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CHAP. XX, XXI.

Manasseh's wicked reign.

33 By the way that he came, by the same shall 16 And Isaiah said unto Hezekiah, Hear the he return, and shall not come into this city, saith word of the LORD.

the LORD. 17 Behold, the days come, that all that is in thy 34 For I will defend this city, to save it, for house, and that which thy fathers have laid up mine own sake, and for my servant David's sake. in store unto this day, shall be carried into Ba35 And it came to pass that night, that the bylon: nothing shall be left, saith the LORD. angel of the LORD went out, and smote in the 18 And of thy sons that shall issue from thee, camp of the Assyrians a hundred fourscore and which thou shalt beget, shall they take away; five thousand: and when they arose early in the and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses. king of Babylon. 36 So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, 19 Then said Hezekiah unto Isaiah, Good is and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh. the word of the LORD which thou hast spoken. 37 And it came to pass, as he was worshipping And he said, Is it not good, if peace and truth in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrainme- be in my days?

lech and Sharezer his sons sinote him with the 20 ¶ And the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and word: and they escaped into the land of Armenia. all his might, and how he made a pool, and a And Esar-laddon his son reigned in his stead. conduit, and brought water into the city, are they not written in the book of the Chronicles of the kings of Judah?

CHAP. XX.

Hezekiah's sickness and recovery.

IN those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. 21 And Hezekiah slept with his fathers: and

And the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz came to him, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Set thy house in order; for thou shalt die, and not live.

2 Then he turned his face to the wall, and prayed unto the LORD, saying,

3 I beseech thee, O LORD, remember now how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore.

Manasseh his son reigned in his stead.
CHAP. XXI.

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4 And it came to pass, afore Isaiah was gone Israel. out into the middle court, that the word of the 3 For he built up again the high places which LORD came to him, saying, Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he reared 5 Turn again, and tell Hezekiah the captain of my up altars for Baal, and made a grove, as did Ahab people, Thus saith the LORD, the God of David king of Israel; and worshipped all the host of thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen heaven, and served them.

thy tears: behold, I will heal thee: on the third 4 And he built altars in the house of the LORD, day thou shalt go up unto the house of the LORD. of which the LORD said, In Jerusalem will I put 6 And I will add unto thy days fifteen years; and I my name.

will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of 5 And he built altars for all the host of heaven the king of Assyria; and I will defend this city for in the two courts of the house of the LORD. mine own sake, and for my servant David's sake. 6 And he made his son pass through the fire, 7 And Isaiah said, Take a lump of figs. And and observed times, and used enchantments, and they took and laid it on the bile, and he recovered. dealt with familiar spirits and wizards: he 8 And Hezekiah said unto Isaiah, What shall wrought much wickedness in the sight of the be the sign that the LORD will heal me, and that LORD, to provoke him to anger.

I shall go up into the house of the LORD the 7 And he set a graven image of the grove that he third day? had made in the house, of which the LORD said 9 And Isaiah said, This sign shalt thou have of to David, and to Solomon his son, In this house, the LORD, that the LORD will do the thing that and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all he hath spoken: shall the shadow go forward tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever: ten degrees, or go back ten degrees? 8 Neither will I make the feet of Israel nove any 10 And Hezekiah answered, It is a light thing more out of the land which I gave their fathers; for the shadow to go down ten degrees: nay, but only if they will observe to do according to all that let the shadow return backward ten degrees. I have commanded them, and according to all the 11 And Isaiah the prophet cried unto the LORD: and he brought the shadow ten degrees backward, by which it had gone down in the dial of Ahaz. 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 been sick.

law that my servant Moses conmmanded them.
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,

11 Because Manasseh king of Judah hath done 13 And Hezekiah hearkened unto them, and these abominations, and hath done wickedly shewed them all the house of his precious things, above all that the Amorites did, which were bethe silver, and the gold, and the spices, and the fore him, and hath made Judah also to sin with precious ointment, and all the house of his ar-his idols:

mour, and all that was found in his treasures: 12 Therefore thus saith the LORD God of Israel, there was nothing in his house, nor in all his Behold, I am bringing such evil upon Jerusalem dominion, that Hezekiah shewed them not. and Judah, that whosoever heareth of it, both his ears shall tingle.

