the Sepharvites burnt their children in fire to ||Adram-syria came up against Samaria, and besieged it. m ch. 16, 7 melech and Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim. 10 And at the end of three years they took it, even n 2 Chr. 23 32 So they feared the LORD, and made unto in the sixth year of Hezekiah (that is, the rh year 18. themselves of the lowest of them priests of the high of Hoshea king of Israel) Samaria was taken. Zeph. 1,5 places, which sacrificed for them in the houses of the e1 Kings high places. 11 And the king of Assyria did carry ay ay Israel o ch. 17, unto Assyria, and put them in Halah and an Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes: 12 Because they obeyed not the voice of the Lord their God, but transgressed his covenant, and all that 34 Unto this day they do after the former man-Moses the servant of the LORD commanded, and ners: they fear not the LORD, neither do they after would not hear them, nor do them. their statutes, or after their ordinances, or after the Gen. 32, law and commandment which the LORD commanded 25.&35, 10. the children of Jacob, whom he named Israel: 35 With whom the LORD had made a covenant, Judg. 6, and charged them, saying, Ye shall not fear other gods, nor bow "yourselves to them, nor serve them, Ex. 20, 5. nor sacrifice to them : 18, 17. 37 And the 'statutes, and the ordinances, and the law, and the commandment, which he wrote for you, ye shall observe to do for evermore; and ye shall not fear other gods 38 And the covenant that I have made with you 1. ye shall not forget, neither shall ye fear other gods. 39 But the LORD your God ye shall fear: and he shall deliver you out of the hand cf all your enemies. 40 Howbeit they did not hearken, but they did after their former manner. 131 Now, in the fourteenth year of king Heze- $ 2 Chr. 32, kiah did Sennacherib king of Assyria come up against all the fenced cities of Judah, and took them. 14 And Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king u ch. 14, 18 of Assyria to "Lachish, saying, I have * offended; return from me: that which thou puttest on me will Prov 29,28 I bear. And the king of Assyria appointed unto Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of silver, and thirty talents of gold. x verse 7. Prov. 11, 4. 15 And Hezekiah gave him all the silver that was y verse 17 found in the house of the LORD, and in the treasures Mark 5,26, of the king's house. 34. 5. 710. 16 At that time did Hezekiah cut off the gold 6,3,5 from the doors of the temple of the LORD, and from the pillars which Hezekiah king of Judah had overlaid, and gave it to the king of Assyria. a verse 14. Ps. 62, 9. 17 And the king of Assyria sent Tartan, and b ta. 7, 5. Rabsaris, and Rab-shakeh, from Lachish to king & 29. Hezekiah, with a great host against Jerusalem and e Isa. 22, 15. they went up, and came to Jerusalem. And when they were come up, they came and stood by the "con- Jer, duit of the upper pool, which is in the highway of 19 the fuller's field. d verse 2 Zech. 1, 3, e verse 50 Gen. & Judg., 13. Dent. 25, 18 verse 5 Ps. 12, S. & 18 And when they had called to the king, there Rev. 13, & came out to them Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, which CHAPTER XVIII. was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and 1 Hezekiah's good reign....4 He destroyeth idolatry, and pros-Joah the son of Asaph the recorder. pereth. 19 And Rab-shakeh said unto them, Speak ye now 71, 11. & 78, OW it came to pass,, in the third year of Ho-to Hezekiah, Thus saith the great king, the king Mat. 4,3 shea son of Elah king of Israel, that Hezekiah of Assyria, What 'confidence is this wherein thou 23, the son of Ahaz king of Judah began to reign. trustest ? Rab-shakeh's blasphemy. 710. Bofore CHRIST 710. II. KINGS. Hezekiah mourning, is comforted. Before have counsel and strength for the war. Now, on with their clothes † rent, and told him the words of ર્ CHRIST whom dost thou trust, that thou rebellest against me? Rab-shakeh. 21 Now, behold, thou trustest upon the "staff of ov. 21, this bruised reed, even upon Egypt, on which if a man 1. Isa. 56, 6, lean it will go into his hand and pierce it: so is PhaEzek. 29,6, raoh king of Egypt unto all that trust on him. 7. 21,50. 6. 22 But if ye say unto me, We trust in the LORD iverse 4. our God: is not that he whose high places and whose 2 Chr. 81, 1. altars Hezekiah hath taken away; and hath said to 2 Chr 32, Judah and Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem ? 12. k 23 Now therefore, I pray thee, give pledges to my lord the king of Assyria, and I will deliver thee two thousand horses, if thou be able on thy part to set riders upon them. 24 How then wilt thou turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master's servants, and put thy trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen? 25 And I now come up without the LORD against 11 Kings this place to destroy it? The LORD said to me, Go up against this land, and destroy it. 13. 18. ch. 19, 15. Isa. 56, 10. Heb. we are hearing Gen. 11,7 CHAPTER XIX. Hezekiah mourning, sendeth to Isaiah to pray for them. † Heb real off garments. 