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The Book of 2 Chronicles
Chapter 1
001:001 And Solomon the son of David was strengthened
in his kingdom,
and the LORD his
God was with him, and magnified
him
exceedingly.
001:002 Then Solomon spake unto all Israel, to the
captains of
thousands and of
hundreds, and to the judges, and to
every
governor in all Israel, the
chief of the fathers.
001:003 So Solomon, and all the congregation with him,
went to the
high place that was at
Gibeon; for there was the tabernacle
of
the congregation of God, which
Moses the servant of the LORD
had
made in the wilderness.
001:004 But the ark of God had David brought up from
Kirjathjearim to
the place which
David had prepared for it: for he had
pitched
a tent for it at
Jerusalem.
001:005 Moreover the brasen altar, that Bezaleel the son
of Uri, the
son of Hur, had made,
he put before the tabernacle of
the
LORD: and Solomon and the
congregation sought unto it.
001:006 And Solomon went up thither to the brasen altar
before the
LORD, which was at the
tabernacle of the congregation,
and
offered a thousand burnt
offerings upon it.
001:007 In that night did God appear unto Solomon, and
said unto him,
Ask what I shall
give thee.
001:008 And Solomon said unto God, Thou hast shewed great
mercy unto
David my father, and
hast made me to reign in his stead.
001:009 Now, O LORD God, let thy promise unto David my
father be
established: for thou
hast made me king over a people like
the
dust of the earth in
multitude.
001:010 Give me now wisdom and knowledge, that I may go
out and come
in before this
people: for who can judge this thy people,
that
is so great?
001:011 And God said to Solomon, Because this was in
thine heart, and
thou hast not
asked riches, wealth, or honour, nor the life
of
thine enemies, neither yet hast
asked long life; but hast
asked
wisdom and knowledge for thyself, that thou mayest
judge
my people, over whom I have
made thee king:
001:012 Wisdom and knowledge is granted unto thee; and I
will give
thee riches, and wealth,
and honour, such as none of the
kings
have had that have been
before thee, neither shall there
any
after thee have the like.
001:013 Then Solomon came from his journey to the high
place that was
at Gibeon to
Jerusalem, from before the tabernacle of
the
congregation, and reigned over
Israel.
001:014 And Solomon gathered chariots and horsemen: and
he had a
thousand and four hundred
chariots, and twelve thousand
horsemen, which he placed in the chariot cities, and with
the
king at Jerusalem.
001:015 And the king made silver and gold at Jerusalem as
plenteous as
stones, and cedar
trees made he as the sycomore trees that
are
in the vale for abundance.
001:016 And Solomon had horses brought out of Egypt, and
linen yarn:
the king's merchants
received the linen yarn at a price.
001:017 And they fetched up, and brought forth out of
Egypt a chariot
for six hundred
shekels of silver, and an horse for an
hundred
and fifty: and so brought
they out horses for all the kings
of
the Hittites, and for the kings
of Syria, by their means.
002:001 And Solomon determined to build an house for the
name of the
LORD, and an house for
his kingdom.
002:002 And Solomon told out threescore and ten thousand
men to bear
burdens, and fourscore
thousand to hew in the mountain,
and
three thousand and six hundred
to oversee them.
002:003 And Solomon sent to Huram the king of Tyre,
saying, As thou
didst deal with
David my father, and didst send him cedars
to
build him an house to dwell
therein, even so deal with me.
002:004 Behold, I build an house to the name of the LORD
my God, to
dedicate it to him, and
to burn before him sweet incense,
and
for the continual shewbread,
and for the burnt offerings
morning and evening, on the sabbaths, and on the new
moons,
and on the solemn feasts of
the LORD our God. This is an
ordinance for ever to Israel.
002:005 And the house which I build is great: for great
is our God
above all gods.
002:006 But who is able to build him an house, seeing the
heaven and
heaven of heavens
cannot contain him? who am I then, that
I
should build him an house, save
only to burn sacrifice before
him?
002:007 Send me now therefore a man cunning to work in
gold, and in
silver, and in brass,
and in iron, and in purple, and
crimson,
and blue, and that can
skill to grave with the cunning
men
that are with me in Judah and
in Jerusalem, whom David my
father
did provide.
002:008 Send me also cedar trees, fir trees, and algum
trees, out of
Lebanon: for I know
that thy servants can skill to cut
timber
in Lebanon; and, behold, my
servants shall be with thy
servants,
002:009 Even to prepare me timber in abundance: for the
house which I
am about to build
shall be wonderful great.
002:010 And, behold, I will give to thy servants, the
hewers that cut
timber, twenty
thousand measures of beaten wheat, and
twenty
thousand measures of
barley, and twenty thousand baths
of
wine, and twenty thousand baths
of oil.
002:011 Then Huram the king of Tyre answered in writing,
which he sent
to Solomon, Because
the LORD hath loved his people, he
hath
made thee king over them.
002:012 Huram said moreover, Blessed be the LORD God of
Israel, that
made heaven and
earth, who hath given to David the king a
wise
son, endued with prudence and
understanding, that might build
an
house for the LORD, and an house for his kingdom.
002:013 And now I have sent a cunning man, endued with
understanding,
of Huram my
father's,
002:014 The son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, and
his father was
a man of Tyre,
skilful to work in gold, and in silver,
in
brass, in iron, in stone, and
in timber, in purple, in blue,
and
in fine linen, and in crimson; also to grave any manner
of
graving, and to find out every
device which shall be put to
him,
with thy cunning men, and with the cunning men of my
lord
David thy father.
002:015 Now therefore the wheat, and the barley, the oil,
and the
wine, which my lord hath
spoken of, let him send unto his
servants:
002:016 And we will cut wood out of Lebanon, as much as
thou shalt
need: and we will bring
it to thee in floats by sea to
Joppa;
and thou shalt carry it up
to Jerusalem.
002:017 And Solomon numbered all the strangers that were
in the land
of Israel, after the
numbering wherewith David his father
had
numbered them; and they were
found an hundred and fifty
thousand and three thousand and six hundred.
002:018 And he set threescore and ten thousand of them to
be bearers
of burdens, and
fourscore thousand to be hewers in
the
mountain, and three thousand
and six hundred overseers to set
the people a work.
003:001 Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD
at Jerusalem
in mount Moriah,
where the Lord appeared unto David
his
father, in the place that
David had prepared in the
threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.
003:002 And he began to build in the second day of the
second month,
in the fourth year
of his reign.
003:003 Now these are the things wherein Solomon was
instructed for
the building of the
house of God. The length by cubits
after
the first measure was
threescore cubits, and the breadth
twenty cubits.
003:004 And the porch that was in the front of the house,
the length
of it was according to
the breadth of the house, twenty
cubits, and the height was an hundred and twenty: and
he
overlaid it within with pure
gold.
003:005 And the greater house he cieled with fir tree,
which he
overlaid with fine gold,
and set thereon palm trees and
chains.
003:006 And he garnished the house with precious stones
for beauty:
and the gold was gold
of Parvaim.
003:007 He overlaid also the house, the beams, the posts,
and the
walls thereof, and the
doors thereof, with gold; and
graved
cherubims on the walls.
003:008 And he made the most holy house, the length
whereof was
according to the
breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and
the
breadth thereof twenty cubits:
and he overlaid it with fine
gold,
amounting to six hundred talents.
003:009 And the weight of the nails was fifty shekels of
gold. And he
overlaid the upper
chambers with gold.
003:010 And in the most holy house he made two cherubims
of image
work, and overlaid them
with gold.
003:011 And the wings of the cherubims were twenty cubits
long: one
wing of the one cherub
was five cubits, reaching to the
wall
of the house: and the other
wing was likewise five cubits,
reaching to the wing of the other cherub.
003:012 And one wing of the other cherub was five cubits,
reaching to
the wall of the house:
and the other wing was five cubits
also, joining to the wing of the other cherub.
003:013 The wings of these cherubims spread themselves
forth twenty
cubits: and they
stood on their feet, and their faces
were
inward.
003:014 And he made the vail of blue, and purple, and
crimson, and
fine linen, and
wrought cherubims thereon.
003:015 Also he made before the house two pillars of
thirty and five
cubits high, and
the chapiter that was on the top of each
of
them was five cubits.
003:016 And he made chains, as in the oracle, and put
them on the
heads of the pillars;
and made an hundred pomegranates,
and
put them on the chains.
003:017 And he reared up the pillars before the temple,
one on the
right hand, and the
other on the left; and called the name
of
that on the right hand Jachin,
and the name of that on the
left
Boaz.
004:001 Moreover he made an altar of brass, twenty cubits
the length
thereof, and twenty
cubits the breadth thereof, and ten
cubits
the height thereof.
004:002 Also he made a molten sea of ten cubits from brim
to brim,
round in compass, and
five cubits the height thereof; and
a
line of thirty cubits did
compass it round about.
004:003 And under it was the similitude of oxen, which
did compass it
round about: ten in
a cubit, compassing the sea round
about.
Two rows of oxen were cast,
when it was cast.
004:004 It stood upon twelve oxen, three looking toward
the north, and
three looking
toward the west, and three looking toward
the
south, and three looking
toward the east: and the sea was
set
above upon them, and all their
hinder parts were inward.
004:005 And the thickness of it was an handbreadth, and
the brim of it
like the work of
the brim of a cup, with flowers of
lilies;
and it received and held
three thousand baths.
004:006 He made also ten lavers, and put five on the
right hand, and
five on the left,
to wash in them: such things as they
offered
for the burnt offering
they washed in them; but the sea
was
for the priests to wash
in.
004:007 And he made ten candlesticks of gold according to
their form,
and set them in the
temple, five on the right hand, and
five
on the left.
004:008 He made also ten tables, and placed them in the
temple, five
on the right side,
and five on the left. And he made
an
hundred basons of gold.
004:009 Furthermore he made the court of the priests, and
the great
court, and doors for the
court, and overlaid the doors of
them
with brass.
004:010 And he set the sea on the right side of the east
end, over
against the south.
004:011 And Huram made the pots, and the shovels, and the
basons. And
Huram finished the
work that he was to make for king
Solomon
for the house of God;
004:012 To wit, the two pillars, and the pommels, and the
chapiters
which were on the top of
the two pillars, and the two
wreaths
to cover the two pommels
of the chapiters which were on the
top of the pillars;
004:013 And four hundred pomegranates on the two wreaths;
two rows of
pomegranates on each
wreath, to cover the two pommels of
the
chapiters which were upon the
pillars.
004:014 He made also bases, and lavers made he upon the bases;
004:015 One sea, and twelve oxen under it.
004:016 The pots also, and the shovels, and the
fleshhooks, and all
their
instruments, did Huram his father make to king
Solomon
for the house of the LORD
of bright brass.
004:017 In the plain of Jordan did the king cast them, in
the clay
ground between Succoth
and Zeredathah.
004:018 Thus Solomon made all these vessels in great
abundance: for
the weight of the
brass could not be found out.
004:019 And Solomon made all the vessels that were for
the house of
God, the golden altar
also, and the tables whereon the
shewbread was set;
004:020 Moreover the candlesticks with their lamps, that
they should
burn after the manner
before the oracle, of pure gold;
004:021 And the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs,
made he of
gold, and that perfect
gold;
004:022 And the snuffers, and the basons, and the spoons,
and the
censers, of pure gold: and
the entry of the house, the inner
doors thereof for the most holy place, and the doors of
the
house of the temple, were of
gold.
005:001 Thus all the work that Solomon made for the house
of the LORD
was finished: and
Solomon brought in all the things that
David
his father had dedicated;
and the silver, and the gold, and
all the instruments, put he among the treasures of the
house
of God.
005:002 Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and
all the heads
of the tribes, the
chief of the fathers of the children
of
Israel, unto Jerusalem, to
bring up the ark of the covenant
of
the LORD out of the city of
David, which is Zion.
005:003 Wherefore all the men of Israel assembled
themselves unto the
king in the
feast which was in the seventh month.
005:004 And all the elders of Israel came; and the
Levites took up the
ark.
005:005 And they brought up the ark, and the tabernacle
of the
congregation, and all the
holy vessels that were in the
tabernacle, these did the priests and the Levites bring up.
005:006 Also king Solomon, and all the congregation of
Israel that
were assembled unto
him before the ark, sacrificed sheep
and
oxen, which could not be told
nor numbered for multitude.
005:007 And the priests brought in the ark of the
covenant of the LORD
unto his
place, to the oracle of the house, into the most
holy
place, even under the wings
of the cherubims:
005:008 For the cherubims spread forth their wings over
the place of
the ark, and the
cherubims covered the ark and the
staves
thereof above.
005:009 And they drew out the staves of the ark, that the
ends of the
staves were seen from
the ark before the oracle; but they
were
not seen without. And there
it is unto this day.
005:010 There was nothing in the ark save the two tables
which Moses
put therein at Horeb,
when the LORD made a covenant with
the
children of Israel, when they
came out of Egypt.
005:011 And it came to pass, when the priests were come
out of the
holy place: (for all
the priests that were present were
sanctified, and did not then wait by course:
005:012 Also the Levites which were the singers, all of
them of Asaph,
of Heman, of
Jeduthun, with their sons and their
brethren,
being arrayed in white
linen, having cymbals and
psalteries
and harps, stood at the
east end of the altar, and with
them
an hundred and twenty priests
sounding with trumpets:)
005:013 It came even to pass, as the trumpeters and
singers were as
one, to make one
sound to be heard in praising and
thanking
the LORD; and when they
lifted up their voice with the
trumpets and cymbals and instruments of musick, and
praised
the LORD, saying, For he
is good; for his mercy endureth
for
ever: that then the house was
filled with a cloud, even the
house of the LORD;
005:014 So that the priests could not stand to minister
by reason of
the cloud: for the
glory of the LORD had filled the house
of
God.
006:001 Then said Solomon, The LORD hath said that he
would dwell in
the thick
darkness.
006:002 But I have built an house of habitation for thee,
and a place
for thy dwelling for
ever.
006:003 And the king turned his face, and blessed the
whole
congregation of Israel: and
all the congregation of Israel
stood.
006:004 And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Israel,
who hath with
his hands fulfilled
that which he spake with his mouth to
my
father David, saying,
006:005 Since the day that I brought forth my people out
of the land
of Egypt I chose no
city among all the tribes of Israel
to
build an house in, that my name
might be there; neither chose
I
any man to be a ruler over my people Israel:
006:006 But I have chosen Jerusalem, that my name might
be there; and
have chosen David to
be over my people Israel.
006:007 Now it was in the heart of David my father to
build an house
for the name of the
LORD God of Israel.
006:008 But the LORD said to David my father, Forasmuch
as it was in
thine heart to build
an house for my name, thou didst well
in
that it was in thine heart:
006:009 Notwithstanding thou shalt not build the house;
but thy son
which shall come forth
out of thy loins, he shall build
the
house for my name.
006:010 The LORD therefore hath performed his word that
he hath
spoken: for I am risen up
in the room of David my father,
and
am set on the throne of
Israel, as the LORD promised, and
have
built the house for the name
of the LORD God of Israel.
006:011 And in it have I put the ark, wherein is the
covenant of the
LORD, that he made
with the children of Israel.
006:012 And he stood before the altar of the LORD in the
presence of
all the congregation
of Israel, and spread forth his hands:
006:013 For Solomon had made a brasen scaffold of five
cubits long,
and five cubits
broad, and three cubits high, and had set
it
in the midst of the court: and
upon it he stood, and kneeled
down
upon his knees before all the congregation of Israel,
and
spread forth his hands toward
heaven.
006:014 And said, O LORD God of Israel, there is no God
like thee in
the heaven, nor in
the earth; which keepest covenant,
and
shewest mercy unto thy
servants, that walk before thee
with
all their hearts:
006:015 Thou which hast kept with thy servant David my
father that
which thou hast
promised him; and spakest with thy mouth,
and
hast fulfilled it with thine
hand, as it is this day.
006:016 Now therefore, O LORD God of Israel, keep with
thy servant
David my father that
which thou hast promised him,
saying,
There shall not fail thee
a man in my sight to sit upon the
throne of Israel; yet so that thy children take heed to
their
way to walk in my law, as
thou hast walked before me.
