2 Chronicles 33 Cross References - LITV

¹ Manasseh was a son of twelve years when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem fifty five years. ² And he did evil in the eyes of Jehovah, like the abominations of the nations that Jehovah had driven out from before the sons of Israel. ³ For again he rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had broken down, and raised up altars for the Baals, and made Asherahs and bowed himself to all the host of the heavens, and served them. ⁴ And he built altars in the house of Jehovah, of which Jehovah had said, In Jerusalem shall be My name forever. ⁵ And he built altars to all the host of the heavens in the two courts of the house of Jehovah. ⁶ And he made his sons to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and did magic and divined, and used sorcery, and used mediums and conjurers; he multiplied the doing of the evil in the eyes of Jehovah, to provoke Him to anger. ⁷ And he placed the engraved image of the idol that he had made in the house of God, of which God had said to David, and to his son Solomon, In this house, and in Jerusalem that I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put My name forever. ⁸ And I will not again remove the foot of Israel from off the ground that I appointed to your fathers; only, if they take heed to do all that I have commanded them toward all the law, and the statutes, and the ordinances by the hand of Moses. ⁹ And Manasseh caused Judah and the people of Jerusalem to sin, to do evil above the nations that Jehovah destroyed before the sons of Israel. ¹⁰ And Jehovah spoke to Manasseh and to his people, and they did not listen. ¹¹ And Jehovah brought against them the king of Assyria's army commanders, and they captured Manasseh with hooks, and bound him with bronze fetters, and made him go to Babylon. ¹² And when he was afflicted, he sought the face of Jehovah his God, and was humbled exceedingly before the face of the God of his fathers; ¹³ and prayed to Him, and He was entreated of him and heard his supplication, and returned him to Jerusalem to his kingdom; and Manasseh knew that Jehovah, He is God. ¹⁴ And after this he built an outer wall to the city of David, on the west of Gihon, in the valley, and at the entrance of the Fish Gate. And it went around to the tower and he made it exceedingly high, and he put commanders of the army in all the cities of defense in Judah. ¹⁵ And he removed the foreign gods, and the idol out of the house of Jehovah, and all the altars that he had built in the mount of the house of Jehovah and in Jerusalem, and threw them outside the city. ¹⁶ And he built the altar of Jehovah, and sacrificed on it sacrifices of peace offerings and thank offerings, and commanded Judah to serve Jehovah, the God of Israel. ¹⁷ But the people still sacrificed in the high places, only to Jehovah their God. ¹⁸ And the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and his prayer to his God, and the things of the seers, who spoke to him in the name of Jehovah the God of Israel, behold, they are in the Book of the Kings of Israel; ¹⁹ and his prayer, and his entreaty, and all his sin, and his trespass, and the places in which he had built high places and set up the Asherahs and the graven images before he was humbled, behold, they are written in the Matters of the Seers. ²⁰ And Manasseh lay with his fathers, and they buried him in his own house. And his son Amon reigned in his place. ²¹ Amon was a son of twenty two years when he began to reign, and he reigned two years in Jerusalem. ²² And he did evil in the eyes of Jehovah, as his father Manasseh did; and Amon sacrificed to all the graven images that his father Manasseh had made, and served them. ²³ And he did not bow before Jehovah, like the humbling of his father Manasseh, for Amon himself multiplied guilt. ²⁴ And his servants conspired against him and killed him in his own house; ²⁵ and the people of the land killed all those who conspired against king Amon and the people of the land made his son Josiah to reign in his place.

¹ Manasseh was a son of twelve years when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty five years in Jerusalem, and the name of his mother was Hephzibah. ² And he did the evil in the eyes of Jehovah, according to the idolatries of the nations that Jehovah expelled from before the sons of Israel. ³ And he built again the high places that his father Hezekiah had destroyed, and raised up altars for Baal, and made a shrine, as did Ahab the king of Israel, and worshiped all the host of the heavens, and served them. ⁴ And he built altars in the house of Jehovah, of which Jehovah had said, In Jerusalem I will put My name. ⁵ And he built altars for all the host of the heavens in the two courts of Jehovah's house. ⁶ And he made his son to pass through the fire, used magic, and used divination, and dealt with mediums and soothsayers. He expanded to work the evil in the eyes of Jehovah, to provoke Him to anger. ⁷ And he set a graven image of the Asherah that he made in the house of which Jehovah had said to David and to his son Solomon, In this house, and in Jerusalem, that I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put My name forever. ⁸ And I will not again make the feet of Israel wander any more out of the land which I gave their fathers; only if they observe to do all that I commanded them, and to all the law that My servant Moses commanded them. ⁹ But they did not listen, and Manasseh caused them to do evil above the nations that Jehovah had destroyed from before the sons of Israel. ¹⁰ And Jehovah spoke by His servants the prophets, saying, ¹¹ Because Manasseh the king of Judah has done these abominations, doing more wickedly than all that the Amorites did before him, and has made Judah also to sin with his idols, ¹² therefore so says Jehovah, the God of Israel, Behold, I am bringing evil on Jerusalem and Judah, so that whoever hears of it, his two ears shall tingle. ¹³ And I will stretch out over Jerusalem the line of Samaria, and the plummet of the house of Ahab, and shall wipe Jerusalem as one wipes a dish (he wipes and turns it on its face). ¹⁴ And I will forsake the remnant of My inheritance, and give them into the hand of their enemies; and they shall be for a prey and for a spoil to all their enemies, ¹⁵ because they have done evil in My eyes, and have provoked Me to anger from the day their fathers came out of Egypt, even to this day. ¹⁶ And also Manasseh has shed very much innocent blood, till he has filled Jerusalem from mouth to mouth; apart from his sin that he caused Judah to sin, to do evil in the eyes of Jehovah. ¹⁷ And the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and all that he did, and his sin that he sinned, are they not written in the Book of the Matters of the Days of the Kings of Judah? ¹⁸ And Manasseh lay with his fathers, and was buried in the garden of his house in the Garden of Uzza. And his son Amon reigned in his place.

¹³ Ahaz his son; Hezekiah his son; Manasseh his son;

³³ And Hezekiah lay with his fathers, and they buried him in the uppermost of the graves of the sons of David; and all Judah and the people of Jerusalem honored him at his death. And his son Manasseh reigned in his place.

¹ Josiah was a son of eight years when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem thirty one years. ² And he did the right in the eyes of Jehovah, and walked in the ways of his father David, and did not turn aside to the right or to the left.

¹⁶ Woe to you, O land, when your king is a boy, and your leaders eat in the morning.

⁴ And I will give young boys to be their rulers, and caprices shall rule over them.

¹² As for My people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over him. Oh My people, your rulers cause you to go astray, and they swallow the way of your paths.

¹⁰ and Hezekiah fathered Manasseh, and Manasseh fathered Amon, and Amon fathered Josiah,

²⁴ Do not defile yourself with all these, for with all these the nations have been defiled, which I am casting out before you; ²⁵ and the land is defiled, and I will visit its iniquity on it; and the land is vomiting out its inhabitants; ²⁶ and you, you shall keep My statutes and My judgments, and shall not do any of all these disgusting acts; neither the native nor the alien who is staying in your midst. ²⁷ For the men of the land who are before you have done all these disgusting things, and the land is defiled. ²⁸ Do not do these lest the land vomit you out for your defiling it, as it has vomited out the nation that was before you. ²⁹ For anyone who does any of these disgusting things, even the persons who are doing them, shall be cut off from the midst of their people. ³⁰ And you shall keep My charge, so as not to do any of the disgusting customs which were committed before you; and you shall not defile yourselves with them; I am Jehovah your God.

²² And you shall keep all My statutes, and all My judgments, and shall do them, and the land where I am bringing you to live in it shall not vomit you out. ²³ And you shall not walk in the statutes of the nation which I am casting out from before you, for all these they have done, and I am disgusted with them.

³¹ You shall not do so to Jehovah your God; for everything hateful to Jehovah, which He detests, they have done to their gods. For they have even burned their sons and their daughters in the fire to their gods.

⁹ When you come to the land which Jehovah your God is giving to you, you shall not learn to do according to the hateful acts of those nations.

¹⁴ For these nations whom you shall expel listen to observers of clouds, and to diviners. But as to you, Jehovah your God has not allowed you to do so.

