display: 2 Chronicles 25:1

text: Amaziah was twentie and fiue yeeres olde when hee began to reigne, and hee reigned twentie and nine yeeres in Ierusalem, and his mothers name was Iehoadan of Ierusalem.


display: 2 Chronicles 25:2

2 Chronicles

testament: OT

text: And hee did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, but not with a perfite heart.


display: 2 Chronicles 25:3

text: ¶ Now it came to passe when the kingdome was established to him, that he slew his seruants, that had killed the king his father.


display: 2 Chronicles 25:4

text: But hee slewe not their children, but did as it is written in the Law in the booke of Moses, where the LORD commanded, saying, The fathers shall not die for the children, neither shall the children die for the fathers; but euery man shall die for his owne sinne.


display: 2 Chronicles 25:5

text: ¶ Moreouer, Amaziah gathered Iudah together, and made them Captaines ouer thousands, and captaines ouer hundreds, according to the houses of their fathers, throughout all Iudah and Beniamin: And he numbred them from twentie yeeres olde and aboue, and found them three hundred thousand choice men, able to goe foorth to warre, that could handle speare and shield.


display: 2 Chronicles 25:6

text: Hee hired also an hundred thousand mightie men of valour, out of Israel, for an hundred talents of siluer.


display: 2 Chronicles 25:7

text: But there came a man of God to him, saying, O king, let not the armie of Israel goe with thee: for the LORD is not with Israel, to wit, with all the children of Ephraim.


display: 2 Chronicles 25:8

text: But if thou wilt goe, doe it, bee strong for the battell: God shall make thee fall before the enemy: for God hath power to helpe, and to cast downe.


display: 2 Chronicles 25:9

text: And Amaziah said to the man of God, But what shall wee doe for the hundred talents which I haue giuen to the armie of Israel? And the man of God answered, The LORD is able to giue thee much more then this.


display: 2 Chronicles 25:10

text: Then Amaziah separated them, to wit, the armie that was come to him out of Ephraim, to goe home againe. Wherfore their anger was greatly kindled against Iudah, and they returned home in great anger.


display: 2 Chronicles 25:11

text: ¶ And Amaziah strengthened himselfe, and ledde foorth his people, and went to the valley of salt, and smote of the children of Seir, ten thousand.


display: 2 Chronicles 25:12

text: And other ten thousand left aliue, did the children of Iudah cary away captiue, and brought them vnto the top of the rocke, and cast them downe from the top of the rocke, that they all were broken in pieces.


display: 2 Chronicles 25:13

text: ¶ But the souldiers of the army which Amaziah sent backe, that they should not goe with him to battell, fell vpon the cities of Iudah, from Samaria euen vnto Beth-horon, and smote three thousand of them, and took much spoile.


display: 2 Chronicles 25:14

text: ¶ Now it came to passe, after that Amaziah was come from the slaughter of the Edomites, that hee brought the gods of the children of Seir, and set them vp to be his gods, and bowed down himselfe before them, and burned incense vnto them.


display: 2 Chronicles 25:15

text: Wherfore the anger of the LORD was kindled against Amaziah, and hee sent vnto him a Prophet, which said vnto him, Why hast thou sought after the gods of the people, which could not deliuer their owne people out of thine hand?


display: 2 Chronicles 25:16

text: And it came to passe as hee talked with him, that the king said vnto him, Art thou made of the Kings counsell? forbeare; why shouldest thou be smitten? Then the Prophet forbare, and said, I know that God hath determined to destroy thee, because thou hast done this, and hast not hearkened vnto my counsell.


display: 2 Chronicles 25:17

text: ¶ Then Amaziah king of Iudah tooke aduice, and sent to Ioash the sonne of Iehoahaz the sonne of Iehu, king of Israel, saying, Come, let vs see one another in the face.


display: 2 Chronicles 25:18

text: And Ioash king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Iudah, saying, The thistle that was in Lebanon, sent to the Cedar that was in Lebanon, saying, Giue thy daughter to my sonne to wife: and there passed by a wild beast that was in Lebanon, and trode downe the thistle.


display: 2 Chronicles 25:19

text: Thou sayest, Loe, thou hast smitten the Edomites, and thine heart lifteth thee vp to boast. Abide now at home, why shouldest thou meddle to thine hurt, that thou shouldest fall, euen thou, and Iudah with thee?


display: 2 Chronicles 25:20

text: But Amaziah would not heare: for it came of God, that he might deliuer them into the hand of their enemies, because they sought after the gods of Edom.


display: 2 Chronicles 25:21

text: So Ioash the King of Israel went vp, and they saw one another in the face, both hee and Amaziah King of Iudah at Beth-shemesh, which belongeth to Iudah.


display: 2 Chronicles 25:22

text: And Iudah was put to the worse before Israel, and they fled euery man to his tent.


display: 2 Chronicles 25:23

text: And Ioash the king of Israel tooke Amaziah king of Iudah the son of Ioash, the son of Ioahaz, at Bethshemesh, and brought him to Ierusalem, and brake downe the wall of Ierusalem, from the gate of Ephraim to the corner gate, foure hundred cubits.


display: 2 Chronicles 25:24

text: And hee tooke all the gold and the siluer, and all the vessels that were found in the house of God with Obed-Edom, and the treasures of the kings house, the hostages also, and returned to Samaria.


display: 2 Chronicles 25:25

text: ¶ And Amaziah the sonne of Ioash King of Iudah liued after the death of Ioash sonne of Iehoahaz king of Israel, fifteene yeeres.


display: 2 Chronicles 25:26

text: Now the rest of the acts of Amaziah, first and last, behold, are they not written in the booke of the Kings of Iudah and Israel?


display: 2 Chronicles 25:27

text: ¶ Now after the time that Amaziah did turne away from following the LORD, they made a conspiracie against him in Ierusalem, and he fled to Lachish: but they sent to Lachish after him, and slew him there.


display: 2 Chronicles 25:28

text: And they brought him vpon horses, and buried him with his fathers in the citie of Iudah.


display: 2 Chronicles 26:1

text: Then all the people of Iudah tooke Uzziah, who was sixteene yeeres old, and made him King in the roome of his father Amaziah.


display: 2 Chronicles 26:2

text: He built Eloth, and restored it to Iudah: after that the King slept with his fathers.


display: 2 Chronicles 26:3

text: Sixteene yeeres old was Uzziah, when he began to reigne, and he reigned fiftie and two yeeres in Ierusalem: his mothers name also was Iecoliah of Ierusalem.


display: 2 Chronicles 26:4

text: And hee did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father Amaziah did.


display: 2 Chronicles 26:5

text: And hee sought God in the dayes of Zechariah, who had vnderstanding in the visions of God: and as long as he sought the LORD, God made him to prosper.


display: 2 Chronicles 26:6

text: And hee went foorth and warred against the Philistines, & brake downe the wall of Gath, and the wall of Iabneh, and the wall of Ashdod, and built cities about Ashdod, and among the Philistines.


display: 2 Chronicles 26:7

text: And God helped him against the Philistines, and against the Arabians, that dwelt in Gur-baal, and the Mehunims.


display: 2 Chronicles 26:8

text: And the Ammonites gaue gifts to Uzziah, and his name spread abroad euen to the entring in of Egypt: for hee strengthened himselfe exceedingly.


display: 2 Chronicles 26:9

text: Moreouer Uzziah built towers in Ierusalem at the corner gate, and at the valley gate, and at the turning of the wall, and fortified them.


display: 2 Chronicles 26:10

text: Also he built towers in the desert, and digged many welles, for hee had much cattell, both in the low countrey, and in the plaines: husbandmen also, and vine dressers in the mountaines, and in Carmel: for hee loued husbandrie.


display: 2 Chronicles 26:11

text: Moreouer, Uzziah had an host of fighting men, that went out to warre by bands, according to the number of their account, by the hand of Ieiel the Scribe, and Maasiah the ruler, vnder the hand of Hananiah, one of the kings captaines.


display: 2 Chronicles 26:12

text: The whole number of the chiefe of the fathers of the mightie men of valour, were two thousand and sixe hundred.


display: 2 Chronicles 26:13

text: And vnder their hand was an armie, three hundred thousand, and seuen thousand, and fiue hundred, that made warre with mightie power, to helpe the king against the enemie.


display: 2 Chronicles 26:14

text: And Uzziah prepared for them throughout all the hoste, shields, and speares, and helmets, and habergions, and bowes, and slings to cast stones.


display: 2 Chronicles 26:15

text: And hee made in Ierusalem engines inuented by cunning men, to bee on the towers, & vpon the bulwarks, to shoote arrowes and great stones withall: and his name spread farre abroad, for he was marueilously helped, till he was strong.


display: 2 Chronicles 26:16

text: ¶ But when he was strong, his heart was lifted vp to his destruction: for he transgressed against the LORD his God, and went into the temple of the LORD, to burne incense vpon the altar of incense.


display: 2 Chronicles 26:17

text: And Azariah the priest went in after him, and with him fourescore priests of the LORD, that were valiant men.


display: 2 Chronicles 26:18

text: And they withstood Uzziah the king, and said vnto him, It perteineth not vnto thee, Uzziah, to burne incense vnto the LORD, but to the priestes the sonnes of Aaron, that are consecrated to burne incense. Goe out of the Sanctuarie; for thou hast trespassed, neither shall it be for thine honour from the LORD God.


display: 2 Chronicles 26:19

text: Then Uzziah was wroth, and had a censer in his hand, to burne incense, and while he was wroth with the priests, the leprosie euen rose vp in his forehead, before the priests, in the house of the LORD, from beside the incense altar.


display: 2 Chronicles 26:20

text: And Azariah the chiefe priest, and all the priests looked vpon him, and behold, he was leprous in his forehead, and they thrust him out from thence, yea himselfe hasted also to goe out, because the LORD had smitten him.


display: 2 Chronicles 26:21

text: And Uzziah the king was a leper vnto the day of his death, and dwelt in a seuerall house being a leper, for he was cut off from the house of the LORD: and Iotham his sonne was ouer the kings house, iudging the people of the land.


display: 2 Chronicles 26:22

text: ¶ Now the rest of the actes of Uzziah first and last, did Isaiah the prophet the sonne of Amoz write.


display: 2 Chronicles 26:23

text: So Uzziah slept with his fathers, and they buried him with his fathers in the field of the buriall which belonged to the kings: for they saide, He is a leper: And Iotham his sonne reigned in his stead.


display: 2 Chronicles 27:1

text: Iotham was twenty and fiue yeeres olde, when hee began to reigne, and hee reigned sixteene yeeres in Ierusalem: his mothers name also was Ierushah, the daughter of Zadok.


display: 2 Chronicles 27:2

text: And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father Uzziah did: howbeit hee entred not into the temple of the LORD. And the people did yet corruptly.


display: 2 Chronicles 27:3

text: He built the high gate of the house of the LORD, and on the wall of Ophel, he built much.


display: 2 Chronicles 27:4

text: Moreouer hee built cities in the mountaines of Iudah, and in the forrests he built castles and towers.


display: 2 Chronicles 27:5

text: ¶ He fought also with the king of the Ammonites, and preuailed against them. And the children of Ammon gaue him the same yeere an hundred talents of siluer, and ten thousand measures of wheate, and tenne thousand of barley. So much did the children of Ammon pay vnto him, both the second yeere, and the third.


display: 2 Chronicles 27:6

text: So Iotham became mightie, because he prepared his wayes before the LORD his God.


display: 2 Chronicles 27:7

text: ¶ Now the rest of the actes of Iotham and all his warres, and his wayes, lo, they are written in the booke of the Kings of Israel and Iudah.


