bring evil upon them, which they shall not be able to A.C. 610. escape; and though they shall cry unto me, I will not hearken unto them.

* Heb. to go forth of o Prov. i. 28.

xiv. 12. Ezek.

12 Then shall the cities of Judah and inhabitants of Je- is. i. 15. ch. rusalem and go, cry unto the gods unto whom they offer in- viii. 13. Mic. cense: but they shall not save them at all in the time of iii. 4. their trouble.

+ Heb. evil.

13 For according to the number of thy P cities were thy p ch. ii. 28. gods, O Judah; and according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem have ye set up altars to that shameful thing, + Heb. shame. even altars to burn incense unto Baal.

xiv. 11.

14 Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift 9 ch. vii, 16. & up a cry or prayer for them: for I will not hear them in the time that they cry unto me for their § trouble.

(Heb. evil.

Heb. What loved in my

15 || What hath my beloved to do in mine house, seeing r Is. i. 11, &c. she hath wrought lewdness with many, and the holy flesh is to my be is passed from thee? *when thou doest evil, then thou rejoicest.

16 The LORD called thy name, A green olive tree, fair, and of goodly fruit: with the noise of a great tumult he hath kindled fire upon it, and the branches of it are broken.

17 For the LORD of hosts, that planted thee, hath pronounced evil against thee, for the evil of the house of Israel and of the house of Judah, which they have done against themselves to provoke me to anger in offering incense unto Baal.

18 And the LORD hath given me knowledge of it, and I know it: then thou shewedst me their doings.

house?

* Or, When thy evil is.

19 But I was like a lamb or an ox that is brought to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me, saying, Let us destroy + the tree with the fruit + Heb. the thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.

stalk with his

bread.

20 But, O LORD of hosts, that judgest righteously, that striest the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on 1 Sam. xvi. them for unto thee have I revealed

my cause.

7. 1 Chron. xxviii. 9. Ps. vii. 9. ch. xvii.

Rev. ii. 23.

21 Therefore thus saith the LORD of the men of Anathoth, 10. & xx. 12. that seek thy life, saying, Prophesy not in the name of the LORD, that thou die not by our hand :

22 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will punish them: the young men shall die by the sword; their Heb. visit sons and their daughters shall die by famine :

23 And there shall be no remnant of them: for I will bring evil upon the men of Anathoth, even the year of their visitation.

upon.

JEREMIAH XII.

A. C. 610.

5

1 Jeremiah, complaining of the wicked's prosperity, by faith seeth their ruin.
God admonisheth him of his brethren's treachery against him, 7 and lamenteth
his heritage. 14 He promiseth to the penitent return from captivity.

1 Righteous art thou, O LORD, when I plead with thee: *Or, let me yet * let me talk with thee of thy judgments: Wherefore reason the case doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they t Job xxi. 7. happy that deal very treacherously?

with thee.

Ps. xxxvii. 1.

Hab. i. 4.

& lxxiii, 3, &c. 2 Thou hast planted them, yea, they have taken root: +Heb. they they grow, yea, they bring forth fruit: thou art near in their mouth, and far from their reins.

go on.

u Ps. xvii. 3.

+ Heb. with thee.

3 But thou, O LORD, "knowest me; thou hast seen me, and tried mine heart toward thee: pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.

X

4 How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of every x Ps. crii. 34. field wither, * for the wickedness of them that dwell therein? the beasts are consumed, and the birds; because they said, He shall not see our last end.

y ch. ix. 4.

Or, they

cried after thee

fully.

Heb. good

things.

* Heb. the love.

5 If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee, then how canst thou contend with horses? and if in the land of peace, wherein thou trustedst, they wearied thee, then how wilt thou do in the swelling of Jordan?

6 For even thy brethren, and the house of thy father, even they have dealt treacherously with thee; yea, §they have called a multitude after thee: believe them not, though they speak || fair words unto thee.

*

7 I have forsaken mine house, I have left mine heritage; I have given the dearly beloved of my soul into the hand of her enemies.

8 Mine heritage is unto me as a lion in the forest; it Heb. giveth crieth out against me: therefore have I hated it.

+Or, yelleth.

out his voice.

Or, having talons.

|| Or, cause

them to come.

9 Mine heritage is unto me as a § speckled bird, the birds round about are against her; come ye, assemble all the beasts of the field, come to devour.

10 Many pastors have destroyed my vineyard, they have Heb por- trodden my portion under foot, they have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness.

tion of desire.

11 They have made it desolate, and being desolate it mourneth unto me; the whole land is made desolate, because no man layeth it to heart.

12 The spoilers are come upon all high places through the wilderness: for the sword of the LORD shall devour from the one end of the land even to the other end of the land: no flesh shall have peace.

2

13 They have sown wheat, but shall reap thorns: have put themselves to pain, but shall not profit: and shall be ashamed of your revenues because of the anger of the Lord.

14

xxviii. 38. Micah vi. 15.

Hag.

Thus saith the LORD against all mine evil neigh-,. bours, that touch the inheritance which I have caused my people Israel to inherit; Behold, I will a pluck them out of a Deut. xxx. their land, and pluck out the house of Judah from among 37.

them.

15 And it shall come to pass, after that I have plucked them out I will return, and have compassion on them, and will bring them again, every man to his heritage, and every man to his land.

16 And it shall come to pass, if they will diligently learn the ways of my people, to swear by my name, The LORD liveth; as they taught my people to swear by Baal; then shall they be built in the midst of my people.

b

3. ch. xxxii.

17 But if they will not obey, I will utterly pluck up and b Is. Ix. 12. destroy that nation, saith the LORD.

с

SECTION XII.

Death of Josiah.