¹¹ and burned incense there in all high places, like the nations that Jehovah had removed from their face; and did evil things to provoke Jehovah,

¹⁵ And they rejected His statutes and His covenant that He made with their fathers, and His testimonies that He testified against them, and went after the vain thing, and became vain, and after the nations that were around them, of whom Jehovah had commanded them not to do like them.

² And he did the evil in the eyes of Jehovah, according to the idolatries of the nations that Jehovah expelled from before the sons of Israel.

⁹ But they did not listen, and Manasseh caused them to do evil above the nations that Jehovah had destroyed from before the sons of Israel.

³ And he himself burned incense in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and burned his sons in the fire, according to the abominations of the nations that Jehovah drove out from before the sons of Israel;

¹⁴ Also, all the heads of the priests, and the people were continually acting treacherously according to all the abominable idols of the nations; and they defiled the house of Jehovah that He had sanctified in Jerusalem.

¹⁴ Shall we again break Your commandments and intermarry with the people of these abominations? Would You not be angry with us until You had crushed us, until there is no remnant or survivor?

³⁵ but mixed with the nations, and learned their works. ³⁶ And they served their idols, and they became a snare to them. ³⁷ Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters to the demons; ³⁸ and they shed innocent blood, the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan. And the land was defiled with the blood. ³⁹ And they were unclean with their works, and went whoring in their acts. ⁴⁰ And the anger of Jehovah burned against His people; and He detested His inheritance.

⁴ And I will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth, because of Manasseh, the son of Hezekiah, king of Judah; for what he did in Jerusalem.

¹² and you shall know that I am Jehovah in whose statutes you have not walked. Yea, you have not done My judgments. Yea, as the judgments of the nations who are around you, you have done.

¹⁹ and that you not lift up your eyes towards the heavens and shall see the sun, and the heavens, and you be drawn away and worship them, and serve them; which Jehovah your God has allotted to all the peoples under all the heavens.

²¹ You shall not set up for yourself pillars of any trees, which you make for yourself near the altar of Jehovah your God.

³ and has gone and served other gods, and worshiped them; or the sun, or the moon, or of the host of the heavens, which I have not commanded;

¹¹ And the sons of Israel did evil in the sight of Jehovah, and served the Baals. ¹² And they forsook Jehovah, the God of their fathers, who brought them out from the land of Egypt. And they went after other gods of the gods of the peoples who were around them, and bowed themselves to them, and angered Jehovah. ¹³ Yea, they forsook Jehovah, and served Baal and the Ashtoreths.

²³ And they built, they also, high places for themselves, and standing pillars, and Asherahs on every high hill, and under every green tree.

⁴ he took away the high places, and broke in pieces the pillars, and cut down the Asherah, and beat to bits the bronze serpent that Moses made (for in those days it was that the sons of Israel burned sacrifices to it and called it Nehushtan).

³ And he built again the high places that his father Hezekiah had destroyed, and raised up altars for Baal, and made a shrine, as did Ahab the king of Israel, and worshiped all the host of the heavens, and served them.

⁵ And he caused to cease the idolatrous priests whom the kings of Judah had appointed to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places around Jerusalem, and those burning incense to Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to constellations, and to all the host of the heavens. ⁶ And he brought out the Asherah from the house of Jehovah to the outside of Jerusalem, to the torrent Kidron, and burned it at the torrent Kidron, and ground it to powder, and threw the powder of it on the graves of the sons of the people.

¹¹ And he caused to cease the horses that the kings of Judah had given to the sun, at the entrance of the house of Jehovah, by the room of Nathan-melech the eunuch, that was in the suburbs. And he burned with fire the chariots of the sun.

² but walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and also made casted images for the Baals. ³ And he himself burned incense in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and burned his sons in the fire, according to the abominations of the nations that Jehovah drove out from before the sons of Israel; ⁴ and sacrificed and burned incense in the high places, and on the heights, and under every green tree.

¹⁴ And they rose up and took away the altars in Jerusalem, and all the incense altars they removed, and threw them into the torrent Kidron.

¹ And when all this was finished, all Israel who were found went out to the cities of Judah and smashed the standing pillars, and cut down the Asherahs, and broke down the high places and the altars out of all Judah, and Benjamin, and in Ephraim, and Manasseh, even to the end. And all the sons of Israel returned, each to his possession, to their cities.

¹² Has not Hezekiah himself removed His high places, and His altars, and commanded Judah and Jerusalem, saying, Before one altar you shall worship, and on it you shall burn incense.

¹⁹ And who knows if he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he shall rule among all my labor in which I labored, and acted wisely under the sun. This is also vanity.

¹⁸ Wisdom is better than weapons of conflict; but one sinner destroys much good.

² And they shall spread them before the sun and the moon and all the host of the heavens whom they have loved, and whom they have served, and after whom they have walked, and whom they have sought, and whom they have worshiped. They shall not be gathered or buried; they shall be dung on the face of the ground.

² even while their sons remember their altars and their Asherahs by the green trees on the high hills.

¹³ And the houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah shall be defiled as the place of Tophet, because of all the roofs of the houses on which they have burned incense to all the host of the heavens, and have poured out drink offerings to other gods.

⁵ and those bowing to the host of the heavens on the housetops; and those bowing, swearing to Jehovah, also swearing by Malcham,

⁴² But God turned and gave them over to serve the host of the heaven, as it has been written in the book of the Prophets: "Did you bring slain beasts and sacrifices to Me forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?

¹¹ And it shall be the place which Jehovah your God shall choose to cause His name to dwell there, there you shall bring all that I am commanding you, your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, your tithes, and the heave offering of your hand, and all your choice freewill offerings which you vow to Jehovah.

²⁹ for Your eyes are open toward this house night and day, toward the place of which You have said, My name shall be there; to listen to the prayer which Your servant prays toward this place.

³ And Jehovah said to him, I have heard your prayer and your supplication with which you have made supplication before Me; I have sanctified this house that you have built to put My name there forever; and My eyes and My heart shall be there forever.

⁴ And he built altars in the house of Jehovah, of which Jehovah had said, In Jerusalem I will put My name. ⁵ And he built altars for all the host of the heavens in the two courts of Jehovah's house.

⁶ But I have chosen Jerusalem for My name to be there, and I have chosen David to be over My people Israel.

¹⁶ and now I have chosen and sanctified this house for My name to be there forever; yea, My eyes and My heart shall be there perpetually.

¹⁹ And they spoke against the God of Jerusalem as against the gods of the peoples of the land, the work of the hands of man.

¹⁵ And he removed the foreign gods, and the idol out of the house of Jehovah, and all the altars that he had built in the mount of the house of Jehovah and in Jerusalem, and threw them outside the city.

³ And in the eighth year of his reign, and he was still a boy, he began to seek to the God of his father David; and in the twelfth year he began to cleanse Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, and the Asherahs, and the graven images, and the casted images. ⁴ And they broke down before him the altars of the Baals, and the images that were on high above them he cut down, and the shrines, and the graven images, and the molten images he broke down and beat small, and scattered on the surface of the grave of those who sacrificed to them.

³⁰ For the sons of Judah have done evil in My eyes, says Jehovah. They have set their idols in the house on which is called My name, in order to defile it.

⁹ And he made the court of the priests, and the great court, and doors for the court; and he overlaid their doors with bronze.

³⁴ But they set their idols in the house on which My name has been called, to defile it. ³⁵ And they built the high places of Baal in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire to Molech, which I did not command them, nor did it come into My heart, that they should do this detestable thing, to cause Judah to sin.