display: 2 Chronicles 27:8

text: Hee was fiue and twentie yeeres olde when he began to reigne, and reigned sixteene yeeres in Ierusalem.


display: 2 Chronicles 27:9

text: ¶ And Iotham slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of Dauid: and Ahaz his sonne reigned in his stead.


display: 2 Chronicles 28:1

text: Ahaz was twentie yeeres olde when hee beganne to reigne, and he reigned sixteene yeres in Ierusalem: but hee did not that which was right in the sight of the LORD, like Dauid his father.


display: 2 Chronicles 28:2

text: For he walked in the wayes of the Kings of Israel, and made also molten images for Baalim.


display: 2 Chronicles 28:3

text: Moreouer, he burnt incense in the valley of the sonne of Hinnom, & burnt his children in the fire, after the abominations of the heathen, whome the LORD had cast out before the children of Israel.


display: 2 Chronicles 28:4

text: Hee sacrificed also, and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hils, and vnder euery greene tree.


display: 2 Chronicles 28:5

text: Wherefore the LORD his God deliuered him into the hand of the king of Syria, and they smote him, and caried away a great multitude of them captiues, and brought them to Damascus: And he was also deliuered into the hand of the king of Israel, who smote him wich a great slaughter.


display: 2 Chronicles 28:6

text: ¶ For Pekah the sonne of Remaliah slew in Iudah an hundred & twentie thousand in one day, which were all valiant men: because they had forsaken the LORD God of their fathers.


display: 2 Chronicles 28:7

text: And Zichri a mightie man of Ephraim, slue Maaseiah the kings sonne, and Azrikam the gouernour of the house, and Elkanah that was next to the King.


display: 2 Chronicles 28:8

text: And the children of Israel caried away captiue of their brethren, two hundred thousand, women, sonnes and daughters, and tooke also away much spoile from them, and brought the spoile to Samaria.


display: 2 Chronicles 28:9

text: But a Prophet of the LORD was there, whose name was Oded: and hee went out before the hoste that came to Samaria, and said vnto them, Behold, because the LORD God of your fathers was wroth with Iudah, he hath deliuered them into your hand, and yee haue slaine them in a rage that reacheth vp vnto heauen.


display: 2 Chronicles 28:10

text: And now ye purpose to keepe vnder the children of Iudah and Ierusalem for bondmen, and bondwomen vnto you: But are there not with you, euen with you, sinnes against the LORD your God?


display: 2 Chronicles 28:11

text: Now heare me therefore, and deliuer the captiues againe, which ye haue taken captiue of your brethren: for the fierce wrath of God is vpon you.


display: 2 Chronicles 28:12

text: Then certeine of the heads of the children of Ephraim, Azariah the sonne of Iohanan, Berechiah the sonne of Meshillemoth, and Iehizkiah the son of Shallum, and Amasa the sonne of Hadlai, stood vp against them that came from the warre,


display: 2 Chronicles 28:13

text: And said vnto them, Ye shall not bring in the captiues hither: for whereas wee haue offended against the LORD already, ye intend to adde more to our sinnes and to our trespasse: for our trespasse is great, and there is fierce wrath against Israel.


display: 2 Chronicles 28:14

text: So the armed men left the captiues, and the spoile before the Princes, and all the congregation.


display: 2 Chronicles 28:15

text: And the men which were expressed by name, rose vp and tooke the captiues, and with the spoile clothed all that were naked among them, and arayed them, and shod them, and gaue them to eate and to drinke, and anointed them, and caried all the feeble of them vpon asses, and brought them to Iericho, the city of palme-trees, to their brethren: then they returned to Samaria.


display: 2 Chronicles 28:16

text: ¶ At that time did king Ahaz send vnto the kings of Assyria to helpe him.


display: 2 Chronicles 28:17

text: For againe the Edomites had come and smitten Iudah, and caried away captiues.


display: 2 Chronicles 28:18

text: The Philistines also had inuaded the cities of the low-countrey, and of the South of Iudah, and had taken Beth-shemesh, and Aialon, and Gedetoth, and Shocho with the villages thereof, and Timnah with the villages thereof, Gimzo also, and the villages thereof: and they dwelt there.


display: 2 Chronicles 28:19

text: For the LORD brought Iudah low, because of Ahaz king of Israel; for he made Iudah naked, and transgressed sore against the LORD.


display: 2 Chronicles 28:20

text: And Tilgath-Pilneser king of Assyria came vnto him, and distressed him, but strengthened him not.


display: 2 Chronicles 28:21

text: For Ahaz tooke away a portion out of the house of the LORD, and out of the house of the King, and of the Princes, and gaue it vnto the King of Assyria: but he helped him not.


display: 2 Chronicles 28:22

text: ¶ And in the time of this distresse did hee trespasse yet more against the LORD: This is that king Ahaz.


display: 2 Chronicles 28:23

text: For he sacrificed vnto the gods of Damascus, which smote him: and he said, Because the gods of the kings of Syria helpe them, therefore will I sacrifice to them, that they may helpe me: but they were the ruine of him, and of all Israel.


display: 2 Chronicles 28:24

text: And Ahaz gathered together the vessels of the house of God, and cut in pieces the vessels of the house of God, and shut vp the doores of the house of the LORD, and hee made him altars in euery corner of Ierusalem.


display: 2 Chronicles 28:25

text: And in euery seuerall city of Iudah hee made high places to burne incense vnto other gods, and prouoked to anger the LORD God of his fathers.


display: 2 Chronicles 28:26

text: ¶ Now the rest of his acts, and of all his wayes, first and last, behold, they are written in the booke of the kings of Iudah and Israel.


display: 2 Chronicles 28:27

text: And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the citie, euen in Ierusalem: but they brought him not into the sepulchres of the kings of Israel: and Hezekiah his sonne reigned in his stead.


display: 2 Chronicles 29:1

text: Hezekiah began to reigne when hee was fiue and twentie yeeres old, and he reigned nine and twentie yeeres in Ierusalem: and his mothers name was Abiiah the daughter of Zechariah.


display: 2 Chronicles 29:2

text: And hee did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that Dauid his father had done.


display: 2 Chronicles 29:3

text: ¶ He, in the first yere of his reigne, in the first moneth, opened the doores of the house of the LORD, and repaired them.


display: 2 Chronicles 29:4

text: And hee brought in the Priests, and the Leuites, and gathered them together into the East street,


display: 2 Chronicles 29:5

text: And said vnto them, Heare me, ye Leuites, sanctifie now your selues, and sanctifie the house of the LORD God of your fathers, and cary foorth the filthinesse out of the holy place.


display: 2 Chronicles 29:6

text: For our fathers haue trespassed, and done that which was euill in the eyes of the LORD our God, and haue forsaken him, and haue turned away their faces from the habitation of the LORD, and turned their backs.


display: 2 Chronicles 29:7

text: Also they haue shut vp the doores of the Porch, and put out the lampes, and haue not burnt incense, nor offered burnt offerings in the holy place, vnto the God of Israel.


display: 2 Chronicles 29:8

text: Wherfore the wrath of the LORD was vpon Iudah and Ierusalem, and he hath deliuered them to trouble, to astonishment, and to hissing, as yee see with your eyes.


display: 2 Chronicles 29:9

text: For loe, our fathers haue fallen by the sword, and our sonnes and our daughters, and our wiues, are in captiuitie for this.


display: 2 Chronicles 29:10

text: Now it is in mine heart to make a couenant with the LORD God of Israel, that his fierce wrath may turne away from vs.


display: 2 Chronicles 29:11

text: My sonnes, bee not now negligent: for the LORD hath chosen you to stand before him, to serue him, and that you should minister vnto him, and burne incense.


display: 2 Chronicles 29:12

text: ¶ Then the Leuites arose, Mahath the sonne of Amashai, and Ioel the sonne of Azariah, of the sonnes of the Kohathites: and of the sonnes of Merari, Kish the sonne of Abdi, and Azariah the sonne of Iahalelel: and of the Gershonites Ioah, the sonne of Zimmah, and Eden the sonne of Ioah:


display: 2 Chronicles 29:13

text: And of the sonnes of Elizaphan, Shimri, and Iehiel: and of the sonnes of Asaph, Zechariah and Mattaniah:


display: 2 Chronicles 29:14

text: And of the sonnes of Heman, Iehiel, and Shimei: and of the sonnes of Ieduthun, Shemaiah and Uzziel.


display: 2 Chronicles 29:15

text: And they gathered their brethren, and sanctified themselues, and came according to the commandement of the king, by the words of the LORD, to cleanse the house of the LORD.


display: 2 Chronicles 29:16

text: And the priests went into the inner part of the house of the LORD, to cleanse it, and brought out all the vncleannes that they found in the temple of the LORD, into the court of the house of the LORD. And the Leuites tooke it, to carie it out abroad into the brooke Kidron.


display: 2 Chronicles 29:17

text: Now they began on the first day of the first moneth to sanctifie, and on the eight day of the moneth, came they to the porch of the LORD. So they sanctified the house of the LORD in eight dayes, and in the sixteenth day of the first moneth, they made an end.


display: 2 Chronicles 29:18

text: Then they went in to Hezekiah the king, and said, We haue cleansed all the house of the LORD, and the altar of burnt offering, with all the vessels thereof, and the shew-bread table, with all the vessels thereof.


display: 2 Chronicles 29:19

text: Moreouer all the vessels which king Ahaz in his reigne did cast away in his transgression, haue we prepared and sanctified, and behold, they are before the altar of the LORD.


display: 2 Chronicles 29:20

text: ¶ Then Hezekiah the king rose earely, and gathered the rulers of the citie, and went vp to the house of the LORD.


display: 2 Chronicles 29:21

text: And they brought seuen bullocks and seuen rammes, and seuen lambes, and seuen hee goats for a sinne offring for the kingdome, and for the Sanctuarie, and for Iudah: and he commaunded the priests the sonnes of Aaron to offer them on the Altar of the LORD.


display: 2 Chronicles 29:22

text: So they killed the bullockes, and the priestes receiued the blood, and sprinkled it on the altar: like wise when they had killed the rams, they sprinkled the blood vpon the altar: they killed also the lambes, and they sprinkled the blood vpon the altar.


display: 2 Chronicles 29:23

text: And they brought foorth the hee goats for the sinne offering, before the king and the congregation, and laide their hands vpon them:


display: 2 Chronicles 29:24

text: And the priests killed them, and they made reconciliation with their blood vpon the altar, to make an atonement for all Israel: for the king commanded that the burnt offring and the sin offering should be made for all Israel.


display: 2 Chronicles 29:25

text: And hee set the Leuites in the house of the LORD with cymbals, with psalteries, and with harpes, according to the commandement of Dauid, and of Gad the kings Seer, and Nathan the prophet: for so was the commandement of the LORD by his prophets.


display: 2 Chronicles 29:26

text: And the Leuites stood with the instruments of Dauid, and the priestes with the trumpets.


display: 2 Chronicles 29:27

text: And Hezekiah commaunded to offer the burnt offering vpon the altar: and when the burnt offering began, the song of the LORD began also with the trumpets, and with the instruments ordeined by Dauid king of Israel.


display: 2 Chronicles 29:28

text: And all the congregation worshipped, and the singers sang, and the trumpetters sounded: and all this continued vntill the burnt offering was finished.


display: 2 Chronicles 29:29

text: And when they had made an end of offering, the king and all that were present with him, bowed themselues and worshipped.


display: 2 Chronicles 29:30

text: Moreouer Hezekiah the king and the Princes, commanded the Leuites to sing praise vnto the LORD, with the words of Dauid, and of Asaph the Seer: and they sang praises with gladnes, and they bowed their heads and worshipped.


