14:033:018 Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and
his prayer unto his
God,
and the words of the seers that spake to him in the
name
of
the lord God of Israel, behold, they are written
in the
book
of the kings of Israel.
14:033:019 His prayer also, and how God was intreated
of him, and all his
sins,
and his trespass, and the places wherein he built high
places,
and set up groves and graven images, before he was
humbled:
behold, they are written among the sayings of the
seers.
14:033:020 So Manasseh slept with his fathers, and
they buried him in his
own
house: and Amon his son reigned in his stead.
14:033:021 Amon was two and twenty years old when
he began to reign, and
reigned
two years in Jerusalem.
14:033:022 But he did that which was evil in the sight
of the lord, as
did
Manasseh his father: for Amon sacrificed unto
all the
carved
images which Manasseh his father had made, and served
them;
14:033:023 And humbled not himself before the lord,
as Manasseh his
father
had humbled himself; but Amon trespassed more and more.
14:033:024 And his servants conspired against him,
and slew him in his
own
house.
14:033:025 But the people of the land slew all them
that had conspired
against
king Amon; and the people of the land made Josiah his
son
king in his stead.
14:034:001 Josiah was eight years old when he began
to reign, and he
reigned
in Jerusalem one and thirty years.
14:034:002 And he did that which was right in the
sight of the lord, and
walked
in the ways of David his father, and declined neither
to
the right hand, nor to the left.
14:034:003 For in the eighth year of his reign, while
he was yet young,
he
began to seek after the God of David his father:
and in the
twelfth
year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the
high
places, and the groves, and the carved images, and
the
molten
images.
14:034:004 And they brake down the altars of Baalim
in his presence; and
the
images, that were on high above them, he cut down;
and the
groves,
and the carved images, and the molten images, he brake
in
pieces, and made dust of them, and strowed it upon
the
graves
of them that had sacrificed unto them.
14:034:005 And he burnt the bones of the priests upon
their altars, and
cleansed
Judah and Jerusalem.
14:034:006 And so did he in the cities of Manasseh,
and Ephraim, and
Simeon,
even unto Naphtali, with their mattocks round about.
14:034:007 And when he had broken down the altars
and the groves, and had
beaten
the graven images into powder, and cut down all the
idols
throughout all the land of Israel, he returned to
Jerusalem.