⁷ And He brought me to the opening of the court. And I looked, and, behold, a single hole in the wall. ⁸ And He said to me, Son of man, dig now in the wall. And I dug in the wall; and, behold, an opening! ⁹ And He said to me, Go in and see the evil abominations that they are doing here. ¹⁰ And I went in and looked. And, behold, every form of creeping thing, and hateful beast, and all the idols of the house of Israel were carved on the wall all around. ¹¹ And seventy men of the elders of the house of Israel, and Jaazaniah, the son of Shaphan, were standing among them. These were standing among them, and each man with his censer in his hand, and the odor of the cloud of incense was rising. ¹² And He said to me, Son of man, have you seen what the elders of the house of Israel are doing in the dark, each man in the rooms of his image? For they are saying, Jehovah does not see us, Jehovah has forsaken the earth. ¹³ And He said to me, You turn again, you shall see greater abominations which they are doing. ¹⁴ And He brought me to the opening of the gate of the house of Jehovah, toward the north. And, behold, women were sitting there weeping for Tammuz. ¹⁵ And He said to me, Have you seen, son of man? You turn again and you shall see greater abominations than these. ¹⁶ And he brought me into the inner court of the house of Jehovah. And, behold, at the opening of the temple of Jehovah, between the porch and the altar, were about twenty five men with their backs to the temple of Jehovah, and their faces eastward. And they bowed themselves eastward to the sun. ¹⁷ And He said to me, Son of man, have you seen? Is it nothing to the house of Judah from doing the abominations which they do here? For they have filled the land with violence and have returned to provoke Me to anger. And, behold, they are putting the branch to their nose! ¹⁸ And I also will deal with fury. My eye shall not spare, and I will not have pity. And though they cry in My ears with a loud voice, I will not hear them.

²¹ And you shall not give your seed to pass them through to Molech, nor shall you pollute the name of your God; I am Jehovah.

²⁶ You shall not eat with the blood; you shall not divine, nor conjure spirits .

³¹ You shall not turn to those having familiar spirits; and you shall not seek to spiritists to be defiled by them; I am Jehovah your God.

² And you shall say to the sons of Israel, Any man of the sons of Israel, and of the aliens who are living in Israel, who gives of his seed to Molech shall certainly be put to death; the people of the land shall stone him with stones!

⁶ And the person who turns to those having familiar spirits, and to the spiritists, to go whoring after them, I shall set my face against that person, and cut him off from the midst of his people.

²⁷ And a man or woman, when there is among them a medium, or a familiar spirit, shall certainly be put to death; they shall stone them with stones; their blood is on them.

¹⁰ There shall not be found in you one who passes his son or his daughter through the fire, one that uses divination, an observer of clouds, or a fortuneteller, or a whisperer of spells, ¹¹ or a magic charmer, or one asking of familiar spirits, or a wizard, or one inquiring of the dead. ¹² For all doing these things are an abomination to Jehovah. And because of these filthy acts Jehovah your God is expelling these nations before you. ¹³ You shall be perfect with Jehovah your God. ¹⁴ For these nations whom you shall expel listen to observers of clouds, and to diviners. But as to you, Jehovah your God has not allowed you to do so.

²³ For the sin of divination is rebellion; insolence is both iniquity and idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of Jehovah, so He has rejected you from being king.

¹⁷ and caused their sons and daughters to pass through the fire and divined, and used incantations, and sold themselves to do the evil in the eyes of Jehovah, to provoke Him,

⁶ And he made his son to pass through the fire, used magic, and used divination, and dealt with mediums and soothsayers. He expanded to work the evil in the eyes of Jehovah, to provoke Him to anger.

¹⁰ And he defiled Topheth in the valley of the sons of Hinnom, so that no man could cause his son and his daughter to pass through the fire of Molech.

²⁴ And also the mediums and the soothsayers and the family gods, and the idols, and all the abominations that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, Josiah put away in order to fulfill the words of the law that were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest had found in the house of Jehovah.

¹³ And Saul died because of his trespass that he trespassed against Jehovah, against the word of Jehovah that he did not keep, and also for asking of a medium, to inquire;

¹⁹ And when they say to you, Seek to the mediums, and to wizards who peep and mutter; should not a people seek to its God, than for the living to seek to the dead?

³ And the spirit of the Egyptians shall be empty in its midst; and I will swallow its counsel. And they shall seek to idols, and to the enchanters, and to the mediums, and to the knowing ones.

⁹ But these two things shall suddenly come to you, in one day: loss of children, and widowhood; as complete they come on you, for your many sorceries, for the multitude of your great spells. ¹⁰ For you trusted in your evil; you said, No one sees me. Your wisdom and your knowledge perverts you, and you said in your heart, I am and none else is . ¹¹ For this, evil shall come on you; you shall not know its origin. And mischief shall fall on you; you shall not be able to cover it. And ruin shall come on you suddenly, you shall not know. ¹² Stand now among your spells, and with your many sorceries, in which you have wearied yourself since your youth. Perhaps you will be able to profit; perhaps may cause quaking.

³¹ They have built the high places of Tophet in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire, which I did not command, nor did it come into My heart. ³² So, behold, the days come, declares Jehovah, when it shall no more be called Tophet, or the valley of the son of Hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter. For they shall bury in Tophet from lack of a place.

³⁷ For they committed adultery, and blood is on their hands. Yea, they committed adultery with their idols, and even their sons whom they bore to Me, they cause to pass to them to be consumed.

³⁹ And when they had slain their sons to their idols, then they came into My sanctuary in that day to profane it. And, lo, this they have done in the midst of My house.

²⁰ idolatry, sorcery, hatreds, fightings, jealousies, angers, rivalries, divisions, heresies,

⁴⁴ If Your people shall go out to battle against its enemy, in the way that You have sent them, and they have prayed to Jehovah the way of the city which You have chosen, and of the house which I have built for Your name,

⁴⁸ and, they have turned back to You with all their heart, and with all the their soul, in the land of their enemies who have taken them captive, and have prayed to You the way of their land which You gave to their fathers, the city which You have chosen, and the house which I have built for Your name,

¹³ Only I will not tear away all the kingdom; I will give one tribe to your son for my servant David's sake, and for the sake of Jerusalem that I have chosen.

³² And he shall have the one tribe for my servant David's sake, and for Jerusalem's sake, the city which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel.

⁷ And he set a graven image of the Asherah that he made in the house of which Jehovah had said to David and to his son Solomon, In this house, and in Jerusalem, that I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put My name forever. ⁸ And I will not again make the feet of Israel wander any more out of the land which I gave their fathers; only if they observe to do all that I commanded them, and to all the law that My servant Moses commanded them.

⁶ And he brought out the Asherah from the house of Jehovah to the outside of Jerusalem, to the torrent Kidron, and burned it at the torrent Kidron, and ground it to powder, and threw the powder of it on the graves of the sons of the people.

⁴ And he built altars in the house of Jehovah, of which Jehovah had said, In Jerusalem shall be My name forever.

⁶⁸ But He chose the tribe of Judah, the Mount Zion which He loved.

¹³ Jehovah has chosen Zion; He has desired it for His dwelling-place. ¹⁴ This is My rest till forever; I will dwell here; I have desired it.

³⁶ And Aaron and his sons did all the things which Jehovah had commanded by the hand of Moses.

¹¹ and to teach the sons of Israel all the statutes which Jehovah has spoken to them by the hand of Moses.

⁴⁰ And you shall keep His statutes and His commandments which I am commanding you today, so that it maybe well with you, and with your sons after you, and so that you may prolong your days on the earth, which Jehovah our God is giving to you all the days.

¹ And Moses called to all Israel and said to them, Hear, Israel, the statutes and the ordinances which I speak in your ears today. And you shall learn them, and shall take heed to do them.

³¹ But as for you, you stand here by Me, and I will speak to you all the commandments and the statutes and the ordinances which you shall teach them, that they may do them in the land which I am giving to them, to possess it.

¹ You shall take heed to do every commandment which I am commanding you today, so that you may live and may multiply and may go in and possess the land which Jehovah has sworn to your fathers.

²⁶ Cursed is he who does not rise to all the words of this law, to do them! And all the people shall say, Amen!

¹⁵ Behold, I have set before you today life and good and death and evil, ¹⁶ in that I am commanding you today to love Jehovah your God, to walk in His ways, and to keep His commands and His statutes, and His judgments, and you shall live and multiply, and Jehovah your God shall bless you in the land where you are going in, to possess it. ¹⁷ But if you turn away your heart, and you do not listen, and are drawn on, even you will bow down to other gods, and serve them; ¹⁸ I have declared to you today that you shall certainly perish. You shall not prolong your days in the land to which you are crossing the Jordan, to go in there to possess it. ¹⁹ I call Heaven and earth to witness against you today that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. Therefore, choose life, that you may live, you and your seed, ²⁰ to love Jehovah your God, to listen to His voice, and to cleave to Him, for He is your life, and the length of your days live in the land which Jehovah has sworn to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give it to them.