display: 2 Chronicles 29:31

text: Then Hezekiah answered and said, Now ye haue consecrated your selues vnto the LORD: come neere and bring sacrifices, and thanke-offerings into the house of the LORD. And the congregation brought in sacrifices, and thank-offrings, and as many as were of a free heart, burnt offerings.


display: 2 Chronicles 29:32

text: And the number of the burnt offerings which the congregation brought, was threescore and ten bullockes, an hundred rammes, and two hundred lambs: all these were for a burnt offring to the LORD.


display: 2 Chronicles 29:33

text: And the consecrated things were, sixe hundred oxen, and three thousand sheepe.


display: 2 Chronicles 29:34

text: But the Priests were too few, so that they could not flay all the burnt offerings: wherefore their brethren the Leuites did helpe them, till the worke was ended, and vntill the other Priestes had sanctified themselues: for the Leuites were more vpright in heart, to sanctifie themselues, then the Priests.


display: 2 Chronicles 29:35

text: And also the burnt offerings were in abundance, with the fat of the peace offerings, & the drinke offrings, for euery burnt offering. So the seruice of the house of the LORD was set in order.


display: 2 Chronicles 29:36

text: And Hezekiah reioyced, and all the people, that God had prepared the people: for the thing was done suddenly.


display: 2 Chronicles 30:1

text: And Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Iudah, and wrote letters also to Ephraim and Manasseh, that they should come to the house of the LORD at Ierusalem, to keepe the Passeouer vnto the LORD God of Israel.


display: 2 Chronicles 30:2

text: For the king had taken counsell, and his Princes, and all the congregation in Ierusalem, to keepe the Passeouer in the second moneth.


display: 2 Chronicles 30:3

text: For they could not keepe it at that time, because the Priests had not sanctified themselues sufficiently, neither had the people gathered themselues together to Ierusalem.


display: 2 Chronicles 30:4

text: And the thing pleased the king, and all the Congregation.


display: 2 Chronicles 30:5

text: So they established a decree, to make proclamation throughout all Israel, from Beersheba euen to Dan, that they should come to keep the Passeouer vnto the LORD God of Israel at Ierusalem: for they had not done it of a long time in such sort, as it was written.


display: 2 Chronicles 30:6

text: So the Postes went with the letters from the King and his Princes, throughout all Israel and Iudah, and according to the commandement of the king, saying; Yee children of Israel, turne againe vnto the LORD God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel, and hee wil returne to the remnant of you, that are escaped out of the hand of the kings of Assyria.


display: 2 Chronicles 30:7

text: And be not ye like your fathers, and like your brethren, which trespassed against the LORD God of their fathers, who therefore gaue them vp to desolation, as ye see.


display: 2 Chronicles 30:8

text: Now be yee not stiffe-necked as your fathers were, but yeeld your selues vnto the LORD, and enter into his Sanctuarie, which he hath sanctified for euer: and serue the LORD your God, that the fiercenesse of his wrath may turne away from you.


display: 2 Chronicles 30:9

text: For if yee turne againe vnto the LORD, your brethren and your children shall finde compassion before them that leade them captiue, so that they shall come againe into this land: for the LORD your God is gracious and mercifull, and will not turne away his face from you, if ye returne vnto him.


display: 2 Chronicles 30:10

text: So the Posts passed from citie to citie, through the countrey of Ephraim and Manasseh, euen vnto Zebulun: but they laughed them to scorne, and mocked them.


display: 2 Chronicles 30:11

text: Neuerthelesse, diuers of Asher, and Manasseh, and of Zebulun, humbled themselues, and came to Ierusalem.


display: 2 Chronicles 30:12

text: Also in Iudah, the hand of God was to giue them one heart to doe the commandement of the king and of the Princes, by the word of the LORD.


display: 2 Chronicles 30:13

text: ¶ And there assembled at Ierusalem much people, to keepe the feast of vnleauened bread in the second moneth, a very great congregation.


display: 2 Chronicles 30:14

text: And they arose and tooke away the altars that were in Ierusalem, and all the altars for incense tooke they away, and cast them into the brooke Kidron.


display: 2 Chronicles 30:15

text: Then they killed the Passeouer on the fourteenth day of the second moneth: and the Priests and the Leuites were ashamed, and sanctified themselues, and brought in the burnt offerings into the house of the LORD.


display: 2 Chronicles 30:16

text: And they stood in their place after their maner, according to the Law of Moses the man of God: The priests sprinckled the blood, which they receiued of the hand of the Leuites.


display: 2 Chronicles 30:17

text: For there were many in the Congregation that were not sanctified: therefore the Leuites had the charge of the killing of the Passeouers for euery one that was not cleane, to sanctifie them vnto the LORD.


display: 2 Chronicles 30:18

text: For a multitude of the people, euen many of Ephraim and Manasseh, Issachar and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselues: yet did they eate the Passeouer otherwise then it was written. But Hezekiah prayed for them, saying; The good LORD pardon euery one,


display: 2 Chronicles 30:19

text: That prepareth his heart to seeke God, the LORD God of his fathers, though hee be not cleansed according to the purification of the Sanctuary.


display: 2 Chronicles 30:20

text: And the LORD hearkened to Hezekiah, and healed the people.


display: 2 Chronicles 30:21

text: And the children of Israel that were present at Ierusalem, kept the feast of vnleauened bread seuen dayes with great gladnesse: and the Leuites and the Priests praised the LORD day by day, singing with lowd instruments vnto the LORD.


display: 2 Chronicles 30:22

text: And Hezekiah spake comfortably vnto all the Leuites, that taught the good knowledge of the LORD: and they did eate throughout the feast, seuen dayes, offering peace-offerings, and making confession to the LORD God of their fathers.


display: 2 Chronicles 30:23

text: And the whole assembly tooke counsel to keepe other seuen dayes: and they kept other seuen dayes with gladnesse.


display: 2 Chronicles 30:24

text: For Hezekiah king of Iudah did giue to the Congregation, a thousand bullockes, and seuen thousand sheep: and the Princes gaue to the Congregation a thousand bullocks, and ten thousand sheepe, and a great number of Priests sanctified themselues.


display: 2 Chronicles 30:25

text: And all the Congregation of Iudah, with the Priests and the Leuites, and all the Congregation that came out of Israel, and the strangers that came out of the land of Israel, and that dwelt in Iudah, reioyced.


display: 2 Chronicles 30:26

text: So there was great ioy in Ierusalem: for since the time of Solomon the sonne of Dauid King of Israel, there was not the like in Ierusalem.


display: 2 Chronicles 30:27

text: ¶ Then the Priests the Leuites arose, and blessed the people: and their voice was heard, and their prayer came vp to his holy dwelling place, euen vnto heauen.


display: 2 Chronicles 31:1

text: Now when all this was finished, all Israel that were present, went out to the cities of Iudah, and brake the images in pieces, and cut downe the groues, and threw downe the high places and the altars out of all Iudah and Beniamin, in Ephraim also and Manasseh, vntill they had vtterly destroyed them all. Then all the children of Israel returned euery man to his possession into their owne cities.


display: 2 Chronicles 31:2

text: ¶ And Hezekiah appointed the courses of the Priests and the Leuites after their courses, euery man according to his seruice, the Priests and Leuites for burnt offerings, and for peace offerings, to minister and to giue thankes, and to praise in the gates of the tents of the LORD.


display: 2 Chronicles 31:3

text: He appointed also the kings portion of his substance, for the burnt offrings, to wit, for the morning and euening burnt offrings; and the burnt offrings for the Sabbaths, and for the Newmoones, and for the set feasts, as it is written in the Law of the LORD.


display: 2 Chronicles 31:4

text: Moreouer, he commaunded the people that dwelt in Ierusalem, to giue the portion of the Priests, and the Leuites, that they might be incouraged in the Law of the LORD.


display: 2 Chronicles 31:5

text: ¶ And assoone as the commaundement came abroad, the children of Israel brought in abundance the first fruits of corne, wine and oile, & hony, and of all the increase of the field, and the tithe of all things brought they in abundantly.


display: 2 Chronicles 31:6

text: And concerning the children of Israel and Iudah, that dwelt in the cities of Iudah, they also brought in the tithes of oxen and sheepe, and the tithe of holy things, which were consecrated vnto the LORD their God, and layd them by heapes.


display: 2 Chronicles 31:7

text: In the third moneth they began to lay the foundation of the heapes, and finished them in the seuenth moneth.


display: 2 Chronicles 31:8

text: And when Hezekiah and the princes came, and saw the heapes, they blessed the LORD, and his people Israel.


display: 2 Chronicles 31:9

text: Then Hezekiah questioned with the priests and the Leuites concerning the heapes.


display: 2 Chronicles 31:10

text: And Azariah the chiefe priest of the house of Zadok, answered him & said: Since the people began to bring the offerings into the house of the LORD, wee haue had enough to eate, and haue left plentie: for the LORD hath blessed his people; and that which is left, is this great store.


display: 2 Chronicles 31:11

text: ¶ Then Hezekiah commanded to prepare chambers in the house of the LORD, and they prepared them,


display: 2 Chronicles 31:12

text: And brought in the offerings and the tithes, and the dedicate things, faithfully: ouer which Cononiah the Leuite was ruler, and Shimei his brother was the next.


display: 2 Chronicles 31:13

text: And Iehiel, and Azaziah, and Nahath, and Asahel, and Ierimoth, and Iozabad, and Eliel, and Ismachiah, and Mahath, and Benaiah were ouerseers vnder the hande of Cononiah, and Shimei his brother, at the commandement of Hezekiah the king, and Azariah the ruler of the house of God.


display: 2 Chronicles 31:14

text: And Kore the sonne of Immah the Leuite the porter toward the East, was ouer the free will offerings of God, to distribute the oblations of the LORD, and the most holy things.


display: 2 Chronicles 31:15

text: And next him were Eden, and Miniamin, and Ieshua, and Shemaiah, Amariah, and Shechaniah, in the cities of the priests, in their set office, to giue to their brethren by courses, as wel to the great as to the small:


display: 2 Chronicles 31:16

text: Beside their genealogie of males, from three yeeres old and vpward, euen vnto euery one that entreth into the house of the LORD, his dayly portion for their seruice in their charges, according to their courses:


display: 2 Chronicles 31:17

text: Both to the genealogie of the priests by the house of their fathers, and the Leuites from twenty yeeres olde and vpward, in their charges by their courses:


display: 2 Chronicles 31:18

text: And to the genealogie of all their litle ones, their wiues, and their sonnes, and their daughters, through all the congregation: for in their set office they sanctified themselues in holinesse.


display: 2 Chronicles 31:19

text: Also of the sonnes of Aaron the priests, which were in the fields of the suburbs of their cities, in euery seuerall citie, the men that were expressed by name, to giue portions to all the males among the priests, and to all that were reckoned by genealogies, among the Leuites.


display: 2 Chronicles 31:20

text: ¶ And thus did Hezekiah throughout al Iudah, and wrought that which was good and right, and trueth before the LORD his God.


display: 2 Chronicles 31:21

text: And in euery worke that he began in the seruice of the house of God, and in the law, and in the commandements to seeke his God, he did it with all his heart, and prospered.


display: 2 Chronicles 32:1

text: After these things and the establishment therof, Sennacherib king of Assyria came, and entred into Iudah, & encamped against the fenced cities, and thought to winne them for himselfe.


display: 2 Chronicles 32:2

text: And when Hezekiah sawe that Sennacherib was come, and that hee was purposed to fight against Ierusalem,


display: 2 Chronicles 32:3

text: He tooke counsel with his princes, and his mightie men, to stop the waters of the fountaines, which were without the citie: and they did helpe him.


