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554 Second Book of Paralipomenon

to the Lord his God: and did penance exceed- as Manasses his father had done: he sacrificed
ingly before the God of his fathers. to all the idols which Manasses his father had
13 And he entreated him, and besought him made, and served them.
earnestly: and he heard his prayer, and brought 23 And he did not humble himself before the
him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom, and lord, as Manasses his father had humbled him-
Manasses knew that the Lord was God. self, but committed far greater sin.
14 After this he built a wall without the city 24 And his servants conspired against him,
of David, on the west side of Gihon in the valley, and slew him in his own house.
from the entering in of the gate round about to 25 But the rest of the multitude of the peo-
Ophel, and raised it up to a great height: and he ple slew them that had killed Amon, and made
appointed captains of the army in all the fenced Josias his son king in his stead.
cities of Juda:
15 And he took away the strange gods, and
the idol out of the house of the Lord: the al- Chapter 34
tars also which he had made in the mount of the
house of the Lord, and in Jerusalem, and he cast Josias was eight years old when he began to
them all out of the city. reign, and he reigned one and thirty years in
16 And he repaired the altar of the Lord, and Jerusalem.
sacrificed upon it victims, and peace offerings, 2 And he did that which was right in the sight
and praise: and he commanded Juda to serve of the Lord, and walked in the ways of David
the Lord the God of Israel. his father: he declined not, neither to the right
17 Nevertheless the people still sacrificed in hand, nor to the left.
the high places to the Lord their God. 3 And in the eighth year of his reign, when he
18 But the rest of the acts of Manasses, and was yet a boy, he began to seek the God of his
his prayer to his God, and the words of the seers father David: and in the twelfth year after he
that spoke to him in the name of the Lord the began to reign, he cleansed Juda and Jerusalem
God of Israel, are contained in the words of the from the high places, and the groves, and the
kings of Israel. idols, and the graven things.
19 His prayer also, and his being heard and 4 And they broke down before him the altars
all his sins, and contempt, and places wherein he of Baalim, and demolished the idols that had
built high places, and set up groves, and statues been set upon them: and he cut down the groves
before he did penance, are written in the words and the graven things, and broke them in pieces:
of Hozai. and strewed the fragments upon the graves of
20 And Manasses slept with his fathers, and them that had sacrificed to them.
they buried him in his house: and his son Amon 5 And he burnt the bones of the priests on
reigned in his stead. the altars of the idols, and he cleansed Juda and
21 Amon was two and twenty years old when Jerusalem.
he began to reign, and he reigned two years in 6 And in the cities of Manasses, and of
Jerusalem. Ephraim, and of Simeon, even to Nephtali he
22 And he did evil in the sight of the Lord, demolished all.