25So in the ninth year of Zedekiah's reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon marched against Jerusalem with his whole army. He encamped outside the city and built siege works all around it. 2The city was kept under...
24During Jehoiakim's reign, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon invaded the land, and Jehoiakim became his vassal for three years. But then he changed his mind and rebelled against Nebuchadnezzar. 2The Lord sent Babylonian, Aramean, Moabite and Ammonite r...
23Then the king called together all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem. 2He went up to the temple of the Lord with the men of Judah, the people of Jerusalem, the priests and the prophets-all the people from the least to the greatest. He read in their...
22Josiah was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem thirty-one years. His mother's name was Jedidah daughter of Adaiah; she was from Bozkath. 2He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord and walked in all the ways of his f...
21Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem fifty-five years. His mother's name was Hephzibah. 2He did evil in the eyes of the Lord , following the detestable practices of the nations the Lord had driven out befor...
20In those days Hezekiah became ill and was at the point of death. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz went to him and said, This is what the Lord says: Put your house in order, because you are going to die; you will not recover. 2Hezekiah turned his face...
19When King Hezekiah heard this, he tore his clothes and put on sackcloth and went into the temple of the Lord . 2He sent Eliakim the palace administrator, Shebna the secretary and the leading priests, all wearing sackcloth, to the prophet Isaiah son...
3Solomon made an alliance with Pharaoh king of Egypt and married his daughter. He brought her to the City of David until he finished building his palace and the temple of the Lord , and the wall around Jerusalem. 2The people, however, were still sacr...
2When the time drew near for David to die, he gave a charge to Solomon his son. 2I am about to go the way of all the earth, he said. So be strong, show yourself a man, 3and observe what the Lord your God requires: Walk in his ways, and keep his decre...
1When King David was old and well advanced in years, he could not keep warm even when they put covers over him. 2So his servants said to him, Let us look for a young virgin to attend the king and take care of him. She can lie beside him so that our l...
