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The Book of II Kings
Chapter 1
001:001 Then Moab rebelled against Israel after the
death of Ahab.
001:002 And Ahaziah fell down through a lattice in his
upper chamber
that was in Samaria,
and was sick: and he sent messengers,
and
said unto them, Go, enquire of
Baalzebub the god of Ekron
whether
I shall recover of this disease.
001:003 But the angel of the LORD said to Elijah the
Tishbite, Arise,
go up to meet the
messengers of the king of Samaria, and
say
unto them, Is it not because
there is not a God in Israel,
that
ye go to enquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron?
001:004 Now therefore thus saith the LORD, Thou shalt not
come down
from that bed on which
thou art gone up, but shalt surely
die.
And Elijah departed.
001:005 And when the messengers turned back unto him, he
said unto
them, Why are ye now
turned back?
001:006 And they said unto him, There came a man up to
meet us, and
said unto us, Go,
turn again unto the king that sent you,
and
say unto him, Thus saith the
LORD, Is it not because there is
not a God in Israel, that thou sendest to enquire of
Baalzebub
the god of Ekron?
therefore thou shalt not come down from
that
bed on which thou art gone
up, but shalt surely die.
001:007 And he said unto them, What manner of man was he
which came up
to meet you, and
told you these words?
001:008 And they answered him, He was an hairy man, and
girt with a
girdle of leather
about his loins. And he said, It is
Elijah
the Tishbite.
001:009 Then the king sent unto him a captain of fifty
with his fifty.
And he went up to
him: and, behold, he sat on the top of
an
hill. And he spake unto him,
Thou man of God, the king hath
said, Come down.
001:010 And Elijah answered and said to the captain of
fifty, If I be
a man of God, then
let fire come down from heaven, and
consume
thee and thy fifty. And
there came down fire from heaven,
and
consumed him and his
fifty.
001:011 Again also he sent unto him another captain of
fifty with his
fifty. And he
answered and said unto him, O man of God,
thus
hath the king said, Come down
quickly.
001:012 And Elijah answered and said unto them, If I be a
man of God,
let fire come down
from heaven, and consume thee and
thy
fifty. And the fire of God
came down from heaven, and
consumed
him and his fifty.
001:013 And he sent again a captain of the third fifty
with his fifty.
And the third
captain of fifty went up, and came and fell
on
his knees before Elijah, and
besought him, and said unto him,
O
man of God, I pray thee, let my life, and the life of
these
fifty thy servants, be
precious in thy sight.
001:014 Behold, there came fire down from heaven, and
burnt up the two
captains of the
former fifties with their fifties:
therefore
let my life now be
precious in thy sight.
001:015 And the angel of the LORD said unto Elijah, Go
down with him:
be not afraid of
him. And he arose, and went down with
him
unto the king.
001:016 And he said unto him, Thus saith the LORD,
Forasmuch as thou
hast sent
messengers to enquire of Baalzebub the god of
Ekron,
is it not because there is
no God in Israel to enquire of his
word? therefore thou shalt not come down off that bed on
which
thou art gone up, but shalt
surely die.
001:017 So he died according to the word of the LORD
which Elijah had
spoken. And
Jehoram reigned in his stead in the second year
of
Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat
king of Judah; because he had
no
son.
001:018 Now the rest of the acts of Ahaziah which he did,
are they not
written in the book
of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
002:001 And it came to pass, when the LORD would take up
Elijah into
heaven by a whirlwind,
that Elijah went with Elisha from
Gilgal.
002:002 And Elijah said unto Elisha, Tarry here, I pray
thee; for the
LORD hath sent me to
Bethel. And Elisha said unto him, As
the
LORD liveth, and as thy soul
liveth, I will not leave thee. So
they went down to Bethel.
002:003 And the sons of the prophets that were at Bethel
came forth to
Elisha, and said
unto him, Knowest thou that the LORD
will
take away thy master from thy
head to day? And he said, Yea, I
know it; hold ye your peace.
002:004 And Elijah said unto him, Elisha, tarry here, I
pray thee; for
the LORD hath sent
me to Jericho. And he said, As the
LORD
liveth, and as thy soul
liveth, I will not leave thee. So
they
came to Jericho.
002:005 And the sons of the prophets that were at Jericho
came to
Elisha, and said unto him,
Knowest thou that the LORD will
take away thy master from thy head to day? And he
answered,
Yea, I know it; hold ye
your peace.
002:006 And Elijah said unto him, Tarry, I pray thee,
here; for the
LORD hath sent me to
Jordan. And he said, As the LORD
liveth,
and as thy soul liveth, I
will not leave thee. And they two
went on.
002:007 And fifty men of the sons of the prophets went,
and stood to
view afar off: and
they two stood by Jordan.
002:008 And Elijah took his mantle, and wrapped it
together, and smote
the waters,
and they were divided hither and thither, so
that
they two went over on dry
ground.
002:009 And it came to pass, when they were gone over,
that Elijah
said unto Elisha, Ask
what I shall do for thee, before I
be
taken away from
thee. And Elisha said, I pray thee, let a
double portion of thy spirit be upon me.
002:010 And he said, Thou hast asked a hard thing:
nevertheless, if
thou see me when
I am taken from thee, it shall be so unto
thee; but if not,
it shall not be so.
002:011 And it came to pass, as they still went on, and
talked, that,
behold, there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire,
and parted them
both asunder; and Elijah went up by a
whirlwind into
heaven.
002:012 And Elisha saw it, and he cried, My father, my
father, the
chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof. And he saw him no
more: and he took
hold of his own clothes, and rent them in
two pieces.
002:013 He took up also the mantle of Elijah that fell
from him, and
went back, and stood by the bank of Jordan;
002:014 And he took the mantle of Elijah that fell from
him, and smote
the waters, and said, Where is the LORD God of Elijah? and
when he also had
smitten the waters, they parted hither and
thither: and
Elisha went over.
002:015 And when the sons of the prophets which were to
view at
Jericho saw him, they said, The spirit of Elijah doth rest on
Elisha. And they
came to meet him, and bowed themselves to the
ground before
him.
002:016 And they said unto him, Behold now, there be with
thy servants
fifty strong men; let them go, we pray thee, and seek thy
master: lest
peradventure the Spirit of the LORD hath taken
him up, and cast
him upon some mountain, or into some valley.
And he said, Ye
shall not send.
002:017 And when they urged him till he was ashamed, he
said, Send.
They sent therefore fifty men; and they sought three days, but
found him
not.
002:018 And when they came again to him, (for he tarried
at Jericho,)
he said unto them, Did I not say unto you, Go not?
002:019 And the men of the city said unto Elisha, Behold,
I pray thee,
the situation of this city is pleasant, as my lord seeth: but
the water is
naught, and the ground barren.
002:020 And he said, Bring me a new cruse, and put salt
therein. And
they brought it to him.
002:021 And he went forth unto the spring of the waters,
and cast the
salt in there, and said, Thus saith the LORD, I have healed
these waters;
there shall not be from thence any more death or
barren land.
002:022 So the waters were healed unto this day,
according to the
saying of Elisha
which he spake.
002:023 And he went up from thence unto Bethel: and as he
was going up
by the way, there came forth little children out of the city,
and mocked him,
and said unto him, Go up, thou bald head; go
up, thou bald
head.
002:024 And he turned back, and looked on them, and
cursed them in the
name of the LORD.
And there came forth two she bears out of
the wood, and
tare forty and two children of them.
002:025 And he went from thence to mount Carmel, and from
thence he
returned to Samaria.
003:001 Now Jehoram the son of Ahab began to reign over
Israel in
Samaria the eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and
reigned twelve
years.
003:002 And he wrought evil in the sight of the LORD; but
not like his
father, and like his mother: for he put away the image of Baal
that his father
had made.
003:003 Nevertheless he cleaved unto the sins of Jeroboam
the son of
Nebat, which made Israel to sin; he departed not therefrom.
003:004 And Mesha king of Moab was a sheepmaster, and
rendered unto
the king of Israel an hundred thousand lambs, and an hundred
thousand rams,
with the wool.
003:005 But it came to pass, when Ahab was dead, that the
king of Moab
rebelled against the king of Israel.
003:006 And king Jehoram went out of Samaria the same
time, and
numbered all Israel.
003:007 And he went and sent to Jehoshaphat the king of
Judah, saying,
The king of Moab hath rebelled against me: wilt thou go with
me against Moab
to battle? And he said, I will go up: I am as
thou art, my
people as thy people, and my horses as thy
horses.
003:008 And he said, Which way shall we go up? And he
answered, The
way through the wilderness of Edom.
003:009 So the king of Israel went, and the king of
Judah, and the
king of Edom: and they fetched a compass of seven days'
journey: and
there was no water for the host, and for the
cattle that
followed them.
003:010 And the king of Israel said, Alas! that the LORD
hath called
these three kings together, to deliver them into the hand of
Moab!
003:011 But Jehoshaphat said, Is there not here a prophet
of the LORD,
that we may enquire of the LORD by him? And one of the king of
Israel's servants
answered and said, Here is Elisha the son of
Shaphat, which
poured water on the hands of Elijah.
003:012 And Jehoshaphat said, The word of the LORD is
with him. So the
king of Israel
and Jehoshaphat and the king of Edom went down
to him.
003:013 And Elisha said unto the king of Israel, What
have I to do
with thee? get thee to the prophets of thy father, and to the
prophets of thy
mother. And the king of Israel said unto him,
Nay: for the LORD
hath called these three kings together, to
deliver them into
the hand of Moab.
003:014 And Elisha said, As the LORD of hosts liveth,
before whom I
stand, surely, were it not that I regard the presence of
Jehoshaphat the
king of Judah, I would not look toward thee,
nor see thee.
003:015 But now bring me a minstrel. And it came to pass,
when the
minstrel played, that the hand of the LORD came upon him.
003:016 And he said, Thus saith the LORD, Make this
valley full of
ditches.
003:017 For thus saith the LORD, Ye shall not see wind,
neither shall
ye see rain; yet that valley shall be filled with water, that
ye may drink,
both ye, and your cattle, and your beasts.
003:018 And this is but a light thing in the sight of the
LORD: he
will
deliver the Moabites also into your hand.
003:019 And ye shall smite every fenced city, and every
choice city,
and shall fell every good tree, and stop all wells of water,
and mar every
good piece of land with stones.
003:020 And it came to pass in the morning, when the meat
offering was
offered, that, behold, there came water by the way of Edom,
and the country
was filled with water.
003:021 And when all the Moabites heard that the kings
were come up to
fight against
them, they gathered all that were able to put on
armour, and
upward, and stood in the border.
003:022 And they rose up early in the morning, and the
sun shone upon
the water, and the Moabites saw the water on the other side as
red as blood:
003:023 And they said, This is blood: the kings are
surely slain, and
they have smitten
one another: now therefore, Moab, to the
spoil.
003:024 And when they came to the camp of Israel, the
Israelites rose
up and smote the
Moabites, so that they fled before them: but
they went forward
smiting the Moabites, even in their country.
003:025 And they beat down the cities, and on every good
piece of land
cast every man his stone, and filled it; and they stopped all
the wells of
water, and felled all the good trees: only in
Kirharaseth left
they the stones thereof; howbeit the slingers
went about it,
and smote it.
003:026 And when the king of Moab saw that the battle was
too sore for
him, he took with him seven hundred men that drew swords, to
break through
even unto the king of Edom: but they could not.
003:027 Then he took his eldest son that should have
reigned in his
stead, and offered him for a burnt offering upon the wall. And
there was great
indignation against Israel: and they departed
from him, and
returned to their own land.
004:001 Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of
the sons of
the prophets unto Elisha, saying, Thy servant my husband is
dead; and thou
knowest that thy servant did fear the LORD: and
the creditor is
come to take unto him my two sons to be
bondmen.
004:002 And Elisha said unto her, What shall I do for
thee? tell me,
what hast thou in the house? And she said, Thine handmaid hath
not any thing in
the house, save a pot of oil.
004:003 Then he said, Go, borrow thee vessels abroad of
all thy
neighbours, even empty vessels; borrow not a few.
004:004 And when thou art come in, thou shalt shut the
door upon thee
and upon thy sons, and shalt pour out into all those vessels,
and thou shalt
set aside that which is full.
004:005 So she went from him, and shut the door upon her
and upon her
sons, who brought the vessels to her; and she poured out.
004:006 And it came to pass, when the vessels were full,
that she said
unto her son, Bring me yet a vessel. And he said unto her,
There is not a
vessel more. And the oil stayed.
004:007 Then she came and told the man of God. And he
said, Go, sell
the oil, and pay thy debt, and live thou and thy children of
the rest.
004:008 And it fell on a day, that Elisha passed to
Shunem, where was
a great woman;
and she constrained him to eat bread. And so it
was, that as oft
as he passed by, he turned in thither to eat
bread.
004:009 And she said unto her husband, Behold now, I
perceive that
this is an holy man of God, which passeth by us continually.
004:010 Let us make a little chamber, I pray thee, on the
wall; and
let
us set for him there a bed, and a table, and a stool, and
a candlestick:
and it shall be, when he cometh to us, that he
shall turn in
thither.
004:011 And it fell on a day, that he came thither, and
he turned into
the chamber, and lay there.
004:012 And he said to Gehazi his servant, Call this
Shunammite. And
when he had
called her, she stood before him.
004:013 And he said unto him, Say now unto her, Behold,
thou hast been
careful for us with all this care; what is to be done for
thee? wouldest
thou be spoken for to the king, or to the
captain of the
host? And she answered, I dwell among mine own
people.
004:014 And he said, What then is to be done for her? And
Gehazi
answered, Verily she hath no child, and her husband is old.
004:015 And he said, Call her. And when he had called
her, she stood
in the door.