006:017 Now then, O LORD God of Israel, let thy word be
verified,
which thou hast spoken
unto thy servant David.
006:018 But will God in very deed dwell with men on the
earth? behold,
heaven and the
heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how
much
less this house which I have
built!
006:019 Have respect therefore to the prayer of thy
servant, and to
his supplication,
O LORD my God, to hearken unto the cry
and
the prayer which thy servant
prayeth before thee:
006:020 That thine eyes may be open upon this house day
and night,
upon the place whereof
thou hast said that thou wouldest
put
thy name there; to hearken
unto the prayer which thy servant
prayeth toward this place.
006:021 Hearken therefore unto the supplications of thy
servant, and
of thy people Israel, which they shall make toward this place:
hear thou from
thy dwelling place, even from heaven; and when
thou hearest, forgive.
006:022 If a man sin against his neighbour, and an oath
be laid upon
him to make him swear, and the oath come before thine altar in
this house;
006:023 Then hear thou from heaven, and do, and judge thy
servants, by
requiting the wicked, by recompensing his way upon his own
head; and by
justifying the righteous, by giving him according
to his
righteousness.
006:024 And if thy people Israel be put to the worse
before the enemy,
because they have
sinned against thee; and shall return and
confess thy name,
and pray and make supplication before thee
in this
house;
006:025 Then hear thou from the heavens, and forgive the
sin of thy
people Israel, and bring them again unto the land which thou
gavest to them
and to their fathers.
006:026 When the heaven is shut up, and there is no rain,
because they
have sinned against thee; yet if they pray toward this place,
and confess thy
name, and turn from their sin, when thou dost
afflict them;
006:027 Then hear thou from heaven, and forgive the sin
of thy
servants, and of thy people Israel, when thou hast taught them
the good way,
wherein they should walk; and send rain upon thy
land, which thou
hast given unto thy people for an
inheritance.
006:028 If there be dearth in the land, if there be
pestilence, if
there be blasting, or mildew, locusts, or caterpillers; if
their enemies
besiege them in the cities of their land;
whatsoever sore
or whatsoever sickness there be:
006:029 Then what prayer or what supplication soever
shall be made of
any man, or of
all thy people Israel, when every one shall
know his own sore
and his own grief, and shall spread forth
his hands in this
house:
006:030 Then hear thou from heaven thy dwelling place,
and forgive,
and render unto every man according unto all his ways, whose
heart thou
knowest; (for thou only knowest the hearts of the
children of
men:)
006:031 That they may fear thee, to walk in thy ways, so
long as they
live in the land which thou gavest unto our fathers.
006:032 Moreover concerning the stranger, which is not
of thy people
Israel, but is come from a far country for thy great name's
sake, and thy
mighty hand, and thy stretched out arm; if they
come and pray in
this house;
006:033 Then hear thou from the heavens, even from thy
dwelling place,
and do according
to all that the stranger calleth to thee for;
that all people
of the earth may know thy name, and fear thee,
as doth thy
people Israel, and may know that this house which
I have built is
called by thy name.
006:034 If thy people go out to war against their
enemies by the way
that thou shalt
send them, and they pray unto thee toward this
city which thou
hast chosen, and the house which I have built
for thy
name;
006:035 Then hear thou from the heavens their prayer and
their
supplication, and maintain their cause.
006:036 If they sin against thee, (for there is no man
which sinneth
not,) and thou be angry with them, and deliver them over
before their
enemies, and they carry them away captives unto a
land far off or
near;
006:037 Yet if they bethink themselves in the land
whither they are
carried captive,
and turn and pray unto thee in the land of
their captivity,
saying, We have sinned, we have done amiss,
and have dealt
wickedly;
006:038 If they return to thee with all their heart and
with all their
soul in the land
of their captivity, whither they have carried
them captives,
and pray toward their land, which thou gavest
unto their
fathers, and toward the city which thou hast
chosen, and
toward the house which I have built for thy name:
006:039 Then hear thou from the heavens, even from thy
dwelling place,
their prayer and
their supplications, and maintain their
cause, and
forgive thy people which have sinned against thee.
006:040 Now, my God, let, I beseech thee, thine eyes be
open, and let
thine ears be attent unto the prayer that is made in this
place.
006:041 Now therefore arise, O LORD God, into thy
resting place, thou,
and the ark of
thy strength: let thy priests, O LORD God, be
clothed with
salvation, and let thy saints rejoice in
goodness.
006:042 O LORD God, turn not away the face of thine
anointed: remember
the mercies of
David thy servant.
007:001 Now when Solomon had made an end of praying, the
fire came
down from heaven, and consumed the burnt offering and the
sacrifices; and
the glory of the LORD filled the house.
007:002 And the priests could not enter into the house
of the LORD,
because the glory of the LORD had filled the LORD's house.
007:003 And when all the children of Israel saw how the
fire came
down, and the glory of the LORD upon the house, they bowed
themselves with
their faces to the ground upon the pavement,
and worshipped,
and praised the LORD, saying, For he is good;
for his mercy
endureth for ever.
007:004 Then the king and all the people offered
sacrifices before the
LORD.
007:005 And king Solomon offered a sacrifice of twenty
and two
thousand oxen, and an hundred and twenty thousand sheep: so
the king and all
the people dedicated the house of God.
007:006 And the priests waited on their offices: the
Levites also with
instruments of
musick of the LORD, which David the king had
made to praise
the LORD, because his mercy endureth for ever,
when David
praised by their ministry; and the priests sounded
trumpets before
them, and all Israel stood.
007:007 Moreover Solomon hallowed the middle of the
court that was
before the house
of the LORD: for there he offered burnt
offerings, and
the fat of the peace offerings, because the
brasen altar
which Solomon had made was not able to receive
the burnt
offerings, and the meat offerings, and the fat.
007:008 Also at the same time Solomon kept the feast
seven days, and
all Israel with
him, a very great congregation, from the
entering in of
Hamath unto the river of Egypt.
007:009 And in the eighth day they made a solemn
assembly: for they
kept the
dedication of the altar seven days, and the feast
seven days.
007:010 And on the three and twentieth day of the
seventh month he
sent the people
away into their tents, glad and merry in heart
for the goodness
that the LORD had shewed unto David, and to
Solomon, and to
Israel his people.
007:011 Thus Solomon finished the house of the LORD, and
the king's
house: and all that came into Solomon's heart to make in the
house of the
LORD, and in his own house, he prosperously
effected.
007:012 And the LORD appeared to Solomon by night, and
said unto him,
I have heard thy
prayer, and have chosen this place to myself
for an house of
sacrifice.
007:013 If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if
I command the
locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my
people;
007:014 If my people, which are called by my name, shall
humble
themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their
wicked ways;
then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive
their sin, and
will heal their land.
007:015 Now mine eyes shall be open, and mine ears
attent unto the
prayer that is
made in this place.
007:016 For now have I chosen and sanctified this house,
that my name
may be there for ever: and mine eyes and mine heart shall be
there
perpetually.
007:017 And as for thee, if thou wilt walk before me, as
David thy
father walked, and do according to all that I have commanded
thee, and shalt
observe my statutes and my judgments;
007:018 Then will I stablish the throne of thy kingdom,
according as I
have covenanted
with David thy father, saying, There shall not
fail thee a man
to be ruler in Israel.
007:019 But if ye turn away, and forsake my statutes and
my
commandments, which I have set before you, and shall go and
serve other
gods, and worship them;
007:020 Then will I pluck them up by the roots out of my
land which I
have given them; and this house, which I have sanctified for
my name, will I
cast out of my sight, and will make it to be a
proverb and a
byword among all nations.
007:021 And this house, which is high, shall be an
astonishment to
every one that
passeth by it; so that he shall say, Why hath
the LORD done
thus unto this land, and unto this house?
007:022 And it shall be answered, Because they forsook
the LORD God of
their fathers,
which brought them forth out of the land of
Egypt, and laid
hold on other gods, and worshipped them, and
served them:
therefore hath he brought all this evil upon
them.
008:001 And it came to pass at the end of twenty years,
wherein
Solomon had built the house of the LORD, and his own house,
008:002 That the cities which Huram had restored to
Solomon, Solomon
built them, and
caused the children of Israel to dwell there.
008:003 And Solomon went to Hamathzobah, and prevailed against it.
008:004 And he built Tadmor in the wilderness, and all
the store
cities, which he built in Hamath.
008:005 Also he built Bethhoron the upper, and Bethhoron
the nether,
fenced cities, with walls, gates, and bars;
008:006 And Baalath, and all the store cities that
Solomon had, and
all the chariot
cities, and the cities of the horsemen, and
all that Solomon
desired to build in Jerusalem, and in
Lebanon, and
throughout all the land of his dominion.
008:007 As for all the people that were left of the
Hittites, and the
Amorites, and
the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the
Jebusites, which
were not of Israel,
008:008 But of their children, who were left after them
in the land,
whom the children of Israel consumed not, them did Solomon
make to pay
tribute until this day.
008:009 But of the children of Israel did Solomon make
no servants for
his work; but
they were men of war, and chief of his captains,
and captains of
his chariots and horsemen.
008:010 And these were the chief of king Solomon's
officers, even two
hundred and
fifty, that bare rule over the people.
008:011 And Solomon brought up the daughter of Pharaoh
out of the city
of David unto
the house that he had built for her: for he
said, My wife
shall not dwell in the house of David king of
Israel, because
the places are holy, whereunto the ark of the
LORD hath
come.
008:012 Then Solomon offered burnt offerings unto the
LORD on the
altar of the LORD, which he had built before the porch,
008:013 Even after a certain rate every day, offering
according to the
commandment of
Moses, on the sabbaths, and on the new moons,
and on the
solemn feasts, three times in the year, even in the
feast of
unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in
the feast of
tabernacles.
008:014 And he appointed, according to the order of
David his father,
the courses of
the priests to their service, and the Levites
to their
charges, to praise and minister before the priests,
as the duty of
every day required: the porters also by their
courses at every
gate: for so had David the man of God
commanded.
008:015 And they departed not from the commandment of
the king unto
the priests and Levites concerning any matter, or concerning
the
treasures.
008:016 Now all the work of Solomon was prepared unto
the day of the
foundation of
the house of the LORD, and until it was
finished. So the
house of the LORD was perfected.
008:017 Then went Solomon to Eziongeber, and to Eloth,
at the sea side
in the land of
Edom.
008:018 And Huram sent him by the hands of his servants
ships, and
servants that had knowledge of the sea; and they went with the
servants of
Solomon to Ophir, and took thence four hundred and
fifty talents of
gold, and brought them to king Solomon.
009:001 And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of
Solomon, she
came to prove Solomon with hard questions at Jerusalem, with a
very great
company, and camels that bare spices, and gold in
abundance, and
precious stones: and when she was come to
Solomon, she
communed with him of all that was in her heart.
009:002 And Solomon told her all her questions: and
there was nothing
hid from Solomon
which he told her not.
009:003 And when the queen of Sheba had seen the wisdom
of Solomon,
and the house that he had built,
009:004 And the meat of his table, and the sitting of
his servants,
and the attendance of his ministers, and their apparel; his
cupbearers also,
and their apparel; and his ascent by which he
went up into the
house of the LORD; there was no more spirit
in her.
009:005 And she said to the king, It was a true report
which I heard
in mine own land of thine acts, and of thy wisdom:
009:006 Howbeit I believed not their words, until I
came, and mine
eyes had seen
it: and, behold, the one half of the greatness
of thy wisdom
was not told me: for thou exceedest the fame
that I
heard.
009:007 Happy are thy men, and happy are these thy
servants, which
stand
continually before thee, and hear thy wisdom.
009:008 Blessed be the LORD thy God, which delighted in
thee to set
thee on his throne, to be king for the LORD thy God: because
thy God loved
Israel, to establish them for ever, therefore
made he thee
king over them, to do judgment and justice.
009:009 And she gave the king an hundred and twenty
talents of gold,
and of spices
great abundance, and precious stones: neither
was there any
such spice as the queen of Sheba gave king
Solomon.
009:010 And the servants also of Huram, and the servants
of Solomon,
which brought gold from Ophir, brought algum trees and
precious
stones.
009:011 And the king made of the algum trees terraces to
the house of
the LORD, and to the king's palace, and harps and psalteries
for singers: and
there were none such seen before in the land
of Judah.
009:012 And king Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all
her desire,
whatsoever she asked, beside that which she had brought unto
the king. So she
turned, and went away to her own land, she
and her
servants.
009:013 Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in
one year was
six hundred and threescore and six talents of gold;
009:014 Beside that which chapmen and merchants brought.
And all the
kings of Arabia and governors of the country brought gold and
silver to
Solomon.
009:015 And king Solomon made two hundred targets of
beaten gold: six
hundred shekels
of beaten gold went to one target.
009:016 And three hundred shields made he of beaten
gold: three
hundred shekels of gold went to one shield. And the king put
them in the
house of the forest of Lebanon.
009:017 Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory,
and overlaid
it with pure gold.
009:018 And there were six steps to the throne, with a
footstool of
gold, which were fastened to the throne, and stays on each
side of the
sitting place, and two lions standing by the
stays:
009:019 And twelve lions stood there on the one side and
on the other
upon the six steps. There was not the like made in any
kingdom.
009:020 And all the drinking vessels of king Solomon
were of gold, and
all the vessels
of the house of the forest of Lebanon were of
pure gold: none
were of silver; it was not any thing accounted
of in the days
of Solomon.
009:021 For the king's ships went to Tarshish with the
servants of
Huram: every three years once came the ships of Tarshish
bringing gold,
and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.
009:022 And king Solomon passed all the kings of the
earth in riches
and wisdom.
009:023 And all the kings of the earth sought the
presence of Solomon,
to hear his
wisdom, that God had put in his heart.
009:024 And they brought every man his present, vessels
of silver, and
vessels of gold,
and raiment, harness, and spices, horses, and
mules, a rate
year by year.
009:025 And Solomon had four thousand stalls for horses
and chariots,
and twelve thousand horsemen; whom he bestowed in the chariot
cities, and with
the king at Jerusalem.
009:026 And he reigned over all the kings from the river
even unto the
land of the Philistines, and to the border of Egypt.
009:027 And the king made silver in Jerusalem as stones,
and cedar
trees made he as the sycomore trees that are in the low plains
in
abundance.
009:028 And they brought unto Solomon horses out of
Egypt, and out of
all lands.
009:029 Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, first and
last, are they
not written in
the book of Nathan the prophet, and in the
prophecy of
Ahijah the Shilonite, and in the visions of Iddo
the seer against
Jeroboam the son of Nebat?
009:030 And Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel forty years.
009:031 And Solomon slept with his fathers, and he was
buried in the
city of David his father: and Rehoboam his son reigned in his
stead.
010:001 And Rehoboam went to Shechem: for to Shechem
were all Israel
come to make him
king.
010:002 And it came to pass, when Jeroboam the son of
Nebat, who was
in Egypt,
whither he fled from the presence of Solomon the
king, heard it,
that Jeroboam returned out of Egypt.
010:003 And they sent and called him. So Jeroboam and
all Israel came
and spake to
Rehoboam, saying,
010:004 Thy father made our yoke grievous: now therefore
ease thou
somewhat the grievous servitude of thy father, and his heavy
yoke that he put
upon us, and we will serve thee.
010:005 And he said unto them, Come again unto me after
three days.
And the people departed.
010:006 And king Rehoboam took counsel with the old men
that had stood
before Solomon
his father while he yet lived, saying, What
counsel give ye
me to return answer to this people?
010:007 And they spake unto him, saying, If thou be kind
to this
people, and please them, and speak good words to them, they
will be thy
servants for ever.
010:008 But he forsook the counsel which the old men
gave him, and
took counsel with the young men that were brought up with him,
that stood
before him.
010:009 And he said unto them, What advice give ye that
we may return
answer to this people, which have spoken to me, saying, Ease
somewhat the
yoke that thy father did put upon us?
010:010 And the young men that were brought up with him
spake unto
him, saying, Thus shalt thou answer the people that spake unto
thee, saying,
Thy father made our yoke heavy, but make thou it
somewhat lighter
for us; thus shalt thou say unto them, My
little finger
shall be thicker than my father's loins.
