Huldah's prophecy. Before CHRIST 624. CHAPTER XXIII. the scribe, I have found the book of the law in the covenant before the LORD, to CHRIST 624. Josiah destroyeth idolatry. walk after the LORD, Refore and to keep his commandments and his testimonies and his statutes, with all their heart and all their soul, Deut $1, 9 And Shaphan the scribe came to the king, and to perform the words of this covenant that were writ-Lev. 1,3 2hr. 34, brought the king word again, and said, Thy servantsten in this book: and all the people stood to the Ring in, have gathered the money that was found in the house,covenant. and have delivered it into the hand of them that do the work, that have the oversight of the house of the LORD. 24, 26. I ver. 3, 11. m Jer. 36, 21. 19. 10 And Shaphan the scribe shewed the king, saying, Hilkiah the priest hath delivered me 'a book. And Shaphan " read it before the king. m 11 And it came to pass, when the king had heard Deut. 17, the "words of the book of the law, that he rent his clothes. o Gen. $7, 29. 12 And the king commanded Hilkiah the priest, p2 Chr. 34, 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, 49 1 Cor. 10, 6, 11. 1 33. 7, 21. 11 Kings 1, 4 And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, i Eccl. 3, a 6 And he brought out the "groves from the house of 13 Go ye, inquire of the LORD for me, and for the people, and for all Judah, concerning the words of Ex. 20,5. this book that is found: for great is the wrath of the έ Rom. 15, 4. LORD that is kindled against us, because our fathers have not hearkened unto the words of this book, to do 7 And he brake down the houses of the Sodomaccording unto all that which is written concerning us. 14 So Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam and Ach-ites, that were by the house of the LORD, where the kings 14 Ex. 15, 20 bor, and Shaphan, and Asahiah, went unto Huldah women wove || hangings for the grove. theprophetess, 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 arment, they communed with her. 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 Ps. 51, 17. 2 humbled thyself before the LORD, when thou heardLev. 26, est what I spake against this place and against the Prov. 23,13 inhabitants thereof, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and hast rent thy clothes, and wept Gen. 25, 8. 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 Amos 3,7. peace; and thine eyes shall not see all the evil which I will bring upon this place. And they brought the king word again. 8 And he brought all the priests out of the cities of Or Judah, and defiled the † high places where the priests Acts 19, 24 had burnt incense, from Geba to Beer-sheba, and Heb. 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 t Ezek. 44 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 eh 11,3 Molech. 13 And the high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on the right hand of the mount of" Cor- 11,7. ruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had builded Neh. 18,8%. for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Zidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and e Lev for Milcom the abomination of the children of Am- 21. mon, did the king defile. 14 And he brake in pieces the images, and cut down the groves, and filled their places with the ver 16. bones of men. 2 And the king went up into the house of the LORD, and all the men of Judah, and all the inhabitants of Jer. 11. Jerusalem with him, and the priests, and the proph-the ets, and all the people, both small and great: and 4 ch. 22, 3. 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 ch. 11,14 Ezek. 5, 15 Moreover, the altar that was at Beth-el, and 2, 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 burnt the high place, and stamped it small to powder, and burnt the grove. 16 And as Josiah turned himself, he spied the 53. Josiah slain at Megidilo. CHRIST 624. II. KINGS. Before sepulchres that were there in the mount, and sent, and took the bones out of the sepulchres, and burnt them upen the altar, and polluted it, according to the word of the LORD, which the man of God proclaimed, who 300 years proclaimed these words. Il More than before, 1 Kings 13, 2. Isa. 54, 1. h 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 pro1,50, claimed these things that thou hast done against the altar of Beth-el. Si. i 2 Sam. 3, 18. Rom. 1, 18. h Isa. 57, 2. 11 Kings 13, 31. k 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 m 1 Kings were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of 13, 11.& 16, Israel had made to provoke the LORD to anger, Josiah took away, and did to them according to all n2 Chr. 54, the acts that he had done in Beth-el. 