004:016 And he said, About this season, according to the
time of life,
thou shalt embrace a son. And she said, Nay, my lord, thou man
of God, do not
lie unto thine handmaid.
004:017 And the woman conceived, and bare a son at that
season that
Elisha had said unto her, according to the time of life.
004:018 And when the child was grown, it fell on a day,
that he went
out to his father to the reapers.
004:019 And he said unto his father, My head, my head.
And he said to
a lad, Carry him to his mother.
004:020 And when he had taken him, and brought him to his
mother, he
sat
on her knees till noon, and then died.
004:021 And she went up, and laid him on the bed of the
man of God,
and shut the door upon him, and went out.
004:022 And she called unto her husband, and said, Send
me, I pray
thee, one of the young men, and one of the asses, that I may
run to the man of
God, and come again.
004:023 And he said, Wherefore wilt thou go to him to
day? it is
neither new moon, nor sabbath. And she said, It shall be well.
004:024 Then she saddled an ass, and said to her servant,
Drive, and
go
forward; slack not thy riding for me, except I bid thee.
004:025 So she went and came unto the man of God to mount
Carmel. And
it
came to pass, when the man of God saw her afar off, that he
said to Gehazi
his servant, Behold, yonder is that Shunammite:
004:026 Run now, I pray thee, to meet her, and say unto
her, Is it
well with thee? is it well with thy husband? is it well with
the child? And
she answered, It is well:
004:027 And when she came to the man of God to the hill,
she caught
him
by the feet: but Gehazi came near to thrust her away. And
the man of God
said, Let her alone; for her soul is vexed
within her: and
the LORD hath hid it from me, and hath not
told me.
004:028 Then she said, Did I desire a son of my lord? did
I not say,
Do
not deceive me?
004:029 Then he said to Gehazi, Gird up thy loins, and
take my staff
in thine hand, and go thy way: if thou meet any man, salute
him not; and if
any salute thee, answer him not again: and lay
my staff upon the
face of the child.
004:030 And the mother of the child said, As the LORD
liveth, and as
thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. And he arose, and
followed her.
004:031 And Gehazi passed on before them, and laid the
staff upon the
face of the child; but there was neither voice, nor hearing.
Wherefore he went
again to meet him, and told him, saying, The
child is not
awaked.
004:032 And when Elisha was come into the house, behold,
the child was
dead, and laid upon his bed.
004:033 He went in therefore, and shut the door upon them
twain, and
prayed unto the LORD.
004:034 And he went up, and lay upon the child, and put
his mouth upon
his mouth, and his eyes upon his eyes, and his hands upon his
hands: and
stretched himself upon the child; and the flesh of
the child waxed
warm.
004:035 Then he returned, and walked in the house to and
fro; and went
up, and stretched himself upon him: and the child sneezed
seven times, and
the child opened his eyes.
004:036 And he called Gehazi, and said, Call this
Shunammite. So he
called her. And
when she was come in unto him, he said, Take
up thy son.
004:037 Then she went in, and fell at his feet, and bowed
herself to
the
ground, and took up her son, and went out.
004:038 And Elisha came again to Gilgal: and there was a
dearth in the
land; and the sons of the prophets were sitting before him:
and he said unto
his servant, Set on the great pot, and seethe
pottage for the
sons of the prophets.
004:039 And one went out into the field to gather herbs,
and found a
wild vine, and gathered thereof wild gourds his lap full, and
came and shred
them into the pot of pottage: for they knew
them not.
004:040 So they poured out for the men to eat. And it
came to pass, as
they were eating
of the pottage, that they cried out, and
said, O thou man
of God, there is death in the pot. And they
could not eat
thereof.
004:041 But he said, Then bring meal. And he cast it into
the pot; and
he said, Pour out for the people, that they may eat. And there
was no harm in
the pot.
004:042 And there came a man from Baalshalisha, and
brought the man of
God bread of the
firstfruits, twenty loaves of barley, and
full ears of corn
in the husk thereof. And he said, Give unto
the people, that
they may eat.
004:043 And his servitor said, What, should I set this
before an
hundred men? He said again, Give the people, that they may
eat: for thus
saith the LORD, They shall eat, and shall leave
thereof.
004:044 So he set it before them, and they did eat, and
left thereof,
according to the word of the LORD.
005:001 Now Naaman, captain of the host of the king of
Syria, was a
great man with his master, and honourable, because by him the
LORD had given
deliverance unto Syria: he was also a mighty
man in valour,
but he was a leper.
005:002 And the Syrians had gone out by companies, and
had brought
away captive out of the land of Israel a little maid; and she
waited on
Naaman's wife.
005:003 And she said unto her mistress, Would God my lord
were with
the
prophet that is in Samaria! for he would recover him of
his leprosy.
005:004 And one went in, and told his lord, saying, Thus
and thus said
the maid that is of the land of Israel.
005:005 And the king of Syria said, Go to, go, and I will
send a
letter
unto the king of Israel. And he departed, and took with
him ten talents
of silver, and six thousand pieces of gold,
and ten changes
of raiment.
005:006 And he brought the letter to the king of Israel,
saying, Now
when this letter is come unto thee, behold, I have therewith
sent Naaman my
servant to thee, that thou mayest recover him
of his
leprosy.
005:007 And it came to pass, when the king of Israel had
read the
letter, that he rent his clothes, and said, Am I God, to kill
and to make
alive, that this man doth send unto me to recover
a man of his
leprosy? wherefore consider, I pray you, and see
how he seeketh a
quarrel against me.
005:008 And it was so, when Elisha the man of God had
heard that the
king of Israel had rent his clothes, that he sent to the king,
saying, Wherefore
hast thou rent thy clothes? let him come now
to me, and he
shall know that there is a prophet in Israel.
005:009 So Naaman came with his horses and with his
chariot, and stood
at the door of
the house of Elisha.
005:010 And Elisha sent a messenger unto him, saying, Go
and wash in
Jordan seven times, and thy flesh shall come again to thee,
and thou shalt be
clean.
005:011 But Naaman was wroth, and went away, and said,
Behold, I
thought, He will surely come out to me, and stand, and call on
the name of the
LORD his God, and strike his hand over the
place, and
recover the leper.
005:012 Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus,
better than all
the waters of
Israel? may I not wash in them, and be clean? So
he turned and
went away in a rage.
005:013 And his servants came near, and spake unto him,
and said, My
father, if the prophet had bid thee do some great thing,
wouldest thou not
have done it? how much rather then, when he
saith to thee,
Wash, and be clean?
005:014 Then went he down, and dipped himself seven times
in Jordan,
according to the saying of the man of God: and his flesh came
again like unto
the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.
005:015 And he returned to the man of God, he and all his
company, and
came, and stood before him: and he said, Behold, now I know
that there is no
God in all the earth, but in Israel: now
therefore, I pray
thee, take a blessing of thy servant.
005:016 But he said, As the LORD liveth, before whom I
stand, I will
receive none. And he urged him to take it; but he refused.
005:017 And Naaman said, Shall there not then, I pray
thee, be given
to thy servant two mules' burden of earth? for thy servant
will henceforth
offer neither burnt offering nor sacrifice
unto other gods,
but unto the LORD.
005:018 In this thing the LORD pardon thy servant, that
when my master
goeth into the house of Rimmon to worship there, and he
leaneth on my
hand, and I bow myself in the house of Rimmon:
when I bow down
myself in the house of Rimmon, the LORD pardon
thy servant in
this thing.
005:019 And he said unto him, Go in peace. So he departed
from him a
little way.
005:020 But Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God,
said,
Behold,
my master hath spared Naaman this Syrian, in not
receiving at his
hands that which he brought: but, as the LORD
liveth, I will
run after him, and take somewhat of him.
005:021 So Gehazi followed after Naaman. And when Naaman
saw him
running after him, he lighted down from the chariot to meet
him, and said, Is
all well?
005:022 And he said, All is well. My master hath sent me,
saying,
Behold, even now there be come to me from mount Ephraim two
young men of the
sons of the prophets: give them, I pray thee,
a talent of
silver, and two changes of garments.
005:023 And Naaman said, Be content, take two talents.
And he urged
him, and bound two talents of silver in two bags, with two
changes of
garments, and laid them upon two of his servants;
and they bare
them before him.
005:024 And when he came to the tower, he took them from
their hand,
and bestowed them in the house: and he let the men go, and
they
departed.
005:025 But he went in, and stood before his master. And
Elisha said
unto him, Whence comest thou, Gehazi? And he said, Thy servant
went no
whither.
005:026 And he said unto him, Went not mine heart with
thee, when the
man turned again from his chariot to meet thee? Is it a time
to receive money,
and to receive garments, and oliveyards, and
vineyards, and
sheep, and oxen, and menservants, and
maidservants?
005:027 The leprosy therefore of Naaman shall cleave unto
thee, and
unto
thy seed for ever. And he went out from his presence a
leper as white as
snow.
006:001 And the sons of the prophets said unto Elisha,
Behold now, the
place where we
dwell with thee is too strait for us.
006:002 Let us go, we pray thee, unto Jordan, and take
thence every
man a beam, and let us make us a place there, where we may
dwell. And he
answered, Go ye.
006:003 And one said, Be content, I pray thee, and go
with thy
servants. And he answered, I will go.
006:004 So he went with them. And when they came to
Jordan, they cut
down wood.
006:005 But as one was felling a beam, the axe head fell
into the
water: and he cried, and said, Alas, master! for it was
borrowed.
006:006 And the man of God said, Where fell it? And he
shewed him the
place. And he cut down a stick, and cast it in thither; and
the iron did
swim.
006:007 Therefore said he, Take it up to thee. And he put
out his
hand,
and took it.
006:008 Then the king of Syria warred against Israel, and
took counsel
with his servants, saying, In such and such a place shall be
my camp.
006:009 And the man of God sent unto the king of Israel,
saying,
Beware
that thou pass not such a place; for thither the
Syrians are come
down.
006:010 And the king of Israel sent to the place which
the man of God
told him and warned him of, and saved himself there, not once
nor twice.
006:011 Therefore the heart of the king of Syria was sore
troubled for
this thing; and he called his servants, and said unto them,
Will ye not shew
me which of us is for the king of Israel?
006:012 And one of his servants said, None, my lord, O
king: but
Elisha, the prophet that is in Israel, telleth the king of
Israel the words
that thou speakest in thy bedchamber.
006:013 And he said, Go and spy where he is, that I may
send and fetch
him. And it was told him, saying, Behold, he is in Dothan.
006:014 Therefore sent he thither horses, and chariots,
and a great
host: and they came by night, and compassed the city about.
006:015 And when the servant of the man of God was risen
early, and
gone forth, behold, an host compassed the city both with
horses and
chariots. And his servant said unto him, Alas, my
master! how shall
we do?
006:016 And he answered, Fear not: for they that be with
us are more
than they that be with them.
006:017 And Elisha prayed, and said, LORD, I pray thee,
open his eyes,
that he may see. And the LORD opened the eyes of the young
man; and he saw:
and, behold, the mountain was full of horses
and chariots of
fire round about Elisha.
006:018 And when they came down to him, Elisha prayed
unto the LORD,
and said, Smite this people, I pray thee, with blindness. And
he smote them
with blindness according to the word of Elisha.
006:019 And Elisha said unto them, This is not the way,
neither is
this the city: follow me, and I will bring you to the man whom
ye seek. But he
led them to Samaria.
006:020 And it came to pass, when they were come into
Samaria, that
Elisha said, LORD, open the eyes of these men, that they may
see. And the LORD
opened their eyes, and they saw; and,
behold, they were
in the midst of Samaria.
006:021 And the king of Israel said unto Elisha, when he
saw them, My
father, shall I smite them? shall I smite them?
006:022 And he answered, Thou shalt not smite them:
wouldest thou
smite those whom thou hast taken captive with thy sword and
with thy bow? set
bread and water before them, that they may
eat and drink,
and go to their master.
006:023 And he prepared great provision for them: and
when they had
eaten and drunk, he sent them away, and they went to their
master. So the
bands of Syria came no more into the land of
Israel.
006:024 And it came to pass after this, that Benhadad
king of Syria
gathered all his host, and went up, and besieged Samaria.
006:025 And there was a great famine in Samaria: and,
behold, they
besieged it, until an ass's head was sold for fourscore pieces
of silver, and
the fourth part of a cab of dove's dung for
five pieces of
silver.
006:026 And as the king of Israel was passing by upon the
wall, there
cried a woman unto him, saying, Help, my lord, O king.
006:027 And he said, If the LORD do not help thee, whence
shall I help
thee? out of the barnfloor, or out of the winepress?
006:028 And the king said unto her, What aileth thee? And
she
answered,
This woman said unto me, Give thy son, that we may
eat him to day,
and we will eat my son to morrow.
006:029 So we boiled my son, and did eat him: and I said
unto her on
the next day, Give thy son, that we may eat him: and she hath
hid her son.
006:030 And it came to pass, when the king heard the
words of the
woman, that he rent his clothes; and he passed by upon the
wall, and the
people looked, and, behold, he had sackcloth
within upon his
flesh.
006:031 Then he said, God do so and more also to me, if
the head of
Elisha the son of Shaphat shall stand on him this day.
006:032 But Elisha sat in his house, and the elders sat
with him; and
the king sent a man from before him: but ere the messenger
came to him, he
said to the elders, See ye how this son of a
murderer hath
sent to take away mine head? look, when the
messenger cometh,
shut the door, and hold him fast at the
door: is not the
sound of his master's feet behind him?
006:033 And while he yet talked with them, behold, the
messenger came
down unto him: and he said, Behold, this evil is of the LORD;
what should I
wait for the LORD any longer?
007:001 Then Elisha said, Hear ye the word of the LORD;
Thus saith the
LORD, To morrow about this time shall a measure of fine flour
be sold for a
shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel,
in the gate of
Samaria.