010:011 For whereas my father put a heavy yoke upon you,
I will put
more to your yoke: my father chastised you with whips, but I
will chastise
you with scorpions.
010:012 So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam
on the third
day, as the king bade, saying, Come again to me on the third
day.
010:013 And the king answered them roughly; and king
Rehoboam forsook
the counsel of
the old men,
010:014 And answered them after the advice of the young
men, saying,
My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add thereto: my
father chastised
you with whips, but I will chastise you with
scorpions.
010:015 So the king hearkened not unto the people: for
the cause was
of God, that the LORD might perform his word, which he spake
by the hand of
Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of
Nebat.
010:016 And when all Israel saw that the king would not
hearken unto
them, the people answered the king, saying, What portion have
we in David? and
we have none inheritance in the son of Jesse:
every man to
your tents, O Israel: and now, David, see to
thine own house.
So all Israel went to their tents.
010:017 But as for the children of Israel that dwelt in
the cities of
Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them.
010:018 Then king Rehoboam sent Hadoram that was over
the tribute; and
the children of
Israel stoned him with stones, that he died.
But king
Rehoboam made speed to get him up to his chariot, to
flee to
Jerusalem.
010:019 And Israel rebelled against the house of David unto this day.
011:001 And when Rehoboam was come to Jerusalem, he
gathered of the
house of Judah
and Benjamin an hundred and fourscore thousand
chosen men,
which were warriors, to fight against Israel, that
he might bring
the kingdom again to Rehoboam.
011:002 But the word of the LORD came to Shemaiah the
man of God,
saying,
011:003 Speak unto Rehoboam the son of Solomon, king of
Judah, and to
all Israel in Judah and Benjamin, saying,
011:004 Thus saith the LORD, Ye shall not go up, nor
fight against
your brethren: return every man to his house: for this thing
is done of me.
And they obeyed the words of the LORD, and
returned from
going against Jeroboam.
011:005 And Rehoboam dwelt in Jerusalem, and built
cities for defence
in Judah.
011:006 He built even Bethlehem, and Etam, and Tekoa,
011:007 And Bethzur, and Shoco, and Adullam,
011:008 And Gath, and Mareshah, and Ziph,
011:009 And Adoraim, and Lachish, and Azekah,
011:010 And Zorah, and Aijalon, and Hebron, which are in
Judah and in
Benjamin fenced cities.
011:011 And he fortified the strong holds, and put
captains in them,
and store of
victual, and of oil and wine.
011:012 And in every several city he put shields and
spears, and made
them exceeding
strong, having Judah and Benjamin on his side.
011:013 And the priests and the Levites that were in all
Israel
resorted to him out of all their coasts.
011:014 For the Levites left their suburbs and their
possession, and
came to Judah
and Jerusalem: for Jeroboam and his sons had
cast them off
from executing the priest's office unto the
LORD:
011:015 And he ordained him priests for the high places,
and for the
devils, and for the calves which he had made.
011:016 And after them out of all the tribes of Israel
such as set
their hearts to seek the LORD God of Israel came to Jerusalem,
to sacrifice
unto the LORD God of their fathers.
011:017 So they strengthened the kingdom of Judah, and
made Rehoboam
the son of Solomon strong, three years: for three years they
walked in the
way of David and Solomon.
011:018 And Rehoboam took him Mahalath the daughter of
Jerimoth the
son of David to wife, and Abihail the daughter of Eliab the
son of
Jesse;
011:019 Which bare him children; Jeush, and Shamariah, and Zaham.
011:020 And after her he took Maachah the daughter of
Absalom; which
bare him Abijah,
and Attai, and Ziza, and Shelomith.
011:021 And Rehoboam loved Maachah the daughter of
Absalom above all
his wives and
his concubines: (for he took eighteen wives, and
threescore
concubines; and begat twenty and eight sons, and
threescore
daughters.)
011:022 And Rehoboam made Abijah the son of Maachah the
chief, to be
ruler among his brethren: for he thought to make him king.
011:023 And he dealt wisely, and dispersed of all his
children
throughout all the countries of Judah and Benjamin, unto every
fenced city: and
he gave them victual in abundance. And he
desired many
wives.
012:001 And it came to pass, when Rehoboam had
established the
kingdom, and had
strengthened himself, he forsook the law of
the LORD, and
all Israel with him.
012:002 And it came to pass, that in the fifth year of
king Rehoboam
Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, because they
had transgressed
against the LORD,
012:003 With twelve hundred chariots, and threescore
thousand
horsemen: and the people were without number that came with
him out of
Egypt; the Lubims, the Sukkiims, and the
Ethiopians.
012:004 And he took the fenced cities which pertained to
Judah, and
came to Jerusalem.
012:005 Then came Shemaiah the prophet to Rehoboam, and
to the princes
of Judah, that
were gathered together to Jerusalem because of
Shishak, and
said unto them, Thus saith the LORD, Ye have
forsaken me, and
therefore have I also left you in the hand of
Shishak.
012:006 Whereupon the princes of Israel and the king
humbled
themselves; and they said, The LORD is righteous.
012:007 And when the LORD saw that they humbled
themselves, the word
of the LORD came
to Shemaiah, saying, They have humbled
themselves;
therefore I will not destroy them, but I will
grant them some
deliverance; and my wrath shall not be poured
out upon
Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak.
012:008 Nevertheless they shall be his servants; that
they may know my
service, and the
service of the kingdoms of the countries.
012:009 So Shishak king of Egypt came up against
Jerusalem, and took
away the
treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures
of the king's
house; he took all: he carried away also the
shields of gold
which Solomon had made.
012:010 Instead of which king Rehoboam made shields of
brass, and
committed them to the hands of the chief of the guard, that
kept the
entrance of the king's house.
012:011 And when the king entered into the house of the
LORD, the
guard came and fetched them, and brought them again into the
guard
chamber.
012:012 And when he humbled himself, the wrath of the
LORD turned from
him, that he
would not destroy him altogether: and also in
Judah things
went well.
012:013 So king Rehoboam strengthened himself in
Jerusalem, and
reigned: for
Rehoboam was one and forty years old when he
began to reign,
and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem,
the city which
the LORD had chosen out of all the tribes of
Israel, to put
his name there. And his mother's name was
Naamah an
Ammonitess.
012:014 And he did evil, because he prepared not his
heart to seek the
LORD.
012:015 Now the acts of Rehoboam, first and last, are
they not written
in the book of
Shemaiah the prophet, and of Iddo the seer
concerning
genealogies? And there were wars between Rehoboam
and Jeroboam
continually.
012:016 And Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was
buried in the
city of David: and Abijah his son reigned in his stead.
013:001 Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam
began Abijah to
reign over
Judah.
013:002 He reigned three years in Jerusalem. His
mother's name also
was Michaiah the
daughter of Uriel of Gibeah. And there was
war between
Abijah and Jeroboam.
013:003 And Abijah set the battle in array with an army
of valiant men
of war, even
four hundred thousand chosen men: Jeroboam also
set the battle
in array against him with eight hundred
thousand chosen
men, being mighty men of valour.
013:004 And Abijah stood up upon mount Zemaraim, which
is in mount
Ephraim, and said, Hear me, thou Jeroboam, and all Israel;
013:005 Ought ye not to know that the LORD God of Israel
gave the
kingdom over Israel to David for ever, even to him and to his
sons by a
covenant of salt?
013:006 Yet Jeroboam the son of Nebat, the servant of
Solomon the son
of David, is
risen up, and hath rebelled against his lord.
013:007 And there are gathered unto him vain men, the
children of
Belial, and have strengthened themselves against Rehoboam the
son of Solomon,
when Rehoboam was young and tenderhearted, and
could not
withstand them.
013:008 And now ye think to withstand the kingdom of the
LORD in the
hand of the sons of David; and ye be a great multitude, and
there are with
your golden calves, which Jeroboam made you for
gods.
013:009 Have ye not cast out the priests of the LORD,
the sons of
Aaron, and the Levites, and have made you priests after the
manner of the
nations of other lands? so that whosoever cometh
to consecrate
himself with a young bullock and seven rams, the
same may be a
priest of them that are no gods.
013:010 But as for us, the LORD is our God, and we have
not forsaken
him; and the priests, which minister unto the LORD, are the
sons of Aaron,
and the Levites wait upon their business:
013:011 And they burn unto the LORD every morning and
every evening
burnt sacrifices and sweet incense: the shewbread also set
they in order
upon the pure table; and the candlestick of gold
with the lamps
thereof, to burn every evening: for we keep the
charge of the
LORD our God; but ye have forsaken him.
013:012 And, behold, God himself is with us for our
captain, and his
priests with
sounding trumpets to cry alarm against you. O
children of
Israel, fight ye not against the LORD God of your
fathers; for ye
shall not prosper.
013:013 But Jeroboam caused an ambushment to come about
behind them:
so they were before Judah, and the ambushment was behind them.
013:014 And when Judah looked back, behold, the battle
was before and
behind: and they
cried unto the LORD, and the priests sounded
with the
trumpets.
013:015 Then the men of Judah gave a shout: and as the
men of Judah
shouted, it came to pass, that God smote Jeroboam and all
Israel before
Abijah and Judah.
013:016 And the children of Israel fled before Judah:
and God
delivered them into their hand.
013:017 And Abijah and his people slew them with a great
slaughter: so
there fell down slain of Israel five hundred thousand chosen
men.
013:018 Thus the children of Israel were brought under
at that time,
and the children of Judah prevailed, because they relied upon
the LORD God of
their fathers.
013:019 And Abijah pursued after Jeroboam, and took
cities from him,
Bethel with the
towns thereof, and Jeshanah with the towns
thereof, and
Ephraim with the towns thereof.
013:020 Neither did Jeroboam recover strength again in
the days of
Abijah: and the LORD struck him, and he died.
013:021 But Abijah waxed mighty, and married fourteen
wives, and begat
twenty and two
sons, and sixteen daughters.
013:022 And the rest of the acts of Abijah, and his
ways, and his
sayings, are written in the story of the prophet Iddo.
014:001 So Abijah slept with his fathers, and they
buried him in the
city of David:
and Asa his son reigned in his stead. In his
days the land
was quiet ten years.
014:002 And Asa did that which was good and right in the
eyes of the
LORD his God:
014:003 For he took away the altars of the strange gods,
and the high
places, and brake down the images, and cut down the groves:
014:004 And commanded Judah to seek the LORD God of
their fathers, and
to do the law
and the commandment.
014:005 Also he took away out of all the cities of Judah
the high
places and the images: and the kingdom was quiet before him.
014:006 And he built fenced cities in Judah: for the
land had rest,
and he had no
war in those years; because the LORD had given
him rest.
014:007 Therefore he said unto Judah, Let us build these
cities, and
make about them walls, and towers, gates, and bars, while the
land is yet
before us; because we have sought the LORD our
God, we have
sought him, and he hath given us rest on every
side. So they
built and prospered.
014:008 And Asa had an army of men that bare targets and
spears, out
of Judah three hundred thousand; and out of Benjamin, that
bare shields and
drew bows, two hundred and fourscore
thousand: all
these were mighty men of valour.
014:009 And there came out against them Zerah the
Ethiopian with an
host of a
thousand thousand, and three hundred chariots; and
came unto
Mareshah.
014:010 Then Asa went out against him, and they set the
battle in
array in the valley of Zephathah at Mareshah.
014:011 And Asa cried unto the LORD his God, and said,
LORD, it is
nothing with thee to help, whether with many, or with them
that have no
power: help us, O LORD our God; for we rest on
thee, and in thy
name we go against this multitude. O LORD,
thou art our
God; let no man prevail against thee.
014:012 So the LORD smote the Ethiopians before Asa, and
before Judah;
and the Ethiopians fled.
014:013 And Asa and the people that were with him
pursued them unto
Gerar: and the
Ethiopians were overthrown, that they could not
recover
themselves; for they were destroyed before the LORD,
and before his
host; and they carried away very much spoil.
014:014 And they smote all the cities round about Gerar;
for the fear
of the LORD came upon them: and they spoiled all the cities;
for there was
exceeding much spoil in them.
014:015 They smote also the tents of cattle, and carried
away sheep
and camels in abundance, and returned to Jerusalem.
015:001 And the Spirit of God came upon Azariah the son of Oded:
015:002 And he went out to meet Asa, and said unto him,
Hear ye me,
Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin; The LORD is with you, while
ye be with him;
and if ye seek him, he will be found of you;
but if ye
forsake him, he will forsake you.
015:003 Now for a long season Israel hath been without
the true God,
and without a teaching priest, and without law.
015:004 But when they in their trouble did turn unto the
LORD God of
Israel, and sought him, he was found of them.
015:005 And in those times there was no peace to him
that went out,
nor to him that
came in, but great vexations were upon all the
inhabitants of
the countries.
015:006 And nation was destroyed of nation, and city of
city: for God
did vex them with all adversity.
015:007 Be ye strong therefore, and let not your hands
be weak: for
your work shall be rewarded.
015:008 And when Asa heard these words, and the prophecy
of Oded the
prophet, he took courage, and put away the abominable idols
out of all the
land of Judah and Benjamin, and out of the
cities which he
had taken from mount Ephraim, and renewed the
altar of the
LORD, that was before the porch of the LORD.
015:009 And he gathered all Judah and Benjamin, and the
strangers with
them out of
Ephraim and Manasseh, and out of Simeon: for they
fell to him out
of Israel in abundance, when they saw that the
LORD his God was
with him.
015:010 So they gathered themselves together at
Jerusalem in the third
month, in the
fifteenth year of the reign of Asa.
015:011 And they offered unto the LORD the same time, of
the spoil
which they had brought, seven hundred oxen and seven thousand
sheep.
015:012 And they entered into a covenant to seek the
LORD God of their
fathers with all
their heart and with all their soul;
015:013 That whosoever would not seek the LORD God of
Israel should be
put to death,
whether small or great, whether man or woman.
015:014 And they sware unto the LORD with a loud voice,
and with
shouting, and with trumpets, and with cornets.
015:015 And all Judah rejoiced at the oath: for they had
sworn with
all their heart, and sought him with their whole desire; and
he was found of
them: and the LORD gave them rest round about.
015:016 And also concerning Maachah the mother of Asa
the king, he
removed her from being queen, because she had made an idol in
a grove: and Asa
cut down her idol, and stamped it, and burnt
it at the brook
Kidron.
015:017 But the high places were not taken away out of
Israel:
nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect all his days.
015:018 And he brought into the house of God the things
that his
father had dedicated, and that he himself had dedicated,
silver, and
gold, and vessels.
015:019 And there was no more war unto the five and
thirtieth year of
the reign of
Asa.
016:001 In the six and thirtieth year of the reign of
Asa Baasha king
of Israel came
up against Judah, and built Ramah, to the
intent that he
might let none go out or come in to Asa king of
Judah.
016:002 Then Asa brought out silver and gold out of the
treasures of
the house of the LORD and of the king's house, and sent to
Benhadad king of
Syria, that dwelt at Damascus, saying,
016:003 There is a league between me and thee, as there
was between my
father and thy
father: behold, I have sent thee silver and
gold; go, break
thy league with Baasha king of Israel, that he
may depart from
me.
016:004 And Benhadad hearkened unto king Asa, and sent
the captains of
his armies
against the cities of Israel; and they smote Ijon,
and Dan, and
Abelmaim, and all the store cities of Naphtali.
016:005 And it came to pass, when Baasha heard it, that
he left off
building of Ramah, and let his work cease.
016:006 Then Asa the king took all Judah; and they
carried away the
stones of Ramah,
and the timber thereof, wherewith Baasha was
building; and he
built therewith Geba and Mizpah.
016:007 And at that time Hanani the seer came to Asa
king of Judah,
and said unto
him, Because thou hast relied on the king of
Syria, and not
relied on the LORD thy God, therefore is the
host of the king
of Syria escaped out of thine hand.
016:008 Were not the Ethiopians and the Lubims a huge
host, with very
many chariots
and horsemen? yet, because thou didst rely on
the LORD, he
delivered them into thine hand.