¹⁰ And I will designate a place for My people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in their own place and not be made to tremble any more. Nor shall the sons of evil afflict them again, as at the first,

⁹ And I will prepare a place for My people Israel, and he will plant, and he will dwell in his place, and shall not be made to tremble any more; nor shall the sons of wickedness waste him any more, as at the first;

¹⁷ And you, if you shall walk before Me as your father David walked, even to do according to all that I have commanded you, and shall keep My statutes and My judgments, ¹⁸ then I shall establish the throne of your kingdom, as I covenanted with your father David, saying, There shall not be cut off a man to you who rules in Israel; ¹⁹ and if you turn away, and you shall forsake My statutes and My commandments that I have placed before you, and shall go and serve other gods and shall bow yourselves to them, ²⁰ then I shall pluck them up from off My land that I have given them, and this house that I have sanctified for My name I shall cast away from before My face, and I shall give it for a proverb and a byword among all the nations. ²¹ And this house that was on high shall be a wonder to everyone who passes by it, they shall shudder and say, Why has Jehovah done this to this land and to this house? ²² And they shall say, Because they have forsaken Jehovah, the God of their fathers, who brought them out from the land of Egypt, and have laid hold on other gods and have bowed themselves to them, and served them; for this He has brought on them all this evil.

¹⁹ If you are willing and hear, you shall eat the good of the land. ²⁰ But if you refuse and rebel, you shall be devoured with the sword; for the mouth of Jehovah has spoken.

²⁵ So say to them, So says the Lord Jehovah: You eat on the blood, and you lift your eyes up to your idols, and you shed blood. And shall you possess the land? ²⁶ You stand on your sword, and you each do abominations, defiling his neighbor's wife. And shall you possess the land?

⁶ And they were both righteous before God, walking blameless in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord.

¹⁰ For as many as are out of works of law, these are under a curse. For it has been written, "Cursed is everyone who does not continue in all the things having been written in the book of the Law, to do them." Deut. 27:26 ¹¹ And that no one is justified by law before God is clear because, "The just shall live by faith." Hab. 2:4 ¹² But the Law is not of faith, but, "The man doing these things shall live in them." Lev. 18:5 ¹³ Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us; for it has been written, "Cursed is everyone having been hung on a tree;" Deut. 21:23

²⁴ Do not defile yourself with all these, for with all these the nations have been defiled, which I am casting out before you;

²¹ a great and plentiful people, and tall as the Anakim. And Jehovah destroyed them before them, and they expelled them, and lived in their place;

⁸ And I brought you into the land of the Amorite who lived beyond the Jordan. And they fought with you, and I gave them into your hand, and you possessed their land. And I destroyed them before you.

¹⁶ And He shall give up Israel because of the sins of Jeroboam that he sinned, and that he caused Israel to sin.

²⁶ And he did evil in the eyes of Jehovah, and walked in the way of his father, and in his sin with which he made Israel to sin.

⁸ and walked in the statutes of the nations that Jehovah had driven out from the face of the sons of Israel, and of the kings of Israel that they made. ⁹ And the sons of Israel secretly did the things which were not right against Jehovah their God, and built high places for themselves in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fortified city, ¹⁰ and set up for themselves pillars and Asherahs on every high hill, and under every green tree; ¹¹ and burned incense there in all high places, like the nations that Jehovah had removed from their face; and did evil things to provoke Jehovah,

⁹ But they did not listen, and Manasseh caused them to do evil above the nations that Jehovah had destroyed from before the sons of Israel. ¹⁰ And Jehovah spoke by His servants the prophets, saying, ¹¹ Because Manasseh the king of Judah has done these abominations, doing more wickedly than all that the Amorites did before him, and has made Judah also to sin with his idols,

¹⁶ And also Manasseh has shed very much innocent blood, till he has filled Jerusalem from mouth to mouth; apart from his sin that he caused Judah to sin, to do evil in the eyes of Jehovah.

²⁶ However, Jehovah did not turn away from the fury of His great anger with which His anger glowed against Judah, because of all the provocations with which Manasseh had provoked Him.

³ Only, at the mouth of Jehovah, this came upon Judah, to remove them from His presence for the sins of Manasseh, according to all he did, ⁴ and also the innocent blood that he shed; for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and Jehovah was not willing to forgive.

² And he did evil in the eyes of Jehovah, like the abominations of the nations that Jehovah had driven out from before the sons of Israel.

¹² To a ruler who listens to lying words, all his ministers are wicked.

⁴⁵ You are your mother's daughter who despises her husband and her sons. And you are the sister of your sisters who despise their husbands and their sons. Your mother was a Hittite and your father was an Amorite. ⁴⁶ And your older sister is Samaria, she and her daughters who are dwelling on your left. And your younger sister from you who dwells on the right is Sodom and her daughters. ⁴⁷ Yet you have not walked in their ways nor have done according to their abominations. As if it were only a little thing, you were even more corrupted than they in all your ways.

¹⁶ And one has kept himself as to the statutes of Omri and all the works of the house of Ahab. And you walk in their counsels, so that I may give you for a horror and her inhabitants for a hissing. And you shall bear the shame of My people.

¹⁵ And Jehovah, the God of their fathers, sent to them by the hand of His messengers, rising early and sending, for He had pity on his people and on His dwelling place. ¹⁶ But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised His words, and scoffed at His prophets until the wrath of Jehovah went up against His people, until there was no healing.

²⁹ And You testified against them to bring them again to Your Law, but they seethed, and did not listen to Your commands, but were against Your judgments; they sinned in them, which if a man do, he shall live in them. And they gave a rebellious shoulder, and hardened their neck, and would not hear. ³⁰ But many years You had patience with them, and testified against them by Your Spirit, by Your prophets. Yet they would not give ear. And You gave them into the hand of the peoples of the lands.

⁴ And Jehovah has sent to you all His servants the prophets, rising early and sending, but you have not listened nor bowed your ear to hear, ⁵ saying, Now turn each one from his evil way and from the evil of your doings, and live on the land which Jehovah has given to you and to your fathers from forever even to forever. ⁶ And do not go after other gods to serve them and to worship them, and do not provoke Me to anger with the works of your hands; and I will do you no harm. ⁷ Yet you have not listened to Me, says Jehovah, so that you might provoke Me to anger with the works of your hands, for harm to you.

⁴ However, I sent to you all my servants the prophets, rising early and sending, saying, Oh, do not commit this abominable thing which I hate! ⁵ But they did not listen nor bow their ear, to turn from their evil, not to burn incense to other gods.

⁴ Do not be as your fathers, to whom the former prophets have proclaimed to them, saying, So says Jehovah of hosts: Turn now from your evil ways and your evil doings. But they did not hear or give heed to Me, says Jehovah.

⁵¹ Oh stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and in the ears! You always fell against the Holy Spirit. As your fathers did, you also did . ⁵² Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who before announced the coming of the Just One, of whom you now have become betrayers and murderers,

³⁶ Jehovah shall cause you and your king whom you shall raise up over you, to go to a nation which you have not known, you and your fathers. And you shall serve other gods there, wood and stone.

⁶ And the men of Israel saw that they were in a strait, for the people were distressed. And the people hid themselves in caves, and in crevices, and in crags, and in tombs, and in cisterns.

³³ And Pharaoh-necho bound him in Riblah, in the land of Hamath, from reigning in Jerusalem, and he put a fine on the land, a hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.

⁶ And they seized the king and brought him to the king of Babylon, to Riblah; and they gave judgment on him.

⁶ Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon came up against him, and bound him in bronze fetters to take him away to Babylon.

³² And now our God, the great, the mighty and the fearful God, keeping the covenant and the mercy, let it not seem little before You, all the trouble which has found us, to our kings, to our rulers, and to our priests, and to our prophets, and to our fathers, and to all Your people, since the time of the kings of Assyria to this day.

³⁷ And it yields much increase to the kings whom You have set over us because of our sinning. And they rule over our bodies, and over our cattle, at their pleasure; and we are in great distress.

⁸ And if they are bound in chains, or caught in cords of affliction, ⁹ then He declares to them their work and their transgressions, that they have behaved proudly. ¹⁰ He also opens their ear to instruction, and commands that they turn back from iniquity. ¹¹ If they hear and serve, they shall spend their days in good, and their years in pleasures.

