Second Book of Chronicles - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 1006

spired against him, and killed him in his own Palace. But the People of the country assailed all the conspira- tors against King Amon; then the country people elected joash his son King in his place. (641--634 ac.) §¤¤l;is}y begins in Qlzigzt. §is gash $32 mab ®¤xth11ci. 34 joshiah was eight years old at his coronation, and reigned thirty—0ne years in jerusalem, and did right in the eyes of the EVER-LIVING, and walked in the ways of his Ancestor David, and turned not to the right or the left, but in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet a youth, he began to seek the God of his Ancestor David; and in the twelfth year began to cleanse judea and jerusalem from the Mounds and Lust-booths, and Images, and Castings. He had the Altars to the Balim smashed in his own presence; and cut down the Images of the Sun that were elevated over them, and ground to powder the Lusts, and Idols, and Castings, and scattered the dust on the surface of the graves of the sacrificers to them. He also burnt the bones of the Priests on their Altars.-——'I`hus he cleansed judea and jerusalem, with the Cities of Manasseh, and Ephraim, and Simeon, and as far as Naphthali ; he destroyed them all- round, when he broke the Altars, and the Lusts, and Images, and reduced them to powder, and cut down all the Images of the Sun, in the land of Israel. Then he returned to jerusalem. (63,o ac.) issbialy Repairs ily: Ezmplz. Thus . in the eighteenth year of his

reign, when he had cleansed the country, and the Temple, he ordered Shaphan-ben-Azalihu, and Shamihu, Governor of the City, and joakheben- joakhaz, the Recorder, to repair the Temple of the EVER-LIVING. So they went to Hilkihu, the High Priest, and delivered the money to repair the House of GOD, which the Levites who guarded the Threshold had col· lected from the hands of Manasseh and Ephraim, and from all the Rem- nant of Israel, and from all judea, and Benjamin, and which they had brought to jerusalem, and he paid it into the handsof the Superintendents who did the work at the House of the Evsn—1.1v1Ne, and they paid it to the workmen who worked in the LORD’s House to mend and repairthe Temple. They also paid it to the carpenters and masons, and bought stone from the cutters, and timber for girders, and rafters, for the houses that the Kings of judah had destroyed. And the men did their work faithfully, and the Directors over them were, jakhath, and Abdihu ;——Levites from the Beni Merari; and Zekariah, and Meshulam, from the Beni Kahth; to Superintend, and Levites who all understood carpentry work. They superinteuded the labourers, and directed all the work done, in one sort or the other. But the accountants, and architects, and valuers were from the Levites. I0 II I2

(624 ac.) dbz httiugrnply dnpg uf the Zulu zngratrzh by muses mt Ealrizts, hisrnhzrzb. Once when they were drawing

money from the Treasury of the House of the Evan-Lrvme, Hilkihu the Priest found the Book of the Evnn·L1v1Ne’s Laws, in the hand- writing of Moses. So Hilkihu the Priest spoke to

I have found the Book of the Law in ; and Hilkihu handed the Book to ¥No·rr;.—Ch. 34, _v. i4. It must not be

inferred by the reader that no other copies f the Law b`M oy oses were previously in existence in the hands of the Pu lic of ancient found in th Israeluntil th , is copg was e Temple library for suc copies are kequently alluded to in t e two books of Chronicles, to say nothing of similar allusions in Samuel and Kings, works of several centuries earlier date than the Chronicles. What is said by the Sacred Historian is, that the Acruan oiuoimlr, corr m rn: nano-wm·rmo or Moses was now discovered amongst the other Public Records of the Nation, and it is to us a most important statement, in the face ofthe scepticism of our day. Hence I specially nohispassag3`hee13al Iggrevg, ;§é`_$5_1%1:’`gw‘n`iof hE te AW or That is l& actual 1006