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 the 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 in:ages, 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 Deut. 18,12 written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in x ch. 22, 8. the house of the LORD. 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 Ps. 36, 12 he slew him at Megiddo, when he had seen him. Rom. 11,33. 30 And his servants carried him in a chariot dead 5 ch. 14,8. 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. Called Jekonan, 1 Chr. 3, 15. and Shal luin Jer 22, 11. 31 1Jehoahaz was twenty and three years old when Mat. 1, 1. he began to reign; and he reigned three months in Pre 33. 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 Jerusalem taken and spoiled. "Riblah, in the land of Hamath, that he might not Before reign in Jerusalem; and put 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 turned his name to Jehoiakim, and took Jehoahaz away: and he came to Egypt, and P died there. 35 And Jehoiakim gave the silver and the gold to pJer. 22,11. Pharaoh; but he taxed the land to give the money q verse 33 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. o Dan. 1, 1 15. 36 1 Jehoiakim was twenty and five years old 1 Chr. 3. when he began to reign; and he reigned eleven years Ezek. 19, in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Zebudah, the daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah. 3 8 Jer. 22,13. 36, 21, 22, 37 And he did that which was evil in the sight of & 26, 20. & the LORD, according to all that his fathers had done. 2352, 1 CHAPTER XXIV. 8 Jehoiachin's evil reign....10 Jerusalem is taken. 607. 606. 603. 600. came u), and Jehoiakim became his servant a Jer. 25, 1. his days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon three years: then he turned and rebelled against him. Dan. 1, 1. 2 And the LORD sent against him bands of the bJer. 46, 1. Chaldees, and bands of the Syrians, and bands of the 1 Kings 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 Jer. 25, 9. this upon Judah, to remove them out of his sight for fch. 17, 18. 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 24 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? 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 That is, of Babylon took him in the eighth year of || his reign. nezzar's, 13 And he carried out thence all the treasures of verse 7. the house of the LORD, and the treasure of the king's house, and cut in pieces all the vessels of gold which Jer. 27, 18, Solomon king of Israel had made in the temple of the 20,21. & 38. 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. chap. 25, & s ch. 20, 17. 19 And he did that which was a evil in the sight of Ezek. 19,19. the LORD, according to all that Jehoiachin had done. 20 For through the anger of the LORD it came to pass in Jerusalem and Judah, until he had cast them{ out of his presence, that Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon. ch. 17, 18. verse 17. Jer. 29, 5 Prov. 14, 15. 590. a Jer. 52, 4. 19. CHAPTER XXV. Zedekiah taken, his sons slain, and his eyes put out. AND it came to pass, in the ninth year of his reign, Zech. 8, month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, d ver. 1, 3. 589 e Jer. 50, 2. Zech. 8, 19. f Lam. 4,10. Jer. 21, 6. & 37, 21. fers Jer. 5, 10. h Deut. 22, 25. d 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 21Sam. 12, king, and overtook him in the plains of Jericho : and all his army were scattered from him. Gedaliah slain. CHRIST 588. was in the house of the LORD, did the Chaldees break Before 45. 15 And the fire-pans, and the bowls, and such Lev. 13, 1. things as were † of gold, in gold, and of silver, in sil-Heb. gold ver, 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. a gold, and silver silver. 7, 15. 17 The height of the one pillar was eighteen cu- 1 Kings bits, 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. b b 1 Chr. 6, 18 And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the 14 chief priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and e Ezra 7, 1, the three keepers of the † door: e C 4. 19 And out of the city he took an officer that was d Num. 3, set over the men of war, and five men of them that were in the king's presence, which were found in threshold, the city, and the principal scribe of the host, which ch. 22, mustered the people of the land, and threescore men Jer. 52, 25. of the people of the land that were found in the city: the king's these, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah. 21 And the king of Babylon smote them, slew them at Riblah, in the land of Hamath. Judah was carried away out of their land. 