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"The word of the LORD you have spoken is good," Hezekiah replied. For he thought, "Will there not be peace and security in my lifetime?"

As for the other events of Hezekiah's reign, all his achievements and how he made the pool and the tunnel by which he brought water into the city, are they not written in the book of the annals of the kings of Judah?

As for the other events of Manasseh's reign, and all he did, including the sin he committed, are they not written in the book of the annals of the kings of Judah?

As for the other events of Amon's reign, and what he did, are they not written in the book of the annals of the kings of Judah?

But they need not account for the money entrusted to them, because they are acting faithfully."

"Go and inquire of the LORD for me and for the people and for all Judah about what is written in this book that has been found. Great is the LORD's anger that burns against us because our fathers have not obeyed the words of this book; they have not acted in accordance with all that is written there concerning us."

The king ordered Hilkiah the high priest, the priests next in rank and the doorkeepers to remove from the temple of the LORD all the articles made for Baal and Asherah and all the starry hosts. He burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron Valley and took the ashes to Bethel.

He also tore down the quarters of the male shrine prostitutes, which were in the temple of the LORD and where women did weaving for Asherah.

The king also desecrated the high places that were east of Jerusalem on the south of the Hill of Corruption-the ones Solomon king of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the vile goddess of the Sidonians, for Chemosh the vile god of Moab, and for Molech the detestable god of the people of Ammon.

As for the other events of Josiah's reign, and all he did, are they not written in the book of the annals of the kings of Judah?

During 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.

including the shedding of innocent blood. For he had filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and the LORD was not willing to forgive.

As for the other events of Jehoiakim's reign, and all he did, are they not written in the book of the annals of the kings of Judah?

As the LORD had declared, Nebuchadnezzar removed all the treasures from the temple of the LORD and from the royal palace, and took away all the gold articles that Solomon king of Israel had made for the temple of the LORD .

The king of Babylon also deported to Babylon the entire force of seven thousand fighting men, strong and fit for war, and a thousand craftsmen and artisans.

By the ninth day of the fourth month the famine in the city had become so severe that there was no food for the people to eat.

The bronze from the two pillars, the Sea and the movable stands, which Solomon had made for the temple of the LORD , was more than could be weighed.

At this, all the people from the least to the greatest, together with the army officers, fled to Egypt for fear of the Babylonians.

So Jehoiachin put aside his prison clothes and for the rest of his life ate regularly at the king's table.

They were the potters who lived at Netaim and Gederah; they stayed there and worked for the king.