14 T 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 said. They are come from a far country, even from Babylon.

13 And I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria, and the plummet of the house of Alab: and I will wipe Jerusalem as a man wipeth a dish, wiping it, and turning it upside down. 15 And he said, What have they seen in thy 14 And I will forsake the remnant of mine inhouse? And Hezekiah answered, All the things heritance, and deliver them into the hand of their that are in my house have they seen there is enemies; and they shall become a prey and a nothing among my treasures that I have not spoil to all their enemies; shewed them. 15 Because they have done that which was evil

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Huldah's prophecy.

in my sight, and have provoked me to anger, since the words of the book of the law, that he rent the day their fathers came forth out of Egypt, his clothes. even unto this day.

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12 And the king commanded Hilkiah the priest, 16 Moreover, Manasseh shed innocent blood very and Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and Achbor the much, till he had filled Jerusalem from one end son of Michaiah, and Shaphan the scribe, and to another; besides his sin wherewith he made Asahiah a servant of the king's, saying, Judah to sin, in doing that which was evil in the 13 Go ye, inquire of the LORD for me, and for the sight of the LORD. people, and for all Judah, concerning the words 17 Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and of this book that is found for great is the wrath all that he did, and his sin that he sinned, are of the LORD that is kindled against us, because they not written in the book of the Chronicles of our fathers have not hearkened unto the words the kings of Judah? of this book, to do according unto all that which

18 And Manasseh slept with his fathers, and was is written concerning us. buried in the garden of his own house, in the garden 14 So Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam, and Achof Uzza: and Amon his son reigned in his stead. bor, and Shaphan, and Asahiah, went unto Hul19 1 Amon was twenty and two years old when dah the prophetess. the wife of Shallum the son he began to reign, and he reigned two years in of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, keeper of the wardJerusalem. And his mother's name was Meshu!-robe; (now she dwelt in Jerusalem in the collemeth, the daughter of Haruz of Jotbah.

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

lege;) and they communed with her.

15And 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:

22 And he forsook the LORD God of his fathers, and walked not in the way of the LORD. 17 Because they have forsaken me, and have 23 1 And the servants of Amon conspired against burned incense unto other gods, that they might him, and slew the king in his own house. provoke me to anger with all the works of their 24 And the people of the land slew all them that hands; therefore my wrath shall be kir.dlcd had conspired against king Amon; and the people against this place, and shall not be quenched. of the land made Josiah his son king in his stead. 18 But to the king of Judah which sent you to 25 Now the rest of the acts of Amon which he inquire of the LORD, thus shall ye say to hin, did, are they not written in the book of the Chron-Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, As touching icles of the kings of Judah? the words which thou hast heard;

26 And he was buried in his sepulchre in the gar-19 Because thy heart was tender, and thou hast den of Uzza: and Josiah his son reigned in his humbled thyself before the LORD, when thou stead.

CHAP. XXII.
Josiah's good reign.

heardest what I spake against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and hast rent JOSIA,I irdy when in heard saith the Loo OSIAH was eight years old when he began to thy clothes, and wept before me; I also have

Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Jedidah 20 Behold therefore, I will gather thee unto thy the daughter of Adaiah of Boscath. fathers, and thou shalt be gathered into thy grave

2 And he did that which was right in the sight in peace; and thine eyes shall not see all the evil of the LORD, and walked in all the way of David which I will bring upon this place. And they his father, and turned not aside to the right hand brought the king word again. or to the left.

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And it came to pass in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, that the king sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, the son of Meshullain, 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:

CHAP. XXIII.
Josiah's zeal and reformation.
ND the king sent, and they gathered unto

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 smalí and great: and he read in their ears all the words 5 And let them deliver it into the hand of the of the book of the covenant which was found in doers of the work, that have the oversight of the the house of the LORD.

house of the LORD: and let them give it to the 3 1 And the king stood by a pillar, and made a doers of the work, which is in the house of the covenant before the LORD, to walk after the LORD, LORD, to repair the breaches of the house, and to keep his commandments, and his testimo

6 Unto carpenters, and builders, and masons, and nies, and his statutes, with all their heart, and all to buy timber and hewn stone to repair the house. their soul, to perform the words of this covenant 7 Howbeit, there was no reckoning made with that were written in this book. And all the peothem of the money that was delivered into their ple stood to the covenant. hand, because they dealt faithfully.

