e i, e, The Levires who had gone abroad through all Joſtab's Kingdom to gather Money for this good Uſe, and now came with nts! It to Jeruſalem to ledge it in the Treaſuries of the Lords Houſe. 10 Andthey put zt in the hand of the work-men,that had the over-ſighe of the houſe of the LORD, and they gave it rotne work-men that wrought in the houſe of the LORD, to repair and mend the houle :
It Even to the artificers and builders gave they #, to buy hewen ſtone, and timber for couplings, and |]to floor the houſes f which the kings of Judah had de-
thou ſhalt be gathered to thy grave in -peace, neither ſhall thine eyes ſee all the evil that I will bring upon 1 this place, and upon the inhabitants of the ſame. £0 they brought the king word again. . | 29 * Then the king ſent, and gathered together all the elders of Judah and Jeruſalem» | o And the king went. up into th? kouſe of the LORD, and all the men of Judah. and the inhabitants | of Jeruſalem, and the prieſts, and the Levices, and all + 34.
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- ears all the words of the book of the covenant, that as
ear ind in the Houſe of the LORD. .
pr And the king ſtood in his place, an&made a co-
venant before the LORD, to walk after the LORD,
and to keep his' commandments, .and his teſtimonies,
and his ſtatutes, with all his Heart, and with all his
ſoul, : to-perform the words of the Covenant which are
written in this book. : > And he cauſed all that were F preſent in Jeruſalem
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found. and Benjamin * to ſtand to i* h. And the inhabitants
— of Jeruſalem did according to the covenant of God z, 5, ”. ». - g :
the God of their Fathers.
; intain it, or perſiſt in its as this phraſe is uſed, 0 Fo "He mo" ha to aca themſcIves by an Oath or Covenant, That they would obſerve and obey the Laws of God, as his godl 'Predeceflors had formerly done, and, which indecd they WETre bebore obliged ro do. 3 They complied with God s, and the King's Command, as to the-outward Acts of God's Worſhip, though not with-an upright heart,” as appears by the Hiſtory, 787)
23 And Joſiah took away all the: abominations out of #llthe countreys that pertaines to: the children of: 1f- rael, ctard'made all char-were preſent in Iſrael to ſerve, evinitoferve the LORD their GOD. £4»# all his days
theydeparted not + from following the LORD, the God
of their' Fathers. | TETObT; C.HAP. XXRXY, Rp I ab keepeth s ſolemn; paſſover, 1 ——= 19+ He prove e117 Phar ao
6 mr ht 15 ſlain at Megiddo, 29 —== 24 Lamentations for Jo-
- ah, , OWN Joſiah kept a paſſover unto the LORD
OR 56 Jeruſatem : and they killed the paffover on * 2 Kings the * fourteenth day of the firſt month. 23-2122. "> And he ſet the prieſts in their charges, - and en- —_ ” — them to the ſervice of the Houſe of the
LOR LL 2 And ſaid unto the Levites that taught all Iſrael,
which were holy ' unco the LORD, Pur the holy ark in the Houſe b which Solomon the ſon of David king
of Iſrael did build : * it ſhall not be a burden upon your | ſhoulders c : ſerve now the LORD your Cod, and his