007:002 Then a lord on whose hand the king leaned
answered the man of
God, and said,
Behold, if the LORD would make windows in
heaven, might
this thing be? And he said, Behold, thou shalt
see it with thine
eyes, but shalt not eat thereof.
007:003 And there were four leprous men at the entering
in of the
gate: and they said one to another, Why sit we here until we
die?
007:004 If we say, We will enter into the city, then the
famine is in
the city, and we shall die there: and if we sit still here, we
die also. Now
therefore come, and let us fall unto the host of
the Syrians: if
they save us alive, we shall live; and if they
kill us, we shall
but die.
007:005 And they rose up in the twilight, to go unto the
camp of the
Syrians: and when they were come to the uttermost part of the
camp of Syria,
behold, there was no man there.
007:006 For the LORD had made the host of the Syrians to
hear a noise
of chariots, and a noise of horses, even the noise of a great
host: and they
said one to another, Lo, the king of Israel
hath hired
against us the kings of the Hittites, and the kings
of the Egyptians,
to come upon us.
007:007 Wherefore they arose and fled in the twilight,
and left their
tents, and their horses, and their asses, even the camp as it
was, and fled for
their life.
007:008 And when these lepers came to the uttermost part
of the camp,
they went into one tent, and did eat and drink, and carried
thence silver,
and gold, and raiment, and went and hid it; and
came again, and
entered into another tent, and carried thence
also, and went
and hid it.
007:009 Then they said one to another, We do not well:
this day is a
day of good tidings, and we hold our peace: if we tarry till
the morning
light, some mischief will come upon us: now
therefore come,
that we may go and tell the king's household.
007:010 So they came and called unto the porter of the
city: and they
told them, saying, We came to the camp of the Syrians, and,
behold, there was
no man there, neither voice of man, but
horses tied, and
asses tied, and the tents as they were.
007:011 And he called the porters; and they told it to
the king's
house within.
007:012 And the king arose in the night, and said unto
his servants, I
will now shew you
what the Syrians have done to us. They know
that we be
hungry; therefore are they gone out of the camp to
hide themselves
in the field, saying, When they come out of
the city, we
shall catch them alive, and get into the city.
007:013 And one of his servants answered and said, Let
some take, I
pray thee, five of the horses that remain, which are left in
the city,
(behold, they are as all the multitude of Israel
that are left in
it: behold, I say, they are even as all the
multitude of the
Israelites that are consumed:) and let us
send and see.
007:014 They took therefore two chariot horses; and the
king sent
after the host of the Syrians, saying, Go and see.
007:015 And they went after them unto Jordan: and, lo,
all the way was
full of garments
and vessels, which the Syrians had cast away
in their haste.
And the messengers returned, and told the
king.
007:016 And the people went out, and spoiled the tents of
the Syrians.
So a measure of fine flour was sold for a shekel, and two
measures of
barley for a shekel, according to the word of the
LORD.
007:017 And the king appointed the lord on whose hand he
leaned to
have
the charge of the gate: and the people trode upon him in
the gate, and he
died, as the man of God had said, who spake
when the king
came down to him.
007:018 And it came to pass as the man of God had spoken
to the king,
saying, Two measures of barley for a shekel, and a measure of
fine flour for a
shekel, shall be to morrow about this time in
the gate of
Samaria:
007:019 And that lord answered the man of God, and said,
Now, behold,
if the LORD should make windows in heaven, might such a thing
be? And he said,
Behold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes,
but shalt not eat
thereof.
007:020 And so it fell out unto him: for the people trode
upon him in
the gate, and he died.
008:001 Then spake Elisha unto the woman, whose son he
had restored to
life, saying,
Arise, and go thou and thine household, and
sojourn
wheresoever thou canst sojourn: for the LORD hath
called for a
famine; and it shall also come upon the land
seven years.
008:002 And the woman arose, and did after the saying of
the man of
God: and she went with her household, and sojourned in the
land of the
Philistines seven years.
008:003 And it came to pass at the seven years' end, that
the woman
returned out of the land of the Philistines: and she went
forth to cry unto
the king for her house and for her land.
008:004 And the king talked with Gehazi the servant of
the man of God,
saying, Tell me,
I pray thee, all the great things that Elisha
hath done.
008:005 And it came to pass, as he was telling the king
how he had
restored a dead body to life, that, behold, the woman, whose
son he had
restored to life, cried to the king for her house
and for her land.
And Gehazi said, My lord, O king, this is
the woman, and
this is her son, whom Elisha restored to life.
008:006 And when the king asked the woman, she told him.
So the king
appointed unto her a certain officer, saying, Restore all that
was hers, and all
the fruits of the field since the day that
she left the
land, even until now.
008:007 And Elisha came to Damascus; and Benhadad the
king of Syria
was sick; and it was told him, saying, The man of God is come
hither.
008:008 And the king said unto Hazael, Take a present in
thine hand,
and go, meet the man of God, and enquire of the LORD by him,
saying, Shall I
recover of this disease?
008:009 So Hazael went to meet him, and took a present
with him, even
of every good thing of Damascus, forty camels' burden, and
came and stood
before him, and said, Thy son Benhadad king of
Syria hath sent
me to thee, saying, Shall I recover of this
disease?
008:010 And Elisha said unto him, Go, say unto him, Thou
mayest
certainly recover: howbeit the LORD hath shewed me that he
shall surely
die.
008:011 And he settled his countenance stedfastly, until
he was
ashamed: and the man of God wept.
008:012 And Hazael said, Why weepeth my lord? And he
answered, Because
I know the evil
that thou wilt do unto the children of Israel:
their strong
holds wilt thou set on fire, and their young men
wilt thou slay
with the sword, and wilt dash their children,
and rip up their
women with child.
008:013 And Hazael said, But what, is thy servant a dog,
that he
should
do this great thing? And Elisha answered, The LORD hath
shewed me that
thou shalt be king over Syria.
008:014 So he departed from Elisha, and came to his
master; who said
to him, What said
Elisha to thee? And he answered, He told me
that thou
shouldest surely recover.
008:015 And it came to pass on the morrow, that he took a
thick cloth,
and dipped it in water, and spread it on his face, so that he
died: and Hazael
reigned in his stead.
008:016 And in the fifth year of Joram the son of Ahab
king of Israel,
Jehoshaphat being
then king of Judah, Jehoram the son of Je
hoshaphat king of
Judah began to reign.
008:017 Thirty and two years old was he when he began to
reign; and he
reigned eight years in Jerusalem.
008:018 And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel,
as did the
house of Ahab: for the daughter of Ahab was his wife: and he
did evil in the
sight of the LORD.
008:019 Yet the LORD would not destroy Judah for David
his servant's
sake, as he promised him to give him alway a light, and to his
children.
008:020 In his days Edom revolted from under the hand of
Judah, and
made a king over themselves.
008:021 So Joram went over to Zair, and all the chariots
with him: and
he rose by night, and smote the Edomites which compassed him
about, and the
captains of the chariots: and the people fled
into their
tents.
008:022 Yet Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah
unto this day.
Then Libnah revolted at the same time.
008:023 And the rest of the acts of Joram, and all that
he did, are
they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of
Judah?
008:024 And Joram slept with his fathers, and was buried
with his
fathers in the city of David: and Ahaziah his son reigned in
his stead.
008:025 In the twelfth year of Joram the son of Ahab king
of Israel
did
Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah begin to reign.
008:026 Two and twenty years old was Ahaziah when he
began to reign;
and he reigned
one year in Jerusalem. And his mother's name
was Athaliah, the
daughter of Omri king of Israel.
008:027 And he walked in the way of the house of Ahab,
and did evil in
the sight of the
LORD, as did the house of Ahab: for he was
the son in law of
the house of Ahab.
008:028 And he went with Joram the son of Ahab to the war
against
Hazael
king of Syria in Ramothgilead; and the Syrians wounded
Joram.
008:029 And king Joram went back to be healed in Jezreel
of the wounds
which the Syrians had given him at Ramah, when he fought
against Hazael
king of Syria. And Ahaziah the son of Jehoram
king of Judah
went down to see Joram the son of Ahab in
Jezreel, because
he was sick.
009:001 And Elisha the prophet called one of the children
of the
prophets, and said unto him, Gird up thy loins, and take this
box of oil in
thine hand, and go to Ramothgilead:
009:002 And when thou comest thither, look out there Jehu
the son of
Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi, and go in, and make him arise
up from among his
brethren, and carry him to an inner chamber;
009:003 Then take the box of oil, and pour it on his
head, and say,
Thus saith the LORD, I have anointed thee king over Israel.
Then open the
door, and flee, and tarry not.
009:004 So the young man, even the young man the prophet,
went to
Ramothgilead.
009:005 And when he came, behold, the captains of the
host were
sitting; and he said, I have an errand to thee, O captain. And
Jehu said, Unto
which of all us? And he said, To thee, O
captain.
009:006 And he arose, and went into the house; and he
poured the oil
on his head, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD God of
Israel, I have
anointed thee king over the people of the LORD,
even over
Israel.
009:007 And thou shalt smite the house of Ahab thy
master, that I may
avenge the blood
of my servants the prophets, and the blood of
all the servants
of the LORD, at the hand of Jezebel.
009:008 For the whole house of Ahab shall perish: and I
will cut off
from Ahab him that pisseth against the wall, and him that is
shut up and left
in Israel:
009:009 And I will make the house of Ahab like the house
of Jeroboam
the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of
Ahijah:
009:010 And the dogs shall eat Jezebel in the portion of
Jezreel, and
there shall be none to bury her. And he opened the door, and
fled.
009:011 Then Jehu came forth to the servants of his lord:
and one said
unto him, Is all well? wherefore came this mad fellow to thee?
And he said unto
them, Ye know the man, and his communication.
009:012 And they said, It is false; tell us now. And he
said, Thus and
thus spake he to me, saying, Thus saith the LORD, I have
anointed thee
king over Israel.
009:013 Then they hasted, and took every man his garment,
and put it
under him on the top of the stairs, and blew with trumpets,
saying, Jehu is
king.
009:014 So Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi
conspired
against Joram. (Now Joram had kept Ramothgilead, he and all
Israel, because
of Hazael king of Syria.
009:015 But king Joram was returned to be healed in
Jezreel of the
wounds which the Syrians had given him, when he fought with
Hazael king of
Syria.) And Jehu said, If it be your minds,
then let none go
forth nor escape out of the city to go to
tell it in
Jezreel.
009:016 So Jehu rode in a chariot, and went to Jezreel;
for Joram lay
there. And Ahaziah king of Judah was come down to see Joram.
009:017 And there stood a watchman on the tower in
Jezreel, and he
spied the company
of Jehu as he came, and said, I see a
company. And
Joram said, Take an horseman, and send to meet
them, and let him
say, Is it peace?
009:018 So there went one on horseback to meet him, and
said, Thus
saith the king, Is it peace? And Jehu said, What hast thou to
do with peace?
turn thee behind me. And the watchman told,
saying, The
messenger came to them, but he cometh not again.
009:019 Then he sent out a second on horseback, which
came to them,
and said, Thus saith the king, Is it peace? And Jehu answered,
What hast thou to
do with peace? turn thee behind me.
009:020 And the watchman told, saying, He came even unto
them, and
cometh not again: and the driving is like the driving of Jehu
the son of
Nimshi; for he driveth furiously.
009:021 And Joram said, Make ready. And his chariot was
made ready.
And Joram king of Israel and Ahaziah king of Judah went out,
each in his
chariot, and they went out against Jehu, and met
him in the
portion of Naboth the Jezreelite.
009:022 And it came to pass, when Joram saw Jehu, that he
said, Is it
peace, Jehu? And he answered, What peace, so long as the
whoredoms of thy
mother Jezebel and her witchcrafts are so
many?
009:023 And Joram turned his hands, and fled, and said to
Ahaziah,
There
is treachery, O Ahaziah.
009:024 And Jehu drew a bow with his full strength, and
smote Jehoram
between his arms, and the arrow went out at his heart, and he
sunk down in his
chariot.
009:025 Then said Jehu to Bidkar his captain, Take up,
and cast him in
the portion of
the field of Naboth the Jezreelite: for
remember how
that, when I and thou rode together after Ahab
his father, the
LORD laid this burden upon him;
009:026 Surely I have seen yesterday the blood of Naboth,
and the
blood
of his sons, saith the LORD; and I will requite thee in
this plat, saith
the LORD. Now therefore take and cast him
into the plat of
ground, according to the word of the LORD.
009:027 But when Ahaziah the king of Judah saw this, he
fled by the
way of the garden house. And Jehu followed after him, and
said, Smite him
also in the chariot. And they did so at the
going up to Gur,
which is by Ibleam. And he fled to Megiddo,
and died
there.
009:028 And his servants carried him in a chariot to
Jerusalem, and
buried him in his sepulchre with his fathers in the city of
David.
009:029 And in the eleventh year of Joram the son of Ahab
began
Ahaziah
to reign over Judah.
009:030 And when Jehu was come to Jezreel, Jezebel heard
of it; and
she
painted her face, and tired her head, and looked out at a
window.
009:031 And as Jehu entered in at the gate, she said, Had
Zimri peace,
who slew his master?
009:032 And he lifted up his face to the window, and
said, Who is on
my side? who? And
there looked out to him two or three
eunuchs.
009:033 And he said, Throw her down. So they threw her
down: and some
of her blood was sprinkled on the wall, and on the horses: and
he trode her
under foot.
009:034 And when he was come in, he did eat and drink,
and said, Go,
see now this cursed woman, and bury her: for she is a king's
daughter.
009:035 And they went to bury her: but they found no more
of her than
the skull, and the feet, and the palms of her hands.