4 And the king commanded Hilkiah the high

8 And Hilkiah the high priest said unto Sha-priest, and the priests of the second order, and phan the scribe, I have found the book of the law the keepers of the door, to bring forth out of the in the house of the LORD. And Hilkiah gave the temple of the LORD all the vessels that were made book to Shaphan, and he read it. for Baal, and for the grove, and for all the host

9 And Shaphan the scribe came to the king, and of heaven: and he burned them without Jerusabrought the king word again, and said, Thy ser-lem in the fields of Kidron, and carried the ashes vants have gathered the money that was found of them unto Beth-el.

in the house, and have delivered it into the hand 5 And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom of them that do the work, that have the oversight the kings of Judah had-ordained to burn incense in of the house of the LORD. the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the 10 And Shaphan the scribe shewed the king, say-places round aboutJerusalem; them also that burn'ng, 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

ed 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

Josiah destroys idolatry.

CHAP. XXIV.

He is slain by Pharaoh-nechok the LORD, without Jerusalem, unto the brook Kid-] 23 But in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, ron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and stamp-wherein this passover was holden to the LORD in ed it small to powder, and cast the powder there Jerusalem.

of upon the graves of the children of the people. 24 Moreover, the workers with familiar spi7 And he brake down the houses of the sodom-rits, and the wizards, and the images, and the ites that were by the house of the LORD, where idols, and all the abominations that were spied the women wove hangings for the grove. in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, did Jo

8 And he brought all the priests out of the cities siah put away, that he might perform the words of Judah, and defiled the high places where the of the law which were written in the book that priests had burnt incense, from Geba to Beer-Hilkiah the priest found in the house of the LORD. sheba, and brake down the high places of the 25 And like unto him was there no king before gates that were in the entering in of the gate of him, that turned to the LORD with all his heart, Joshua the governor of the city, which were on and with all his soul, and with all his might, ac a man's left hand at the gate of the city. cording to all the law of Moses; neither after

9 Nevertheless, the priests of the high places him arose there any like him. came not up to the altar of the LORD in Jerusa- 26 Notwithstanding, the LORD turned not lem, but they did eat of the unleavened bread from the fierceness of his great wrath, whereamong their brethren. with his anger was kindled against Judah, because of all the provocations that Manasseh had provoked him withal.

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.

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 f have chosen, and the house of which I said, My name shall be there.

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 Nathanmelech the chamberlain, which was in the su- 28 Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and all burbs, and burned the chariots of the sun with fire. that he did, are they not written in the book of 12 And the altars that were on the top of the up- the Chronicles of the kings of Judah? per chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah 29 T In his days Pharaoh-nechoh king of Egypt had made, and the altars which Manasseh had went up against the king of Assyria to the river made in the two courts of the house of the LORD, Euphrates: and king Josiah went against him; and did the king beat down, and brake them down he slew him at Megiddo, when he had seen him. from thence, and cast the dust of them into the 30 And his servants carried him in a chariot brook Kidron. dead from Megiddo, and brought him to Jerusa

13 And the high places that were before Jerusalem, and buried him in his own sepulchre. And lem, which were on the right hand of the mount the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of of Corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel Josiah, and anointed him, and made him king had builded for Ashtoreth the abomination of the in his father's stead. Zidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of 31 ¶ Jehoahaz was twenty and three years old 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 Beth-el, 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.

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 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 16 And as Josiah turned himself, he spied the turned his name to Jehoiakim, and took Jehoahaz sepulchres that were there in the mount, and sent, away: and he came to Egypt, and died there. and took the bones out of the sepulchres, and 35 And Jehoiakim gave the silver and the gold to burned them upon the altar, and polluted it, ac-Pharaoh; but he taxed the land to give the money cording to the word of the LORD which the man according to the commandment of Pharaoh: he of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these words. exacted the silver and the gold of the people of 17 Then he said, What title is that that I see? the land, of every one according to his taxation, And the men of the city told him, It is the se- to give it unto Pharaoh-nechoh. pulchre of the man of God, which came from Judah, and proclaimed hese things that thou hast done against the altar of Beth-el.

36 1 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 18 And he said, Let him alone; let no man move Zebudah, the daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah. his bones. So they let his bones alone, with the 37 And he did that which was evil in the sight bones of the prophet that came out of Samaria. of the LORD, according to all that his fathers 19 And all the houses also of the high places that had done. 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 Beth-el.

CHAP. XXIV.

Jerusalem taken by Nebuchadnezzar.

IN his days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon

came up, and Jehoiakim became his servant three years: then he turned and rebelled against

20 And he slew all the priests of the high places that were there upon the altars, and burnt men's him. bones upon them, and returned to Jerusalem. 2 And the LORD sent against him bands of the 21 ¶ And the king commanded all the people, Chaldees, and bands of the Syrians, and bands of saying, Keep the passover unto the LORD your the Moabites, and bands of the children of AmGod, as it is written in the book of this covenant. mon, and sent them against Judah to destroy 22 Surely there was not holden such a passover according to the word of the LORD, which he from the days of the judges that judged Israel, spake by his servants the prophets. nor in all the days of the kings of Israel, nor of 3 Surely at the commandment of the LORD came the kings of Judah; this upon Judah, to remove them out of his sight,

Jehoiachin carried captive.