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 Nethaniah, and m Judg. 11, Johanan the son of Careah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth the "Netophathite, and Jaazaniah the 28 m. 23, son of a Maachathite, they and their men. 11. n Josh. 12,5 28. o 1 Kings 24 And Gedaliah "sware to them, and to their men, 21 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. kingdom, 7 And they slew the sons of Zedekiah before his Ezek. 12, eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and " bound{ 25 But it came to pass, in the seventh month, that pZech. 7,5. him with fetters of brass, and carried him to Babylon. Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, 8 And in the fifth month, on the seventh day of of the seed + royal, came, and ten men with him, and Heb of Jer. 52, 12 the month, (which is the nineteenth year of king Ne-smote Gedaliah, that he died, and the Jews and the Zech 7, 5 buchadnezzar king of Babylon,) came Nebuzar-adan, Chaldees that were with him at Mizpah. captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, unto Jerusalem: 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 Jer. 52,15. 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 Kings, of the land to be vine-dressers and husbandmen. 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. Dan. 1,3. 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 Pr. 21, 1. of the month, that Evil-merodach king of Babylon, Dan. 5, 11. in the year that he began to reign, did lift up the "head Gen. 40, of Jehoiachin king of Judah out of prison; 28And he spake kindly to him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings that were with him in Babylon; x Gen. 41, 29 And changed his prison-garments: and he did eat 14 bread continually before him all the days of his life. 2 Sam & 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. ADAM Sheth, Enosh, 2 Kenan, Mahalaleel, Jered, 3 Henoch, Methuselah, Lamech, 51 The sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, 6 And the sons of Gomer; Ashchenaz, and Ri-} Erk. 5, phath, and Togarmah. g b 7 And the sons of Javan; Elishah, and Tarshish, Gen. 10,4 Kittim, and Dodanim. i Gen. 10, 6. Gen. 10,9. Rev. 17, 6. 1 m Gen. 10, 18. 14 8 The sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, Put, and Canaan. 9 And the sons of Cush; Seba, and Havilah, and Sabta, and Raamah, and Sabtecha. And the sons of Raamah; Sheba, and Dedan. 10 And Cush begat Nimrod; he began to be mighty upon the earth. 11 And Mizraim begat Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and Naphtuhim, 12 And Pathrusim, and Caslushim, (of whom came Gen. 10, the Philistines,) and Caphthorim. 13 And Canaan begat P Zidon his first-born, and Heth, 15 And the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite, 16 And the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite. 17 I The sons of Shem; " Elam, and Asshur, and Exe27,8. Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram, and Uz, and Hul, Acts 2,9 and Gether, and Meshech. 24. 26. Gen. 10, 18 And Arphaxad begat Shelah, and Shelah begat * Eber. 19 And unto Eber were born two sons: the name Gen. 10, of the one was Peleg, (because in his days the earth was divided,) and his brother's name was Joktan. 20 And Joktan begat Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazarmaveth, and Jerah, r Gen. 10, 3. 2 21 Hadoram also, and Uzal, and Diklah, 22 And Ebai, and Abimael, and Sheba, a 23 And Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab. these were the sons of Joktan. 24 TShem, Arphaxad, Shelah, c 25 Eber, Peleg, Reu, 26 Serug, Nahor, Terah, All 40 The sons of Shobal; Alian, and Manahath, and 24 Ebal, Shephi, and Onam. And the sous of Zibeon; Aiah, and Anah. 41 The sons of Anah; Dishon. And the sons of 42 The sons of Ezer; Bilhan, and Zavan, and 44 And when Bela was dead, Jobab the son 2. 25. Gen. 36, 1 Sam. &, 5, 11. 48 And when "Samlah was dead, Shaul of Reho- 37. both by the river reigned in his stead. 49 And when Shaul was dead, Baal-hanan the son of Achbor reigned in his stead. e Gen. 2, 10, 14. 50 And when Baal-hanan was dead, Hadad reign- 51 Hadad died also. And the || dukes of Edom CHAPTER II. Gen. 36, 40 Job 21, 8, 9 7,3,4,5,6 Rev. 18, 7. | Or, Alva, Gen. 36, 46 cir. 1495 1 The sons of Israel....2 The posterity of Judah. HESE are the sons of Israel; Reuben, Simeon, a Gen. 32, 28 The sons of Abraham, Isaac, and Ishmael. T Levi, and Judah, Issachar, and Zebuluss 291 These are their generations: The first-born Gen. 21,2 of Ishmael, Nehaioth; then Kedar, and Adbeel, and Mibsam, 31 The sons of Judah; Er, and Onan, and She- cGen. 38, 3 lah; which three were born unto him of the daughter of Shua the Canaanitess. And Er, the first-born of Judah, was evil in the sight of the LORD; and he slew him. 4 And Tamar his daughter-in-law bare him Pha- 29, 30. rez and Zerah. All the sons of Judah were five. 5 The sons of Pharez; Hezron, and Hamul. 