009:036 Wherefore they came again, and told him. And he
said, This is
the word of the LORD, which he spake by his servant Elijah the
Tishbite, saying,
In the portion of Jezreel shall dogs eat the
flesh of
Jezebel:
009:037 And the carcase of Jezebel shall be as dung upon
the face of
the field in the portion of Jezreel; so that they shall not
say, This is
Jezebel.
010:001 And Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria. And Jehu
wrote letters,
and sent to Samaria, unto the rulers of Jezreel, to the
elders, and to
them that brought up Ahab's children, saying,
010:002 Now as soon as this letter cometh to you, seeing
your master's
sons are with you, and there are with you chariots and horses,
a fenced city
also, and armour;
010:003 Look even out the best and meetest of your
master's sons, and
set him on his
father's throne, and fight for your master's
house.
010:004 But they were exceedingly afraid, and said,
Behold, two kings
stood not before
him: how then shall we stand?
010:005 And he that was over the house, and he that was
over the city,
the elders also, and the bringers up of the children, sent to
Jehu, saying, We
are thy servants, and will do all that thou
shalt bid us; we
will not make any king: do thou that which is
good in thine
eyes.
010:006 Then he wrote a letter the second time to them,
saying, If ye
be mine, and if ye will hearken unto my voice, take ye the
heads of the men
your master's sons, and come to me to Jezreel
by to morrow this
time. Now the king's sons, being seventy
persons, were
with the great men of the city, which brought
them up.
010:007 And it came to pass, when the letter came to
them, that they
took the king's
sons, and slew seventy persons, and put their
heads in baskets,
and sent him them to Jezreel.
010:008 And there came a messenger, and told him, saying,
They have
brought the heads of the king's sons. And he said, Lay ye them
in two heaps at
the entering in of the gate until the morning.
010:009 And it came to pass in the morning, that he went
out, and
stood, and said to all the people, Ye be righteous: behold, I
conspired against
my master, and slew him: but who slew all
these?
010:010 Know now that there shall fall unto the earth
nothing of the
word of the LORD, which the LORD spake concerning the house of
Ahab: for the
LORD hath done that which he spake by his
servant
Elijah.
010:011 So Jehu slew all that remained of the house of
Ahab in
Jezreel, and all his great men, and his kinsfolks, and his
priests, until he
left him none remaining.
010:012 And he arose and departed, and came to Samaria.
And as he was
at the shearing house in the way,
010:013 Jehu met with the brethren of Ahaziah king of
Judah, and said,
Who are ye? And
they answered, We are the brethren of Ahaziah;
and we go down to
salute the children of the king and the
children of the
queen.
010:014 And he said, Take them alive. And they took them
alive, and
slew them at the pit of the shearing house, even two and forty
men; neither left
he any of them.
010:015 And when he was departed thence, he lighted on
Jehonadab the
son of Rechab coming to meet him: and he saluted him, and said
to him, Is thine
heart right, as my heart is with thy heart?
And Jehonadab
answered, It is. If it be, give me thine hand.
And he gave him
his hand; and he took him up to him into the
chariot.
010:016 And he said, Come with me, and see my zeal for
the LORD. So
they made him ride in his chariot.
010:017 And when he came to Samaria, he slew all that
remained unto
Ahab in Samaria, till he had destroyed him, according to the
saying of the
LORD, which he spake to Elijah.
010:018 And Jehu gathered all the people together, and
said unto them,
Ahab served Baal
a little; but Jehu shall serve him much.
010:019 Now therefore call unto me all the prophets of
Baal, all his
servants, and all his priests; let none be wanting: for I have
a great sacrifice
to do to Baal; whosoever shall be wanting,
he shall not
live. But Jehu did it in subtilty, to the intent
that he might
destroy the worshippers of Baal.
010:020 And Jehu said, Proclaim a solemn assembly for
Baal. And they
proclaimed it.
010:021 And Jehu sent through all Israel: and all the
worshippers of
Baal came, so that there was not a man left that came not. And
they came into
the house of Baal; and the house of Baal was
full from one end
to another.
010:022 And he said unto him that was over the vestry,
Bring forth
vestments for all the worshippers of Baal. And he brought them
forth
vestments.
010:023 And Jehu went, and Jehonadab the son of Rechab,
into the house
of Baal, and said unto the worshippers of Baal, Search, and
look that there
be here with you none of the servants of the
LORD, but the
worshippers of Baal only.
010:024 And when they went in to offer sacrifices and
burnt offerings,
Jehu appointed
fourscore men without, and said, If any of the
men whom I have
brought into your hands escape, he that
letteth him go,
his life shall be for the life of him.
010:025 And it came to pass, as soon as he had made an
end of offering
the burnt
offering, that Jehu said to the guard and to the
captains, Go in,
and slay them; let none come forth. And they
smote them with
the edge of the sword; and the guard and the
captains cast
them out, and went to the city of the house of
Baal.
010:026 And they brought forth the images out of the
house of Baal,
and burned them.
010:027 And they brake down the image of Baal, and brake
down the
house
of Baal, and made it a draught house unto this day.
010:028 Thus Jehu destroyed Baal out of Israel.
010:029 Howbeit from the sins of Jeroboam the son of
Nebat, who made
Israel to sin,
Jehu departed not from after them, to wit, the
golden calves
that were in Bethel, and that were in Dan.
010:030 And the LORD said unto Jehu, Because thou hast
done well in
executing that which is right in mine eyes, and hast done unto
the house of Ahab
according to all that was in mine heart, thy
children of the
fourth generation shall sit on the throne of
Israel.
010:031 But Jehu took no heed to walk in the law of the
LORD God of
Israel with all his heart: for he departed not from the sins
of Jeroboam,
which made Israel to sin.
010:032 In those days the LORD began to cut Israel short:
and Hazael
smote them in all the coasts of Israel;
010:033 From Jordan eastward, all the land of Gilead, the
Gadites, and
the Reubenites, and the Manassites, from Aroer, which is by
the river Arnon,
even Gilead and Bashan.
010:034 Now the rest of the acts of Jehu, and all that he
did, and all
his might, are they not written in the book of the chronicles
of the kings of
Israel?
010:035 And Jehu slept with his fathers: and they buried
him in
Samaria. And Jehoahaz his son reigned in his stead.
010:036 And the time that Jehu reigned over Israel in
Samaria was
twenty and eight years.
011:001 And when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that
her son was
dead, she arose and destroyed all the seed royal.
011:002 But Jehosheba, the daughter of king Joram, sister
of Ahaziah,
took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him from among the
king's sons which
were slain; and they hid him, even him and
his nurse, in the
bedchamber from Athaliah, so that he was not
slain.
011:003 And he was with her hid in the house of the LORD
six years.
And
Athaliah did reign over the land.
011:004 And the seventh year Jehoiada sent and fetched
the rulers over
hundreds, with
the captains and the guard, and brought them to
him into the
house of the LORD, and made a covenant with them,
and took an oath
of them in the house of the LORD, and shewed
them the king's
son.
011:005 And he commanded them, saying, This is the thing
that ye shall
do; A third part of you that enter in on the sabbath shall
even be keepers
of the watch of the king's house;
011:006 And a third part shall be at the gate of Sur; and
a third part
at the gate behind the guard: so shall ye keep the watch of
the house, that
it be not broken down.
011:007 And two parts of all you that go forth on the
sabbath, even
they shall keep the watch of the house of the LORD about the
king.
011:008 And ye shall compass the king round about, every
man with his
weapons in his hand: and he that cometh within the ranges, let
him be slain: and
be ye with the king as he goeth out and as
he cometh in.
011:009 And the captains over the hundreds did according
to all things
that Jehoiada the priest commanded: and they took every man
his men that were
to come in on the sabbath, with them that
should go out on
the sabbath, and came to Jehoiada the priest.
011:010 And to the captains over hundreds did the priest
give king
David's spears and shields, that were in the temple of the
LORD.
011:011 And the guard stood, every man with his weapons
in his hand,
round about the king, from the right corner of the temple to
the left corner
of the temple, along by the altar and the
temple.
011:012 And he brought forth the king's son, and put the
crown upon
him, and gave him the testimony; and they made him king, and
anointed him; and
they clapped their hands, and said, God save
the king.
011:013 And when Athaliah heard the noise of the guard
and of the
people, she came to the people into the temple of the LORD.
011:014 And when she looked, behold, the king stood by a
pillar, as
the
manner was, and the princes and the trumpeters by the
king, and all the
people of the land rejoiced, and blew with
trumpets: and
Athaliah rent her clothes, and cried, Treason,
Treason.
011:015 But Jehoiada the priest commanded the captains of
the
hundreds,
the officers of the host, and said unto them, Have
her forth without
the ranges: and him that followeth her kill
with the sword.
For the priest had said, Let her not be slain
in the house of
the LORD.
011:016 And they laid hands on her; and she went by the
way by the
which the horses came into the king's house: and there was she
slain.
011:017 And Jehoiada made a covenant between the LORD and
the king and
the people, that they should be the LORD's people; between the
king also and the
people.
011:018 And all the people of the land went into the
house of Baal,
and brake it down; his altars and his images brake they in
pieces
thoroughly, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before
the altars. And
the priest appointed officers over the house
of the LORD.
011:019 And he took the rulers over hundreds, and the
captains, and
the guard, and all the people of the land; and they brought
down the king
from the house of the LORD, and came by the way
of the gate of
the guard to the king's house. And he sat on
the throne of the
kings.
011:020 And all the people of the land rejoiced, and the
city was in
quiet: and they slew Athaliah with the sword beside the king's
house.
011:021 Seven years old was Jehoash when he began to reign.
012:001 In the seventh year of Jehu Jehoash began to
reign; and forty
years reigned he
in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was
Zibiah of
Beersheba.
012:002 And Jehoash did that which was right in the sight
of the LORD
all his days wherein Jehoiada the priest instructed him.
012:003 But the high places were not taken away: the
people still
sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.
012:004 And Jehoash said to the priests, All the money of
the
dedicated
things that is brought into the house of the LORD,
even the money of
every one that passeth the account, the
money that every
man is set at, and all the money that cometh
into any man's
heart to bring into the house of the LORD,
012:005 Let the priests take it to them, every man of
his
acquaintance: and let them repair the breaches of the house,
wheresoever any
breach shall be found.
012:006 But it was so, that in the three and twentieth
year of king
Jehoash the priests had not repaired the breaches of the
house.
012:007 Then king Jehoash called for Jehoiada the priest,
and the
other
priests, and said unto them, Why repair ye not the
breaches of the
house? now therefore receive no more money of
your
acquaintance, but deliver it for the breaches of the
house.
012:008 And the priests consented to receive no more
money of the
people, neither to repair the breaches of the house.
012:009 But Jehoiada the priest took a chest, and bored a
hole in the
lid of it, and set it beside the altar, on the right side as
one cometh into
the house of the LORD: and the priests that
kept the door put
therein all the money that was brought into
the house of the
LORD.
012:010 And it was so, when they saw that there was much
money in the
chest, that the king's scribe and the high priest came up, and
they put up in
bags, and told the money that was found in the
house of the
LORD.
012:011 And they gave the money, being told, into the
hands of them
that did the work, that had the oversight of the house of the
LORD: and they
laid it out to the carpenters and builders,
that wrought upon
the house of the LORD,
012:012 And to masons, and hewers of stone, and to buy
timber and
hewed stone to repair the breaches of the house of the LORD,
and for all that
was laid out for the house to repair it.
012:013 Howbeit there were not made for the house of the
LORD bowls of
silver, snuffers, basons, trumpets, any vessels of gold, or
vessels of
silver, of the money that was brought into the
house of the
LORD:
012:014 But they gave that to the workmen, and repaired
therewith the
house of the LORD.
012:015 Moreover they reckoned not with the men, into
whose hand they
delivered the
money to be bestowed on workmen: for they dealt
faithfully.
012:016 The trespass money and sin money was not brought
into the
house
of the LORD: it was the priests'.
012:017 Then Hazael king of Syria went up, and fought
against Gath,
and took it: and Hazael set his face to go up to Jerusalem.
012:018 And Jehoash king of Judah took all the hallowed
things that
Jehoshaphat, and Jehoram, and Ahaziah, his fathers, kings of
Judah, had
dedicated, and his own hallowed things, and all the
gold that was
found in the treasures of the house of the LORD,
and in the king's
house, and sent it to Hazael king of Syria:
and he went away
from Jerusalem.
012:019 And the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that
he did, are
they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of
Judah?
012:020 And his servants arose, and made a conspiracy,
and slew Joash
in the house of Millo, which goeth down to Silla.
012:021 For Jozachar the son of Shimeath, and Jehozabad
the son of
Shomer, his servants, smote him, and he died; and they buried
him with his
fathers in the city of David: and Amaziah his son
reigned in his
stead.
013:001 In the three and twentieth year of Joash the son
of Ahaziah
king of Judah Jehoahaz the son of Jehu began to reign over
Israel in
Samaria, and reigned seventeen years.
013:002 And he did that which was evil in the sight of
the LORD, and
followed the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, which made
Israel to sin; he
departed not therefrom.
013:003 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against
Israel, and he
delivered them into the hand of Hazael king of Syria, and into
the hand of
Benhadad the son of Hazael, all their days.
013:004 And Jehoahaz besought the LORD, and the LORD
hearkened unto
him: for he saw the oppression of Israel, because the king of
Syria oppressed
them.
013:005 (And the LORD gave Israel a saviour, so that they
went out
from
under the hand of the Syrians: and the children of Israel
dwelt in their
tents, as beforetime.
013:006 Nevertheless they departed not from the sins of
the house of
Jeroboam, who made Israel sin, but walked therein: and there
remained the
grove also in Samaria.)