016:009 For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro
throughout the whole
earth, to shew
himself strong in the behalf of them whose
heart is perfect
toward him. Herein thou hast done foolishly:
therefore from
henceforth thou shalt have wars.
016:010 Then Asa was wroth with the seer, and put him in
a prison
house; for he was in a rage with him because of this thing.
And Asa
oppressed some of the people the same time.
016:011 And, behold, the acts of Asa, first and last,
lo, they are
written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.
016:012 And Asa in the thirty and ninth year of his
reign was diseased
in his feet,
until his disease was exceeding great: yet in his
disease he
sought not to the LORD, but to the physicians.
016:013 And Asa slept with his fathers, and died in the
one and
fortieth year of his reign.
016:014 And they buried him in his own sepulchres, which
he had made
for himself in the city of David, and laid him in the bed
which was filled
with sweet odours and divers kinds of spices
prepared by the
apothecaries' art: and they made a very great
burning for
him.
017:001 And Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his stead,
and strengthened
himself against
Israel.
017:002 And he placed forces in all the fenced cities of
Judah, and
set garrisons in the land of Judah, and in the cities of
Ephraim, which
Asa his father had taken.
017:003 And the LORD was with Jehoshaphat, because he
walked in the
first ways of his father David, and sought not unto Baalim;
017:004 But sought to the Lord God of his father, and
walked in his
commandments, and not after the doings of Israel.
017:005 Therefore the LORD stablished the kingdom in his
hand; and all
Judah brought to Jehoshaphat presents; and he had riches and
honour in
abundance.
017:006 And his heart was lifted up in the ways of the
LORD: moreover
he took away the
high places and groves out of Judah.
017:007 Also in the third year of his reign he sent to
his princes,
even to Benhail, and to Obadiah, and to Zechariah, and to
Nethaneel, and
to Michaiah, to teach in the cities of Judah.
017:008 And with them he sent Levites, even Shemaiah,
and Nethaniah,
and Zebadiah,
and Asahel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehonathan, and
Adonijah, and
Tobijah, and Tobadonijah, Levites; and with them
Elishama and
Jehoram, priests.
017:009 And they taught in Judah, and had the book of
the law of the
LORD with them,
and went about throughout all the cities of
Judah, and
taught the people.
017:010 And the fear of the LORD fell upon all the
kingdoms of the
lands that were
round about Judah, so that they made no war
against
Jehoshaphat.
017:011 Also some of the Philistines brought Jehoshaphat
presents, and
tribute silver; and the Arabians brought him flocks, seven
thousand and
seven hundred rams, and seven thousand and seven
hundred he
goats.
017:012 And Jehoshaphat waxed great exceedingly; and he
built in Judah
castles, and
cities of store.
017:013 And he had much business in the cities of Judah:
and the men
of war, mighty men of valour, were in Jerusalem.
017:014 And these are the numbers of them according to
the house of
their fathers: Of Judah, the captains of thousands; Adnah the
chief, and with
him mighty men of valour three hundred
thousand.
017:015 And next to him was Jehohanan the captain, and
with him two
hundred and fourscore thousand.
017:016 And next him was Amasiah the son of Zichri, who
willingly
offered himself unto the LORD; and with him two hundred
thousand mighty
men of valour.
017:017 And of Benjamin; Eliada a mighty man of valour,
and with him
armed men with bow and shield two hundred thousand.
017:018 And next him was Jehozabad, and with him an
hundred and
fourscore thousand ready prepared for the war.
017:019 These waited on the king, beside those whom the
king put in
the fenced cities throughout all Judah.
018:001 Now Jehoshaphat had riches and honour in
abundance, and joined
affinity with
Ahab.
018:002 And after certain years he went down to Ahab to
Samaria. And
Ahab killed sheep and oxen for him in abundance, and for the
people that he
had with him, and persuaded him to go up with
him to
Ramothgilead.
018:003 And Ahab king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat
king of Judah,
Wilt thou go
with me to Ramothgilead? And he answered him, I
am as thou art,
and my people as thy people; and we will be
with thee in the
war.
018:004 And Jehoshaphat said unto the king of Israel,
Enquire, I pray
thee, at the
word of the LORD to day.
018:005 Therefore the king of Israel gathered together
of prophets
four hundred men, and said unto them, Shall we go to
Ramothgilead to
battle, or shall I forbear? And they said, Go
up; for God will
deliver it into the king's hand.
018:006 But Jehoshaphat said, Is there not here a
prophet of the LORD
besides, that we
might enquire of him?
018:007 And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat,
There is yet one
man, by whom we
may enquire of the LORD: but I hate him; for
he never
prophesied good unto me, but always evil: the same is
Micaiah the son
of Imla. And Jehoshaphat said, Let not the
king say so.
018:008 And the king of Israel called for one of his
officers, and
said, Fetch quickly Micaiah the son of Imla.
018:009 And the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat king of
Judah sat
either of them on his throne, clothed in their robes, and they
sat in a void
place at the entering in of the gate of Samaria;
and all the
prophets prophesied before them.
018:010 And Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah had made him
horns of iron,
and said, Thus
saith the LORD, With these thou shalt push
Syria until they
be consumed.
018:011 And all the prophets prophesied so, saying, Go
up to
Ramothgilead, and prosper: for the LORD shall deliver it into
the hand of the
king.
018:012 And the messenger that went to call Micaiah
spake to him,
saying, Behold, the words of the prophets declare good to the
king with one
assent; let thy word therefore, I pray thee, be
like one of
their's, and speak thou good.
018:013 And Micaiah said, As the LORD liveth, even what
my God saith,
that will I speak.
018:014 And when he was come to the king, the king said
unto him,
Micaiah, shall we go to Ramothgilead to battle, or shall I
forbear? And he
said, Go ye up, and prosper, and they shall be
delivered into
your hand.
018:015 And the king said to him, How many times shall I
adjure thee
that thou say nothing but the truth to me in the name of the
LORD?
018:016 Then he said, I did see all Israel scattered
upon the
mountains, as sheep that have no shepherd: and the LORD said,
These have no
master; let them return therefore every man to
his house in
peace.
018:017 And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, Did
I not tell
thee that he would not prophesy good unto me, but evil?
018:018 Again he said, Therefore hear the word of the
LORD; I saw the
LORD sitting
upon his throne, and all the host of heaven
standing on his
right hand and on his left.
018:019 And the LORD said, Who shall entice Ahab king of
Israel, that
he may go up and fall at Ramothgilead? And one spake saying
after this
manner, and another saying after that manner.
018:020 Then there came out a spirit, and stood before
the LORD, and
said, I will entice him. And the LORD said unto him,
Wherewith?
018:021 And he said, I will go out, and be a lying
spirit in the mouth
of all his
prophets. And the Lord said, Thou shalt entice him,
and thou shalt
also prevail: go out, and do even so.
018:022 Now therefore, behold, the LORD hath put a lying
spirit in the
mouth of these thy prophets, and the LORD hath spoken evil
against
thee.
018:023 Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came near,
and smote
Micaiah upon the cheek, and said, Which way went the Spirit of
the LORD from me
to speak unto thee?
018:024 And Micaiah said, Behold, thou shalt see on that
day when thou
shalt go into an inner chamber to hide thyself.
018:025 Then the king of Israel said, Take ye Micaiah,
and carry him
back to Amon the governor of the city, and to Joash the king's
son;
018:026 And say, Thus saith the king, Put this fellow in
the prison,
and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of
affliction,
until I return in peace.
018:027 And Micaiah said, If thou certainly return in
peace, then hath
not the LORD
spoken by me. And he said, Hearken, all ye
people.
018:028 So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king
of Judah went
up to Ramothgilead.
018:029 And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, I
will disguise
myself, and I will go to the battle; but put thou on thy
robes. So the
king of Israel disguised himself; and they went
to the
battle.
018:030 Now the king of Syria had commanded the captains
of the
chariots that were with him, saying, Fight ye not with small
or great, save
only with the king of Israel.
018:031 And it came to pass, when the captains of the
chariots saw
Jehoshaphat, that they said, It is the king of Israel.
Therefore they
compassed about him to fight: but Jehoshaphat
cried out, and
the LORD helped him; and God moved them to
depart from
him.
018:032 For it came to pass, that, when the captains of
the chariots
perceived that it was not the king of Israel, they turned back
again from
pursuing him.
018:033 And a certain man drew a bow at a venture, and
smote the king
of Israel
between the joints of the harness: therefore he said
to his chariot
man, Turn thine hand, that thou mayest carry me
out of the host;
for I am wounded.
018:034 And the battle increased that day: howbeit the
king of Israel
stayed himself
up in his chariot against the Syrians until the
even: and about
the time of the sun going down he died.
019:001 And Jehoshaphat the king of Judah returned to
his house in
peace to Jerusalem.
019:002 And Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to
meet him, and
said to king Jehoshaphat, Shouldest thou help the ungodly, and
love them that
hate the LORD? therefore is wrath upon thee
from before the
LORD.
019:003 Nevertheless there are good things found in
thee, in that thou
hast taken away
the groves out of the land, and hast prepared
thine heart to
seek God.
019:004 And Jehoshaphat dwelt at Jerusalem: and he went
out again
through the people from Beersheba to mount Ephraim, and
brought them
back unto the LORD God of their fathers.
019:005 And he set judges in the land throughout all the
fenced cities
of Judah, city by city,
019:006 And said to the judges, Take heed what ye do:
for ye judge not
for man, but for
the LORD, who is with you in the judgment.
019:007 Wherefore now let the fear of the LORD be upon
you; take heed
and do it: for
there is no iniquity with the LORD our God, nor
respect of
persons, nor taking of gifts.
019:008 Moreover in Jerusalem did Jehoshaphat set of the
Levites, and
of the priests, and of the chief of the fathers of Israel, for
the judgment of
the LORD, and for controversies, when they
returned to
Jerusalem.
019:009 And he charged them, saying, Thus shall ye do in
the fear of
the LORD, faithfully, and with a perfect heart.
019:010 And what cause soever shall come to you of your
brethren that
dwell in your cities, between blood and blood, between law and
commandment,
statutes and judgments, ye shall even warn them
that they
trespass not against the LORD, and so wrath come
upon you, and
upon your brethren: this do, and ye shall not
trespass.
019:011 And, behold, Amariah the chief priest is over
you in all
matters of the LORD; and Zebadiah the son of Ishmael, the
ruler of the
house of Judah, for all the king's matters: also
the Levites
shall be officers before you. Deal courageously,
and the LORD
shall be with the good.
020:001 It came to pass after this also, that the
children of Moab,
and the children
of Ammon, and with them other beside the
Ammonites, came
against Jehoshaphat to battle.
020:002 Then there came some that told Jehoshaphat,
saying, There
cometh a great multitude against thee from beyond the sea on
this side Syria;
and, behold, they be in Hazazontamar, which
is Engedi.
020:003 And Jehoshaphat feared, and set himself to seek
the LORD, and
proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah.
020:004 And Judah gathered themselves together, to ask
help of the
LORD: even out of all the cities of Judah they came to seek
the LORD.
020:005 And Jehoshaphat stood in the congregation of
Judah and
Jerusalem, in the house of the LORD, before the new court,
020:006 And said, O LORD God of our fathers, art not
thou God in
heaven? and rulest not thou over all the kingdoms of the
heathen? and in
thine hand is there not power and might, so
that none is
able to withstand thee?
020:007 Art not thou our God, who didst drive out the
inhabitants of
this land before
thy people Israel, and gavest it to the seed
of Abraham thy
friend for ever?
020:008 And they dwelt therein, and have built thee a
sanctuary
therein for thy name, saying,
020:009 If, when evil cometh upon us, as the sword,
judgment, or
pestilence, or famine, we stand before this house, and in thy
presence, (for
thy name is in this house,) and cry unto thee
in our
affliction, then thou wilt hear and help.
020:010 And now, behold, the children of Ammon and Moab
and mount
Seir, whom thou wouldest not let Israel invade, when they came
out of the land
of Egypt, but they turned from them, and
destroyed them
not;
020:011 Behold, I say, how they reward us, to come to
cast us out of
thy possession,
which thou hast given us to inherit.
020:012 O our God, wilt thou not judge them? for we have
no might
against this great company that cometh against us; neither
know we what to
do: but our eyes are upon thee.
020:013 And all Judah stood before the LORD, with their
little ones,
their wives, and their children.
020:014 Then upon Jahaziel the son of Zechariah, the son
of Benaiah,
the son of Jeiel, the son of Mattaniah, a Levite of the sons
of Asaph, came
the Spirit of the LORD in the midst of the
congregation;
020:015 And he said, Hearken ye, all Judah, and ye
inhabitants of
Jerusalem, and
thou king Jehoshaphat, Thus saith the LORD unto
you, Be not
afraid nor dismayed by reason of this great
multitude; for
the battle is not yours, but God's.
020:016 To morrow go ye down against them: behold, they
come up by the
cliff of Ziz;
and ye shall find them at the end of the brook,
before the
wilderness of Jeruel.
020:017 Ye shall not need to fight in this battle: set
yourselves,
stand ye still, and see the salvation of the LORD with you, O
Judah and
Jerusalem: fear not, nor be dismayed; to morrow go
out against
them: for the LORD will be with you.
020:018 And Jehoshaphat bowed his head with his face to
the ground:
and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem fell before the
LORD,
worshipping the LORD.
020:019 And the Levites, of the children of the
Kohathites, and of the
children of the
Korhites, stood up to praise the LORD God of
Israel with a
loud voice on high.
020:020 And they rose early in the morning, and went
forth into the
wilderness of
Tekoa: and as they went forth, Jehoshaphat stood
and said, Hear
me, O Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem;
Believe in the
LORD your God, so shall ye be established;
believe his
prophets, so shall ye prosper.
020:021 And when he had consulted with the people, he
appointed
singers unto the LORD, and that should praise the beauty of
holiness, as
they went out before the army, and to say, Praise
the LORD; for
his mercy endureth for ever.
020:022 And when they began to sing and to praise, the
LORD set
ambushments against the children of Ammon, Moab, and mount
Seir, which were
come against Judah; and they were smitten.
020:023 For the children of Ammon and Moab stood up
against the
inhabitants of mount Seir, utterly to slay and destroy them:
and when they
had made an end of the inhabitants of Seir,
every one helped
to destroy another.
020:024 And when Judah came toward the watch tower in
the wilderness,
they looked unto
the multitude, and, behold, they were dead
bodies fallen to
the earth, and none escaped.
020:025 And when Jehoshaphat and his people came to take
away the
spoil of them, they found among them in abundance both riches
with the dead
bodies, and precious jewels, which they stripped
off for
themselves, more than they could carry away: and they
were three days
in gathering of the spoil, it was so much.
020:026 And on the fourth day they assembled themselves
in the valley
of Berachah; for there they blessed the LORD: therefore the
name of the same
place was called, The valley of Berachah,
unto this
day.
020:027 Then they returned, every man of Judah and
Jerusalem, and
Jehoshaphat in
the forefront of them, to go again to Jerusalem
with joy; for
the LORD had made them to rejoice over their
enemies.
020:028 And they came to Jerusalem with psalteries and
harps and
trumpets unto the house of the LORD.
020:029 And the fear of God was on all the kingdoms of
those
countries, when they had heard that the LORD fought against
the enemies of
Israel.
020:030 So the realm of Jehoshaphat was quiet: for his
God gave him
rest round about.
020:031 And Jehoshaphat reigned over Judah: he was
thirty and five
years old when
he began to reign, and he reigned twenty and
five years in
Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Azubah the
daughter of
Shilhi.
020:032 And he walked in the way of Asa his father, and
departed not
from it, doing that which was right in the sight of the LORD.
020:033 Howbeit the high places were not taken away: for
as yet the
people had not prepared their hearts unto the God of their
fathers.
020:034 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, first
and last,
behold, they are written in the book of Jehu the son of
Hanani, who is
mentioned in the book of the kings of Israel.
020:035 And after this did Jehoshaphat king of Judah
join himself with
Ahaziah king of
Israel, who did very wickedly:
020:036 And he joined himself with him to make ships to
go to
Tarshish: and they made the ships in Eziongaber.