¹⁰ Those who live in the darkness, and in the shadow of death, being prisoners in affliction and iron, ¹¹ because they rebelled against the words of God, and despised the counsel of the Most High; ¹² and He humbled their heart by toil; they stumbled, and none were helping; ¹³ and they cried to Jehovah in their distress; He saved them out of their distresses; ¹⁴ He brought them out from darkness and the shadow of death; and He broke their bands apart.

²⁶ And He will lift up a banner to distant nations, and will hiss to them from the ends of the earth; and, behold, it shall come with swift speed! ²⁷ None shall be weary nor stumble among them; none will slumber nor sleep; nor shall the waist cloth of their loins be opened, nor the thong of their sandals broken; ²⁸ whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent; their horses' hooves shall appear as flint, and their wheels like a hurricane. ²⁹ Their roaring shall be like a lion; they shall roar like young lions. Yea, they roar and seize the prey, and carry it away; and no one shall deliver. ³⁰ And in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea; when one looks to the land, and lo, darkness! Distress! And light shall be darkened by its clouds.

¹⁸ And it shall be, in that day Jehovah shall hiss for the fly that is in the end of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee in the land of Assyria. ¹⁹ And they shall come, and they shall all rest in the steep ravines, and in the clefts of the rocks, and in all the thorn bushes, and in all the pastures. ²⁰ In that day the Lord will shave with a razor that is hired, Beyond the River, by the king of Assyria, the head, and the hair of the feet, and also it shall sweep away the beard.

⁸ For he says, Are not my commanders all like kings?

⁹ How then will you turn away the face of one commander of the least of my master's servants, and put your trust in Egypt for chariotry and horsemen?

⁷ He walled around me and I cannot go out; He has made heavy my bronze chain .

³ And Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh and said to him, So says Jehovah the God of the Hebrews, Until when will you refuse to humble yourself before Me? Send away My people so that they may serve Me.

³⁹ And of those who are left of you, they shall putrefy in their iniquity, in the lands of your enemies; and also in the iniquities of their fathers, they shall putrefy with them. ⁴⁰ And if they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, in their trespass with which they have trespassed against Me; and, also, that they have walked contrary to Me, ⁴¹ I also will walk contrary to them, and I will bring them into the land of their enemies. If their uncircumcised hearts are then humbled, and they then have satisfied for their iniquity; ⁴² then I will remember My covenant with Jacob; and also My covenant with Isaac; and I shall also remember My covenant with Abraham, and I shall remember the land.

³⁰ in your distress, when all these things have found you, in the latter days, then you shall return to Jehovah your God, and shall listen to His voice. ³¹ For Jehovah your God is a merciful God. He will not forsake you, nor destroy you, nor forget the covenant of your fathers which He swore to them.

⁵ And Jehovah his God gave him into the hand of the king of Syria, and they struck him, and captured from him a great captivity, and brought them to Damascus. And he also was given into the hand of the king of Israel, and he struck him with a great destruction.

²² And in the time of his distress he added to act slyly against Jehovah, this king Ahaz;

²⁶ And Hezekiah was humbled for the pride of his heart, he and the people of Jerusalem, and the wrath of Jehovah did not come on them in the days of Hezekiah.

¹⁸ And the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and his prayer to his God, and the things of the seers, who spoke to him in the name of Jehovah the God of Israel, behold, they are in the Book of the Kings of Israel; ¹⁹ and his prayer, and his entreaty, and all his sin, and his trespass, and the places in which he had built high places and set up the Asherahs and the graven images before he was humbled, behold, they are written in the Matters of the Seers.

²³ And he did not bow before Jehovah, like the humbling of his father Manasseh, for Amon himself multiplied guilt.

¹⁵ And call on Me in the day of distress; and I will save you; and you shall glorify Me.

¹⁸ I have surely heard Ephraim moaning over himself, saying, You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bull not broken in. Turn me, and I shall be turned; for You are Jehovah my God. ¹⁹ For after I had turned away, I repented; and after I was taught, I slapped on my thigh. I was ashamed; yea, I even blushed, because I bore the disgrace of my youth. ²⁰ Is Ephraim My dear son? Or is he a delightful child? For as often as I spoke against him, I earnestly remember him still. So My bowels groan for him; I will surely have pity on him, declares Jehovah.

¹⁵ I will go; I will return to My place until they confess their guilt and seek My face. In their affliction they will seek Me diligently.

⁹ The voice of Jehovah calls out to the city; and one of sound wisdom will see Your name. Hear the rod, and Him who appointed it.

¹⁶ And he longed to fill his stomach from the husks which the pigs ate, but no one gave to him. ¹⁷ But coming to himself he said, How many servants of my father have plenty of loaves, and I am perishing with famine. ¹⁸ Rising up, I will go to my father, and I will say to him, Father, I sinned against Heaven and before you,

¹⁴ I say to you, this one went down to his house having been justified, rather than that one. For everyone exalting himself will be humbled. And the one humbling himself will be exalted. ¹⁵ And they brought infants to Him also, that He might touch them. But seeing, the disciples rebuked them.

¹¹ And the Lord said to him, Rising up pass along on the street being called Straight and seek a Tarsian, Saul by name, in the house of Judas. For, behold, he is praying.

¹⁰ Be humbled before the Lord, and He will exalt you.

⁵ Likewise, younger ones be subject to older ones; and all being subject to one another. Put on humility, because God sets Himself "against proud ones, but He gives grace to humble ones." Prov. 3:34 ⁶ Then be humbled under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in time;

⁶ You have not eaten bread, and you have not drunk wine or strong drink, so that you might know that I am Jehovah your God.

²⁰ And they were helped against them. And the Hagarites were delivered into their hand, and all who were with them. For they cried to God in the battle, and He was entreated for them, because they trusted in Him.

²⁷ Blessed be Jehovah, the God of our fathers, who has put this in the king's heart, to beautify the house of Jehovah in Jerusalem.

²³ So we fasted and prayed to our God for good. And He was pleased to hear us.

²³ If you return to the Almighty, you shall be built up; you shall put injustice far from your tents.

²⁷ You shall make your prayer to Him, and He will hear you; and you shall pay your vows.

¹⁶ then He opens the ear of men and seals their instruction, ¹⁷ that He may turn man from his deed; that He might conceal pride from man. ¹⁸ He holds back his soul from the Pit, and his life from passing by the sword. ¹⁹ He is also chastened with pain on his bed, and enduring strife in his bones; ²⁰ so that his life loathes bread, and his soul desirable food. ²¹ His flesh wastes away from his sight; and his hones laid bare, they were not seen. ²² Yea, his soul draws near to the Pit, and his life to the dealers of death. ²³ If there is a messenger for him, a mediator, one among a thousand, to declare for man his uprightness, ²⁴ then let Him be gracious to him and say, Deliver him from going down to the Pit, for I have found a ransom! ²⁵ His flesh shall be fresher than in vigor; let him return to the days of his youth. ²⁶ He will pray to God, and He will accept him, and he will see His face with exultation; for He will restore to man his righteousness. ²⁷ He will observe to men and say, I have sinned, and I have perverted uprightness; and it was not equally repaid to me; ²⁸ He has redeemed my soul from passing over into the Pit, and my life shall see the light. ²⁹ Lo, all these God does two or three times with a man, ³⁰ to bring back his soul from the Pit, to be illuminated with the light of the living.

¹⁶ Jehovah has been known, He has executed judgment; the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. A meditation, Selah.

³ When I kept silence, then my bones became old, through my howling all day. ⁴ For by day and by night Your hand was heavy on me; my sap was turned into the droughts of summer. Selah. ⁵ I confessed my sin to You, and I have not hidden my iniquity; I said, I will confess over my transgression to Jehovah; and You forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah.

¹⁰ Be still and know that I am God! I will be exalted among the nations; I will be exalted in the earth.

⁵ For You, O Lord, are good and ready to forgive, and rich in mercy to all who call on You.

⁷ When a man's ways please Jehovah, He makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.

¹ As streams of waters, the king's heart is in the hand of Jehovah; He turns it wherever He desires.