2 CHRONICLES XXXV. VER. 20-25.

xxiii. 29.

20 After all this, when Josiah had prepared the c2 Kings + temple, Necho king of Egypt came up to fight against + Heb. house. Charchemish by Euphrates: and Josiah went out against

him.

21 But he sent ambassadors to him, saying, What have I to do with thee, thou king of Judah? I come not against thee this day, but against the house wherewith I have Heb. the war: for God commanded me to make haste: forbear thee war. from meddling with God, who is with me, that he destroy thee not.

22 Nevertheless Josiah would not turn his face from him, but disguised himself, that he might fight with him, and hearkened not unto the words of Necho from the mouth of God, and came to fight in the valley of Megiddo.

23 And the archers shot at king Josiah; and the king said to his servants, Have me away; for I am sore § wounded.

24 His servants therefore took him out of that chariot, and put him in the second chariot that he had; and they brought him to Jerusalem, and he died, and was buried || in one of the sepulchres of his fathers. And all Judah and

Jerusalem mourned for Josiah.

house of my

Heb. made

sick.

Or, among a Zech. xii.

the sepulchres.

A.C. 610.

2 KINGS XXIII. VER. 25-28.

25 And like unto him was there no king before him, that turned to the LORD with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his might, according to all the law of Moses; neither after him arose there any like him.

26¶Notwithstanding the LORD turned not from the fierceness of his great wrath, wherewith his anger was kin*Heb. angers. dled against Judah, because of all the provocations that Manasseh had provoked him withal.

27 And the LORD said, I will remove Judah also out of my sight, as I have removed Israel, and will cast off this city Jerusalem which I have chosen, and the house of which el Kings viii. I said, My name shall be there.

29. & ix. 3 ch. xxi. 7.

+ Heb. kind

nesses.

f2 Kings xxii. 1, &c.

e

2 CHRONICLES XXXV. VER. 25, TO THE END.

25 And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah: and all the singing men and the singing women spake of Josiah in their lamentations to this day, and made them an ordinance in Israel: and, behold, they are written in the lamentations.

26 Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and his + goodness, according to that which was written in the law of the LORD,

27 And his deeds, first and last, behold, they are written in the books of the kings of Israel and Judah.

2 CHRONICLEs xxxiv. ver. 1, 2.

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

2 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the ways of David his father, and declined neither to the right hand, nor to the left.

2 KINGS XXII. VER. 3, TO THE END.

3¶ And it came to pass in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, that the king sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, the son of Meshullam, the scribe, to the house of the LORD, saying,

4 Go up to Hilkiah the high priest, that he may sum the silver which is Heb. thres- brought into the house of the LORD, which the keepers of the door have gathered of the people :

hold.

5 And let them deliver it into the hand of the doers of the work, that have the oversight of the house of the LORD: and let them give it to the doers of the work which is in the house of the LORD, to repair the breaches of the house,

6 Unto carpenters, and builders, and masons, and to buy timber and hewn stone to repair the house.

7 Howbeit there was no reckoning made with them of the money that was delivered into their hand, because they dealt faithfully.

8 ¶ And Hilkiah the high priest said unto Shaphan the scribe, I have found the book of the law in the house of the LORD. And Hilkiah gave the book to Shaphan, and he read it.

9 And Shaphan the scribe came to the king, and brought the king word again,

and said, Thy servants have gathered the money that was found in the house, Heb. melled. and have delivered it into the hand of them that do the work, that have the

oversight of the house of the LORD.

10 And Shaphan the scribe shewed the king, saying, Hilkiah the priest hath delivered me a book. And Shaphan read it before the king.

11 And it came to pass, when the king had heard the words of the book of the law, that he rent his clothes.

12 And the king commanded Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and Achbor the son of † Michaiah, and Shaphan the scribe, and Asahiah & Abdon, a servant of the king's, saying,

2 Chron.
xxxiv. 20.
+ Or, Micah.

13 Go ye, enquire of the LORD for me, and for the people, and for all Judah, concerning the words of this book that is found: for great is the wrath of the LORD that is kindled against us, because our fathers have not hearkened unto the words of this book, to do according unto all that which is written concerning us. 14 So Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam, and Achbor, and Shaphan, and Asahiah, went unto Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvah, the son of § Harhas, keeper of the || wardrobe; (now she dwelt in ‡ Tikvath, Jerusalem in the college;) and they communed with her.

2 Chron. xxxiv. 22.

Heb. gar

ments.
* Or, in the

15¶And she said unto them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Tell the Or, Hasrah. man that sent you to me, 16 Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, and upon second part. the inhabitants thereof, even all the words of the book which the king of Judah hath read:

17 Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the works of their hands; therefore my wrath shall be kindled against this place, and shall not be quenched.

18 But to the king of Judah which sent you to enquire of the LORD, thus shall ye say to him, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, As touching the words which thou hast heard ;

19 Because thine heart was tender, and thou hast humbled thyself before the LORD, when thou heardest what I spake against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and hast rent thy clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard thee, saith the LORD. 20 Behold therefore, I will gather thee unto thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered into thy grave in peace; and thine eyes shall not see all the evil which I will bring upon this place. And they brought the king word again.

2 KINGS XXIII. VER. 1-4.

1 And the king sent, and they gathered unto him all the elders of Judah h2 Chron. and of Jerusalem.

2 And the king went up into the house of the LORD, and all the men of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem with him, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the people, † both small and great and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant which was found in the house of the LORD.

3¶ And the king stood by a pillar, and made a covenant before the LORD, to walk after the LORD, and to keep his commandments and his testimonies and VOL. II. 1 i

xxxiv. 29, 30, &c.

Heb. from

small even

unto great.