020:037 Then Eliezer the son of Dodavah of Mareshah
prophesied against
Jehoshaphat,
saying, Because thou hast joined thyself with
Ahaziah, the
LORD hath broken thy works. And the ships were
broken, that
they were not able to go to Tarshish.
021:001 Now Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers, and was
buried with
his fathers in the city of David. And Jehoram his son reigned
in his
stead.
021:002 And he had brethren the sons of Jehoshaphat,
Azariah, and
Jehiel, and Zechariah, and Azariah, and Michael, and
Shephatiah: all
these were the sons of Jehoshaphat king of
Israel.
021:003 And their father gave them great gifts of
silver, and of gold,
and of precious
things, with fenced cities in Judah: but the
kingdom gave he
to Jehoram; because he was the firstborn.
021:004 Now when Jehoram was risen up to the kingdom of
his father, he
strengthened
himself, and slew all his brethren with the
sword, and
divers also of the princes of Israel.
021:005 Jehoram was thirty and two years old when he
began to reign,
and he reigned
eight years in Jerusalem.
021:006 And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel,
like as did
the house of Ahab: for he had the daughter of Ahab to wife:
and he wrought
that which was evil in the eyes of the LORD.
021:007 Howbeit the LORD would not destroy the house of
David, because
of the covenant
that he had made with David, and as he
promised to give
a light to him and to his sons for ever.
021:008 In his days the Edomites revolted from under the
dominion of
Judah, and made themselves a king.
021:009 Then Jehoram went forth with his princes, and
all his chariots
with him: and he
rose up by night, and smote the Edomites
which compassed
him in, and the captains of the chariots.
021:010 So the Edomites revolted from under the hand of
Judah unto
this day. The same time also did Libnah revolt from under his
hand; because he
had forsaken the LORD God of his fathers.
021:011 Moreover he made high places in the mountains of
Judah and
caused the inhabitants of Jerusalem to commit fornication, and
compelled Judah
thereto.
021:012 And there came a writing to him from Elijah the
prophet,
saying, Thus saith the LORD God of David thy father, Because
thou hast not
walked in the ways of Jehoshaphat thy father,
nor in the ways
of Asa king of Judah,
021:013 But hast walked in the way of the kings of
Israel, and hast
made Judah and
the inhabitants of Jerusalem to go a whoring,
like to the
whoredoms of the house of Ahab, and also hast
slain thy
brethren of thy father's house, which were better
than
thyself:
021:014 Behold, with a great plague will the LORD smite
thy people,
and thy children, and thy wives, and all thy goods:
021:015 And thou shalt have great sickness by disease of
thy bowels,
until thy bowels fall out by reason of the sickness day by
day.
021:016 Moreover the LORD stirred up against Jehoram the
spirit of the
Philistines, and of the Arabians, that were near the
Ethiopians:
021:017 And they came up into Judah, and brake into it,
and carried
away all the substance that was found in the king's house, and
his sons also,
and his wives; so that there was never a son
left him, save
Jehoahaz, the youngest of his sons.
021:018 And after all this the LORD smote him in his
bowels with an
incurable
disease.
021:019 And it came to pass, that in process of time,
after the end of
two years, his
bowels fell out by reason of his sickness: so
he died of sore
diseases. And his people made no burning for
him, like the
burning of his fathers.
021:020 Thirty and two years old was he when he began to
reign, and he
reigned in Jerusalem eight years, and departed without being
desired. Howbeit
they buried him in the city of David, but not
in the
sepulchres of the kings.
022:001 And the inhabitants of Jerusalem made Ahaziah
his youngest son
king in his
stead: for the band of men that came with the
Arabians to the
camp had slain all the eldest. So Ahaziah the
son of Jehoram
king of Judah reigned.
022:002 Forty and two years old was Ahaziah when he
began to reign,
and he reigned
one year in Jerusalem. His mother's name also
was Athaliah the
daughter of Omri.
022:003 He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab:
for his
mother was his counsellor to do wickedly.
022:004 Wherefore he did evil in the sight of the LORD
like the house
of Ahab: for
they were his counsellors after the death of his
father to his
destruction.
022:005 He walked also after their counsel, and went
with Jehoram the
son of Ahab king
of Israel to war against Hazael king of Syria
at Ramothgilead:
and the Syrians smote Joram.
022:006 And he returned to be healed in Jezreel because
of the wounds
which were given him at Ramah, when he fought with Hazael king
of Syria. And
Azariah the son of Jehoram king of Judah went
down to see
Jehoram the son of Ahab at Jezreel, because he was
sick.
022:007 And the destruction of Ahaziah was of God by
coming to Joram:
for when he was
come, he went out with Jehoram against Jehu
the son of
Nimshi, whom the LORD had anointed to cut off the
house of
Ahab.
022:008 And it came to pass, that, when Jehu was
executing judgment
upon the house
of Ahab, and found the princes of Judah, and
the sons of the
brethren of Ahaziah, that ministered to
Ahaziah, he slew
them.
022:009 And he sought Ahaziah: and they caught him, (for
he was hid in
Samaria,) and brought him to Jehu: and when they had slain
him, they buried
him: Because, said they, he is the son of
Jehoshaphat, who
sought the LORD with all his heart. So the
house of Ahaziah
had no power to keep still the kingdom.
022:010 But when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that
her son was
dead, she arose and destroyed all the seed royal of the house
of Judah.
022:011 But Jehoshabeath, the daughter of the king, took
Joash the son
of Ahaziah, and stole him from among the king's sons that were
slain, and put
him and his nurse in a bedchamber. So
Jehoshabeath,
the daughter of king Jehoram, the wife of
Jehoiada the
priest, (for she was the sister of Ahaziah,) hid
him from
Athaliah, so that she slew him not.
022:012 And he was with them hid in the house of God six
years: and
Athaliah reigned over the land.
023:001 And in the seventh year Jehoiada strengthened
himself, and
took the captains of hundreds, Azariah the son of Jeroham, and
Ishmael the son
of Jehohanan, and Azariah the son of Obed, and
Maaseiah the son
of Adaiah, and Elishaphat the son of Zichri,
into covenant
with him.
023:002 And they went about in Judah, and gathered the
Levites out of
all the cities
of Judah, and the chief of the fathers of
Israel, and they
came to Jerusalem.
023:003 And all the congregation made a covenant with
the king in the
house of God.
And he said unto them, Behold, the king's son
shall reign, as
the LORD hath said of the sons of David.
023:004 This is the thing that ye shall do; A third part
of you
entering on the sabbath, of the priests and of the Levites,
shall be porters
of the doors;
023:005 And a third part shall be at the king's house;
and a third
part at the gate of the foundation: and all the people shall
be in the courts
of the house of the LORD.
023:006 But let none come into the house of the LORD,
save the
priests, and they that minister of the Levites; they shall go
in, for they are
holy: but all the people shall keep the watch
of the LORD.
023:007 And the Levites shall compass the king round
about, every man
with his weapons
in his hand; and whosoever else cometh into
the house, he
shall be put to death: but be ye with the king
when he cometh
in, and when he goeth out.
023:008 So the Levites and all Judah did according to
all things that
Jehoiada the
priest had commanded, and took every man his men
that were to
come in on the sabbath, with them that were to go
out on the
sabbath: for Jehoiada the priest dismissed not the
courses.
023:009 Moreover Jehoiada the priest delivered to the
captains of
hundreds spears, and bucklers, and shields, that had been king
David's, which
were in the house of God.
023:010 And he set all the people, every man having his
weapon in his
hand, from the right side of the temple to the left side of
the temple,
along by the altar and the temple, by the king
round about.
023:011 Then they brought out the king's son, and put
upon him the
crown, and gave him the testimony, and made him king. And
Jehoiada and his
sons anointed him, and said, God save the
king.
023:012 Now when Athaliah heard the noise of the people
running and
praising the king, she came to the people into the house of
the LORD:
023:013 And she looked, and, behold, the king stood at
his pillar at
the entering in, and the princes and the trumpets by the king:
and all the
people of the land rejoiced, and sounded with
trumpets, also
the singers with instruments of musick, and
such as taught
to sing praise. Then Athaliah rent her clothes,
and said,
Treason, Treason.
023:014 Then Jehoiada the priest brought out the
captains of hundreds
that were set
over the host, and said unto them, Have her
forth of the
ranges: and whoso followeth her, let him be slain
with the sword.
For the priest said, Slay her not in the house
of the LORD.
023:015 So they laid hands on her; and when she was come
to the
entering of the horse gate by the king's house, they slew her
there.
023:016 And Jehoiada made a covenant between him, and
between all the
people, and
between the king, that they should be the LORD's
people.
023:017 Then all the people went to the house of Baal,
and brake it
down, and brake his altars and his images in pieces, and slew
Mattan the
priest of Baal before the altars.
023:018 Also Jehoiada appointed the offices of the house
of the LORD
by the hand of the priests the Levites, whom David had
distributed in
the house of the LORD, to offer the burnt
offerings of the
LORD, as it is written in the law of Moses,
with rejoicing
and with singing, as it was ordained by David.
023:019 And he set the porters at the gates of the house
of the LORD,
that none which was unclean in any thing should enter in.
023:020 And he took the captains of hundreds, and the
nobles, and the
governors of the
people, and all the people of the land, and
brought down the
king from the house of the LORD: and they
came through the
high gate into the king's house, and set the
king upon the
throne of the kingdom.
023:021 And all the people of the land rejoiced: and the
city was
quiet, after that they had slain Athaliah with the sword.
024:001 Joash was seven years old when he began to
reign, and he
reigned forty years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also was
Zibiah of
Beersheba.
024:002 And Joash did that which was right in the sight
of the LORD
all the days of Jehoiada the priest.
024:003 And Jehoiada took for him two wives; and he
begat sons and
daughters.
024:004 And it came to pass after this, that Joash was
minded to
repair the house of the LORD.
024:005 And he gathered together the priests and the
Levites, and said
to them, Go out
unto the cities of Judah, and gather of all
Israel money to
repair the house of your God from year to
year, and see
that ye hasten the matter. Howbeit the Levites
hastened it
not.
024:006 And the king called for Jehoiada the chief, and
said unto him,
Why hast thou
not required of the Levites to bring in out of
Judah and out of
Jerusalem the collection, according to the
commandment of
Moses the servant of the LORD, and of the
congregation of
Israel, for the tabernacle of witness?
024:007 For the sons of Athaliah, that wicked woman, had
broken up the
house of God; and also all the dedicated things of the house
of the LORD did
they bestow upon Baalim.
024:008 And at the king's commandment they made a chest,
and set it
without at the gate of the house of the LORD.
024:009 And they made a proclamation through Judah and
Jerusalem, to
bring in to the LORD the collection that Moses the servant of
God laid upon
Israel in the wilderness.
024:010 And all the princes and all the people rejoiced,
and brought
in, and cast into the chest, until they had made an end.
024:011 Now it came to pass, that at what time the chest
was brought
unto the king's office by the hand of the Levites, and when
they saw that
there was much money, the king's scribe and the
high priest's
officer came and emptied the chest, and took it,
and carried it
to his place again. Thus they did day by day,
and gathered
money in abundance.
024:012 And the king and Jehoiada gave it to such as did
the work of
the service of the house of the LORD, and hired masons and
carpenters to
repair the house of the LORD, and also such as
wrought iron and
brass to mend the house of the LORD.
024:013 So the workmen wrought, and the work was
perfected by them,
and they set the
house of God in his state, and strengthened
it.
024:014 And when they had finished it, they brought the
rest of the
money before the king and Jehoiada, whereof were made vessels
for the house of
the LORD, even vessels to minister, and to
offer withal,
and spoons, and vessels of gold and silver. And
they offered
burnt offerings in the house of the LORD
continually all
the days of Jehoiada.
024:015 But Jehoiada waxed old, and was full of days
when he died; an
hundred and
thirty years old was he when he died.
024:016 And they buried him in the city of David among
the kings,
because he had done good in Israel, both toward God, and
toward his
house.
024:017 Now after the death of Jehoiada came the princes
of Judah, and
made obeisance to the king. Then the king hearkened unto them.
024:018 And they left the house of the LORD God of their
fathers, and
served groves and idols: and wrath came upon Judah and
Jerusalem for
this their trespass.
024:019 Yet he sent prophets to them, to bring them
again unto the
LORD; and they
testified against them: but they would not give
ear.
024:020 And the Spirit of God came upon Zechariah the
son of Jehoiada
the priest,
which stood above the people, and said unto them,
Thus saith God,
Why transgress ye the commandments of the
LORD, that ye
cannot prosper? because ye have forsaken the
LORD, he hath
also forsaken you.
024:021 And they conspired against him, and stoned him
with stones at
the commandment
of the king in the court of the house of the
LORD.
024:022 Thus Joash the king remembered not the kindness
which Jehoiada
his father had
done to him, but slew his son. And when he
died, he said,
The LORD look upon it, and require it.
024:023 And it came to pass at the end of the year, that
the host of
Syria came up against him: and they came to Judah and
Jerusalem, and
destroyed all the princes of the people from
among the
people, and sent all the spoil of them unto the king
of Damascus.
024:024 For the army of the Syrians came with a small
company of men,
and the LORD
delivered a very great host into their hand,
because they had
forsaken the LORD God of their fathers. So
they executed
judgment against Joash.
024:025 And when they were departed from him, (for they
left him in
great diseases,) his own servants conspired against him for
the blood of the
sons of Jehoiada the priest, and slew him on
his bed, and he
died: and they buried him in the city of
David, but they
buried him not in the sepulchres of the kings.
024:026 And these are they that conspired against him;
Zabad the son
of Shimeath an Ammonitess, and Jehozabad the son of Shimrith a
Moabitess.
024:027 Now concerning his sons, and the greatness of
the burdens laid
upon him, and
the repairing of the house of God, behold, they
are written in
the story of the book of the kings. And Amaziah
his son reigned
in his stead.
025:001 Amaziah was twenty and five years old when he
began to reign,
and he reigned
twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. And his
mother's name
was Jehoaddan of Jerusalem.
025:002 And he did that which was right in the sight of
the LORD, but
not with a perfect heart.
025:003 Now it came to pass, when the kingdom was
established to him,
that he slew his
servants that had killed the king his father.
025:004 But he slew not their children, but did as it is
written in
the law in the book of Moses, where the LORD commanded,
saying, The
fathers shall not die for the children, neither
shall the
children die for the fathers, but every man shall
die for his own
sin.
025:005 Moreover Amaziah gathered Judah together, and
made them
captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, according
to the houses of
their fathers, throughout all Judah and
Benjamin: and he
numbered them from twenty years old and
above, and found
them three hundred thousand choice men, able
to go forth to
war, that could handle spear and shield.
025:006 He hired also an hundred thousand mighty men of
valour out of
Israel for an hundred talents of silver.
025:007 But there came a man of God to him, saying, O
king, let not
the army of Israel go with thee; for the LORD is not with
Israel, to wit,
with all the children of Ephraim.
025:008 But if thou wilt go, do it; be strong for the
battle: God
shall make thee fall before the enemy: for God hath power to
help, and to
cast down.
025:009 And Amaziah said to the man of God, But what
shall we do for
the hundred
talents which I have given to the army of Israel?
And the man of
God answered, The LORD is able to give thee
much more than
this.
025:010 Then Amaziah separated them, to wit, the army
that was come to
him out of
Ephraim, to go home again: wherefore their anger
was greatly
kindled against Judah, and they returned home in
great anger.
025:011 And Amaziah strengthened himself, and led forth
his people,
and went to the valley of salt, and smote of the children of
Seir ten
thousand.
025:012 And other ten thousand left alive did the
children of Judah
carry away
captive, and brought them unto the top of the rock,
and cast them
down from the top of the rock, that they all
were broken in
pieces.
025:013 But the soldiers of the army which Amaziah sent
back, that
they should not go with him to battle, fell upon the cities of
Judah, from
Samaria even unto Bethhoron, and smote three
thousand of
them, and took much spoil.