11. KINGS. 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.

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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

5 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and judgment upon him. all that he did. are they not written in the book 7 And they slew the sons of Zedekiah before of the Chronicles of the kings of Judah? his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and 6 So Jehoiakim slept with his fathers: and Je-bound him with fetters of brass, and carried hin hoiachin his son reigned in his stead. to Babylon.

7 And the king of Egypt came not again any 8 And in the fifth month, on the seventh day more out of his land: for the king of Babylon had of the month, (which is the nineteenth year of taken from the river of Egypt unto the river Eu-king Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon,) came phrates all that pertained to the king of Egypt. Nebuzar-adan, captain of the guard, a servant 8 Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he of the king of Babylon, unto Jerusalem: began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem three 9 And he burnt the house of the LORD, and the months. And his mother's name was Nehushta, king's house, and all the houses of Jerusalem, the daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem. and every great man's house burnt he with fire. 9 And he did that which was evil in the sight of 10 And all the army of the Chaldees, that were the LORD,according to all that his father had done. with the captain of the guard, brake down the 10 At that time the servants of Nebuchad-walls of Jerusalem round about. nezzar king of Babylon came up against Jerusa- 11 Now the rest of the people that were left in lem, and the city was besieged. the city, and the fugitives that fell away to the

11 And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came king of Babylon, with the remnant of the multiagainst the city, and his servants did besiege it.[tude, did Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard 12 And Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out carry away.

to the king of Babylon, he, and his mother, and 12 But the captain of the guard left of the poor his servants, and his princes, and his officers: of the land to be vine-dressers and husbandmen. and the king of Babylon took him in the eighth 13 And the pillars of brass that were in the year of his reign. house of the LORD, and the bases, and the bra13 And he carried out thence all the treasures of zen sea that was in the house of the LORD, did the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the the Chaldees break in pieces, and carried the king's house, and cut in pieces all the vessels of brass of them to Babylon.

gold which Solomon king of Israel had made in 14 And the pots, and the shovels, and the snuffthe temple of the LORD, as the LORD had said.ers, and the spoons, and all the vessels of brass 14 And he carried away all Jerusalem, and all wherewith they ministered, took they away. the princes, and all the mighty men of valour, 15 And the fire-pans, and the bowls, and such even ten thousand captives, and all the crafts- things as were of gold, in gold, and of silver, in men, and smiths: none remained, save the poor-silver, the captain of the guard took away. est 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, these 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.

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 T And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the door:

18 Zedekiah was twenty and one years old when 19 And out of the city he took an officer that he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years was set over the men of war, and five men of in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Ha-them that were in the king's presence, which inutal, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah. were found in the city, and the principal scribe 19 And he did that which was evil in the sight of of the host, which mustered the people of the the LORD,according to all that Jehoiakim had done. land, and threescore men of the people of the 20 For through the anger of the LORD it came land that were found in the city: to pass in Jerusalem, and Judah, until he had cast them out from his presence, that Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.

CHAP. XXV.

Jerusalem again besieged and taken.

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

AND it came to pass in the ninth year of his Judah was carried away out of their land. reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day 22 ¶ And as for the people that remained in the of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Ba-land of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he, and all his host, against Jerusa-bylon had left, even over them he made Gedaliah lem, and pitched against it; and they built forts the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, ruler. 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.

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 Johanan the son of Careah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, and Jaazaniah the son of a Maachathite, they and their men.

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 24 And Gedaliah sware to them, and to their men, the Chaldees were against the city round about;) and said unto them, Fear not to be the servants and the king went the way toward the plain. of the Chaldees: dwell in the land, and serve the

Gedaliah slain by Ishmael.

CHAP. XXV.

Jehoiachin advanced king of Babylon, and it shall be well with you. twentieth day of the month, that Evil-merodach 25 But it came to pass in the seventh month, king of Babylon in the year that he began to that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, the son of reign did lift up the head of Jehoiachin king of Elishama, of the seed royal, came, and ten men Judah out of prison;

with him, and smote Gedaliah, that he died, and 28 And he spake kindly to him, and set his the Jews and the Chaldees that were with him throne above the throne of the kings that were at Mizpah. with him in Babylon;

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 thir-
tieth year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of
Judah, in the twelfth month, on the seven and day, all the days of his life.
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29 And changed his prison garments: and he did eat bread continually before him all the days of his life.

