20 of Assyria, came against Jerusalem with a great army, Hezekiah sought no alliance with foreign powers, but went into the temple and called upon God for deliverance. God heard his prayers, and sent an angel, who destroyed, in one night, one hundred and eighty-five thousand men in the Assyrian camp: It is probable that under the name of an •angel a pestilence is intended. But Manasseh, the son of Hezekiah, did not tread"in his father's steps. He worshipped idols, and tempted the people to sin against God. During his reign, the Jews became so forgetful of their duty, that the copy of the law of God, which had been kept in the temple to be read to the people on solemn feast days, was lost, or perhaps ಹಿidden by some one, to prevent it from being destroyed. It was found in the reign of king Josiah, when he was repairing the temple in order to reform the worship In the twenty-ninth year of the reign of king Josiah, Nabopolasser, king of Babylon, married his son Nebuchadnezzar to the grand-daughter ef