display: 2 Chronicles 32:4

text: So there was gathered much people together, who stopt all the fountaines, and the brooke that ranne through the midst of the land, saying, Why should the kings of Assyria come, and finde much water?


display: 2 Chronicles 32:5

text: Also he strengthened himselfe, and built vp all the wall that was broken, and raised it vp to the towers, and another wall without, and prepared Millo in the citie of Dauid, and made darts and shields in abundance.


display: 2 Chronicles 32:6

text: And hee set captaines of warre ouer the people, and gathered them together to him in the streete of the gate of the city, and spake comfortably to them, saying;


display: 2 Chronicles 32:7

text: Be strong and couragious, be not afraid nor dismayed for the king of Assyria, nor for all the multitude that is with him: for there bee moe with vs, then with him.


display: 2 Chronicles 32:8

text: With him is an arme of flesh, but with vs is the LORD our God to helpe vs, and to fight our battels. And the people rested themselues vpon the words of Hezekiah king of Iudah.


display: 2 Chronicles 32:9

text: ¶ After this did Sennacherib king of Assyria send his seruants to Ierusalem (but he himselfe laide siege against Lachish, and all his power with him) vnto Hezekiah king of Iudah, and vnto all Iudah that were at Ierusalem, saying;


display: 2 Chronicles 32:10

text: Thus sayth Semacherib king of Assyria, Whereon doe ye trust, that yee abide in the siege in Ierusalem?


display: 2 Chronicles 32:11

text: Doeth not Hezekiah perswade you to giue ouer your selues to die by famine and by thirst, saying, The LORD our God shall deliuer vs out of the hand of the king of Assyria?


display: 2 Chronicles 32:12

text: Hath not the same Hezekiah taken away his high places, and his altars, and commanded Iudah and Ierusalem, saying; Yee shall worship before one altar, & burne incense vpon it?


display: 2 Chronicles 32:13

text: Know ye not what I and my fathers haue done vnto all the people of other lands? were the gods of the nations of those landes any wayes able to deliuer their lands out of mine hand?


display: 2 Chronicles 32:14

text: Who was there among all the gods of those nations, that my fathers vtterly destroyed, that could deliuer his people out of mine hand, that your God should bee able to deliuer you out of mine hand?


display: 2 Chronicles 32:15

text: Now therefore let not Hezekiah deceiue you, nor perswade you on this manner, neither yet beleeue him: for no god of any nation or kingdome was able to deliuer his people out of mine hand, & out of the hand of my fathers: how much lesse shall your God deliuer you out of mine hand?


display: 2 Chronicles 32:16

text: And his seruants spake yet more against the LORD God, and against his seruant Hezekiah.


display: 2 Chronicles 32:17

text: Hee wrote also letters to raile on the LORD God of Israel, & to speake against him, saying, As the gods of the nations of other lands haue not deliuered their people out of mine hand: so shall not the God of Hezekiah deliuer his people out of mine hand.


display: 2 Chronicles 32:18

text: Then they cryed with a loude voice in the Iewes speech vnto the people of Ierusalem that were on the wal, to affright them, and to trouble them, that they might take the city.


display: 2 Chronicles 32:19

text: And they spake against the God of Ierusalem, as against the gods of the people of the earth which were the worke of the hands of man.


display: 2 Chronicles 32:20

text: For this cause Hezekiah the king, and the Prophet Isaiah the sonne of Amoz, prayed and cryed to heauen.


display: 2 Chronicles 32:21

text: ¶ And the LORD sent an Angel, which cut off all the mightie men of valour, and the leaders and captains in the campe of the king of Assyria: so hee returned with shame of face to his owne land. And when hee was come into the house of his god, they that came foorth of his owne bowels, slew him there with the sword.


display: 2 Chronicles 32:22

text: Thus the LORD saued Hezekiah, and the inhabitants of Ierusalem, from the hand of Sennacherib the king of Assyria, and from the hand of all other, and guided them on euery side.


display: 2 Chronicles 32:23

text: And many brought gifts vnto the LORD to Ierusalem, and presents to Hezekiah king of Iudah: so that hee was magnified in the sight of all nations, from thenceforth.


display: 2 Chronicles 32:24

text: ¶ In those dayes Hezekiah was sicke to the death, and prayed vnto the LORD: and he spake vnto him, and he gaue him a signe.


display: 2 Chronicles 32:25

text: But Hezekiah rendred not againe, according to the benefit done vnto him: for his heart was lifted vp, therefore there was wrath vpon him, and vpon Iudah and Ierusalem.


display: 2 Chronicles 32:26

text: Notwithstanding, Hezekiah humbled himselfe for the pride of his heart, (both hee and the inhabitants of Ierusalem) so that the wrath of the LORD came not vpon them in the dayes of Hezekiah.


display: 2 Chronicles 32:27

text: ¶ And Hezekiah had exceeding much riches, and honour: and he made himselfe treasuries for siluer, and for golde, and for precious stones, and for spices, and for shields, and for all maner of pleasant iewels;


display: 2 Chronicles 32:28

text: Store-houses also for the increase of corne, and wine and oile; and stalles for all maner of beasts, and coates for flocks.


display: 2 Chronicles 32:29

text: Moreouer, hee prouided him cities, and possessions of flockes & heards in abundance: for God had giuen him substance very much.


display: 2 Chronicles 32:30

text: This same Hezekiah also stopped the vpper water-course of Gihon, and brought it straight downe to the Westside of the City of Dauid. And Hezekiah prospered in all his workes.


display: 2 Chronicles 32:31

text: ¶ Howbeit, in the businesse of the Embassadours of the Princes of Babylon, who sent vnto him to enquire of the wonder that was done in the land, God left him, to try him, that he might know all that was in his heart.


display: 2 Chronicles 32:32

text: ¶ Now, the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and his goodnesse, behold, they are written in the vision of Isaiah the Prophet, the sonne of Amoz, and in the booke of the kings of Iudah and Israel.


display: 2 Chronicles 32:33

text: And Hezekiah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the chiefest of the Sepulchres of the sonnes of Dauid: and all Iudah and the inhabitants of Ierusalem did him honour at his death: and Manasseh his sonne reigned in his stead.


display: 2 Chronicles 33:1

text: Manasseh was twelue yeeres old when he began to reigne, and he reigned fiftie and fiue yeres in Ierusalem:


display: 2 Chronicles 33:2

text: But did that which was euil in the sight of the LORD, like vnto the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD had cast out before the children of Israel.


display: 2 Chronicles 33:3

text: ¶ For hee built againe the high places, which Hezekiah his father had broken downe, and he reared vp altars for Baalim, and made groues, and worshipped all the host of heauen, and serued them.


display: 2 Chronicles 33:4

text: Also hee built altars in the house of the LORD, whereof the LORD had saide, In Ierusalem shall my Name be for euer.


display: 2 Chronicles 33:5

text: And he built altars for all the host of heauen, in the two Courts of the house of the LORD.


display: 2 Chronicles 33:6

text: And he caused his children to passe through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom: also he obserued times, and vsed inchantments, and vsed witchcraft, and dealt with a familiar spirit, and with wizards: he wrought much euill in the sight of the LORD, to prouoke him to anger.


display: 2 Chronicles 33:7

text: And hee set a carued image (the idole which he had made) in the house of God, of which God had said to Dauid, and to Solomon his sonne: In this house, and in Ierusalem which I haue chosen before all the tribes of Israel, will I put my Name for euer.


display: 2 Chronicles 33:8

text: Neither will I any more remoue the foot of Israel from out of the land which I haue appointed for your fathers; so that they will take heed to doe all that I haue commanded them, according to the whole Law, and the statutes, and the ordinances by the hand of Moses.


display: 2 Chronicles 33:9

text: So Manasseh made Iudah, and the inhabitants of Ierusalem to erre, and to doe worse then the heathen, whom the LORD had destroyed before the children of Israel.


display: 2 Chronicles 33:10

text: And the LORD spake to Manasseh, and to his people: but they would not hearken.


display: 2 Chronicles 33:11

text: ¶ Wherfore the LORD brought vpon them the captaines of the host of the king of Assyria, which took Manasseh among the thornes, & bound him with setters, & caried him to Babylon.


display: 2 Chronicles 33:12

text: And when hee was in affliction, he besought the LORD his God, and humbled himselfe greatly before the God of his fathers,


display: 2 Chronicles 33:13

text: And prayed vnto him, and he was intreated of him, and heard his supplication, and brought him againe to Ierusalem into his kingdome. Then Manasseh knew that the LORD hee was God.


display: 2 Chronicles 33:14

text: Now after this, hee built a wall without the citie of Dauid, on the Westside of Gihon, in the valley, euen to the entring in at the fish-gate, and compassed about Ophel, and raised it vp a very great height, and put captaines of warre in all the fenced cities of Iudah.


display: 2 Chronicles 33:15

text: And hee tooke away the strange gods and the idol out of the house of the LORD, and all the altars that he had built in the mount of the house of the LORD, and in Ierusalem, and cast them out of the citie.


display: 2 Chronicles 33:16

text: And hee repaired the altar of the LORD, and sacrificed thereon peace offerings, and thanke offerings, and commaunded Iudah to serue the LORD God of Israel.


display: 2 Chronicles 33:17

text: Neuerthelesse, the people did sacrifice still in the high places, yet vnto the LORD their God only.


display: 2 Chronicles 33:18

text: ¶ Nowe the rest of the actes of Manasseh, & his prayer vnto his God, and the words of the seers that spake to him in the name of the LORD God of Israel, behold, they are written in the booke of the kings of Israel:


display: 2 Chronicles 33:19

text: His prayer also, and how God was intreated of him, and all his sinne, and his trespasse, and the places wherein he built high places, and set vp groues and grauen images before hee was humbled: behold, they are written among the sayings of the Seers.


display: 2 Chronicles 33:20

text: ¶ So Manasseh slept with his fathers, and they buried him in his owne house: and Amon his sonne reigned in his stead.


display: 2 Chronicles 33:21

text: ¶ Amon was two and twentie yeeres old, when he beganne to reigne, and reigned two yeares in Ierusalem.


display: 2 Chronicles 33:22

text: But he did that which was euill in the sight of the LORD, as did Manasseh his father: for Amon sacrificed vnto all the carued images, which Manasseh his father had made, and serued them;


display: 2 Chronicles 33:23

text: And humbled not himselfe before the LORD, as Manasseh his father had humbled himselfe: but Amon trespassed more and more.


display: 2 Chronicles 33:24

text: And his seruants conspired against him, and slew him in his owne house.


display: 2 Chronicles 33:25

text: ¶ But the people of the land slew all them that had conspired against king Amon, and the people of the land made Iosiah his sonne, king in his stead.


display: 2 Chronicles 34:1

text: Iosiah was eight yeeres old when hee beganne to reigne, and he reigned in Ierusalem one and thirty yeeres.


display: 2 Chronicles 34:2

text: And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the wayes of Dauid his father, and declined neither to the right hand nor to the left.


display: 2 Chronicles 34:3

text: ¶ For in the eight yeare of his reigne, while he was yet young, hee beganne to seeke after the God of Dauid his father: and in the twelfth yeere hee beganne to purge Iudah and Ierusalem from the high places and the groues, and the carued images, and the molten images.


display: 2 Chronicles 34:4

text: And they brake downe the altars of Baalim in his presence, and the images that were on high aboue them, he cut downe, and the groues, and the carued images, and the molten images he brake in peeces, and made dust of them, and strowed it vpon the graues of them, that had sacrificed vnto them.


