He is smitten with leprosy CHRIST 7,8. CHAP. XXVII. XXVIII Before not unto thee, Uzziah, to burn incense cir. 765 unto the LORD, but to the "priests the n Exod. 30. sons of Aaron, that are consecrated to burn incense: go out of the sanctuary; for thou hast trespassed; neither shall it be for thine honour from the LORD God. 19 Then Uzziah was wroth, and had a censer in his hand to burn incense: and while he was wroth with the priests, Numb. 12. the leprosy even rose up in his forehead before the priests in the house of the LORD, from beside the incense altar. 10. 3 Kings 5. 17. p As Esther 6. 1.2. 92 Kinga 15-5 Namb. 5. 2. 20 And Azariah the chief priest, and all the priests, looked upon him, and, behold, he was leprous in his forehead, and they thrust him out from thence; yea, himself hasted also to go out, because the LORD had smitten him. 21 And Uzziah the king was a leper unto the day of his death, and dwelt in a Lev. 13.46.+several house, being a leper; for he +Heb.free. was cut off from the house of the LORD: and Jotham his son was over the king's house, judging the people of the land. 22 Now the rest of the acts of UzIsai. 1. 1. ziah, first and last, did Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, write. 2 Kings 15 7. Isai. 6. 1. 758. * 2 Kings 1532, Bc. 35 23 So Uzziah slept with his fathers, and they buried him with his fathers in the field of the burial which belonged to the kings; for they said, He is a leper: and Jotham his son reigned in his stead. CHAP. XXVII. 1 Jotham reigning well prospereth. 5 He subdueth the Ammonites. 7 His reign. 9 Ahaz succeedeth him. OTHAM was twenty and five years reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also was Jerushah, the daughter of Zadok. 2 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father Uzziah did: howbeit he entered not into the temple of the LORD. 2 Kings 15. And the people did yet corruptly. Or, the fmeer, cb. 2314 Neh. 35 3¶ He built the high gate of the house of the LORD, and on the wall of || Ophel he built much. 4 Moreover he built cities in the mountains of Judah, and in the forests he built castles and towers. 5 He fought also with the king of the Ammonites, and prevailed against them. And the children of Ammon gave him the same year an hundred talents of silver, and ten thousand measures of wheat, and ten thousand of barley. Heb. This +So much did the children of Ammon pay unto him, both the second year, and the third. Ahaz's wicked reign. tham, and all his wars, and his ways, lo, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah. 8 He was five and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. Before CHRIST 758. cir. 742. e-2 Kings 15 And Jotham slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David: 38 and Ahaz his son reigned in his stead. CHAP. XXVIII. 1 Ahaz reigning very wickedly is greatly afficted by the Syrians. 6 Judah being cap tivated by the Israelites is sent home by the counsel of Oded the prophet. 16 Ahaz sending for aid to Assyria is not helped thereby. 22 In his distress he groweth more idolatrous. 26 He dying, Hezekiah succeedeth him. A HAZ was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem: but he did not that which was right in the sight of the LORD, like David his father: 2 For he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and made also molten images for Baalim. 9 But a prophet of the LORD was there, whose name was Oded: and he went out before the host that came to Samaria, and said unto them, Behold, because P. 69.26. the LORD God of your fathers was wroth with Judah, he hath delivered them into 26. 2. Obad. your hand, and ye have slain them in rage that 'reacheth up unto heaven. a 10 And now ye purpose to keep under the children of Judah and Jerusalem for 47.6. Ezek. 25. 12, 15. & 10, &c. Zech. 1.5. 1 Ezra 9. 6. Rev. 18.5 Judah is sent home. Before CHRIST cir. 741. m Lev. 2539, 42, 43, 46. 2 CHRONICLES. Hezekiah's good reign. 18. Before 726. IST Jer.44.17, mbondmen and bondwomen unto you: | them, that they may help me. But they 11 Now hear me therefore, and deliver the captives again, which ye have taken Jam. 2. 13. captive of your brethren: "for the fierce wrath of the LORD is upon you. O ver. 12. ps Kings 6. 22. Prov. 25. 21, 22. Luke 6. 27. Rom. Judg. 1. 16. eir. 741. r 2 Kings 16. 7. + Heb. a captivity. 8 Ezek. 16. 27, 57 t ch. 21. 2. u Exod. 32. 25. 740. x 2 Kings 12 Then certain of the heads of the children of Ephraim, Azariah the son of Johanan, Berechiah the son of Meshillemoth, and Jehizkiah the son of Shallum, and Amasa the son of Hadlai, stood up against them that came from the war, 13 And said unto them, Ye shall not bring in the captives hither: for whereas we have offended against the LORD already, ye intend to add more to our sins and to our trespass: for our trespass is great, and there is fierce wrath against Israel. 14 So the armed men left the captives and the spoil before the princes and all the congregation. 