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30 And his allowance was a continual allow. ance given him of the king, a daily rate for every

and Henoch, and Abida, and Eldaah. All these are the sons of Keturah.

34 And Abraham begat Isaac. The sons of Isaac; Esau, and Israel.

35 T The sons of Esau; Eliphaz, Reuel, and Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah.

36 The sons of Eliphaz; Teman, and Omar, Zephi, and Gatam, Kenaz, and Timna, and Amalek. 37 The sons of Reuel; Nahath, Zerah, Shan

6 And the sons of Gomer; Ashchenaz, and Ri-mah, and Mizzah. phath, and Togarmah.

7 And the sons of Javan; Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittini, and Dodanim.

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 Casluhim, (of whom came the Philistines,) and Caphtorim.

13 And Canaan begat Zidon his first-born, and Heth,

14 The Jebusite also, and the Amorite, and the Girgashite,

38 And the sons of Seir; Lotan, and Shobal, and Zibeon, and Anah, and Dishon, and Ezer, and Dishan.

39 And the sons of Lotan; Ilori, and Homam : and Timna was Lotan's sister.

40 The sons of Shobal: Alian, and Manahath, and Ebal, Shephi, and Onam. And the sons of Zibeon; Aiah, and Anah.

41 The sons of Anah; Dishon. And the sons of Dishon; Amram, and Eshiban, and Ithran, aud Cheran.

42 The sons of Ezer; Bilhan, and Zavan, and Jakan. The sons of Dishan; Uz, and Aran. 43 Now these are the kings that reigned in the land of Edom before any king reigned over the children of Israel; Bela the son of Beor: and the name of his city was Dinhabah. 44 And when Bela was dead, Jobab the son of

15 And the Hivite, and the Archite, and the Si-Zera of Bozrah reigned in his stead

nite,

45 And when Jobab was dead, Husham of the 16 And the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and land of the Temanites reigned in his stead. the Hamathite.

46 And when Husham was dead, Hadad the 17 The sons of Shem; Elam, and Asshur, son of Bedad, which smote Midian in the field and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Arain, and Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Meshech.

18 And Arphaxad begat Shelah, and Shelah begat Eber.

19 And unto Eber were born two sons: the name 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,

21 Hadoram also, and Uzal, and Diklah, 22 And Ebal, and Abimael, and Sheba, 23 And Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab. these were the sons of Joktan.

24 1 Shein, Arphaxad, Shelah, 25 Eber, Peleg, Reu,

26 Serug, Nahor, Terah,

27 Abram; the same is Abraham.

of Moab, reigned in his stead: and the name of his city was Avith.

47 And when Hadad was dead, Samlah of Mazrekah reigned in his stead.

48 And when Samlah was dead, Shaul of Rehoboth by the river reigned in his stead. 49 And when Shaul was dead, Baal-hanan the son of Achbor reigned in his stead.

50 And when Baal-hanan was dead, Hadad reigned in his stead: and the name of his city was Pai; and his wife's name was Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, the daughter of Mezahab. All 51 Hadad died also. And the dukes of Edom were; duke Timnah, duke Aliah, duke Jetheth, 52 Duke Aholibamah, duke Elah, duke Pinon, 53 Duke Kenaz, duke Teman, duke Mibzar, 54 Duke Magdiel, duke Iram. These are the dukes of Edom.

28 The sons of Abraham; Isaac, and Ishmael. 29 1 These are their generations. The first

born of Ishmael, Nebaioth; then Kedar, and

Adbeel, and Mibsam,

CHAP. II.

Levi, and Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun,

The posterity of Israel.
THESE are the sons of Israel; Reuben, Simeon,

and Asher.

30 Mishma, and Dumah, Massa, Hadad, and 2 Dan, Joseph, and Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad, Tema, 31 Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah. These are 3 The sons of Judah; Er, and Onan, and Shethe sons of Ishmael. lah: which three were born unto him of the

32 Now the sons of Keturah, Abraham's con-daughter of Shua the Canaanitess. And Er, the cubine: she bare Zimran, and Jokshan, and Me-first-born of Judah, was evil in the sight of the dan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah. And LORD; and he slew him. the sons of Jokshan; Sheba, and Dedan.

4 And Tamar his daughter-in-law bare him Pha

33 And the sons of Midian; Ephah and Epher, 'rez and Zerah. All the sons of Judah were five.

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