display: 2 Chronicles 34:5

text: And hee burnt the bones of the priests vpon their altars, and cleansed Iudah and Ierusalem.


display: 2 Chronicles 34:6

text: And so did he in the cities of Manasseh, and Ephraim, and Simeon, euen vnto Naphtali, with their mattockes, round about.


display: 2 Chronicles 34:7

text: And when he had broken downe the altars and the groues, and had beaten the grauen images into pouder, and cut downe all the idoles throughout all the land of Israel, hee returned to Ierusalem.


display: 2 Chronicles 34:8

text: ¶ Now in the eighteenth yeere of his reigne, when hee had purged the land, and the house; he sent Shaphan the sonne of Azaliah, and Maasiah the gouernour of the citie, and Ioah the sonne of Ioahaz the recorder, to repaire the house of the LORD his God.


display: 2 Chronicles 34:9

text: And when they came to Hilkiah the high priest, they deliuered the money that was brought into the house of God, which the Leuites that kept the doores, had gathered of the hand of Manasseh, and Ephraim, and of all the remnant of Israel, and of all Iudah, and Beniamin, and they returned to Ierusalem.


display: 2 Chronicles 34:10

text: And they put it in the hand of the workemen that had the ouersight of the house of the LORD, and they gaue it to the workemen that wrought in the house of the LORD, to repaire and mend the house.


display: 2 Chronicles 34:11

text: Euen to the artificers and builders gaue they it, to buy hewen stone, and timber for couplings, and to floore the houses, which the kings of Iudah had destroyed.


display: 2 Chronicles 34:12

text: And the men did the worke faithfully, and the ouerseers of them were Iahath, and Obadiah, the Leuites, of the sonnes of Merari, and Sechariah, and Meshullam, of the sonnes of the Kohathites, to set it forward: and other of the Leuites, all that could skill of instruments of musicke.


display: 2 Chronicles 34:13

text: Also they were ouer the bearers of burdens, and were ouerseers of all that wrought the worke in any manner of seruice: and of the Leuites there were Scribes, and officers, and porters.


display: 2 Chronicles 34:14

text: ¶ And when they brought out the money that was brought into the house of the LORD, Hilkiah the priest found a booke of the lawe of the LORD, giuen by Moses.


display: 2 Chronicles 34:15

text: And Hilkiah answered and saide to Shaphan the scribe: I haue found the booke of the law in the house of the LORD. And Hilkiah deliuered the booke to Shaphan:


display: 2 Chronicles 34:16

text: And Shaphan caried the booke to the king, and brought the king word backe againe, saying, All that was committed to thy seruants, they doe it.


display: 2 Chronicles 34:17

text: And they haue gathered together the money that was found in the house of the LORD, and haue deliuered it into the hand of the ouerseers, and to the hand of the workemen.


display: 2 Chronicles 34:18

text: Then Shaphan the scribe tolde the king, saying, Hilkiah the priest hath giuen me a booke. And Shaphan read it before the king.


display: 2 Chronicles 34:19

text: And it came to passe when the king had heard the words of the lawe, that he rent his clothes.


display: 2 Chronicles 34:20

text: And the king commanded Hilkiah, and Ahikam the sonne of Shaphan, and Abdon the sonne of Mirah, and Shaphan the scribe, and Asaiah a seruant of the kings, saying,


display: 2 Chronicles 34:21

text: Goe, enquire of the LORD for me, and for them that are left in Israel and in Iudah, concerning the wordes of the booke that is found: for great is the wrath of the LORD that is powred out vpon vs, because our fathers haue not kept the word of the LORD, to doe after all that is written in this booke.


display: 2 Chronicles 34:22

text: And Hilkiah and they that the king had appointed went to Huldah the prophetesse, the wife of Shallum the sonne of Tikuath, the sonne of Hasrah, keeper of the wardrobe (now she dwelt in Ierusalem in the colledge,) and they spake to her to that effect.


display: 2 Chronicles 34:23

text: ¶ And she answered them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel: Tell ye the man that sent you to me,


display: 2 Chronicles 34:24

text: Thus saith the LORD, behold, I will bring euill vpon this place, and vpon the inhabitants thereof, euen all the curses that are written in the booke which they haue read before the king of Iudah:


display: 2 Chronicles 34:25

text: Because they haue forsaken mee, and haue burned incense vnto other gods, that they might prouoke mee to anger with all the workes of their hands, therefore my wrath shall bee powred out vpon this place, and shall not be quenched.


display: 2 Chronicles 34:26

text: And as for the king of Iudah, who sent you to enquire of the LORD, so shal ye say vnto him: Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, concerning the words which thou hast heard:


display: 2 Chronicles 34:27

text: Because thine heart was tender, and thou didst humble thy selfe before God, when thou heardest his words against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, and humbledst thy selfe before me, and diddest rend thy clothes, and weepe before me, I haue euen heard thee also, saith the LORD.


display: 2 Chronicles 34:28

text: Behold, I will gather thee to thy fathers, and thou shalt bee gathered to thy graue in peace, neither shall thine eyes see all the euill that I will bring vpon this place, and vpon the inhabitants of the same. So they brought the king word againe.


display: 2 Chronicles 34:29

text: ¶ Then the king sent, and gathered together all the Elders of Iudah and Ierusalem.


display: 2 Chronicles 34:30

text: And the king went vp into the house of the LORD, and all the men of Iudah, and the inhabitants of Ierusalem, and the priests and the Leuites, and all the people great and small: and he read in their eares all the words of the booke of the couenant, that was found in the house of the LORD.


display: 2 Chronicles 34:31

text: And the King stood in his place, & made a Couenant before the LORD, to walke after the LORD, and to keep his Commandements, and his Testimonies, and his Statutes, with all his heart, & with all his soule, to performe the words of the Couenant which are written in this booke.


display: 2 Chronicles 34:32

text: And he caused all that were present in Ierusalem and Beniamin, to stand to it. And the inhabitants of Ierusalem did according to the couenant of God, the God of their fathers.


display: 2 Chronicles 34:33

text: And Iosiah tooke away all the abominations out of all the countreys that perteined to the children of Israel, and made all that were present in Israel to serue, euen to serue the LORD their God. And all his dayes they departed not from folowing the LORD the God of their fathers.


display: 2 Chronicles 35:1

text: Moreouer Iosiah kept a Passeouer vnto þ LORD in Ierusalem: and they killed the Passeouer on the fourteenth day of the first moneth.


display: 2 Chronicles 35:2

text: And hee set the Priestes in their charges, and encouraged them to the seruice of the house of the LORD,


display: 2 Chronicles 35:3

text: And said vnto the Leuites, that taught all Israel, which were holy vnto the LORD, Put the holy Arke in the house, which Solomon the sonne of Dauid king of Israel did build; it shall not be a burden vpon your shoulders: serue now the LORD your God, and his people Israel.


display: 2 Chronicles 35:4

text: And prepare your selues by the houses of your fathers, after your courses, according to the writing of Dauid king of Israel, and according to the writing of Solomon his sonne.


display: 2 Chronicles 35:5

text: And stand in the holy place according to the diuisions of the families of the fathers of your brethren the people, and after the diuision of the families of the Leuites.


display: 2 Chronicles 35:6

text: So kill the Passeouer, and sanctifie your selues, and prepare your brethren, that they may doe according to the word of the LORD, by the hand of Moses.


display: 2 Chronicles 35:7

text: And Iosiah gaue to the people, of the flocke, lambes and kiddes, all for the Passeouer-offerings, for all that were present, to the number of thirtie thousand, and three thousand bullocks: these were of the kings substance.


display: 2 Chronicles 35:8

text: And his Princes gaue willingly vnto the people, to the Priests and to the Leuites: Hilkiah, and Zachariah, and Iehiel, rulers of the house of God, gaue vnto the Priests for the Passeouer-offerings, two thousand and sixe hundred small cattell, and three hundred oxen.


display: 2 Chronicles 35:9

text: Conaniah also, and Shemaiah, and Nethaneel, his brethren, & Hashabiah, and Iehiel, and Ioshabad chiefe of the Leuites, gaue vnto the Leuites for Passeouer-offerings, fiue thousand small cattell, and fiue hundred oxen.


display: 2 Chronicles 35:10

text: So the seruice was prepared, and the Priests stood in their place, and the Leuites in their courses, according to the kings commandement.


display: 2 Chronicles 35:11

text: And they killed the Passeouer, and the Priestes sprinckled the blood from their handes, and the Leuites flayed them.


display: 2 Chronicles 35:12

text: And they remooued the burnt offerings, that they might giue according to the diuisions of the families of the people, to offer vnto the LORD, as it is written in the booke of Moses: and so did they with the oxen.


display: 2 Chronicles 35:13

text: And they rosted the Passeouer with fire, according to the ordinance: but the other holy offerings sod they in pots, and in cauldrons, and in pannes, and diuided them speedily among all the people.


display: 2 Chronicles 35:14

text: And afterward they made ready for themselues, and for the Priests: because the Priests the sonnes of Aaron were busied in offring of burnt offrings, and the fat vntill night: therefore the Leuites prepared for themselues, and for the Priests the sonnes of Aaron.


display: 2 Chronicles 35:15

text: And the singers the sonnes of Asaph, were in their place according to the commandement of Dauid, and Asaph, and Heman, and Ieduthun the kings Seer: and the Porters waited at euery gate: they might not depart from their seruice; for their brethren the Leuites prepared for them.


display: 2 Chronicles 35:16

text: So all the seruice of the LORD was prepared the same day, to keepe the Passeouer, and to offer burnt offerings vpon the altar of the LORD, according to the commaundement of king Iosiah.


display: 2 Chronicles 35:17

text: And the children of Israel that were present, kept the Passeouer at that time, and the feast of vnleauened bread seuen dayes.


display: 2 Chronicles 35:18

text: And there was no Passeouer like to that, kept in Israel, from the dayes of Samuel the Prophet: neither did all the Kings of Israel keepe such a Passeouer, as Iosiah kept, and the Priests and the Leuites, and all Iudah and Israel that were present, and the inhabitants of Ierusalem.


display: 2 Chronicles 35:19

text: In the eighteenth yeere of the reigne of Iosiah, was this Passeouer kept.


display: 2 Chronicles 35:20

text: ¶ After all this, when Iosiah had prepared the Temple, Necho king of Egypt came vp to fight against Carchemish by Euphrates: and Iosiah went out against him.


display: 2 Chronicles 35:21

text: But hee sent Embassadours to him, saying, What haue I to doe with thee, thou king of Iudah? I come not against thee this day, but against the house, wherewith I haue warre: for God commaunded mee to make haste: forbeare thee from medling with God, who is with mee, that hee destroy thee not.


display: 2 Chronicles 35:22

text: Neuerthelesse Iosiah would not turne his face from him, but disguised himselfe that he might fight with him, and hearkened not vnto the wordes of Necho from the mouth of God, and came to fight in the valley of Megiddo.


display: 2 Chronicles 35:23

text: And the archers shot at king Iosiah: and the King saide to his seruants, Haue mee away, for I am sore wounded.


display: 2 Chronicles 35:24

text: His seruants therefore tooke him out of that charet, and put him in the second charet that hee had: and they brought him to Ierusalem, and hee died, and was buried in one of the Sepulchres of his fathers. And all Iudah and Ierusalem mourned for Iosiah.


display: 2 Chronicles 35:25

text: ¶ And Ieremiah lamented for Iosiah, and all the singing men and the singing women spake of Iosiah in their lamentations to this day, and made them an ordinance in Israel; and beholde, they are written in the Lamentations.