15 And the men which were expressed by name rose up, and took the captives, and with the spoil clothed all that were naked among them, and arrayed them, and shod them, and gave them to eat and to drink, and anointed them, and carried all the feeble of them upon asses, and brought them to Jericho, the city of palm trees, to their brethren: then they returned to Samaria. 16 ¶'At that time did king Ahaz send unto the kings of Assyria to help him. 17 For again the Edomites had come and smitten Judah, and carried away + captives. 18 The Philistines also had invaded the cities of the low country, and of the south of Judah, and had taken Beth-shemesh, and Ajalon, and Gederoth, and Shocho with the villages thereof, and Timnah with the villages thereof, Gimzo also and the villages thereof: and they dwelt there. 19 For the LORD brought Judah low because of Ahaz king of Israel; for he made Judah naked, and transgressed sore against the LORD. น 20 And Tilgath-pilneser king of As15. 21. & 16. syria came unto him, and distressed him, but strengthened him not. 7, 8, 9. y See ch. 25. 14. mook. 21 For Ahaz took away a portion out of the house of the LORD, and out of the house of the king, and of the princes, and gave it unto the king of Assyria: but he helped him not. 22 ¶ And in the time of his distress did he trespass yet more against the LORD: this is that king Ahaz. 23 For 'he sacrificed unto the gods of Heb. Dar+Damascus, which smote him: and he said, Because the gods of the king of Syria help them, therefore will I sacrifice to 25 And in every several city of Judah he made high places || to burn incense unto other gods, and provoked to anger the LORD God of his fathers. 26 Now the rest of his acts and of all his ways, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel. 27 And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city, even in Jerusalem: but they brought him not into the sepulchres of the kings of Israel: and Hezekiah his son reigned in his stead. 5 And said unto them, Hear me, ye 6 For our fathers have trespassed, and 7 Also they have shut up the doors of the porch, and put out the lamps, and have not burned incense nor offered burnt offerings in the holy place unto the God of Israel. m ver. 5 Or, in the business of the LORD, ch. 30. 12. u i Chron. 23. 28. 726. 12 Then the Levites arose, Mahath the son of Amasai, and Joel the son of Azariah, of the sons of the Kohathites: and of the sons of Merari, Kish the son of Abdi, and Azariah the son of Jehalelel: and of the Gershonites; Joah the son of Zimmah, and Eden the son of Joah: 15 And of the sons of Elizaphan; Shimri, and Jeiel: and of the sons of Asaph; Zechariah, and Mattaniah: 14 And of the sons of Heman; Jehiel, and Shimei: and of the sons of Jeduthun; Shemaiah, and Uzziel. 15 And they gathered their brethren, and sanctified themselves, and came, according to the commandment of the king, by the words of the LORD, "to cleanse the house of the LORD. 16 And the priests went into the inner part of the house of the LORD, to cleanse it, and brought out all the uncleanness that they found in the temple of the LORD into the court of the house of the LORD. And the Levites took it, to carry it out abroad into the brook Kidron. 17 Now they began on the first day of the first month to sanctify, and on the eighth day of the month came they to the porch of the LORD: so they sanctified the house of the LORD in eight days; and in the sixteenth day of the first month they made an end. 18 Then they went in to Hezekiah the king, and said, We have cleansed all the house of the LORD, and the altar of burnt offering, with all the vessels thereof, and the shewbread table, with all the vessels thereof. 19 Moreover all the vessels, which cb. 24. king Ahaz in his reign did cast away in his transgression, have we prepared and sanctified, and, behold, they are before Lev. 433 the altar of the LORD. 20 Then Hezekiah the king rose early, and gathered the rulers of the city, and went up to the house of the LORD. 21 And they brought seven bullocks, and seven rams, and seven lambs, and seven he goats, for a 'sin offering for the kingdom, and for the sanctuary, and for Judah. And he commanded the priests the sons of Aaron to offer them on the altar of the LORD. 22 So they killed the bullocks, and the priests received the blood, and sprin- BeforST kled it on the altar: likewise, when they had killed the rams, they sprinkled the q Lev. 8. 14, blood upon the altar: they killed also the lambs, and they sprinkled the blood upon the altar. 31. 15, 19, 24. 23 And they brought forth the het Heb. near. goats for the sin offering before the king and the congregation; and they laid their 'hands upon them: r Lev. 4. 15, 24. 24 And the priests killed them, and they made reconciliation with their blood upon the altar, 'to make an a- Lev. 14.20. tonement for all Israel: for the king commanded that the burnt offering and the sin offering should be made for all Israel. 