1. AND it came to pass, when king Hezekiah "heard e f 15. c ch. 3, 12. James 5, 10, 17 Ps. 50, 13 or reviling, Ps. 123, 3 3 And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and of || rebuke, and blasphemy: for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth. 4 It may be the LORD thy God will hear all the e ch. 18, 20 "words of Rab-shakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent to reproach the living God; and Deut. $2,95. will reprove the words which the LORD thy God hath heard: wherefore lift up thy prayer for the 'rem- {7! nant that are left. 26 Then said Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, and 5 So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah. 16, 12. Shebna, and Joah, unto Rab-shakeh, Speak, I pray 6 And Isaiah said unto them, Thus shall ye say to ich. 18,55. thee, to thy servants in the Syrian language; for we your master, Thus saith the LORD, Be not afraid of Ps. 50, 21. understand it: and talk not with us in the Jews' the words which thou hast heard, with which the ser- 1 ch. 17.36 language, in the ears of the people that are on the vants of the king of Assyria have " blasphemed me. 2 Chr. 28, G. wall. 7 Behold, I will send a blast upon him, and he mExo. 14 27 But Rab-shakeh said unto them, hath my mas-shall hear a rumour, and shall return to his own ter sent me to thy master, and to thee, to speak these land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in words? hath he not sent me to the men which sit on his own land. in Deut. 28, the wall, that they may eat their own dung, and chap. 6, 25. drink their own piss, with you? 33 Hath any of the gods of the nations delivered PS. 115, 33. at all his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria? 34 Where are the gods of Hamath, and of Arpad? where are the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah? 24, 30, 31. have they delivered Samaria out of mine hand? 35 Who are they, among all the gods of the countries, that have delivered their country out of mine hand, that the LORD should deliver Jerusalem out of mine hand? 11 Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, by destroying them utterly; and shalt thou be delivered? 8 r ch. 18, 2 12 Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed; as Gozan, and 8 ch. 17, 3. Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of "Eden Gen. 11, which were in Thelasar? t 31. u 23. 13 Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Ezek. 27 Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivah? 8, 28. 14 And Hezekiah received the letter of the hand of 1 Kings the messengers, and read it: and Hezekiah went up into the house of the LORD, and spread it before the LORD. y Exod. 25, Heb. 4, 16. 18. 15 And Hezekiah prayed before the LORD, and said, O LORD God of Israel, which dwellest between the cherubins, thou art the God, even thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; thou hast made heaven Isa. 44, 6. and earth. b z a Jer. 10, 11 16 LORD, bow down thine ear, and hear: open, b Ps. 31, 2 LORD, thine eyes, and see; and hear the words of c 2 Chr. & Sennacherib, which hath sent him to reproach the 40. living God. d 17 Of a truth, LORD, the kings of Assyria have destroyed the nations and their lands, e d Num १. † Heb. given 18 And have † cast their gods into the fire: for they 2 Sam. 5,2 were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood & Jer. 10, 2 and stone: therefore they have destroyed them. e Rev. 6, 20 Isaiah prophesieth Sennacherib's destruction. Before CHAPTER XX. Before CHRIST Hezekiah's life lengthened. 19 Now therefore, O LORD' our God, I beseech 37 And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in CHRIST thee, save thou us out of his hand, that all the king-the house of Nisroch P his god, that Adrammelech doms of the earth may know that thou art the LORD and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword: (1 Kings 8, God, even thou-only. and they escaped into the land of Armenia. And Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead. 28. 710. g Ps. 33, 13. h 20 Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, That which thou hast prayed to me against Senna-1 Psal. 65, 2. cherib king of Assyria I have heard. b Dan. 9, 20. i verse 19. 12. • 1 Isa. 8, 9, 10. 21 This is the word that the LORD hath spoken concerning him: The virgin the daughter of Zion Hosea 11, hath despised' thee, and laughed thee to scorn: the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken "her head at thee. 22 Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice, and lifted up thine eyes on high? even against the Holy One of Israel. Zech. 2, 5. m Lam. 2, 15. n Ps. 71, 22. Isaiah 5, 24. 01 Kings 18, 17. n IN a seh succeedeth hini. 71C. a those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz came to him, ch1,5 and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, set thine house in order; for thou shalt die, and not live. 2 Then he turned his face to the wall, and prayed e Mat. 6, unto the LORD, saying, 23. 22. e 1 Thes. 2, 3 I beseech thee, O LORD, remember now how I dNeh. 13, have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect 23 By the messengers thou hast reproached the heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight. LORD and hast said, With the multitude of my char-And Hezekiah' wept sore. iots I am come up to the height of the mountains, to 4 And it came to pass, afore Isaiah was gone out the sides of Lebanon, and will cut down the tall into the middle court, that the word of the LORD came to him, saying, 4 ch.18, 11. cedar-trees thereof, and the choice fir-trees thereof: and I will enter into the lodgings of his borders, and into the forest of his Carmel. 