⁶ Seek Jehovah while He may be found; call on Him while He is near. ⁷ Let the wicked forsake his way and the vain man his thoughts; and let him return to Jehovah, and He will have mercy on him; and to our God, for He will abundantly pardon. ⁸ For My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways, says Jehovah. ⁹ For as the heavens are high from the earth, so My ways are high from your ways, and My thoughts from your thoughts.

⁷ And I will give them a heart to know Me, that I am Jehovah. And they shall be My people, and I will be their God. For they shall return to Me with their whole heart.

¹² Then you shall call on Me, and you shall go and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. ¹³ And you shall seek and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart.

²⁵ And you shall be driven from men, and your dwelling shall be with the animals of the field. And you shall be fed with grass like oxen. And you shall be wet with dew of the heavens; and seven times shall pass over you until you know that the Most High is Ruler in the kingdom of men, and He gives it to whomever He desires.

³⁴ And at the end of the days, I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted up my eyes to the heaven, and my understanding returned to me, and I blessed the Most High. And I praised and honored Him who lives forever, whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and His rule from generation to generation. ³⁵ And all the inhabitants of the earth are counted as nothing. And He does according to His will among the army of Heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth. And no one is able to strike His hand or say to Him, What are You doing?

³³ But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.

⁷ Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. ⁸ For each one that asks receives, and the one that seeks finds; and to the one knocking, it will be opened.

⁴² And he said to Jesus, Lord, remember me when You come in Your kingdom. ⁴³ And Jesus said to him, Truly I say to you, today you will be with Me in Paradise.

¹⁰ Jesus answered and said to her, If you knew the gift of God, and who is the One saying to you, Give Me to drink, you would have asked Him, and He would give you living water.

³ And this is everlasting life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom You have sent.

¹¹ "And they shall no more teach each one his neighbor, and each one his brother, saying, Know the Lord; because all shall know Me, from the least of them to their great ones.

³³ And the king said to them, Take with you the servants of your lord, and you shall cause my son Solomon to ride on my mule, and cause him to go down to Gihon.

⁴⁵ And they anointed him, Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet, as king in Gihon. And they have come up from there rejoicing. And the city was roaring. It is the noise that you heard.

¹¹ And he made the strongholds stronger, and put commanders in them, and treasures of food and oil and wine. ¹² And he put in every city shields and spears, and made them exceedingly strong. And Judah and Benjamin were his.

¹⁹ These waited on the king, besides those whom the king put in the fortified cities in all Judah.

³ He built the Upper Gate of the house of Jehovah, and he built very much in the wall of Ophel;

⁵ And he made himself strong and built all the wall that was broken, and raised on it the towers, and another at the outside of the wall, and strengthened Millo, the city of David, and made darts in abundance, and shields.

³⁰ And Hezekiah himself had stopped the upper watercourse of Gihon, and had directed them beneath the west of the city of David; and Hezekiah prospered in all his work.

³ But the sons of Hassenaah built the Fish Gate, who laid its beams, and set up its doors, its locks and its bars.

²⁶ And the temple-slaves lived in Ophel, across from the Water Gate toward the east, and the tower that sticks out. ²⁷ After him the Tekoites repaired another piece, opposite the great tower that sticks out, even to the wall of Ophel.

³⁹ and from above the Ephraim Gate, and above the Old Gate, and above the Fish Gate, and the Tower of Hananeel, and the Tower of Meah, even to the Sheep Gate. And they stood still in the Prison Gate.

¹⁰ And it shall be in that day, declares Jehovah, the sound of a cry from the Fish Gate, and a howling from the Second, and a great breaking from the hills.

⁷ And he set a graven image of the Asherah that he made in the house of which Jehovah had said to David and to his son Solomon, In this house, and in Jerusalem, that I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put My name forever.

³ For again he rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had broken down, and raised up altars for the Baals, and made Asherahs and bowed himself to all the host of the heavens, and served them. ⁴ And he built altars in the house of Jehovah, of which Jehovah had said, In Jerusalem shall be My name forever. ⁵ And he built altars to all the host of the heavens in the two courts of the house of Jehovah. ⁶ And he made his sons to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and did magic and divined, and used sorcery, and used mediums and conjurers; he multiplied the doing of the evil in the eyes of Jehovah, to provoke Him to anger. ⁷ And he placed the engraved image of the idol that he had made in the house of God, of which God had said to David, and to his son Solomon, In this house, and in Jerusalem that I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put My name forever.

¹⁷ And the pride of man shall be humbled; and the loftiness of men shall be abased; and Jehovah alone will be exalted in that day. ¹⁸ And the idols shall completely vanish. ¹⁹ And they shall go into the caves of the rocks, and into the holes of the earth, for fear of Jehovah, and from the glory of His majesty; when He rises up to make the earth quake. ²⁰ ln that day a man shall throw his silver and his golden idols which they made for him to worship, to the hole of the burrower and to the bats; ²¹ to go into the crevices of the rocks, and into the clefts of the cliffs, from the dread of Jehovah, and from the glory of His majesty; when He rises up to make the earth quake.

²⁰ The soul that sins, it shall die. A son shall not bear the iniquity of the father. And a father shall not bear the iniquity of the son. The righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be on him. ²¹ But the wicked, if he will turn from all his sins which he has done, and keep all My statutes, and do justice and righteousness, surely he shall live; he shall not die. ²² All his transgressions that he has done, they shall not be mentioned to him in his righteousness which he has done; he shall live.

¹ O Israel, return to Jehovah your God, for you have fallen by your sin. ² Take words with you and return to Jehovah. Say to Him, Take away all iniquity and receive us well, that we may repay with the calves of our lips. ³ Assyria shall not save us; we will not ride on horses. We shall not say any more to the work of our hands, Our gods! For in You the fatherless finds mercy.

⁸ Therefore, bring forth fruits worthy of repentance.

¹⁹ For I have known him, so that whatever he may command his sons and his house after him, even they may keep the way of Jehovah, to do righteousness and justice; to the intent that Jehovah may bring on Abraham that which He has spoken of him.

¹ And if his offering is a sacrifice of peace offering, if he is offering it from the herd, whether male or female, a perfect one, he shall bring it near before the face of Jehovah. ² And he shall lay his hand on the head of his offering and slaughter it at the opening of the tabernacle of the congregation. And the sons of Aaron, the priests, shall sprinkle the blood on the altar all around. ³ And he shall bring near from the sacrifice of the peace offering a fire offering to Jehovah, the fat which covers the inward parts, and all the fat on the inward parts, ⁴ and the two kidneys, and the fat on them, on the loins, and the fatty fold by the liver beside the kidneys; he shall remove. ⁵ And the sons of Aaron shall burn it as incense on the altar, on the burnt offering on the wood on the fire, a fire offering of a soothing fragrance to Jehovah. ⁶ And if his offering for a sacrifice of peace offerings is from the flock, male or female, a perfect one, he shall bring it near. ⁷ If he is bringing near a sheep for his offering, then he shall bring it near before the face of Jehovah. ⁸ And he shall lay his hand on the head of his offering and shall slaughter it in front of the tabernacle of the congregation. And the sons of Aaron shall sprinkle its blood on the altar all around. ⁹ And he shall bring near from the sacrifice of the peace offerings a fire offering to Jehovah, its fat; he shall remove the entire fat tail close by the backbone, and all the fat that covers the inward parts, and all the fat that is on the inward parts, ¹⁰ and the two kidneys, and the fat on them, on the loins, and he shall remove the fold by the liver, beside the kidneys; he shall remove it. ¹¹ And the priest shall burn it as incense on the altar, bread of the fire offering to Jehovah. ¹² And if his offering is a goat, then he shall bring it near before the face of Jehovah. ¹³ And he shall lay his hand on its head and shall slaughter it in front of the tabernacle of the congregation. And the sons of Aaron shall sprinkle its blood all around on the altar. ¹⁴ And he shall bring near from it his offering, a fire offering to Jehovah, the fat covering the inward parts, and all the fat on the inward parts, ¹⁵ and the two kidneys, and the fat on them, on the loins, and the fold on the liver, beside the kidneys, he shall remove. ¹⁶ And the priest shall burn them as incense on the altar, bread of the fire offering for a soothing fragrance; all the fat is Jehovah's. ¹⁷ It shall be a never ending statute for your generations in all your dwellings. You shall not eat any fat or any blood.