26 And the Levites stood with the instruments of David, and the priests with by the "the trumpets. 27 And Hezekiah commanded to offer the burnt offering upon the altar. And when the burnt offering began, song of the LORD began also with trumpets, and with the instruments dained by David king of Israel. hand of. z 1 Chron. 23-5- Amos 8, 10. the 24. & 16. 6. the or Numb. 10. Chron. 15. +eb. in the time. b'ch. 23. 18. + Heb.hands of instru ments. 28 And all the congregation worshipped, and the singers sang, and the trum- + Heb. song. peters sounded: and all this continued until the burnt offering was finished. 29 And when they had made an end of offering, the king and all that were e ch. 20. 18. present with him bowed themselves, Heb found, and worshipped. 30 Moreover Hezekiah the king and the princes commanded the Levites to sing praise unto the LORD with the words of David, and of Asaph the seer. And they sang praises with gladness, and they bowed their heads and worshipped. your hand. 31 Then Hezekiah answered and said, Now ye have consecrated yourselves Or, filled unto the LORD, come near and bring ch. 13.9. sacrifices and thank offerings into the d Lev.7. 12. house of the LORD. And the congregation brought in sacrifices and thank offerings; and as many as were of a free heart burnt offerings. 32 And the number of the burnt offerings, which the congregation brought, was threescore and ten bullocks, an hundred rams, and two hundred lambs: all these were for a burnt offering to the LORD, 33 And the consecrated things were six hundred oxen and three thousand sheep. 34 But the priests were too few, so that they could not flay all the burnt 726. offerings: wherefore their brethren the Levites + did help them, till the work was ended, and until the other priests had sanctified themselves: for the Levites were more upright in heart to sanctify themselves than the priests. e ch. 35. 11. + Heb. strengthened them. f ch. 30. 3. g Ps. 7. 10. h Lev. 3. 16. 1 Numb. 15 5, 7, 10. 35 And also the burnt offerings were in abundance, with the fat of the peace offerings, and the drink offerings for every burnt offering. So the service of the house of the LORD was set in order. 36 And Hezekiah rejoiced, and all the people, that God had prepared the people: for the thing was done suddenly. CHAP. XXX. 1 Hezekiah proclaimeth a solemn passover on the second month for Judah and Israel. 13 The assembly, having destroyed the altars of idolatry, keep the feast fourteen days. 27 The priests and Levites bless the people. AND Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah, and wrote letters also to Ephraim and Manasseh, that they should come to the house of the LORD at Jerusalem, to keep the passover unto the LORD God of Israel. 2 For the king had taken counsel, and his princes, and all the congregation in Jerusalem, to keep the passover in the Numb. 9. second "month. 10, 11. b Exod. 12.6, 18. 3 For they could not keep it at that time, because the priests had not sanctic ch.934fied themselves sufficiently, neither had the people gathered themselves together to Jerusalem. 4 And the thing right in the and all the congregation. eyes of the king. the hand. 5 So they established a decree to make proclamation throughout all Israel, from Beer-sheba even to Dan, that they should come to keep the passover unto the LORD God of Israel at Jerusalem: for they had not done it of a long time in such sort as it was written. 6 So the posts went with the letters Heb. from from the king and his princes throughout all Israel and Judah, and according to the commandment of the king, saying, Ye children of Israel, turn again unto the LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, and he will return to the remnant of you, that are escaped out of the hand 2 Kings 15. of the kings of Assyria. d Jer. 4. 1. Joel 2.13. 19, 29. f Ezek. 20. 18. 7 And be not ye 'like your fathers, and like your brethren, which trespassed g ch. 29.8. against the LORD God of their fathers, + Heb. who therefore gave them up to desolayour necks, tion, as ye see. harden not h Deut. 10. 16. the hand: h 8 Now be ye not stiffnecked, as Heb. give your fathers were, but † yield yourselves See 1 Chron. unto the LORD, and enter into his sanc29. 24. Ezra tuary, which he hath sanctified for ever: 1 ch. 29. 10. and serve the LORD your God, that the 10. 19. 9 For if ye turn again unto the LORD, your brethren and your children shall find compassion before them that lead them Ps. 106. 45. captive, so that they shall come again into this land: for the LORD your God is gracious and merciful, and will not turn if away his face from you, ye mreturn m Isai. 55- 7. unto him. 10 So the posts passed from city to city through the country of Ephraim and Manasseh even unto Zebulun: but "they laughed them to scorn, and mock- ¤ standing. 