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No pains did he spare to rebuild the wall where it had fallen into disrepair, with towers to crown it and a second wall within; Mello, too, in the Keep of David he fortified anew, and prepared shields and all other weapons of defence. (2 Chronicles 32, 5)
It was this Ezechias that blocked the upper waters of the Gihon stream, and conveyed them under ground into the western part of the Keep of David. In all that he did, he prospered; (2 Chronicles 32, 30)
So Ezechias was laid to rest with his fathers, on the slope where the tombs of David’s sons are; and all Juda and Jerusalem did honour to his funeral. And the throne passed to his son Manasses. (2 Chronicles 32, 33)
This Manasses was twelve years old when he came to the throne, and his reign at Jerusalem lasted fifty-five years. (2 Chronicles 33, 1)
He carved an image, too, and cast a sheath for it, and set this up in the Lord’s house. And this was at Jerusalem, the Lord’s choice among all the cities of Israel; this was in the temple that was to be the everlasting shrine of his name; so he had promised David and Solomon, (2 Chronicles 33, 7)
and sought his favour with earnest prayer. That prayer the Lord answered, and restored him to his throne at Jerusalem. Such good proof had Manasses that the Lord only was God. (2 Chronicles 33, 13)
It was after this that he built the wall beyond David’s Keep, out in the ravine west of Gihon, all the way round from the Fishmongers’ Gate to Ophel, raising it to a great height; set captains, too, on garrison duty in all the fortified towns of Juda. (2 Chronicles 33, 14)
So Manasses was laid to rest with his fathers, with his own house for his burying-place, and the throne passed to his son Amon. (2 Chronicles 33, 20)
This Amon was twenty-two years old when he came to the throne, and his reign at Jerusalem lasted two years; (2 Chronicles 33, 21)
Josias was eight years old when he came to the throne, and his reign at Jerusalem lasted thirty-one years; (2 Chronicles 34, 1)
he was obedient to the Lord’s will, and followed the example of his ancestor, king David, never swerving to right or left. (2 Chronicles 34, 2)
It was while he was still a boy, in the eighth year of his reign, that he betook himself to the God his father David worshipped; and in the twelfth year of his reign he rid Juda and Jerusalem of hill-shrine and forest shrine, carved image and molten image. (2 Chronicles 34, 3)