025:014 Now it came to pass, after that Amaziah was come
from the
slaughter of the Edomites, that he brought the gods of the
children of
Seir, and set them up to be his gods, and bowed
down himself
before them, and burned incense unto them.
025:015 Wherefore the anger of the LORD was kindled
against Amaziah,
and he sent unto
him a prophet, which said unto him, Why hast
thou sought
after the gods of the people, which could not
deliver their
own people out of thine hand?
025:016 And it came to pass, as he talked with him, that
the king said
unto him, Art thou made of the king's counsel? forbear; why
shouldest thou
be smitten? Then the prophet forbare, and said,
I know that God
hath determined to destroy thee, because thou
hast done this,
and hast not hearkened unto my counsel.
025:017 Then Amaziah king of Judah took advice, and sent
to Joash, the
son of Jehoahaz, the son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying,
Come, let us see
one another in the face.
025:018 And Joash king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of
Judah,
saying, The thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that
was in Lebanon,
saying, Give thy daughter to my son to wife:
and there passed
by a wild beast that was in Lebanon, and
trode down the
thistle.
025:019 Thou sayest, Lo, thou hast smitten the Edomites;
and thine
heart lifteth thee up to boast: abide now at home; why
shouldest thou
meddle to thine hurt, that thou shouldest fall,
even thou, and
Judah with thee?
025:020 But Amaziah would not hear; for it came of God,
that he might
deliver them into the hand of their enemies, because they
sought after the
gods of Edom.
025:021 So Joash the king of Israel went up; and they
saw one another
in the face,
both he and Amaziah king of Judah, at
Bethshemesh,
which belongeth to Judah.
025:022 And Judah was put to the worse before Israel,
and they fled
every man to his tent.
025:023 And Joash the king of Israel took Amaziah king
of Judah, the
son of Joash, the son of Jehoahaz, at Bethshemesh, and brought
him to
Jerusalem, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem from
the gate of
Ephraim to the corner gate, four hundred cubits.
025:024 And he took all the gold and the silver, and all
the vessels
that were found in the house of God with Obededom, and the
treasures of the
king's house, the hostages also, and returned
to Samaria.
025:025 And Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived
after the
death of Joash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel fifteen years.
025:026 Now the rest of the acts of Amaziah, first and
last, behold,
are they not written in the book of the kings of Judah and
Israel?
025:027 Now after the time that Amaziah did turn away
from following
the LORD they
made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem; and
he fled to
Lachish: but they sent to Lachish after him, and
slew him
there.
025:028 And they brought him upon horses, and buried him
with his
fathers in the city of Judah.
026:001 Then all the people of Judah took Uzziah, who
was sixteen
years old, and made him king in the room of his father
Amaziah.
026:002 He built Eloth, and restored it to Judah, after
that the king
slept with his fathers.
026:003 Sixteen years old was Uzziah when he began to
reign, and he
reigned fifty and two years in Jerusalem. His mother's name
also was
Jecoliah of Jerusalem.
026:004 And he did that which was right in the sight of
the LORD,
according to all that his father Amaziah did.
026:005 And he sought God in the days of Zechariah, who
had
understanding in the visions of God: and as long as he sought
the LORD, God
made him to prosper.
026:006 And he went forth and warred against the
Philistines, and
brake down the
wall of Gath, and the wall of Jabneh, and the
wall of Ashdod,
and built cities about Ashdod, and among the
Philistines.
026:007 And God helped him against the Philistines, and
against the
Arabians that dwelt in Gurbaal, and the Mehunims.
026:008 And the Ammonites gave gifts to Uzziah: and his
name spread
abroad even to the entering in of Egypt; for he strengthened
himself
exceedingly.
026:009 Moreover Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem at the
corner gate,
and at the valley gate, and at the turning of the wall, and
fortified
them.
026:010 Also he built towers in the desert, and digged
many wells: for
he had much
cattle, both in the low country, and in the
plains:
husbandmen also, and vine dressers in the mountains,
and in Carmel:
for he loved husbandry.
026:011 Moreover Uzziah had an host of fighting men,
that went out to
war by bands,
according to the number of their account by the
hand of Jeiel
the scribe and Maaseiah the ruler, under the
hand of
Hananiah, one of the king's captains.
026:012 The whole number of the chief of the fathers of
the mighty men
of valour were
two thousand and six hundred.
026:013 And under their hand was an army, three hundred
thousand and
seven thousand and five hundred, that made war with mighty
power, to help
the king against the enemy.
026:014 And Uzziah prepared for them throughout all the
host shields,
and spears, and helmets, and habergeons, and bows, and slings
to cast
stones.
026:015 And he made in Jerusalem engines, invented by
cunning men, to
be on the towers
and upon the bulwarks, to shoot arrows and
great stones
withal. And his name spread far abroad; for he
was marvellously
helped, till he was strong.
026:016 But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up
to his
destruction: for he transgressed against the LORD his God, and
went into the
temple of the LORD to burn incense upon the
altar of
incense.
026:017 And Azariah the priest went in after him, and
with him
fourscore priests of the LORD, that were valiant men:
026:018 And they withstood Uzziah the king, and said
unto him, It
appertaineth not unto thee, Uzziah, to burn incense unto the
LORD, but to the
priests the sons of Aaron, that are
consecrated to
burn incense: go out of the sanctuary; for thou
hast trespassed;
neither shall it be for thine honour from the
LORD God.
026:019 Then Uzziah was wroth, and had a censer in his
hand to burn
incense: and while he was wroth with the priests, the leprosy
even rose up in
his forehead before the priests in the house
of the LORD,
from beside the incense altar.
026:020 And Azariah the chief priest, and all the
priests, looked upon
him, and,
behold, he was leprous in his forehead, and they
thrust him out
from thence; yea, himself hasted also to go
out, because the
LORD had smitten him.
026:021 And Uzziah the king was a leper unto the day of
his death, and
dwelt in a
several house, being a leper; for he was cut off
from the house
of the LORD: and Jotham his son was over the
king's house,
judging the people of the land.
026:022 Now the rest of the acts of Uzziah, first and
last, did Isaiah
the prophet, the
son of Amoz, write.
026:023 So Uzziah slept with his fathers, and they
buried him with his
fathers in the
field of the burial which belonged to the
kings; for they
said, He is a leper: and Jotham his son
reigned in his
stead.
027:001 Jotham was twenty and five years old when he
began to reign,
and he reigned
sixteen years in Jerusalem. His mother's name
also was
Jerushah, the daughter of Zadok.
027:002 And he did that which was right in the sight of
the LORD,
according to all that his father Uzziah did: howbeit he
entered not into
the temple of the LORD. And the people did
yet
corruptly.
027:003 He built the high gate of the house of the LORD,
and on the
wall of Ophel he built much.
027:004 Moreover he built cities in the mountains of
Judah, and in the
forests he built
castles and towers.
027:005 He fought also with the king of the Ammonites,
and prevailed
against them. And the children of Ammon gave him the same year
an hundred
talents of silver, and ten thousand measures of
wheat, and ten
thousand of barley. So much did the children of
Ammon pay unto
him, both the second year, and the third.
027:006 So Jotham became mighty, because he prepared his
ways before
the LORD his God.
027:007 Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all his
wars, and his
ways, lo, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel
and Judah.
027:008 He was five and twenty years old when he began
to reign, and
reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem.
027:009 And Jotham slept with his fathers, and they
buried him in the
city of David:
and Ahaz his son reigned in his stead.
028:001 Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to
reign, and he
reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem: but he did not that which
was right in the
sight of the LORD, like David his father:
028:002 For he walked in the ways of the kings of
Israel, and made
also molten
images for Baalim.
028:003 Moreover he burnt incense in the valley of the
son of Hinnom,
and burnt his
children in the fire, after the abominations of
the heathen whom
the LORD had cast out before the children of
Israel.
028:004 He sacrificed also and burnt incense in the high
places, and
on the hills, and under every green tree.
028:005 Wherefore the LORD his God delivered him into
the hand of the
king of Syria;
and they smote him, and carried away a great
multitude of
them captives, and brought them to Damascus. And
he was also
delivered into the hand of the king of Israel, who
smote him with a
great slaughter.
028:006 For Pekah the son of Remaliah slew in Judah an
hundred and
twenty thousand in one day, which were all valiant men;
because they had
forsaken the LORD God of their fathers.
028:007 And Zichri, a mighty man of Ephraim, slew
Maaseiah the king's
son, and Azrikam
the governor of the house, and Elkanah that
was next to the
king.
028:008 And the children of Israel carried away captive
of their
brethren two hundred thousand, women, sons, and daughters, and
took also away
much spoil from them, and brought the spoil to
Samaria.
028:009 But a prophet of the LORD was there, whose name
was Oded: and
he went out before the host that came to Samaria, and said
unto them,
Behold, because the LORD God of your fathers was
wroth with
Judah, he hath delivered them into your hand, and
ye have slain
them in a rage that reacheth up unto heaven.
028:010 And now ye purpose to keep under the children of
Judah and
Jerusalem for bondmen and bondwomen unto you: but are there
not with you,
even with you, sins against the LORD your God?
028:011 Now hear me therefore, and deliver the captives
again, which
ye have taken captive of your brethren: for the fierce wrath
of the LORD is
upon you.
028:012 Then certain of the heads of the children of
Ephraim, Azariah
the son of
Johanan, Berechiah the son of Meshillemoth, and
Jehizkiah the
son of Shallum, and Amasa the son of Hadlai,
stood up against
them that came from the war,
028:013 And said unto them, Ye shall not bring in the
captives hither:
for whereas we
have offended against the LORD already, ye
intend to add
more to our sins and to our trespass: for our
trespass is
great, and there is fierce wrath against Israel.
028:014 So the armed men left the captives and the spoil
before the
princes and all the congregation.
028:015 And the men which were expressed by name rose
up, and took the
captives, and
with the spoil clothed all that were naked among
them, and
arrayed them, and shod them, and gave them to eat
and to drink,
and anointed them, and carried all the feeble of
them upon asses,
and brought them to Jericho, the city of palm
trees, to their
brethren: then they returned to Samaria.
028:016 At that time did king Ahaz send unto the kings
of Assyria to
help him.
028:017 For again the Edomites had come and smitten
Judah, and carried
away
captives.
028:018 The Philistines also had invaded the cities of
the low
country, and of the south of Judah, and had taken Bethshemesh,
and Ajalon, and
Gederoth, and Shocho with the villages
thereof, and
Timnah with the villages thereof, Gimzo also and
the villages
thereof: and they dwelt there.
028:019 For the LORD brought Judah low because of Ahaz
king of Israel;
for he made
Judah naked, and transgressed sore against the
LORD.
028:020 And Tilgathpilneser king of Assyria came unto
him, and
distressed him, but strengthened him not.
028:021 For Ahaz took away a portion out of the house of
the LORD, and
out of the house of the king, and of the princes, and gave it
unto the king of
Assyria: but he helped him not.
028:022 And in the time of his distress did he trespass
yet more
against the LORD: this is that king Ahaz.
028:023 For he sacrificed unto the gods of Damascus,
which smote him:
and he said,
Because the gods of the kings of Syria help them,
therefore will I
sacrifice to them, that they may help me. But
they were the
ruin of him, and of all Israel.
028:024 And Ahaz gathered together the vessels of the
house of God,
and cut in pieces the vessels of the house of God, and shut up
the doors of the
house of the LORD, and he made him altars in
every corner of
Jerusalem.
028:025 And in every several city of Judah he made high
places to burn
incense unto
other gods, and provoked to anger the LORD God of
his fathers.
028:026 Now the rest of his acts and of all his ways,
first and last,
behold, they are
written in the book of the kings of Judah and
Israel.
028:027 And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and they buried
him in the
city, even in Jerusalem: but they brought him not into the
sepulchres of
the kings of Israel: and Hezekiah his son
reigned in his
stead.
029:001 Hezekiah began to reign when he was five and
twenty years old,
and he reigned
nine and twenty years in Jerusalem. And his
mother's name
was Abijah, the daughter of Zechariah.
029:002 And he did that which was right in the sight of
the LORD,
according to all that David his father had done.
029:003 He in the first year of his reign, in the first
month, opened
the doors of the house of the LORD, and repaired them.
029:004 And he brought in the priests and the Levites,
and gathered
them together into the east street,
029:005 And said unto them, Hear me, ye Levites,
sanctify now
yourselves, and sanctify the house of the LORD God of your
fathers, and
carry forth the filthiness out of the holy place.
029:006 For our fathers have trespassed, and done that
which was evil
in the eyes of
the LORD our God, and have forsaken him, and
have turned away
their faces from the habitation of the LORD,
and turned their
backs.
029:007 Also they have shut up the doors of the porch,
and put out the
lamps, and have
not burned incense nor offered burnt offerings
in the holy
place unto the God of Israel.
029:008 Wherefore the wrath of the LORD was upon Judah
and Jerusalem,
and he hath
delivered them to trouble, to astonishment, and to
hissing, as ye
see with your eyes.
029:009 For, lo, our fathers have fallen by the sword,
and our sons
and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this.
029:010 Now it is in mine heart to make a covenant with
the LORD God
of Israel, that his fierce wrath may turn away from us.
029:011 My sons, be not now negligent: for the LORD hath
chosen you to
stand before him, to serve him, and that ye should minister
unto him, and
burn incense.
029:012 Then the Levites arose, Mahath the son of
Amasai, and Joel the
son of Azariah,
of the sons of the Kohathites: and of the sons
of Merari, Kish
the son of Abdi, and Azariah the son of
Jehalelel: and
of the Gershonites; Joah the son of Zimmah, and
Eden the son of
Joah:
029:013 And of the sons of Elizaphan; Shimri, and Jeiel:
and of the
sons of Asaph; Zechariah, and Mattaniah:
029:014 And of the sons of Heman; Jehiel, and Shimei:
and of the sons
of Jeduthun;
Shemaiah, and Uzziel.
029:015 And they gathered their brethren, and sanctified
themselves,
and came, according to the commandment of the king, by the
words of the
LORD, to cleanse the house of the LORD.
029:016 And the priests went into the inner part of the
house of the
LORD, to cleanse it, and brought out all the uncleanness that
they found in
the temple of the LORD into the court of the
house of the
LORD. And the Levites took it, to carry it out
abroad into the
brook Kidron.
029:017 Now they began on the first day of the first
month to
sanctify, and on the eighth day of the month came they to the
porch of the
LORD: so they sanctified the house of the LORD in
eight days; and
in the sixteenth day of the first month they
made an end.
029:018 Then they went in to Hezekiah the king, and
said, We have
cleansed all the house of the LORD, and the altar of burnt
offering, with
all the vessels thereof, and the shewbread
table, with all
the vessels thereof.
029:019 Moreover all the vessels, which king Ahaz in his
reign did
cast away in his transgression, have we prepared and
sanctified, and,
behold, they are before the altar of the
LORD.
029:020 Then Hezekiah the king rose early, and gathered
the rulers of
the city, and went up to the house of the LORD.
029:021 And they brought seven bullocks, and seven rams,
and seven
lambs, and seven he goats, for a sin offering for the kingdom,
and for the
sanctuary, and for Judah. And he commanded the
priests the sons
of Aaron to offer them on the altar of the
LORD.
029:022 So they killed the bullocks, and the priests
received the
blood, and sprinkled it on the altar: likewise, when they had
killed the rams,
they sprinkled the blood upon the altar: they
killed also the
lambs, and they sprinkled the blood upon the
altar.
029:023 And they brought forth the he goats for the sin
offering
before the king and the congregation; and they laid their
hands upon
them:
029:024 And the priests killed them, and they made
reconciliation with
their blood upon
the altar, to make an atonement for all
Israel: for the
king commanded that the burnt offering and the
sin offering
should be made for all Israel.
029:025 And he set the Levites in the house of the LORD
with cymbals,
with psalteries, and with harps, according to the commandment
of David, and of
Gad the king's seer, and Nathan the prophet:
for so was the
commandment of the LORD by his prophets.
029:026 And the Levites stood with the instruments of
David, and the
priests with the
trumpets.
029:027 And Hezekiah commanded to offer the burnt
offering upon the
altar. And when
the burnt offering began, the song of the LORD
began also with
the trumpets, and with the instruments
ordained by
David king of Israel.
