Category Archives: 2 Kings

Manasseh Succeeds Hezekiah 1 Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem; and his mother’s name was Hephzibah. 2 He did evil in the sight of the Lord, according to the abominations of the nations whom the Lorddispossessed before the sons of Israel. 3 For he rebuilt […]

Josiah Succeeds Amon 1 Josiah was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem; and his mother’s namewasJedidah the daughter of Adaiah of Bozkath. 2 He did right in the sight of the Lordand walked in all the way of his father David, nor did he turn aside to […]

Josiah’s Covenant 1 Then the king sent, and they gathered to him all the elders of Judah and of Jerusalem. 2 The king went up to the house of the Lordand all the men of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem with him, and the priests and the prophets and all the people, both […]

Babylon Controls Jehoiakim 1 In his days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim became his servantforthree years; then he turned and rebelled against him. 2 The Lordsent against him bands of Chaldeans, bands of Arameans, bands of Moabites, and bands of Ammonites. So He sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to […]

Nebuchadnezzar Besieges Jerusalem 1 Now in the ninth year of his reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, camped against it and built a siege wall all around it. 2 So the city was under siege until the eleventh year of […]