display: 2 Chronicles 35:26

text: Now the rest of the acts of Iosiah, and his goodnes, according to that which was written in the Law of the LORD,


display: 2 Chronicles 35:27

text: And his deedes first and last; behold, they are written in the booke of the kings of Israel and Iudah.


display: 2 Chronicles 36:1

text: Then the people of the land tooke Iehoahaz the son of Iosiah, and made him King in his fathers stead in Ierusalem.


display: 2 Chronicles 36:2

text: Iehoahaz was twentie and three yeeres old, when hee began to reigne, and hee reigned three moneths in Ierusalem.


display: 2 Chronicles 36:3

text: And the king of Egypt put him downe at Ierusalem, and condemned the land in an hundred talents of siluer, and a talent of gold.


display: 2 Chronicles 36:4

text: And the king of Egypt made Eliakim his brother, king ouer Iudah and Ierusalem, and turned his name to Iehoiakim. And Necho tooke Iehoahaz his brother, and caried him to Egypt.


display: 2 Chronicles 36:5

text: ¶ Iehoiakim was twentie and fiue yeres old when he began to reigne, and he reigned eleuen yeeres in Ierusalem: and hee did that which was euill in the sight of the LORD his God.


display: 2 Chronicles 36:6

text: Against him came vp Nebuchadnezzar King of Babylon, and bound him in fetters to cary him to Babylon.


display: 2 Chronicles 36:7

text: Nebuchadnezzar also caried of the vessels of the house of the LORD to Babylon, and put them in his temple at Babylon.


display: 2 Chronicles 36:8

text: Now the rest of the acts of Iehoiakim, and his abominations which he did, and that which was found in him, behold, they are written in the booke of the Kings of Israel and Iudah: and Iehoiachin his sonne reigned in his stead.


display: 2 Chronicles 36:9

text: ¶ Iehoiachin was eight yeeres old when hee began to reigne, and hee reigned three moneths and ten dayes in Ierusalem, and hee did that which was euill in the sight of the LORD.


display: 2 Chronicles 36:10

text: And when the yeere was expired, King Nebuchadnezzar sent, and brought him to Babylon, with the goodly vessels of the house of the LORD, and made Zedekiah his brother, king ouer Iudah and Ierusalem.


display: 2 Chronicles 36:11

text: ¶ Zedekiah was one and twentie yeres old, when he began to reigne, and reigned eleuen yeeres in Ierusalem.


display: 2 Chronicles 36:12

text: And hee did that which was euill in the sight of the LORD his God, and humbled not himselfe before Ieremiah the Prophet, speaking from the mouth of the LORD.


display: 2 Chronicles 36:13

text: And he also rebelled against king Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him sweare by God: but he stiffened his necke, and hardened his heart from turning vnto the LORD God of Israel.


display: 2 Chronicles 36:14

text: ¶ Moreouer all the chiefe of the priests, and the people transgressed very much, after all the abominations of the heathen, and polluted the house of the LORD which hee had hallowed in Ierusalem.


display: 2 Chronicles 36:15

text: And the LORD God of their fathers sent to them by his messengers, rising vp betimes, and sending: because he had compassion on his people, and on his dwelling place:


display: 2 Chronicles 36:16

text: But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his wordes, and misused his prophets, vntill the wrath of the LORD arose against his people, till there was no remedie.


display: 2 Chronicles 36:17

text: Therefore hee brought vpon them the king of the Caldees, who slew their yong men with the sword, in the house of their sanctuarie, and had no compassion vpon yong man or maiden, olde man, or him that stouped for age: he gaue them all into his hand.


display: 2 Chronicles 36:18

text: And all the vessels of the house of God great and small, and the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king, and of his princes: all these he brought to Babylon.


display: 2 Chronicles 36:19

text: And they burnt the house of God, and brake downe the wall of Ierusalem, and burnt all the palaces thereof with fire, and destroyed all the goodly vessels thereof.


display: 2 Chronicles 36:20

text: And them that had escaped from the sword, caried he away to Babylon: where they were seruants to him and his sonnes, vntil the reigne of the kingdome of Persia:


display: 2 Chronicles 36:21

text: To fulfill the word of the LORD by the mouth of Ieremiah, vntill the land had enioyed her Sabbaths: for as long as shee lay desolate, shee kept Sabbath, to fulfill threescore and tenne yeeres.


display: 2 Chronicles 36:22

text: ¶ Now in the first yeere of Cyrus king of Persia (that the word of the LORD spoken by the mouth of Ieremiah, might bee accomplished) the LORD stirred vp the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that hee made a proclamation throughout all his kingdome, and put it also in writing, saying,


display: 2 Chronicles 36:23

text: Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, All the kingdomes of the earth hath the LORD God of heauen giuen mee, and he hath charged me to build him an house in Ierusalem, which is in Iudah: Who is there among you of all his people? the LORD his God be with him, and let him goe vp.


display: Ezra 1:1

text: Now in the first yeere of Cyrus King of Persia, (that the word of the LORD by the mouth of Ieremiah, might be fulfilled) þ LORD stirred vp the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdome, and put it also in writing, saying;


display: Ezra 1:2

text: Thus sayth Cyrus king of Persia, The LORD God of heauen hath giuen mee all the kingdomes of the earth, and he hath charged me to build him an house at Ierusalem, which is in Iudah.


display: Ezra 1:3

text: Who is there among you of all his people? his God be with him, and let him goe vp to Ierusalem, which is in Iudah, and build the house of the LORD God of Israel (He is the God) which is in Ierusalem.


display: Ezra 1:4

text: And whosoeuer remaineth in any place where hee soiourneth, let the men of his place helpe him with siluer, and with golde, and with goods, and with beasts, besides the free-will offering for the house of God that is in Ierusalem.


display: Ezra 1:5

text: ¶ Then rose vp the chiefe of the fathers of Iudah and Beniamin, and the Priests, and the Leuites, with all them whose spirit God had raised to goe vp, to build the house of the LORD which is in Ierusalem.


display: Ezra 1:6

text: And all they that were about them, strengthened their hands with vessels of siluer, with golde, with goods, and with beasts, and with precious things; besides all that was willingly offered.


display: Ezra 1:7

text: ¶ Also Cyrus the king brought foorth the vessels of the house of the LORD, which Nebuchadnezzar had brought foorth out of Ierusalem, and had put them in the house of his gods:


display: Ezra 1:8

text: Euen those did Cyrus king of Persia bring foorth, by the hand of Mithredath the treasurer, and numbred them vnto Sheshbazzar the Prince of Iudah.


display: Ezra 1:9

text: And this is the number of them: thirtie chargers of golde, a thousand chargers of siluer, nine and twentie kniues:


display: Ezra 1:10

text: Thirtie basins of golde: siluer basins of a second sort, foure hundred and ten: and other vessels a thousand.


display: Ezra 1:11

text: All the vessels of golde and of siluer, were fiue thousand and foure hundred. All these did Sheshbazzar bring vp with them of the captiuitie, that were brought vp from Babylon vnto Ierusalem.


display: Ezra 2:1

text: Now these are the children of the prouince, that went vp out of the captiuitie, of those which had beene caried away, whom Nebuchadnezzar the King of Babylon had caried away vnto Babylon, and came againe vnto Ierusalem and Iudah, euery one vnto his citie;


display: Ezra 2:2

text: Which came with Zerubbabel, Ieshua, Nehemiah, Saraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Biguai, Rehum, Baanah: The number of the men of the people of Israel.


display: Ezra 2:3

text: The children of Parosh, two thousand, an hundred seuentie and two.


display: Ezra 2:4

text: The children of Shephatiah, three hundred seuentie and two.


display: Ezra 2:5

text: The children of Arah, seuen hundred, seuentie and fiue.


display: Ezra 2:6

text: The children of Pahath-Moab, of the children of Ieshua and Ioab, two thousand, eight hundred and twelue.


display: Ezra 2:7

text: The children of Elam, a thousand, two hundred fiftie and foure.


display: Ezra 2:8

text: The children of Zattu, nine hundred fourtie and fiue.


display: Ezra 2:9

text: The children of Zaccai, seuen hundred and threescore.


display: Ezra 2:10

text: The children of Bani, sixe hundred, fourtie and two.


display: Ezra 2:11

text: The children of Bebai, sixe hundred, twentie and three.


display: Ezra 2:12

text: The children of Azgad, a thousand, two hundred, twentie and two.


display: Ezra 2:13

text: The children of Adonikam, sixe hundred, sixtie and sixe.


display: Ezra 2:14

text: The children of Biguai, two thousand fiftie and sixe.


display: Ezra 2:15

text: The children of Adin, foure hundred, fiftie and foure.


display: Ezra 2:16

text: The children of Ater of Hezekiah, ninetie and eight.


display: Ezra 2:17

text: The children of Bezai, three hundred twenty and three.


display: Ezra 2:18

text: The children of Iorah, an hundred and twelue.


display: Ezra 2:19

text: The children of Hashum, two hundred twentie and three.


display: Ezra 2:20

text: The children of Gibbar, ninetie and fiue.


display: Ezra 2:21

text: The children of Bethlehem, an hundred twentie and three.


display: Ezra 2:22

text: The children of Netophah, fiftie and sixe.


display: Ezra 2:23

text: The men of Anathoth, an hundred twentie and eight.


display: Ezra 2:24

text: The children of Azmaueth, fortie and two.


display: Ezra 2:25

text: The children of Kiriath-arim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, seuen hundred, and fourtie and three.


display: Ezra 2:26

text: The children of Ramah and Gaba, sixe hundred, twentie and one.


display: Ezra 2:27

text: The men of Michmas, an hundred, twentie and two.


display: Ezra 2:28

text: The men of Bethel and Ai, two hundred, twentie and three.


display: Ezra 2:29

text: The children of Nebo, fiftie and two.


display: Ezra 2:30

text: The children of Magbish, an hundred fiftie and sixe.


display: Ezra 2:31

text: The children of the other Elam, a thousand, two hundred, fiftie and foure.


display: Ezra 2:32

text: The children of Harim, three hundred and twentie.


display: Ezra 2:33

text: The children of Lod Hadid, and Ono, seuen hundred, twentie and fiue.


display: Ezra 2:34

text: The children of Iericho, three hundred fourtie and fiue.


display: Ezra 2:35

text: The children of Senaah, three thousand and sixe hundred and thirtie.


display: Ezra 2:36

text: ¶ The Priests. The children of Iedaiah, of the house of Ieshua, nine hundred, seuentie and three.


display: Ezra 2:37

text: The children of Immer, a thousand, fiftie and two.


display: Ezra 2:38

text: The children of Pashur, a thousand, two hundred, fourtie and seuen.


display: Ezra 2:39

text: The children of Harim, a thousand and seuenteene.


display: Ezra 2:40

text: ¶ The Leuites. The children of Ieshua, and Kadmiel, of the children of Hodauia, seuentie and foure.


display: Ezra 2:41

text: ¶ The singers. The children of Asaph, an hundred twentie and eight.


display: Ezra 2:42

text: ¶ The children of the porters. The children of Shallum, the children of Ater, the children of Talmon, the children of Akkub, the children of Hatita, the children of Shobai, in all, an hundred thirtie and nine.


display: Ezra 2:43

text: ¶ The Nethinims. The children of Ziha, the children of Hasupha, the children of Tabbaoth,


display: Ezra 2:44

text: The children of Keros, the children of Siaha, the children of Padon,


display: Ezra 2:45

text: The children of Lebanah, the children of Hagabah, the children of Akkub,


display: Ezra 2:46

text: The children of Hagab, the children of Shalmai, the children of Hanan.


