Verse 59
1 Esdras 1:59
Apocrypha / Deuterocanonical Books
59
Until the land hath enjoyed her sabbaths, the whole time of her desolation shall she keep sabbath, to fulfil threescore and ten years.
Done.
Sign in to save notes and annotations.
Chapter 1 Context
1
THE FIRST BOOK OF ESDRAS..
Focus ↗
2
AND Josias held the passover in Jerusalem unto his Lord, and offered the passover the fourteenth day...
Focus ↗
3
having set the priests according to their daily courses, being arrayed in their vestments, in the te...
Focus ↗
4
And he spake unto the Levites, the temple-servants of Israel, that they should hallow themselves unt...
Focus ↗
5
and said, Ye shall no more have need to bear it upon your shoulders: now therefore serve the Lord yo...
Focus ↗
6
according to the writing of David king of Israel, and according to the magnificence of Solomon his s...
Focus ↗
7
offer the passover in order, and make ready the sacrifices for your brethren, and keep the passover...
Focus ↗
8
And unto the people which were present Josias gave thirty thousand lambs and kids, and three thousan...
Focus ↗
9
And Helkias, and Zacharias, and Esyelus, the rulers of the temple, gave to the priests for the passo...
Focus ↗
10
And Jeconias, and Samaias and Nathanael his brother, and Sabias, and Ochielus, and Joram, captains o...
Focus ↗
11
And when these things were done, the priests and Levites, having the unleavened bread, stood in come...
Focus ↗
12
and according to the several divisions by fathers’ houses, before the people, to offer to the Lord,...
Focus ↗
13
And they roasted the passover with fire, as appertaineth: and the sacrifices they sod in the brazen...
Focus ↗
14
and set them before all the people: and afterward they prepared for themselves, and for the priests...
Focus ↗
15
For the priests offered the fat until night: and the Levites prepared for themselves, and for the pr...
Focus ↗
16
The holy singers also, the sons of Asaph, were in their order, according to the appointment of David...
Focus ↗
17
Moreover the porters were at every gate; none had need to depart from his daily course: for their br...
Focus ↗
18
Thus were the things that belonged to the sacrifices of the Lord accomplished in that day, in holdin...
Focus ↗
19
and offering sacrifices upon the altar of the Lord, according to the commandment of King Josias.
Focus ↗
20
So the children of Israel which were present at that time held the passover, and the feast of unleav...
Focus ↗
21
And such a passover was not held in Israel since the time of the prophet Samuel.
Focus ↗
22
Yea, all the kings of Israel held not such a passover as Josias, and the priests, and the Levites, a...
Focus ↗
23
In the eighteenth year of the reign of Josias was this passover held.
Focus ↗
24
And the works of Josias were upright before his Lord with a heart full of godliness.
Focus ↗
25
Moreover the things that came to pass in his days have been written in times past, concerning those...
Focus ↗
26
Now after all these acts of Josias it came to pass, that Pharaoh the king of Egypt came to raise war...
Focus ↗
27
But the king of Egypt sent to him, saying, What have I to do with thee, O king of Judaea?
Focus ↗
28
I am not sent out from the Lord God (Elohim) against thee; for my war is upon Euphrates: and now the...
Focus ↗
29
Howbeit Josias did not turn back unto his chariot, but undertook to fight with him, not regarding th...
Focus ↗
30
but joined battle with him in the plain of Megiddo, and the princes came down against King Josias.
Focus ↗
31
Then said the king unto his servants, Carry me away out of the battle; for I am very weak. And immed...
Focus ↗
32
Then gat he up upon his second chariot; and being brought back to Jerusalem he died, and was buried...
Focus ↗
33
And in all Jewry they mourned for Josias; and Jeremy the prophet lamented for Josias, and the chief...
Focus ↗
34
These things are written in the book of the histories of the kings of Judea, and every one of the ac...
Focus ↗
35
And the people took Joachaz the son of Josias, and made him king instead of Josias his father, when...
Focus ↗
36
And he reigned in Judah and in Jerusalem three months: and then the king of Egypt deposed him from r...
Focus ↗
37
And he set a tax upon the people of a hundred talents of silver and one talent of gold.
Focus ↗
38
The king of Egypt also made King Joakim his brother king of Judaea and Jerusalem.
Focus ↗
39
And Joakim bound the nobles: but Zarakes his brother he apprehended, and brought him up out of Egypt...
Focus ↗
40
Five and twenty years old was Joakim when he began to reign in Judaea and Jerusalem; and he did that...
Focus ↗
41
And against him Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon came up, and bound him with a chain of brass, and...
Focus ↗
42
Nabuchodonosor also took of the holy vessels of the Lord, and carried them away, and set them up in...
Focus ↗
43
But those things that are reported of him, and of his uncleanness and impiety, are written in the ch...
Focus ↗
44
And Joakim his son reigned in his stead: for when he was made king he was eighteen years old;
Focus ↗
45
and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem; and did that which was evil before the Lord.
Focus ↗
46
So after a year Nabuchodonosor sent and caused him to be brought unto Babylon with the holy vessels...
Focus ↗
47
and made Sedekias king of Judaea and Jerusalem, when he was one and twenty years old; and he reigned...
Focus ↗
48
and he also did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, and cared not for the words that were...
Focus ↗
49
And after that king Nabuchodonosor had made him to swear by the name of the Lord, he forswore himsel...
Focus ↗
50
Moreover the governors of the people and of the priests did many things wickedly, and passed all the...
Focus ↗
51
And the God (Elohim) of their fathers sent by his messenger to call them back, because he had compas...
Focus ↗
52
But they mocked his messengers; and in the day when the Lord spake unto them, they scoffed at his pr...
Focus ↗
53
so far forth, that he, being wroth with his people for their great ungodliness, commanded to bring u...
Focus ↗
54
who slew their young men with the sword, round about their holy temple, and spared neither young man...
Focus ↗
55
And they took all the holy vessels of the Lord, both great and small, with the vessels of the ark of...
Focus ↗
56
And they burnt the house of the Lord, and brake down the walls of Jerusalem, and burnt the towers th...
Focus ↗
57
and as for her glorious things, they never ceased till they had brought them all to nought: and the...
Focus ↗
58
and they were servants unto him and unto his children, till the Persians reigned, to fulfil the word...
Focus ↗
59
Until the land hath enjoyed her sabbaths, the whole time of her desolation shall she keep sabbath, t...