013:007 Neither did he leave of the people to Jehoahaz
but fifty
horsemen, and ten chariots, and ten thousand footmen; for the
king of Syria had
destroyed them, and had made them like the
dust by
threshing.
013:008 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoahaz, and all
that he did, and
his might, are
they not written in the book of the chronicles
of the kings of
Israel?
013:009 And Jehoahaz slept with his fathers; and they
buried him in
Samaria: and Joash his son reigned in his stead.
013:010 In the thirty and seventh year of Joash king of
Judah began
Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz to reign over Israel in Samaria,
and reigned
sixteen years.
013:011 And he did that which was evil in the sight of
the LORD; he
departed not from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat,
who made Israel
sin: but he walked therein.
013:012 And the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that
he did, and
his might wherewith he fought against Amaziah king of Judah,
are they not
written in the book of the chronicles of the
kings of
Israel?
013:013 And Joash slept with his fathers; and Jeroboam
sat upon his
throne: and Joash was buried in Samaria with the kings of
Israel.
013:014 Now Elisha was fallen sick of his sickness
whereof he died.
And Joash the
king of Israel came down unto him, and wept over
his face, and
said, O my father, my father, the chariot of
Israel, and the
horsemen thereof.
013:015 And Elisha said unto him, Take bow and arrows.
And he took
unto him bow and arrows.
013:016 And he said to the king of Israel, Put thine hand
upon the
bow.
And he put his hand upon it: and Elisha put his hands
upon the king's
hands.
013:017 And he said, Open the window eastward. And he
opened it. Then
Elisha said,
Shoot. And he shot. And he said, The arrow of the
LORD's
deliverance, and the arrow of deliverance from Syria:
for thou shalt
smite the Syrians in Aphek, till thou have
consumed
them.
013:018 And he said, Take the arrows. And he took them.
And he said
unto the king of Israel, Smite upon the ground. And he smote
thrice, and
stayed.
013:019 And the man of God was wroth with him, and said,
Thou
shouldest
have smitten five or six times; then hadst thou
smitten Syria
till thou hadst consumed it: whereas now thou
shalt smite Syria
but thrice.
013:020 And Elisha died, and they buried him. And the
bands of the
Moabites invaded the land at the coming in of the year.
013:021 And it came to pass, as they were burying a man,
that, behold,
they spied a band of men; and they cast the man into the
sepulchre of
Elisha: and when the man was let down, and
touched the bones
of Elisha, he revived, and stood up on his
feet.
013:022 But Hazael king of Syria oppressed Israel all the
days of
Jehoahaz.
013:023 And the LORD was gracious unto them, and had
compassion on
them, and had respect unto them, because of his covenant with
Abraham, Isaac,
and Jacob, and would not destroy them, neither
cast he them from
his presence as yet.
013:024 So Hazael king of Syria died; and Benhadad his
son reigned in
his stead.
013:025 And Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz took again out of
the hand of
Benhadad the son of Hazael the cities, which he had taken out
of the hand of
Jehoahaz his father by war. Three times did
Joash beat him,
and recovered the cities of Israel.
014:001 In the second year of Joash son of Jehoahaz king
of Israel
reigned Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah.
014:002 He was twenty and five years old when he began to
reign, and
reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. And his mother's
name was
Jehoaddan of Jerusalem.
014:003 And he did that which was right in the sight of
the LORD, yet
not like David his father: he did according to all things as
Joash his father
did.
014:004 Howbeit the high places were not taken away: as
yet the people
did sacrifice and burnt incense on the high places.
014:005 And it came to pass, as soon as the kingdom was
confirmed in
his hand, that he slew his servants which had slain the king
his father.
014:006 But the children of the murderers he slew not:
according unto
that which is written in the book of the law of Moses, wherein
the LORD
commanded, saying, The fathers shall not be put to
death for the
children, nor the children be put to death for
the fathers; but
every man shall be put to death for his own
sin.
014:007 He slew of Edom in the valley of salt ten
thousand, and took
Selah by war, and
called the name of it Joktheel unto this
day.
014:008 Then Amaziah sent messengers to Jehoash, the son
of Jehoahaz
son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, Come, let us look one
another in the
face.
014:009 And Jehoash the 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.
014:010 Thou hast indeed smitten Edom, and thine heart
hath lifted
thee up: glory of this, and tarry at home: for why shouldest
thou meddle to
thy hurt, that thou shouldest fall, even thou,
and Judah with
thee?
014:011 But Amaziah would not hear. Therefore Jehoash
king of Israel
went up; and he and Amaziah king of Judah looked one another
in the face at
Bethshemesh, which belongeth to Judah.
014:012 And Judah was put to the worse before Israel; and
they fled
every man to their tents.
014:013 And Jehoash king of Israel took Amaziah king of
Judah, the son
of Jehoash the son of Ahaziah, at Bethshemesh, and came to
Jerusalem, and
brake down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate
of Ephraim unto
the corner gate, four hundred cubits.
014:014 And he took all the gold and silver, and all the
vessels that
were found in the house of the LORD, and in the treasures of
the king's house,
and hostages, and returned to Samaria.
014:015 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoash which he did,
and his
might,
and how he fought with Amaziah king of Judah, are they
not written in
the book of the chronicles of the kings of
Israel?
014:016 And Jehoash slept with his fathers, and was
buried in Samaria
with the kings of
Israel; and Jeroboam his son reigned in his
stead.
014:017 And Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived
after the
death of Jehoash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel fifteen years.
014:018 And the rest of the acts of Amaziah, are they not
written in
the
book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
014:019 Now they made a conspiracy against him in
Jerusalem: and he
fled to Lachish;
but they sent after him to Lachish, and slew
him there.
014:020 And they brought him on horses: and he was buried
at Jerusalem
with his fathers in the city of David.
014:021 And all the people of Judah took Azariah, which
was sixteen
years old, and made him king instead of his father Amaziah.
014:022 He built Elath, and restored it to Judah, after
that the king
slept with his fathers.
014:023 In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Joash
king of
Judah
Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel began to reign
in Samaria, and
reigned forty and one years.
014:024 And he did that which was evil in the sight of
the LORD: he
departed not from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat,
who made Israel
to sin.
014:025 He restored the coast of Israel from the entering
of Hamath
unto
the sea of the plain, according to the word of the LORD
God of Israel,
which he spake by the hand of his servant
Jonah, the son of
Amittai, the prophet, which was of
Gathhepher.
014:026 For the LORD saw the affliction of Israel, that
it was very
bitter: for there was not any shut up, nor any left, nor any
helper for
Israel.
014:027 And the LORD said not that he would blot out the
name of
Israel
from under heaven: but he saved them by the hand of
Jeroboam the son
of Joash.
014:028 Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, and all
that he did, and
his might, how he
warred, and how he recovered Damascus, and
Hamath, which
belonged to Judah, for Israel, are they not
written in the
book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
014:029 And Jeroboam slept with his fathers, even with
the kings of
Israel; and Zachariah his son reigned in his stead.
015:001 In the twenty and seventh year of Jeroboam king
of Israel
began Azariah son of Amaziah king of Judah to reign.
015:002 Sixteen years old was he when he began to reign,
and he
reigned
two and fifty years in Jerusalem. And his mother's
name was
Jecholiah of Jerusalem.
015:003 And he did that which was right in the sight of
the LORD,
according to all that his father Amaziah had done;
015:004 Save that the high places were not removed: the
people
sacrificed and burnt incense still on the high places.
015:005 And the LORD smote the king, so that he was a
leper unto the
day of his death, and dwelt in a several house. And Jotham the
king's son was
over the house, judging the people of the land.
015:006 And the rest of the acts of Azariah, and all that
he did, are
they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of
Judah?
015:007 So Azariah slept with his fathers; and they
buried him with
his fathers in
the city of David: and Jotham his son reigned
in his stead.
015:008 In the thirty and eighth year of Azariah king of
Judah did
Zachariah the son of Jeroboam reign over Israel in Samaria six
months.
015:009 And he did that which was evil in the sight of
the LORD, as
his fathers had done: he departed not from the sins of
Jeroboam the son
of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.
015:010 And Shallum the son of Jabesh conspired against
him, and smote
him before the people, and slew him, and reigned in his stead.
015:011 And the rest of the acts of Zachariah, behold,
they are
written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.
015:012 This was the word of the LORD which he spake unto
Jehu,
saying,
Thy sons shall sit on the throne of Israel unto the
fourth
generation. And so it came to pass.
015:013 Shallum the son of Jabesh began to reign in the
nine and
thirtieth year of Uzziah king of Judah; and he reigned a full
month in
Samaria.
015:014 For Menahem the son of Gadi went up from Tirzah,
and came to
Samaria, and smote Shallum the son of Jabesh in Samaria, and
slew him, and
reigned in his stead.
015:015 And the rest of the acts of Shallum, and his
conspiracy which
he made, behold,
they are written in the book of the
chronicles of the
kings of Israel.
015:016 Then Menahem smote Tiphsah, and all that were
therein, and the
coasts thereof
from Tirzah: because they opened not to him,
therefore he
smote it; and all the women therein that were
with child he
ripped up.
015:017 In the nine and thirtieth year of Azariah king of
Judah began
Menahem the son of Gadi to reign over Israel, and reigned ten
years in
Samaria.
015:018 And he did that which was evil in the sight of
the LORD: he
departed not all his days from the sins of Jeroboam the son of
Nebat, who made
Israel to sin.
015:019 And Pul the king of Assyria came against the
land: and Menahem
gave Pul a
thousand talents of silver, that his hand might be
with him to
confirm the kingdom in his hand.
015:020 And Menahem exacted the money of Israel, even of
all the
mighty
men of wealth, of each man fifty shekels of silver, to
give to the king
of Assyria. So the king of Assyria turned
back, and stayed
not there in the land.
015:021 And the rest of the acts of Menahem, and all that
he did, are
they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of
Israel?
015:022 And Menahem slept with his fathers; and Pekahiah
his son
reigned in his stead.
015:023 In the fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah
Pekahiah the son
of Menahem began
to reign over Israel in Samaria, and reigned
two years.
015:024 And he did that which was evil in the sight of
the LORD: he
departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who
made Israel to
sin.
015:025 But Pekah the son of Remaliah, a captain of his,
conspired
against him, and smote him in Samaria, in the palace of the
king's house,
with Argob and Arieh, and with him fifty men of
the Gileadites:
and he killed him, and reigned in his room.
015:026 And the rest of the acts of Pekahiah, and all
that he did,
behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the
kings of
Israel.
015:027 In the two and fiftieth year of Azariah king of
Judah Pekah
the son of Remaliah began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and
reigned twenty
years.
015:028 And he did that which was evil in the sight of
the LORD: he
departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who
made Israel to
sin.
015:029 In the days of Pekah king of Israel came
Tiglathpileser king
of Assyria, and
took Ijon, and Abelbethmaachah, and Janoah,
and Kedesh, and
Hazor, and Gilead, and Galilee, all the land
of Naphtali, and
carried them captive to Assyria.
015:030 And Hoshea the son of Elah made a conspiracy
against Pekah the
son of Remaliah,
and smote him, and slew him, and reigned in
his stead, in the
twentieth year of Jotham the son of Uzziah.
015:031 And the rest of the acts of Pekah, and all that
he did,
behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the
kings of
Israel.
015:032 In the second year of Pekah the son of Remaliah
king of Israel
began Jotham the son of Uzziah king of Judah to reign.
015:033 Five and twenty years old was he when he began to
reign, and
he
reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name
was Jerusha, the
daughter of Zadok.
015:034 And he did that which was right in the sight of
the LORD: he
did according to all that his father Uzziah had done.
015:035 Howbeit the high places were not removed: the
people
sacrificed and burned incense still in the high places. He
built the higher
gate of the house of the LORD.
015:036 Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all that
he did, are
they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of
Judah?
015:037 In those days the LORD began to send against
Judah Rezin the
king of Syria,
and Pekah the son of Remaliah.
015:038 And Jotham slept with his fathers, and was buried
with his
fathers in the city of David his father: and Ahaz his son
reigned in his
stead.
016:001 In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of
Remaliah Ahaz the
son of Jotham
king of Judah began to reign.
016:002 Twenty years old was Ahaz when he began to reign,
and reigned
sixteen years in Jerusalem, and did not that which was right
in the sight of
the LORD his God, like David his father.
016:003 But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel,
yea, and made
his son to pass through the fire, according to the
abominations of
the heathen, whom the LORD cast out from
before the
children of Israel.
016:004 And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high
places, and on
the hills, and under every green tree.
016:005 Then Rezin king of Syria and Pekah son of
Remaliah king of
Israel came up to
Jerusalem to war: and they besieged Ahaz,
but could not
overcome him.
016:006 At that time Rezin king of Syria recovered Elath
to Syria, and
drave the Jews from Elath: and the Syrians came to Elath, and
dwelt there unto
this day.
016:007 So Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglathpileser king of
Assyria,
saying, I am thy servant and thy son: come up, and save me out
of the hand of
the king of Syria, and out of the hand of the
king of Israel,
which rise up against me.
016:008 And Ahaz took the silver and gold that was found
in the house
of the LORD, and in the treasures of the king's house, and
sent it for a
present to the king of Assyria.
016:009 And the king of Assyria hearkened unto him: for
the king of
Assyria went up against Damascus, and took it, and carried the
people of it
captive to Kir, and slew Rezin.
016:010 And king Ahaz went to Damascus to meet
Tiglathpileser king of
Assyria, and saw
an altar that was at Damascus: and king Ahaz
sent to Urijah
the priest the fashion of the altar, and the
pattern of it,
according to all the workmanship thereof.
016:011 And Urijah the priest built an altar according to
all that
king
Ahaz had sent from Damascus: so Urijah the priest made it
against king Ahaz
came from Damascus.