¹¹ And this is the law of the sacrifice of the peace offerings which shall be brought near to Jehovah: ¹² If he brings it for a thanksgiving, then he shall bring with the sacrifice of thanksgiving unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and thin unleavened wafers anointed with oil, and of well-mixed flour, cakes mixed with oil. ¹³ He shall bring his offering with the cakes of unleavened bread with the sacrifice of thanksgiving, his peace offerings. ¹⁴ And he shall bring out of it one of every offering, a heave offering to Jehovah, to the priest sprinkling the blood of the peace offering; it is his. ¹⁵ As to the flesh of the sacrifice of the thanksgiving peace offerings, it shall be eaten in the day of his offering. He shall not leave of it until morning. ¹⁶ And if the sacrifice of his offering is a vow, or freewill offering, in the day he brings his sacrifice near, it shall be eaten. And on the morrow the rest of it shall also be eaten. ¹⁷ And the rest of the flesh of the sacrifice on the third day shall be burned with fire. ¹⁸ And if any of the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings is at all eaten on the third day, it is not pleasing. It shall not be reckoned for him who has brought it. It shall be a hateful thing, and the person who eats of it shall bear his iniquity.

³⁰ And Elijah said to all the people, Come near to me. And all the people came near to him; and he healed the altar of Jehovah that had been broken down.

⁴ And he commanded Judah to seek Jehovah the God of their fathers, and to do the law and the commandment.

¹⁸ And they came inside to Hezekiah the king, and said, We have cleansed all the house of Jehovah, and the altar of the burnt offering, and all its vessels, and the table of the Bread of Arrangement, and all its utensils;

¹² Also, in Judah the hand of God was to give to them one heart to do the king's command, and of the leaders, by the word of Jehovah.

⁹ And Manasseh caused Judah and the people of Jerusalem to sin, to do evil above the nations that Jehovah destroyed before the sons of Israel.

³² but I entreated concerning you, that your faith might not fail. And when you have turned back, confirm your brothers.

⁴³ And he walked in all the ways of his father Asa. He did not turn aside from it, doing right in the eyes of Jehovah. But the high places were not taken away; the people offered and burned incense yet in the high places.

⁴ however, the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burned incense in the high places.

¹⁷ Yet the high places were not removed from Israel. Only, the heart of Asa was perfect all his days.

⁹ In former times in Israel, a man who was going to seek God said this, Come and we shall go to the seer; for the prophet of today was formerly called the seer.

⁴¹ And the rest of the matters of Solomon, and all that he did, and his wisdom, are they not written in the Book of the Acts of Solomon?

¹⁹ And the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, how he fought, and how he reigned, behold, they are written in the Book of the Matters of the Days of the Kings of Israel.

³¹ And the rest of the acts of Nadab, and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Matters of the Days of the Kings of Israel?

¹³ And Jehovah testified against Israel, and against Judah, by the hand of all His prophets, and every seer, saying, Turn back from your evil ways, and keep My commands, My statutes, according to all the law that I commanded your fathers, and that I sent to you by the hand of My servants the prophets.

³⁴ And the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, the first and the last, behold, they are written in the words of Jehu the son of Hanani, which were taken up in the Book of the Kings of Israel.

³² And the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and his godly deeds, behold, they are written in the vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, the prophet, and in the Book of the Kings of Judah and Israel.

¹⁰ And Jehovah spoke to Manasseh and to his people, and they did not listen.

¹² And when he was afflicted, he sought the face of Jehovah his God, and was humbled exceedingly before the face of the God of his fathers; ¹³ and prayed to Him, and He was entreated of him and heard his supplication, and returned him to Jerusalem to his kingdom; and Manasseh knew that Jehovah, He is God.

¹⁹ and his prayer, and his entreaty, and all his sin, and his trespass, and the places in which he had built high places and set up the Asherahs and the graven images before he was humbled, behold, they are written in the Matters of the Seers.

¹⁰ for Jehovah has poured out on you the spirit of deep sleep, and has closed your eyes. He has covered the prophets and your heads, the seers.

¹⁰ who say to the seers, Do not see; and to visioners, Do not have a vision for right things to us; speak smooth things to us; have a vision of trifles.

¹² And Amaziah said to Amos, Seer, go! Flee for yourself into the land of Judah, and eat bread there, and prophesy there.

⁷ And the seers shall be ashamed, and the diviners shall blush, all of them; yea, they shall cover over their mustache, for there is no answer from God.

¹¹ However, men from Asher, and Manasseh, and from Zebulun were humbled, and came to Jerusalem.

¹ Manasseh was a son of twelve years when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem fifty five years. ² And he did evil in the eyes of Jehovah, like the abominations of the nations that Jehovah had driven out from before the sons of Israel. ³ For again he rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had broken down, and raised up altars for the Baals, and made Asherahs and bowed himself to all the host of the heavens, and served them. ⁴ And he built altars in the house of Jehovah, of which Jehovah had said, In Jerusalem shall be My name forever. ⁵ And he built altars to all the host of the heavens in the two courts of the house of Jehovah. ⁶ And he made his sons to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and did magic and divined, and used sorcery, and used mediums and conjurers; he multiplied the doing of the evil in the eyes of Jehovah, to provoke Him to anger. ⁷ And he placed the engraved image of the idol that he had made in the house of God, of which God had said to David, and to his son Solomon, In this house, and in Jerusalem that I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put My name forever. ⁸ And I will not again remove the foot of Israel from off the ground that I appointed to your fathers; only, if they take heed to do all that I have commanded them toward all the law, and the statutes, and the ordinances by the hand of Moses. ⁹ And Manasseh caused Judah and the people of Jerusalem to sin, to do evil above the nations that Jehovah destroyed before the sons of Israel. ¹⁰ And Jehovah spoke to Manasseh and to his people, and they did not listen. ¹¹ And Jehovah brought against them the king of Assyria's army commanders, and they captured Manasseh with hooks, and bound him with bronze fetters, and made him go to Babylon.

¹² And he did the evil in the eyes of Jehovah his God; he was not humbled before Jeremiah the prophet, from the mouth of Jehovah.

⁶⁷ Before I was afflicted I went astray; but now I have kept Your word.

⁷¹ For my good for me that I was afflicted, to learn Your statutes.

⁷⁵ I know, O Jehovah, Your judgments are right; and in fidelity You afflicted me.

⁸ The sacrifice of the wicked is a hateful thing to Jehovah, but the prayer of the upright is His delight.

¹⁰ They are not crushed to this day, nor have they feared, nor walked in My law, nor in My statutes which I have set before you and before your fathers.

²² And you, his son, O Belshazzar, have not bowed your heart, though you knew all this.

¹⁶ And the gift shall not be as by one having sinned; for indeed the judgment was of one to condemnation, but the free gift is of many offenses to justification.

⁹ If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous that He may forgive us the sins, and may cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

¹⁸ And Manasseh lay with his fathers, and was buried in the garden of his house in the Garden of Uzza. And his son Amon reigned in his place. ¹⁹ Amon was a son of twenty two years when he began to reign, and he reigned two years in Jerusalem; and the name of his mother was Meshullemeth the daughter of Haruz of Jotbah. ²⁰ And he did the evil in the eyes of Jehovah, as his father Manasseh did, ²¹ and walked in all the way that his father walked, and served the idols that his father served, and bowed himself to them. ²² And he forsook Jehovah, the God of his fathers, and did not walk in the way of Jehovah. ²³ And the servants of Amon conspired against him and killed the king in his own house. ²⁴ And the people of the land killed all those who conspired against king Amon, and the people of the land made his son Josiah king in his place. ²⁵ And the rest of the acts of Amon that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Matters of the Days of the Kings of Judah?

¹⁴ Amon his son; Josiah his son.

¹⁹ Amon was a son of twenty two years when he began to reign, and he reigned two years in Jerusalem; and the name of his mother was Meshullemeth the daughter of Haruz of Jotbah. ²⁰ And he did the evil in the eyes of Jehovah, as his father Manasseh did, ²¹ and walked in all the way that his father walked, and served the idols that his father served, and bowed himself to them. ²² And he forsook Jehovah, the God of his fathers, and did not walk in the way of Jehovah. ²³ And the servants of Amon conspired against him and killed the king in his own house. ²⁴ And the people of the land killed all those who conspired against king Amon, and the people of the land made his son Josiah king in his place.