029:028 And all the congregation worshipped, and the
singers sang, and
the trumpeters
sounded: and all this continued until the burnt
offering was
finished.
029:029 And when they had made an end of offering, the
king and all
that were present with him bowed themselves, and worshipped.
029:030 Moreover Hezekiah the king and the princes
commanded the
Levites to sing praise unto the LORD with the words of David,
and of Asaph the
seer. And they sang praises with gladness,
and they bowed
their heads and worshipped.
029:031 Then Hezekiah answered and said, Now ye have
consecrated
yourselves unto the LORD, come near and bring sacrifices and
thank offerings
into the house of the LORD. And the
congregation
brought in sacrifices and thank offerings; and as
many as were of
a free heart burnt offerings.
029:032 And the number of the burnt offerings, which the
congregation
brought, was threescore and ten bullocks, an hundred rams, and
two hundred
lambs: all these were for a burnt offering to the
LORD.
029:033 And the consecrated things were six hundred oxen
and three
thousand sheep.
029:034 But the priests were too few, so that they could
not flay all
the burnt offerings: wherefore their brethren the Levites did
help them, till
the work was ended, and until the other
priests had
sanctified themselves: for the Levites were more
upright in heart
to sanctify themselves than the priests.
029:035 And also the burnt offerings were in abundance,
with the fat
of the peace offerings, and the drink offerings for every
burnt offering.
So the service of the house of the LORD was
set in
order.
029:036 And Hezekiah rejoiced, and all the people, that
God had
prepared the people: for the thing was done suddenly.
030:001 And Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah, and
wrote letters
also to Ephraim and Manasseh, that they should come to the
house of the
LORD at Jerusalem, to keep the passover unto the
LORD God of
Israel.
030:002 For the king had taken counsel, and his princes,
and all the
congregation in Jerusalem, to keep the passover in the second
month.
030:003 For they could not keep it at that time, because
the priests
had not sanctified themselves sufficiently, neither had the
people gathered
themselves together to Jerusalem.
030:004 And the thing pleased the king and all the congregation.
030:005 So they established a decree to make
proclamation throughout
all Israel, from
Beersheba even to Dan, that they should come
to keep the
passover unto the LORD God of Israel at Jerusalem:
for they had not
done it of a long time in such sort as it was
written.
030:006 So the posts went with the letters from the king
and his
princes throughout all Israel and Judah, and according to the
commandment of
the king, saying, Ye children of Israel, turn
again unto the
LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, and he
will return to
the remnant of you, that are escaped out of the
hand of the
kings of Assyria.
030:007 And be not ye like your fathers, and like your
brethren, which
trespassed
against the LORD God of their fathers, who
therefore gave
them up to desolation, as ye see.
030:008 Now be ye not stiffnecked, as your fathers were,
but yield
yourselves unto the LORD, and enter into his sanctuary, which
he hath
sanctified for ever: and serve the LORD your God, that
the fierceness
of his wrath may turn away from you.
030:009 For if ye turn again unto the LORD, your
brethren and your
children shall
find compassion before them that lead them
captive, so that
they shall come again into this land: for the
LORD your God is
gracious and merciful, and will not turn away
his face from
you, if ye return unto him.
030:010 So the posts passed from city to city through
the country of
Ephraim and
Manasseh even unto Zebulun: but they laughed them
to scorn, and
mocked them.
030:011 Nevertheless divers of Asher and Manasseh and of
Zebulun
humbled themselves, and came to Jerusalem.
030:012 Also in Judah the hand of God was to give them
one heart to do
the commandment
of the king and of the princes, by the word of
the LORD.
030:013 And there assembled at Jerusalem much people to
keep the feast
of unleavened
bread in the second month, a very great
congregation.
030:014 And they arose and took away the altars that
were in
Jerusalem, and all the altars for incense took they away, and
cast them into
the brook Kidron.
030:015 Then they killed the passover on the fourteenth
day of the
second month: and the priests and the Levites were ashamed,
and sanctified
themselves, and brought in the burnt offerings
into the house
of the LORD.
030:016 And they stood in their place after their
manner, according to
the law of Moses
the man of God: the priests sprinkled the
blood, which
they received of the hand of the Levites.
030:017 For there were many in the congregation that
were not
sanctified: therefore the Levites had the charge of the
killing of the
passovers for every one that was not clean, to
sanctify them
unto the LORD.
030:018 For a multitude of the people, even many of
Ephraim, and
Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves,
yet did they eat
the passover otherwise than it was written.
But Hezekiah
prayed for them, saying, The good LORD pardon
every one
030:019 That prepareth his heart to seek God, the LORD
God of his
fathers, though he be not cleansed according to the
purification of
the sanctuary.
030:020 And the LORD hearkened to Hezekiah, and healed the people.
030:021 And the children of Israel that were present at
Jerusalem kept
the feast of
unleavened bread seven days with great gladness:
and the Levites
and the priests praised the LORD day by day,
singing with
loud instruments unto the LORD.
030:022 And Hezekiah spake comfortably unto all the
Levites that
taught the good knowledge of the LORD: and they did eat
throughout the
feast seven days, offering peace offerings, and
making
confession to the LORD God of their fathers.
030:023 And the whole assembly took counsel to keep
other seven days:
and they kept
other seven days with gladness.
030:024 For Hezekiah king of Judah did give to the
congregation a
thousand
bullocks and seven thousand sheep; and the princes
gave to the
congregation a thousand bullocks and ten thousand
sheep: and a
great number of priests sanctified themselves.
030:025 And all the congregation of Judah, with the
priests and the
Levites, and all
the congregation that came out of Israel, and
the strangers
that came out of the land of Israel, and that
dwelt in Judah,
rejoiced.
030:026 So there was great joy in Jerusalem: for since
the time of
Solomon the son of David king of Israel there was not the like
in
Jerusalem.
030:027 Then the priests the Levites arose and blessed
the people: and
their voice was
heard, and their prayer came up to his holy
dwelling place,
even unto heaven.
031:001 Now when all this was finished, all Israel that
were present
went out to the cities of Judah, and brake the images in
pieces, and cut
down the groves, and threw down the high
places and the
altars out of all Judah and Benjamin, in
Ephraim also and
Manasseh, until they had utterly destroyed
them all. Then
all the children of Israel returned, every man
to his
possession, into their own cities.
031:002 And Hezekiah appointed the courses of the
priests and the
Levites after
their courses, every man according to his
service, the
priests and Levites for burnt offerings and for
peace offerings,
to minister, and to give thanks, and to
praise in the
gates of the tents of the LORD.
031:003 He appointed also the king's portion of his
substance for the
burnt offerings,
to wit, for the morning and evening burnt
offerings, and
the burnt offerings for the sabbaths, and for
the new moons,
and for the set feasts, as it is written in the
law of the
LORD.
031:004 Moreover he commanded the people that dwelt in
Jerusalem to
give the portion of the priests and the Levites, that they
might be
encouraged in the law of the LORD.
031:005 And as soon as the commandment came abroad, the
children of
Israel brought in abundance the firstfruits of corn, wine, and
oil, and honey,
and of all the increase of the field; and the
tithe of all
things brought they in abundantly.
031:006 And concerning the children of Israel and Judah,
that dwelt in
the cities of Judah, they also brought in the tithe of oxen
and sheep, and
the tithe of holy things which were consecrated
unto the LORD
their God, and laid them by heaps.
031:007 In the third month they began to lay the
foundation of the
heaps, and
finished them in the seventh month.
031:008 And when Hezekiah and the princes came and saw
the heaps, they
blessed the
LORD, and his people Israel.
031:009 Then Hezekiah questioned with the priests and
the Levites
concerning the heaps.
031:010 And Azariah the chief priest of the house of
Zadok answered
him, and said,
Since the people began to bring the offerings
into the house
of the LORD, we have had enough to eat, and
have left
plenty: for the LORD hath blessed his people; and
that which is
left is this great store.
031:011 Then Hezekiah commanded to prepare chambers in
the house of
the LORD; and they prepared them,
031:012 And brought in the offerings and the tithes and
the dedicated
things faithfully: over which Cononiah the Levite was ruler,
and Shimei his
brother was the next.
031:013 And Jehiel, and Azaziah, and Nahath, and Asahel,
and Jerimoth,
and Jozabad, and Eliel, and Ismachiah, and Mahath, and
Benaiah, were
overseers under the hand of Cononiah and Shimei
his brother, at
the commandment of Hezekiah the king, and
Azariah the
ruler of the house of God.
031:014 And Kore the son of Imnah the Levite, the porter
toward the
east, was over the freewill offerings of God, to distribute
the oblations of
the LORD, and the most holy things.
031:015 And next him were Eden, and Miniamin, and
Jeshua, and
Shemaiah, Amariah, and Shecaniah, in the cities of the
priests, in
their set office, to give to their brethren by
courses, as well
to the great as to the small:
031:016 Beside their genealogy of males, from three
years old and
upward, even unto every one that entereth into the house of
the LORD, his
daily portion for their service in their charges
according to
their courses;
031:017 Both to the genealogy of the priests by the
house of their
fathers, and the
Levites from twenty years old and upward, in
their charges by
their courses;
031:018 And to the genealogy of all their little ones,
their wives,
and their sons, and their daughters, through all the
congregation:
for in their set office they sanctified
themselves in
holiness:
031:019 Also of the sons of Aaron the priests, which
were in the
fields of the suburbs of their cities, in every several city,
the men that
were expressed by name, to give portions to all
the males among
the priests, and to all that were reckoned by
genealogies
among the Levites.
031:020 And thus did Hezekiah throughout all Judah, and
wrought that
which was good and right and truth before the LORD his God.
031:021 And in every work that he began in the service
of the house of
God, and in the
law, and in the commandments, to seek his God,
he did it with
all his heart, and prospered.
032:001 After these things, and the establishment
thereof, Sennacherib
king of Assyria
came, and entered into Judah, and encamped
against the
fenced cities, and thought to win them for
himself.
032:002 And when Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib was come,
and that he
was purposed to fight against Jerusalem,
032:003 He took counsel with his princes and his mighty
men to stop
the waters of the fountains which were without the city: and
they did help
him.
032:004 So there was gathered much people together, who
stopped all
the fountains, and the brook that ran through the midst of the
land, saying,
Why should the kings of Assyria come, and find
much water?
032:005 Also he strengthened himself, and built up all
the wall that
was broken, and raised it up to the towers, and another wall
without, and
repaired Millo in the city of David, and made
darts and
shields in abundance.
032:006 And he set captains of war over the people, and
gathered them
together to him in the street of the gate of the city, and
spake
comfortably to them, saying,
032:007 Be strong and courageous, be not afraid nor
dismayed for the
king of Assyria,
nor for all the multitude that is with him:
for there be
more with us than with him:
032:008 With him is an arm of flesh; but with us is the
LORD our God
to help us, and to fight our battles. And the people rested
themselves upon
the words of Hezekiah king of Judah.
032:009 After this did Sennacherib king of Assyria send
his servants
to Jerusalem, (but he himself laid siege against Lachish, and
all his power
with him,) unto Hezekiah king of Judah, and unto
all Judah that
were at Jerusalem, saying,
032:010 Thus saith Sennacherib king of Assyria, Whereon
do ye trust,
that ye abide in the siege in Jerusalem?
032:011 Doth not Hezekiah persuade you to give over
yourselves to die
by famine and by
thirst, saying, The LORD our God shall
deliver us out
of the hand of the king of Assyria?
032:012 Hath not the same Hezekiah taken away his high
places and his
altars, and
commanded Judah and Jerusalem, saying, Ye shall
worship before
one altar, and burn incense upon it?
032:013 Know ye not what I and my fathers have done unto
all the
people of other lands? were the gods of the nations of those
lands any ways
able to deliver their lands out of mine hand?
032:014 Who was there among all the gods of those
nations that my
fathers utterly
destroyed, that could deliver his people out
of mine hand,
that your God should be able to deliver you out
of mine
hand?
032:015 Now therefore let not Hezekiah deceive you, nor
persuade you
on this manner, neither yet believe him: for no god of any
nation or
kingdom was able to deliver his people out of mine
hand, and out of
the hand of my fathers: how much less shall
your God deliver
you out of mine hand?
032:016 And his servants spake yet more against the LORD
God, and
against his servant Hezekiah.
032:017 He wrote also letters to rail on the LORD God of
Israel, and
to speak against him, saying, As the gods of the nations of
other lands have
not delivered their people out of mine hand,
so shall not the
God of Hezekiah deliver his people out of
mine hand.
032:018 Then they cried with a loud voice in the Jews'
speech unto the
people of
Jerusalem that were on the wall, to affright them,
and to trouble
them; that they might take the city.
032:019 And they spake against the God of Jerusalem, as
against the
gods of the people of the earth, which were the work of the
hands of
man.
032:020 And for this cause Hezekiah the king, and the
prophet Isaiah
the son of Amoz,
prayed and cried to heaven.
032:021 And the LORD sent an angel, which cut off all
the mighty men
of valour, and
the leaders and captains in the camp of the
king of Assyria.
So he returned with shame of face to his own
land. And when
he was come into the house of his god, they
that came forth
of his own bowels slew him there with the
sword.
032:022 Thus the LORD saved Hezekiah and the inhabitants
of Jerusalem
from the hand of Sennacherib the king of Assyria, and from the
hand of all
other, and guided them on every side.
032:023 And many brought gifts unto the LORD to
Jerusalem, and
presents to
Hezekiah king of Judah: so that he was magnified
in the sight of
all nations from thenceforth.
032:024 In those days Hezekiah was sick to the death,
and prayed unto
the LORD: and he
spake unto him, and he gave him a sign.
032:025 But Hezekiah rendered not again according to the
benefit done
unto him; for his heart was lifted up: therefore there was
wrath upon him,
and upon Judah and Jerusalem.
032:026 Notwithstanding Hezekiah humbled himself for the
pride of his
heart, both he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the
wrath of the
LORD came not upon them in the days of Hezekiah.
032:027 And Hezekiah had exceeding much riches and
honour: and he made
himself
treasuries for silver, and for gold, and for precious
stones, and for
spices, and for shields, and for all manner of
pleasant
jewels;
032:028 Storehouses also for the increase of corn, and
wine, and oil;
and stalls for
all manner of beasts, and cotes for flocks.
032:029 Moreover he provided him cities, and possessions
of flocks and
herds in abundance: for God had given him substance very much.
032:030 This same Hezekiah also stopped the upper
watercourse of
Gihon, and
brought it straight down to the west side of the
city of David.
And Hezekiah prospered in all his works.
032:031 Howbeit in the business of the ambassadors of
the princes of
Babylon, who
sent unto him to enquire of the wonder that was
done in the
land, God left him, to try him, that he might know
all that was in
his heart.
032:032 Now the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and his
goodness,
behold, they are written in the vision of Isaiah the prophet,
the son of Amoz,
and in the book of the kings of Judah and
Israel.
032:033 And Hezekiah slept with his fathers, and they
buried him in
the chiefest of the sepulchres of the sons of David: and all
Judah and the
inhabitants of Jerusalem did him honour at his
death. And
Manasseh his son reigned in his stead.
033:001 Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to
reign, and he
reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem:
033:002 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.
033:003 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
worshipped all the host of heaven, and served
them.
033:004 Also he built altars in the house of the LORD,
whereof the
LORD had said, In Jerusalem shall my name be for ever.
033:005 And he built altars for all the host of heaven
in the two
courts of the house of the LORD.
033:006 And he caused his children to pass through the
fire in the
valley of the son of Hinnom: also he observed times, and used
enchantments,
and used witchcraft, and dealt with a familiar
spirit, and with
wizards: he wrought much evil in the sight of
the LORD, to
provoke him to anger.
033:007 And he set a carved image, the idol which he had
made, in the
house of God, of which God had said to David and to Solomon
his son, In this
house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen
before all the
tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever:
033:008 Neither will I any more remove the foot of
Israel from out of
the land which I
have appointed for your fathers; so that they
will take heed
to do all that I have commanded them, according
to the whole law
and the statutes and the ordinances by the
hand of
Moses.