5 Turn again, and tell Hezekiah, the captain of my people, Thus saith the LORD, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy h Ps. 61, 2, tears: behold, I will heal thee; on the third day thou i Ps. 39, 12. shalt go up unto the house of the LORD. I k & 56, 8. I verse 21. 6 And I will 'add unto thy days fifteen years; and Isa.38, 21. will" deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria; and I will defend this city for mine Job 11, 5. own sake, and for my servant David's sake. m2 Cor. 1, 10. n ch. 4, 41. 7 And Isaiah said, Take "a lump of figs. And they took and laid it on the boil, and he † recovered. 8 And Hezekiah said unto Isaiah, What shall be verse 5. the sign that the LORD will heal me, and that I shall go up into the house of the LORD the third day? 9 And Isaiah said, This sign shalt thou have of the LORD, that the LORD will do the thing that he hath spoken: Shall the shadow go forward ten degrees, or go back ten degrees? † Heh. red, pJudg. 6, 39. 13. 10 And Hezekiah answered, It is a light thing for Josh. 10, the shadow to go down ten degrees: nay, but let the Hos. €, 6. shadow return backward ten degrees. 11 And Isaiah the prophet cried unto the LORD; Ex. 14, 15. and he brought the shadow ten degrees back vard, by 1 Kings 13, which it had gone down in the dial of Ahaz. 42. 712 s Isa. 39, 1. 12 ¶ At that time Berodach-baladan, the son of Baladan king of Babylon, sent letters and a present unto Hezekiah: for he had heard that Hezekiah had 12an. 3, been sick. 10. & 10, 2. 25. 13 And Hezekiah" hearkened unto them, and u Isn. 30, 2 shewed them the house of his precious things, the x2 Chr. 92. silver, and the gold, and the spices, and the precious ointment, and all the house of his armour, and all that was found in his treasures: there was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, that Hezekiah shewed 46 them not. y y 1 Kings 8, 2 Chr. 32, Eccl. 7, 10. 27. 14 Then came Isaiah the prophet unto king Hezekiah, and said unto him, What said these men? and from whence came they unto thee? And Hezekiah 2 ch. 5, 25. said, They are come from a far country, even from Babylon. 15 And he said, What have they seen in thine house? And Hezekiah answered, All the things that are in a Josh. 7, mine house have they seen there is nothing among Job 31, 38 my treasures that I have not shewed them. 16 And Isaiah said unto Hezekiah, Hear the word of the LORD. 17 Behold, the days come, that all that is in thine 19. b1 Kings 2, 10. cir. 698. 2 Chr. 33, 1. MANA CHAPTER XXI. a b e c 1 Manasseh's reign....3 His great idolatry. ANASSEH was twelve years old when he -began toreign, and he reigned fifty and five years in A ch. 20, 6. Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Hephzi-bah. 2 And he did that which was evil in the sight of b Isa. 62, 4 the LORD, after the abominations of the heathen, e ver. 6, 16. whom the LORD cast out before the children of Israel. 3 For he built up again the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he reared up altars for Baal, and made a grove, as did Ahab king of Israel; and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them. d ch. 20, 3. e1 Kings 4, 21. 1 Kings 18, 4. g 1 Kings 16, 32, 33. 1 Jer. 32, 34 13. f 4. And he built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD said, In Jerusalem will I put my name. 5 And he built altars for all the host of heaven in 12 Sam. 4, the two courts of the house of the LORD. 6 And he made his son pass through the fire, and k1 Kings 6, mobserved times, and used enchantments, and dealt § with familiar spirits and wizards: he wrought much Lev. 18, 22. wickedness in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him m Lev. 19, to anger. 36. ! ch. 13, 10. 26. 7 And he set a graven image of the grove that he had made in the house, of which the LORD said to n 2 Sam. 7, David, and to Solomon his son, in this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all tribes, of o 1 Kings 8, Israel, will I put my name for ever: 10. 29. & 9, 3. chap. 23.27. 8 Neither will I make the P feet of Israel move any p ch. 18, 11. more out of the land which I gave their fathers; only 2 Chr. 33, 8. if they will observe to do according to all that I have Lev. 28, commanded them, and according to all the law that my servant Moses commanded them. 14. 9 But they hearkened not: and Manasseh'seduced them to do more evil than did the nations whom the LORD destroyed before the children of Israel. 10 And the LORD spake by his servants the prophets, saying, t 11 Because Manasseh king of Judah hath done these abominations, and hath done wickedly above all that the Amorites did, which were before him, and hath made Judah also to sin with his idols: 12 Therefore thus saith the LORD God of Israel, 11 Sam. 3, Behold, I am bringing such evil upon " Jerusalem and Jer. 19, 3. Judah, that whosoever heareth of it, both his ears X shall tingle. 1. Dan. 9, 12. y Isa. 54, 11. Amos 7, 8. 13 And I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of 6 Unto carpenters, and builders,and masons, and h ch. 12, 19 Zeph. 1, 6. Samaria, and the plummet of the house of Ahab: to buy timber and hewn stone to repair the house. Jer. 22, 30. and I will wipe Jerusalem as a man wipeth a dish, 7 Howbeit there was no reckoning made with Jer. 26, 9. Wiping it, and turning it upside down. them of the money that was delivered into their hand, in truth, 14 And I will forsake the remnant of mine inher-because they dealt † faithfully. itance, and deliver them into the hand of their ene- 8 And Hilkiah the high priest said unto Shaphan Amos 1, 5. b Prov, 28, 20 2 Tim. 2, |