Then Joseph could not refrain himself before all them that stood by him; and he cried, Cause every man to go out from me. And there stood no man with him, while Joseph made himself known unto his brethren. And he wept aloud: and the Egyptians and the house of Pharaoh heard. And Joseph said unto his brethren, I am Joseph; doth my father yet live? And his brethren could not answer him; for they were troubled at his presence. And Joseph said unto his brethren, Come near to me, I pray you. And theyContinue Reading
Now we all turn in our Bibles to 2 Chronicles, not quite to the middle of the Book, 2 Chronicles the thirty-third chapter; the thirty-third chapter of 2 Chronicles. And we read together the first sixteen verses. 2 Chronicles 1 to 16, the thirty-third chapter; 2 Chronicles the thirty-third chapter, the first sixteen verses. Now we all have it? Second Chronicles the thirty-third chapter, the first sixteen verses.
Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem: But did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, like unto the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD had cast out before the children of Israel. For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down, and he reared up altars for Baalim, and made groves, and worshiped all the host of heaven, and served them. Also he built altars in the house of the LORD, whereofContinue Reading