016:012 And when the king was come from Damascus, the
king saw the
altar: and the king approached to the altar, and offered
thereon.
016:013 And he burnt his burnt offering and his meat
offering, and
poured his drink offering, and sprinkled the blood of his
peace offerings,
upon the altar.
016:014 And he brought also the brasen altar, which was
before the
LORD, from the forefront of the house, from between the altar
and the house of
the LORD, and put it on the north side of the
altar.
016:015 And king Ahaz commanded Urijah the priest,
saying, Upon the
great altar burn
the morning burnt offering, and the evening
meat offering,
and the king's burnt sacrifice, and his meat
offering, with
the burnt offering of all the people of the
land, and their
meat offering, and their drink offerings; and
sprinkle upon it
all the blood of the burnt offering, and all
the blood of the
sacrifice: and the brasen altar shall be for
me to enquire
by.
016:016 Thus did Urijah the priest, according to all that
king Ahaz
commanded.
016:017 And king Ahaz cut off the borders of the bases,
and removed
the laver from off them; and took down the sea from off the
brasen oxen that
were under it, and put it upon the pavement
of stones.
016:018 And the covert for the sabbath that they had
built in the
house, and the king's entry without, turned he from the house
of the LORD for
the king of Assyria.
016:019 Now the rest of the acts of Ahaz which he did,
are they not
written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
016:020 And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and was buried
with his
fathers in the city of David: and Hezekiah his son reigned in
his stead.
017:001 In the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah began
Hoshea the son
of Elah to reign in Samaria over Israel nine years.
017:002 And he did that which was evil in the sight of
the LORD, but
not as the kings of Israel that were before him.
017:003 Against him came up Shalmaneser king of Assyria;
and Hoshea
became his servant, and gave him presents.
017:004 And the king of Assyria found conspiracy in
Hoshea: for he had
sent messengers
to So king of Egypt, and brought no present to
the king of
Assyria, as he had done year by year: therefore
the king of
Assyria shut him up, and bound him in prison.
017:005 Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all
the land, and
went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years.
017:006 In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria
took Samaria,
and carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them in Halah
and in Habor by
the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the
Medes.
017:007 For so it was, that the children of Israel had
sinned against
the LORD their God, which had brought them up out of the land
of Egypt, from
under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and
had feared other
gods,
017:008 And walked in the statutes of the heathen, whom
the LORD cast
out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of
Israel, which
they had made.
017:009 And the children of Israel did secretly those
things that were
not right against
the LORD their God, and they built them high
places in all
their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to
the fenced
city.
017:010 And they set them up images and groves in every
high hill, and
under every green tree:
017:011 And there they burnt incense in all the high
places, as did
the heathen whom the LORD carried away before them; and
wrought wicked
things to provoke the LORD to anger:
017:012 For they served idols, whereof the LORD had said
unto them, Ye
shall not do this thing.
017:013 Yet the LORD testified against Israel, and
against Judah, by
all the prophets,
and by all the seers, saying, Turn ye from
your evil ways,
and keep my commandments and my statutes,
according to all
the law which I commanded your fathers, and
which I sent to
you by my servants the prophets.
017:014 Notwithstanding they would not hear, but hardened
their necks,
like to the neck of their fathers, that did not believe in the
LORD their
God.
017:015 And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant
that he made
with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified
against them; and
they followed vanity, and became vain, and
went after the
heathen that were round about them, concerning
whom the LORD had
charged them, that they should not do like
them.
017:016 And they left all the commandments of the LORD
their God, and
made them molten images, even two calves, and made a grove,
and worshipped
all the host of heaven, and served Baal.
017:017 And they caused their sons and their daughters to
pass through
the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and sold
themselves to do
evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him
to anger.
017:018 Therefore the LORD was very angry with Israel,
and removed
them out of his sight: there was none left but the tribe of
Judah only.
017:019 Also Judah kept not the commandments of the LORD
their God,
but
walked in the statutes of Israel which they made.
017:020 And the LORD rejected all the seed of Israel, and
afflicted
them, and delivered them into the hand of spoilers, until he
had cast them out
of his sight.
017:021 For he rent Israel from the house of David; and
they made
Jeroboam the son of Nebat king: and Jeroboam drave Israel from
following the
LORD, and made them sin a great sin.
017:022 For the children of Israel walked in all the sins
of Jeroboam
which he did; they departed not from them;
017:023 Until the LORD removed Israel out of his sight,
as he had said
by all his servants the prophets. So was Israel carried away
out of their own
land to Assyria unto this day.
017:024 And the king of Assyria brought men from Babylon,
and from
Cuthah, and from Ava, and from Hamath, and from Sepharvaim,
and placed them
in the cities of Samaria instead of the
children of
Israel: and they possessed Samaria, and dwelt in
the cities
thereof.
017:025 And so it was at the beginning of their dwelling
there, that
they feared not the LORD: therefore the LORD sent lions among
them, which slew
some of them.
017:026 Wherefore they spake to the king of Assyria,
saying, The
nations which thou hast removed, and placed in the cities of
Samaria, know not
the manner of the God of the land: therefore
he hath sent
lions among them, and, behold, they slay them,
because they know
not the manner of the God of the land.
017:027 Then the king of Assyria commanded, saying, Carry
thither one
of
the priests whom ye brought from thence; and let them go
and dwell there,
and let him teach them the manner of the God
of the land.
017:028 Then one of the priests whom they had carried
away from
Samaria came and dwelt in Bethel, and taught them how they
should fear the
LORD.
017:029 Howbeit every nation made gods of their own, and
put them in
the houses of the high places which the Samaritans had made,
every nation in
their cities wherein they dwelt.
017:030 And the men of Babylon made Succothbenoth, and
the men of Cuth
made Nergal, and
the men of Hamath made Ashima,
017:031 And the Avites made Nibhaz and Tartak, and the
Sepharvites
burnt their children in fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech,
the gods of
Sepharvaim.
017:032 So they feared the LORD, and made unto themselves
of the
lowest
of them priests of the high places, which sacrificed
for them in the
houses of the high places.
017:033 They feared the LORD, and served their own gods,
after the
manner of the nations whom they carried away from thence.
017:034 Unto this day they do after the former manners:
they fear not
the LORD, neither do they after their statutes, or after their
ordinances, or
after the law and commandment which the LORD
commanded the
children of Jacob, whom he named Israel;
017:035 With whom the LORD had made a covenant, and
charged them,
saying, Ye shall not fear other gods, nor bow yourselves to
them, nor serve
them, nor sacrifice to them:
017:036 But the LORD, who brought you up out of the land
of Egypt with
great power and a stretched out arm, him shall ye fear, and
him shall ye
worship, and to him shall ye do sacrifice.
017:037 And the statutes, and the ordinances, and the
law, and the
commandment, which he wrote for you, ye shall observe to do
for evermore; and
ye shall not fear other gods.
017:038 And the covenant that I have made with you ye
shall not
forget; neither shall ye fear other gods.
017:039 But the LORD your God ye shall fear; and he shall
deliver you
out of the hand of all your enemies.
017:040 Howbeit they did not hearken, but they did after
their former
manner.
017:041 So these nations feared the LORD, and served
their graven
images, both their children, and their children's children: as
did their
fathers, so do they unto this day.
018:001 Now it came to pass in the third year of Hoshea
son of Elah
king of Israel, that Hezekiah the son of Ahaz king of Judah
began to
reign.
018:002 Twenty and five years old was he when he began to
reign; and
he
reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. His mother's
name also was
Abi, the daughter of Zachariah.
018:003 And he did that which was right in the sight of
the LORD,
according to all that David his father did.
018:004 He removed the high places, and brake the images,
and cut down
the groves, and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses
had made: for
unto those days the children of Israel did burn
incense to it:
and he called it Nehushtan.
018:005 He trusted in the LORD God of Israel; so that
after him was
none like him among all the kings of Judah, nor any that were
before him.
018:006 For he clave to the LORD, and departed not from
following him,
but kept his commandments, which the LORD commanded Moses.
018:007 And the LORD was with him; and he prospered
whithersoever he
went forth: and
he rebelled against the king of Assyria, and
served him
not.
018:008 He smote the Philistines, even unto Gaza, and the
borders
thereof, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.
018:009 And it came to pass in the fourth year of king
Hezekiah, which
was the seventh
year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel,
that Shalmaneser
king of Assyria came up against Samaria, and
besieged it.
018:010 And at the end of three years they took it: even
in the sixth
year of Hezekiah, that is in the ninth year of Hoshea king of
Israel, Samaria
was taken.
018:011 And the king of Assyria did carry away Israel
unto Assyria,
and put them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and
in the cities of
the Medes:
018:012 Because they obeyed not the voice of the LORD
their God, but
transgressed his covenant, and all that Moses the servant of
the LORD
commanded, and would not hear them, nor do them.
018:013 Now in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah did
Sennacherib
king of Assyria come up against all the fenced cities of
Judah, and took
them.
018:014 And Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of
Assyria to
Lachish, saying, I have offended; return from me: that which
thou puttest on
me will I bear. And the king of Assyria
appointed unto
Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of
silver and thirty
talents of gold.
018:015 And Hezekiah gave him all the silver that was
found in the
house of the LORD, and in the treasures of the king's house.
018:016 At that time did Hezekiah cut off the gold from
the doors of
the temple of the LORD, and from the pillars which Hezekiah
king of Judah had
overlaid, and gave it to the king of
Assyria.
018:017 And the king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rabsaris
and Rabshakeh
from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great host against
Jerusalem. And
they went up and came to Jerusalem. And when
they were come
up, they came and stood by the conduit of the
upper pool, which
is in the highway of the fuller's field.
018:018 And when they had called to the king, there came
out to them
Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, which was over the household, and
Shebna the
scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder.
018:019 And Rabshakeh said unto them, Speak ye now to
Hezekiah, Thus
saith the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence is
this wherein thou
trustest?
018:020 Thou sayest, (but they are but vain words,) I
have counsel and
strength for the
war. Now on whom dost thou trust, that thou
rebellest against
me?
018:021 Now, behold, thou trustest upon the staff of this
bruised
reed,
even upon Egypt, on which if a man lean, it will go into
his hand, and
pierce it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt unto all
that trust on
him.
018:022 But if ye say unto me, We trust in the LORD our
God: is not
that he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath
taken away, and
hath said to Judah and Jerusalem, Ye shall
worship before
this altar in Jerusalem?
018:023 Now therefore, I pray thee, give pledges to my
lord the king
of Assyria, and I will deliver thee two thousand horses, if
thou be able on
thy part to set riders upon them.
018:024 How then wilt thou turn away the face of one
captain of the
least of my master's servants, and put thy trust on Egypt for
chariots and for
horsemen?
018:025 Am I now come up without the LORD against this
place to
destroy it? The LORD said to me, Go up against this land, and
destroy it.
018:026 Then said Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, and Shebna,
and Joah,
unto
Rabshakeh, Speak, I pray thee, to thy servants in the
Syrian language;
for we understand it: and talk not with us in
the Jews'
language in the ears of the people that are on the
wall.
018:027 But Rabshakeh said unto them, Hath my master sent
me to thy
master, and to thee, to speak these words? hath he not sent me
to the men which
sit on the wall, that they may eat their own
dung, and drink
their own piss with you?
018:028 Then Rabshakeh stood and cried with a loud voice
in the Jews'
language, and spake, saying, Hear the word of the great king,
the king of
Assyria:
018:029 Thus saith the king, Let not Hezekiah deceive
you: for he
shall not be able to deliver you out of his hand:
018:030 Neither let Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD,
saying, The
LORD will surely deliver us, and this city shall not be
delivered into
the hand of the king of Assyria.
018:031 Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the king
of Assyria,
Make an agreement with me by a present, and come out to me,
and then eat ye
every man of his own vine, and every one of
his fig tree, and
drink ye every one the waters of his
cistern:
018:032 Until I come and take you away to a land like
your own land, a
land of corn and
wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land
of oil olive and
of honey, that ye may live, and not die: and
hearken not unto
Hezekiah, when he persuadeth you, saying, The
LORD will deliver
us.
018:033 Hath any of the gods of the nations delivered at
all his land
out of the hand of the king of Assyria?
018:034 Where are the gods of Hamath, and of Arpad? where
are the gods
of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah? have they delivered Samaria out
of mine hand?
018:035 Who are they among all the gods of the countries,
that have
delivered their country out of mine hand, that the LORD should
deliver Jerusalem
out of mine hand?
018:036 But the people held their peace, and answered him
not a word:
for the king's commandment was, saying, Answer him not.
018:037 Then came Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, which was
over the
household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph
the recorder, to
Hezekiah with their clothes rent, and told
him the words of
Rabshakeh.
019:001 And it came to pass, when king Hezekiah heard it,
that he rent
his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into
the house of the
LORD.
019:002 And he sent Eliakim, which was over the
household, and Shebna
the scribe, and
the elders of the priests, covered with
sackcloth, to
Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz.
019:003 And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This
day is a day
of trouble, and of rebuke, and blasphemy; for the children are
come to the
birth, and there is not strength to bring forth.
019:004 It may be the LORD thy God will hear all the
words of
Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent to
reproach the
living God; and will reprove the words which the
LORD thy God hath
heard: wherefore lift up thy prayer for the
remnant that are
left.
019:005 So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah.
019:006 And Isaiah said unto them, Thus shall ye say to
your master,
Thus saith the LORD, Be not afraid of the words which thou
hast heard, with
which the servants of the king of Assyria
have blasphemed
me.
019:007 Behold, I will send a blast upon him, and he
shall hear a
rumour, and shall return to his own land; and I will cause him
to fall by the
sword in his own land.
019:008 So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of
Assyria warring
against Libnah:
for he had heard that he was departed from
Lachish.