display: Ezra 2:47

text: The children of Giddel, the children of Gahar, the children of Reaiah,


display: Ezra 2:48

text: The children of Rezin, the children of Nekoda, the children of Gazzam,


display: Ezra 2:49

text: The children of Uzza, the children of Paseah, the children of Besai,


display: Ezra 2:50

text: The children of Asnah, the children of Mehunim, the children of Nephushim,


display: Ezra 2:51

text: The children of Bakbuk, the children of Hakupha, the children of Harhur,


display: Ezra 2:52

text: The children of Bazluth, the children of Mehida, the children of Harsha,


display: Ezra 2:53

text: The children of Barkos, the children of Sisera, the children of Thamah,


display: Ezra 2:54

text: The children of Neziah, the children of Hatipha.


display: Ezra 2:55

text: ¶ The children of Solomons seruants. The children of Sotai, the children of Sophereth, the children of Peruda,


display: Ezra 2:56

text: The children of Iaalah, the children of Darkon, the children of Giddel,


display: Ezra 2:57

text: The children of Shephatiah, the children of Hattil, the children of Pochereth of Zebaim, the children of Ami.


display: Ezra 2:58

text: All the Nethinims, and the children of Solomons seruants, were three hundred ninetie and two.


display: Ezra 2:59

text: And these were they which went vp from Tel-melah, Tel-Harfa, Cherub, Addan, and Immer: but they could not shewe their fathers house, and their seed, whether they were of Israel.


display: Ezra 2:60

text: The children of Delaiah, the children of Tobiah, the children of Nekoda: sixe hundred fiftie and two.


display: Ezra 2:61

text: ¶ And of the children of the priests: the children of Habaiah, the children of Koz, the children of Barzillai, (which tooke a wife of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite, and was called after their name.)


display: Ezra 2:62

text: These sought their register among those that were reckoned by genealogie, but they were not found: therefore were they as polluted, put from the priesthood.


display: Ezra 2:63

text: And the Tirshatha said vnto them, that they should not eate of the most holy things, till there stood vp a priest with Urim & with Thummim.


display: Ezra 2:64

text: ¶ The whole Congregation together, was fourtie and two thousand, three hundred and threescore:


display: Ezra 2:65

text: Beside their seruants and their maids, of whom there were seuen thousand, three hundred thirtie and seuen: and there were among them two hundred singing men, and singing women.


display: Ezra 2:66

text: Their horses were seuen hundred, thirtie and sixe: their mules, two hundred fourtie and fiue:


display: Ezra 2:67

text: Their camels, foure hundred, thirty and fiue: their asses, sixe thousand, seuen hundred and twentie.


display: Ezra 2:68

text: ¶ And some of the chiefe of the fathers, when they came to the house of the LORD which is at Ierusalem, offered freely for the house of God, to set it vp in his place:


display: Ezra 2:69

text: They gaue after their abilitie, vnto the treasure of the worke, threescore and one thousand drammes of golde, and fiue thousand pound of siluer, and one hundred priests garments.


display: Ezra 2:70

text: So the priests and the Leuites, and some of the people, and the singers, and the porters, and the Nethinims, dwelt intheir cities, and all Israel in their cities.


display: Ezra 3:1

text: And when the seuenth moneth was come, and the children of Israel were in the cities: the people gathered themselues together, as one man to Ierusalem.


display: Ezra 3:2

text: Then stood vp Ieshua the sonne of Iozadak, & his brethren the priests, and Zerubbabel the sonne of Shealtiel, and his brethren, and builded the Altar of the God of Israel, to offer burnt offrings thereon, as it is written in the law of Moses the man of God.


display: Ezra 3:3

text: And they set the altar vpon his bases, (for feare was vpon them, because of the people of those countreys) and they offered burnt offerings thereon vnto the LORD, euen burnt offerings, morning and euening.


display: Ezra 3:4

text: They kept also the feast of tabernacles, as it is written, and offred the dayly burnt offrings, by number, according to the custome, as the duetie of euery day required:


display: Ezra 3:5

text: And afterward offered the continuall burnt offering, both of the new moones, and of all the set feasts of the LORD, that were consecrated, and of euery one that willingly offred, offered a free will offering vnto the LORD.


display: Ezra 3:6

text: From the first day of the seuenth moneth, began they to offer burnt offerings vnto the LORD: but the foundation of the temple of the LORD was not yet laid.


display: Ezra 3:7

text: They gaue money also vnto the masons, and to the carpenters, and meate, and drinke, and oyle, vnto them of Zidon, and to them of Tyre, to bring Cedar trees from Lebanon to the sea of Ioppa: according to the grant that they had of Cyrus king of Persia.


display: Ezra 3:8

text: ¶ Now in the second yere of their coming vnto the house of God at Ierusalem, in the second moneth, began Zerubbabel the sonne of Shealtiel, and Ieshua the sonne of Iozadak, and the remnant of their brethren, the Priests and the Leuites, and all they that were come out of the captiuitie vnto Ierusalem: and appointed the Leuites, from twentie yeeres olde and vpward, to set forward the worke of the house of the LORD.


display: Ezra 3:9

text: Then stood Ieshua, with his sons and his brethren, Kadmiel and his sonnes, the sonnes of Iudah together, to set forward the workemen in the house of God: the sonnes of Henadad, with their sonnes and their brethren the Leuites.


display: Ezra 3:10

text: And when the builders laide the foundation of the Temple of the LORD, they set the Priests in their apparell with Trumpets, and the Leuites the sonnes of Asaph, with Cymbales, to praise the LORD, after the ordinance of Dauid king of Israel.


display: Ezra 3:11

text: And they sung together by course, in praising, and giuing thanks vnto the LORD; Because hee is good, for his mercy endureth for euer towards Israel. And all the people shouted with a great shoute, when they praised the LORD; because the foundation of the house of the LORD was laide.


display: Ezra 3:12

text: But many of the Priests and Leuites, and chiefe of the fathers, who were ancient men, that had seene the first house; when the foundation of this house was laide before their eyes, wept with a loude voice, and many shouted aloude for ioy:


display: Ezra 3:13

text: So that the people could not discerne the noyse of the shout of ioy, from the noyse of the weeping of the people: for the people shouted with a loude shout, and the noyse was heard afarre off.


display: Ezra 4:1

text: Now when the aduersaries of Iudah and Beniamin, heard that the children of the captiuitie builded the Temple vnto the LORD God of Israel:


display: Ezra 4:2

text: Then they came to Zerubbabel, and to the chiefe of the fathers, and said vnto them, Let vs build with you, for wee seeke your God, as yee doe, and we doe sacrifice vnto him, since the dayes of Esar-Haddon king of Assur, which brought vs vp hither.


display: Ezra 4:3

text: But Zerubbabel and Ieshua, and the rest of the chiefe of the fathers of Israel, said vnto them, You haue nothing to doe with vs, to build an house vnto our God, but we our selues together will build vnto the LORD God of Israel, as king Cyrus the King of Persia hath commanded vs.


display: Ezra 4:4

text: Then the people of the land weakened the handes of the people of Iudah, and troubled them in building,


display: Ezra 4:5

text: And hired counsellers against them, to frustrate their purpose, all the dayes of Cyrus king of Persia, euen vntill the reigne of Darius king of Persia.


display: Ezra 4:6

text: And in the reigne of Ahasuerus, in the beginning of his reigne, wrote they vnto him an accusation against the inhabitants of Iudah and Ierusalem.


display: Ezra 4:7

text: ¶ And in the dayes of Artaxerxes wrote Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel, and the rest of their companions, vnto Artaxerxes king of Persia; and the writing of the letter was written in the Syrian tongue, and interpreted in the Syrian tongue.


display: Ezra 4:8

text: Rehum the Chancellour, and Shimshai the Scribe, wrote a letter against Ierusalem, to Artaxerxes the king, in this sort:


display: Ezra 4:9

text: Then, wrote Rehum the Chancellour, and Shimshai the Scribe, and the rest of their companions; the Dinaites, the Apharsathkites, the Tarpelites, the Apharsites, the Archeuites, the Babylonians, the Susanchites, the Dehauites, and the Elamites,


display: Ezra 4:10

text: And the rest of the nations whom the great and noble Asnappar brought ouer, and set in the cities of Samaria, and the rest that are on this side the Riuer, and at such a time.


display: Ezra 4:11

text: ¶ This is the copy of the Letter, that they sent vnto him, euen vnto Artaxerxes the king: Thy seruants on this side the Riuer, and at such a time,


display: Ezra 4:12

text: Be it knowen vnto the king, that the Iewes which came vp from thee to vs, are come vnto Ierusalem, building the rebellious and the bad citie, and haue set vp the walles thereof, and ioyned the foundations.


display: Ezra 4:13

text: Be it knowen now vnto the king, that if this city be builded, and the wals set vp againe, then will they not pay tolle, tribute, and custome, and so thou shalt endammage the reuenue of the kings.


display: Ezra 4:14

text: Now because we haue maintenance from the Kings palace, and it was not meete for vs to see the kings dishonour: therefore haue we sent, and certified the king,


display: Ezra 4:15

text: That search may be made in the booke of the Records of thy fathers: so shalt thou finde in the booke of the Records, and know, that this City is a rebellious city, and hurtfull vnto Kings and prouinces, and that they haue moued sedition within the same of olde time: for which cause was this citie destroyed.


display: Ezra 4:16

text: We certifie the king, that if this citie be builded againe, & the walles thereof set vp: by this meanes, thou shalt haue no portion on this side the Riuer.


display: Ezra 4:17

text: ¶ Then sent the king an answere vnto Rehum the Chancellour, and to Shimshai the scribe, and to the rest of their companions, that dwell in Samaria, and vnto the rest beyond the Riuer, Peace, and at such a time.


display: Ezra 4:18

text: The letter, which ye sent vnto vs, hath bene plainly read before me.


display: Ezra 4:19

text: And I commaunded, and search hath bene made, and it is found, that this citie of old time hath made insurrection against Kings, and that rebellion & sedition haue bene made therein.


display: Ezra 4:20

text: There haue bene mighty Kings also ouer Ierusalem, which haue ruled ouer all countreys beyond the Riuer, and tolle, tribute, and custome, was payd vnto them.


display: Ezra 4:21

text: Giue ye now commandement, to cause these men to cease, and that this citie be not builded, vntill another commandement shall be giuen from me.


display: Ezra 4:22

text: Take heed now that ye faile not to doe this: why should damage grow to the hurt of the kings?


display: Ezra 4:23

text: ¶ Now when the copy of King Artaxerxes letter was read before Rehum and Shimshai the scribe, and their companions, they went vp in haste to Ierusalem, vnto the Iewes, and made them to cease, by force and power.


display: Ezra 4:24

text: Then ceased the woorke of the house of the God, which is at Ierusalem. So it ceased, vnto the second yeere of the reigne of Darius king of Persia.


display: Ezra 5:1

text: Then the Prophets, Haggai the Prophet, and Zechariah the sonne of Iddo, prophesied vnto the Iewes that were in Iudah and Ierusalem, in the Name of the God of Israel, euen vnto them.


display: Ezra 5:2

text: Then rose vp Zerubbabel the sonne of Shealtiel, and Ieshua the sonne of Iozadak, and began to build the house of God which is at Ierusalem: and with them were the Prophets of God helping them.


display: Ezra 5:3

text: ¶ At the same time came to them Tatnai, gouernour on this side the Riuer, and Shethar-Boznai, and their companions, and said thus vnto them; Who hath commaunded you to build this house, and to make vp this wall?


display: Ezra 5:4

text: Then said wee vnto them after this maner, What are the names of the men that make this building?