16 And they stood in their place Heb their after their manner, according to the law of Moses the man of God: the priests sprinkled the blood, which they received of the hand of the Levites. 17 For there were many in the congregation that were not sanctified: there- tcb.19.24fore the Levites had the charge of the killing of the passovers for every one that was not clean, to sanctify them unto the LORD. x Exod. 12. 18 For a multitude of the people, even "many of Ephraim, and Manasseh, Issa- ver. 1', char, and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, *yet did they eat the passover otherwise than it was written. But Hezekiah prayed for them, saying, The good LORD pardon every one 43, &c. 19 That prepareth his heart to seek y ch. 19. God, the LORD God of his fathers, though he be not cleansed according to the purification of the sanctuary. 20 And the LORD hearkened to Hezekiah, and healed the people. 21 And the children of Israel that were † present at Jerusalem kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with great gladness: and the Levites and 15-&136 the priests praised the LORD day by day, Hezekiah ordereth the courses of the priests, &c. CHAP. XXXI. The people's forwardness in offering. 726. + Heb. in strength. 22 And Hezekiah spake + comfortably struments of unto all the Levites that taught the +Heb. to the good knowledge of the LORD: and they heart of all, 40. did eat throughout the feast seven days, offering peace offerings, and "making confession to the LORD God of their fathers. 2. a ch. 17.9 & 35-3Deut. 33. 10. b Era 10. 23 And the whole assembly took counSee Kings sel to keep other seven days: and they kept other seven days with gladness. + Heb. lifted uffered. up, or, 24 For Hezekiah king of Judah + did give to the congregation a thousand buldch. 35-7,8 locks and seven thousand sheep; and the princes gave to the congregation a thousand bullocks and ten thousand sheep: ch. 29. 34 and a great number of priests sanctified themselves. 25 And all the congregation of Judah, with the priests and the Levites, and all ver. 11, 18. the congregation that came out of Israel, and the strangers that came out of the land of Israel, and that dwelt in Judah, rejoiced. 26 So there was great joy in Jerusalem: for since the time of Solomon the son of David king of Israel there was not the like in Jerusalem. 27¶ Then the priests the Levites arose Numb. 6 and blessed the people: and their voice was heard, and their prayer came up to habitation of this holy dwelling place, even unto his holiness. heaven. Pe. 68. 5. + Heb. the + Heb. retzer, ch. 39.14 CHAP. XXXI. 1 The people is forward in destroying idolatry. 5¶ And as soon as the commandment +came abroad, the children of Israel Heb.brate brought in abundance the firstfruits of corn, wine, and oil, and || honey, and of 22. Neh. 13. all the increase of the field; and the Or, dates. tithe of all things brought they in abundantly. 12. 30. Deut. 14 6 And concerning the children of Israel and Judah, that dwelt in the cities of Judah, they also brought in the tithe of oxen and sheep, and the "tithe of holy b Lev. 27. things which were consecrated unto the 28. LORD their God, and laid them by heaps. Heb.heaps, 7 In the third month they began to lay the foundation of the heaps, and finished them in the seventh month. 8 And when Hezekiah and the princes came and saw the heaps, they blessed the LORD, and his people Israel. 9 Then Hezekiah questioned with the priests and the Levites concerning the heaps. OW when all this was finished, all + Heb found. Israel that were present went out fully: over which Cononiah the Levite k Neh. 13. Kings 18 to the cities of Judah, and "brake the was ruler, and Shimei his brother was +images in pieces, and cut down the the next. groves, and threw down the high places and the altars out of all Judah and Benjamin, in Ephraim also and Manasseh, Heh, til until they had utterly destroyed them all. Then all the children of Israel returned, every man to his possession, into their own cities. 2 ¶ And Hezekiah appointed the courses of the priests and the Levites after their courses, every man according to his service, the priests and Levites for burnt offerings and for peace offerings, to minister, and to give thanks, and to praise in the gates of the tents of the LORD. 3 He appointed also the king's portion of his substance for the burnt offerings, to wit, for the morning and evening burnt offerings, and the burnt offerings for the sabbaths, and for the new moons, and for hand, 13 And Jehiel, and Azaziah, and Nahath, and Asahel, and Jerimoth, and Jozabad, and Eliel, and Ismachiah, and Mahath, and Benaiah, were overseers tun- that the der the hand of Cononiah and Shimei his brother, at the commandment of Hezekiah the king, and Azariah the ruler of the house of God. 14 And Kore the son of Imnah the Levite, the porter toward the east, was over the freewill offerings of God, to distribute the oblations of the LORD, and the most holy things. |