019:009 And when he heard say of Tirhakah king of
Ethiopia, Behold, he
is come out to
fight against thee: he sent messengers again
unto Hezekiah,
saying,
019:010 Thus shall ye speak to Hezekiah king of Judah,
saying, Let not
thy God in whom
thou trustest deceive thee, saying, Jerusalem
shall not be
delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.
019:011 Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria
have done to
all lands, by destroying them utterly: and shalt thou be
delivered?
019:012 Have the gods of the nations delivered them which
my fathers
have destroyed; as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the
children of Eden
which were in Thelasar?
019:013 Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of
Arpad, and the
king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivah?
019:014 And Hezekiah received the letter of the hand of
the
messengers, and read it: and Hezekiah went up into the house
of the LORD, and
spread it before the LORD.
019:015 And Hezekiah prayed before the LORD, and said, O
LORD God of
Israel, which dwellest between the cherubims, thou art the
God, even thou
alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; thou
hast made heaven
and earth.
019:016 LORD, bow down thine ear, and hear: open, LORD,
thine eyes,
and see: and hear the words of Sennacherib, which hath sent
him to reproach
the living God.
019:017 Of a truth, LORD, the kings of Assyria have
destroyed the
nations and their lands,
019:018 And have cast their gods into the fire: for they
were no gods,
but the work of men's hands, wood and stone: therefore they
have destroyed
them.
019:019 Now therefore, O LORD our God, I beseech thee,
save thou us
out of his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know
that thou art the
LORD God, even thou only.
019:020 Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah,
saying, Thus
saith the LORD God of Israel, That which thou hast prayed to
me against
Sennacherib king of Assyria I have heard.
019:021 This is the word that the LORD hath spoken
concerning him; The
virgin the
daughter of Zion hath despised thee, and laughed
thee to scorn;
the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head
at thee.
019:022 Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and
against whom
hast thou exalted thy voice, and lifted up thine eyes on high?
even against the
Holy One of Israel.
019:023 By thy messengers thou hast reproached the LORD,
and hast
said,
With the multitude of my chariots I am come up to the
height of the
mountains, to the sides of Lebanon, and will cut
down the tall
cedar trees thereof, and the choice fir trees
thereof: and I
will enter into the lodgings of his borders,
and into the
forest of his Carmel.
019:024 I have digged and drunk strange waters, and with
the sole of
my
feet have I dried up all the rivers of besieged places.
019:025 Hast thou not heard long ago how I have done it,
and of
ancient
times that I have formed it? now have I brought it to
pass, that thou
shouldest be to lay waste fenced cities into
ruinous
heaps.
019:026 Therefore their inhabitants were of small power,
they were
dismayed and confounded; they were as the grass of the field,
and as the green
herb, as the grass on the house tops, and as
corn blasted
before it be grown up.
019:027 But I know thy abode, and thy going out, and thy
coming in,
and
thy rage against me.
019:028 Because thy rage against me and thy tumult is
come up into
mine ears, therefore I will put my hook in thy nose, and my
bridle in thy
lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by
which thou
camest.
019:029 And this shall be a sign unto thee, Ye shall eat
this year
such
things as grow of themselves, and in the second year that
which springeth
of the same; and in the third year sow ye, and
reap, and plant
vineyards, and eat the fruits thereof.
019:030 And the remnant that is escaped of the house of
Judah shall
yet again take root downward, and bear fruit upward.
019:031 For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant,
and they that
escape out of mount Zion: the zeal of the LORD of hosts shall
do this.
019:032 Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the king
of Assyria,
He
shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there,
nor come before
it with shield, nor cast a bank against it.
019:033 By the way that he came, by the same shall he
return, and
shall not come into this city, saith the LORD.
019:034 For I will defend this city, to save it, for mine
own sake,
and
for my servant David's sake.
019:035 And it came to pass that night, that the angel of
the LORD
went
out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred
fourscore and
five thousand: and when they arose early in the
morning, behold,
they were all dead corpses.
019:036 So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went
and
returned,
and dwelt at Nineveh.
019:037 And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the
house of
Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote
him with the
sword: and they escaped into the land of Armenia.
And Esarhaddon
his son reigned in his stead.
020:001 In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And
the prophet
Isaiah the son of Amoz came to him, and said unto him, Thus
saith the LORD,
Set thine house in order; for thou shalt die,
and not live.
020:002 Then he turned his face to the wall, and prayed
unto the LORD,
saying,
020:003 I beseech thee, O LORD, remember now how I have
walked before
thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that
which is good in
thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore.
020:004 And it came to pass, afore Isaiah was gone out
into the middle
court, that the
word of the LORD came to him, saying,
020:005 Turn again, and tell Hezekiah the captain of my
people, Thus
saith the LORD, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy
prayer, I have
seen thy tears: behold, I will heal thee: on
the third day
thou shalt go up unto the house of the LORD.
020:006 And I will add unto thy days fifteen years; and I
will deliver
thee and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria; and
I will defend
this city for mine own sake, and for my servant
David's sake.
020:007 And Isaiah said, Take a lump of figs. And they
took and laid
it on the boil, and he recovered.
020:008 And Hezekiah said unto Isaiah, What shall be the
sign that the
LORD will heal me, and that I shall go up into the house of
the LORD the
third day?
020:009 And Isaiah said, This sign shalt thou have of the
LORD, that
the
LORD will do the thing that he hath spoken: shall the
shadow go forward
ten degrees, or go back ten degrees?
020:010 And Hezekiah answered, It is a light thing for
the shadow to
go down ten degrees: nay, but let the shadow return backward
ten degrees.
020:011 And Isaiah the prophet cried unto the LORD: and
he brought the
shadow ten degrees backward, by which it had gone down in the
dial of Ahaz.
020:012 At that time Berodachbaladan, the son of Baladan,
king of
Babylon, sent letters and a present unto Hezekiah: for he had
heard that
Hezekiah had been sick.
020:013 And Hezekiah hearkened unto them, and shewed them
all the
house
of his precious things, the silver, and the gold, and
the spices, and
the precious ointment, and all the house of
his armour, and
all that was found in his treasures: there was
nothing in his
house, nor in all his dominion, that Hezekiah
shewed them
not.
020:014 Then came Isaiah the prophet unto king Hezekiah,
and said unto
him, What said these men? and from whence came they unto thee?
And Hezekiah
said, They are come from a far country, even from
Babylon.
020:015 And he said, What have they seen in thine house?
And Hezekiah
answered, All the things that are in mine house have they
seen: there is
nothing among my treasures that I have not
shewed them.
020:016 And Isaiah said unto Hezekiah, Hear the word of the LORD.
020:017 Behold, the days come, that all that is in thine
house, and
that which thy fathers have laid up in store unto this day,
shall be carried
into Babylon: nothing shall be left, saith
the LORD.
020:018 And of thy sons that shall issue from thee, which
thou shalt
beget, shall they take away; and they shall be eunuchs in the
palace of the
king of Babylon.
020:019 Then said Hezekiah unto Isaiah, Good is the word
of the LORD
which thou hast spoken. And he said, Is it not good, if peace
and truth be in
my days?
020:020 And the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and all his
might, and
how
he made a pool, and a conduit, and brought water into the
city, are they
not written in the book of the chronicles of
the kings of
Judah?
020:021 And Hezekiah slept with his fathers: and Manasseh
his son
reigned in his stead.
021:001 Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to
reign, and
reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem. And his mother's
name was
Hephzibah.
021:002 And he did that which was evil in the sight of
the LORD, after
the abominations
of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out before
the children of
Israel.
021:003 For he built up again the high places which
Hezekiah his
father had destroyed; and he reared up altars for Baal, and
made a grove, as
did Ahab king of Israel; and worshipped all
the host of
heaven, and served them.
021:004 And he built altars in the house of the LORD, of
which the
LORD
said, In Jerusalem will I put my name.
021:005 And he built altars for all the host of heaven in
the two
courts
of the house of the LORD.
021:006 And he made his son pass through the fire, and
observed times,
and used
enchantments, and dealt with familiar spirits and
wizards: he
wrought much wickedness in the sight of the LORD,
to provoke him to
anger.
021:007 And he set a graven image of the grove that he
had made in the
house, of which
the LORD said to David, and to Solomon his
son, In this
house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out
of all tribes of
Israel, will I put my name for ever:
021:008 Neither will I make the feet of Israel move any
more out of
the land which I gave their fathers; only if they will observe
to do according
to all that I have commanded them, and
according to all
the law that my servant Moses commanded them.
021:009 But they hearkened not: and Manasseh seduced them
to do more
evil than did the nations whom the LORD destroyed before the
children of
Israel.
021:010 And the LORD spake by his servants the prophets, saying,
021:011 Because Manasseh king of Judah hath done these
abominations,
and hath done wickedly above all that the Amorites did, which
were before him,
and hath made Judah also to sin with his
idols:
021:012 Therefore thus saith the LORD God of Israel,
Behold, I am
bringing such evil upon Jerusalem and Judah, that whosoever
heareth of it,
both his ears shall tingle.
021:013 And I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of
Samaria, and the
plummet of the
house of Ahab: and I will wipe Jerusalem as a
man wipeth a
dish, wiping it, and turning it upside down.
021:014 And I will forsake the remnant of mine
inheritance, and
deliver them into
the hand of their enemies; and they shall
become a prey and
a spoil to all their enemies;
021:015 Because they have done that which was evil in my
sight, and
have provoked me to anger, since the day their fathers came
forth out of
Egypt, even unto this day.
021:016 Moreover Manasseh shed innocent blood very much,
till he had
filled Jerusalem from one end to another; beside his sin
wherewith he made
Judah to sin, in doing that which was evil
in the sight of
the LORD.
021:017 Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and all
that he did, and
his sin that he
sinned, are they not written in the book of
the chronicles of
the kings of Judah?
021:018 And Manasseh slept with his fathers, and was
buried in the
garden of his own house, in the garden of Uzza: and Amon his
son reigned in
his stead.
021:019 Amon was twenty and two years old when he began
to reign, and
he reigned two years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was
Meshullemeth, the
daughter of Haruz of Jotbah.
021:020 And he did that which was evil in the sight of
the LORD, as
his father Manasseh did.
021:021 And he walked in all the way that his father
walked in, and
served the idols that his father served, and worshipped them:
021:022 And he forsook the LORD God of his fathers, and
walked not in
the way of the LORD.
021:023 And the servants of Amon conspired against him,
and slew the
king in his own house.
021:024 And 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.
021:025 Now the rest of the acts of Amon which he did,
are they not
written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
021:026 And he was buried in his sepulchre in the garden
of Uzza: and
Josiah his son reigned in his stead.
022:001 Josiah was eight years old when he began to
reign, and he
reigned thirty and one years in Jerusalem. And his mother's
name was Jedidah,
the daughter of Adaiah of Boscath.
022:002 And he did that which was right in the sight of
the LORD, and
walked in all the way of David his father, and turned not
aside to the
right hand or to the left.
022:003 And it came to pass in the eighteenth year of
king Josiah,
that the king sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, the son of
Meshullam, the
scribe, to the house of the LORD, saying,
022:004 Go up to Hilkiah the high priest, that he may sum
the silver
which is brought into the house of the LORD, which the keepers
of the door have
gathered of the people:
022:005 And let them deliver it into the hand of the
doers of the
work, that have the oversight of the house of the LORD: and
let them give it
to the doers of the work which is in the
house of the
LORD, to repair the breaches of the house,
022:006 Unto carpenters, and builders, and masons, and to
buy timber
and
hewn stone to repair the house.
022:007 Howbeit there was no reckoning made with them of
the money
that
was delivered into their hand, because they dealt
faithfully.
022:008 And Hilkiah the high priest said unto Shaphan the
scribe, I
have
found the book of the law in the house of the LORD. And
Hilkiah gave the
book to Shaphan, and he read it.
022:009 And Shaphan the scribe came to the king, and
brought the king
word again, and
said, Thy servants have gathered the money
that was found in
the house, and have delivered it into the
hand of them that
do the work, that have the oversight of the
house of the
LORD.
022:010 And Shaphan the scribe shewed the king, saying,
Hilkiah the
priest hath delivered me a book. And Shaphan read it before
the king.
022:011 And it came to pass, when the king had heard the
words of the
book of the law, that he rent his clothes.
022:012 And the king commanded Hilkiah the priest, and
Ahikam the son
of Shaphan, and Achbor the son of Michaiah, and Shaphan the
scribe, and
Asahiah a servant of the king's, saying,
022:013 Go ye, enquire of the LORD for me, and for the
people, and for
all Judah,
concerning the words of this book that is found:
for great is the
wrath of the LORD that is kindled against us,
because our
fathers have not hearkened unto the words of this
book, to do
according unto all that which is written
concerning
us.
022:014 So Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam, and Achbor,
and Shaphan,
and Asahiah, went unto Huldah the prophetess, the wife of
Shallum the son
of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, keeper of the
wardrobe; (now
she dwelt in Jerusalem in the college;) and
they communed
with her.
022:015 And she said unto them, Thus saith the LORD God
of Israel,
Tell the man that sent you to me,
022:016 Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil
upon this
place, and upon the inhabitants thereof, even all the words of
the book which
the king of Judah hath read:
022:017 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 kindled
against this
place, and shall not be quenched.
022:018 But to the king of Judah which sent you to
enquire of the
LORD, thus shall ye say to him, Thus saith the LORD God of
Israel, As
touching the words which thou hast heard;
022:019 Because thine heart was tender, and thou hast
humbled thyself
before the LORD,
when thou heardest what I spake against this
place, and
against the inhabitants thereof, that they should
become a
desolation and a curse, and hast rent thy clothes,
and wept before
me; I also have heard thee, saith the LORD.
022:020 Behold therefore, I will gather thee unto thy
fathers, and
thou shalt be gathered into thy grave in peace; and thine eyes
shall not see all
the evil which I will bring upon this place.