6 And the sons of Zerah; | Zimri, and 'Ethan, and Heman, and Calcol, and Dara: five of them in all. 7 And the sons of Carmi ; Achar the troubler of Is- Kings racl, who transgressed in the thing accursed. 8 And the sons of Ethan; Azariah. e e Josh. 7.1. Ruth 4, 18. Or, Zabdi 4, 31. 9 The sons also of Hezron, that were born unto Gen. 46,9 him; Jerahmee!, and Ram, and Chelubai. verse 25. 272 u Num 26, 29. 41. 41. 22 And Segub begat Jair, who had three and twenty cities in the land of Gilead. CHRIST 1471, &c. See the 42 1 Now the sons of Caleb, the brother of Jerahmeel, were Mesha his || first-born, which was the fa- privileges of ther of Ziph; and the sons of Mareshah, the father of Hebron. C 43 And the sons of Hebron; Korah, and Tappuah, and Rekem, and Shema. 44 And Shema begat Raham, the father of Jorkoam; and Rekem begat Shammai. 45 And the son of Shammai was Maon; and Maon was the father of Beth-zur. d 46 And Ephah, Caleb's † concubine, bare Haran, th: firstbortis Ger. 49, 3. & Num., 14. Deut. 21 17 2 Chr. 21. Rom. 8, 2 Heb. 12, 28. e Josh. 15 55. 15 1 Sam. 23 49 She bare also Shaaph the father of ' Madmannah, Sheva the father of Machbenah, and the father of Gibea: and the daughter of Caleb was Achsa. 50 These were the sons of Caleb, the son of Hur, the first-born of Ephratah; Shobal the father of e 1 Kings Kirjath-jearim, 51 Salma the father of " Beth-lehem, Hareph the father of Beth-gader. chap. 1, 52. 11, S. shua 15, planter, or 35, $7. That is, first estab lisher of the city, verse 42. 23 And he took Geshur, and Aram, with the towns 52 And Shobal the father of Kirjath-jearim had of Jair, from them, with Kenath and the towns there-sons; || Haroeh, and half of the Manahethites. Num. 32, of, even threescore cities: all these belonged to the sons 53 And the families of Kirjath-jearim; the Ithrites, Num. 52, of Machir the father of Gilead. and the Puhites, and the Shumathites, and the Mish- g Josh. 15,5 24 And after that Hezron was dead in Caleb-raites: of them came the Zareathites, and the Eshephratah, then Abiah, Hezron's wife, bare him Ashur taulites. the father of Tekoa. da. And the sons of Shammai; Nadab, and Abishur. NOW these were the sons of David, which were 1, 2 5am. 3 29 the name of the wife of Abishur was Abihail, and she bare him Abban, and Molid. 30 And the sons of Nadab; Seled, and Appaim`: but Seled died without children. 31 And the sons of Appaim; Ishi. And the sons of Ishi; Sheshan. And the children of Sheshan ; Ahlai. 32 And the sons of Jada, the brother of Shammai; Jether, and Jonathan: and Jether died without children. 33 And the sons of Jonathan; Peleth, and Zaza. These were the sons of Jerahmeel. 34 Now Sheshan had no sons, but daughters: and Sheshan had a servant, an Egyptian, whose name was Jarha. a 35 And Sheshan gave his daughter to Jarha his t7, s. servant to wife, and she bare him Attai. Judg. 14, 2 1 Cor. 7, 38. b ch 11,41 36 And Attai begat Nathan, and Nathan begat Zabad, 37 And Zabad begat Ephlal, and Ephlal begats Obed, 38 And Obed begat Jehu, and Jehu begat Azariah, 39 And Azariah begat Helez, and Helez begat Eleasah, 40 And Eleasah begat Sisamai, and Sisamai begat Shallum, b b unto him in Hebron; first-born, Amnon, of Ahinoam the Jezreelitess; the second, Daniel, 2 Sam. 3, of Abigail the Carmelitess: C 2 The third, Absalom, the son of Maachah, the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur; the fourth, Adonijah, the son of Haggith; d 3 The fifth, Shephatiah, of Abital; the sixth Ithream, by Eglah his wife. 4 These six were born unto him in 'Hebron; and there he reigned seven years and six months: and in Jerusalem he reigned thirty and three years. 3. & 15, 1. & 18, 13. 5. Kings 1 e2 Sam. 3,5. 12 Sam. 3,5. 14. Or, Bathsheba, 2 Sam. 11,8. h 2 Sam. 5, 15. 5 And these were born unto him in Jerusalem; 28am. 5, Shimea, and Shobab, and Nathan, and Solomon, four, of Bath-shua the daughter of Ammiel: 6 Ibhar also, and Elishama, and Eliphelet, 7 And Nogah, and Nepheg, and Japhia, 8 And Elishama, and Eliada, and Eliphelet, nine. 1 Kings 9 These were all the sons of David, besides the sons 11, 3. of the concubines, and * Tamar their sister. 101 And Solomon's son was Rehoboam; Abia 11 Kings his son, Asa his son, Jehoshaphat his son, |