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to the Lord in Ierusalem. 24 Iosiah also tooke away was fiue and twentie yere olde, when he be-
them that had familiar spirits, and the soothsay- gan to reigne, and he reigned eleuen yeeres in
ers, and the images, and the idoles, and al the Ierusalem. His mothers name also was Zebudah
abominations that were espied in the lande of the daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah. 37 And he did
Iudah and in Ierusalem, to performe the wordes euill in the sight of the Lord, according to all that
of the Lawe, which were written in the booke his fathers had done.
that Hilkiah the Priest found in the house of the
Lord. 25 Like vnto him was there no King before 24
him, that turned to the Lord with al his heart, 1 In his dayes came Nebuchad-nezzar King
and with all his soule, and with all his might of Babel vp, and Iehoiakim became his seruant
according to all the Lawe of Moses, neither after three yeere: afterwarde he turned, and rebelled
him arose there anielikehim. 26 Notwithstanding against him. 2 And the Lord sent against him
the Lord turned not from the fiercenesse of his
great wrath wherewith he was angrie against bandes of the Caldees, and bands of the Aramites,
and bands of the Moabites, and bandes of the
Iudah, because of all the prouocatios wherwith Ammonites, and he sent them against Iudah to
Manasseh had prouoked him. 27 Therefore the destroy it, according to the worde of the Lord,
Lord saide, I will put Iudah also out of my sight, which he spake by his seruants the Prophets.
as I haue put away Israel, and will cast off this 3 Surely by the commandement of the Lord came
citie Ierusalem, which I haue chosen, and the this vpon Iudah, that he might put them out of
house whereof I said, My name shalbe there.
28 Concerning the rest of the actes of Iosiah, and his sight for the sinnes of Manasseh, according to
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all that hee did, are they not written in the booke all that he did, And for the innocent blood that
he shed, (for he filled Ierusalem with innocent
of the Chronicles of the Kings of Iudah? 29 In blood) therefore the Lord would not pardon it.
his dayes Pharaoh Nechoh King of Egypt went vp 5 Concerning the rest of the actes of Iehoiakim,
against the King of Asshur to the riuer Perath. and all that he did, are they not written in
And King Iosiah went against him, whome when the booke of the Chronicles of the Kinges of
Pharaoh sawe, he slewe him at Megiddo. 30 Then Iudah? So Iehoiakim slept with his fathers, and
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his seruants caryed him dead from Megiddo, Iehoiachin his sonne reigned in his steade. And
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and brought him to Ierusalem, and buried him the King of Egypt came no more out of his lande:
in his owne sepulchre. And the people of the for the King of Babel had taken from the riuer of
lande tooke Iehoahaz the sonne of Iosiah, and Egypt, vnto the riuer Perath, all that pertained
anointed him, and made him King in his fathers 8
steade. 31 Iehoahaz was three and twentie yeere to the King of Egypt. Iehoiachin was eighteene
olde when he beganne to reigne, and reigned yere old, when he beganne to reigne, and reigned
three moneths in Ierusalem. His mothers name in Ierusalem three moneths. His mothers name
also was Nehushta, the daughter of Elnathan of
also was Hamutal the daughter of Ieremiah of 9
Libnah. 32 And he did euill in the sight of the Ierusalem. And he did euill in the sight of the
Lord, according to all that his fathers had done. Lord, according to all that his father had done.
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In that time came the seruants of Nebuchad-
33 And Pharaoh Nechoh put him in bondes at nezzar king of Babel vp against Ierusalem: so the
Riblah in the lande of Hamath, while he reigned citie was besieged. 11 And Nebuchad-nezzar King
in Ierusalem, and put the lande to a tribute of of Babel came against the citie, and his seruants
an hundreth talents of siluer, and a talent of did besiege it. 12 Then Iehoiachin the king of
golde. 34 And Pharaoh Nechoh made Eliakim the
sonne of Iosiah King in steade of Iosiah his father, Iudah came out against the King of Babel, he, and
and turned his name to Iehoiakim, and tooke his mother and his seruants, and his princes, and
Iehoahaz away, which when he came to Egypt, his eunuches: and the King of Babel tooke him in
dyed there. 35 And Iehoiakim gaue the siluer and the eyght yeere of his reigne. 13 And he caryed
the golde to Pharaoh, and taxed the land to giue out thence all the treasures of the house of the
the money, according to the commadement of Lord, and the treasures of the Kings house, and
Pharaoh: he leuyed of euery man of the people brake all the vessels of gold, which Salomon King
of the lande, according to his value, siluer and of Israel had made in the Temple of the Lord, as
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golde to giue vnto Pharaoh Nechoh. 36 Iehoiakim the Lord had saide. And he caryed away all
Ierusalem, and all the princes, and all the strong