033:009 So Manasseh made Judah and the inhabitants of
Jerusalem to
err, and to do worse than the heathen, whom the LORD had
destroyed before
the children of Israel.
033:010 And the LORD spake to Manasseh, and to his
people: but they
would not
hearken.
033:011 Wherefore the LORD brought upon them the
captains of the host
of the king of
Assyria, which took Manasseh among the thorns,
and bound him
with fetters, and carried him to Babylon.
033:012 And when he was in affliction, he besought the
LORD his God,
and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers,
033:013 And prayed unto him: and he was intreated of
him, and heard
his
supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his
kingdom. Then
Manasseh knew that the LORD he was God.
033:014 Now after this he built a wall without the city
of David, on
the west side of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entering in
at the fish
gate, and compassed about Ophel, and raised it up
a very great
height, and put captains of war in all the fenced
cities of
Judah.
033:015 And he took away the strange gods, and the idol
out of the
house of the LORD, and all the altars that he had built in the
mount of the
house of the LORD, and in Jerusalem, and cast
them out of the
city.
033:016 And he repaired the altar of the LORD, and
sacrificed thereon
peace offerings
and thank offerings, and commanded Judah to
serve the LORD
God of Israel.
033:017 Nevertheless the people did sacrifice still in
the high
places, yet unto the LORD their God only.
033:018 Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and his
prayer unto his
God, and the
words of the seers that spake to him in the name
of the LORD God
of Israel, behold, they are written in the
book of the
kings of Israel.
033:019 His prayer also, and how God was intreated of
him, and all his
sins, and his
trespass, and the places wherein he built high
places, and set
up groves and graven images, before he was
humbled: behold,
they are written among the sayings of the
seers.
033:020 So Manasseh slept with his fathers, and they
buried him in his
own house: and
Amon his son reigned in his stead.
033:021 Amon was two and twenty years old when he began
to reign, and
reigned two years in Jerusalem.
033:022 But he did that which was evil in the sight of
the LORD, as
did Manasseh his father: for Amon sacrificed unto all the
carved images
which Manasseh his father had made, and served
them;
033:023 And humbled not himself before the LORD, as
Manasseh his
father had humbled himself; but Amon trespassed more and more.
033:024 And his servants conspired against him, and slew
him in his
own house.
033:025 But the people of the land slew all them that
had conspired
against king Amon; and the people of the land made Josiah his
son king in his
stead.
034:001 Josiah was eight years old when he began to
reign, and he
reigned in Jerusalem one and thirty years.
034:002 And he did that which was right in the sight of
the LORD, and
walked in the ways of David his father, and declined neither
to the right
hand, nor to the left.
034:003 For in the eighth year of his reign, while he
was yet young,
he began to seek
after the God of David his father: and in the
twelfth year he
began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the
high places, and
the groves, and the carved images, and the
molten
images.
034:004 And they brake down the altars of Baalim in his
presence; and
the images, that were on high above them, he cut down; and the
groves, and the
carved images, and the molten images, he brake
in pieces, and
made dust of them, and strowed it upon the
graves of them
that had sacrificed unto them.
034:005 And he burnt the bones of the priests upon their
altars, and
cleansed Judah and Jerusalem.
034:006 And so did he in the cities of Manasseh, and
Ephraim, and
Simeon, even unto Naphtali, with their mattocks round about.
034:007 And when he had broken down the altars and the
groves, and had
beaten the
graven images into powder, and cut down all the
idols throughout
all the land of Israel, he returned to
Jerusalem.
034:008 Now in the eighteenth year of his reign, when he
had purged
the land, and the house, he sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah,
and Maaseiah the
governor of the city, and Joah the son of
Joahaz the
recorder, to repair the house of the LORD his God.
034:009 And when they came to Hilkiah the high priest,
they delivered
the money that
was brought into the house of God, which the
Levites that
kept the doors had gathered of the hand of
Manasseh and
Ephraim, and of all the remnant of Israel, and of
all Judah and
Benjamin; and they returned to Jerusalem.
034:010 And they put it in the hand of the workmen that
had the
oversight of the house of the LORD, and they gave it to the
workmen that
wrought in the house of the LORD, to repair and
amend the
house:
034:011 Even to the artificers and builders gave they
it, to buy hewn
stone, and
timber for couplings, and to floor the houses which
the kings of
Judah had destroyed.
034:012 And the men did the work faithfully: and the
overseers of them
were Jahath and
Obadiah, the Levites, of the sons of Merari;
and Zechariah
and Meshullam, of the sons of the Kohathites, to
set it forward;
and other of the Levites, all that could skill
of instruments
of musick.
034:013 Also they were over the bearers of burdens, and
were overseers
of all that
wrought the work in any manner of service: and of
the Levites
there were scribes, and officers, and porters.
034:014 And when they brought out the money that was
brought into the
house of the
LORD, Hilkiah the priest found a book of the law
of the LORD
given by Moses.
034:015 And Hilkiah answered and said to Shaphan the
scribe, I have
found the book
of the law in the house of the LORD. And
Hilkiah
delivered the book to Shaphan.
034:016 And Shaphan carried the book to the king, and
brought the king
word back again,
saying, All that was committed to thy
servants, they
do it.
034:017 And they have gathered together the money that
was found in
the house of the LORD, and have delivered it into the hand of
the overseers,
and to the hand of the workmen.
034:018 Then Shaphan the scribe told the king, saying,
Hilkiah the
priest hath given me a book. And Shaphan read it before the
king.
034:019 And it came to pass, when the king had heard the
words of the
law, that he rent his clothes.
034:020 And the king commanded Hilkiah, and Ahikam the
son of Shaphan,
and Abdon the
son of Micah, and Shaphan the scribe, and Asaiah
a servant of the
king's, saying,
034:021 Go, enquire of the LORD for me, and for them
that are left in
Israel and in
Judah, concerning the words of the book that is
found: for great
is the wrath of the LORD that is poured out
upon us, because
our fathers have not kept the word of the
LORD, to do
after all that is written in this book.
034:022 And Hilkiah, and they that the king had
appointed, went to
Huldah the
prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvath,
the son of
Hasrah, keeper of the wardrobe; (now she dwelt in
Jerusalem in the
college:) and they spake to her to that
effect.
034:023 And she answered them, Thus saith the LORD God
of Israel, Tell
ye the man that
sent you to me,
034:024 Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil
upon this
place, and upon the inhabitants thereof, even all the curses
that are written
in the book which they have read before the
king of
Judah:
034:025 Because they have forsaken me, and have burned
incense unto
other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the
works of their
hands; therefore my wrath shall be poured out
upon this place,
and shall not be quenched.
034:026 And as for the king of Judah, who sent you to
enquire of the
LORD, so shall
ye say unto him, Thus saith the LORD God of
Israel
concerning the words which thou hast heard;
034:027 Because thine heart was tender, and thou didst
humble thyself
before God, when
thou heardest his words against this place,
and against the
inhabitants thereof, and humbledst thyself
before me, and
didst rend thy clothes, and weep before me; I
have even heard
thee also, saith the LORD.
034:028 Behold, I will gather thee to thy fathers, and
thou shalt be
gathered to thy grave in peace, neither shall thine eyes see
all the evil
that I will bring upon this place, and upon the
inhabitants of
the same. So they brought the king word again.
034:029 Then the king sent and gathered together all the
elders of
Judah and Jerusalem.
034:030 And the king went up into the house of the LORD,
and all the
men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the
priests, and the
Levites, and all the people, great and small:
and he read in
their ears all the words of the book of the
covenant that
was found in the house of the LORD.
034:031 And the king stood in his place, and made a
covenant before
the LORD, to
walk after the LORD, and to keep his
commandments,
and his testimonies, and his statutes, with all
his heart, and
with all his soul, to perform the words of the
covenant which
are written in this book.
034:032 And he caused all that were present in Jerusalem
and Benjamin
to stand to it. And the inhabitants of Jerusalem did according
to the covenant
of God, the God of their fathers.
034:033 And Josiah took away all the abominations out of
all the
countries that pertained to the children of Israel, and made
all that were
present in Israel to serve, even to serve the
LORD their God.
And all his days they departed not from
following the
LORD, the God of their fathers.
035:001 Moreover Josiah kept a passover unto the LORD in
Jerusalem:
and they killed the passover on the fourteenth day of the
first month.
035:002 And he set the priests in their charges, and
encouraged them
to the service
of the house of the LORD,
035:003 And said unto the Levites that taught all
Israel, which were
holy unto the
LORD, Put the holy ark in the house which
Solomon the son
of David king of Israel did build; it shall
not be a burden
upon your shoulders: serve now the LORD your
God, and his
people Israel,
035:004 And prepare yourselves by the houses of your
fathers, after
your courses,
according to the writing of David king of
Israel, and
according to the writing of Solomon his son.
035:005 And stand in the holy place according to the
divisions of the
families of the
fathers of your brethren the people, and after
the division of
the families of the Levites.
035:006 So kill the passover, and sanctify yourselves,
and prepare
your brethren, that they may do according to the word of the
LORD by the hand
of Moses.
035:007 And Josiah gave to the people, of the flock,
lambs and kids,
all for the
passover offerings, for all that were present, to
the number of
thirty thousand, and three thousand bullocks:
these were of
the king's substance.
035:008 And his princes gave willingly unto the people,
to the
priests, and to the Levites: Hilkiah and Zechariah and Jehiel,
rulers of the
house of God, gave unto the priests for the
passover
offerings two thousand and six hundred small cattle
and three
hundred oxen.
035:009 Conaniah also, and Shemaiah and Nethaneel, his
brethren, and
Hashabiah and Jeiel and Jozabad, chief of the Levites, gave
unto the Levites
for passover offerings five thousand small
cattle, and five
hundred oxen.
035:010 So the service was prepared, and the priests
stood in their
place, and the
Levites in their courses, according to the
king's
commandment.
035:011 And they killed the passover, and the priests
sprinkled the
blood from their hands, and the Levites flayed them.
035:012 And they removed the burnt offerings, that they
might give
according to the divisions of the families of the people, to
offer unto the
LORD, as it is written in the book of Moses.
And so did they
with the oxen.
035:013 And they roasted the passover with fire
according to the
ordinance: but
the other holy offerings sod they in pots, and
in caldrons, and
in pans, and divided them speedily among all
the people.
035:014 And afterward they made ready for themselves,
and for the
priests: because the priests the sons of Aaron were busied in
offering of
burnt offerings and the fat until night; therefore
the Levites
prepared for themselves, and for the priests the
sons of
Aaron.
035:015 And the singers the sons of Asaph were in their
place,
according to the commandment of David, and Asaph, and Heman,
and Jeduthun the
king's seer; and the porters waited at every
gate; they might
not depart from their service; for their
brethren the
Levites prepared for them.
035:016 So all the service of the LORD was prepared the
same day, to
keep the passover, and to offer burnt offerings upon the altar
of the LORD,
according to the commandment of king Josiah.
035:017 And the children of Israel that were present
kept the passover
at that time,
and the feast of unleavened bread seven days.
035:018 And there was no passover like to that kept in
Israel from the
days of Samuel
the prophet; neither did all the kings of
Israel keep such
a passover as Josiah kept, and the priests,
and the Levites,
and all Judah and Israel that were present,
and the
inhabitants of Jerusalem.
035:019 In the eighteenth year of the reign of Josiah
was this
passover kept.
035:020 After all this, when Josiah had prepared the
temple, Necho
king of Egypt came up to fight against Charchemish by
Euphrates: and
Josiah went out against him.
035:021 But he sent ambassadors to him, saying, What
have I to do with
thee, thou king
of Judah? I come not against thee this day,
but against the
house wherewith I have war: for God commanded
me to make
haste: forbear thee from meddling with God, who is
with me, that he
destroy thee not.
035:022 Nevertheless Josiah would not turn his face from
him, but
disguised himself, that he might fight with him, and hearkened
not unto the
words of Necho from the mouth of God, and came to
fight in the
valley of Megiddo.
035:023 And the archers shot at king Josiah; and the
king said to his
servants, Have
me away; for I am sore wounded.
035:024 His servants therefore took him out of that
chariot, and put
him in the
second chariot that he had; and they brought him to
Jerusalem, and
he died, and was buried in one of the
sepulchres of
his fathers. And all Judah and Jerusalem mourned
for Josiah.
035:025 And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah: and all the
singing men and
the singing
women spake of Josiah in their lamentations to
this day, and
made them an ordinance in Israel: and, behold,
they are written
in the lamentations.
035:026 Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and his
goodness,
according to that which was written in the law of the LORD,
035:027 And his deeds, first and last, behold, they are
written in the
book of the
kings of Israel and Judah.
036:001 Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz the
son of Josiah,
and made him
king in his father's stead in Jerusalem.
036:002 Jehoahaz was twenty and three years old when he
began to
reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem.
036:003 And the king of Egypt put him down at Jerusalem,
and condemned
the land in an hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.
036:004 And the king of Egypt made Eliakim his brother
king over Judah
and Jerusalem,
and turned his name to Jehoiakim. And Necho
took Jehoahaz
his brother, and carried him to Egypt.
036:005 Jehoiakim was twenty and five years old when he
began to
reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and he did
that which was
evil in the sight of the LORD his God.
036:006 Against him came up Nebuchadnezzar king of
Babylon, and bound
him in fetters,
to carry him to Babylon.
036:007 Nebuchadnezzar also carried of the vessels of
the house of the
LORD to Babylon,
and put them in his temple at Babylon.
036:008 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and his
abominations
which he did, and that which was found in him, behold, they
are written in
the book of the kings of Israel and Judah: and
Jehoiachin his
son reigned in his stead.
036:009 Jehoiachin was eight years old when he began to
reign, and he
reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem: and he did
that which was
evil in the sight of the LORD.
036:010 And when the year was expired, king
Nebuchadnezzar sent, and
brought him to
Babylon, with the goodly vessels of the house
of the LORD, and
made Zedekiah his brother king over Judah and
Jerusalem.
036:011 Zedekiah was one and twenty years old when he
began to reign,
and reigned
eleven years in Jerusalem.
036:012 And he did that which was evil in the sight of
the LORD his
God, and humbled not himself before Jeremiah the prophet
speaking from
the mouth of the LORD.
036:013 And he also rebelled against king
Nebuchadnezzar, who had made
him swear by
God: but he stiffened his neck, and hardened his
heart from
turning unto the LORD God of Israel.
036:014 Moreover all the chief of the priests, and the
people,
transgressed very much after all the abominations of the
heathen; and
polluted the house of the LORD which he had
hallowed in
Jerusalem.
036:015 And the LORD God of their fathers sent to them
by his
messengers, rising up betimes, and sending; because he had
compassion on
his people, and on his dwelling place:
036:016 But they mocked the messengers of God, and
despised his words,
and misused his
prophets, until the wrath of the LORD arose
against his
people, till there was no remedy.
036:017 Therefore he brought upon them the king of the
Chaldees, who
slew their young men with the sword in the house of their
sanctuary, and
had no compassion upon young man or maiden, old
man, or him that
stooped for age: he gave them all into his
hand.
036:018 And all the vessels of the house of God, great
and small, and
the treasures of
the house of the LORD, and the treasures of
the king, and of
his princes; all these he brought to Babylon.
036:019 And they burnt the house of God, and brake down
the wall of
Jerusalem, and burnt all the palaces thereof with fire, and
destroyed all
the goodly vessels thereof.
036:020 And them that had escaped from the sword carried
he away to
Babylon; where they were servants to him and his sons until
the reign of the
kingdom of Persia:
036:021 To fulfil the word of the LORD by the mouth of
Jeremiah, until
the land had
enjoyed her sabbaths: for as long as she lay
desolate she
kept sabbath, to fulfil threescore and ten years.
036:022 Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia,
that the word
of the LORD spoken by the mouth of Jeremiah might be
accomplished,
the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of
Persia, that he
made a proclamation throughout all his
kingdom, and put
it also in writing, saying,
036:023 Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, All the
kingdoms of the earth
hath the LORD
God of heaven given me; and he hath charged me
to build him an
house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Who is
there among you
of all his people? The LORD his God be with
him, and let him
go up.
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