¹ Manasseh was a son of twelve years when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem fifty five years.

¹⁹ And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years; take rest, eat, drink, and be glad. ²⁰ But God said to him, Fool! This night they demand your soul from you; and that which you prepared, to whom will it be?

¹³ Come now, those saying, Today or tomorrow we will go into this city, and we will spend one year there, and we will trade and will make a profit, ¹⁴ who do not know of the morrow. For what is your life? For it is a mist, which for a little while appears, and then disappears. ¹⁵ Instead of you saying, If the Lord wills, even we will live, and we will do this or that;

¹ Manasseh was a son of twelve years when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty five years in Jerusalem, and the name of his mother was Hephzibah. ² And he did the evil in the eyes of Jehovah, according to the idolatries of the nations that Jehovah expelled from before the sons of Israel. ³ And he built again the high places that his father Hezekiah had destroyed, and raised up altars for Baal, and made a shrine, as did Ahab the king of Israel, and worshiped all the host of the heavens, and served them. ⁴ And he built altars in the house of Jehovah, of which Jehovah had said, In Jerusalem I will put My name. ⁵ And he built altars for all the host of the heavens in the two courts of Jehovah's house. ⁶ And he made his son to pass through the fire, used magic, and used divination, and dealt with mediums and soothsayers. He expanded to work the evil in the eyes of Jehovah, to provoke Him to anger. ⁷ And he set a graven image of the Asherah that he made in the house of which Jehovah had said to David and to his son Solomon, In this house, and in Jerusalem, that I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put My name forever. ⁸ And I will not again make the feet of Israel wander any more out of the land which I gave their fathers; only if they observe to do all that I commanded them, and to all the law that My servant Moses commanded them.

²⁰ And he did the evil in the eyes of Jehovah, as his father Manasseh did,

¹ Manasseh was a son of twelve years when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem fifty five years. ² And he did evil in the eyes of Jehovah, like the abominations of the nations that Jehovah had driven out from before the sons of Israel. ³ For again he rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had broken down, and raised up altars for the Baals, and made Asherahs and bowed himself to all the host of the heavens, and served them. ⁴ And he built altars in the house of Jehovah, of which Jehovah had said, In Jerusalem shall be My name forever. ⁵ And he built altars to all the host of the heavens in the two courts of the house of Jehovah. ⁶ And he made his sons to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and did magic and divined, and used sorcery, and used mediums and conjurers; he multiplied the doing of the evil in the eyes of Jehovah, to provoke Him to anger. ⁷ And he placed the engraved image of the idol that he had made in the house of God, of which God had said to David, and to his son Solomon, In this house, and in Jerusalem that I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put My name forever. ⁸ And I will not again remove the foot of Israel from off the ground that I appointed to your fathers; only, if they take heed to do all that I have commanded them toward all the law, and the statutes, and the ordinances by the hand of Moses. ⁹ And Manasseh caused Judah and the people of Jerusalem to sin, to do evil above the nations that Jehovah destroyed before the sons of Israel. ¹⁰ And Jehovah spoke to Manasseh and to his people, and they did not listen.

¹³ He fashions wood, and stretches a line; he marks it with a stylus; he shapes it with a carving tool, and he marks it with a compass. And he makes it according to the figure of a man, as the beauty of a man, to sit in the house. ¹⁴ He cuts down cedars and takes cypress and oak, and he makes the trees of the forest strong for him. He plants a tree, and rain makes it grow. ¹⁵ And it shall be for a man to burn; yea, he takes of them and is warmed; and he kindles it and bakes bread. Yea, he makes a god and worships; he makes a carved image and bows to it. ¹⁶ He burns half of it in the fire; he eats flesh on half of it; he roasts roast, and is satisfied. Then he warms himself and says, Ah, I am warm; I have seen the fire. ¹⁷ And he makes a god of the rest, his carved image; he bows to it and worships, and prays to it, and says, Deliver me, for you are my god. ¹⁸ They do not know, nor discern; for He has smeared their eyes from seeing, their hearts from understanding. ¹⁹ And not one turns back to his heart, nor has knowledge nor discernment to say, I have burned half of it in the fire; and I also have baked bread on its coals. I have roasted flesh and have eaten it; and I have made the rest of it into an idol. Shall I bow to a product of a tree? ²⁰ Feeding on ashes, a deceived heart turns him aside, and he does not deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand?

¹⁸ But I said to their sons in the wilderness, Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers and do not keep their judgments, and do not defile yourselves with their idols.

¹² And when he was afflicted, he sought the face of Jehovah his God, and was humbled exceedingly before the face of the God of his fathers;

²⁶ Yet they did not listen to Me nor bow their ear, but they stiffened their neck. They did more evil than their fathers.

¹² Were they ashamed when they had done hateful things? They were not even at all ashamed, nor did they know how to blush. So they shall fall among those who fall. In the time of their punishment they will stumble, says Jehovah.

¹³ But evil men and pretenders will go forward to worse, leading astray and being led astray.

⁵ And the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, Rechab and Baanah, went and came at the heat of the day to the house of Ishbosheth. And he was lying on his bed at noon. ⁶ And they came to the middle of the house, bringing wheat. And they struck him in the belly. And Rechab and his brother Baanah escaped. ⁷ And they entered house, and he was lying on his bed in his bedroom; and they struck him and killed him, and took off his head. And they took his head and went the way of the Arabah all the night. ⁸ And they brought Ishbosheth's head to David in Hebron, and said to the king, Behold, the head of Ishbosheth the son of your enemy Saul, who sought your life. And may Jehovah give to my lord the king vengeance this day, on Saul and on his seed. ⁹ And David answered Rechab and his brother Baanah, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, and said to them, As Jehovah lives, who has redeemed my life out of all distress, ¹⁰ when one spoke to me, saying, Behold Saul is dead, and he was as a bearer of good news in his own eyes; even I seized and killed him in Ziklag. I gave that to him as a reward. ¹¹ And when wicked men have slain a righteous man in his own house on his bed, should I not even now seek his blood from your hand, and glean you from the earth? ¹² And David commanded his young men. And they killed them, and cut off their hands and their feet, and hung them by the pool in Hebron. And they took the head of Ishbosheth and buried it in burying place of Abner in Hebron.

²³ And the servants of Amon conspired against him and killed the king in his own house. ²⁴ And the people of the land killed all those who conspired against king Amon, and the people of the land made his son Josiah king in his place. ²⁵ And the rest of the acts of Amon that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Matters of the Days of the Kings of Judah? ²⁶ And they buried him in his grave in the garden of Uzza. And his son Josiah reigned in his place.

²⁵ And when they departed from him (they left him with many diseases) his own servants conspired against him, because of the blood of the sons of Jehoiada the priest, and killed him on his bed; and he died. And they buried him in the city of David, and did not bury him in the graves of the kings. ²⁶ And these are those who conspired against him: Zabad the son of Shimeath the Ammonitess, and Jehozabad the son of Shimrith the Moabitess.

²⁷ And after the time that Amaziah had turned aside from following Jehovah, they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem; and he fled to Lachish, but they sent after him to Lachish and killed him there. ²⁸ And they lifted him up on the horses, and buried him with his fathers in the city of Judah.

²³ But You, O God, will bring them down to the pit of destruction; men of blood and deceit will not live out half their days; but I will trust in You.

²² Behold, then, the kindness and severity of God: On those having fallen, severity. But on you, kindness, if you continue in the kindness. Otherwise, you will also be cut off.

⁵ And surely the blood of your lives I will demand. At the hand of every animal I will demand it, and at the hand of man. I will demand the life of man at the hand of every man's brother. ⁶ Whoever sheds man's blood, his blood shall be shed by man. For He made man in the image of God.

³¹ And you shall take no ransom for the life of a murderer; he is punishable for death, for dying he shall die.

³³ And you shall not pollute the land in which you are, for blood pollutes the land. And no ransom is to be taken for the land for blood which is shed in it, except for the blood of him who sheds it;

¹ And all the people of Judah took Uzziah; and he was a son of sixteen years; and made him king instead of his father Amaziah.

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

¹ And the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah and made him king instead of his father in Jerusalem.