display: Ezra 5:5

text: But the eye of their God was vpon the Elders of the Iewes, that they could not cause them to cease, till the matter came to Darius: and then they returned answere by letter concerning this matter.


display: Ezra 5:6

text: ¶ The copy of the letter that Tatnai, gouernour on this side the Riuer, and Shethar-Boznai, and his companions the Apharsachites, which were on this side the Riuer, sent vnto Darius the King:


display: Ezra 5:7

text: They sent a letter vnto him, wherein was written thus: Unto Darius the king, all peace.


display: Ezra 5:8

text: Be it knowen vnto the king, that we went into the prouince of Iudea, to the house of the great God, which is builded with great stones, & timber is laied in the wals, and this worke goeth fast on, and prospereth in their hands.


display: Ezra 5:9

text: Then asked we those Elders, and said vnto them thus, Who commanded you to build this house, and to make vp these walles?


display: Ezra 5:10

text: We asked their names also, to certifie thee, that we might write the names of the men that were the chiefe of them.


display: Ezra 5:11

text: And thus they returned vs answere, saying, We are the seruants of the God of heauen and earth, and build the house that was builded these many yeeres agoe, which a great King of Israel builded, and set vp.


display: Ezra 5:12

text: But after that our fathers had prouoked the God of heauen vnto wrath: he gaue them into the hande of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, the Caldean, who destroyed this house, and caried the people away into Babylon.


display: Ezra 5:13

text: But in the first yere of Cyrus the king of Babylon, the same king Cyrus made a decree to build this house of God.


display: Ezra 5:14

text: And the vessels also of golde and siluer of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar tooke out of the Temple that was in Ierusalem, and brought them into the temple of Babylon, those did Cyrus the king take out of the temple of Babylon, and they were deliuered vnto one, whose name was Sheshbazzar, whome he had made gouernour:


display: Ezra 5:15

text: And said vnto him, Take these vessels, goe, carie them into the temple that is in Ierusalem, and let the house of God be builded in his place.


display: Ezra 5:16

text: Then came the same Sheshbazzar, and laid the foundation of the house of God, which is in Ierusalem. And since that time, euen vntill now, hath it bin in building, & yet it is not finished.


display: Ezra 5:17

text: Now therefore, if it seeme good to the king, let there be search made in the kings treasure house which is there at Babylon, whether it be so that a decree was made of Cyrus the king, to build this house of God at Ierusalem: and let the king send his pleasure to vs concerning this matter.


display: Ezra 6:1

text: Then Darius the King made a decree, and search was made in the house of the rolles, where the treasures were laide vp in Babylon.


display: Ezra 6:2

text: And there was found at Achmetha, in the palace that is in the prouince of the Medes, a rolle, and therein was a record thus written:


display: Ezra 6:3

text: In the first yeere of Cyrus the king, the same Cyrus the king made a decree concerning the house of God at Ierusalem: Let the house be builded, the place where they offered sacrifices, and let the foundations thereof of be strongly laid, the height therof threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof threescore cubites:


display: Ezra 6:4

text: With three rowes of great stones, and a row of new timber: and let the expences bee giuen out of the kings house.


display: Ezra 6:5

text: And also let the golden, and siluer vessels of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar tooke foorth out of the temple which is at Ierusalem, and brought vnto Babylon, be restored, and brought againe vnto the temple which is at Ierusalem, euery one to his place, and place them in the house of God.


display: Ezra 6:6

text: Now therefore Tatnai, gouernour beyond the riuer, Shethar-Boznai, and your companions the Apharsachites, which are beyond the riuer, be ye farre from thence:


display: Ezra 6:7

text: Let the worke of this house of God alone, let the gouernour of the Iewes, and the elders of the Iewes, build this house of God in his place.


display: Ezra 6:8

text: Moreouer I make a decree, what ye shall doe to the Elders of these Iewes, for the building of this house of God: that of the kings goods, euen of the tribute beyond the riuer, forthwith expences be giuen vnto these men, that they be not hindered.


display: Ezra 6:9

text: And that which they haue need of, both yong bullocks, and rammes, and lambes, for the burnt offerings of the God of heauen, wheat, salt, wine, and oyle, according to the appoyment of the priests which are at Ierusalem, let it be giuen them, day by day without faile:


display: Ezra 6:10

text: That they may offer sacrifices of sweet sauours vnto the God of heauen, and pray for the life of the king, and of his sonnes.


display: Ezra 6:11

text: Also I haue made a decree, that whosoeuer shall alter this word, let timber be pulled down from his house, and being set vp, let him bee hanged thereon, and let his house bee made a doung hill for this.


display: Ezra 6:12

text: And the God that hath caused his name to dwell there, destroy all kings and people that shall put to their hand, to alter and to destroy this house of God which is at Ierusalem. I Darius haue made a decree, let it be done with speed.


display: Ezra 6:13

text: ¶ Then Tatnai gouernour on this side the riuer, Shethar-Boznai, & their companions, according to that which Darius the king had sent, so they did speedily.


display: Ezra 6:14

text: And the elders of the Iewes builded, and they prospered, through the prophecying of Haggai the Prophet, and Zechariah the sonne of Iddo, and they builded, and finished it, according to the commandement of the God of Israel, and according to the commandement of Cyrus and Darius, and Artaxerxes king of Persia.


display: Ezra 6:15

text: And this honse was finished on the third day of the month Adar, which was in the sixt yere of the reigne of Darius the king.


display: Ezra 6:16

text: ¶ And the children of Israel, the Priests and the Leuites, and the rest of the children of the captiuitie, kept the dedicatiō of this house of God, with ioy,


display: Ezra 6:17

text: And offered at the dedication of this house of God, an hundred bullockes, two hundred rammes, foure hundred lambes; and for a sinne offering for all Israel, twelue hee goates, according to the number of the tribes of Israel.


display: Ezra 6:18

text: And they set the Priests in their diuisions, and the Leuites in their courses, for the seruice of God, which is at Ierusalem, as it is written in the booke of Moses.


display: Ezra 6:19

text: And the children of the captiuitie kept the Passeouer, vpon the fourteenth day of the first moneth:


display: Ezra 6:20

text: For the Priestes and the Leuites were purified together, all of them were pure, and killed the Passeouer for all the children of the captiuitie, and for their brethren the Priests, and for themselues.


display: Ezra 6:21

text: And the children of Israel, which were come againe out of captiuitie, and all such as had separated themselues vnto them, from the filthinesse of the heathen of the land, to seeke the LORD God of Israel, did eate,


display: Ezra 6:22

text: And kept the feast of vnleauened bread seuen dayes, with ioy: for the LORD had made them ioyfull, and turned the heart of the king of Assyria vnto them, to strengthen their handes in the worke of the house of God, the God of Israel.


display: Ezra 7:1

text: Now after these things, in the reigne of Artaxerxes king of Persia, Ezra the son of Seraiah, the sonne of Azariah, the sonne of Hilkiah,


display: Ezra 7:2

text: The sonne of Shallum, the sonne of Zadok, the sonne of Ahitub,


display: Ezra 7:3

text: The sonne of Amariah, the sonne of Azariah, the sonne of Meraioth,


display: Ezra 7:4

text: The sonne of Zeraiah, the sonne of Uzzi, the sonne of Bukki,


display: Ezra 7:5

text: The sonne of Abishua, the sonne of Phinehas, the sonne of Eleazar, the sonne of Aaron the chiefe Priest:


display: Ezra 7:6

text: This Ezra went vp from Babylon, and hee was a ready Scribe in the law of Moses, which the LORD God of Israel had giuen: and the king granted him all his request, according to the hand of the LORD his God vpon him.


display: Ezra 7:7

text: And there went vp some of the children of Israel, and of the Priests, and the Leuites, and the Singers, and the Porters, and the Nethinims, vnto Ierusalem, in the seuenth yeere of Artaxerxes the king.


display: Ezra 7:8

text: And he came to Ierusalem in the fifth moneth, which was in the seuenth yeere of the king.


display: Ezra 7:9

text: For vpon the first day of the first moneth, began he to go vp frō Babylon, and on the first day of the fifth moneth, came he to Ierusalem, according to the good hand of his God vpon him.


display: Ezra 7:10

text: For Ezra had prepared his heart to seeke the Law of the LORD, and to doe it, and to teach in Israel, Statutes and Iudgements.


display: Ezra 7:11

text: ¶ Now this is the copy of the letter that the king Artaxerxes gaue vnto Ezra the Priest, the Scribe, euen a Scribe of the words of the commandements of the LORD, and of his Statutes to Israel.


display: Ezra 7:12

text: Artaxerxes king of kings, Unto Ezra the Priest, a Scribe of the Law of the God of heauen, Perfect peace, and at such a time.


display: Ezra 7:13

text: I make a decree, that all they of the people of Israel, and of his Priests, and Leuites in my Realme, which are minded of their owne free-will to goe vp to Ierusalem, goe with thee.


display: Ezra 7:14

text: Forasmuch as thou art sent of the king, and of his seuen counsellers, to enquire concerning Iudah and Ierusalem, according to the Lawe of thy God, which is in thine hand;


display: Ezra 7:15

text: And to cary the siluer and gold, which the king and his counsellers haue freely offered vnto the God of Israel, whose habitation is in Ierusalem.


display: Ezra 7:16

text: And all the siluer and gold, that thou canst find in all the prouince of Babylon, with the free-will offering of the people, and of the priests, offering willingly for the house of their God, which is in Ierusalem:


display: Ezra 7:17

text: That thou maiest buy speedily with this money, bullockes, rammes, lambes, with their meate offerings, and their drinke offerings, and offer them vpon the altar of the house of your God, which is in Ierusalem.


display: Ezra 7:18

text: And whatsoeuer shall seeme good to thee, and to thy brethren, to doe with the rest of the siluer and gold; that doe, after the will of your God.


display: Ezra 7:19

text: The vessels also that are giuen thee, for the seruice of the house of thy God, those deliuer thou before the God of Ierusalem.


display: Ezra 7:20

text: And whatsoeuer more shall be needfull for the house of thy God, which thou shalt haue occasion to bestowe; bestowe it out of the kings treasure house.


display: Ezra 7:21

text: And I, euen I Artaxerxes the king, doe make a decree to all the treasurers which are beyond the riuer, that whatsoeuer Ezra the priest, the scribe of the law of the God of heauen, shall require of you, it be done speedily,


display: Ezra 7:22

text: Unto an hundred talents of siluer, and to an hundred measures of wheate, and to an hundred bathes of wine, and to an hundred bathes of oyle, and salt, without prescribing how much.


display: Ezra 7:23

text: Whatsoeuer is commanded by the God of heauen, let it be diligently done, for the house of the God of heauen: for why should there be wrath against the realme of the king and his sonnes?


display: Ezra 7:24

text: Also we certifie you, that touching any of the priests, and Leuites, singers, porters, Nethinims, or ministers of this house of God, it shall not be lawfull to impose tolle, tribute, or custome vpon them.


display: Ezra 7:25

text: And thou, Ezra, after the wisdome of thy God, that is in thine hand, set magistrates and iudges, which may iudge all the people, that are beyond the riuer, all such as know the lawes of thy God, and teach yee them that knowe them not.


display: Ezra 7:26

text: And whosoeuer will not doe the law of thy God, and the law of the king, let iudgement be executed speedily vpon him, whether it be vnto death, or to banishment, or to confiscation of goods, or to imprisonment.


display: Ezra 7:27

text: ¶ Blessed be the LORD God of our fathers, which hath put such a thing as this, in the kings heart, to beautifie the house of the LORD which is in Ierusalem: