These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
2 Kings 21
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was twelve years old when he began to reign; and he reigned five and fifty years in ; and his mother’s was Hephzi-bah.
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- 2 And he did that which was evil in the sight of , after the abominations of the nations, whom cast out before the children of .
- 3 For he built again the high places which his father had destroyed; and he reared up altars for Baal, and made an Asherah, as did of , and worshipped all the host of , and served them.
- 4 And he built altars in the house of , whereof said: ‘In will I put My .’
- 5 And he built altars for all the host of in the two courts of the house of .
- 6 And he made his son to pass through the fire, and practised soothsaying, and used enchantments, and appointed them that divined by a ghost or a familiar : he wrought much evil in the sight of , to provoke Him.
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And he set the graven image of Asherah, that he had made, in the house of which said to and to his son: ‘In this house, and in , which I have chosen out of all the tribes of , will I put My for ever;
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- 8 neither will I cause the feet of to wander any more out of the land which I gave their fathers; if only they will observe to do according to all that I have commanded them, and according to all the that My commanded them.’
- 9 But they hearkened not; and seduced them to do that which is evil more than did the nations, whom destroyed before the children of .
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And spoke by His servants the prophets, saying:
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- 11 Because of hath done these abominations, and hath done wickedly above all that the Amorites did, that were before him, and hath made also to sin with his idols;
- 12 therefore thus saith , the of : Behold, I bring such evil upon and , that whosoever heareth of it, both his ears shall tingle.
- 13 And I will stretch over the line of , and the plummet of the house of ; and I will wipe as a man wipeth a dish, wiping it and turning it upside down.
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And I will cast off the remnant of Mine inheritance, and deliver them into the hand of their enemies; and they shall become a prey and a spoil to all their enemies;
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Jeremiah 23:33 2 Kings 19:4 Psalm 89:38-45 Deuteronomy 28:48 Lamentations 1:10 2 Chronicles 15:2 Jeremiah 12:7 Lamentations 5:20 Psalm 37:28 Deuteronomy 28:25 2 Chronicles 36:16-17 Leviticus 26:36-38 Psalm 71:1-7 Leviticus 26:17 Lamentations 1:5 Judges 2:14-15 Deuteronomy 4:26-27 Isaiah 10:6 Deuteronomy 28:31-33 Deuteronomy 31:17 Nehemiah 9:27-37 Psalm 106:40-43 2 Kings 24:2 Amos 5:2 2 Kings 19:30-31 - 15 because they have done that which is evil in My sight, and have provoked Me, since the day their fathers came forth out of , even unto this day.’
- 16 Moreover shed innocent very much, till he had filled from one end to another; beside his sin wherewith he made to sin, in doing that which was evil in the sight of .
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Now the rest of the acts of , and all that he did, and his sin that he sinned, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of ?
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- 18 And slept with his fathers, and was buried in the garden of his own house, in the garden of Uzza; and Amon his son reigned in his stead.
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Amon was twenty and two years old when he began to reign; and he reigned two years in ; and his mother’s was Meshullemeth the daughter of Haruz of Jotbah.
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And he did that which was evil in the sight of , as did his father.
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- 21 And he walked in all the way that his father walked in, and served the idols that his father served, and worshipped them.
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And he forsook , the of his fathers, and walked not in the way of .
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And the servants of Amon conspired against him, and put the to death in his own house.
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- 24 But the people of the land slew all them that had conspired against Amon; and the people of the land made his son in his stead.
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Now the rest of the acts of Amon which he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of ?
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And he was buried in his sepulchre in the garden of Uzza; and his son reigned in his stead.
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