And they brought
the king word again.
023:001 And the king sent, and they gathered unto him all
the elders
of
Judah and of Jerusalem.
023:002 And the king went up into the house of the LORD,
and all the
men of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem with him,
and the priests,
and the prophets, and all the people, both
small and great:
and he read in their ears all the words of
the book of the
covenant which was found in the house of the
LORD.
023:003 And the king stood by a pillar, 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 their heart and all
their soul, to
perform the words of this covenant that were
written in this
book. And all the people stood to the
covenant.
023:004 And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest,
and the
priests of the second order, and the keepers of the door, to
bring forth out
of the temple of the LORD all the vessels that
were made for
Baal, and for the grove, and for all the host of
heaven: and he
burned them without Jerusalem in the fields of
Kidron, and
carried the ashes of them unto Bethel.
023:005 And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the
kings of
Judah
had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the
cities of Judah,
and in the places round about Jerusalem; them
also that burned
incense unto Baal, to the sun, and to the
moon, and to the
planets, and to all the host of heaven.
023:006 And he brought out the grove from the house of
the LORD,
without Jerusalem, unto the brook Kidron, and burned it at the
brook Kidron, and
stamped it small to powder, and cast the
powder thereof
upon the graves of the children of the people.
023:007 And he brake down the houses of the sodomites,
that were by
the house of the LORD, where the women wove hangings for the
grove.
023:008 And he brought all the priests out of the cities
of Judah, and
defiled the high places where the priests had burned incense,
from Geba to
Beersheba, and brake down the high places of the
gates that were
in the entering in of the gate of Joshua the
governor of the
city, which were on a man's left hand at the
gate of the
city.
023:009 Nevertheless the priests of the high places came
not up to the
altar of the LORD in Jerusalem, but they did eat of the
unleavened bread
among their brethren.
023:010 And he defiled Topheth, which is in the valley of
the children
of Hinnom, that no man might make his son or his daughter to
pass through the
fire to Molech.
023:011 And he took away the horses that the kings of
Judah had given
to the sun, at
the entering in of the house of the LORD, by
the chamber of
Nathanmelech the chamberlain, which was in the
suburbs, and
burned the chariots of the sun with fire.
023:012 And the altars that were on the top of the upper
chamber of
Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which
Manasseh had made
in the two courts of the house of the LORD,
did the king beat
down, and brake them down from thence, and
cast the dust of
them into the brook Kidron.
023:013 And the high places that were before Jerusalem,
which were on
the right hand of the mount of corruption, which Solomon the
king of Israel
had builded for Ashtoreth the abomination of
the Zidonians,
and for Chemosh the abomination of the
Moabites, and for
Milcom the abomination of the children of
Ammon, did the
king defile.
023:014 And he brake in pieces the images, and cut down
the groves,
and filled their places with the bones of men.
023:015 Moreover the altar that was at Bethel, and the
high place
which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, had
made, both that
altar and the high place he brake down, and
burned the high
place, and stamped it small to powder, and
burned the
grove.
023:016 And as Josiah turned himself, he spied the
sepulchres that
were there in the
mount, and sent, and took the bones out of
the sepulchres,
and burned them upon the altar, and polluted
it, according to
the word of the LORD which the man of God
proclaimed, who
proclaimed these words.
023:017 Then he said, What title is that that I see? And
the men of
the
city told him, It is the sepulchre of the man of God,
which came from
Judah, and proclaimed these things that thou
hast done against
the altar of Bethel.
023:018 And he said, Let him alone; let no man move his
bones. So they
let his bones alone, with the bones of the prophet that came
out of
Samaria.
023:019 And all the houses also of the high places that
were in the
cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to
provoke the Lord
to anger, Josiah took away, and did to them
according to all
the acts that he had done in Bethel.
023:020 And he slew all the priests of the high places
that were there
upon the altars,
and burned men's bones upon them, and
returned to
Jerusalem.
023:021 And the king commanded all the people, saying,
Keep the
passover unto the LORD your God, as it is written in the book
of this
covenant.
023:022 Surely there was not holden such a passover from
the days of
the judges that judged Israel, nor in all the days of the
kings of Israel,
nor of the kings of Judah;
023:023 But in the eighteenth year of king Josiah,
wherein this
passover was holden to the LORD in Jerusalem.
023:024 Moreover the workers with familiar spirits, and
the wizards,
and the images, and the idols, and all the abominations that
were spied in the
land of Judah and in Jerusalem, did Josiah
put away, that he
might perform the words of the law which
were written in
the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the
house of the
LORD.
023:025 And like unto him was there no king before him,
that turned to
the LORD with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with
all his might,
according to all the law of Moses; neither
after him arose
there any like him.
023:026 Notwithstanding the LORD turned not from the
fierceness of his
great wrath,
wherewith his anger was kindled against Judah,
because of all
the provocations that Manasseh had provoked him
withal.
023:027 And the LORD said, I will remove Judah also out
of my sight,
as I have removed Israel, and will cast off this city
Jerusalem which I
have chosen, and the house of which I said,
My name shall be
there.
023:028 Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and all that
he did, are
they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of
Judah?
023:029 In his days Pharaohnechoh king of Egypt went up
against the
king of Assyria to the river Euphrates: and king Josiah went
against him; and
he slew him at Megiddo, when he had seen him.
023:030 And his servants carried him in a chariot dead
from Megiddo,
and brought him to Jerusalem, and buried him in his own
sepulchre. And
the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of
Josiah, and
anointed him, and made him king in his father's
stead.
023:031 Jehoahaz was twenty and three years old when he
began to
reign; and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. And his
mother's name was
Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
023:032 And he did that which was evil in the sight of
the LORD,
according to all that his fathers had done.
023:033 And Pharaohnechoh put him in bands at Riblah in
the land of
Hamath, that he might not reign in Jerusalem; and put the land
to a tribute of
an hundred talents of silver, and a talent of
gold.
023:034 And Pharaohnechoh made Eliakim the son of Josiah
king in the
room of Josiah his father, and turned his name to Jehoiakim,
and took Jehoahaz
away: and he came to Egypt, and died there.
023:035 And Jehoiakim gave the silver and the gold to
Pharaoh; but he
taxed the land to
give the money according to the commandment
of Pharaoh: he
exacted the silver and the gold of the people
of the land, of
every one according to his taxation, to give
it unto
Pharaohnechoh.
023:036 Jehoiakim was twenty and five years old when he
began to
reign; and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his
mother's name was
Zebudah, the daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah.
023:037 And he did that which was evil in the sight of
the LORD,
according to all that his fathers had done.
024:001 In his days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came
up, and
Jehoiakim became his servant three years: then he turned and
rebelled against
him.
024:002 And the LORD sent against him bands of the
Chaldees, and bands
of the Syrians,
and bands of the Moabites, and bands of the
children of
Ammon, and sent them against Judah to destroy it,
according to the
word of the LORD, which he spake by his
servants the
prophets.
024:003 Surely at the commandment of the LORD came this
upon Judah, to
remove them out of his sight, for the sins of Manasseh,
according to all
that he did;
024:004 And also for the innocent blood that he shed: for
he filled
Jerusalem with innocent blood; which the LORD would not
pardon.
024:005 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and all
that he did,
are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the
kings of
Judah?
024:006 So Jehoiakim slept with his fathers: and
Jehoiachin his son
reigned in his
stead.
024:007 And the king of Egypt came not again any more out
of his land:
for the king of Babylon had taken from the river of Egypt unto
the river
Euphrates all that pertained to the king of Egypt.
024:008 Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he began
to reign, and
he reigned in Jerusalem three months. And his mother's name
was Nehushta, the
daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem.
024:009 And he did that which was evil in the sight of
the LORD,
according to all that his father had done.
024:010 At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king
of Babylon
came up against Jerusalem, and the city was besieged.
024:011 And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came against
the city, and
his servants did besiege it.
024:012 And Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out to the
king of
Babylon, he, and his mother, and his servants, and his
princes, and his
officers: and the king of Babylon took him in
the eighth year
of his reign.
024:013 And he carried out thence all the treasures of
the house of
the LORD, and the treasures of the king's house, and cut in
pieces all the
vessels of gold which Solomon king of Israel
had made in the
temple of the LORD, as the LORD had said.
024:014 And he carried away all Jerusalem, and all the
princes, and
all the mighty men of valour, even ten thousand captives, and
all the craftsmen
and smiths: none remained, save the poorest
sort of the
people of the land.
024:015 And he carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon, and
the king's
mother, and the king's wives, and his officers, and the mighty
of the land,
those carried he into captivity from Jerusalem to
Babylon.
024:016 And all the men of might, even seven thousand,
and craftsmen
and smiths a thousand, all that were strong and apt for war,
even them the
king of Babylon brought captive to Babylon.
024:017 And the king of Babylon made Mattaniah his
father's brother
king in his
stead, and changed his name to Zedekiah.
024:018 Zedekiah was twenty and one years old when he
began to reign,
and he reigned
eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother's
name was Hamutal,
the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
024:019 And he did that which was evil in the sight of
the LORD,
according to all that Jehoiakim had done.
024:020 For through the anger of the LORD it came to pass
in Jerusalem
and Judah, until he had cast them out from his presence, that
Zedekiah rebelled
against the king of Babylon.
025:001 And it came to pass in the ninth year of his
reign, in the
tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that
Nebuchadnezzar
king of Babylon came, he, and all his host,
against
Jerusalem, and pitched against it; and they built
forts against it
round about.
025:002 And the city was besieged unto the eleventh year
of king
Zedekiah.
025:003 And on the ninth day of the fourth month the
famine prevailed
in the city, and
there was no bread for the people of the
land.
025:004 And the city was broken up, and all the men of
war fled by
night by the way of the gate between two walls, which is by
the king's
garden: (now the Chaldees were against the city
round about:) and
the king went the way toward the plain.
025:005 And the army of the Chaldees pursued after the
king, and
overtook him in the plains of Jericho: and all his army were
scattered from
him.
025:006 So they took the king, and brought him up to the
king of
Babylon to Riblah; and they gave judgment upon him.
025:007 And they slew the sons of Zedekiah before his
eyes, and put
out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him with fetters of brass,
and carried him
to Babylon.
025:008 And in the fifth month, on the seventh day of the
month, which
is the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon,
came Nebuzaradan,
captain of the guard, a servant of the king
of Babylon, unto
Jerusalem:
025:009 And he burnt the house of the LORD, and the
king's house, and
all the houses of
Jerusalem, and every great man's house burnt
he with fire.
025:010 And all the army of the Chaldees, that were with
the captain
of
the guard, brake down the walls of Jerusalem round about.
025:011 Now the rest of the people that were left in the
city, and the
fugitives that fell away to the king of Babylon, with the
remnant of the
multitude, did Nebuzaradan the captain of the
guard carry
away.
025:012 But the captain of the guard left of the door of
the poor of
the land to be vinedressers and husbandmen.
025:013 And the pillars of brass that were in the house
of the LORD,
and the bases, and the brasen sea that was in the house of the
LORD, did the
Chaldees break in pieces, and carried the brass
of them to
Babylon.
025:014 And the pots, and the shovels, and the snuffers,
and the
spoons, and all the vessels of brass wherewith they
ministered, took
they away.
025:015 And the firepans, and the bowls, and such things
as were of
gold, in gold, and of silver, in silver, the captain of the
guard took
away.
025:016 The two pillars, one sea, and the bases which
Solomon had made
for the house of
the LORD; the brass of all these vessels was
without
weight.
025:017 The height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits,
and the
chapiter upon it was brass: and the height of the chapiter
three cubits; and
the wreathen work, and pomegranates upon the
chapiter round
about, all of brass: and like unto these had
the second pillar
with wreathen work.
025:018 And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the
chief priest,
and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the
door:
025:019 And out of the city he took an officer that was
set over the
men of war, and five men of them that were in the king's
presence, which
were found in the city, and the principal
scribe of the
host, which mustered the people of the land, and
threescore men of
the people of the land that were found in
the city:
025:020 And Nebuzaradan captain of the guard took these,
and brought
them to the king of Babylon to Riblah:
025:021 And the king of Babylon smote them, and slew them
at Riblah in
the land of Hamath. So Judah was carried away out of their
land.
025:022 And as for the people that remained in the land
of Judah, whom
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had left, even over them he
made Gedaliah the
son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, ruler.
025:023 And when all the captains of the armies, they and
their men,
heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah governor,
there came to
Gedaliah to Mizpah, even Ishmael the son of
Nethaniah, and
Johanan the son of Careah, and Seraiah the son
of Tanhumeth the
Netophathite, and Jaazaniah the son of a
Maachathite, they
and their men.
025:024 And Gedaliah sware to them, and to their men, and
said unto
them, Fear not to be the servants of the Chaldees: dwell in
the land, and
serve the king of Babylon; and it shall be well
with you.
025:025 But it came to pass in the seventh month, that
Ishmael the son
of Nethaniah, the
son of Elishama, of the seed royal, came,
and ten men with
him, and smote Gedaliah, that he died, and
the Jews and the
Chaldees that were with him at Mizpah.
025:026 And all the people, both small and great, and the
captains of
the armies, arose, and came to Egypt: for they were afraid of
the Chaldees.
025:027 And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth
year of the
captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month,
on the seven and
twentieth day of the month, that Evilmerodach
king of Babylon
in the year that he began to reign did lift up
the head of
Jehoiachin king of Judah out of prison;
025:028 And he spake kindly to him, and set his throne
above the
throne of the kings that were with him in Babylon;
025:029 And changed his prison garments: and he did eat
bread
continually before him all the days of his life.
025:030 And his allowance was a continual allowance given
him of the
king, a daily rate for every day, all the days of his life.