As for the other events of Pekah’s reign, and all he did, are they not written in the book of the annals of the kings of Israel?

As for the other events of Jotham’s reign, and what he did, are they not written in the book of the annals of the kings of Judah?

He followed the ways of the kings of Israel and even sacrificed his son in the fire, engaging in the detestable practices of the nations the Lord had driven out before the Israelites.

As for the other events of the reign of Ahaz, and what he did, are they not written in the book of the annals of the kings of Judah?

He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, but not like the kings of Israel who preceded him.

and followed the practices of the nations the Lord had driven out before them, as well as the practices that the kings of Israel had introduced.

Hezekiah trusted in the Lord, the God of Israel. There was no one like him among all the kings of Judah, either before him or after him.

Surely you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all the countries, destroying them completely. And will you be delivered?

Where is the king of Hamath or the king of Arpad? Where are the kings of Lair, Sepharvaim, Hena and Ivvah?”

“It is true, Lord, that the Assyrian kings have laid waste these nations and their lands.

As for the other events of Hezekiah’s reign, all his achievements and how he made the pool and the tunnel by which he brought water into the city, are they not written in the book of the annals of the kings of Judah?

As for the other events of Manasseh’s reign, and all he did, including the sin he committed, are they not written in the book of the annals of the kings of Judah?

As for the other events of Amon’s reign, and what he did, are they not written in the book of the annals of the kings of Judah?

He did away with the idolatrous priests appointed by the kings of Judah to burn incense on the high places of the towns of Judah and on those around Jerusalem—those who burned incense to Baal, to the sun and moon, to the constellations and to all the starry hosts.

He removed from the entrance to the temple of the Lord the horses that the kings of Judah had dedicated to the sun. They were in the court near the room of an official named Nathan-Melek. Josiah then burned the chariots dedicated to the sun.

He pulled down the altars the kings of Judah had erected on the roof near the upper room of Ahaz, and the altars Manasseh had built in the two courts of the temple of the Lord. He removed them from there, smashed them to pieces and threw the rubble into the Kidron Valley.

Just as he had done at Bethel, Josiah removed all the shrines at the high places that the kings of Israel had built in the towns of Samaria and that had aroused the Lord’s anger.

Neither in the days of the judges who led Israel nor in the days of the kings of Israel and the kings of Judah had any such Passover been observed.

As for the other events of Josiah’s reign, and all he did, are they not written in the book of the annals of the kings of Judah?

As for the other events of Jehoiakim’s reign, and all he did, are they not written in the book of the annals of the kings of Judah?

He spoke kindly to him and gave him a seat of honor higher than those of the other kings who were with him in Babylon.